Better guard/block with melee attacks

[Deleted2039153User]

As the title says, I'm wondering if it would be possible to make blocking with a melee weapon or unarmed not suck. Currently, it causes the enemy to stagger but takes a ton of your HP like you didn't even block at all, and still messes up your limbs really badly. I think if you're defending yourself against an attack that damage should be reduced by a lot.

 

What would be nice:

 

- Blocking actually raises your defense substantially, so that there is a point to using it.

 

What would be ideal:

 

- Blocking raises your defense substantially, but the increase in defense quickly lowers the longer you hold the guard button (like the awesome "Deadly Reflex" Oblivion mod by skycaptain). This would make blocking have a point AND make it something you couldn't abuse, you would have to actually intelligently defend yourself.

 

If anyone has seen a mod that already does something similar to this or has any ideas on it, I'd like to hear about it. Thanks for reading.

[billyro]

I think that there should be no recoil if you hit their defence. That would drastically increase the fun factor of using melee. After that, probably just a simple edit of melee defence variables.

 

I don't know how to go about making it, but if I could it would already be made.