I never played much backstabbing last patch, so I can’t speak to how strong it was before, or if it did require some nerf, but after attempting a parry+backstab build upon the new patch and feeling like I was going mad with how horribly bad and buggy it felt I went onto the discord and found out that it had been massively nerfed.
Currently it feels abysmally bad and frustrating to use, not only does it feel unfairly small (why can’t my character stab someone in the back unless they’re directly pixel perfect aligned to some arbitrary point?) but half the time even when I do see the skull icon it just doesn’t trigger the backstab, thus locking me into a long normal attack animation where they just turn around and smack me.
If the backstab was overtuned before I’m fine with it being harder, but the current implementation is horrible. Make it harder to get behind enemies.. Or make it deal less damage or something along those lines, don’t make it illogically hard to land when you’re already behind them. Every time I see a skull icon and it still doesn’t work it actually makes me want to stop playing. I’m going to have to stop trying entirely so I can enjoy the game.
Hopefully this is addressed, cheers for your work.