Parry adjustment

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My suggestion is that the parry hitbox be increased.

Currently there are times where I will perfectly time a parry on a boss just to have their attack whiff right over my characters head. But their follow up attack is so fast that I am still locked into the parry animation. It’s extremely disheartening when this occurs.
I think having the parry have an expanded hitbox for situations like this could really improve gameplay. I’m not certain where the hitbox is, but if it’s possible to increase the vertical hitbox instead of the overall hitbox it would remain as balanced as it is.

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One of the issues i had with parry but couldn’t catch and put into words, you have my vote

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i personaly feel since the parry change it feels horribly wrong

iam not talking about bosses but just litterly every single other mob
you have to parry way way way before you think you would need to.

meaning in any other game you parry when the enemy is about to hit you aka his weapon is touching you or would be touching you weapon

and this was the case ~1 year ago

but with this change not only did the parry window increase (according to patch nots iam not sure if its really the case)
wich would be fine but the whole parry window shifted
means i need to parry when the enemy swing is about to start not when he is about to hit me wich makes it feel really really off.

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The number of times I’ve heard my buddy shout “I CAN’T PARRY YOU IF YOU MISS!!!” :laughing:
Feels bad man

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Depends on the enemy. Some of the spear guys have really big wind ups and I find myself having to delay the parry much longer than normal.
I’m not sure I agree that “any other game” would have you parrying right when it hits. The main one that does that I can think of is E33 which had an insanely late parry time imo. As a souls veteran the parry feels fine. You parry based on the attack animation. They rear back for a swing, and then you parry when the swing actually starts coming for you. Easy.

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You can parry slow attacks when they hit but some of them are waay too slow

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With how large the parry window is I find it funny, I only miss it if the enemy whiffs their attack.

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I don’t know how parry used to be, but what I think Napster is saying is that the parry cannot be reactive.

You can’t react at the enemy’s animation to parry, you need to know all the attacks wind-up times and parry half a second before the attack animation starts.

It is technically easier for short wind-up animations because you can pretty much parry at any time and you’ll catch them, for long wind-ups you NEED to know how long the wind-up is or you’ll parry the air.

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i think youre on point with the reactive part.
i find myself in most cases simply parrying to late and therfore getting hit.

it also hardly depends on the enemies for some its easier as their animation is not as hideous but for others it makes parry simply inconsistent.

i think a simple shift of the parry window in the direction so that you can be reactive again would simply fix this

since you still then would have the added parry window time but also can be reactive because of the window shifted.

it kinda makes no sense to me having to parry so so early to be able to parry
kinda contradicts what a parry is in general imo.