Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is a first person (or third) medieval combat multiplayer game. It’s like Mount and Blade but with more depth to the combat (and no horses, which I think are unbalancing to this sort of game). It has more tactical depth (more weapons and weapon types, stamina system, feinting, shield bashing, combo moves, classes), more game modes (objective based, CTF, king of the hill, and last team standing in addition to the normal free for all/team deathmatch), better graphics, better balance (it was designed from the ground up to be multiplayer only, M&B is more tacked on) and more visceral combat.
The combat in the game is the most brutal in a game that I can recall. You can hack off body parts. If you shoot someone in the neck with an arrow you can hear a horrible death gurgle. Your camera stays tied to your head even if you get hit or killed so you can briefly see your head flying off or get smashed in - makes death feel more real than in other games.
Some videos. Here’s a basic and advanced tutorial to give a feel for how the game mechanics work. Here’s a big fight on a 64 man server.
It’s still on sale on steam for $12.50 (or 37.50 for a 4 pack) until 10am tomorrow morning, so if it seems interesting Anyway, we've been having a lot of fun with it. And the server rentals are unusually cheap at only .75/slot, so I decided to rent a server. I just haven’t decided how many slots yet. We could get a small 12 man server and it would probably be enough to host us most of the time, and smaller servers are better for FFA and perhaps KOTH and some of the smaller game modes, but of course not as epic for big objective based battles. But small servers are kind of cozy, not as chaotic, and the SDMB players would make up a greater portion of the server instead of getting lost in the crowd.
On the other hand, a big server gives us flexibility. We could always lock it for a private game. We could have the big epic team objective battles. More chaotic, less cozy, more expensive.
If I get a small server, I’ll just pay for it myself. If people think we’d benefit from a larger server, I’d ask volunteers to chip in like $5 towards it.
So anyway, if you’re reading this today, grab the game at $12.50 on sale until tomorrow. And I’d like to hear what people want to do as far as getting a server. I was thinking maybe we could have regular gaming nights like we used to do with our TF2 server.
