So yeah while, playing through on a new game, I found myself getting knocked back alot, manily in the arena, I thought this may have been dew to my build, but when you build a solid fighter it shouldn't be getting knocked back with so much ease. So i went back to my other character save which had pretty high stats went out in to the wild and had my ass handed to by a timber wolf because i couldn't attack it. What happens is that every attack that lands on me results in the stagger back animation as if my fatigue was zero and they put in lucky shots. basically archers are op to me because I can't even touch them because they make me move back every time the stagger animation ends.
Update: even after make a brand new game, I end up with the rat killing me cause I can't do anything with this glitch

Running any mods?

nope