Shield is a problem the moment it makes you ignore various parts of the combat system like morphs, accels, timing, drags, feints and mindgames in 1vX.

That is a bad design for shields and you can't deny that. This game was not meant to please all audiences, if you want to win, you should take your time, play several hours and learn all the combat mechanics.

Its not fair for the non shield user. Why should I learn all the combat mechanics in order to beat people and the shield user don't? Why can the shield user just go brainless mode and still win?

Thats just not fair.

They will in a couple of months

You are correct, the second mechanic doesn't need to be implemented. Im going to edit the post and clarify the first mechanic.

I know this topic has been discussed for a long time since the first patches of the alpha but I think there is no possible balance for shields without the implementation of new mechanics (changing stats won’t solve any problem and would make playing shields a chore or an autowin).

The problem with shields is that they break the gameplay melee loop of timing an incoming attack and react to it in a fun and balanced way. Currently, if you have a shield, you don’t need to worry about drags, accels, feints, morphs or mind games (which it what makes the
combat in Mordhau fun and skilled) because you can simply press RMB and sit there blocking waiting for the attack. We all know that kicks “counter” shields but any decent shield player will know that and play around it (also thats a bad design to counter something so unfair imo)

The solution is the implementation of a mechanic for shields:

Change block to a two part block when holding a shield. The first part last like a normal parry with a 1h or 2h weapon. If you keep holding RMB the second part of the block activates. This part is a weaker version of the first and will block the attack but you will take damage (the damage is the damage of the weapon that hits you but reduced by a percentage) and
lose half the percentage of the damage reduced as stamina as well. This would make 1v1 fights skilled again but punishable for bad shield users.

Finally remove kick stun on shields and make shields hitbox accurate for their size but increase turn speed when blocking; make fire pots and smoke bombs that hit a blocking shield break and disappear (blocking all the effects).

This will make shields more important in big game modes like FrontLine where a lot of projectiles are thrown and fair to play as and against in 1v1 and 1vX.

Edit: removed the second mechanic (displacing shield users after a hit on a bad block and thus flinching teammates that are nearby).

Its based on game time

@jordangallemore1 said:
okay gold is working but like i said i played over 24 hours and no gold or xp if they do a lump sum im done with game. should be based off of your hours played over the days missed with gold/xp if they do items down the road its bs if they dont do anything its bs. they advertised a full release ready game with full customization and progression played for a whole day before i realized an then some. needs to be addressed and fixed im seeing level 18's plus who got xp the whole time when no one else did this is bogus.

Ok bye

He is completely correct. You should fix it

indeed, xp and gold are not saving

JAX TELL US AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Release this game now or riot

Im wet

@Jax said:
$30 is still the plan.

Whats the conversion to euros?

Sorry I dont know math

Im a peasant :(

Perfect price tbh

@LuxCandidus said:

@Jax said:
No Runagate, we'll be releasing early 2019. We ended up talking about it and while there's a chance we get Frontline and more maps in this year, we won't be satisfied with the level of polish and we won't have the extra things we need to implement like cosmetic progression, FL matchmaking etc.

It sucks but it's the best course of action for the game.

Releasing without matchmaking and an in-depth tutorial system would be catastrophic for the sales of the game. With no matchmaking, the newcomers are going to get slaughtered by veterans, and without a tutorial system to explain every mechanic and allow the player to practise on a bot, newcomers are going to be very confused by fights. Both would result in a very sour first impression and cause people to avoid the game based on others' first impressions.

But now is the time to release the devblog. Every day that passes without it hurts the future sales of the game too. People without alpha access think en masse the game is no longer being developed or was a scam. For those people it is very hard to obtain information about the game, so it would be best to release a devblog going over every major addition to the game since the alpha's launch; Not as gruelling and exhaustive as the patch notes, but in-depth enough for them to know what they have missed and the current state of the game.

And for the sake of every single person interested in the game - with alpha access or without - go over what the current plans for development are, update the roadmap, shine a light on the future of the game. What happened to female characters? How many more maps can we expect? How many modes? When are we going to hear more of the soundtrack? Say where the game is heading so that we may know before we reach it.

This^

Congratulations Jax, you deserve it more than anyone with your posts and info that you provide for the game (even for the stream). I wish you will last here till the very end of this game <3

Give it to me jax, for the good old times when i fought against EruTheTeapot for one :P

When a dev post a comment in a topic there is a mark next to the topic that let you know what he just said, but you can only see the first comment of the dev in the entire topic so i was wondering if it could be possible to create a button next to every dev reply that "teleport" you to the next dev comment. Would be very helpful imo

You can use paint or photoshop to make your perfect icon ;)

@EatAtRedLobster said:
How many times per week do you enjoy the quality seafood and competitive prices of your local Red Lobster?

Once a week

@vanguard said:
Have you ever played Cities Skylines? Its good game imho you should try it with your new computors

I dont like those kind of games (sadly)