For those who dont know

[Tinky]

From Kenn Hoekstra

For those of you unhappy with the increased
saber blocking in CTF and FFA modes in the 1.03
patch for Jedi Outcast, you can turn off the
changes by setting the CVAR g_saberTraceSaberFirst
to "0" in your server configs. Setting this
to "1" = More Blocking, "0" = Less Blocking. It
defaults to "1" in 1.03.

For those people against the blocking in the new patch who missed this post.

[Xzzy]

now there's a good fix, make it so every time you log into a server the combat is configured completely differently.