DESCRIPTION:
I always hated how it looks to block with a weapon - it'd look like the defender is just holding his weapon static in front of his face and just takes the hits. The attacker seems to just swing at the weapon and the defender kinda just takes it....

To alleviate this issue I replaced the tiny animations of "absorbing a hit with a weapon" with the bashing animation and with custom made animations made by the awesome krish698.
What this means is that once you hold a weapon to block and successfully block a hit that at the moment of impact you will see a short bash or parry animation that will give the illusion that your character changed the angle of the weapon to parry the hit.
This, of course, also applies to the enemies as well.

Since the "absorbing" animation has changed I also tweaked the parry sound effects to compensate for the lack of sync.

INSTALLATION:
either extract the files into the data folder or use NMM.

UNINSTALLATION:
If you are not using NMM than you will need to manually remove the files that came with the mod. To know what to remove just look inside the archive of the mod.

COMPATIBILITY:
This mod changes the animation and sound files of block hit for both 1H and 2H weapons. not with a shield and not the idle pose of blocking. naturally a mod that changes these animations will not be compatible but i dont know of such a mod.

Also this mod changes the sound effects of the impact of weapon on weapon so any sound mod that changes combat sound effects will not be compatible if the sound mod is installed AFTER my mod. But that is easily solved - all you have to do is install Pseudo parry mod AFTER every sound mod.
If you installed a combat sound mod after you have my mod installed than you will notice that blocking a hit is out of synch. just uninstall and reinstall my mod and it will be synced again.


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First I want to give a huge sout out to my co-modder here - Krish698. He created another variations for parrying with 1H weapons and 2H swords. He endured all my critics and comments until the animations got to where they are. thanks a lot for the willingness to help and for a great job!

Also big kudos to judgefredd who created the mod "Improved combat sounds". it's just a great sound mod.

Also big thanks to Xion209 and tiny lampe who helped with questions and nagging. you have been a huge help, guys ;)

And, of course, bethesda, for the awesome game.