At servers with only level 0 to 15 the experience is incredible. It's not a very steep learning curve you can team battle looks epic and feel good. Actually even dying in team objective modes doesn't annoy because everything looks so dramatic.
The people are neighbourly and only everyone now and then you get a slightly annoying player.
However recently I went reached level 16 so I can't join these servers anymore. And the community above level 15 is more mixed. The learning curve is really steep and I don't think my mouse can actually move the same way these other spinning guys do. Maybe I should get a mouse pad. And you will lose, so much. In level 0 to 15 I would regularly top the leaderboard for free for all.
But since I've reached level 16 I don't think I've won a single duel. Usually in these tier half the players are either quiet or nice, and the other half are nasty or annoying.
I did receive some help for other tactics higher tier players use by someone very friendly but that in practice it hasn't helped me at all. So get ready to go on youtube for tutorials.
I didn't pay £19 for this game, and I'd be uncomfortable reccomending it for that price, it would be a 100% reccomendation if there were easier ways to train like more advanced bots designed to teach a very particular style, or just training servers where high tier players can get certified by devs to train people.
If more people played this game it would probably be better.

Whilst it still has potential in the dueling game modes, the lack of players and viable weapon options leaves Chivalry: Medieval Warfare on a sinking boat, where brand new players jump on hoping to get to shore, but eventually sink to the realization of the fact that a good multiplayer game, needs players to play with.

Once you get out of the low ranked servers you'll be greeted by... nobody, really. The only few people you will meet are heavy 'professional' players who will do dance moves you'd never thought possible from a medieval knight. You will get hit by invisible hitboxes, they will slow their weapon down by exploiting the game; exploits in which the devs never fixed and so they eventually introduced them as 'techniques'. Very lazy from the developers...

Half the time the free for all servers get taken hostage by parties of 3 or 4 and will kick anyone instantly that joins, or they will team up and ruin your gameplay. Sadly there is very little that can be done about this, but games like CS:GO have always found ways to counter-act measures like these. Chivalry hasn't.

In conclusion, what was once seen as a very good and thriving game, has sadly turned into dust. I played my last game of Chivalry today, where I ran into people trolling on the only populated duel server and a FFA server that had 3 people teaming up together as archers. I hated to see this game go down the way it did, but sadly, all things must come to an end.

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