From a PVE preservative it’s utter trash and this “hotfix” just made it even worse.
I keep getting stuck facing in one direction and not being able to turn, I can side walk left right, or walk backward, and my camera is a free cam. I can’t attack, I can’t target, and I can’t play like this.
You got a problem you want made worse? call funcom they can fix it good for you 
Could you give us some examples of how you feel combat has gotten better and more balanced?
The funcom hotfix has made it worse?
I am not even playing on a server or in SP that does not use Xevyr’s great combat hotfix
I feel bad for game designers because even when they do improve on things the vocal minority whine.
Improve 
How is degrading the enjoyment of the game play an “improvement”.
Very little of the Age of War has been an improvement, if anything it made the game worse.
It also showed very clearly Funcom’s lack of QA with each patch.
Just wait until the sheep wakes up.
Unfortunately funcom have a history of doing this - look what they did to Secret World with the ‘legends’ revamp
Here is a chance to give feedback if you havent seen it. Give em those ideas! 
Sigh… 
Hey Wolffspider off topic but what was the Queen of Chaos like in person?
May Set be with you 
Answered it (the survey).
Overall I’d say most things are positive, but the combat? Yeah… terrible.
Infinite stamina that allows ppl to run forever and infinite rolls. They then make spear apply cripple with first heavy hit for no reason, make it so you can turn and re-aim mid attack, making it absolutely busted with stuff like Q-lock. Then of course, they double down and instead of reverting the stamina changes that allow you to roll and poke forever, they basically delete spear from the game.
The pvp of this game no longer feels like it used to. It’s not enjoyable. Revert the changes Funcom.
So you are unaware of the actual change to combat in chapter 3?
Because what you are on about isn’t the issue most are referring to here. The stamina and rolls thing is very old news. The fact you use target lock means you’ve never experienced the issue this thread is about.
Now I’m glad I didn’t listen to the people telling me to get used to this change because the “hotfix” changed it, and ch4 will change it yet again. I’m not even going to try to get used to what ever battle/fight mechanics funcom settles on till funcom settles on it.
Then I still have to ask why get used to it when funcom could change it again in the next age?
funcom find a lain and stay in it please.
I am quite well aware of the controller style movement being forced on everyone, yes.
It’s just another issue on top of all that. And I do not use target lock where I usually play, but it was clearly an issue on officials. The spear nerf isn’t ‘ages ago’ though as you say. Even if the ‘infinite rolls’ problem is old, that doesn’t stop it from being an issue.
You add everything together and you get quite the ‘special’ result.
The spear nerf was to counter to roll spam.
The roll spam is very old news.
Still the roll and spear thing was a PVP specific issue, the majority of players didn’t have the issue.
Unlike before when everyone have been using spears, now players actually use other weapons and I like it. Before it was Q lock and spear, no thanks.
Age of War has killed Conan Exiles for me. Worse, my entire group hates the change from random purges. There is only a single player left on our private server.
Yep, player count is dwindling, you can see it in server list evety night. They definitely botched things up and are not increasing playability. I logged in and was like, uh, ive done everything, now what? Ive played for three years so theres that, a positive. But definitely miss the threat the old purge provided. Now my only option is to start over and do it all again, but combat isnt good , thralls are busted, and loot still uninteresting so im off to palworld til they add something good to lure me back…
Every update costs the game more players then it brings back.
Players are leaving because they are tired of being treated like portage in stead of valued customers.