Any constructive tips for playing better?

[Comrade Maethor]

I feel like this game has a monumental skill gap that can only be bridged through years of experience. Chivalry is definitely not easy to learn and certainly not easy to master. It's genuinely the most difficult game I've ever played because the complexity of the controls and how you can combo them requires a kind of muscle memory I just don't have.

PvP most of the time feels impossible to me. Even though I maxxed out mouse sensitivity, people still seem to fly around my character, hitting me instantly, even though I thought I had a good grasp on using your mouse and keys to accelerate hits and aim behind your opponent. I just can't do it fast enough apparently.

Some people are just untouchable. I don't know how they can have such inhuman spatial awareness in a game as chaotic as this. It's very impressive, but also very frustrating. How they develop the necessary muscle memory to know how to play that flawlessly is beyond me.

[Dong Quixote]

every single weapon is viable once you memorize the length and speed

[NovemberRobot]

Origineel geplaatst door Comrade Maethor:

I feel like this game has a monumental skill gap that can only be bridged through years of experience. Chivalry is definitely not easy to learn and certainly not easy to master. It's genuinely the most difficult game I've ever played because the complexity of the controls and how you can combo them requires a kind of muscle memory I just don't have.

PvP most of the time feels impossible to me. Even though I maxxed out mouse sensitivity, people still seem to fly around my character, hitting me instantly, even though I thought I had a good grasp on using your mouse and keys to accelerate hits and aim behind your opponent. I just can't do it fast enough apparently.

Some people are just untouchable. I don't know how they can have such inhuman spatial awareness in a game as chaotic as this. It's very impressive, but also very frustrating. How they develop the necessary muscle memory to know how to play that flawlessly is beyond me.

increase your mouse sensitivity to a comfortable level, dont go too high where you cant control it.
Play 3rd person - not sure what all the crazies are doing by playing 1st person, but its much easier to have full awareness around you and land shots that arent in front of you.

When you get stuck on one class after playing for too long, youre probably burnt out, so try another class, EVEN if you dont think you prefer it. The change of play style does allow you to enjoy the game more and thus allows you for further skill progression. Then come back to your favorite class refreshed, this allows you to enjoy the class again and learn more skills for it.

get used to feinting your hits and doing combos. You can just randomly switch your attacks in mid action, they dont have to be anything learned, but make sure that they are timely.

Always face your opponents attacks dead center and block , even when jumping, requires alot of dexterity.

Be AWARE of your stamina and health, always retreat when low and regenerate both, Stamina is just as important as health bar. WIth low stamina your learned pace is slowed and your moves will always lag. IN any fight, you have enough room to retreat, once you are low, just dodge with your last breath of stamina and run away, most people will not chase you. I think many people dont do it because they feel that its dishonorable. Theres no honor in medieval warfare.

Replenish health by eating food, which is sometimes more viable than finding resuply chest. Replenish stamina by standing still.

Dodging is very important to avoid hits AND land hits. A quick attack after a dodge from a direction the enemy doesnt expect due to a dodge is a very viable tactic.

after a while, you should have a good feel of all weapon ranges and should intuitively feel the tips of those weapons and realize how far you need to be to attack with just the tip of ur weapon and to avoid getting hit.

Increase your FPS. High FPS does matter in this game unfortunately, your attacks will feel sluggish on low fps. so if youre not getting near 80FPS, lower your graphics settings to the lowest.

Not having fun in game = no progressing your skill.

[NovemberRobot]

Origineel geplaatst door Dong Quixote:

every single weapon is viable once you memorize the length and speed

this is very true, once you get good with all essential mechanics, you can be good with almost all classes.

[NovemberRobot]

There are some unique classes that have unique playstyles, that is Spears and Archer class. These classes dont require a lot of melee techniques like combos and parrying and feinting, but you have to find their niche in playstyle to outperform average players.

2-handed spear is a cheat weapon, it goes through everyone and hits at angles that melee weapons cant, requires a lot of dodging though. You can simply hit enemies through your teammates, without doing significant damage to your team. I can take on 3 opponents at once with a spear and dodges in order to keep my distance away from their attacks.

Archer is very good if you can get good at it. Crossbow was a god weapon before they nerfed it, but its still my favorite out of all archer weapons. Its very good at finishing off wounded opponents, stopping unstoppable opponents on streaks, and can even still one-shot some classes in certain situations. Sometimes you have griefers who will target you byt going around the entire map just to get to you though. I can still get top place with crossbow and banner perk.

[Aya]

On the topic of archer, I can't help but notice that a crossbow reload is slightly faster than fully pulling the drawstring of the starting bow (IIRC, pulling it for as long as it takes to reload the crossbow still incurs a damage penalty)

[NovemberRobot]

Origineel geplaatst door Aya:

On the topic of archer, I can't help but notice that a crossbow reload is slightly faster than fully pulling the drawstring of the starting bow (IIRC, pulling it for as long as it takes to reload the crossbow still incurs a damage penalty)

i dislike regular archer bow due to pullback and stamina usage, it adds additional awareness that crossbow doesnt require. My play style with archer is load and shoot non stop, which puts me in a rhythm. Regular bow , war bow, and siege crossbow all seem to slow down that rhythm. To play regular bow id prefer no pullback, but then theres very little damage.

[Lu2]

Origineel geplaatst door NovemberRobot:

Origineel geplaatst door Comrade Maethor:

I feel like this game has a monumental skill gap that can only be bridged through years of experience. Chivalry is definitely not easy to learn and certainly not easy to master. It's genuinely the most difficult game I've ever played because the complexity of the controls and how you can combo them requires a kind of muscle memory I just don't have.

PvP most of the time feels impossible to me. Even though I maxxed out mouse sensitivity, people still seem to fly around my character, hitting me instantly, even though I thought I had a good grasp on using your mouse and keys to accelerate hits and aim behind your opponent. I just can't do it fast enough apparently.

Some people are just untouchable. I don't know how they can have such inhuman spatial awareness in a game as chaotic as this. It's very impressive, but also very frustrating. How they develop the necessary muscle memory to know how to play that flawlessly is beyond me.

increase your mouse sensitivity to a comfortable level, dont go too high where you cant control it.
Play 3rd person - not sure what all the crazies are doing by playing 1st person, but its much easier to have full awareness around you and land shots that arent in front of you.

When you get stuck on one class after playing for too long, youre probably burnt out, so try another class, EVEN if you dont think you prefer it. The change of play style does allow you to enjoy the game more and thus allows you for further skill progression. Then come back to your favorite class refreshed, this allows you to enjoy the class again and learn more skills for it.

get used to feinting your hits and doing combos. You can just randomly switch your attacks in mid action, they dont have to be anything learned, but make sure that they are timely.

Always face your opponents attacks dead center and block , even when jumping, requires alot of dexterity.

Be AWARE of your stamina and health, always retreat when low and regenerate both, Stamina is just as important as health bar. WIth low stamina your learned pace is slowed and your moves will always lag. IN any fight, you have enough room to retreat, once you are low, just dodge with your last breath of stamina and run away, most people will not chase you. I think many people dont do it because they feel that its dishonorable. Theres no honor in medieval warfare.

Replenish health by eating food, which is sometimes more viable than finding resuply chest. Replenish stamina by standing still.

Dodging is very important to avoid hits AND land hits. A quick attack after a dodge from a direction the enemy doesnt expect due to a dodge is a very viable tactic.

after a while, you should have a good feel of all weapon ranges and should intuitively feel the tips of those weapons and realize how far you need to be to attack with just the tip of ur weapon and to avoid getting hit.

Increase your FPS. High FPS does matter in this game unfortunately, your attacks will feel sluggish on low fps. so if youre not getting near 80FPS, lower your graphics settings to the lowest.

Not having fun in game = no progressing your skill.

its much easie r to read feints and all sorts of tricks in first person, 3rd person is mostly
about braindead gambling with counters . archery is much easier in 1st person

[Lu2]

Origineel geplaatst door Aya:

On the topic of archer, I can't help but notice that a crossbow reload is slightly faster than fully pulling the drawstring of the starting bow (IIRC, pulling it for as long as it takes to reload the crossbow still incurs a damage penalty)

except light shot have much higher fire rate , you can arowspray chokepoints , try that with xbox . you need hide when reloading unless you want to be main target for all archers . bow better if you are realy good

[Aya]

Origineel geplaatst door Lu2:

Origineel geplaatst door Aya:

On the topic of archer, I can't help but notice that a crossbow reload is slightly faster than fully pulling the drawstring of the starting bow (IIRC, pulling it for as long as it takes to reload the crossbow still incurs a damage penalty)

except light shot have much higher fire rate , you can arowspray chokepoints , try that with xbox . you need hide when reloading unless you want to be main target for all archers . bow better if you are realy good

Light shots have a damage penalty that can go as low as 41%. I dunno if 26 damage arrows would be enough to make your enemy start walking into your teammates swings in order to avoid getting shot, or if it'd make more sense to tank those shots in order to focus on killing said teammate faster.

[Lu2]

Origineel geplaatst door Aya:

Origineel geplaatst door Lu2:

except light shot have much higher fire rate , you can arowspray chokepoints , try that with xbox . you need hide when reloading unless you want to be main target for all archers . bow better if you are realy good

Light shots have a damage penalty that can go as low as 41%. I dunno if 26 damage arrows would be enough to make your enemy start walking into your teammates swings in order to avoid getting shot, or if it'd make more sense to tank those shots in order to focus on killing said teammate faster.

works well in some stages with narow chokepoints entrances , aim for head arow spray with , knights get salty and distracted , posibly ragequit and weak team win :)

iam using warbow anyway mostly but some chokepoints are great for normal bow

[Wvor]

biggest tip ever:

- res your team when they're down

[Aya]

Because i've grown to hate the archers on my team a lot more than the archers on the enemy team, I feel like I should share some tips on how they can be less insufferable:

Be good at melee
While the lackluster close combat options for archers are designed to punish ranged specialists for allowing enemies to engage in melee, you're not entirely defenseless. The Hatchet has the highest base damage in the game to the point where it's only MARGINALLY weaker than the 1h axe (it's still very very short though), while the Short Sword has enough reach to defend the player in a 1v3, and can hit multiple targets.

From my personal experience when playing archer, knowing how to counter and when to use your heavy or special attacks does wonders at disorientating even a decent amount of intermediate players. Hell, I once prison shanked a knight from full HP with the starting knife, though such encounters can be one-in-a-million, since Archer weapons have a pretty high TTK against most targets.

Prioritize distracted targets
While it might be tempting to shoot at players trying to do their own thing, my personal experience when shooting those types of players is that you'll be rewarded with that player's undivided attention towards you. He will move more erratically as he makes his advance and while you might get a hit on him or two, he's more likely gonna smack you pretty hard if you don't switch to your melee on time.

For me, it makes more sense to shoot at players trying to complete the objective in an attempt to push them off, or to target players who are already fighting your teammates. The fact that your projectiles are unblockable means that you can use your shots to control your target's movement in the hopes of making him walk into your teammates swings. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's the point of the Highland Sword: to get players to consider the archer's role in a 2v1 setting.

RES. YOUR. TEAMMATES
As Wvor said, it's the biggest tip ever but I feel like this needs to be said to archers specifically since they're often tunnel-visioning their enemies and fail to notice the bleeding knight or vanguard crawling at his feet.

Do not underestimate the starting knife
While having the worst damage values in the game while also having hitstop on all attacks, it is still a better weapon than the Cudgel thanks to having a much faster equip speed than the other archer melees. This can at least allow the Archer to sneak in a block where they'd otherwise eat a hit when switching from their primary weapon to other melee weapons.

In fact, I'd argue that the Starting Knife is the only weapon worth using if you have the Siege Crossbow due to counteract the fact that the Siege Xbow has the slowest unequip in the game.

Other
While I know people say that you should prioritize the enemy archers, I feel like you should really only do that if you know you can land a solid headshot on him. Otherwise, it's more effective to hide yourself from the enemy's archers, since all bows and crossbows have a 35% damage bonus to archers.

[NovemberRobot]

Origineel geplaatst door Lu2:

Origineel geplaatst door Aya:

On the topic of archer, I can't help but notice that a crossbow reload is slightly faster than fully pulling the drawstring of the starting bow (IIRC, pulling it for as long as it takes to reload the crossbow still incurs a damage penalty)

except light shot have much higher fire rate , you can arowspray chokepoints , try that with xbox . you need hide when reloading unless you want to be main target for all archers . bow better if you are realy good

light shots are a waste of time unless youre landing every hit, and ive seen only one person do it, but he may have been cheating. spraying chokepoints with any archer point is easy, i doubt there any advantage over crossbow taht kill with almost every hit. xrossbow has a shield for defense which is way better than anything bowers have. you camp right behind it the entire time.

[Lu2]

Origineel geplaatst door NovemberRobot:

Origineel geplaatst door Lu2:

except light shot have much higher fire rate , you can arowspray chokepoints , try that with xbox . you need hide when reloading unless you want to be main target for all archers . bow better if you are realy good

light shots are a waste of time unless youre landing every hit, and ive seen only one person do it, but he may have been cheating. spraying chokepoints with any archer point is easy, i doubt there any advantage over crossbow taht kill with almost every hit. xrossbow has a shield for defense which is way better than anything bowers have. you camp right behind it the entire time.

there are very few chokepoints where it worthy . xbow suck if you are great archer . dps low and you are forced to hide when reloading when decent archers around . with bow you just keep shoting and use footwork to avoid arows . i cant reccal sieage xbow can one shot stuff apart of archers . it does slightly bigger damage then warbow focused shot. siege xbow doesnt one shot archer to body which is disipointing . it should in my opinion

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