Swordsman

We want you to feel like you're fighting for your life! Give it a try, and let us know if we succeeded! ⚔️ The Combat AI system will only get better; this is just Version 1. 🙏 This new system replaces pre-determined animations with reactive and responsive melee actions. The Combat AI system will…

⚔️ Training Grounds: Added new map! (see left door in hub) 3 main challenges: Archery, Tatami Mat, and Punching Bag Cross-platform, competitive leaderboards! The update was developed because community members requested the ability to compete in some capacity. I'd love to hear what you think about…

I hate every bit of this....

I WANT A REFUND!! I was promised good graphics and realistic fighting and good physics! Guess what!? None of that!!! It's looks like a 7 year old designing app was made for the map and the fighting looks like claymation MOST HORRBILE GAME EVER!!!! It's opposite day btw

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Good replayability

Update - since the AI update the fights are now boring and formulaic. Mostly abandoned by the devs. Hopefully for a sequel with improvements Dev response on reddit "We pushed 15 FREE major updates for Swordsman in under 4 years and gave away over $50,000 worth of prizes to the community. How do you get to the idea that we abandoned? Considering standard in VR we over delivered to our community. It was cheaper and we could have gotten funding for it, but we wanted to try more dynamic combat, we did and we learned a lot. Why would we ever take advice or feedback from an individual who doesn't understand our history, our reasoning and our objectives and on top of everything is just rude?" Wow!

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most realistic sword play I've seen.

I have fenced with saber and am a new student with HEMA, learning long sword and arming sword. I was impressed with the stance and footwork of the AI, similar to what I'm learning. The AI are fast and don't telegraph their intensions like other games. They don't, however, thrust with their swords (at least not as far as I've seen). The fighting is more difficult than other games - more challenging; nice job. I look forward to future updates. For the Devs: here are a couple books to examine. I hope these will help you to develop the fighting style of the AI. These are two books written by masters of the arts of combat centuries ago. 1. The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570 Paperback – October 30, 2020 2. The Flower of Battle: MS M 383

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This has ruined blade and sorcery for me

I don’t do HEMA myself but I’m decently knowledgeable and know the basics about it. I love HEMA and didn’t like the fantasy sword combat in most games because it’s clunky and boring. I’ve only played this game for about 10 minutes and love it. The graphics are nothing special, but the mechanics are top tier. It’s so rewarding closing an opponents guard with a Cutlass and jabbing them in the face, or having a perfect parry and riposte. The amour works well on both you and opponents along with the sword physics. The AI can get repetitive but mostly can be hard to take out and counter. I do also see the AI do real tactics and manage there distancing pretty well and will kill you with with ease if you charge in blindly 9/10, can get better but is really good, if you do HEMA and want a fun past time, give this a try

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stop saying blade n sorcery is better

first of all sure blade n sorcery is great with weapons and physics and all but when it comes to the combat ai in this game they actually block and attack back really good and actually puts up a challenge for you to beat them all , second of all the games kinda short but still really enjoyable even tho i beat the entire main story+ bonus story in 1 hour and 10 minutes , third of all devs please update this game it would be such a masterpiece

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