Originally posted by Reften:

Combat is perfect. There is just enough variety and skill to make it fun, without making this Elden Ring.

skilled combat would be warband / mordhau. This is stamina trash, locked in swing animation noob town.

Its not hard to learn how to do combat in this game. Its just not satisfying either. We are 5 on my server. And while we enjoy the concept, everyone agrees that stamina and fixed swing animations that you cannot move during... that is trash. Running out of stam is not fun. there is no reason to have it in the game. Not being able to move during an attack animation forces you to run around like a moron and wait for the enemy to miss because you happen to have a weapon that is either too weak to stagger or to weak to block.

Not to mention. why is stagger a thing. A wolf runs up to me while i mine rocks. No noise is heard, i get hit into the rock and it hits me again immedietly since im being stunlocked up against the wall. Anything that leaves you stunlocked then dead, is terrible game design.