I would like to discuss the balancing with certain classes. Although I feel this is a very subjective topic, I feel that some subclasses are extremely weak compared to the rest. The two main classes I’d like to look at are the Ambusher and the Combat Engineer. This isn’t to say that they are useless, but rather they are significantly less useful than the rest for no reason other than novelty. Both are the final subclasses of their respective class, and they are both the most “specialized” in my opinion, in that they have a specific purpose or niche that is felt.

The Ambusher
The Ambusher is supposedly used to ambush enemies, thus the increased damage to the back. The problem is, most of the time, this just isn’t viable. Furthermore, you can only equip one handed weapons, the best of which (for ambushing) is a small knife. This negates the increased damage to the back, as you’re using a weaker weapon. It would be much more affective to use the Maul as it kills in two hits (assuming you land a heavy attack on the back).

Also, the special ability of the Ambusher is just terrible. The Quiver ability, although quick to recharge, simply just replaces all of the throwing knives you have. It would be better if it replaced your bandage as well, or if it resupplied your allies around you, but it doesn’t. It’s all around a much worse ability when compared to other Vanguard abilities, like Oil Pot or Horn.

Overall, the Ambusher is just underdeveloped in its option in combat. Its weapons are weak, its passive is borderline useless in most situations, and its special ability is trash.

The Combat Engineer
The Ambusher is significantly better than the Ambusher when compared to its relative Footman subclasses. The weapons are all specific to the subclass, and although they aren’t all that impressive, they are significantly better than any knife. Having 2 gadgets instead of 1, the Combat Engineer can place two walls and one bear trap.

The idea is good, as their walls cover a decently sized area and their bear trap is quite large, but they aren’t that useful. While the walls can be combined to block off a doorway or funnel enemies in a specific direction, the bear trap feels like little care was put into it. There are very few areas where you can lock off with a bear trap, and it can be broken very easily. This is also tailed by the fact the bear trap is extremely easy to see in all environments. You can’t exactly hide it. And 50 damage? That’s just pitiful. The bear trap may temporarily disable the enemy, but unless you’re camping it, you won’t be able to capitalize.

All around, I feel like there is little thought put into the bear trap for the Combat Engineer. Perhaps the damage can be increased to 80 or even 100 to make it more threatening. This way, you wouldn’t feel obligated to camp the trap, as it would still be helping your team severely injure an enemy without your presence. Oh, and ammo boxes definitely need to resupply the trap. This can be balanced by having the last trap automatically destroy itself if you place another.

@Lilboots Thanks! I noticed both of these after you mentioned it, and they help a lot. I now always play with ally indicators off as I am a veteran and can in fact differentiate red from blue! Although parties don’t work, the few times they have worked I got to see the ever elusive golden circle indicator, and it looks nice! Thanks a lot for the help!

nah bruh, for the Blue and Gold!!!

@FSS-Arminius I agree. I don’t care much for a competitive scene, but I just want more than 3 gamemodes, especially when one of those is free for all which is trash in my opinion.

@Skindiacus I hope that doesn’t mean an actual competitive matchmaking gamemode, considering nobody into the competitive scenes of these games actually uses them. Almost all competitive players do scrims and tournaments and detest the actual skill-based matchmaking.

I just hope it means Last Team Standing and Capture The Flag.

The symbol above friends listed players is bad and needs work

At the moment, all teammates have a small green rhombus (wish this was togglable) above their heads, and friends have a slightly brighter green circle. In the original Chivalry, the symbol for friends was much more distinct, having a orange/golden symbol above them, while teammates had no symbol.

My point is, they made it so not only does every player have a symbol, but your friend’s symbol is less distinct on top of that. The brighter green circle just blends in with the green rhombuses, and it should be changed to a different color like Blue. Furthermore, allow us to disable symbols on teammates heads. In general I wish there was more control over the UI, but at the moment I literally have no idea where my friend is unless they get really close and I am also specifically looking for the proper circle.

Overall, I hope improvements can be made to better distinguish friends from normal teammates because the game is best played with friends. Thank you.

@Yurik Thank you for clarifying. I agree that the Loose FFA servers have always been more popular, but you have to understand why. Not only were the maps specifically designed for dueling (instantly healing with the fountain to get into duels quicker, map literally dubbed ‘duelyard’) but they were also community driven, meaning they had moderation and administration by the people who owned them.

At the moment, unofficial servers are still in the works, so we are forced to tolerate the official duel servers which are plagued by players who can’t be votekicked and when they are they can just hop on another server. It should not be difficult for a server full of players to votekick someone who is obviously misbehaving.

Another thing, I talked about this on another thread. Getting in and out of duels needs to be much quicker, and ammo boxes that replenish bandages are just too slow. Duelyard was more popular than normal duel mode because of how much quicker it was getting back into the action. The renaming of a server to “don’t be a doob, honor the rules” does nothing to actually accommodate the dueling system. Running back to the ammo box every time to grab a bandage is sluggish and unappealing. At worst, it gets you killed by a randomer.

@edyrian Most likely. Knowing Torn Banner, it will probably be up to a month before it is fixed. This bug was in the Alpha and the Beta, so it’s not like they didn’t know it existed. It’s strange that they just launched anyway, disregarding it.

@FSS-Arminius I have no idea what this question means.

@Yurik The problem is the systems in place could potentially allow the community to moderate themselves with ease, but they are flawed. The votekick system is borderline useless as it is in its current state, and the “Duel” mode is a glorified Free For All server. It even says “FREE FOR ALL” and the announcer states “KILL EVERYONE”. No wonder people are confused. Furthermore, the “gamemode” does nothing to differentiate itself from Free for all. I don’t know if this is temporary before an actual duel map or mode, but I wouldn’t know either way because I can’t find out. Overall, I wish there was information available.

I agree with most of what you said. I have no idea where my favorite gamemodes like King of the Hill, Capture the Flag, and LTS are. They just seem to not exist and nobody really cares. It’s sad. I would also say that the game is more accessible than the first one with a lower skill ceiling. The game is still very enjoyable, but it’s the truth.