[2021] Mordhau Weekly Feedback/Discussion: 1/26 - 2/1

Originally posted by West_Blackberry_3222

Greetings! Just a minor pet peeve. Could you make it so that the emotes line up while using a shield versus not doing so? Pressing XX1 with a shield makes you dance, normally it makes you cheer.

Keep up the good work!

Originally posted by Corsario_AT

What is the news on the SDK? Have you started to catalogue the items (static meses, etc.) that will be included or excluded from the library? Can we expect the SDK on the following patch?

Originally posted by Grodbert

Is there any Lute improvement being taken into consideration?

Such as increasing the number of octaves (Which I've covered in detail in this post) or allowing the lute to play multiple notes at once (As suggested by this fellow veteran on the discord)?

I know for one I'm not the only one that would like to see some tweaks done, a good chunk of players across bard guilds are very passionate about it and share the sentiment that, although in a good state, there's still space for minor improvements that would prove hugely beneficial.

Originally posted by Branko100

Suggestion for Horde:

Currently when a player joins a Horde round he'll have a low amount of gold. That's not a problem in lower rounds but if he joins in higher rounds he'll either get rekt pretty fast or simply leave to find another round.

I'd suggest that players who join receive an amount of gold equivalent to the amount of gold the other players have received so far through completion of waves.

Players could then join high wave Horde rounds with the ability to buy some gear instead of hoping for drops from other players.

Originally posted by SNAKEH0LE

I love this game thru and thru but could you Please add a Brace option for spear/long weapons against horses. Much like the conch you use for the horse, I feel like spearmen should be able to Pike Wall and brace for a charging horse or cavalry. It could work like the Shield Brace and have to be held for an small amount of time to set. Maybe it does less damage to a horse and kills the rider. I dont know, but i dont want my dreams of a pike wall at Crossroads to die

Originally posted by red_hawkx21

Some thoughts about customization:

• Emblem variety is somewhat lacking, I'd love to see more generic emblems, like animals, crossed swords and whatnot.
• Metal tints are still a mess, finding the right one is hard because of the UI. Some more shades would also be appreciated. (not sure if that's already planned for the armory rework)
• Color variety could also be improved, we only have a few shades of brown for cloth pieces. And sometimes the same shade of brown doesn't look the same on different cosmetic pieces, same with the red shades.
• The new shield skins look awesome, however, there's some minor clipping issues - the targe skin clips a lot with the shoulder in the armory.
• I know it's practically a meme at this point, but female character models would still be appreciated and would add a lot more customization and player expression freedom. Things that are of a higher priority, like the SDK and more long term goals, should of course come before that, but we've basically gotten no updates on female models besides "it's a lot of work, not a priority right now" since forever. Of course it wouldn't do much for player retention, but then again, neither do more cosmetics. It's just a shame that this aspect of customization gets completely ignored, even though it was advertised since the kickstarter.

Originally posted by mrplayer47

Please gib #dev-snippet on armory rework.

Originally posted by Tr1balR

"New sounds are in development for footstep audio, which will give different armor tiers some much-needed character."

A very welcome change. One of my extremely minor complaints that you couldn't hear the beautiful sound of plate clashing as you charge your enemies.

Originally posted by shamelessness9001

Do you mean that it’s ready to send off to epic or that eventually you will have to do so? It’d be really nice to be kept in the loop if you have any sort of reasonable ETA or percent of completion

Originally posted by stash375

If the guy being paid to do it is on their salary instead of contract, it will take forever. Remote meetings are half f**king useless and when everyone is working from home with relatively little accountability shit takes four weeks when it should take four days.

Originally posted by pgsssgttrs

Ping displayed by new server browser are not accurate in some cases.

New server browser since last major patch has effectively emptied low-ping unofficial east-asian INV/FL servers that supported player base since the game was released. Actual ping of these servers were and still are very low, much lower than they are displayed in the new server browser. But, as these 64/64 servers are invisible with a 200 ping max filter setting, they are all empty now.

Only a fraction of duel-oriented players who know how to switch to oldserverbrowser in the console are staying in the not immersive at all white-level duel server.

I guess Official East-asian FL/INV servers are located in South East Asia? Their ping are much higher than Japanese, Korean, Chinese unofficial servers. Anyway,They are not suitable to sustain the whole East Asian player base.

Is it possible to relocated one FL/INV server to East Asia sector? Or fix the server browser, before the playerbase become unsalvageble.

Originally posted by Hiliktor

Bring back 64 player servers. Why 80 player serverd are still experimental? Bring back 64 these serbers were very good and also we need a information where server is hosted . There were informatons about it why did you delete it?

Originally posted by Outlaw_Cheggf

Is the armory rework expected to come in patch #21, or is it expected to come later?

as we plan to improve Horde in the future, what are some things that you think could be done better with Horde?

Horde is boring because it's either sit in exploit spots and slowly whittle the enemies down with ranged attacks, or hold S and press M1 a lot with you headshotting the braindead enemies and killing them in one hit. Not sure what exactly could be realistically done to the mode to improve it, though.

Originally posted by WakeWalk

Please do something about teamates destroying their freindly engineers hard work. Its bad enough that they dont make much gold, but then having to contend with some sweat lord fused to their gaming chair stealing their ballista and getting mad when you kick them off or demand it back, just my two cents.

Originally posted by GreenGhost95

Is the team working on implementing female characters and voices or is that something planned for much later if at all?

Originally posted by CargleMcCabinets

In order of how much I care:

When the game was being kickstarted, there was scuttlebutt about a crusade game mode. Even if the gamemode is never released in full, I think it'd be great if we got some middle-eastern weapons, specifically scimitars. If this does go through, I would want it released as a DLC- I don't know how your budget is, but you could probably use a second cash injection, and a lot of the people playing today are long-haulers who would be more than happy to pay for more content.

Also, if you do end up adding scimitars, or the sabre I heard rumours of, it would be nice if curved swords had some distinguishing feature to make them cooler. Something like the slowdown mechanic on blunt weapons or the added structure damage of axes- something to make them stand out. Maybe they have a second swing pattern based on the bent edge of the blade or something. Also, it would spice up the Falx a lot of it got to be the sleeper flagship of a new weapon class.

Speaking of the falx, I am once again asking for Falx Skins

Also, I understand there's little incentive to lose any sleep over female playermodels, but it would be a fun addition that a lot of the community would be glad to see. I can understand it's on the backburner for now, but for those of us who love the customization aspect of this game, we would love to see it.

Also, I'd caution you against getting too preoccupied with tightening screws- more or less, the game plays fine and I like where the balance is at at the moment (I still think the messer is a bit too good, but that's mostly me being a big baby. Honestly I'd just probably increase its cost or some other wrist slap.) However, it's not the balance patches that really get the players in, it's big content drops with new stuff in them. My fondest memory of a patch in this game was patch 19- everyone was running around with the new perks, trying out the new falx, playing on the new map- it was like all the fun, goofiness, and novelty of Mordhau was back, and everyone seemed in on it. If you can do another patch like that- one that creates new ways to play along with new maps and weapons- I think that the community would love it.