That's my main problem with big battles, the lock on system.
They need to have it not auto-lock you to people, because when you get like 3-4 people coming at you the lock on REALLY fucks up your ability to move around and fight people.
Lock on is great when fighting 1 vs 1, but for a group it's terrible imo because you're constantly getting another person running up to you, or behind you, an dthen you are unable to dodge/move away. Then there's the whole issue of backing into a bush or tree and "walking" up it, which is annoying in of itself lol.
I think the large battles would be a lot better if they let you stay unlocked.
I think the real issue is the control system of combat. The way combat works, with you using the mouse to determine what area you want to strike from means that you have to lock on in order to do this, without a lock on when you move your mouse the camera moves and thus it wouldn't work, you'd constantly be moving your view around just to attack which would feel/look weird.
However I think there is a very simple way around this whole thing, have an attack key. This is something that Severance (aka blade of darkness) did and it worked great. Just have a simple "attack" key that you hold down when you want to attack. When you press and hold it down, you use the mouse to choose the direction you want to attack in, then you can simply let go of the attack button and your mouse goes back to simply controlling the camera as normal.
This would completely solve the issue of the forced lock on in big fights and let you still have decent control without messing with the camera in those situations.
