Hey all!
As always, we appreciate your input - the feedback is invaluable and really lets us see how everyone feels on the state of the game, and what's needed going forwards. If you've got any ideas on your mind, feel free to post them below! Suggestions are always welcome, and feedback on the current game helps a ton as well. Thanks again!
Last week's post can be found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mordhau/comments/gvgjd1/mordhau_weekly_feedbackdiscussion_62_68/
The Bird would like to see different weather conditions on the existing maps. Things like different times of day, rain, etc. A marshy map would also be very pleasant. The Bird enjoys variety. The Mordhau community enjoys variety. So bring some variety to the maps! :>
This would be sick! The thing we'll have to figure out is how to do lighting separate from the map objects, so if we change objective stuff or move a barrel 10 feet we don't have to go in and fix everything on like 7 different variants of each map. We've definitely talked about this and it's something we want to figure out.
Having finally played as the Crossroads noble, reducing HP and increasing HP on kill seems like a very good direction for noble balance. I kept running around looking for people to kill so I could keep my HP up, instead of hiding in the cart or other place. The moving wander area also may have helped, but I was mostly focused on that HP on kill and just the fact I can knock people over with just a fart.
We're trying out some changes to the nobles with the upcoming update. We're taking this gradually, as we don't want to super-overtune the nobles.
Please have some way to tell friendly buildings from enemy ones. Either by having a name appear when a building is looked at or by coloring the structures with bits of red or blue parts like the frontline buildable walls.
Also if engineers could create stone piles so stones could be used in more locations then that would be nifty.
First part is noted and something we're looking into :) We also want to add some more utility for engineers, but we'd definitely have to make sure it's all balanced and stuff.
Some map balance changes in invasion seem pretty necessary. Blue team on crossroads, defending team on castello, red team on grad when defending king, defending team on taiga all seem very difficult to win. Feitoria seems like the most balanced map currently, though it can be hard to kill the nobles if you don't have the catapult.
Yep, we're still working on that front. Some small changes with this upcoming update, and we have some win% and completion time stats working so we're able to better tweak things. :)
Gameplay:
Currently if you are using a shield and 1H wep, and your 1H wep gets disarmed before your shield (because you tried to chamber with no stamina), for some odd reason your shield automatically gets put away. This seems like a bug to me, considering that you are actually allowed to have a shield out with no weapon equipped. If it's not a bug, I gotta say it is super unintuitive - why when my weapon is knocked out of my hands do I decide to just put my shield away - isn't this exactly the time I need my shield most? I mean they're different hands, if my shield is knocked out first (because I blocked) I do hold onto my weapon still (though it is probably about to be knocked out in half a second). I also think that it takes away a skill based opportunity - you should be rewarded for keeping track of your stamina and for hitting the chamber instead of just blocking.
Customization:
I think it would be cool if you had some (very limited) customization over your colors as iron company and free guard. At its most minimum, I should be able to choose what parts of my armor are red and what parts are black (or blue/white) without having the game decide for me. If you wanted to get a bit wildier with it, and I understand the need to limit colors to make the teams clear, you could open up some shades - like some other shades of blue for free guard and some other shades of red for iron company.
Thank you for reading!
Jax, any comments on the Loudouts being wiped thing that happens to alot of people?
It's a weird bug related to Steam cloud stuff as far as I know, and we're not really sure how to fix it. This being said you can always make a backup of your game.ini file which can be found in the Mordhau Appdata folder in the meantime.
Keep it up with these feedback posts. The level of transparency exhibited here is unreal.
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Please make some kind of mechanics list page, where every mechanic would be listed and explained in detail. I'm not sure if a new player, or a player that had a break and missed a patch or two, has all the info he needs if he doesn't go through several patch-notes. Right now there are only loading screen tips and a tutorial, and those don't cover everything i think, especially the newer changes and stuff that changed a few times, things like:
Does a kick still do more damage with T3 legs? Does it do set amount of damage every time, or does armor mitigate kick damage? How exactly do clashes work? When exactly is early/late release and how can i tell? Does stamina drain and negation affect chambers or only parries? Is there still some kind of active parry going on, or did it get completely replaced with riposte hyperarmor? How exactly do shields work, do they still have the blocking thing while riposting, and does it take into account the 1st or 3rd person shield animation? Are those even different? How does a lunge work exactly, is that only on stabs or on slashes too? How much do blunt weapons slow down on hit, for how long and how does it interact with dodge or fury? Etc.
I've been playing on and off since alpha and i couldn't answer these things without some homework, or at all. Some of those things are probably explained somewhere and i just missed it, but i think it would be great if players had access to info like this in an organised manner *in-game*. Either as a new tab in the main menu, or a link to a website hosting the page, honestly just a google doc with a stamp of approval from you or some other dev would do.
Thanks for reading through that and thanks for the game, it gave me many good times and it is honestly getting slowly and steadily better with every patch :)
This would be great - the issue is that a lot of the mechanics change a ton over time, and it's something that if we forget to change or something is out of date on that, it's now harmful for players to read. I would guess that this is why a ton of games don't show super detailed stats or mechanic writeups, as they change a ton.
That being said there could be some things we could do that would definitely help, and it's something I'll bring up to the team. Thanks for the feedback!
I had asked this previously but I am unsure if you had seen it. Any chance of getting a 1 handed version of the training sword?
I didn't see it! This is something we could look into, maybe a wooden arming sword or something could be made. It's kinda low priority but I'll let the team know :)
I had heard a rumor about you guys hiring an experienced server guy of some sorts. True? False?
We hired a guy to work on the mod SDK. Our server guy is great, the issue is that we don't physically own the servers so we're kinda at the mercy of the providers at times.
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