Does blocking with a shield get better later on ? the fact you get staggered every 2-3 blocks just seems to make it useless and not worth using , and i find the stepping back and forward a bit cheesy as the AI just cant seem to cope with this. Any tips on melee combat with a shield ? or is it just not very good compared to spamming or stepping in and out?.
One other thing with melee . When fighting multiple opponents all in a tight group it always seems that i wound one to almost death but then mysteriously my attacks never finish of the wounded one , they then always seem to hit another in the group till there's 4 of them all on tiny bit of health . Just bad luck or bad play by me ? or is there a bit of cheating going on ?