Chivalry: Medieval Warfare - South African Community

You can get the game right now for around R90 on Greenman Gaming if you use the coupon code on the site.
 
Ok this is the moment I need to decide then! Can someone tell me how much activity this game is seeing locally? How many players are usually playing from like 7-10pm? How's the game on international servers? Playable but crap? Playable and good? I could see this game being awesome, but not without a solid userbase.
 
Namdrater said:
Ok this is the moment I need to decide then! Can someone tell me how much activity this game is seeing locally? How many players are usually playing from like 7-10pm? How's the game on international servers? Playable but crap? Playable and good? I could see this game being awesome, but not without a solid userbase.
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You're just like all the other people that doubted this game from the get go. After the numerous sales, there are quite few locals who do play regularly on my servers. Lets say about 12-15 (most nights) , sometimes it differs, but on the whole, there are always people playing. International wise, the player base is greater, but you'll be hard pressed to be able to block properly as you need to compensate for the lag, unless you "steal" kills by attacking people when they're not looking or finishing a person off that someone else already damaged.

So, to summarize, my Steam community page has 80+ local people, not everyone plays, but there are enough that play each day to get enjoyment for R90. With the new content patch due out in the next week or 2, it will add even more maps, gamemodes and weapons to the game, free of charge, so I'd say get it.

Plus, you can always message me if you have any problems with the servers, I do restart them daily as well. Just note that I took the one server offline while I wait for the content update to be released.
 
Cool. I'm sold. I'll buy it after work :) I was really keen on War of the Roses and had this same issue of wondering about how the local scene would be.
 
My only regret is not buying this game beginning of November already. My friend suggested back then that we get Natural Selection 2 as it offers more variety. Hence we only bought Chivalry beginning of December. I think I barely played 3 hours of NS2, but Chivalry I have clocked close to 60 hours now. Speaking for myself, that's more time spent on Chivalry compared to all other games combined for the entire 2012 if I were to venture a guess. edit: Oh wait, i forgot about Diablo 3 :p

StoneCold, is there any sort of option that would ban archers? "whistling: What I love about this game is that the person u are in combat with has to come right up to you (with the exception of throwing axes and archers of course) and I find that archers completely ruin the experience like a sniper in BF3 would. What's the point of potting other players from afar?
 
StrontiumDog said:
My only regret is not buying this game beginning of November already. My friend suggested back then that we get Natural Selection 2 as it offers more variety. Hence we only bought Chivalry beginning of December. I think I barely played 3 hours of NS2, but Chivalry I have clocked close to 60 hours now. Speaking for myself, that's more time spent on Chivalry compared to all other games combined for the entire 2012 if I were to venture a guess. edit: Oh wait, i forgot about Diablo 3 :p

StoneCold, is there any sort of option that would ban archers? "whistling: What I love about this game is that the person u are in combat with has to come right up to you (with the exception of throwing axes and archers of course) and I find that archers completely ruin the experience like a sniper in BF3 would. What's the point of potting other players from afar?
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Good to see that the game is growing on you SD :D

Unfortunately there isn't a way to disable archers or any class for that matter. Maybe they'll integrate it in the future, but at this stage, there is nothing that I can disable server side that will restrict anyone from using throwing weapons / bows & arrows. I did however disable the votemap change and vote repeat map commands, as it makes me angry when certain people try and change the game mode.
 
Just a headsup, the Chivalry free weekend has just started on Steam. If you still haven't checked out the game yet, I suggest you do so right now :)
 
StoneCold said:
Just a headsup, the Chivalry free weekend has just started on Steam. If you still haven't checked out the game yet, I suggest you do so right now :)
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Awesome! I've been waiting for the free weekend to come along so I can see what it's like for myself. Thanks for the heads-up.
 
DarthMol said:
Awesome! I've been waiting for the free weekend to come along so I can see what it's like for myself. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Your welcome, my main public server is extremely busy at the moment, practically 28+ players constantly at the moment :D
 
I gave the game ago tonight on your server Stonecold. The game is quite fun, although it definitely got better once more locals joined and the admin kicked the internationals off. Dunno what it is about int's but they also seem to be tk's and griefers. Anyways, I'm gonna try get a fair bit of game time in this weekend and make up my mind about purchasing, though so far so good.
 
StoneCold, how come when laggers join it makes everyone else lag? Is that intentional so that it levels the playing field between those with high ping vs those with low?
 
StrontiumDog said:
StoneCold, how come when laggers join it makes everyone else lag? Is that intentional so that it levels the playing field between those with high ping vs those with low?
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It's unfortunately the way how the dedicated server software is coded. There is nothing I can do except wait for the new content patch to be released, seeing that they will include a lot of hot fixes then. Personally, I have never experienced any lag with a full server of internationals, so I don't know how you guys seem to experience the lag though :wtf:

Anyhow, once Sunday 1pm PST (about 5pm/7pm our time I believe) then the numbers will go down and I'll close the FFA/TDM server and things will improve once more. So all I can say is, just bare with it a little bit longer. I don't think there will be that many internationals again tonight, they normally don't tend to come back if they experience lag the day before :D
 
Well, no worries, it's been fun and just called for a different style of play having so many laggers on the server :p

Can't u leave the FFA server running? :)

Btw, u disabled changing the view from 1st person to 3rd person. Is that because the game is meant to be played from a 1st person perspective?
 
I'll leave the FFA / TDM server till about Monday. I took it offline the other time seeing that people requested me to rather keep only the objectives one up because they got sick of FFA spamming and that they couldn't duel. :(

Once that patch releases then I'll make a duel server only (seeing that duel mode will be part of the patch), will keep the objectives server and I already launched a clan server too. And yes, I did disable the 3rd person perspective because in my book I consider it "cheating" because I only play in 1st person mode :)
 
Loving this game! But could not join the 2 local servers? One was empty and the other had a password??

Freekin latency on US servers is 300+ ... gets that guys pretty mad when you Laggg Chop them to death!

Probably look like im blinking across the map.. LOL
 
Hi StoneCold, first of all, thanks for the servers.
Want to ask if the servers are offline?
Do you have an ETA on when it would be up?
 
I played this game on the free weekend. It is awesome, but I think they would've been more successful at a lower price point, say $15.
 
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