Im curious, is there anyone who finds backstabs to be useful? Because I feel like they take away from the game. As I understand it, the purpose of backstabs is to allow for people to punish healing, sloppy stamina management, and slow attacks. But in both Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2 the easiest way to pull one off is to simply circle-strafe and hit R1. Ive certainly pulled off backstabs in what I understand to be the proper fashion, but almost every one of them has been a lagstab on MY screen, which I feel isnt a good thing. If the online wasnt so laggy, perhaps they could operate as theyre supposed to, but the online IS laggy, and Fromsoft knows this. As is theyre an exploitable weakpoint in the combat system, and there is no way to consistently counter them, save for using ranged attacks and keeping your distance. I can try to dodge to try and keep them from getting behind me, but the lag prevents that from working. I can try to attack them, but the lag prevents that from working. I can try to parry them when they go for the hit, but the lag prevents that from working. I hate to be a whiner, and the above tactics have gotten me kills before, but the times where they dont feel far too numerous, and the fact that someone can get easy critical hits by just circle-strafing makes the combat feel shallow to me. I feel like the games would be better without them. Any thoughts? Am I missing some tactic?
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 03:08:07 +0000
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