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I've been playing combat engineer lately as just taking a blacksmith hammer and building up the basic fortifications is invaluable in frontlines. It has absolutely swung some games back into a victory just by having a place for people to retreat and rest up for a moment. I had some Horselord run into my barricade where I proceeded to smack him with the hammer. After a few good hits and blocking his sword, he tried to ride off only to get beaned in the back of the head by the thrown hammer and die. I rode his half-dead horse screaming into the enemy lines where I beat an archer to death with my fists. 10/10 GOTY
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A Typical Goon posted:Well there goes my strategy of using the heater shield and then hitting people in the back of the head with an ax after they turn away to fight someone else because they're frustrated they can't hit me There it goes.
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May 15, 2019 15:33
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A Typical Goon posted:Well there goes my strategy of using the heater shield and then hitting people in the back of the head with an ax after they turn away to fight someone else because they're frustrated they can't hit me Amazing username post combo here.
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May 15, 2019 15:39
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A Typical Goon posted:Well there goes my strategy of using the heater shield and then hitting people in the back of the head with an ax after they turn away to fight someone else because they're frustrated they can't hit me :kicks this post to death: E: I use a heater + messer too I think it will still be good, just not as lame
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May 15, 2019 15:43
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gosh there are so many racist dudes playing this game! you'd think typing the n-word would be an autoban but it's probably 80% of the chat's vocabulary game's fun though
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May 15, 2019 15:44
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drat after this patch my ping is totally cooked. 150+ which makes it impossible to play. Hopefully it's fixed soon because of my thirst for blood
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May 15, 2019 15:53
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2 patches ago, i crashed hourly. Last patch, not one crash. This morning, I've crashed once. Lets hope this poo poo doesn't continue. Crash #2. Whelp, game dead until next patch. Zotix fucked around with this message at 16:52 on May 15, 2019 |
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May 15, 2019 16:31
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May 15, 2019 16:52
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I saw width mentioned about kick changes, but nothing about height? My main issue with kicks was if someone was on so much as a 2 inch incline up of down. So if there wasn't any vertical changes then fighting shield, zweihander, and polearm (you know, like that long spear) users on two stairs or by the bottom/top of a hill are still probably gonna be the time of "Welp, better not even bother with kicks then." While I can easily understand the change in a vacuum, I'm also hoping the universal stab nerf doesn't have a knock on effect of making kicks followed up with an arming sword/bastard sword thrust barely edge into gettnig reblocked, but 25ms sounds too small to worry about that. It would be pretty funny if the intended "Nerf spear+shield!" changes accidentally put a dent in the most effective way to kill shield users though. gently caress yeah carpentry buffs though 
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May 15, 2019 16:53
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Midgetskydiver posted:This is unfortunately quite true and it doesn't bode well for the lifespan of the game imo. Seems like there are maybe 2 playstyles that make up a majority of the population: I agree with the stamina part. Big wide stupid 360 no scope swings and drags should completely drain your stamina. If your going to swing for the fences with a giant weapon then there should be an extreme cost for the extreme damage your going to bring put out. It would make 2 Hand weapons a big risk big reward weapon instead of spam 360 swings. Just an IMO to make things more entertaining.
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May 15, 2019 17:10
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I love checking out the comments on patch posts because the impotent anger makes me chuckle sometimes.
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May 15, 2019 17:18
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Wow, the patch pretty much covers most the complaints I was seeing here.
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I played a little bit after the patch and really like it! Even groggy and pre-morning-coffee I was able to take out some shield+rapier users with stuff that would've just clonked off before and landed a few kicks. I don't notice much of a difference with stabbing at all. But I haven't tried rapier or estoc today. Bastard sword felt fine, and it's dope that they're on top of stuff like this  I also haven't tried buying anything so I don't know if I'm still afflicted by the infinite loading screen bug after buying stuff. I didn't see a mention of it in the patch notes but maybe I missed it. Edit, yay! that bug is fixed. Telltolin fucked around with this message at 17:55 on May 15, 2019 |
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May 15, 2019 17:50
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Telltolin posted:I played a little bit after the patch and really like it! Even groggy and pre-morning-coffee I was able to take out some shield+rapier users with stuff that would've just clonked off before and landed a few kicks. I don't notice much of a difference with stabbing at all. But I haven't tried rapier or estoc today. Bastard sword felt fine, and it's dope that they're on top of stuff like this  but it seems absurdly tiny to me.
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May 15, 2019 17:57
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Glenn Quebec posted:Wow, the patch pretty much covers most the complaints I was seeing here. Eh not really. It didn't nerf spam it just made it a bit slower. The issue wasn't that I couldn't keep up with blocking, it was that on frontline there's 32 out of 64 people stabbing non stop. Then there's 28 drag spammers and 4 people playing a lute. It's a mindless meat grinder that rewards people for monotonous play. They still need more modes or more battlefield objectives to reduce the fighting from massive blobs to more concentrated blobs.
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May 15, 2019 18:13
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No balance changes are going to make Frontline more diverse without really screwing up the balance of smaller scale game modes. Throwing 32v32 teams at each other in fast respawning waves is always going to result in a meta focused heavily on crowd control and area denial.
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May 15, 2019 18:28
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Yeah the problem here is that Frontline is the de facto "default" mode. Other modes play very differently, even just team Deathmatch which is mostly the same thing but on a smaller scale. Skirmish, though it seems there are few servers, is great because no fast respawns promotes trying to stay alive much more. Deathmatch Is just chaos and pretty fun from time to time. Battle Royale has the same no respawn factor of skirmish plus is very asymmetrical (I don't really like it but it's still more "tactical" than Frontline) We really need an official duel mode. All that said, Frontline with it's objectives was supposed to be more "thinking" and acting as a team, but they have to really give people a reason to go for objectives rather than bloody chaosbowl murder
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Official duel mode is coming, if they keep taking time to make changes like these though I'm fine waiting. Also Mordhau Patch #6: 
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having a loving blast when I can get a mallet on my crossbow wielding engineer but it kinda sucks all the ranged weapons are either 7+ points... even the objectively useless recurve. or they're like, four throwables that do 15 damage a pop and leave me with a million points to spare. One change I do wanna see is short-spears going grey instead of vanishing when thrown so you can replenish them at a supply box. That or a dedicated two javelin stack. Also, havin' a ton of fun just duelling as an archer with a short sword. Just having a bow on your back sends duelists buggin' and throws them right the gently caress off... even if you never use it. Motherfucker fucked around with this message at 19:17 on May 15, 2019 |
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May 15, 2019 19:14
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btw here are the new weapon skins: buckler, 12000  cleaver, 6000  cleaver, 55000
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Babe Magnet posted:btw here are the new weapon skins: that cleaver... now I just need an akubra.
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May 15, 2019 19:33
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I am getting worse at this game the more I play it
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May 15, 2019 19:59
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think of it more like everyone else is getting better. I'm still doing the same wacky poo poo as week 1 but less people are falling for it.
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NuckmasterJ posted:I agree with the stamina part. Big wide stupid 360 no scope swings and drags should completely drain your stamina. If your going to swing for the fences with a giant weapon then there should be an extreme cost for the extreme damage your going to bring put out. It would make 2 Hand weapons a big risk big reward weapon instead of spam 360 swings. Just an IMO to make things more entertaining.
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it's okay, I keep trying fancier and more elaborate duel moves in frontlines instead of swinging for the fences and wind up with my head on the ground 
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Seems like those fairly rare frame drops I was getting before the patch are now pretty regular, poo poo.
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LOL the game literally kills you if you crouch down against oncoming arrow fire.
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Babe Magnet posted:think of it more like everyone else is getting better. I'm still doing the same wacky poo poo as week 1 but less people are falling for it. I've noticed more people are starting to feint outside of duels and it's really psyching me out, and one guy in Frontline yesterday chambered my chamber of his maul overhead 
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That new cleaver skin is just a medieval bowie knife, holy poo poo.
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People are definitely getting better in Frontline, which makes for some interesting, and frustrating fights. Moves that used to be an automatic win are no longer working with the same regularity. You never know if the guy you're feinting is experienced enough not to bite on it, is going to bite on it, or doesn't even know what a feint is and is just going to power through and smash you in the face.
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one thing I've noticed in regards to that, and something that's starting to make frontlines a little more frustrating, is that people are able to tie you up longer, which is fine on its own but really makes archery stand out as kind of being in an unfun place imo. I'm not generally against archery as much as some people, but man is it starting to feel like a tool for Fun Denying more than anything. I just don't know what I would do about it. I wouldn't remove it, it has its place, but I also wouldn't make the weapons much weaker either, maybe a little weaker against heavier armor. Maybe limit the amount of archers that a team of a given size can field? I don't know.
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If you mean the difficulty in closing distance, archery is pretty hard countered by heater/kite shields. You can wield the shield without having to have a 1-handed weapon and you can use it purely as a distance closer. If you have good reactions, from far enough away, you can just react parry arrows. Arrows really shine in that mid distance where you can't really react, though, so you can get really hosed if you don't have a shield and there's a lot of archers. You can also use a shield to control space on an objective and force archers to come to you. Maybe a pavise shield or toolbox is also good for this purpose. You can probably walk backwards toward enemy archer fire with a pavise shield on your back before you plant it. I'm purely theorycrafting and haven't tried this. You can also pick shields up off the ground and don't need it in your starting inventory. In frontline you should just be picking poo poo up to max out your flexibility and power to counter the situations you'll face since the only cost is your 3 inventory slots. I would say in a melee, the best you can do vs archer support in the backline is try to use the enemy to block line of sight of enemy arrows. If you've ever tried to be an archer, the most difficult thing is trying not to shoot your teammates from behind. If the enemy archers are supporting their frontline from the high ground, I think this is where archery really shines since they can shoot much more easily past their teammates into the enemy. Not much you can really do there except get to the high ground or if that's impossible throw projectiles up there yourself.
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I got this video game and it's fun but also infuriating sometimes. For some reason people wielding rapiers are like my kryptonite, but chopping a head off from 100% to 0% with an executioner's sword always feels delightful.
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I made a rapier man explicitly to be lovely and run around and steal kills and never get into a serious fight en garde bitch
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I mean, that's the game in a nutshell. Babe just harped on archery then presented his rapier-douche. You just have to be okay with all of the warts.
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Babe Magnet posted:I made a rapier man explicitly to be lovely and run around and steal kills and never get into a serious fight that helmet is the thing im most looking forward to unlocking
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Glenn Quebec posted:I mean, that's the game in a nutshell. Babe just harped on archery then presented his rapier-douche. You just have to be okay with all of the warts. rapier without a shield is perfectly fine and actually really easy to deal with, I just wanted a fancy nobleman and that vest is stellar looking in lime green, also rapier douche has seen 0 combat scenarios in like the 3 days since I made him lol I love that you can throw the rapier. It's such a dumb an inelegant thing to do but hey if it works... hakimashou posted:that helmet is the thing im most looking forward to unlocking it's a good rear end helmet Babe Magnet fucked around with this message at 00:39 on May 16, 2019 |
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How many of you use the 240 system vs actually keybinding all of the attacks? From what I understand all of the chivalry tryhards keybind all their poo poo.
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