Interesting idea on the team damage, but suspect it would either be ineffective and exploited or too effective and cause false positives.

I’ve said it a few times over the years and suggested for Chiv1: Reflective damage
Currently most servers have 50% TD. You swing into a teammate they take 50% damage

Reflective damage: they still take 50% damage as is standard, but you should take 50% damage too. That’d make a people more careful and isn’t easy to exploit for trolling

Some good points first: graphics, animations, customisation, touches like picking up objects, environment interaction are all very good. Map design seems decent too.

Voice over work isn’t as good as Chiv1, but isn’t terrible.

The main issue I have is core gameplay: playing Chiv2 last night I was a bit disappointed.

So: RMB to hold block. In chiv1 you rmb to block, your block only lasts a moment then drops, meaning timing is key. And therefore judging the timing correctly is an important skill.

Currently chiv2 you can hold your block for ages, with stamina slowly dripping away. Now while the block can be broken by kicks or heavy attacks - that works fine in one on ones. But if you attack a group and one in the group simply holds their block as a defender, your attack will be absorbed by them meaning every bastard nearby hacks you to pieces before you can recover.

To test this I grabbed a friend and did a combo of knight running up to and blocking enemies and me, with a maul, following them around and popping heads when people got blocked.

The only time it didn’t really work is if you got surrounded or flanked, but chivalry doesn’t exactly harbour such team work or tactics. As long as you didn’t charge through a group of enemy you could easily decimate them. I played for a few hours last night and eventually left, not because I was tired and stayed up too late gaming, like happened when I started playing chiv1 many years ago, but because I was a bit bored of this gameplay.

It did just seem like a big cluster of people LMB and overheading hoping to get lucky

Also while gameplay speed is fine, windups seem to take an age.

So for me the core gameplay while technically works, just isn’t as much fun as chivalry1

P.s. it seems like it is trying to be like Mordhau when what your playerbase wants is a game that more like an updated, less buggy Chiv1. Hell, at least it’s not as bad as Mirage :P

@Kanenas said in Ban Appeals:

Steam64 ID: STEAM_0:0:30308724

Who banned you (if known): Unknown however the server is called “=SM= SneakyMonkeys.com LIMITED ARCHER 64 Slot”

Reason for ban (if known): Unknown

Your appeal: I really don’t know why I would get banned I was playing on it last night and when I came to play today it said I was IP banned.

Additional comments: I am really unsure what I could have done to get banned as I’m never rude or obnoxious. If I was it wasn’t intentional and I understand in that case but really I would just like to know what I’ve done to be banned. The reason I want to appeal is that there are not very many classic servers that have a decent ping and are not full (this is a large one so there are usually spaces) so being IP banned for an unknown reason is bothersome. Thank you for taking the time to consider my appeal.

Hi Kanenas,

The =SM= servers are private clan servers, so I’ll add you on steam to sort this out.
However I can’t see you account in the banlist for any reason :s

thanks,

MonkeyFiend

This exploit is due to be addressed in the next patch

While my clan sees issues with the freekends - normally players rolling new accounts, then using crap like cheat engine without risking their main accounts. Although these still provide a good avenue for potential legitimate players to try out the game and then hopefully buy it.

That being said where the alt-trolls/hackers cause enough disruption, as a last resort, we’d put a plan in place to set minimum rank to 20 on the SM servers during free weekends. It’s harsh on the new guys, but at the end of the day our priority is provide a good environment for our members, regular players & everyone else.

Probably worth trying to figure out where the lag happens e.g. whether it’s graphics or internet connection etc.,

Does the lag happen only in melee or all the time? on all servers? does it happen if you run a local (bot) type game?

If you look at the command: stat unit
(also try stat fps)

Is it showing any red values when you’re getting teleporting?

There’s a lot more control with mouse & keyboard compared to the aweful console controllers.
Also the potential for largerscale battles than the consoles can offer

downsides:

none that I can think of :P

Looking like you possibly had an old version of duelyard installed

It would be nice if we, as users, could blacklist servers where we’ve had bad experiences so that they were flagged or didn’t appear in the browser when we search. Eventually servers with bad admins will disappear by means of gaming natural selection as people won’t want to play there then the servers remain empty

@av0:

I know there are successful servers out there, so if someone could be as kind as to point me in the right direction I would be eternaly greatful. I have two decent servers, one which runs stock maps and the other custom content. I have two problems. On both servers, I will get an SDK transition error upon map change. Research revealed it is linked to the Stoneshill map (or so I believe). Can anyone confirm this?

Also, some of my custom maps can be switched to via “adminchangemap”, however they display “map does not exist or is disabled” when you try to mapvote them. I tried the only fix I saw on these forums, by copying everything to the CookedSDK subfolder. That did nothing. Can someone please help?

Do you have limited voting on?
e.g.

LimitedVoteMapList=