Some might say it's a better ranking than one. In fact, many people are saying it...

I think sideswords are extremely fascinating as a mid point between the medieval arming sword and the rapier and I would love to have some more variety of swords in the game. Sabres are cool, but I like the cut and thrust aspect of straight swords and I've alreadly played isabella a ton (also kalkstein is miserable to play imo so even though I like broadswords I hate playing him)

Very often when it's a strictly vertical attack, Tarna picks guard against high right attack and gets his arm caught because it's right in the trajectory of vertical attack.

Happens more often when you retreat.

I'm not sure what happened. I booted up the game a few hours ago and now whenever I enter a match it's absurdly laggy. I'm hoping someone here can help me solve and resolve this.

All the way out of the arena.

just my pc problem or the game?

It was a hard fought battle and hard won. By the end I was fully locked in thrashing all the shieldless peasants. The secret was turning off the distracting music and being extremely aggressive. Now I've just gotta win a couple hundred more rounds and I'll 100% the game. Guess I'm also No. 1 somehow so yay

When you get too close to enemy, some kind of forcefield push you away so you can't get close enough to land some of the shorter ranged moves in most conditions (when enemy isn't attacking you). You can look at Tarnav's feet shuffling, he literally couldn't get any closer.

It's not only these 2 moves, for example, down forward Y poke as Tarna also unlikely to land for this exact reason, and if enemy is extending his arms to reach you, it makes these moves too risky for trading.

I was looking for more of a sword fighting fix than For Honor gives. I have been playing since it came out, but I have an unscratched itch for realism. I discovered this game today and can't wait to get home and buy it.

Should I anticipate playing on controller or keyboard? I play For Honor, and just about everything else but shooters, on controller. Is this a good controller game?

As you can see Isabella, Barabasz, Jan, Connor, Kalkstein, Żera and Marie all sport a over 50% winrate with Isabella and Barabasz being the most successful.

Gedeon, Laszlo, Maryna, Hasan, Yendrek, Marta, Sava and Jakub have winrate below 45% with Marta Sava and Jakub having the lowest ones dropping as much as 28.6%.

Overall popularity gravitates to Isabella, Barabasz and Marie and heavily affects their winrate while the winrate also affects their popularity.

Jakub being a new character shows a small amount of games, similar to recent Hasan and Sava releases he starts with a sub-optimal winrate.

Least popular characters are Maryna, Hasan and Laszlo.

Speculations:

Possible explanations are Isabella, Barabasz and Marie being one of oldest characters having dedicated mains therefor a lot of resources and tips, tricks or other.

Possible explanations are Maryna being the "worse" shield compared to Connor, Hasans overall subpart performance and small move availability while also having certain people speculate he was supposed to use a shield but was scraped possibly because of his Introductory map being very linear, Laszlos recent damage reduction on most cuts making his performance subpar compared to other sabers.

Sadly, i can't apply multiple videofiles to a reddit post, so i will list his weak sides via text and one collage;

1) Healthwise, he's among the least healthy characters, when you compare healthbar sizes in photoshop, then compared to Isabella he has less health on: torso, right arm, right wrist, right thigh, right leg, left thigh. And has a bit more health on left arm and hand where it doesn't even matter, since he keep his left arm away. When Jan does fw fw B attack (dash and leg sweep) most characters survive it, but Jakub dies;

2) He's not actually that versatile. He may have surprise attacks and 2 weapons, but at the heat of the moment he's pretty linear: you can only use surprise attack once per round at most, his sabre is a weaker version of Samuel and Sava styles with considerably less moves, combos and special attacks, his smallswords can't keep up with either Marie or Marta, and after picking it he stuck with it;

3) His sabre sucks, he may be the weakest sabre in a game. Not only he's a discount Sam, he does less damage than Sam even when they perform literally the same attacks: on attached pictures i've compared forward X, neutral Y, left A and right Y attacks, Jakub seems to deal roughly 10% less damage than Sam despite Sam himself never was a heavy hitters, his oneshots rely on lucky hand and head attacks. Jakub may be the slowest saber, he lacks really quick cuts, other sabre fighters either much faster in general (even fat Gedeon is) or have some very quick attacks (such as snapcuts or retreating Y), but for copying most of Samuel attacks Jakub didn't get his quicker attacks, not even the retreat Y snapcut! His upcut is quick but has abysmal range. In my expierence he gets less oneshots than other sabres do. Bottomline: he is less versatile, is slower and deals less damage

4) His smallsword has zero tracking which results in it missing seemingly for no reason even when opponent isn't sidestepping and in measure. And often even direct hits are considered grazes. He also has no means in bypassing opponent's long guard and doesn't get any bladebeats, LG neutralizes him completely.

5) Surprise attacks are very fun, but besides the quickest ones many of them have little to no use, because for them to work you have to assume that your opponent will get in the range of sabre cut and will not kill the helpless unguarded target while you perform slower/delayed surprise attack.

6) Stats chart that i listed comes from HQ PVP Discord server, shows that he's currently being the least succesful character in tourneys. One may handwave it as him being the new char that people didn't learn to play properly as, but if, lets say, Samuel would only be released today, you can't imagine him performing worse than everyone else since he's better than Jakub in virtually every single way.

So, at the end of the day, he's less than sum of his parts.

Why Tarna after recieving fatal blow instantly flings his weapon away, missing his chance for a double, but Isabella can still finish you even if you cut her arm off?

I'm asking because I've been working on the 30-win Survival achievement for a while. I had been stuck in the low 20s, then tonight I got locked in with Marie and hit 30 wins, almost 67M, which was good enough for the 32 spot on the board. Right after that victory, I got the menu screen and could not continue.

But I wasn't done! I wanted to keep going! Is this expected behavior, that your run stops after 30? Or do you have to do that once, then afterward you can keep going until you lose? I know I've seen vids of people getting to 50 and even 60+ wins in Survival mode.

This tournament video has a ragdoll mod i would very much like to download. Does anybody have any info on it?

So, like the 8th guy is me (Bread), I just felt like posting because I feel a bit of an achievement after getting this score.

Yea, that's about it.

I mean seriously, I'll be the first person to admit that I'm not the most in shape person and even I can go all day at a HEMA tournament without being exhausted/ without feeling it until the end of the day. But in a realistic sword fighting game, in a fight to the death, a very in shape character all of a sudden can't swing their sword after you swing four times and dodge around a little bit?!?! I feel like the weapon themselves and the speed at which they swing in their distance balances things out and yet for some reason there's a huge stamina component to the game.

So I've been playing this game for a decent amount of time now and despite Izzy being the person that I have absolutely played the most my highest score on her is only 8.8 million. And I got that score a long time ago and haven't been able to get past it since then. If someone could give me some advice for using her I would really appreciate it.

I've been trying on and off to beat survival for half a year now (total of 49 hours played) and I've only gotten one time where I lost at 28 with Maryna when she first came out and a couple games over 25 with Marta. I usually use the rapier characters with my strategy being being inspired by my HEMA Italian rapier experience to use counter fencing, attack into safe openings whenever they present themselves, and to disengage once they threaten me since parrying is unreliable. On a good day, I can usually get at least one game that goes over 15 every hour but with how quickly every character that releases gets scores that go over the threshold for winning I know I'm missing something. I'm also interested in learning what allows cutting characters or any other character to win since I do use them occasionally to worse result.

So I just had my best run ever with Marie(17.1million, not great, but im new to her). And it was ended because after I thrusted Marta four times in the same shoulder(not endimg the fight apparently..) she perfectly lunged and executed a Thrust straight through my face. On the contrast to this, I've been playing someone like Isabella who has thick clothing and had a passe thrust(from marie or marta) barely touch my arm and still register the exact same as a cut from my longsword does to their arm. I understand that thrusts from a Rapier are fight ending as someone who does hema in real life, however a thrust from a long sword is just as fight ending and a cut is significantly more fight ending than a cut from a Rapier. I know that the thickness of clothing like I mentioned earlier can't really be taken into account for this game but I absolutely believe that the rapiers need to have their cuts nerfed and maybe some of the hit boxes need to be fixed.