The team behind Last Oasis has at least 30 developers and the budget to hire at least 10 more. They started off with creators with combat modding experience and use the Unreal Engine which is a huge boost for development. (I wish I had that available when I started Xsyon.)
The team behind Life Is Feudal has at least 90 developers.
Please explain to me how those teams are smaller studios that one person, me.
I am absolutely certain that they are operating on a much larger budget than I am. It would cost me a bare minimum of 1 million per year to maintain a team of 30 developers and this would have to be a remote team without US developers.
I am not saying we can't have decent combat. I am saying to have realistic expectations.
Again I will address the actual suggestions that I can decipher from these rants in another post.