So i downloaded version 5 today and started fresh with an arabian themed scimitar man. Dont remember all the details after the run, but it was the last nation i think. Started at the tutorial, this time the door seemed to open correctly using the lever, but the enemies couldn't get to me like they still collide with it. From the camp i talked to the bossman and took his order to go to the battlefield. The cursor stuff filtered me from this part last time, so having cleared that up opened up the game for me personally.
The big battle was a real hassle. I think other comments already told you about the issues of group fights with allies, but it felt really detrimental to join a fight because of them shoving you around. You had little control over your character in such a big group of people. Hitboxes of attacks made that even worse: the attacks with the scimitar seemed to sometimes not hit at all using the light attacks, so i mostly spammed charged ones. Dodging is almost impossible, because pressing Q didn't instantly roll me away, maybe it needs to cancel the current action and it doesn't? Locking on is very confusing too if theres more than one person. That got even worse with the three-headed-giga-sranc down in the tower. I had to lure him into the hallway and not lock onto him to have a chance of beating him and i did. Its hard to say, but i had the feeling his buddies helped me by shooting arrows in his back. Had a little laugh when i looted him and i got the turtle shell charm three times, but that turned into sadness as "requirements not met" prevented me from using it once again. So much for describing my experience with the whole run.
Had some possible bugs and other issues in there too:
- before entering the tower theres a chest, when interacting it doesnt seem to do anything but remove the prompt
- interaction prompts feel off, because they appear but sometimes you still need to adjust your distance before you can interact
- pressing C to open the character sheet shows 4 buttons to its right, one of which disappears when hovering... sadly i couldnt read what it was for because it disappeared too quickly
- had a few cases where the game didnt respond, but this only happened when starting the game and focusing something else before it booted up properly and when quitting.... dont think this happened in a build yesterday
- finally less a bug and more an annoyance: while sprinting its hard to stop doing so, you seem to need to fully stop moving... releasing both shift and W isnt enough if you press W again briefly afterwards
Apart from all that, i checked the witch once again for the right click action (the shield) and it doesnt shoot projectiles anymore. The general appeal of the game is pretty rad i can now say after having seen the real thing. Big meaty battles, with lots of slashing sounds and blood is disturbingly satisfying. Ambiance and music do a lot too, like others said and it delivers that feel of a big war going on, which is great!