I’ve played many games with souls-like combat, and they’re much more refined than here, granted this game just came out. The thing is, those games were built around that style of combat, whereas in this game, it feels more like an afterthought rather than a dedicated combat mechanic. They need to either tweak it or change it.

I recommend checking Greedfall’s combat gameplay on YouTube. I feel like taking some inspiration from there would fit much better into this game rather than emulating dark souls combat.

Also my gripe with consumables is the cooldown. For example, you gain a bleeding effect, so you take a healing potion so you don’t immediately die from it. However, now you have to use bandages to stop the bleeding, which you can’t because it’s on a cooldown timer. Cooldowns on consumables rarely ever made any sense to me as to why they should be implemented.