You know what would be great? Different teams other than just red and blue fighting each other, like why cant there be purple vs green or yellow vs brown or maybe even black vs white? Maybe even mox match the teams so a random color is fighting a random color. Seeing red vs blue always fight eachother in every game kinda gets stale
The linked mod below is nice, and we're looking into colorblind options as well.
Read moreWhy is the 80 player "experiment" still running after a whole year? 30 tick simply can't support this kind of combat, a player can do everything right and still fail because the server can't keep up which is confusing as hell for new players generally feels awful, let alone the packet loss issues 30 tick exacerbates. The 80 player servers are also an optical nightmare for the game, despite Mordhau having superb netcode these servers are giving people the impression the whole game is a clunky mess with poor netcode because they get matchmade onto these servers. Most players are very casual and use matchmaking, they don't probably don't even realise the difference between 48 and 80, just that some severs are good and most of the servers they play are bad, because the nature of high playercount means the 80 player servers suck up the playerbase and leave the 48 player servers with lower playercounts than they otherwise should have, diminishing the qua...
We will be making some decisions on this soon :)
Rusty/broken weapons for peasant tree
That would be neat :)
Rework most maps or design maps going forward as though vaulting does not exist. If the only way to get on to a platform or surface is using the vaulting mechanic then it slows gameplay fluidity and increases one sided and low effort interactions. I think vaulting should be seen more as another option than a requirement.
I think vaulting has a place - I don't think that it should be the primary means to get into an objective, but having chokepoints can spice things up.
From a design side, it's annoying - vaulting was a late addition to the game (marox actually coded it in like 20 minutes initially and made it work) and some of the maps weren't made with it in mind. Newer ones have been a bit more suited towards it, and we're keeping some vaulting considerations in mind.
Hey all, sorry for the late post!
As usual, we'd love to hear any of your comments, concerns, feedback, questions, (constructive) criticism, and anything that's on your mind! You might have noticed that I didn't respond to that many comments on last week's thread - unfortunately, I'm still recovering a bit from my second COVID vaccine (that thing packs a punch), so I wasn't super active last week and wasn't able to make today's meeting. I'll still be going through last week and this week's threads and taking notes to bring to the team for next week, and commenting where I can. Luckily, we've still got some meeting notes to post for this week - read 'em below!
Read moreWe're looking to tone down the catapult - at the moment it's a Mordhau drone strike - there's no risk in using it. What we're looking at doing is a reduction in range but an increase in movement speed, and also adding some restrictions on where you can use the catapult from. Having a catapult kill your entire team from inside a spawn protection zone isn't a good gameplay loop, and so that's what we're looking to fix.
This is more an issue with spawn protection zones on certain maps. The current implementation is pretty strange, how can you tell which open space in Camp is spawn protected and what is not? The only indication that you're in a spawn protected zone is a message on the screen. Where do you have to go to get out of it? No idea, just run until the message disappears within 5 seconds.
The current implementation is probably the easiest given the current maps and spawning in empty space. I'd like to see future maps where spawns are...
Yeah, the old maps had to accommodate weird modes like BR, so the playable zone is a bit weird. New maps shouldn't have that issue.
Multiple feint spamming makes players look like they are holding their weapon mid wind-up before a sudden attack. This goes directly against the "fights that look like fights" idea of Mordhau. https://streamable.com/cl1laj I would suggest removing the option to feint again after a feint on the same side (left or right) regardless of whether its a stab, overhead, slash or underhand attack unless you wait for the animation to return to zero or change attack sides before the next feint. I know it's a stamina drain but it doesn't really change anything because in invasion stamina is meaningless and lots of people use the Fury perk anyways. It looks stupid, please consider changing it.
We're re-doing all combat animations, if there are still issues after those are in we can definitely take a look. No reason to spend time at the moment developing a potential band-aid fix when we're scrapping all the current animations in the near future 👍
Will the Eastern Invasion DLC be paid content?
I would have no problem with pumping out like 10 extra bucks to support you guys, but make sure to only include the cosmetic content in there and make the maps available to everyone. Splitting the playerbase in an already small populated game would suck.
Nope, won't be paid content - it will be a free update.
We're looking into some non-intrusive ways to monetize since we've been expanding the team, but nothing P2W or annoying would ever be on the table.
Idea: Different Generic voice lines dependent on your level. So the longer you play the game, the more veteran your voice lines become. New players have less intimidating voice lines.
Not really possible, we've already done the voice acting so changing things now isn't feasible. :(
WEATHER CHANGE I NEED RAINY MAPS
time of day/weather variations are being worked on.
Read moreSmall needed stuff:
emote and voice wheel that does not change based on what you are carrying (just gray out the unavailable ones)
change blue ballista on Feitoria. It's just dumb. It's literally a spawnkilling ballista with a convenient way of sneaking in without anyone noticing on two sides. Same with blue ballista on Grad, it's pointing right at the spawning area. Or red ballista in Mountain Peak.
limit smoke bombs to 1 per loadout
Longer term:
having a few random map variations for each map (e.g. having red camp on Grad starting in the woods or in the farms) would keep the game fresh
more maps, obviously. It's the most urgent thing.
running while raising shield and pressing F should do a shield bash, at the cost of a lot of stam
we have smoke bombs, fire pots, and a good addition would be oil pot. Makes a surface shiny and slippery (ragdoll if y...
We're looking into all of your small suggestions :)
As for the others: more variations for maps are coming, more maps as well (we know people want em and they're our #1 priority), and I'm a bit unsure about the last two
Item suggestion: Peasant shields
I don’t know if pot lids existed in medieval times, but a pot lid shield (basically a buckler reskin) would be a great addition for Pan-Man and other peasants.
Exanima also featured an improvised barrel lid shield, which could function like a targe or round shield in Mordhau.
yeah that'd be cool, peasant stuff is low-priority at the moment but if we have time I think it'd be a great addition
While were on the topic of the catapult, I don't like that idea, but if you guys do go ahead and go through with the idea, at least make the terrain on Camp and Feitoria more "catapult friendly". Currently, the catapult can get stuck on literally anything and just start glitching out because the terrain is awful.
We're re-doing the code for catapults and vehicles so they don't sink into the ground etc., less weird sh*t in the future.
I think an emote called "Pose" would be amazing, it'd make your character take on the armory selection screen pose appropriate for your currently equipped item
you could stand guard at a door if you had a speer, or stand all menacing loik with an executioner sword.aye ser o7
Could be neat :)
Read moreHey, Jax. I hope everything is going well. I have several questions.
Will we get the new maps, Moors, and women in 2021?
Will there be a new male voice made with the Moors in mind?
How many female voices are planned? Do you have voice actresses picked out?
Will the new maps be more streamlined for frontline/Invasion? The old maps, while beautiful, felt like they were made with every game mode in mind, to their detriment
I assume the team has seen St0uty's recent comments/video on combo-after-miss. Are you having an internal discussion on this?
Can we see some snippets? I would especially like to see how the in game models for the Moors and women are coming along.
You've recently added some members to the dev team. Do you feel development is progressing faster now?
Sound cues for being approached from the sides or behind.. would this be louder footsteps, ...
I'd love a toggle that allows you to hear your own character's low stamina heavy breathing for immersive purposes and to appreciate the voice acting
Hmm, could be interesting. - I'll make sure to bring this up, although it might be a pretty low-priority thing.
please pm me on how to do this so we can patch it, we don't want ballista shots coming from the underworld lol
Do you remember the name of the player? Because there are players that do shit like this (I personally have seen players named Goku and Violet doing it several times) - they play the attackers all game long and in the king phase they switch teams and chain beartrap the king (that is now on their team). They do the same with catas for example - if the enemy has the cata and is doing well with it they will switch the team to spawn near cata and destroy it and switch back to their original team afterwards. This is really anti-fun exploiting of the team switch and I recommend the team of such player to votekick said player after he is spotted doing such shit as it kinda ruins the experience for the players being king/ playing cata.
If you can report them to a mod on our discord - discord.gg/mordhau - and include the player's ids (type 'playerlist' into the console) we will happily ban them from officials for a while.
(We're also adding in-game reporting soon, starting with chat toxicity/racism)
Still don't understand the lack of thought that goes into some-things. Just make commanders stagger when standing in friendly traps instead of falling. That would prevent more extreme trolling while also making sure commanders can't just ignore them.
It seems like a really stupid oversight on our end, but there are hundreds of little random things we have to account for. Sometimes, we just don't think of all the possibilities that can occur and some issues slip through.
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