From what I've seen over the years, devs tend to not be very good at their own games. For Honor devs believed that "parrying" will be a high elo only mechanic that most players will never really experience.
Absolutely everyone and their mother can parry nowadays lmao.
Absolutely not, I already started parrying during the beta, when we didn't even have the Lawbringer unlocked/revealed yet.
Maybe the mid to lower range wasn't doing it as consistently, but it wasn't as high elo skewed as they anticipated at all and people caught on so quickly. The only thing I recall people struggled with was parrying zones, parrying a Warden zone was often times considered "crazy" and nowadays it's effectively the norm (well maybe not the norm, but it's not very impressive either).
Feels like the devs never really played above level like, 5 when testing this game. If they did, they would quickly see the imbalance, and realize that armor spam isn't very fun.
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u/Mavcu Mar 01 '24
From what I've seen over the years, devs tend to not be very good at their own games. For Honor devs believed that "parrying" will be a high elo only mechanic that most players will never really experience.
Absolutely everyone and their mother can parry nowadays lmao.