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Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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mordhau: your knight is losing to five dudes with lyres

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Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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allegedly if you join a server with custom options at all it doesn't give you stuff

also frontlines is broken

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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I did notice I tended to get stuff after the results screen, unlisted.

also I wish being a peasant wasn't just a massive gently caress you to my team cuz lol

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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peasant is rough mostly because they don't have a helmet


one thing I'm kinda disappointed in so far is there seems like every incentive in the world to go full heavy armor. you go slower, yea, but you take a l o t less damage and only frontlines has any real dedicated running around. All the skirmish maps are pretty small.

I could play a foppish rogue with a rapier or estoc or whatever it actually is in this and dodge around and constantly press X to flourish or I could just be the guy spamming laugh as every swing does ten hp, tops.

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Davincie posted:

im having some real problems actually joining servers, both frontlines servers werre pretty laggy as well despite my 40 ping. the dm server i joined was fine, but i find non team based modes pretty dull

in the fight screen up top there's a server browser, user that instead. you want a skirmish game. you have to manually refresh and then it takes ten seconds or so to actually populate

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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have the material scientists figured out how colors work for team games

I want to maximum pretty up my lad

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Phlegmish posted:

I think I'll wait a while before jumping in, the game's apparently so popular that a bunch of things just broke. You know what, I'm just glad it's getting traction, proves there's a market for these games.

It's pretty much all fixed now. Come play mi'lord.

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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the perks in this seem pretty, uh, bad altogether. there's not a lot of good ones, friendly withstanding (though even then)

like, dodge is pretty pricey but the dodge is just a man's length left/right/back, which... isn't really useful in any situation, that's not far enough. A swing/stab is still going to connect barring it being a frying pan stab.

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Gobblecoque posted:

I know cavalry gets a boost to damage based on momentum, but it feels like it's one way only. That is, a footman's attack against a guy on horseback doesn't seem to benefit from the horse's momentum. I've had quite a few occasions where I've speared or thrown an axe in the face of a cavalryman galloping towards me and he just keeps on going.

hitting the rider with any polearm is supposed to dehorse them on the spot, so you probably hit the horse

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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oh no horses have a mountain of health, that just don't regen ever

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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I dunno what the point of doing counter archery damage is, the longbow usually one shots lights which is what archers are running around with anyway

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Wheeee posted:

is this game as awesome as it looks and/or should i buy it y/n

it's thirty bux

come play mi'lord

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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eonwe posted:

there are some revolutionary war style games that have pretty fun line battles

I think it was SeanBeanShako or whatever ran some fun stuff like that

yea but those weren't really organized, it was just blocks of clans running around

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Deakul posted:

So, I want to get into this but I'm... almost afraid to hop online after trying to get through the tutorial.

Just how important is all of the stuff in the tutorial to have fun with the game?

The tutorial basically teaches you everything you can do and how to do it.

Almost none of it is actually used in the game proper, it usually devolves into various adjustments of your swinging sword and parrying. You can technically chamber, kick, blah blah blah, but even the MLG superstars don't exactly do it often/ever. Not because it isn't useful, just that it's awkward and dangerous.

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Ritznit posted:

I'm a baby that cares about customization a lot, so I have two questions: 1) can you play as a woman and 2) how extensive are the customization options for your character? I usually prefer to play women but if I can't, I at least want to make some pompous looking dude with the best beard in town. If I'm gonna suck at this the way I sucked at Planetside 2 and Chivalry (so far my track record with giant battle games is bad) I at least want to look fun.

not yet but later

it's kinda shallow ultimately but you can get some nice facial hair

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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one of the chevos is also to kill someone with a emote that does one damage and has a windup time of like four seconds

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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I am starting to dislike dodge

not because it's bad, though it isn't great and I don't think it's worth four full points, but because it teaches really bad muscle memory of being able to go "whoa poo poo that's going to flub better side step" while being way to expensive to actually shove into every build

my halberd guy ends up jumping stupidly a lot

you can dodge pretty much at any time tho so it's really great for any archer, you can draw a weapon while dodging when you get surprise rush downed

edit: if you're fighting a maul dude just jump whenever you get feinted/beef it and you're invincible. alternatively duck if you're feeling lucky

Gamerofthegame fucked around with this message at 01:19 on May 7, 2019

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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game needs team color palettes that you can set for your gear

so team red can have warm and blue cold colors, so it's not all the same color set every time for all but two game modes...

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Mr.Unique-Name posted:

Like somebody mentioned before, Vikings and knights feature pretty heavily prominently in white supremacist poo poo, so it does unfortunately follow that you run into a lot of them. I do see people push back at them fairly often, although I wish their discord mods were more ban happy about that poo poo. The official Discord will turn to fights centered around that until people get bored of it then it's back to whining about archers and spears. I should probably just stop looking at that Discord.

unfortunately because gamers are want to rise up that's a fast ticket to get review bombed into the grave, so...

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Ristolaz posted:

IS there somewhere that actually shows how to play the lute? I.E. what keys produce what notes/chords

As far as I'm aware it's just attack and kick.

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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just party onto an empty server, who cares

you can search by name, do a @here in discord with it and party

heck votekick any fuckholes that poo poo up the place

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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halberd high on the list but it's also so long that it will get blocked by every wall in the state county lines. . .

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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technically the only flat rule slashing has over blunt weapons is that it can cut through and hit multiple targets

in practice this is usually bad as that's how you TK, but.

Usually they're also a big faster tho

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Relatively speaking it's easy to chamber spears and rapiers, so just go for that. If you're using a weapon that just can't really stab then morph it.

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Archery in this game is weird. Mostly in that it's actually to weak to do much, you'll do 20-40 damage here and there but it's pretty hard to hit consistently with how slow arrows move. (You need a good half/second lead for a practical shot.) If you manage to land a hit on someone's uncovered dome you'll instantly take them out, sure, but that leads more to rushing up to a specific spot and hitting people at an angle you figured out as they come out of the spawn zone and hoping you get some heads. With the perk you also one shot all enemy archers too, of course, but the travel time makes it more of a duel on guessing which way the other guy will side step. Which is amusing, sure, but it does put archery in a pretty weird spot of being use impaired and just not contributing in a fight.

so the average sniper class but even more exaggerated then usual


the said the trick to defeating them is to a.) wear a helmet you doof and more importantly b.) if you think/know there are archers around just done move in a straight line and you're pretty much untouchable. If you're in a fight don't solely back pedal. All they can really do is try to punish you for being extremely predictable.

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Orv posted:

Wait what am I clearly not seeing in that screenshot?

it's the :ok_hand: meme, which is more of a general internet/teenager joke that because a lot of shitheads are directly associated with both people think just means hitler stuff now.

by people i mostly mean goons and twitter

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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SplitSoul posted:

Anybody else get worse performance suddenly? Game drops frames like mad at the worst possible moments.

a few have mentioned it so far with the new patch, yeah

same tho

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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megane posted:

i'm rank 15 and have literally never ended a round above 1:1 KD

it's me, i am the pubbie

count assists cuz people "steal" kills a lot

bolster your heart, friend

edit: So the crossbow is actually pretty solid, all told. The reloads really aren't that long, so you can do it even in a melee. People will get absolutely pissy at you for playing an archer, but you'll also walk away from a match with a huge amount of assists.

I recommend grabbing dodge. You can dodge back while changing weapons, so being the helpless fool isn't so bad and it makes archery duels much easier. Grab a cheap sword of your choosing (cleaver might be sleeper op to be honest) and go nuts. Torso hits will do at a minimum thirty damage, so you're definitely helping. Just don't expect to land a lot of headshots. Picking up friendly would be a good idea, too, for hopefully obvious reasons. :v:

Also of note, if someone is charging and in your face they can't block a shot when they're swinging at you, so if you're fighting someone with a non-heavy helmet you can just delete them, at least with the crossbow. Which is extra fun because people like to bumrush the archer despite them usually being useless. Just watch out cuz, uh, you can chamber arrows, so it's not completely fool proof.

You will not get a lot of kills, as usually if you can pick someone off they're in an actual fight and getting pushed back and forth from blocking, but you'll have a mountain of assists.

Gamerofthegame fucked around with this message at 03:23 on May 11, 2019

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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most old game communities turn into into either chill bros or #gamers of shittiness, and all the chiv folk migrated to this

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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the big issue with stabbing imo if that you can miss a stab, correct yourself and still do damage while it's out and that's loving annoying

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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frontlines just has kinda bad map design in general, no one really wants to contest the points as they're very small areas particularly for full servers of 64. It really needs more large scale objectives or more generic modes, like capture the flag or Battlefield's conquest as much as I dislike it - or other modes from it really. But stuff like rush up to this 1% of the map to hold it then escort a tiny rear end cart in full view of the enemy spawn really does not work or produce a meaningful experience.



also hot take; stabs are okay. Some weapons are annoying, the ones you can drag your stab in and still knick someone with the hurt box primarily, but otherwise it gives you more speed and occasionally more damage, depending, for having to actually fairly precisely aim your attack which can certainly be an issue over swinging. If you're fighting a stab happy dude and you can't do the relatively easy chambers just side step back and forth more. If they're going for your head (and they are) they're going to start whiffing a bunch.

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Doltos posted:

I wouldn't drop the friendly trait but I'd definitely punish missed/blocked attacks more. Longer swing cooldowns or more stamina loss. The game also needs more modes and maps badly. The Battle Royale/Horde modes are fun a couple times but get old quick and frontline is just a meat grinder most of the time.

I'm surprised this game has no castle siege or wacky modes.

well you see it's a realistic game

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Parachute posted:

which mode is the quickest re: earning levels/money/whatever? i want to try out All of the Stuff and make my barbie pretty

it seems almost, if not completely, entirely based on the time playing the round, really. So technically longer running modes but it doesn't really matter?

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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yeah it's literally just time

i have gone on a bizarro bender 32-4 on a TDM map as a crossbow mang and gotten... two hundred gold/xp.

It means the high level people are just poopsocks and nothing more.

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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i mean frontlines can take a while if it's sitting on the middle point or a pretty quick wash if people are defending the last point because of the ticket drain

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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yea the smaller weapons come out crazy fast and consistently, you just have to hit a bunch over one or two solid hits.

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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fleshwound is one of the relatively few perks that actually have a pretty noticeable impact and it's cheap enough that most people can just grab it in their builds

it doesn't really do much in practice, but that's fine. a good perk.

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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horses are also extremely loud... which is actually why they sneak up on you, cuz you hear them from so far away that you kind of tune it out after a while

in most frontlines map if there's horsies actually contributing to the fight (don't laugh) you're going to hear it constantly after all

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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Perestroika posted:

Please help I'm addicted to Dodge and can't make any classes without it.

agreed never take dodge it will break you

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Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

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you should stop posting then so the thread stops getting bumped up and more people see it and go "oh a neat game"

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