I was really hoping that they make quite serious large changes to the combat system. When I saw that they hadn’t I cooled on it quite a lot.
I enjoyed the first game but it feels like there is a lot more potential there, with better combat.
On a technical level I’ve seen it explained that it has animations you can’t cancel and all that.
Yeah, from the best I can remember of Fallen Order, Jedi Survivor's combat has hardly changed fundamentally from that game. And honestly it possibly felt even worse on Series X because of the awful stuttering that's continuous in the game so it feels even more janky. Fallen Order at least ran at a consistent 60fps on Series X.
They've added more stances to the combat - 3 additional ones which is a decent evolution but many of the actual skills you unlock for each stance aren't that interesting or useful and don't make the combat much more fun a lot of the time. There's also hardly any actual lightsaber combo moves you can do which I don't like.
Yeah you can't cancel animations. I understand that they're going for dark souls like combat by using this mechanic but I personally don't prefer it. I want to feel faster, more dynamic and more nimble as a jedi. Combine that with the weird character movement for dodging, the at-times frustrating lock-on system, rubbish unblockable enemy attacks who can hit you during your iframes (I think that's the term - other people online have explained it better) and janky hitboxes (though I don't think I had too much trouble with this though others did) and the combat is not the most pleasant experience quite often.
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