Characters seem to have no Wrists

[deft kestrel]

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Weapons just spin out uncontrolably once you attempt to swing at an enemy, this leads to 90% of the attacks ending up with the weapon bugging out into your own boddy mid attack.
ima try to get a clip of ts.

I Now Tried some of the Grappling moves from the playtest.

It seems like the bodies are completely passthrough in the game.

They basicly have no collisions 50% of the time.

Also players when trying to do a Charged Kick just do some weird floating motion

Weapons Also loose colisions sometimes, which makes blocking borderline impossible

[sacred ivy]

how are we able to do mma moves in the demo but not even grab right on early access

[deft kestrel]

Im not sure but i think the Demo (Playtest) String was completely seperate from what we got now.
The thing that we have now is basicly a Version of the old demo (the one with a cursor and Abyss only)

Thats the only way i can think off that would explain the rapid decrease in quality of all the stuff.

Its not the system we know (and the one most of us love)

I Honestly dont understand why they would do that though, like the system they chose is so much more buggy to the point that its basicly unusable, While as the Playtest version (Especially the one before the merge) was very clean to the extend that it basicly had no bugs.

What we asked for is a better version of the demo, same systems, more content, and more optimization.
That is what everyone asked for and kinda what we were promised.

Instead we got a whole new system that is something completely else then we all signed up for.
Appart from the fact that its also way way way worse in terms of quality and polish in comparison to what we had before.

I Kinda have the feeling that they didnt playtest this version at all, they released a playtest only to fully ditch the Version that was playtested and start something new without anyone ever testing it.

Now they call that untested mess the game.

[sacred ivy]

its so disappointing

[deft kestrel]

Maybee they can somehow fix it, but with this disappointment of the whole community going arround like a forrest fire it kinda scares me that the devs didnt even bother to say something about it yet.

[deft kestrel]

This picture summs up the 1st day pretty well i think

But wait, there is more!

[gentle pulsar]

i noticed that its starting happening when you make your character small

weapons just not working

try to make your character big to the max

[deft kestrel]

Tbh i dont even have the motivation to try that, The Performance is so incredibly terrible.

Cant even play celar cuz the small vegetation in the circle version brakes my whole game.

cant get above 15 FPS

[gentle pulsar]

thats true

[north pebble]

lower the quality of the foliage and shadows

[deft kestrel]

it is at the lowest

there should be a "None" option

[north pebble]

what’s ur overall graphic setting

[deft kestrel]

Lowest
DX12 (as suggested by ppl to solve the overall performance issues)
DLSS Unltra Performance

[north pebble]

what’s ur graphics card

[deft kestrel]

RTX 3050TI Compact

Was able to run the "High" settings preset in the Playtest.

Can run most games on mid settings.

[north pebble]

on the other settings what’s ur fps looking like

[deft kestrel]

Similar to Worse.

Depends heavily on the map, not so much on the settings

[rose grail]

exactly my arms feel like noodles

[deft kestrel]

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[rose grail]

exactly

its so bad

[deft kestrel]

Try to make character size to the max

[north pebble]

you’ve tried the settings on d11 too right?

[rose grail]

some reason npcs dont have that issue and insta kill you

[deft kestrel]

Yeah, worked better on vegetation, but Overall performance was worse.

I Dont even know how it can be that fucked up

Like that is some next level rendering fuck ups.

No matter what you solve a new issue just appears.

[rose grail]

if you dont have nividia card use this https://github.com/optiscaler/OptiScaler/releases/tag/v0.7.9

https://github.com/optiscaler/OptiScaler/wiki/Installation

[north pebble]

it’s the unfortunate truth of the coding world

honestly i’ve had no problem playing on high

[rose grail]

yeah i got a solid 45 fps

[north pebble]

only fps drop i have is w the blood, but that’s because im on max for n blood

[north pebble]

i have a solid 80

[deft kestrel]

On Slums too?

[rose grail]

nice is that upscaling?

[north pebble]

slums it drops to 60

[north pebble]

balanced

[rose grail]

i downloaded this so hopefully i can get up 80 fps too

[rose grail]

yeah they dont support upscaling for non nividia gpus

[north pebble]

honestly guys try using balanced dlss

[rose grail]

alot of people cant

[north pebble]

they should add amd gpus to it

not sure why they haven’t

well

didn’t

[rose grail]

yeah fsr and Xess 3

[north pebble]

oh yeah intel too

[rose grail]

im using a b580

[gentle pulsar]

how they managed to make a game in 2025 on unreal engine 5

and didnt add fsr

[rose grail]

or xess

[summer remnant]

Agree

[rose grail]

ok stabbing with the messer just doesnt work

[regal mauve]

Jump

There is no charged kick

[deft kestrel]

It dont work though

he just floats and then falls on his back

But that aint even important

That the Weapon handling is so incredibly Bad and the devs have not even acknowledged that yet makes me angry.

Like the AI doesnt have the issue

But for players the weapons just Start to Spinn whenever you try to do a normal attack.

That shit literally Makes the whole game useless.

His wrist and arm is NOT supposed to turn like ts

Here a clip of the Polearm bugging out, and this is not even close to the worst i had with it https://medal.tv/games/half-sword/clips/m1C1a7wCMZlbtHsL8?invite=cr-MSxyR3ksMjI0MDE3ODAx&v=52

Like striking moves his arms in the given direction

But instead of the weapon moving there too

His Wrists just give in and spinn out

Alr to make this more proffessional

Characters have no Wrist Joint, Weapons bugging out.

Issue: On mouse movement, the wrists give in instead of moving the weapon.

Cause: Idk, seems like the joint is just not existent for the player character.

Effect: Makes every strike with a Weapon a gamble, if it either works as expected (with some delay) or just buggs out the weapon, Sometimes also ends with the weapon bugging inside the Character.

Frequency: About 40% of all attacks end up bugged

Footage Collection:

• Hoe Slightly bugging out: https://medal.tv/games/half-sword/clips/m1C1a7wCMZlbtHsL8?invite=cr-MSxyR3ksMjI0MDE3ODAx&v=52
• Pictures of Broken Joints: #1466866449317630166 message I #1466866449317630166 message I #1466866449317630166 message
• Hafted Bugging inside the player character (and character freequently letting go of it): https://medal.tv/games/half-sword/clips/m1Cg24F5X9CHdmPGE?invite=cr-MSxHN3YsMjI0MDE3ODAx&v=10

Abyss is Bugged & Not fun

1st: The Biting feature for the Zombies makes Abyss hardly playable at all, They spawn in behind you and with that Bite and Instant Stagger you.

2nd: The already shit biting is also bugged, all damge dealt by it does not lead to death, so your just softlocked on the ground until you return to the menu.

Footage: https://medal.tv/games/half-sword/clips/m1Ct91PSpp2rxZT3A?invite=cr-MSxLZFEsMjI0MDE3ODAx&v=21

[lapis abyss]

Bumping for the fist issue

[gentle pulsar]

i think this happens only with certain weapons

but it can be with all weapons if youre creating a small character

[lapis abyss]

Mesers are a victim of this, it allows for cool moves but it getting stucked in my neck is...impractical

[timid roost]

You cooked here, they absolutely shouldve improved on .5’s demo because weapons actually felt decent there, instead of resorting to just half assing it and going back to an older version just to push the progression and all other content out.

[deft kestrel]

its with Most low tier weapons, the only ones i have found that are not affected are some Longswords and one handed hammers.

Also Hotfix 2 Did not solve this issue

[deft kestrel]

I Cant mention often enough that the "Closed" Playtest before it got merged into the Open demo had by far the best weapon handling.

I Had lke 150 Hours on the Playtest.

That was the best version of em all in regards to Weapon feel and Handling.

But to defend the game a bit, The damage model has made some big steps since then.

And if the updates stay this frequent then it will soon be the best version

[gentle pulsar]

and optimize maps

the only problem of demo was that it had only 1 boring map

[gentle pulsar]

hotfix also says that they optimized slum map

but nothing changed

[undone hollow]

I can understand the performance issues since it seems the graphics had made some jumps in this update. likely wasnt tested with a large verity of hardware until now. but this combat is so much worse

[timid widget]

I've noticed that the game definitely has hidden stats that get increased as you continue up the ranks, while I do like the idea of your guy getting stronger as you fight more, I wish the strength of your characters grip wasn't also tied to this. Grabbing and grappling is very difficult at peasant rank, when I'd argue it should be some of the most fun? And anything that requires two hands always seems to slip out of my non dominant hand like it's been buttered or oiled up

[undone hollow]

this may be true. I did notice a small difference when i ranked but thought i was imagining things. Either way, this would not be a very good implimentation of a system like that if it were the case and should certainly be removedif it does exist

[gentle pulsar]

i also noticed that even npc sometimes has their wrists broken

and they cant attack you

[gentle pulsar]

the thing that weapon slips out of non dominant hand could be from tiredness

[deft kestrel]

It aint, its from the same bug that makes the Wrist joints become Water.

[lapis abyss]

Didnt say that, it said "beggining of slum optimization"

[restive wing]

This has been an issue since the demo, though it's more annoying with the introduction of weapon forging