TheMeInTeam wrote:Backstabs and most other issues in the game in PvP can be traced directly back to lag. I don't mind someone punishing a slow str weapon attack with a backstab, but I have a serious issue with people warping back there, with my "timing" being off due to them appearing physically too far away on my screen until they enter the BS animation.
IMO the game would be better off without either of the glitches, IE no toggle-escapes and no dead-angles. However, without dead angles it is nearly impossible for big weapons to do anything at all to turtles, due to how trivial it is to parry. Ideally a blunt weapon or a huge one should drain a LOT of stamina off blocks, but in practice it doesn't, and there's no way to use skill to hit "around" a shield of someone who simply blocks and faces you...and upgraded shields don't lose out stamina on blocking significantly more than the attacks that hit them. The risk/reward prospect of turtling/parry fishing would go through the roof if you could block knowing that your opponent is risking a ~1000 damage riposte on every attack.
Thanks to one thread in here, I took my 28/40 and dusted off a few Str weapons.
After few days of PvPing only with Greataxe/Greatsword, Mace and Avelyn, I did not use Dead Angle once (not intentionally at least) and still won most of my fights.
People that parry telegraph their intention 9 out of 10 times. They simply walk straight to you without doing
anything and then they parry. I kicked them and hit them with my Mace, or shot them with Avelyn if they had low enough Poise every time and got parried only once, by FinPeku. Which speaks volumes, mind you.
I had absolutely no problem with turtles. I'm a patient guy, I kept out of their range and waited for them to lose their cool and attack me. Trading hits with a Greataxe is not a good idea. Still. Investing some points to get 14 Dex to use Shotel is a little price to pay to be able to use this turtle slaying weapon.
Out of all people I fought, I had serious problems only with Rapier users. I got a taste of my own medicine.
They were just way too fast and out of my reach.
Casters, GT R1 spammers, turtles, flippers, bs fishers, all got crushed under the Greataxe.
The only thing I really hated about using a Str weapon was that almost everybody just wanted to bs me. Nothing else, just that. Backstab me, or bait me to attack to roll bs me. I usually had to wait for a minute, or two for them to give up on this, lose their patience and get killed by me.
I think that Str weapons should do even more Stamina drain on blocking, especially with Light and Medium Shields (it's already increased btw, but still not enough imho), but being unable to deal with turtles and parry spammers is not a reason to use a glitch. It's a reason to get better.
Sorry for the elitist tone in the last sentence, but I don't know how else to write this, especially since I am not very good in PvP myself and can do this. If I can do it, I think that everybody esle is able to do it as well.
TheMeInTeam wrote: There's a lot of things that look silly in Souls games.
I don't think anything beats a DBS backstab in Demon's Souls
. When you think about the physics of the force required to make THAT happen, you start to realize that the thing must have been fired out of a modern cannon, not held in someone's hands lol. It looked so ridiculous I was always amused.
Especially if you do it with something like an Axe.