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Well, the point of balance isn't to get rid of people using the most popular weapon(s), it's to increase the weapon/loadout diversity. There will always be a best weapon, but we want to make sure it's not overall the best in every way.

We can look into it :)

we know, we're working on it :)

I'd respectfully disagree - the reason the combat exists is mostly due to Crush. Going back to the alpha the game was absolutely terrible, and it's progressed massively since then because of the tweaks Crushed has done. Animations have also improved, and we've brought a new animator on board to help as well.

So, Obliviousness and I talked about it. We'll give out some gold to actors, probably in the 10-25k range. This comment is addressed more at having multiple editors/etc. which would get weird, since we don't allow transfer of rewards, and we're only giving out 1 emblem/cosmetic per winner. Can't cut a crown in half :D

EDIT: We're still deciding on this, and we'll probably finalize the actor stuff post-competition. The thing is, unlike a tournament we don't really know how many actors there will be in a given video. If there's some wild cinematic with 100 actors, it's unlikely we'd just give out 25k to everybody - if there ends up being 3 videos like that, that is a LOT of id's to manually give rewards to, so we're kind of playing it by ear.

It's something we're looking into. At the moment we have to change rewards by doing hotfixes, and we only have a limited window of time post-update that we can do hotfixes. After a certain point we start working on things for the next update, and that would require us to roll back to hotfix, and then re-add all the WIP changes - this would slow down development.

Because of that, we can only really time 2XP events around major updates or ones that are planned very far in advance.

Also, some other news:

• 2 more devs are being brought onboard. One's a sound designer, and other will be a programmer working on general gameplay features. :))
• We have a pretty cool competition going on, hosted by Obliviousness - a film festival! Check out the other stickied post.

not at the moment - they would be fun additions, but at the moment we just have other priorities :(

Doing that would fracture the player base. It's shouldn't be unrecognizable to the current combat system - still the same core ideas of timed parry, swing manipulation, feints etc. - the timing and pace will just be shifted to make thigs better :)

typo, disqualified - sorry I don't make the rules, I just enforce 'em

Hello everyone, happy new year!

As always, we'd love to hear your feedback, suggestions, critiques and any thoughts you might have! Please make sure to keep things constructive, polite and be respectful to one another. We're back to normal, and we have a few good things we discussed today! Some of the things we talked about are:

• We discussed a few issues going on currently, such as server browsers not showing the correct ping, causing issues, especially in less populated regions.
• We are investigating issues with crashing on the main menu.
• Marox is working on a major refactor to some of the game's code. This should help a bit with stability and let us do things easier, as well as remove some restrictions.
• Tying into the above, this means that we're able to differentiate animations in some instances - before, all feint animations for each weapon type (1h/2h/polearm) were identical, however now we're not locked into it being hardcod...

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I think we need to add more to the toolbox before we can look at nerfing the ballista. Right now it's one of the only actual fun things you can do with the toolbox.

Sure, barricades are very helpful but nobody gets excited to build walls in Mordhau :D

super late response but we are planning on doing it at some point.

two points

1. actual night would not be fun, you'd just get teamkilled and run into walls. it works in like tactical shooters (think EFT) but in a melee game we don't have night vision, and the game is so reliant on visual cues that any actual night map would be an insta-skip from the community after 2 weeks
2. from my understanding, on the technical side we'll have to turn the sun into a moon and change the color of the lighting to make it seem like it's dark, essentially. that's okay because we can keep things bright enough (full moon IRL after you've adjusted lets you see really well, actually) but we'll still be able to sell the illusion.
   (I could be completely wrong on this one, but I remember something along these lines from a dev meeting we had ages ago.)

Right now the armory is super hard-coded, so we can't add anything like that. The new UI should give us the ability to do a lot more with it. :)

it's probably going to be based on a soft MMR, not level :)

Yep, I'll make sure to forward this to the team :)

Good feedback. I agree that a lot of the meta 2-hit weapons can reduce the game's variety in a lot of ways. More conditional 2-shot weapons (head+chest hits) could work nicely. I'll forward this to crush and the team and see what they say. :)

We're looking into armor, but I don't think we need to do anything insane - just a few tweaks here and there, to armor and weapons.

We wanted to avoid going too realistic in the sense of blunt / blade weapons vs armor effectiveness; not for avoiding realism but instead because it could actually make the gameplay worse. If all you have is a sword and the enemy is wearing t3 armor, you've already kind of lost the fight before it even started. That type of stuff works in slower paced games like Mount and Blade very well, but with the speed of Mordhau it would probably just feel out of place and a tad clunky.

Longer htk is worse, fights get messy and drag on way too long. It also makes the skill gap more painful - if you're worse than someone and get 2-3 hits before they get 2-3 hits, you win. Since you're worse, your odds are worse - but if it was 4-6 hits to kill, you'd have an even worse chance to kill a better player.
On top of this, it would eliminate the ability to fight multiple people, as you just simply wouldn't be able to kill enough of them in time.