Dear Lords of the Monastery:
We are so psyched to announce that there is a major update on the way, in which we have improved the enemy combat system. Previously, when you blocked an attack it would interrupt the enemies’ combo.
Once you master the enemies’ starting moves, the entire combat experience becomes boring. Based on community feedback on this aspect, we have improved the combat system. When facing enemies’ continuous attacks, you need to parry at the right moment multiple times to prevent yourself from being damaged.
Please notice that in this update we clearly differenciate parrying and blocking.
Blocking - If you only raise your weapon to block the opponent's attack, you will not be damaged, but this move will drain your poise bar faster and eventually make you drop your weapon.
Parrying - If you actively swing your weapon against an opponent's attack, you will barely consume any of your poise. Instead, it will drain the enemies’ poise by a chunk and make them fall to the ground or stunned.
Additionally, we've improved weapon hitboxes in this update, making parrying and blocking more accurate. The glitch that caused some parts of weapons to be unblockable in the past has also been fixed.
We have also slightly adjusted the enemy AI. While blocking combos, they may suddenly change their attack pattern, making the combat more diverse and dynamic, and of course, harder than before.
We will release this update as a preview first, if you want to give it a try, you can pull it up from the game version selection page.
Please consider join our discord and provide your feedback there at #049-preview-feedback forum. We are going to read and reply every single one of them :)
Cheers
Grimlord Devs