[2020] Mordhau Weekly Feedback/Discussion: 10/20 - 10/26

Originally posted by kuttykaliko

Hello,

I’ve again and again been frustrated with getting +50 damage when throwing a 2 handed weapon at moving horse riders. 2h thrown weapons should dismount horse riders if they are not to be killed on contact from throw. This would add another layer of defense against Calvary and continue to improve the flavor of this game. I would enjoy any feedback.

Thanks, Kutty

P.S. please consider fishing mini game on Grad :)

Edit: words

Originally posted by theshadowhost

4 players in the 3v3 mode can troll and sit there not fighting each other and hold the rest of the players hostage. please add a timer for 3v3 rounds.

happened to me: https://imgur.com/a/U7DgogE

Originally posted by bradishere24

Please give us an option to reconnect to ranked matches. I lost 53 mmr because my Internet dropped for 10 seconds

Originally posted by KonZehScrub2

Could it be possible for you guys to re-comission the voice actors to do some contextual voice lines? Like team or objective specific voice lines, similar to chiv or tf2. Ik this wouldn't be possible for barbarian, and it's a lot of effort for little gain, but I think it'd go a long way.

Originally posted by Mikhos

Thanks for the mini halloween event. I know players moan and complain it isn't much, but it's a nice thing to see.

A little bit of work on the tutorial. Not game-changing, but it's nice for new players to learn the game.

I hope it's modernized to the kick mechanics etc. The tutorial has always been wellmade but needed the update.

Long term work on map production

Please increase the out of bounds area in the pit. It ruins skirmish to have ballistae snipers every round extending the game and ruining the fun.

Originally posted by kurama3

On Grad Invasion (Red Side Defense) people on red team can just blockade themselves INSIDE of the trebuchet objective. It would be fine, except arrows/thrown weapons DO NOT go through the holes in the trebuchet. So the only way to get rid of them as Blue and take the objective is by killing every enemy on the point and taking out the guy inside the trebuchet (which can be very frustrating and hard) before the enemy team respawns.

Also, one thing that looks really whacky in this game is flourishing. With a dagger or small sword, it looks fine, because they’re whipping the blade around in their hands. But when they’re using an evening star or executioners sword, flourishing just looks silly and goofy. Maybe each weapon should have its own flourish animation? Or maybe the bigger the weapon is, the slower it spins, to kind of represent the weight it carries.

Originally posted by Xefferman

Add teamdamage% to the scoreboard so your team damage is permanently displayed for all to see. Kills (K), Deaths (D), Assists (A), Teamdamage% (TD)

Adding this feature would accomplish a few things:

• Add a shame factor to the scoreboard that discourages swinging wildly and causing team damage. Lots of players just jump into the fight and swing wildly, often causing a lot of damage to nearby teammates. Players who achieved high kills while also maintaining low team damage% would shine, while those who did so at their teammates expense would be shamed. This would add another layer of mastery to achieve for players -- How many kills can you get while also minimizing team damage.
• Adding this feature would also discourage malicious team killing and trolling by making your team damage display in real time for all to see. This will aid in routing out caustic team killers.
  

Other ideas to discourage team killing:

• Add an automatic boot system that boots a player after they reach some agreed upon team damage threshold. But, put that function on a 5 minute delay so people don't get booted if they accidently kill a teammate at the beginning of the match before they've had time to kill enemies.
• Automatic death upon team kill. This would reduce malicious team killing by forcing the teamkiller to respawn. I've seen this implemented in other games to great effect.
• Team damage increases respawn time with no limit. Same outcome as above, but no auto death.

Originally posted by larzanthony

f**k I am late. I always forget what feedback I think of during games, so I decided to write them all down this time.

1. Siege towers hitbox of stairs in feitoria is too wide. Projectiles get stuck on nothing.

2. Javs hitbox too big. Regulary get body dmg when hitting someone in the head or get a floating jav above my teammates head.

3. People can chamber stabs when you stab them in the back. I have seen this multiple times. Not sure whether a bad connection causes this.

4. Mountain peak invasion has a random death zone, for attackers, outside of the castle, but inside the wall, when freeing the hostages.

5. When the attacking team during invasion captures a point, the defenders usually get send back if they are too far in front. However, if you, as a defender, walk into the new enemy spawn, before you get send back, you get killed within 5 seconds for being in a death zone. Getting out of their spawn afterwards kills you for “being a coward”.

6. Hitting allies in spikes, kicking them off heights and bear trapping them should do full team damage counting towards the votekick percentage.

7. You should be able to see which friendly engineer made what building. Figuring out who to votekick is impossible when the entire team is stuck.

8. Engineers shouldn’t be able to get hit off their own ballista by allies. Horse riders don’t get billhooked and archers don’t lose weapons, so why shouldn’t engineer?

9. Getting killed by a teammate shouldn’t count towards your deaths. I am fine by occasionally getting killed by my teammates, but I shouldn’t get punished for it.

10. Tank horseriders are a bit too strong, IMO. They can take way more damage, their couched lance is even bigger and suffers no movement speed penalty. I can get kill streaks without any effort using 3/3/3, tank, kite shield. Two javelins to the head and normal attacks won’t kill you and you can immediately run away to regen at the corner of the map.

11. Horses shouldn’t hit you out of your parry. Getting staggered one millisecond before you get impaled is bs.

12. Make it an option to never get chosen as a noble. As a noble you are supposed to play as hermit. I don’t think it’s fun and I don’t want to forced to play it, because I forgot to press M again.

13. You shouldn’t be able to use ballistas, catapults, ranged weaponry in unreachable safe zones. Enemies aren’t able to kill you with melee, fire bombs don’t have enough range and flame arrows require to much setup when the enemy can oneshot you.

14. What’s the point of bear traps despawing after death?

15. Please make the warhammer be able to repair buildings. Sledgehammer, heavy handaxe and poleaxe can do it, why can’t the warhammer? Just make the repair rate inferior to the blacksmith hammers for balancing reasons.

16. Ballista and catapult tk’s should count towards auto-kick. You never should fire at teamfights with the catapult nor should you pray that you don’t clip your teammate with the ballista.

17. Sometimes the game just won’t let me respawn

I would like to know your opinion on this.

Originally posted by gooseppe1

0) Hug/handshake gesture will be a very nice addition plus it will add some charm of friendship to it

Cosmetic suggestions:

1) Give us an option to color leather part of brigandine greaves

2) Give us an option to color visors of t2 bascinets added in patch#20

3) Give brigandine and kite shield more patterns

4) Add kastebrust exclusive waist options to other cuirasses (at least chainmail and scale skirts)

5) Saturate loadout tints and the tint list. Right now you can hardly distinguish most of tints. The only 2 tints that are saturated good right now are black tint and gold tint (gold tint isnt even an option for loadout metal tint, you can only use it on weapons or on some armour pieces (for engravings))

Originally posted by uurrllycute

Will you consider re-adding the old friendly markers as an option or have different options? I'm not color blind color blind but I dont do really good with green, especially that shade of green.

Originally posted by Zachary9944

1. Some sort of balance change for 3s, it seems right now that spamming 2 hit weapons is OP, I really don’t have a solution,
2. Don’t allow throwing weapons in ranked, sure it can lead to some haha funny maul throw but when you get to higher levels it goes against everything the cool scene has done for some sort of rule set with throwables.
3. I heard there was some sort of riposte overhaul to fix some broken accels (exe, LS, poleaxe) any word on how those will work?

Originally posted by EarballsOfMemeland

Long term work on map production, for larger scale Frontline/Invasion maps.

Ehhhh... larger maps could be good, but they need to be properly optimised. Castello obviously has a reputation for causing frame drops, especially on 80 player servers. And also, if larger maps are made, please make it so that the entire map is usable. There's huge areas of Castello, Feitoria and Grad that you can't even enter and Crossroads has large areas that kind of fit with the cavalry-focus of the map, but don't really do much beyond serving as jousting arenas; there's no objectives there and so are mostly ignored save for the odd sneaky archer or carrot gatherer.

And please don;'t forget about lower pop servers,those of us on wi-fi find 80 layers to be too much to handle

Originally posted by Holy_saracen

Hello again!
My suggestions for this week:

• On some frontline/inv maps the spawn areas have tight exits, leading to a lot of collisions/troll people blocking entrances. Examples of this are Grad's last free guard spawn, Taiga's second Free guard spawn on INV (the wooden doors usually cause big trafic jams), Mountain peak FL last Iron company spawn and many others.
  I've 2 ideas to fix this:
  • Modify each spawn that has this sort of problem (time consuming).
  • When being on your spawn, give players a "buff" that ignores team collision (toolbox structures and players), it ends when you exit the spawn area (it should check if you're inside other player to prevent getting stuck as well).
• Skirmishes need some sort of mechanic that prevents people from hiding, here are my suggestions:
  • Add more out of bounds zones, to prevent players getting in cheese spots (i.e. Mountain peak wooden towers, Grad's ladders that lead to the catacombs, Castello's brigde (the one that you can access via ladders)).
  • After some time (when there's 1 min remaining) display an overhead indicator that reveals enemy players in order to prevent people from extending the game duration more than that's necessary (for example; 1v4 situation where the last guy is hiding on the corner of the map).
• When joining late into a Horde match, you shoud get gold based on each wave completed (i.e. if you join on wave 9 you get: startinggold + wave1gold + wave2gold + ... + wave8gold).
• Let us customize heavy/medium/light horses so we can colour them. Horse cosmetics could be added as well.
  
• When looking at toolbox structures, it should display the name (or at least the team) that built them, that way we can identify if someone is griefing.

Many thanks for reading this!

Originally posted by AyyLmaoEUW

/u/Jaaxxxxon movement for commanders/nobles is still bugged since the last patch, where sometimes you are unable to sprint and you will permanently move diagonally right when trying to sprint forwards. This makes it all but impossible to play. It is very consistent on red side commander on grad, but can also happen on other maps as far as i remember. please please fix this asap

Originally posted by Bay_listicx

Knew your comment was bait and I answered anyways. Atleast this conversation will be a good comedy sketch for jaxxxxon to read.