Current Events > I can't get into mount & blade because of the combat.

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Everything is floaty and lacks impact/heft.

I feel like the AI beelines directly for me and me alone, and all 350 archers find me and target me.

Combat is twitchy block-unblock sequences and timing your strikes, but is mostly just running backwards and kiting the one guy you get to fight at a time. More often than not, multiple enemies will run towards you like the defense in madden where they're shoulder to shoulder just crowding in. No dodge, shove, duck, or crowd control measures in this game at all.

It doesn't feel rewarding to have 150v150 guys fight and you feel like the centerpiece, where the AI is focused on killing you. Fighting people feels loose and twitchy, and the combat isn't really all that impactful or visceral. I know it's an ancient game, and I love the sandbox/politics/economy/troop management and RPG elements but this just isn't doing it for me.
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it's not something you play for gameplay. you play it because you're a white boy with no personality with delusions of grandeur of having been a Big Dick Chad in medieval days.