Babe Magnet posted:

Babe Magnet posted:

yeah the progression may be mostly resolved but they're still getting blown the gently caress up server-wise. You can use the browser without a ton of issues though.

Babe Magnet posted:

I'm starting to get pretty good at weapons I don't want to use lol

Commoners posted:

Ran into a guy with a bunch of music macros for the lute. He would run up to 1v1s and start playing duel of the fates or flight of the bumblebee and it was great.

At one point I was in the middle of a fight and I turned on him and chucked two pans at his head, killing him, before killing the guy I was 1v1ing. My duel partner failed to save the music.

Nordick posted:

I'd enjoy this game even more if it didn't start severy stuttering for a few seconds every few minutes. Really loving cool to be in a nice fight that's going well and suddenly HRRRKRRRKK and I'm dead because i can't loving see what's happening.

Mr.Unique-Name posted:

Maybe. But being shirtless and using a zweihander or estoc or battle axe, which a lot of people seem to do, will get you turned into a red mist by an archer you're trying to jump because of how fast the cleaver is and your lack of protection. That's assuming you make it to the archer.

I'm really starting to feel like the cleaver's broken. Maybe it's just because people aren't good at fighting against fast weapons yet or what, but its damage against armor isn't horrible and you can just go nuts on somebody and they can't do much if they can't properly chamber one of your attacks, which is really hard to do against something that swings that fast. I added it to my short spear loadout instead of one the perks (I think the jumping stamina reduction one) and now my short spear is basically just a javelin I use on approaching.

It's probably just people being bad but the number of times I've had somebody with a zweihander parry a cleaver attack then start a swing only to discover it's actually still my turn and get shredded is impressive.

Edit: What does the "Feint or Parry" hotkey that isn't bound by default do? I'm guessing it cancels attacks into feint if you hit it while swinging, or just parries if you aren't swinging. That's kind of tempting to use ( especially since I ALWAYS try to right click to cancel attacks) but there's times when you want to take an attack into a parry, not just feint.

TorakFade posted:

Thanks!

1. I already did, I have it configured as such: mousewheel forward is stab, mousewheel back is overhead, side button 1 is horizontal, side button 2 is underhand. ALT changes the direction (default everything is right), I'm not sure if I should keep that also mouse x axis does (currently trying this out, and I still jerk my view around too much for this to consistently work, but I'm getting better). This way I can use the 240 system naturally with the left mouse button, and then if I really need to do a particular strike, I will have it on the mouse.

2. you monster. That sounds so wrong.

3. I'll have to try it, I only spent 5 minutes in 3rd person, got dizzy and confused so went back to 1st person

4. parrying is not a big issue, sometimes I'll get the timing wrong of course but it's mostly fine. Actually in a few occasions people have been clearly frustrated by me parrying all they threw at me (until I fail footwork and they can get around me, I finish stamina and get disarmed, or another enemy sneaks on my back. I definitely lack situational awareness and positioning, and quick enough reflexes to consistently riposte/counterattack let alone chamber, it mostly happens by sheer chance ). What really irks me are facehuggers with relatively fast weapons (1handers usually), I have no idea how to interrupt them, everytime I try to kick or stab them they score a hit, I flinch and I'm basically dead

my favorite weapons til now: longsword for murdering peasants (knight preset), mace + shield when I see a lot of heavy armored people (protector preset), and a custom billhook + arming sword + shield 2/3/1 when I'm not sure because it can mostly do everything, good mix of speed, reach, damage and defense. Evaluating if

game has crashed 3 times in 15 minutes, maybe I have to dial down my GPU overclock; this is a nice looking game but can be pretty taxing when everything is at ultra 1440p (CPU 2600x + GPU 1080, I get around 75-80 FPS on my 60Hz monitor)

also, I wish this had "newbie" servers like Chivalry, getting to fight against people that have practised for 2 years and/or are already level 18+ is ... frustrating

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?

Perestroika posted:

One thing I'd recommend early on is finding yourself a small server. Doesn't even have to be a dedicated Duel server, just something that's like 12 players or fewer. It's generally less frustrating if you've got some time to actually see what's going on without getting immediately steamrolled by half a dozen people the moment you turn around. Besides, it also tends to be a way more chill atmosphere, letting you shoot the poo poo with the others and do dumb stuff.

Midgetskydiver posted:

What is the feint he keeps doing over and over ending in the face thrusts?

Nalesh posted:

Is he using the directional key mode for swing angle?

Also what's the point of throwing knives, they just seem like worse throwing axes, do you get more of em or something?

soy posted:

I can't stop playing this game, I see it when I close my eyes at night.

Please add more maps, but otherwise I have 0 complaints.

It would be nice if you could somehow tell where your squad mates are when you make a squad with your friends, but that's not really a complaint.

lovely Wizard posted:

Also does it take forever for US Battle Royale matches (both east and west) to queue or is it just me?

Internet Kraken posted:

Does this game have flails? I remember I was actually pretty good with the flail knight in Chivalry.

Section Z posted:

Frivolous question. Does anyone have any idea what the Stone Damage stat even applies to? Like, every proper weapons is just "2 damage", but some of the peasant weapons like the sledge hammer and pickaxe list stuff like 60/100 stone damage.

loving around in frontline, seems the mallet built sandbag walls still run off the wood damage stat. But I have not done any horde mode, so are there stone walls peasant slowly break down in that mode, or what?

Orv posted:

I've definitely been enjoying half strength (or even just 42 instead of 64) Frontline. Still challenging fights but you do actually get fights instead of just swirling melees of giant gently caress You zones.

megane posted:

Horde mode is pretty half-baked though. The enemies do not know how to climb ladders, so when I tried every round ended with one guy in a sniper tower s l o o o o o o w l y sniping down the entire wave.

Veryslightlymad posted:

Bloodlust is too good of an ability. 100% health if you kill a guy?

Like, the counter is just "quite a few things kill you in one hit anyhow" but.... eh. Lots of things don't, and that's an enormous amount of survivability that far outperforms any 5 points worth of armor. As near as I can tell, it outperforms 9 points of armor.

I made a guy with Messer and bloodlust and he's my most effective guy, but I can't tell how much of that is the Messer being the one weapon I understand, and how much is bloodlust being broken as hell.

TorakFade posted:

Trying to learn feints now, both reading them (haha I'm bad, panic parry all the time everytime) and doing them (haha I'm worse, people just stab me in the face).

Am I correct in thinking I'd better focus on my parrying / footwork / reading the opponent game first? Feinting seems to carry relatively little reward for scrubs like me, morphs seem to be more useful on the offensive, and straight parry (FTP actually I guess) on the defensive.

hakimashou posted:

3rd person defeats the whole purpose of the game

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

The messer only does 50 damage to level 2 armor. If you see numbers that big against level 3 guys you're probably accidentally getting headshots.
There are only a few weapons that hit hard enough to kill level 3 armor in two hits: waraxe, executioner sword, mace, eveningstar, maul, and apparently the peasant sledgehammer.

The messer's big downside is that its stabs are pretty lackluster so you have to use a less-varied offense of mostly just slashes, and morphs are less useful/effective. Against level 3 armor it doesn't kill any faster than e.g. the longsword which can also stab properly in addition to slashing. I still like it a lot, especially in frontline when lots of people run around with level 2 or below armor.
Estoc has the same problem in reverse because its stabs hit hard but its slashes are weak. Like the messer it can two-shot with stabs against level 2 armor but is no better than the longsword against level 3 (although it's longer).

Greatsword and zweihander get bigger and bigger reach advantages while still hitting hard with both attack types. Greatsword can also two-shot level 2 body armor with stabs (like the estoc), while zweihander can two-shot it with either stabs or slashes.

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

Babe Magnet posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bz2WZoizYM

Disgusting Coward posted:

It's not the most killy but it DOES look as cool as gently caress and that's the important thing.

Ravenfood posted:

What I want to know is, how can I get flinched by a horsefield and then killed by the rider's couched spear in the same pass?

Commoners posted:

I really like the new map.

rarbatrol posted:

Hello, new to the game. How do I tell in-game which shield is blocking/parrying?

Orv posted:

I'd like to see something like a 20/24/26 range Frontline server, honestly. So many problems in this game are magically alleviated by not trying to max the player count.

Minorkos posted:

I feel like the fact that this fight lasts over a minute despite non-stop face-smashing and still goes to stamina multiple times is kind of epitomic of the game's problems. Actually getting a hit in (not just causing stamina damage by forcing your opponent to chamber cancel or parry) is really loving hard against a good player. I don't think getting up in your opponent's face and playing a reaction game to reduce his stamina to 0 is especially fun, and I'd really prefer it if feints were an actual mix-up. But I guess that's not really the kind of game they're trying to make, or maybe they foolishly listened to people who complained about feints being "unfair" in Chivalry

Mode 7 posted:

Having used the longsword a lot more now, I'm kind of bummed out about the poleaxe, it's a super cool weapon historically and I love the way it looks but I can't see why I'd ever take it over a longsword. The longsword is faster, has the same reach, and does comparable enough damage for a point less. I'd kind of like to see the devs bump the poleaxe point cost back up and tack on a little range.