Throw in some particle effects, camera shakes, and a weapon trail on the sword, and you'll have action combat players salivating.Ī tab target player will look at that and be like - I only pressed one button. This tells me they are only concerned with how it looks, not how it plays.Īn action combat player, based on my conversations with them over the last few months (as well as playing BDO for a while) would rather a game with a single button press causing your character to back flip over the opponent, backstab them with a dagger, combat roll back between their legs, use their dagger to pin one of the opponents feet to the ground, strafe to the right while pulling out a sword, perform a 520 degree spin while chopping off the opponents head. These people can't give examples because they don't know anything about action combat, or refuse to admit they want to play a low skill ceiling game.Īctually, the reason *I* wont give examples is because all action combat people want are videos.

Its why combat has felt better overtime with tab target, but they pretty much are at the peak at what they can do and next step is hybrid. If you look back to very old mmorpgs L2, everquest and shadowbane there is actually a pattern overtime of more action elements even if some of them are faked being added to mmorpgs. And you will end up having the most epic fights 100%. That is why Ashes is going in the right direction with hybrid, which is pretty much tab evolved with more elements of mobility and skill. You aren't just out playing one person but you can out play entire groups to an extent of the gameplay. When you have that difficult of I need to land this skill or dodging in motion on top of all the mechanical elements. But when everything locks on and nothing misses its not really as epic as a fight can be. I'm aware there are mobility skills for blink and teleporting on people, charge, etc. The issue with tab target is you are locked on to the person and everything hits. Ya i saw it and if I think back to my nostalgia days I had epic fights in swtor being ganked by 2 jedi of equal level and out playing both them mechanically wise. Not all tab mmos have 10-year-long gcds that slow down combat to a fucking crawl.

And you could get even faster if you wanted to really push the player's reaction speeds. And that was just 1v1 pvp, which is fairly slower than mass pvp, so that's not the limit on tab target mmo speed. Again tab target is old and out dated there is nothing special about it, it's for slow paced gameplay.ĭid you by chance check out the L2 video I posted for Azherae? It was quite fast.

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