Yes, this was a Bug introduced in the patch just before the holiday break where instead of attacking where you mouse-look you attack in the starting direction of the combat. The only way to reset the location of your strikes is to dodge-roll out of combat and re-start the combat. This is ridiculous and makes any challenging combat out of reach of most players. Unless you like respawning all the time and maybe losing your inventory.

Not only that, but Conan Exiles combat is no longer any fun. It’s just too unrealistic.

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That isn’t a bug, and a good part of why I’m not playing.

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This is not a bug. This is how they have changed combat. They want you to use the wasd keys to constantly reposition yourself instead of your mouse, which is idiotic beyond belief and has utterly destroyed combat in this game. I could care less about crocodiles and other things instantly doing 180’s to always be on target with you, I can avoid most attacks easily. BUT THIS CRAP has literally made me not want to log in for weeks at a time. And it isn’t even just combat, take out your pick to bang some rocks and you STILL cannot move in the direction you want to because you are locked in some other direction (because harvesting stones = combat :woman_shrugging:).

I have dealt with many changes in this game (since early access), and I have adapted to them all. But this one is not something you can just “adapt” to. It is the most brain dead decision I have ever seen made in a game that has already been out for over 5 years.

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Really? This was done on purpose? Well I have hand injuries that are made worse by this and WASD does not work because A and S are strafing commands, not turning. It is why my clan and I rarely play the adventure content anymore. We have played no adventuring content introduced in Age of War chapter 3. It’s like it never existed and we will never play it until Mouse-Look turning comes back. We have been waiting for this Mouse-Turn BUG to be fixed. But now we may be leaving Exiles and I have lost interest in Dune Awakening and will likely not install it.

Mouse-turn is standard on almost every game and why do you think that is, Funcom? It is because you really can’t have normal movement in a PC game so Mouse-Look turning ends up being the most natural compromise. Your changes to eliminate Mouse-Turn are not an improvement, they are a game-killer.

You had better think of something better than this current mess because it does not work. I can no longer turn in combat. I have to roll out of combat and reset the battle to turn. Meanwhile my NPC foes dance around me effortlessly, striking from all directions. So the current state of combat in Conan Exiles is a real botched-up mess. Totally abnormal and unnatural.

It is just stunning that you, Funcom, would do this on purpose when everything had been working just fine. Unbelievable.

It’s not coming back. But I read they will be putting in a toggle that some how simulates it.
Ya, and soy burgers taste like beef.

That’s funcom fix it till it’s broke good. No seriously this loss was an unexpected side effect of fixing some bug no one but funcom seems aware of.

I’m waiting on ch4.

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