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The new changes regarding timing and attack speed

The following do not feel they fit in with Minecraft, and seem unnecessarily complicated.


Changes: “The attack cooldown is now only 4 ticks (200ms) when an attack is missed.”

“Attacking is no longer possible until the weapon is recharged.”



A skilful area of 1.9+ combat was the big punishment to missing a hit and having to wait for the cooldown. Players should be able to choose between waiting for a full recharge, half recharge or spamming to deal slight KB to the opponent. The change removes that choice from the player, the difficulty of cooldown, and the punishment to missing a hit. The reduction in skill needed to aim, imposed by the short 4 tick cooldown, feels unnecessarily complicated, clunky and unintuitive.
 
Changes: “The attack key can be held down to automatically attack at the next available moment.

Has a +1 tick (50ms) penalty, making it less effective than optimal timing or clicking.”
 
This makes combat stale and boring. And the benefit from actually timing your hits is minimal. Seems like a poor attempt to unite pre 1.9 and 1.9+ PVPers. Spam clicking (pre 1.9) or timing 1.6 CPS (1.9+ sword speed)? Well how about we just remove clicking all together (sarcasm)! The addition of the 3 attack speed sword also feels like trying to make the middle ground of click speed.

Even if it was possible to unite PVPers. Which I don’t think will magically happen by just making a third combat system. Why do we even need to unite PVPers, when people can play whatever version they choose

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    About the new attack speed of the sword.

    There is an invulnerability time of 0.5 seconds. When an entity flashes red. Players and mobs do not receive more damage in that time (under normal situations). This effectively limits the maximum CPS/cooldown to 2. Attacking faster achieves nothing and would be less efficient, as some attacks would not register, as opposed to perfectly timing 2 CPS or slightly less. 1.8 PVP is essential limited to 2 CPS as well.


    Since the maximum effective attack speed is 2, due to immunity. Players would have to attack at 2 CPS or less. Otherwise wasting hits - the 3 attack speed is useless. And if someone thought it would be a good idea to remove or alter damage immunity just for this, then that is ridiculous. This could drastically alter the game in many more ways than just when using a sword.

     

    It should be noted most mobs attack about once per second. And cannot spam hit or hit 3 times in a second. At the moment it is pretty well balanced.


    I think the current sword attack speed of 1.6 is optimal. As opposed to some arbitrary value of 3, or spam clicking in pre 1.9. Players jump 1.6 times per second. This is a well known fact in the PVP community which allows for satisfying crit chain combos. The attack speed also happens to be just fast enough to also allow for regular sprint hit combos. That the opponent barely hits the ground after taking KB, then gets knocked again. 1.6 CPS is only 125 milliseconds slower than the damage immunity period of 2 CPS. 

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    Regarding I frames, you missed the part where it says "quicker weapon trigger shorter I frames"