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Hot or not?
A must buy or not?
IMHO this game is a must buy! Especially now when the servers are full of players. Today for example I battled in a "siege" game that was full. It was a joy trying to stop the invading force from climbing their ladders with my awlpike!
Shield up - back to let enemies in - shield down - advance and strike with your pike! Bloody fun 
I would still have loved an MP campaign...
That would actually be rather fun. But for now im satisfied with the battles
That would actually be rather fun. But for now im satisfied with the battles
Before I knew it was battles only, I was already thinking of players creating clans and then the clan is going on a raid to another player clan's fortress... but, single battles are fun too.
I would still have loved an MP campaign...
Hehe... Sounds fun. But it's the battles we want anyway, even though it would have been fun to loot and pillage (and keep whatever you find at their camps)
I like the MP, but want to play the single player right now (been playing MP beta since february).
Just got to be careful of server rule when you choose a server, some are manual block other are automatic and some randomly change their Friendly fire setting, for unknown reason all siege server were on 100% self FF damage yesterdat, good to get rid of TKer but annoying for those that know what they are doing and an ally randomly run in front of them while attacking enemies.
Would also guess the general quality of fighting went down a bit since release, since of new crowd joining. But you if you want quality fighting go on a duel server, there is 2 in Europe, one Australian and one US. Those are very nice to get practice for people on those server mostly to do 1 on 1 melee fight with care to salute opponent before fight (people use the upper block and raising shield overhead (careful some shield user don't raise)), also lot on those server tend to fight naked or with basic free armor, since people are mostly there to practice parry and attack timing.
For practice on horseback and archery, I actually think the single player game to be a better practice, since the environnement is more suited for multiple repetition of those in single player.
Just got to be careful of server rule when you choose a server, some are manual block other are automatic and some randomly change their Friendly fire setting, for unknown reason all siege server were on 100% self FF damage yesterdat, good to get rid of TKer but annoying for those that know what they are doing and an ally randomly run in front of them while attacking enemies.
Would also guess the general quality of fighting went down a bit since release, since of new crowd joining. But you if you want quality fighting go on a duel server, there is 2 in Europe, one Australian and one US. Those are very nice to get practice for people on those server mostly to do 1 on 1 melee fight with care to salute opponent before fight (people use the upper block and raising shield overhead (careful some shield user don't raise)), also lot on those server tend to fight naked or with basic free armor, since people are mostly there to practice parry and attack timing.
For practice on horseback and archery, I actually think the single player game to be a better practice, since the environnement is more suited for multiple repetition of those in single player.
Actually in combinaison of forum it would actually be possible to make campaign. Might actually post my idea on Taleworlds forum once I build it up a bit more.
I've pre-ordered it on Steam and played since the official release - hell, that was fun! Although its "only" battles, the multiplayer is very addictive! Must-have, imo.
Yeah... Like people leaving gates open, people not realising that you must defend the flag in a siege
Man... I spend more time chatting what people should do (which make me annoying as hell) then to fight...
Be a good teacher.Yeah... Like people leaving gates open, people not realising that you must defend the flag in a siege
Yeah... Like people leaving gates open, people not realising that you must defend the flag in a siege
Not that opening gate is bad, if well done, but agree that most of the time on public server it is done because people are acting stupid.
In castle 2 is actually one of the key to win the defense, to sally out of the breakable door from time, else enemy will break it too fast and it will then be almost impossible to prevent entry in courtyard.
It is indeed risky, for enemy could kill the sally out and swarm in before doors is close, but during that time they are not breaking the door, so always possible to get it back.
In castle 1 it can also be a nice trap to open the game at very start, for you will get other team to swarm it, just have someone time the closing of the game just after a few have got in, you will have divided enemy force and make them lose time to get to and/or raise ladders)
But that castle 1 strategy cannot be done without an organized team, for will be many fighting in a tight space (so high risk to TK if people just attack blindly) and require quite a few peoples cooperation (would say 6 is optimal, 1 in each side doorway, 3 guarding the main path, 1 on the gate crank.
Include with that the more usual cavalry sally out, but most people on public server don't do it in big enough team to be worth it most of the time.
On the other hand, my average kill counts are skyrocketing. In that new Ice map I somehow managed to kill off around 40 enemies as the Nords, simply by camping at the longboat with my Longbow and a two-handed axe that would kill the poor guy who would dare boarding the ship... In another case of ownage I killed off about a dozen in Castle 4 by just standing at the same place shooting arrows at enemies trying to climb the ladders in a nice little row. Or when I killed around 30 while attacking Castle 3, against the Khergits, managing to shoot dead every horseman trying to circle around and harass my allies at the siege tower, riding at full speed.
I could never accomplish anything close to this in the beta...
Cannot be sure about bow for never use range weapon in multiplayer, but the number of enemy comming at me fully open to attack sure increased in the last day of beta. Nothing like a sword and board infantry charging at you with sword held up while you yield a glaive, I almost felt like telling them charge at me ready to block not attack, for I almost got two time your sword reach.
I'm trying to be.... Yeah I know it can be good sometimes. But opening doors where no enemy is and forgetting to close, which leads to that I must jump from the walls to close it before the enemy realise the oportunity isnt very fun. This together with when just one person sally out to meet an entire army, getting defeated and thus losisng the controll over the castle is whats irritating me.
Must agree on that its much more fun to fight now though. Yesterday I won a 3 on 1 fight, and directly after that an 2 on 1
Five kills within one minute was fun.
Must agree on that its much more fun to fight now though. Yesterday I won a 3 on 1 fight, and directly after that an 2 on 1
My best during the beta was a 5 on 1, that I survived, (started has a 5 on 4 but allies got kill before I get rid of the that was on me at first, so everyone swarmed to me but I guess they over estimated themselves, so I got easy kill with the upper reach of the glaive.
My best chain kill was like 20-25 in castle 3, was during the armor bug and was owning one of the ladder almost by myself with a combo of glaive and military cleaver with heavy board shield (I had over 40 arrow in my shield when I finally died =p)
Only other weapon I tend to do has good has with glaive is with heavy kite shield and short sword.
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