Support for the game has officially ended, but the core game is still solid. It has one of the better combat systems out there in its genre. The community is fairly thin and there are a lot of complaints about the existing servers, which leads to a sense of elitism shutting out newer players. It has directional and volumetric striking, parrying and blocking which is confusing as hell at first, but over time is easy to understand but difficult to master. There are some cheap tricks that you could like constant shield bashing, but a well managed community server run on the premise of making the game fun can help override stuff like that. It's similar to just about every other game out there on the market; if you are part of a well run community, you are more likely to have a better experience and this game is no different.

Rather than shrug and give up, I did start a new server for our community to see if we can breathe some life into the game, so we'll see how that works out. In a group that you can trust not to exploit, the game does very well, but be warned that the current public servers are very rough.

Here is a video announcement a group of us did for some tournaments we hosted in the game several years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyz5JuLgoAM

Support for the game has officially ended, but the core game is still solid. It has one of the better combat systems out there in its genre. The community is fairly thin and there are a lot of complaints about the existing servers, which leads to a sense of elitism shutting out newer players. It has directional and volumetric striking, parrying and blocking which is confusing as hell at first, but over time is easy to understand but difficult to master. There are some cheap tricks that you could like constant shield bashing, but a well managed community server run on the premise of making the game fun can help override stuff like that. It's similar to just about every other game out there on the market; if you are part of a well run community, you are more likely to have a better experience and this game is no different. Rather than shrug and give up, I did start a new server for our community to see if we can breathe some life into the game, so we'll see how that works out. In a group that you can trust not to exploit, the game does very well, but be warned that the current public servers are very rough. Here is a video announcement a group of us did for some tournaments we hosted in the game several years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyz5JuLgoAM