Hi

 

I just saw that when the character is out of combat i can attack in any direction that i want with the left mouse button, but when i'm in combat the character only attacks to the direction he / she is facing ? In my opinion the way that you control the character should remain the same in all circumstances so that the player would have a clear understanding of how the pc behaves in any and all situations.

I think that's because there's a bit of target locking during combat, while there's no target locked when there's no enemy.