To start off, MAKE THE NEW TEXTURE PACK REMOVABLE. It's very annoying that it's always on, even for those(like myself and MANY others)who don't like the style fit for younger people. It is trying to look like bedrock which is not what Java players want.
Having said that, I can get into what I have gripes with in this update:
The combat: The combat in most of the history of the server has been 1.9 pvp with swords and combos to learn, movement to dodge hits and get out of combos. This update really just feels like a middle finger to every player who honed their skill, spending THOUSANDS of hours(not even joking I've spent half of my hours in minecraft on 1.9 sword pvp) training to get better at the pvp, only to change it completely to where shields are a must and axes are preferred. Shields completely negate any chance of landing a combo, now that they not only take no damage but don't get knocked back either from anything, forcing players to use axes to disable them. I get that it's supposed to be the 1.19 update, but to be honest I think we could've continued without this feature.
The items: I can see some items being interesting to experiment with in the different gamemodes, but netherite is not one of them. It not only makes the pvp extremely janky, making players take different amount of knockback resulting in already bad sword pvp getting almost unplayable.
The lack of skyblock: I hope it gets fixed soon but skyblock is currently under maintenance, and if I check my stats I have way less time spent in skyblock than I know I have. Is skyblock getting a rework? Really hope it's just a bug but if not then I'll be very disappointed.
I'd like to see a future update with much more thoughts and fixes from the community instead of risking it and eventually killing the server which we've played on for so many years.
Leave your thoughts below.
Having said that, I can get into what I have gripes with in this update:
The combat: The combat in most of the history of the server has been 1.9 pvp with swords and combos to learn, movement to dodge hits and get out of combos. This update really just feels like a middle finger to every player who honed their skill, spending THOUSANDS of hours(not even joking I've spent half of my hours in minecraft on 1.9 sword pvp) training to get better at the pvp, only to change it completely to where shields are a must and axes are preferred. Shields completely negate any chance of landing a combo, now that they not only take no damage but don't get knocked back either from anything, forcing players to use axes to disable them. I get that it's supposed to be the 1.19 update, but to be honest I think we could've continued without this feature.
The items: I can see some items being interesting to experiment with in the different gamemodes, but netherite is not one of them. It not only makes the pvp extremely janky, making players take different amount of knockback resulting in already bad sword pvp getting almost unplayable.
The lack of skyblock: I hope it gets fixed soon but skyblock is currently under maintenance, and if I check my stats I have way less time spent in skyblock than I know I have. Is skyblock getting a rework? Really hope it's just a bug but if not then I'll be very disappointed.
I'd like to see a future update with much more thoughts and fixes from the community instead of risking it and eventually killing the server which we've played on for so many years.
Leave your thoughts below.