Yesterday while attempting to hunt deer and a boar - I noticed that using a stone axe (hatchet) as a weapon was essentially impossible. Was this an intentional change?
I had 105 stamina. Swinging side-ways used 4/5ths of my stamina, making every attack a one-off before having to drop out of combat mode. Attempting to swing overhead downward was impossible. Thus, only a knife could be used.
This wasn't the case in alpha, so is this a bug or an intentional change? Given the stamina cost for logging I would think bug, but perhaps there are strength requirements now to use these effectively in combat?