PS: This mod serious fucks up masterstrike animations.

A patch for Polearms Unleashed can be found at Polearms Unleashed


This is called combat overhaul because it is an overhaul, but its pretty simple. You must match the attack direction  side in order to perfect block. Master Strikes must still be direction matched. Stabs can be MS and PB from any direction. The top zone can parry top and top left and top right

Here is a really shitty depiction of the PB sides. (Green is for the top zone only. Left and right can parry top as well)



The reason for sides is because
1. Direction matching is not realistic. Ripostes don't give you enough time to change angles, meaning you almost always got hit by them
2. You were straight dead in 1vX
3. The AI doesn't always match 100% so you can rush them
4. Combos would immediately ruin your day


It's not that this is necessarily realistic, because in real life you can ward an attack from any guard (and it can be better to have the opposite guard) but the perfect block is a little boring in this game, and you literally can't get around it by feinting. Feints don't really screw up PB in this game because the timing for PB is after the strike is released anyway. You can't morph your strike like in mordhau or anything.

Basically this makes defense harder and feinting better. Dodge is untouched though so you will need it for being outnumbered

Changelog
1.6.4
- Add rpg param changes to hardcore mode

1.6.3
- Made attack speed and attack damage scale less from stats.
- Made stabs PB from any direction again. Just way too spammable.
- Made stabs way more stamina intensive.

1.6.2
- Made thrusts more stamina intensive than swings
- AI should be much more aggressive now.
- Perfect block window reduced so you can't switch sides and block easily.

1.6.1
- Made thrusts more stamina expensive (even more than swings) so you can't spam it as easily
- Reduced vitality contribution to stamina regen
- General rebalance tweaks

1.6
- Made top zone able to parry the left and right top zones. It was really terrible otherwise and you could exploit the AI
- Made AI combos way more aggressive

1.5
- Made AI switch zones more
- Made it so that stabs can only be PB from the top 3 zones, to make them viable as all stabs would just get instantly PB'd
1.4
- Made it so you have to match side rather than strict angle
- Included stamina and some aggression changes
1.3.3
- gave up on stabs. modding this game is a nightmare.
1.3.2
- previous patch accidently broke it
1.3.1
- more stam rebalances
- tried to add MS and PB back against stabs
1.3
- Dramatically rebalanced stamina so you can't just throw attacks, since they are easier to land. Losing stamina by blocking hurts more as well, so you are encouraged to PB
1.2
- Split up the polearm patch and combat overhaul into seperate mods because one mod cant write to the same file twice
1.1
- Polearms unleashed patch added.