hence "Playstyle" is invalid and a stupid question since only one style is viable as it is right now.

oh i almost forgot, the executioner is viable too (see the guy proudly posting his character above).. for the same reason LOL...

@esturias said:
And what exactly is the point of spamming that into every other thread?
The line between voicing valid criticism and just being an immature whiner can be quite small sometimes...

thats very ironic coming from you... but i'll tell you; spamming their shitty forums might give them and idea of what people do not like about their game. 2 months ago it was shields, now its maul due to the fact that nobody uses shields anymore - making mauls much more powerful.
and when maul is nerfed (which will probably eventually happen) its gonna be another weapon that turns into overpower mode due the the lack of counters. and the cycle will continue like that.

take out one element of the game completely > empower another element of the game
and when you keep doing that it turns into a viscous cycle of a particular setup being extremely OP after another.
Maul has never been as good a weapon in all situations as it is now, and its only because they fucked shields up.

@Jax said:
We post a lot more on discord - ie the dev snippets. Right now there isn't too much to talk about, except the upcoming map Castello, and the Mountain Peak expansion along with a few tentative balance changes; so we're just keeping our heads down and working. That being said, I read almost everything on here, I just simply don't have the time to respond to everything.

In any case, we're looking at an update coming in the next few weeks (hopefully) and we're looking at updating our long-term goals soon as well!

not really that useful of a solution when you got triggerfingered admins to run your discord and refusing to do anything about it when asked here on your very own forums... your discord server is honestly shit, and a discord server should never be the primary place to update people on the ongoings of your development... it honestly reminds me of blizzard saying "Oh just follow us on twitter" completely ignoring the fact that not everyone uses twitter, and doesn't care if they want to or not.

so what about all those people that are banned from your discord?
are they not entitled, as paying customers, to be updated and informed?
for real.

call him a nigger and try not to cry, alternatively use a maul and riposte the dude and win LOL.
its not like his shield will save him LMAO.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/q1eYNC2HbsEx/

@NICKALTMAN said:
Any news here? Are the shileds remaining as they are now?

seems that way lmao time to use maul if you want to play this game efficiently, if at all.

oh and look, Atlas-D is in here defending the Maul with all his might.. what a coincidence.. its not like this was called out at all, no the maul is definitely balanced and totally a funny weapon to fight with/against.
don't listen to the plebs, listen to Atlas-D, i mean hey, its not like he literally uses a raised maul for his profile picture, thinking he is a fucking champion.

i bet you, if the maul was nerfed into oblivion this guy would quit the game after making a few rage posts on this forum just like i did when the shields got obliterated and never come back.

and when i say that, i bear in mind that other weapons are good too, and mastering them will "get you by".. but what i am also saying is that maul gets you by even better than anything else in the game... use a zweihander LOL you need to hit the opponent 3 times and its like 10% faster swing speed than mail... ooo but it can combo, yeah well who gives a shit about comboing when you can literally 1-shot tier 3 helms.

lmao, fail game. chivalry 2 can't come out fast enough.

as a player who stopped playing like 2 months ago due to the shield nerf, its hilarious to see that the maul is the next target for "NERF THIS" mentality.
gee who would have thought.. its almost like shields were meant to counter maul bullshit.
if i am not mistaken i told you about a month ago that this is exactly what would happen unless the shield nerfs were reverted.
now everyone and their mum uses a maul, solely because you'd be an idiot not to. literally just feintspam until you get a hit.. it even 1 shots tier 3 helm if i am not mistaken.
GG. enjoy.

they dont need to add a katana to ruin the game at this point......... they're doing fine, doing just that, with their shitty balancing of weapons and shields.

"...and playstyle..." anyone who does not use a maul atm is nerfing themselves, that's where we're at..
there IS no playstyle in this game anymore. wanna use shield? too bad its nerfed.. wanna use a 2H that isn't maul? too bad, it doesn't oneshot... so gg ruining the game devs, you managed to make Chivalry look better even with its backward overhead bullshit.

these threads are gonna keep popping up until the devs fix the shields.. "but its for nubs" is not a reasonable argument.

that's wonderful... but shields are still fucked... being bound to the R key makes it fucking impossible to use it properly.
its clunky as all hell.. fix it already you god damn amateurs. sometimes my character outright discards the shield if i don't hold the button down long enough (making it impossible to actually use for its intended purpose).
bind it to the parry key (right click) and simply make it so if you hold down the button, the shield keeps raised.
stop being bad game devs, you're starting to look like Blizzard.

P.S Now that you have added jumpkick, can you fucking revert shields back to their pre-nerf status already? thanks.

not surprised to see who the OP of this thread is.

@esturias said:
And how does spamming nonsense and raging all over the forums help with that?

i'm sure you know, first hand, seeing what has happened to shields.

its not done until something is done about this atrocious nerf. again you are obviously trolling.
"its done and dusted" yeah you'd like that wouldn't you?... gee i wonder why.

@esturias said:

@SerJaGGsaW said:
stop trolling faggot, its literally all you do.

Thanks for the pointless insult again, really helps with taking you any seriously.

Two questions:

1. What do you here? Especially after your one normal post in the patch thread...
2. What about you tell me where I'm wrong with anything I wrote there?

1. wHaT dO yOu HeRe??
2. "its all for the greater good of the balance of the game"
   yeah for YOU.. you want the game to be 'balanced' FOR YOU. disingenuous prick.

and there we go with the elitist mindset again. bro you're lvl 118, you barely even qualify as a casual yet, you newbie.

so you admit to having options (emphasis on the plural) to beat shields, but you just don't like said options... lol ok...
so because someone uses a playstyle you hate, it should be removed.
big brain move there, buddy, might as well just have the devs remove or nerf every weapon/setup you don't like into oblivion so you can feel good about yourself.

the difference between you and me is that you advocate for nerfs of weapons, whereas i don't, despite how much i might hate a given weapon/setup... you know what a good player does? he deals with it, he learns to play around it, and he doesn't cry foully when outmatched by things he has trouble dealing with and hope the devs change it to his liking.

i'm starting to wonder who exactly it is that relies on a crutch.

@Atlas-D said:

@SerJaGGsaW said:

question; why would you even bother to accel/drag or even feint(spam) against a shield user in the first place? seems like that plan was dead in the crib if you ask me.

like why wouldn't you use footwork and kick/swing combo or kick/feint/swing(or the reverse) combo to throw him off? why wouldn't you simply hammer his shield until he runs out of stamina?...
you're not playing against a 2H user, you're playing against a shield, which means if you commit to the attack he will eventually run out of stamina and give you a massive advantage.
all you'd have to do is press the attack and don't give him time to regenerate his stamina nor health.
shield usage is all about buying time. if you keep hammering the shield, the guy with the shield will be forced to try and do something eventually or lose the stam fight and simply die after being disarmed.

yes, it takes longer to kill a player that way, but that's kind of the intention.

Well no after you would actually just have to hit the shield over and over until they out of stamina or pray to god a teammate comes to ease the suffering.

Footwork is good and all but an equally good opponent with a shield can just move his camera. I suppose if you have 3 speed no armor might be able to do some crazy shit but that isnt always the case. Often times you can jumpstab but they usually only works once, and when it doesnt work you're down stamina big time.

the guy with the shield will be forced to try and do something eventually or lose the stam

Yes he'll be attacking as well, doing his own drags and accels, which won't always be hard to defend against but its possible.

shield usage is all about buying time. if you keep hammering the shield, the guy with the shield will be forced to try and do something eventually or lose the stam fight and simply die after being disarmed.

Yeah and its fucking boring. Everyone good at the game, vast majority of competitive players agree its boring and shouldn't exist. I've even hears rumors of a shield with heavy handmade build that negates its poor stamina management with the axe. The devs as well agree with us. Sure the new shield isnt very fun but that doesn't mean the old one was funner either.

amazing that you speak for "everyone", really.. did you make a strawpoll or something? i'd like to see the results and exactly who voted, if you don't mind.

@esturias said:

@Geronimo426 said:
Been saying this since launch. All these so called elites that cant deal with an improved defensive posture which is what shields are for. These people just dont want shields to function like shields b/c its "not fun". Gimmie a break. Lol

Who the hell cares about those "elites"?
This is about game balance in general.

You really don't need to show us again and again that you have no single clue what you are talking about. All you do here is agreeing with people on your side, just... because. No single argument, not discusding.
That won't help anyone.

stop trolling faggot, its literally all you do.