remember yesterday when you were still a noob, just acquired enough money for the last +3 item and stood on a half empty server, krems shouting Q-commands, throwing lances gushing past your ear and thumping in your head from across the map...
remember a decade ago when you had to keep rejoining the server because it restarted every 30 minutes
XP BARN!
I came from singleplayer to warband beta multiplayer ready to rekt some noobs as cav with 2 handed weapon. Took 20 secs to get couched lance to face. I rage quit and thought multiplayer is shit time to go play singleplayer and kill everyone as 2handed cav.
For early crpg I loved when plated archers charged their cannon for 10 seconds and when the arrow hit your knee it was game over.
identifying each other as duel scum with blocking up
oh shit I remember this used to be the 'duel greet' move, but I can't recall how long until people stopped using the gesture
For early crpg I loved when plated archers charged their cannon for 10 seconds and when the arrow hit your knee it was game over.
oh shit I remember this used to be the 'duel greet' move, but I can't recall how long until people stopped using the gesture
I still used it when I was playing.
Though EU_1 was filled with gangbanging scum who never allowed duels :(
EU_4_EVER!
never4get
I still do that instinctively on battle or siege servers sometimes.
Rarely if I'm avoiding a gank and letting 2 people fight each other i'll also stand back with up block held. It's like a universal symbol for 'I wont be a scumbag'.
I assumed it was still a part of the warband vocabulary, still see lots of people use the upblock for similar things.
The upper block originally means "I am not autoblocking" and thats why it is used as a salute in duels, later on it became a symbol of broing each other, mostly in cRPG or some deathmatch servers though. In other communities if you ask for duels with upperblock they might still go ahead and gangbang you.
It's like a universal symbol for 'I wont be a scumbag'.
those archers defined my playstyle. it was heck scary how they 1shot you across the map, and if you ever made it close enough, their damn plate armor was almost inpenetrable
According to some modern military manuals, the modern Western salute originated when knights greeted each other to show friendly intentions by raising their visors to show their faces, using a salute. Others also note that the raising of one's visor was a way to identify oneself saying "This is who I am, and I am not afraid." Medieval visors were, to this end, equipped with a protruding spike that allowed the visor to be raised using a saluting motion.
Think I splashed my first savings on Steel Shield, after I found out my build isn't compatible with it. Wanted to buy armored horse but those were crazy expensive back then. Leveling was much easier than earning gold. You could play for an hour or two per week, retire and get gen bonus.
I went AGI build just to fight them pesky archers. Still think more than half of my kills in this mod are archers. Loved when they setup archer nests, each of them in first person mode. Sneak up from behind and put Sword of Cookies to good use :lol:
Early cRPG... for me it was Jackie, Subotai, Kris and their kin owning the server as plated level 43 horse archers. There was nothing anyone could against them. It was game of hiding, even elite cav like Tommy, Oberyn and Ujin were trying to get under haystack.
oh shit I remember this used to be the 'duel greet' move, but I can't recall how long until people stopped using the gesture
plane white character page dohg.
I miss the white page, it was nice.I miss the not-broken current page, it was not broken.
Sad for myself as I joined more or less near to the end of the great period of C-RPG, only wish I had found it sooner, it would also mean that I'd be much better at the game than I am now :o
not necessarily. Im sure most people were better a few years ago.
Throwing was godlike for a month following upkeep patch. Went thrower (hybrid, 8 PT) to be able to reliably kill those players who used to dispose of me and many others regularly pre-upkeep patch. It wasn't even good build and I didn't even carry full stack. But it was so easy and fun. Later they significantly nerfed it in every way imaginable.
The best time was when I played with 10+ PT and Throwing Lances. Dead accurate and onehit pretty much everything. Hell of alot of fun to oneshot couchmy old friends like Vandamme or The_FIN (think he was called like that, not exactly sure) down their ugly plated chargers.
120 players on EU1 at saturday evening.(click to show/hide)
120 players at all times, having to mash the connect button untill you get a spot in there.
plane white character page dohg.
omg this! refresh refresh refresh aaaaaaaaaaahHH!!
QQ :'D
also you could actually play 24h straight w/o ever having an empty server, even weekdays
And Strategus in 2010 (before the great style site improvements made by Harald):
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Back in the day Calradia were ruled by Merc.
120 players at all times, having to mash the connect button untill you get a spot in there.
yo the fin wasnt a coucher, he stabbed with the highest skill. back then you could oneshot niceley with a well placed stab to the head, was way better then couching.
Maybe i threw up some memories. He was fearsome as fuck though. The worst thing was that he got even more dangerous when you finally dismounted him. Think he used a looney toons as secondary if im not mistaken.
120 players at all times, having to mash the connect button untill you get a spot in there.
also you could actually play 24/7/365 w/o ever having an empty server, even weekdays
i swear all i remember from my first day in mod, is xesta. he walking around in his glamorous hello kitty armor, killing me with a single punch, trash talking to everyone. good to see not everything changed tho, he is still trash talking to everyone :mrgreen:
Back in the days I was a newmy old friend. Hard for me to use that term to describe a player who didn't start in 2011. Because you know, most common newmy old friends started cRPG in 2011 while earliest batch of newmy old friends like me started in late 2010. To think people who first came to cRPG in 2013 or 2014 or even 2015 (!!!) are called newmy old friends these days is baffling to me.
My first memory was getting my ass pounded by just a bunch of names when I was level 1 with the peasant gear. Immediately had that "what the fuck is happening" adrenaline going through me, but I sought out the first TeamSpeak I could find (which was Fallen's) and then Fallen_Ramses showed me the ropes, it was insanely gratifying. I attended the Fallen training sessions and I felt like I was in an online bootcamp; I actually looked forward to the training nights. That TeamSpeak, at it's prime, was glorious. People tactically navigating the battlefield, calling out, awesome banter. I guess it was the collective effervescence of it all. Mannnnnnnnnn loved it.
miss our sessions goddamit.
I remember a time where I could choose which mode to play - siege, eu7, sometimes even the ball game. Nowadays I'm forced to play the one and only epeen contest aka buttle.
well but its not rly epeen anymore. seriously there are days I dont know whom to attack cause everyone is hugging eachother. this is the most love baring wargame on the internetz, nichtwar?we´ve grown too familiar to each other
Do you remember that special event chadz and cmp organized to test new servers? Arena, 250 player cap methinks, full to the brim. Maybe even more. I do remember that my PC was dying, chugging couple frames per second. But it was fun while it lasted :D
Native siege often have more than 200 players but that testing was special.
na man back in the days when archers were super op 2 shieldwalls were almost a regular thing! it was so fuggin great
na man back in the days when archers were super op 2 shieldwalls were almost a regular thing! it was so fuggin great
Regular shitty shieldwalls yes, but not advancing ones where everyone keeps the line and walks forward. Static shieldwalls happened often, but are useless since sitting behind cover is just better in every way.
You mean wait for the goddamn automatic password to come off while the server has already dropped back to 90 players?
120 players at all times, having to mash the connect button untill you get a spot in there.
You mean wait for the goddamn automatic password to come off while the server has already dropped back to 90 players?
when u tried to run away from all the shogunates,phyrex,siiem and so on...