"Fruit not the dark my friend, and let the feast begin."

I agree with you about active blocking, more fitting for games like Elden Ring

Great video and a very good point regarding active and passive blocking!

i'm glad to see how hema community trying to help making a better game animation visual.

It's fun to see Shad's call answered so quickly. Your intentional decision to show poor form with your shield in some of these demonstrations, which you suggest could illustrate the user presenting openings to an opponent, could be used by a developer who wants to animate differences between skilled and unskilled shield users. That's similar to Shad's suggestion that a developer could use overswinging attack animations to differentiate between skilled and unskilled swordsmanship. The variety of moves and forms that game developers could animate is certainly more limited by their budgets than by the variety of moves and forms in the real world. Thanks for offering your ideas!

Great video! Very well explained and the technique variety seems very interesting and cool. I can definitely imagine some of these moves in a video game 👏🏻

Chuckling a bit about the text under the coat of arms in the beginning, where there is written: "Früchte nicht die Dunkelheit" meaning "Fruits not the darkness" :D Guess it should mean:"Fürchte (the r after the ü) nicht die Dunkelheit" "Don't fear the darkness"😄

Nice

Verry cleaver.

Great video. Liked your explanations.

Fruits, not darkness. I love it.

Respect for Fortress theme from Heroes 5

Found you by the hashtag from Shad's channel. Thankyou for your content! Edit: Also, as someone that is designing a tabletop RPG right now I found your demonstration really helpful for seeing some movements that I hadn't before. Specifically with the buckler and sword.

I agree with your parrying comment. It is hard to actively parry with a bigger shield as it is less nimble and has more coverage, therefore it is less effective to commit to an active defense. The advantage, however, is that there is less effort required to protect yourself due to a bigger coverage. The lack of a boss as well makes it risky against armor piercing weapons. Good job on the halfswording moveset with shields, never thought of that until now.

Awesome vid thanks for sharing.

The compromise I might make for active blocking is to have the shield move around a bit and have block frames That way you can attempt to time things to guard or you can accidentally guard but with less consistentency

Just adding a comment so youtube shows this video to more people.

Muy bueno el vídeo, coincido con incluir de manera pasiva bloqueo al portador de escudo (por ejemplo, un % extra en los stats de defensas del personaje), y luego adicionalmente usar el escudo tal como está ahora mismo con bloqueo activo. ¡Saludos desde españa amigo!

Hola Mexican Conquistador, great video and some really great combos! I love your points about the shield being almost impossible to get past if it is used properly, it really is! So having animations 'falter' to give openings is a great idea. And I love the idea of having an active and passive use for a shield, it makes in game combat that much more dynamic.

Qué bueno que respondiste al llamado de Shad, con videos como el tuyo espero que se enriquezca y mejore la representación de armas medievales en videojuegos. Saludos!

Thanks for the video. Those were some nice moves.

I enjoyed you covering the Game aspect for somethings like Blocking. Sometimes there have to be compromises in the name of enjoyable game play.

What a voice you have!

Hey great vid I'm coming over from shads and I agree about the passive and active blocking thing tho my idea is more of if you equip a shield then you passive block head or so damage from light attacks or something and have to active block heavy or to neutralize light attacks or something like that

Love these movesets Short, sweet and feasible.

I think Shad visualizes 'Active Block' as just a parry; whereas the video game part of my brain considers a parry to be something that diverts the enemy blade and opens them up to an attack (like a debuff or stun), instead of specifically prevents the enemy attacking during certain frames of animation.

what a chill dude you are, i have no idea about all this stuff but I enjoyed your video a lot!

fruits not the darkness. Just letting you know, there's a typo in your logo Früchte - fruits, Fürchte - fear (verb, imperative singular)

Hello, just wanted to point out a typo in the German text on your logo. The first word is "Früchte" which means fruits, but I am quite sure you wanted it to say "Fürchte".

You have a very lovely cloak.

Why does your intro say „froot not the darkness“ (Früchte nicht die Dunkelheit)? Maybe you meant „fürchte nicht die Dunkelheit“ (do not fear the darkness)?

I may not get the quote, but as a german i think your coat of arms house quote is slightly wrong. should it not be "Fürchte nicht die Dunkelheit" (= fear not the darkness) instead "Früchte nicht die dunkelheit" (=fruits not the darkness)? Just saying ^^

^^ "früchte nicht..." ??? is that on purpose or du u wanted to type "fürchte nicht..." ??? ^^ "früchte nicht" means "fruits not" and "fürchte nicht" means "fear not" ...^^ if it was on purpose its a funny joke...^^ grüße aus deutschland

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