A few hours of gameplay on the new patch – Feedback sofar.
1.) Parry needs a visceral attack. It’s hard to do, and it just feels incomplete. This seems pretty obvious to me? Not sure why this isn’t a thing.
2.) Backstabs were fun in the previous patch. Grabbing booty and laying enemies out with it just felt fantastic before. I get you guys want the game to be challenging – but it’s important for the game to be actually fun.. and whatever you guys did to backstabs has essentially removed a very fun aspect of the combat. I don’t really care about the game being hard. I care about the game being fun. Landing backstabs is fun. Rolling behind an enemy and grabbing booty felt awesome before, and now it almost never works. It feels absolutely awful. I feel like you guys took something awesome and completely ruined it.
3.) Bounties/Challenges/etc – Don’t give me bounties that involve fighting enemies that are skulls to me. It isn’t fun to go fight some enemy that I do almost zero damage to, that can absolutely smash me into the dirt unless I’m stacking VIT. Like – I just spent ~20-30 minutes fighting the duo on the beach, and they’re out there with two crossbow guys and it’s absolutely infuriating. The big guys have absolutely ridiculous range, super annoying attack patterns and they’re being covered by two crossbow guys making the entire encounter absolute aids. It would be fine if they had a reasonable amount of HP – but they don’t. So the combat is essentially just running away while trying to split the enemies up, killing the little guys – who also have annoying attack patterns… and when you finally kill them, you have to deal with BOTH big guys in one life or they reset. It’s less of a fight, and more running around for way too long waiting for an opportunity to widdle a millimeter of HP off of them until they finally die. It just feels terrible – it wasn’t fun at all, and I didn’t feel good even after beating them. This isn’t really new, but the fight felt much worse than I remember it being in the last patch.
4.) Many of the new weapon mods suck. The crafting system doesn’t feel improved. Half the time I get a weapon and enchant it, it just bricks the item and I never have enough of the items required to re-roll the bad mods. I also noticed that when I slap heat damage on my weapon it no longer has a fiery effect or seems to do fire damage?
5.) The food. I hate the food system. Just give me an estus flask. I do not want to farm for the one herb you need to make food. I have 3x+ the other mats required to make food and I am constantly scraping around for the herb. It is actually super annoying and causes me to run around clearing enemies without using food to save it for bosses – and then I just kill a few enemies and respawn until the area is clear.
6.) The Inn. Don’t make me log out for 4 hours to rest. I hate this. This isn’t new, but I still hate it. I just wanna go to the in, rest, reset the zones and farm. I simply don’t ever want to interface with anything in any game that requires me to log out for x hours in order to gain some benefit. It’s just super irritating. I just want to go to the inn, and have the world move forward 4 hours so I can resume playing in my world/farming/get full hp/whatever.
7.) Randomized weapon base damage. I do not like this. It’s super annoying to get an item that has a great damage roll on it, then to go to enchant it and for the enchantress to just ruin your item. Then you burn through all the items you have trying to re-roll the bad enchants, only to end up with something worse, and now you are right back to playing the way you did in the previous patch – buying a bunch of Greatswords/enchanting them to see if any of them are worth anything/then upgrading any that are good.. and honestly – I Don’t like it. It feels like the game is wasting my time by giving me trash items. As an example - I made a character, he got a 25 damage greatsword right off the rip. I go enchant it, and it ends up with a mod that makes the item too heavy for me to keep using without changing my armor. Which was really annoying. So I have a few of these items to re-roll mods. I don’t like any of the mods. I end up with “Can’t be repaired.” Which might as well be a bricked item until I get more reroll items. I just hate it. I do not want mods that aren’t good on any of my items. I want mods that let me customize my playstyle… like do more fire damage… do things when I ignite people or shock things… or do AOE damage when I ignite a target.. or some cool ARPG things that make my attacks more interesting… Not “Your weapon is just a pile of trash now, thanks for playing.” I think you need to completely rethink what kind of mods are on weapons.
I love the game. I love the art style – but these are some things that are annoying the crap outta me, and don’t make any sense imo. I don’t think we should be sacrificing fun for frustrating systems. Limiting my food intake and making me farm for food is frustrating. The crafting system changes seem kind of bad to me. So far every time I’ve used the enchanter she’s ruined the item. Adding negative suffixes to my items doesn’t improve the fun I’m having.. it just annoys me.
I’m trying to record my playthrough – but I’m actually not having fun with this patch 
I don’t even feel like editing the footage cause half of it is me being annoyed… which really sucks. I hope that helps. I’m rooting for you guys.