The combat and balance is fucking awful.

Its a horde game with ZERO ability to actually manage or control a horde. inb4 skill issue, it has nothing to do with that. The weapons are all weak, the melee is clunky and unresponsive, the "parry" is unrewarding and the window is weird and inconsistent. I fucking loved the first game even though it also was very flawed, but SM2 has some of the lest rewarding combat Ive ever played.

Interestingly, the new siege mode has brought every flaw of this game to the surface. Seeing a player getting swarmed by multiple raveners, a lictor, with a zoanthrope pelting them is hilarious because their only option it to run away and occasionally pepper an enemy when they have managed to get a little bit of distance on it. There is no tool or strategy for them to actually deal with this enemies, they have to run, it takes fucking forever, its horrible.

My little human veteran from Darktide could murder Titus with a fucking shovel. Thats a game that knew how to make a horde game and make the player actually want to fucking be there.