Mod articles
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Fixing Bethesda's Idea of Real-Time Melee
The vanilla melee block sucks.
This is not news to you. What might be news to you is that even a blocked attack still does almost all its damage to you - in vanilla, blocks only mitigate 25% damage base.
The twitch-parry's worst problem is that it's effective for half a second, leaving you vulnerable for the rest of its useless spazzy animation, during which time you get stabbed, slapped, stomped, skewered, and probably pretty steamed.
This mod's damage-immunity burst makes it more like a sustained block, not a half-second muscle spasm. OBSOLETE: see main mod page
To get the most out of melee (weapons or HTH), there's some stuff you should do:
First and most important is go into ESC and Settings and Controls, on PC with...