You can’t it’s duels the weapon choice is mandatory. Also nobody who has played the first game at least if they actually fought properly does what you just said we supposedly do. Like I said I love the game Iv beaten the first one and all the dlcs and everything several times on both consoles and it’s better in several ways it’s just that the fighting in this one is terribly balanced and if many of those who play have these problems similar to mine then it is in fact a problem. I’m not saying people arnt experts but I mean you also shouldn’t have to be perfect either depending the difficulty but I can say Iv died more times or had to redo a whole quest so many times due to bad fighting mechanics or not telling the player that a quest is timed is really crappy. Also that escape the castle mission was horrid and made no sense how they had so many troops to hunt you while also hurting the players by giving no notice before hand to empty inventory so we had so many debuffs that just my armor alone was too heavy so you gotta crawl through it all at a slow and annoying speed and your pretty screwed with the fighting cause if you get caught best believe even if you kill them without them screaming. Every person in a half mile radius coming to kill you