Best Method of Countering Archers?

[robotomy]

I'm relatively new to Chivalry (Almost 20 hours, rank 14), and I am having a lot of fun learning and getting better, and I've been moving out of the low rank for some gamemodes, like Duel. However, one problem I can't really fix, or haven't found a solution for is how to deal with Archers. I've tried mixing up the direction I run while closing distance between ourselves, but when I do get in melee range, they bring out a shortsword and attack endlessely, while somehow still blocking my attacks. It's somewhat frustrating, but I mainly want to learn the best method of dealing with Archers.

[acidboi]

Publicado originalmente por Solar:

there is this handy little score-list you can open up by pressing tab (default). tells you how many archers there are. i thought that was a little obvious.

i never claimed to dodge shots from archers i can't see, but i know the general direction shots come from. once in a while, there's a surprise shot by someone who managed to flank, but it rarely happens. if there's about 2-3 archers on the enemy team, just means you have to keep an eye out for them. it's not impossible.

your profile says 289 hours, not 3k. you're only a nub if you refuse to learn. good luck. :p

not realising this is an alt......
there are always 3-4 archers if the server is full so looking at the ammount isnt really gonna help you and ofcourse i keep an eye out for archers but they hit you no matter what. play against JP once and youll have nightmares about archers for years.

[robotomy]

After reading some of the suggestions, and applying them to my combat, I have done much better against Archers, even without a shield. Getting close to them I just need to stay just out of reach and let my superior weapon do my dirty work. Thanks for the suggestions and ideas, everyone!

[Xylvion]

Publicado originalmente por Solar:

your profile says 289 hours, not 3k. you're only a nub if you refuse to learn. good luck. :p

it's his third account.
Archer is sitll OP.

[Lu2]

Publicado originalmente por Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi:

Publicado originalmente por Solar:

you are actually in luck. currently, archers have been severely nerfed to the point where they are laughable as a threat.

while it might not seem like it right now, after enough practice, any archer with a bow will be no threat to you. you can easily avoid arrows by making your movements erratic and keeping your shield side facing the archer. the trick is to keep track of the archer's threshold for firing. you want to add a delay to every motion until you get a feel for when the archer will fire. this works for every archer, even experts. when you start pulling this off while doing battle in melee, it becomes natural.

this won't help you as much for javelin archers. a good one will mix up melee + ranged, and you'll have to anticipate that yourself.


kinda funny how much archers really suck lately. bows (and crossbows) just don't cut it anymore.

lol, what you just said is the biggest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I have EVER heard in my life. only the warbow and light crossbow have been nerfed but both maintain about the same HtK and even the oneshots they had. the main reason I die on the battlefield is because of archers. even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ arrow flinch is still here which was said to be removed.

Arows,bolts, and sling doesnt flinch. only flinch animation remains but you can still atack.so its not true .trowables still flinch even fkn trowing knife

[Lu2]

i agree that archer short spear and crosbows(bolt is too fast,damage is big) are op .bows not much and sling is underpowered compared to trowables

[Lu2]

slow bolt speed and 20%(30%knite) damage reduction to body and 50 % damage reduction to legs shot to non archer classes (make warbow one shot archer to body again and slightly buff sling) .tada! game is balanced .
yes and i play mainly archer .
problem is that noob archer will be even more useless and non efective compared to noob knite or vanguard.so its realy hard to properly nerf this class

[acidboi]

Publicado originalmente por Lu2:

i agree that archer short spear and crosbows(bolt is too fast,damage is big) are op .bows not much and sling is underpowered compared to trowables

I agree with you on the bows, theyre fine IMO and require some skill to use intead of just point and click with crossbows. javelins are also insanly OP when you have constant acces to an ammo chest with a decent team to keep the enemy away.

[acidboi]

Publicado originalmente por Lu2:

Publicado originalmente por Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi:

lol, what you just said is the biggest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I have EVER heard in my life. only the warbow and light crossbow have been nerfed but both maintain about the same HtK and even the oneshots they had. the main reason I die on the battlefield is because of archers. even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ arrow flinch is still here which was said to be removed.

Arows,bolts, and sling doesnt flinch. only flinch animation remains but you can still atack.so its not true .trowables still flinch even fkn trowing knife

they still flinch, an arrow will a drop a shield block and even flinch on non shield users is still there, the flinch is very short but will cause well-timed parries to fail.

[=(e)= Lemonater47]

That's not flinch. Flinch prevents you from doing anything and flinch in turn interrupts everything except the release phase of attacks. Its the flinch that interrupts not the projectile if you get what I'm saying.

Your shield does go down when you get hit. But you can immediately do anything else afterwards no delay. That's not flinch. That's just arrows putting your shield down.

[3t]

Have a tower shield on your back and face your back to the archers while fighting other enemies lel

[Lucky Shot]

Cry and accept your fate because of the superiority of archers. :D

[Nikita]

Charge > serpentine/lookdown > Get to archer if they change to dagger > feint > 1 death archer that's the only thing you need to know.

[acidboi]

Publicado originalmente por Mskittyiana™:

Charge > serpentine/lookdown > Get to archer if they change to dagger > feint > 1 death archer that's the only thing you need to know.

serpentine doesnt work against decent archers, you need to do a crippled serpentine.

[Nikita]

Publicado originalmente por Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi:

Publicado originalmente por Mskittyiana™:

Charge > serpentine/lookdown > Get to archer if they change to dagger > feint > 1 death archer that's the only thing you need to know.

serpentine doesnt work against decent archers, you need to do a crippled serpentine.

Depends how you do it if you do serpentine in un expected way not all the time left and right + lookdown even expierence archers aren't that accurate, last time a poor rank 49 said I was hacking because he couldn't hit me with his crossbow :-(.

[Xylvion]

Publicado originalmente por Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi:

Publicado originalmente por Mskittyiana™:

Charge > serpentine/lookdown > Get to archer if they change to dagger > feint > 1 death archer that's the only thing you need to know.

serpentine doesnt work against decent archers, you need to do a crippled serpentine.

while pulling off balerina moves and stop completely from moving, back up slightly, do some moonwalking, continue forward, stop again, then take out 4 of his team mates that reached you before you could reach the archer.