Have At You! [Chivalry II] - The Bear and Badger

nick_md

Making a thread because I don't very often and fancied doing so.

Will have a stab at flesh (wound) ing this out later, just stubbing for now.

Done the tutorial and a first team battle so far - looking forward to getting stuck in some more.

Paul the sparky

I saw a guy get both arms chopped off and he still tried to headbutt his opponent to death

LivDiv

Looks a laugh.
How does it play in comparison to For Honour? Obviously scale is much bigger.

nick_md

LivDiv wrote:

Looks a laugh. How does it play in comparison to For Honour? Obviously scale is much bigger.

I didn't play much of FH at all tbh and what I did was time ago, but this seems much more casual and hectic. Controls seemed overwhelming when I did my usual before-playing-look-at-controller-map, but after going through tutorial it was pretty straight forward: horizontal, vertical, stab attacks that prio against each other as you'd expect. Block button that has a guard-break meter, parry and counters for higher skill ceiling, dodge.

I've only played one game that must've been bots as I was wrecking, but when it started it was everyone leg it towards each other and hack away. Things got more tactical later on.

There's a fair bit of movement and awareness skill to develop I think - swinging your weapon and moving your camera in the right direction hits the enemy earlier, for example.

Has your usual team battle, 1-v-1, objective gametypes.

LivDiv

Thanks Nick.
Yeah I didnt play much For Honour either but more arcadey sounds good to me.

Im watching a bit on Twitch and it looks fun at least for a bit.
Might get on the hype train for this before everyone gets too leet.

I'll run the tutorial first.

Cupatay

I like it, it's loads of fun. It controls really well and its different you know. Well worth spending a few hours with it to see if its your thing.

RamSteelwood

yeah it's a good laugh. only briefly dabbled with this new one, but used to play the original back on pc and it's similar enough. Much more fun and arcadey than For Honor, which i bounced off having went into it hoping for something like chivalry with more single player story focus.

LivDiv

This is ridiculous fun

Wookienopants

This looks like a larf

Gremill

Had a go earlier, seems like a good laugh. So far it's the right balance of ultraviolence and irreverent humour. If it took itself too seriously I don't think I'd like it as much.

LivDiv

When I was watching on Twitch earlier it was full of bell ends moaning about balancing and shit.
How do you balance chaos?

Losers will ruin it eventually but it's fun for now.

LivDiv

I like that you can hide in a toilet on one map.

Funkstain

Paul the sparky wrote:

I saw a guy get both arms chopped off and he still tried to headbutt his opponent to death

Enjoyed the inevitable “get into a catapult” play

Wookienopants

It's brilliant fun

g.man

Never heard of this before, but that trailer in the OP makes it look like an absolute laugh riot.

LivDiv

I don't know if it's every game type but at least a few all players started as just regular folk.

One I had a pitch fork which was fairly handy.
The other it all kicked off at some kind of fete and I'm pretty sure I had a chicken drumstick, I didn't live long.

There were also fishes that could be picked up and thrown.

Gremill

I saw someone getting bottled earlier.

Paul the sparky

LivDiv wrote:

I don't know if it's every game type but at least a few all players started as just regular folk.

One I had a pitch fork which was fairly handy.
The other it all kicked off at some kind of fete and I'm pretty sure I had a chicken drumstick, I didn't live long.

There were also fishes that could be picked up and thrown.

Aye, you start as a peasant in the fields on one. Bonked a few with a pickaxe or something before getting slaughtered. It's going for a story as the rounds progress in a kind of Rush mode from Battlefield.

I like grabbing the pigs in one round, you get a super sharp 4k texture of a pig's arsehole as you carry it back to your ship

Paul the sparky

Gremill wrote:

I saw someone getting bottled earlier.

You can pick up the amputated appendages and lob them at people, including heads. Nuts game

Unlikely

I just

Spoiler:

by pressing both bumper buttons.

Djornson

Paul the sparky wrote:

I saw a guy get both arms chopped off and he still tried to headbutt his opponent to death

https://youtu.be/sHpMJJP7v_s

Djornson

This seems fun. There is a lot to take in though! I chose the red and black team after tutorial no idea if makes much of a difference?

Djornson

Hmmm actually it's quite annoying being constant stabbed in the back by own team (accidentally) and every time you fight a real player there is 3 of them versus 1 of you. Guess i was just unlucky with my teams

nick_md

Yeah I need to practice some 1v1 I think to get the mechanics down more, struggling to break people's block as I can't really remember the details of the party/counters.

Still, it's fun just having a big ruck, not really excelling atm and most of my kills are from twatting someone in the back.

LivDiv

I don't think I'll be aiming to git gud on this, it's too chaotic.
I'll just be dipping in for mayhem.

LivDiv

Like I have ever got any good at any game ever lol.

RamSteelwood

yeah, getting good at this almost goes against the point IMO!

every time i've played it's just a case of wade into the ruck and start smashing people, hopefully you'll chop off someone's head before someone does it to you!

g.man

This is the way.

Paul the sparky

nick_md wrote:

Yeah I need to practice some 1v1 I think to get the mechanics down more, struggling to break people's block as I can't really remember the details of the party/counters.

Still, it's fun just having a big ruck, not really excelling atm and most of my kills are from twatting someone in the back.

Kick em

nick_md

Been kicking aye but it doesn't seem to help me much. Will get more practice in.

Djornson

In terms of getting gud i've just found i have spent 46 days of my life playing Warzone (call of duty) jesus fucking christ.

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