This is not a show of my skill but more so a level of incompetence I haven't seen in Dark Souls before tonight. I've seen some dumb things but not by so many different people. I only invaded the same person a few times and other than that I got around 40+ different people. I'd fight them with a Zwei and when they got low on health they'd pull out a rapier or the Dark Silver Tracer. They'd then go towards me and try for a backstab, trying to roll through my attack or strafe around me quickly.
Every single person did this, and all I did was dead angle BS cancel and kill them. Every single time. It was almost humorous, on about the 51st person when he got near me low on health I did the BS cancel then ate a SS to the back of the head. He messaged me afterwards about why I did such an odd move and just swung away behind myself twice. I could only say that he wouldn't believe the night I've had.
Now I'm not here to talk about backstabbing and what it is or isn't. I am however wondering if people see this a lot, people just going for this one technique for an easy kill. It's incredibly transparent and I don't understand how anyone can fall for this outside of a really bad lagstab. What is going on. Did I just end up facing a lot of idiots randomly or is this just becoming a lot more common?