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sorry 4 late response, pc was kil :(
sorry 4 late response, pc was kil :(
This is a result of us switching from SteamAPI to using Playfab. This gives us a lot more freedom with certain areas of the game, but unfortunately it did break the friends list. We're looking into some possible solutions :)
Jax said they will increase the height slightly to cover a crouching archer.
yep. the archer walls were just better for blocking, which invalidated spikes in most situations - climbable half-walls makes more sense, we just need to make em a bit taller so they provide cover
Thoughts on allowing us to customize how our armor colors appear in team modes? Basically letting us choose between blue and white or red and black in each color option when choosing cloth colors for our mercenaries?
It's something we know people want, at the moment the colors are hard coded - and we'd need to do a lot of stuff with the armory as well to change it. Not impossible, and we are working on the armory as it is - so we'll see if it's feasible for us to add :)
Two are confirmed to be in works! Check out geach3d's images on the official Discord to see some WIP sneak peaks of one.
this :))
Im so pissed we don't have a plain chainmail skirt
reason being, team colors - something like the italian cuirass with a pure mail skirt would be hell. that being said i can ask about limiting some plain mail skirt to things that have team color, but I'm not sure if it would be manageable. worth a shot, though!
Hey folks!
As always, we're super appreciative of your feedback, concerns, (constructive) criticism, and suggestions! Please let us know what's on your mind, and we'll do our best to take it into account for MORDHAU. As for this week, I'd like to ask you all to be specific with things - unless it's an obvious bug or something along those lines, "fix xyz" doesn't give us too much to work with. 😅
Anyways, for this week's meeting we touched on a few points, but we are preparing for another hotfix to address some final concerns, and enable holiday cosmetics! Here are some of the other things discussed, though:
Read moreAs someone who has put many hours into the toolbox, I definitely agree that the last update was a step in the right direction. Having structures show a nametag is a big improvement, since it essentially stops spawn-blocking altogether. However, one thing that is still handled incredibly poorly in my opinion is ballista trolling. It is so frustrating and annoying when some nerd just decides that your ballista belongs to him now, and if you hit him off he just destroys the ballista -- because if he can't have it, no one can. There are currently zero ways to deal with these trolls, nor is there any incentive for engineers to let other players use their ballistas. Here are my some of my ideas:
Give engineers some kind of award if another player is scoring points using their equipment. Kill assists, "supporting points", maybe achievements -- anything that would make me go "yes please get on my ballista!" instead of "oh no another idiot ruining my evening". The ...
Yeah, agree with most of these points, we'll take a look and see what we can do. :)
Read moreLet's get the elephant out of the room. The update went up and the servers were bugged. We're talking each team capped at 14 players each in 48 man servers and the 80 man servers at around 28 per player. There's also servers showing almost full but you go in and there's only like 9 per team. Not sure if that's been addressed so far since I'm at work, but something to keep an eye out in the future.
I love the new horses, it requires finesse and skill to make them useful now, so people aren't annoyed out of their minds when only 1 or 2 are present on the field.
Great job on the new skins and helmet as always.
The 3 points for the stun perk really helped with my fun sledge peasant build. So thank you for that adjustment as I really wanted to keep that with an additional sidearm for sledge throwing.
The new barricades and their texture overhaul is awesome. I think people will start using their creativity more once they realize the potential of hav...
So I answered quite a few of these in other comments, but in regards to archers, they're in a bit of a weird spot. At the moment, I still feel that if someone is equally skilled in melee and archery, they're going to get WAY more kills in melee, so in that instance they're underpowered. At the same time, they're still really annoying, even if they just plink a few hp off you now and then.
Ideally, archers should have a big impact in certain situations, but not be ideal in others. Not sure how as of now, but it's something we could definitely look into. OVerall, I think they could just use a bit more depth in the mechanics, and then we can use those new mechanics to help balance them out some more.
The best way to deal with the current state of nobles/invasion is
readd flinching on hit
remove heal on kill entirely
add more food in various locations and make it respawn (add food to grad for example), make the locations spread out so the nobles can't just camp one place
buff the second/third/fourth stages of each map for the defender, so that there isn't so much pressure put on the commanders to hold out for 15 minutes under constant attack
Removing HP on kill is the opposite approach, and IMO not a good one. We want the nobles to be objectives that need to be protected, but we also want them to be more involved and actually fight. This can be done with higher HP on kill and lower base HP.
Personally, I always turn down the noble class because I'd rather hit people, instead of stowing away in a house and not do anything. The optimal play style we want to encourage is what i like to call "chad smasher" - run around and kill things without overextending.
Read moreSomething has to change with nobles. Either make them heal less per kill like before, or readd flinching on hit.
Firebombs should deal a lot of damage, but it should slowly ramp up while you're in the fire, it shouldn't pretty much insta kill you if you're at 40% HP, give us some time to run away.
Please change the way that horses work in that riding into people interrupts their attacks and causes enemies to flinch, which can make horse users unbeatable. Technically speaking we should be able to use pointy weapons (spear, halberd, pole axe etc) and just let a horse user ride into them.
Autobalancing teams would also be nice, should be an easy enough feature. You could give a small bit of gold to players who accept to be teamswitched first. Basically, have a prompt pop up (sort of similar to the votekick prompt, but different enough so people don't think it's a vote kick) and ask people to change team, if they press page up, they switch team and are aw...
We are thinking of some changes - currently, we might reduce their 'overall HP' (it's really more like.. a resistance thing since it's still 100hp) so instead of them being super tanky, they are more fragile (still stronger than normal) but they have the 4hp on kill still.
As for the other points, I addressed them in another comment :)
- The warhammer, battleaxe alt mode, and axe are too fast
- Firebombs kill too fast
- Active parry is unreliable
- Playing as an engineer is unrewarding
- The spear is too expensive
- The eveningstar is too powerful
- Horse users can perform unblockable attacks by flinching opponents with the horse right before delivering an unblockable killing blow
- The heavy handaxe alt mode deals significantly less damage to all armor except for T3 legs and torso, even though the poleaxe alt mode deals increased damage to all T2 and T3 armor. This does not make sense.
- Getting killed by the fire of a trebuchet or getting pushed over a ledge should not count as suicide
- fix hitboxes
- fix servers
That's it
so this was due to a backend switch from relying on steamworks api stuff to using playfab. It was taken care of at the beginning of the week, but figured you might want to know why :)
The server browser is non-functional - not sure if it's the browser, or if servers aren't up. Hope it's just temporary.
Fixed with a hotfix, and we appreciate you bringing it up!
PLEASE- TEAM BALANCING :) Many games feel so bad because frontline matches will start, high levels will stack on one team, and then the game ends with the losing team at 800 Points. I feel there needs to be some kind of way to balance teams or prevent situations like these if there is a way other than team auto-balance.
It's something we're aware of people wanting, and we're trying to find ways to make it work!
The new walls (arrow covers) are great HOWEVER, they hardly fulfill what their name suggest, they're simply too low. The current arrow covers should be a little bit more taller to fully protect a crouched player from projectile hits.
Agree! I appreciate that they are shorter but they overshot by quite a bit. Ideally they should be just high enough that a dwarf can't see over them, so we can box them in and force them to fight each other.
hahah you had me in the first half
Hello! A small batch of suggestions this time around:
- The new walls (arrow covers) are great HOWEVER, they hardly fulfill what their name suggest, they're simply too low. The current arrow covers should be a little bit more taller to fully protect a crouched player from projectile hits.
- Adding labels to engineer toolbox's structures is a neat change, but I think that they should be team-coloured in order to represent what team built it.
That's it, thank you for reading!
Yep, we are thinking about raising the height a bit so they actually cover you when crouched. So far, we are liking that they can't be used to completely block areas off without someone defending them, so it's a matter of finding the balance between covering from projectiles and still being climbable in most situations. :)
Edit: Team color tags would be really nice. I'll see if we have the UI support for that, and if it makes sense. Potentially green/yellow like we have for friendly/enemy UI, so it's not confusing if you're free guard or iron company, etc.
Please bring back 64 man servers, the 80-man "experimental" servers are where most people go and they're horribly unstable, the 48-man servers feel empty even when full and honestly they're either full all the time so you can't join or they have 20 people in which feels even more empty.
As of the current patch playing on either 48 or 80 is almost impossible, the ping and packet-loss spikes are insane to the point where people might as well not play if our swings and parries aren't registering properly, it used to be bad occasionally but every match i've joined today has had major issues.
We are definitely considering it. Not sure yet what we will decide, but it's definitely up for discussion. As for servers - it's a constant battle but we are doing what we can. <3
this is badass