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Zotix posted:So if a spear user stands at me, and I stay right as they stab, that's a chamber right? How do you follow that up and hit them before they can recover? Do you just use another attack during the clashing of weapons? I suck at chambering, but I'm working on it. Here are two videos that have helped me. I still can't DO it reliably to any attack other than stabs, and even then, the vast majority of the time I miss my follow up, but I'm getting better. This one is a good explanation of how to chamber and how to follow up (he even has trouble with the followups, but still a good video). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh21lwU96mA This one explains how to set up a practice mode against a bot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KTr1EBMCJg
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One thing I noticed is that the first person animation for the halberd stabs include the chamber movement. Before stabbing, you shove the haft hard in one direction and then stab, which helped me with my timing. Chambering is such a neat mechanic because it's basically how all parries work in Olympic fencing and having it be recognized is pretty cool. It's a bit confusing that both chambering and the "active weapons clash" thing uses the same sparks and clashing sound iirc.
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May 12, 2019 21:41
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Okay picked this game up and having a great time with it, it's way funnier than I expected I am Bad but I've been playing Frontlines where it's 32v32 so I'm pretty sure there's no way to be "good" at this game in that circumstance unless you absolutely know what you're doing Screaming Sledgehammer Peasant does not know what he is doing He only knows that skulls need to be crushed for 'is lohd
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May 12, 2019 22:11
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join the discord, vulgar will teach you how to be good at frontlines, I'll teach you how to duel bby
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May 12, 2019 22:15
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Songbearer posted:Okay picked this game up and having a great time with it, it's way funnier than I expected Go to duel servers to git gud quick. 1vs1 teaches you much faster than 32vs32. Proper etiquette requires you to look at your potential opponent, flourish (press x then 1) and wait for his flourish or other gesture then engage. Don't jump on people already busy fighting on a duel server or you'll get clowned upon by everyone then kicked Also join the discord and learn how to join the goon server (called "ye olde goone camp", more details in the relevant PGS thread, linked in the OP), we had a ton of fun earlier on, everybody was cool and many heads were crushed in honorable duels or crazy fistfights. I discovered that the pickaxe you can find on some maps is a surprisingly decent weapon, too Edit: even though the goon server is US east coast, don't let that stop any Euros from joining, there were 2 of us filthy oldworlders with 140 ping but we managed just fine TorakFade fucked around with this message at 22:35 on May 12, 2019 |
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May 12, 2019 22:26
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May 12, 2019 22:42
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The halberd is absolutely disgusting in Frontlines, especially the alt grip where you're striking with the pointy end. Stabs for fishing kills out of huge brawls, then strikes to smash in the skull of that archer you caught napping, or to gently caress over that one rear end in a top hat tooling around on a horse.
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May 12, 2019 22:43
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I just realised you can change what you're building with the toolbox and now a whole new world is open. I'm having ridiculous fun just locking down routes with spikes and hacking people down with a falchion 
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May 12, 2019 22:48
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I routinely get top kill count on my teams and I do it with an executioner’s sword, the perks bloodlust and friendly (I hit teammates a lot though usually swinging through the people they are fighting), and some light armor 1/2/1 I think, so I move quick. I don’t focus on 1v1 but I do pretty good when I do, decent at feinting. I focus on map pressure and making sure I circle around the groups, making people focused on others think I’m not trying to go around them so they keep focused on the line, then swing/turn/focus and whack. I run like a baby to trick them sometimes. My gameplay is more about knowing where most close enemies are, footwork, playing the edges of the lines that form, and area denial with wide swings than anything. It’s really fun playing that way, and takes a lot of skill.
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May 12, 2019 22:57
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I've been playing with the toolbox and falchion too, it's a lot of fun until some potato steals your mounted crossbow while you're hacking away any would-be flankers.
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May 12, 2019 22:57
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or they take it while you run back to the ammo box to get materials for defenses around it
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May 12, 2019 23:14
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What's ratio of normal players to "DEUS VULT" nazis in this game like?
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May 12, 2019 23:25
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Julius CSAR posted:What's ratio of normal players to "DEUS VULT" nazis in this game like? This type of game does attract a lot of those, but in general the in game chat is pretty tame.
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May 12, 2019 23:32
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Julius CSAR posted:What's ratio of normal players to "DEUS VULT" nazis in this game like? The majority will be either pepes, some form of almost-nazi flag, or outright racism in the name; while most of the rest will randomnly spew racism or bigotry over all chat when they die. Reporting them to steam sometimes works.
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May 12, 2019 23:32
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The player base isn’t too bad, other games are far far worse.
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May 12, 2019 23:36
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I see a lot of colorful swearing and gamer lingo in the chat, including bigoted slurs, but not much of in the way of a coherent right-wing ideology. One exception is the guy called MUSLIMCRUSHER who was in my match a couple of days ago.
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May 12, 2019 23:36
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I haven't seen much of it on the Oceania servers, though that's not to say there's not an abundance of your typical casually foul-mouthed bogans. They're just a lot less aggressive about it.
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May 12, 2019 23:37
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Runaktla posted:The player base isn’t too bad, other games are far far worse. Chivalry seemed chiller than this, but I think it's just because it's a new game and the usual low-attention-span trolls haven't yet moved on to a different title.
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May 12, 2019 23:38
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I had a guy with waffle in his name use the popular n word misspelling and was able to get everyone to roast him into quitting.
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May 12, 2019 23:39
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Julius CSAR posted:What's ratio of normal players to "DEUS VULT" nazis in this game like? I play on Europe servers and I haven't seen anything of the like honestly. I was super worried that the game would be full of them but the community's pretty chill most of the time, other than the occasional salt merchant.
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May 12, 2019 23:50
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I turned off the chat box and the Killed By screen and it's great.
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May 13, 2019 00:05
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Babe Magnet posted:or they take it while you run back to the ammo box to get materials for defenses around it Without fail some ding dong will take that turret and get upset when I kick them off. As if I'm able to accomplish anything else while your 3/3/3 rear end is sitting on my turret.
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May 13, 2019 00:52
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I didn't spent minutes building a fortified medieval ballista pillbox position just for some pansy rear end knight to commandeer it 
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May 13, 2019 00:55
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One thing I've noticed with the longer weapons is that you can get a ton of work done if you're mobbed by parrying and then riposting at a completely different target. I've never walked away from a 1v4 yet, but I have taken 3 down with me by doing that, without bloodlust to boot. The tunnel vision people get when they see they outnumber someone is insane. E: playing engineer on taiga and fortifying the ballista emplacement is very satisfying, as is blue Grad and the house. Having team chat start talking about how I was "playing sim city skylines" and "winning us the game" felt better than it should have. It's actually kind of nuts how powerful a single engineer can be on some maps. Ravenfood fucked around with this message at 01:15 on May 13, 2019 |
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May 13, 2019 01:13
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Yeah, on my peasant build I got a random riposte off with the scythe, beheaded one guy, killed a passing horse then hacked the rider to death while he was ragdolled. 
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Ravenfood posted:One thing I've noticed with the longer weapons is that you can get a ton of work done if you're mobbed by parrying and then riposting at a completely different target. I've never walked away from a 1v4 yet, but I have taken 3 down with me by doing that, without bloodlust to boot. The tunnel vision people get when they see they outnumber someone is insane. I mean, people still somehow kill themselves on spikes sitting flagrantly out in the open. But the door to impalement combo just adds that extra dose of cartoon slapstick 
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Today I learned that if you ever gently caress up and run your horse into a wall while wielding something like a greatsword or battleaxe, just swing that poo poo because every nearby enemy is going to charge directly at you for a free kill and you'll swipe like 2-3 dude's heads off and then you can go about your merry way.
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Ravenfood posted:One thing I've noticed with the longer weapons is that you can get a ton of work done if you're mobbed by parrying and then riposting at a completely different target. I've never walked away from a 1v4 yet, but I have taken 3 down with me by doing that, without bloodlust to boot. The tunnel vision people get when they see they outnumber someone is insane. You can't be flinched during a riposte, so when you're getting dog piled and you riposte and start a big swing, that swing is going to continue through until it gets blocked, when you switch to another target, you're essentially dragging (or accelling, depending on which direction you turn), and it fucks most people up, they miss their parries, and someone, or multiple someones end up losing their heads. What's crazy to me is that not only do people get tunnel vision in those situations, but they also all start attacking at the same tempo (as fast as they loving can). All it takes is one guy to skip a beat and then swing or poke, and the guy getting dog piled is dead, and yet very few people do it.
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I for real wish horses didn't exist in this game. They're like jets in Battlefield in the sense they don't really cap points or interact with the rest of the game in any way, except occassionally killing you while you're busy doing something else, like having fun.
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Schneider Inside Her posted:I for real wish horses didn't exist in this game. They're like jets in Battlefield in the sense they don't really cap points or interact with the rest of the game in any way, except occassionally killing you while you're busy doing something else, like having fun. I've mostly stuck around in duel servers but I can see that. I noticed in M&B warband the mounted players either focused on lancing eachother, or attacking people from behind and running away. I got really good at stabbing cavalry in the face in warband, which would often instakill them from the momentum. Wonder how well it works here?
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The stabbing is easy with any reasonably long polearm and some practice, but the killing/dismounting is difficult and inconsistent unless you're using the bill hook specifically.
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May 13, 2019 02:55
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https://gfycat.com/disgustinginfatuatedgopher I'm figuring this whole thing out. This game is about teamwork.
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May 13, 2019 03:29
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I like they way that regenerating health works in that it does not kick in if you are attacking or running, and even then you need to wait a moment. It really encourages you to know when to fall back.
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Nothing like nailing the horse guy with a throwing spear as he's charging at you for the easy kill muhahahaha my horse now  I really like throwing my weapons at people, the other night I threw my sword into some guys face, pulled it out again and then chopped of his head.
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I like that you can pull spears out of your own body and throw them back.
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soy posted:Gaston probably would be an archer jerk irl I use the skulls of chuds in all of my deeeeecoooraaating Also I never really got the point of gettin' mad about nerds using your ballista as an engineer. I let 'em, I've generally got more important poo poo to be hammering. sometimes I'll even set the ballista to build and gently caress off for more supplies knowing that some rando will grab it and flick sticks at the enemy. If someone kicks me off it though I generally kill that bitch. Motherfucker fucked around with this message at 04:34 on May 13, 2019 |
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I've been playing this game for less than 24 hours and I'm already tired of people complaining about not getting 1v1s on Frontlines.
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May 13, 2019 04:51
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Do what I did; turn off the chat box and never turn it back on
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Telltolin posted:I've mostly stuck around in duel servers but I can see that. I noticed in M&B warband the mounted players either focused on lancing eachother, or attacking people from behind and running away. I got really good at stabbing cavalry in the face in warband, which would often instakill them from the momentum. Wonder how well it works here? Not nearly as well, unfortunately. The momentum damage bonus exists exists but it only works in the mounted dude's favor, so the footman always risks being one-shotted and might be simply unable to kill the horseman even if he's wielding something like a spear or halberd. M&B also had the nice thing where a polearm's stab would always halt a horse, which is not the case here. Billhooks can dismount riders but that can be easier said than done if the rider is using a weapon with longer reach.
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1stGear posted:I've been playing this game for less than 24 hours and I'm already tired of people complaining about not getting 1v1s on Frontlines. I have a guy with three lots of throwing knives whose whole job is to vulturize kills for mad cash... the salt is exquisite I assure you.
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