Yeah, the 100 hits was annoying. However, I was always a fan of milking the acrobatics rolling instead of running back and forth confusing the pathing of the enemy hehe. But as we know now, we can't do that anymore so that's fixed.

I just don't remember reading anywhere that they wanted to slow down the fights as they have been talking about making the game more brutal and visceral which would imply it being fast and devastating feeling (which a few articles talked about how it really did feel brutal, when you hit somebody it actually looked like you hit someone.)

Mind your blasphemous tongue, knave. M&B's an awesome game in most respects, and the greater game as a whole is fantastic fun, especially modded.

I never had an unleveled enemy take more than ten hits, but the point isn't about if its realistic or not, its just how the stats make the game play interesting. besides, even if they made enemies die after 2 or 3 hits, it would be extremely unbalanced and the game would be a cake walk, unless they applied it to you, then you would just die way more than before.

Timed blocking has been confirmed.

You can kill stuff in 2 or 3 hits, take more than 2 or 3 hits, and still have the game balanced. Just have us fight more enemies at once. Which seems to be what they did with the Draugr. Keeps the game challenging, still makes you feel like an epic hero if that's what you want to be.

Your in luck, you will get your wish but you will get fewer arrows to work with and the time it takes to nock and draw the bow will be longer. I hope on top of that we will not be able to perma nock a bow and once you run out of stamina you are forced to denock your arrow.

I'm glad for this. In Morrowind, once your weapon skill was high enough you could just jump around and mash the attack key until your enemy was felled. Oblivion tried to give combat a more "weighted" feel, but with the horrific level scaling and excessive blocking it just made things feel even more drawn out. I think Skyrim will try to mix the two, slowing the pace but simultaneously making every maneuver far more important.

What i really loved seeing in the trailer were the Draugrs slowly surrounding the player, about 5 at a time. It puts you in a thinking position where you must be decisive about how you proceed with combat, instead of just "brainless button smashing", like Dovahkiin said. Also, oblivion's combat was very much lik ebeating someone wit ha baseball bat. None of the weapons were really .... swords or axes ect. I think by working on the aesthetics of the impact of the weapon, and slowing the fighting down a bit (and making it fluent), you should be able to get a really good taste of the weapons and how they differ form eachother.

These are the things I look forward to. This means that you can win over an enemy with a higher level than you, with some skill.

At least if a well-timed block negates all damage, and the Block skill simply slows the rate of decay rather than determines the maximum reduction.

Then I might not dual-wield!

I'm all for a slowing down the combat.

Oblivion was a bit too much of a swiping slash battle. I'd like a more mythodical pace to start of and the fight to build momentum. When they are near dead, then you get go for a flurry of strikes.

how is that not exactly how a shield works. if your holding up your shield and an enemy swings at it, your shield deflects it. in a realistic fight an enemy would aim for an area where the sheild was not protecting but we could not specifcily aim for body parts in OB. I'd be P'd off if my shield was directly blocking an attack but it gets through the shield magically because I was holding the sheild up for more than just the time period in which the enemy swung at me.

Let us hope it is so. One can see that the "hero" in the trailer raises the shield when the dragon attacks from the sky.
If the shield lets through damage in that situation, should he not die then?
Obviously, they make it so it looks as cool as possible, but we can always hope.

If the enemy attacks after you've had your shield up for three hours, taking increased damage would simulate the enemy attacking "around" it, but without having to make a dozen new attack animations for all the different body parts they could be "aiming" at.

If shields had a certain size that was factored in as well, that'd be great. Then we could have multiple kinds of shields, from bucklers to tower shields. For simplicity, lighter shields would be raised or dropped faster, but damage reduction decays faster as well.

imo the better way to simulate aiming around a shield would be to reduce the value of every deflection if you never let go of the blocking button/trigger that way it would essentially have people being less purely defensive, but I never really did any of that unless I was trying to get my blocking skill up.

We'll obviously have to see how it goes, but... not really looking forward to this. :sadvaultboy: