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Title: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 02, 2011, 01:47:03 am
Let's see how community thinks i really wonder what everyone thinks about current cRPG.
Game is awesome imo but i think we have too many ranged which ruins the "main feature" of warband which is melee combat.
I mean this is fucking UNIQUE there is no other game that has a melee combat like Warband but lots of games have ranged combat even in elder scrolls or HL 2 mods...
Let's see what everyone thinks.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Lizard_man on December 02, 2011, 01:51:28 am
Playing Eu_1 now, it's pretty much nothing but cav and ranged on the enemy team...

Edit, Rage quit...

Edit, Skyrim...
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 02, 2011, 01:54:57 am
Playing Eu_1 now, it's pretty much nothing but cav and ranged on the enemy team...

Edit, Rage quit...

Edit, Skyrim...
Gonna edit more ? :P
Self edit:
Im not against ranged , after i GTXted EU_1 i switched to EU_cRPG_Melee but without ranged and cav melee is no fun also.
There should be a balance in this imo.TOO MANY RANGED = KILLS THE GAME , NO RANGED = KILLS THE GAME , TOO MANY CAV=MAY KILL THE GAME (if your team sux too much.) thats what i think.
Also is this chadz magic which puts -all ranged- and -all cav- in 1 team ? It mysteriously happens.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gurnisson on December 02, 2011, 02:00:34 am
'Main problem is ladders to roofs , the amount of ranged is fine.'

And, trust me, I hate running ranged guys.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Dooz on December 02, 2011, 02:01:54 am
That doesn't seem pleasant....  :|  I'm sorry for your loss.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Boerenlater on December 02, 2011, 02:13:35 am
Get a shield.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kato on December 02, 2011, 02:18:56 am
I voted for too many ranged.
but yeah

RETARD LADDERS FROM BATTLE SERVER!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: karasu on December 02, 2011, 02:22:02 am
I'm playing ranged and this amount of ranged is simply retarded.

We need really soon a way to limit the amount or a certain class per team, being the best way to associate with the char WPF afaik.


It's either rangefest on EU1, or noobfest on EU2, meh.


Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: 22nd_King_Plazek on December 02, 2011, 02:35:05 am
imo the problem is not too much ranged, but that one team often has a much higher proportion of ranged than the other. This leads to unfair battles for the team lacking in ranged support.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Mala on December 02, 2011, 02:55:13 am
too many archers and horses.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Slamz on December 02, 2011, 02:56:14 am
It's a shame that chadz didn't give this game any counter whatsoever to bows.

No cavalry.
No ladders that infantry can deploy.
No shields.
No crossbows.
No throwing weapons at all.
No "athletics" skill that might let us run faster to catch archers.

And no counter to cavalry, either!

No bows.
No crossbows.
No pikes or long spears.
No lolstabbing two-handed swords.
No throwing weapons.

It's really a terrible game.  I don't know why anyone plays it.  I, myself, just stand in the open with my 1H hammer and weep bitterly.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Grumbs on December 02, 2011, 02:59:29 am
I recently discovered this awesome game, but to me what makes it so good is the depth of melee combat. If the melee wasn't so good would anyone still play? That is a point that should be considered when the game is balanced. Cav/melee combat is 10x more deep and involving than ranged. I think what spoils cRPG sometimes is the sheer volume of people playing like they're the sniper in TF2. Just hanging back chilling while playing a separate game by themselves. There is little "pvp" from a ranged character until it becomes melee mode, or against other ranged characters.

From a realism pov though its tough to balance, but the game mechanics just don't support having too many ranged guys imo and it spoils the game to some extent
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Thomek on December 02, 2011, 03:13:23 am
Signed and approved.

Cav is too viable, same with archery. Also, remove ladders in Battle. Will be a gift to cav, so give them a little extra nerf because of that.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 02, 2011, 03:19:31 am
I recently discovered this awesome game, but to me what makes it so good is the depth of melee combat. If the melee wasn't so good would anyone still play? That is a point that should be considered when the game is balanced. Cav/melee combat is 10x more deep and involving than ranged. I think what spoils cRPG sometimes is the sheer volume of people playing like they're the sniper in TF2. Just hanging back chilling while playing a separate game by themselves. There is little "pvp" from a ranged character until it becomes melee mode, or against other ranged characters.

From a realism pov though its tough to balance, but the game mechanics just don't support having too many ranged guys imo and it spoils the game to some extent
This !
The problem is not that "QQ we don't have anything to counter archerz nooooes"

The thing is if there are 30  archers shooting at you no matter which shield you have or where you hide , they shoot you down without you even start melee combat.

same thing goes to cav spam

If there are 30 cav charging from everywhere of the map you can't counter them . Pike is 3 slots now if you are not a dedicated pikeman there is no way to carry that.That decreased people who carry pikes therefore its kinda cav buff
I , personally think that cav is fine , cavspam rarely occurs but rangedspam is on EU_1 everytime.
I don't want nerf to throwers archers or xbows individually but there should be something to limit max ranged on servers cuz they don't let you play if you are melee or cav.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Boerenlater on December 02, 2011, 03:38:33 am
Koyama I don't think throwers should be treated as ranged in this. There are like only 2 or 3 dedicated throwers on each team on EU1 and some viking guys with throwing axes as backup. And don't forget also the range of thrown weapons isn't the same as bows or xbows.

And I'm not saying this because I am a thrower.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: rufio on December 02, 2011, 05:09:58 am
well imo cavs fine, melee is fine, but ranged isnt: this is why

i see melee working together as they should, i see cav working together as they should, most of the time i see archers being damn solidsnake legolasses ssame for xbowers. and if it was like that always sure . but omg when archers decide to work together, man shit like that just puts fear into me, because when they decide to start teamplay  they fuckin rape everything to bits. also consider this, if u get hit once by an archer all the other archers have free hits, u die. dodging archery has become near impossible and i see myself at end of battles hugging a tree and softly trying to cry myself to sleep waiting for then end. also ranged dousnt glance/whiff, i dont see archers shooting in volley mode, why not because they are fuckin snipers!! and more then not dous an archery hit take more damage form me then a melee hit, and that that is the real retarded thing imo, archery in game ballance should never ever hit harder then melee, but it dous alot. and no dont come wel haha thats lvl difference, no just no.

now to fall into repeating, i say it might be the fault of terrain that archery is so op, since movement is just limited alot by terrain, thus archers who abuse this increas theyr effectiveness by atleast 100%, also i hate it that a hornbow mw or not, can 3/4 shot me in full milanese plate QQ wtf is that shit right there fuck that shit.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gomer on December 02, 2011, 07:23:54 am
YOU DICK. It's the cav not the ranged. RANDED IS SUPER UP NOW AND CAV IS OP NOW SO I WILL NOT TAKES CAPS OFF BECAUSE I DISLIKE THIS POLL. Dumb...
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Dom.Miguel on December 02, 2011, 07:25:35 am
well imo cavs fine, melee is fine, but ranged isnt: this is why

i see melee working together as they should, i see cav working together as they should, most of the time i see archers being damn solidsnake legolasses ssame for xbowers. and if it was like that always sure . but omg when archers decide to work together, man shit like that just puts fear into me, because when they decide to start teamplay  they fuckin rape everything to bits. also consider this, if u get hit once by an archer all the other archers have free hits, u die. dodging archery has become near impossible and i see myself at end of battles hugging a tree and softly trying to cry myself to sleep waiting for then end. also ranged dousnt glance/whiff, i dont see archers shooting in volley mode, why not because they are fuckin snipers!! and more then not dous an archery hit take more damage form me then a melee hit, and that that is the real retarded thing imo, archery in game ballance should never ever hit harder then melee, but it dous alot. and no dont come wel haha thats lvl difference, no just no.

now to fall into repeating, i say it might be the fault of terrain that archery is so op, since movement is just limited alot by terrain, thus archers who abuse this increas theyr effectiveness by atleast 100%, also i hate it that a hornbow mw or not, can 3/4 shot me in full milanese plate QQ wtf is that shit right there fuck that shit.

You sound mad brah? jelly?

on topic:
The problem is not what is op or not IT'S THE FUCKING BALANCE. When you have like 80% of cav and ranged in one team no wonder eu 1 feels lame.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gomer on December 02, 2011, 07:26:28 am
Btw fuck you Melee play as an archer. It's not as easy as you think and if it is play as it. Half yall say it's boarin fuck off then and dont complain. Half the people that play cRpg SPEND THERE DAY BITCHING ABOUT THE GAME WHILE THEY PLAY IT FOR 20 OUTA 24 HOURS A DAY. GOMER RAGE RAWR
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gomer on December 02, 2011, 07:28:27 am
You sound mad brah? jelly?

No Super HIGH... RAWR
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Vibe on December 02, 2011, 07:29:48 am
Problems is the amount of ranged AND ladders in battle. Gonna grind to 31 then it's bye bye EU1 for me.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gomer on December 02, 2011, 07:34:05 am
Problems is the amount of ranged AND ladders in battle. Gonna grind to 31 then it's bye bye EU1 for me.
Dude it's throwing stop your crying Ranged is fine your just dumb for walking into my arrow. What do you want? Us to do the amount of dmg a rock does? Cry some more?
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: rufio on December 02, 2011, 07:35:27 am
im sorry dom, but what im saying about terrain is right, on flat maps i dont have such a prob with range, its on hilly maps with cliffsides and such that i get very very annoyed, and well most maps have lots of that shit going on
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gomer on December 02, 2011, 07:42:45 am
im sorry dom, but what im saying about terrain is right, on flat maps i dont have such a prob with range, its on hilly maps with cliffsides and such that i get very very annoyed, and well most maps have lots of that shit going on

Every type of role has thier specilty maps. Large+ Flat=Cav Small+Flat=Melee Hilly=Archers Everything+Throwers City=Melee get my gist?
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gomer on December 02, 2011, 07:45:55 am
Btw play Na1 it's way better were AMERICAN we have a clan called USA AMERICA (lljk) so yes it's way better :P. IDK if it's true but I see more admins on and better games there as well :P
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 02, 2011, 08:51:24 am
Btw play Na1 it's way better were AMERICAN we have a clan called USA AMERICA (lljk) so yes it's way better :P. IDK if it's true but I see more admins on and better games there as well :P
You guys are "special" . You play with "special" weapons with "special" builds on "special" servers.
We like and embrace you guys.
On EU side , the game is different we don't consider "blocking" as a bug in game , we use it as a feature and most of the players like that therefore we seek melee battle instead of ranged shit and spammization.
Keep playing with your "special" mates we like you guys really but DO NOT EVER COMMENT on a EU problem please .
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: rufio on December 02, 2011, 09:13:46 am
i was thinking, and talked to some clan archers,  about some solutions : 1 is totally removing pierce damage from archery,  they said they wouldnt mind that much, 2 was make bodkins only usable on last 2 bows, and decreace drawspeed slightly, but make bodkins cheaper to use,3 make ironflesh 3 points instead of 2 points, 4. increase armor soak on pierce.  ah well just thoughts in the bigger picture, no major nerfing just finishing ballance touches.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Paul on December 02, 2011, 09:25:08 am
I was always wondering why there was so much whine about archery and so few about crossbows. The answer probalby is that we prohibited archers from entering melee while crossbower mostly retained this ability. So what's left to archers is turn and run or roofhugging. There are probably a lot more "fuck melee" archer builds because of that than crossbow builds without melee ability.

Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Vibe on December 02, 2011, 09:27:18 am
I was always wondering why there was so much whine about archery and so few about crossbows. The answer probalby is that we prohibited archers from entering melee while crossbower mostly retained this ability. So what's left to archers is turn and run or roofhugging. There are probably a lot more "fuck melee" archer builds because of that than crossbow builds without melee ability.

I'd be all for giving archers more melee power and less ranged power.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 02, 2011, 09:30:36 am
i was thinking, and talked to some clan archers,  about some solutions : 1 is totally removing pierce damage from archery,  they said they wouldnt mind that much, 2 was make bodkins only usable on last 2 bows, and decreace drawspeed slightly, but make bodkins cheaper to use,3 make ironflesh 3 points instead of 2 points, 4. increase armor soak on pierce.  ah well just thoughts in the bigger picture, no major nerfing just finishing ballance touches.
I disagree .
Those may solve the extra effectivness of archer invasion on a server but it'll fuck archery big time individually.
I think archery damage is fine now.I am glad i die with 4 arrows to my chest because i aint wanna be god .Draw speed is slow enough i think.
I actually was about to post more but while i critisize your post i was also thinking what can be the alternative at the same time and i came up with an idea !

ADDITION OF FATIGUE !
Why not ? We have WSE , genius devs then why not ?

This will solve lots of problems including =
-7/24 spam
-Archers shooting like a turret
-7/24 Galloping horses at full speed
-Very long lasting duels
-Holding attack forever

-This may bring more teamwork
-This may give AGI builds the love they deserve with a "Stamina" skill maybe ?
-This may slow  gameplay down
-This thing should be done so properly cuz idk what will happen if both fighters run out of stamina ? Will they sit and have a beer together ?

Stamina consuming on melee should depend on weapons weight imo cuz : More weight on a weapon to swing needs more effort.
Stamina consume on ranged should depend on missile speed imo cuz : If a weapon throws a shit at faster speed , drawing it should be harder.

DISCUSS !?!


Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gnjus on December 02, 2011, 10:15:17 am
...and again it ends up as an archery discussion......as much as i hate to repeat myself but:
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That said - there's not much need for anymore hype about this matter, since:
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Stop crying about it and either play & suffer in silence or just don't play at all.  :wink:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Vexus on December 02, 2011, 10:34:00 am
If siege server didn't have auto balance every turn and floor making you move as slow as a turtle I would play that 100% of the times.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Smoothrich on December 02, 2011, 10:43:00 am
what makes you think archers can't be viable melee, the only drawback is the low armor, especially head armor.  you can do 21/15 with horn bow and the OP 1 slot mace or any 1hand sword with 7 PS and 5 IF and still have max WM and PD.  if anything they need more carrying weight on bows and arrows to slow down kiting.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Lech on December 02, 2011, 10:52:21 am
I was always wondering why there was so much whine about archery and so few about crossbows. The answer probalby is that we prohibited archers from entering melee while crossbower mostly retained this ability. So what's left to archers is turn and run or roofhugging. There are probably a lot more "fuck melee" archer builds because of that than crossbow builds without melee ability.
Archers shoot more projectiles. And crossbow don't run away as much as archers. But damage-wise xbow deal way too much damage, it 1 hit me with solid 54h 53b 44l.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 02, 2011, 10:54:29 am
I'd be all for giving archers more melee power and less ranged power.

This. And remove ladders.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Lech on December 02, 2011, 10:58:06 am
Just nerf the ranged-only builds by increasing weight on bow and quivers, they'll change their build to cope in melee or will die to melee. WIN-WIN situation.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Xant on December 02, 2011, 11:14:52 am
I was always wondering why there was so much whine about archery and so few about crossbows. The answer probalby is that we prohibited archers from entering melee while crossbower mostly retained this ability. So what's left to archers is turn and run or roofhugging. There are probably a lot more "fuck melee" archer builds because of that than crossbow builds without melee ability.

Agreed, kinda. But there's also the fact that crossbows shoot a lot slower. You can plausibly dodge the bolt and then close in on the crossbow(ers), it's not a constant rain of death. But yeah, since they have the ability to melee, a good amount of crossbowmen choose to stay and fight when they miss (or hit but don't kill) instead of running away for 5 minutes.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 02, 2011, 11:19:44 am
Make shields better against ranged / improve weaker shields so more players will start using them. After that ranged isn't problem. This game is infested with craploads of 2h players that think they can beat everyone by just running around madly.

I have been playing archer/xbow mostly and I know that some of those tincans can take 5+ hits from my +3 horn bow and loomed arrows and still they keep running at me. Medium armoured guys can still take like 4 before they fall. And I'm using bodkin arrows.

So people... start wearing armour or take that shield, it makes your life easier.

And to reduce some whine: I'm currently playing 2h with light armour and I feel your pain, but it's matter of choise, I can carry shield as well to make it much easier.

Ladders are ok... every 2h infrantry out there can carry their own if they wish so. If something, make them last bit longer so archers can't destroy them so quickly.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tor! on December 02, 2011, 11:26:19 am
I know that some of those tincans can take 5+ hits from my +3 horn bow and loomed arrows

Nice edit from 4-5. I guess it sounded better for your dear archer than 4, huh? I die at average from 3 arrows from a +3 horn bow with +3 arrows, and 2 arrows from rus / longbows. Thats with 62 body armor. 62 armor is quite alot, and it still doesnt protect me for shit.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 02, 2011, 11:31:24 am
Yes it's 5 for pure tincans when most of those with kuyaks can take 4 before falling down if even then. My archer have been with 5 PD, maybe there is some problem that should be tweaked (if most others are playing with heavy str ones and still firing accurately).
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Lanic0r on December 02, 2011, 11:32:03 am
This. And remove ladders.
i agree with removing ladders, but this is already being discussed in another thread.
I noticed that many archers have 1h, so they are acting melee like.
What we need is inertia.
Currently the speed is calculated by weight. But evrybody can imagine than even a light shield, bow longsword....cant be moved fast with increasing distance of the center of rotation.
This would affect to all long weapons even longbows.
Weapons like longbows cant be sheathed ?=> you will run much slower with longbow in hand.
This would influence shields to imo. Runing with a big shield is logicaly impossible with the exception you sheath it.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Paul on December 02, 2011, 11:32:52 am
Nice edit from 4-5. I guess it sounded better for your dear archer than 4, huh? I die at average from 3 arrows from a +3 horn bow with +3 arrows, and 2 arrows from rus / longbows. Thats with 62 body armor. 62 armor is quite alot, and it still doesnt protect me for shit.

4 arrows sound more likely to me, given the math. Unless you always face 8 or 9 PD archers.

How many arrows would be a fair amount to take against a double triple loom end level archer?
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tzar on December 02, 2011, 11:33:53 am
When they gave back pierce dmg to bows i knew it was just a matter of time before everyone who cant be arsed to try and learn manuel block or play melee would be archer´s.... i used to play cRPG atlesat 20 hours a week now i play 3 or maybe 4 hours a week an really only log on to fix my strat toon or lvl a bit or trade on the market an thats it...


Risk vs Reward its like playing on a battlefield server without class restriction evry1 plays sniper because of the low risk vs high reward

Shit gets boring when you spend half the time trying to catch fairy´s when playing battle......
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Vibe on December 02, 2011, 11:41:55 am
4 arrows sound more likely to me, given the math. Unless you always face 8 or 9 PD archers.

How many arrows would be a fair amount to take against a double triple loom end level archer?

Are you counting the speed bonus too? A lot of time melee is running towards the archers, not away.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: karasu on December 02, 2011, 11:50:41 am
I was always wondering why there was so much whine about archery and so few about crossbows. The answer probalby is that we prohibited archers from entering melee while crossbower mostly retained this ability. So what's left to archers is turn and run or roofhugging. There are probably a lot more "fuck melee" archer builds because of that than crossbow builds without melee ability.

The day you implemented slots, was the day my hybrid wept, but even after that I still play Hybrid and I get pissed of by running bundle of stickss who even laugh at everyone else by ignoring the usage of 0 slot weapons. And those are the cancer killing the mod.

But then again,

FACTS:

> Crossbowers 1 shot people (average), can use decent armor, can use decent weapons, and have 6+ EXTRA skill points to waste either in PS, ATH, IF, and by level 12 they can 1 shoot people since the arbalest requirement is only 15 str, there is NO crossbow skill dependency.

> Archers 4 shoot people (average), have to use the shitiest armor to avoid absurd wpf reduction, can't use decent weapons (shitty 0 slot weapons that standing against a wall won't hit the wall, so awesome the length is) or in order to use, they have 1 quiver, and have to waste at least 6 (!!) skill points in the PD archer damage skill to actually hurt anything (with loomed gear, cause unloomed 6 is just masochism).


Glorious Conclusion:

Of course fucking archers are gonna hide and run like bundle of stickss with all these odds compared, the hell man, this is a simple 1+1 math problem, any handicapped person can realize why. The removal of the retarded jump shoot without any sort of "give and take" action only led to more roof-camping, and high athletic pricks running every-time and shooting you down like dogs to the point of making you alt+f4 and forum rage-post.

Also there is the fact that players tend to rush into archers, but when they see a crossbower, they run the opposite direction, let me remind you the existence of a little thing called SPEED BONUS, which is present in the Basics of the Basics about this game.

Then the more elitist and gifted of an higher IQ value come all poker-faced and stuff sayin' "But archers have high rate of fire, q__Q_Q_Q_q-_QQ_Q (ad infinitum)".
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Guess what, get a fucking shield, it's not hard to waste 1 or 2 points in shield skill, arrows don't penetrate shields, bolts do.

Or simply adjust your play style.
There were no fucking Boromirs in medieval battles, no one is dumb enough to go rushing into heavy projectile fire, and believe me, the projectile presence was extremely heavy.

Ever wondered why chase, cooties etc did well on battle servers under these conditions? Cause they know were to be, when to be, and to use a friggin' shield when necessary.

Seriously guys, deal with it, or this ain't your game, get some Jedi Academy or KOTOR wtv and play impossible sword fights.




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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: dodnet on December 02, 2011, 11:51:43 am
imo the problem is not too much ranged, but that one team often has a much higher proportion of ranged than the other. This leads to unfair battles for the team lacking in ranged support.

The balance should be better. There are often teams where all cav or all archers are on one side. It would could be more fun if the classes are distributed evenly between the teams.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Prpavi on December 02, 2011, 11:54:50 am
The combination of rediculous ammount of ranged plus the ladders makes the battles sometimes unbearable.
Remove ladders from battles and i believe the ranged whine will be cut in half.

About the cav, not much problems there they will allways be OP but atleast the arent unreachable but what makes the seem especially OP atm is removal of long spear overhead, hence less players using it plus it takes up 3 slots so either make a decision:

make long spear 2 slots without overhead
or 3 slots with overhead

otherwise the cav will rape on.

my 2 cents
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 02, 2011, 11:55:09 am
Xbow 1-shot? No... sorry but no. That's what I have been playing mostly and even some archers can take 2 bolts from my +3 arbalest +3 steel bolts. If it's raining, you might need 3!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: karasu on December 02, 2011, 11:56:14 am
Xbow 1-shot? No... sorry but no. That's what I have been playing mostly and even some archers can take 2 bolts from my +3 arbalest +3 steel bolts. If it's raining, you might need 3!

Then you are doing it wrong my friend.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 02, 2011, 12:00:14 pm
You tell me what to do then. No PD or such affecting damage. Normal melee rarely die from 1 bolt unless already damaged. Semi-long range shots almost never 1 shot-kill. Sure if they run quickly at me and I fire at point-blank range. Then they often die with 1. But most of combat doesn't happen like that.

Or maybe it's you doing something wrong if you die from 1 bolt...
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: karasu on December 02, 2011, 12:03:48 pm
You actually have to use the game mechanics in your favor, if for you it's just point and click, then you can't expect miracles.

But then again, it might be your cup of tea, to stay on the edge of the map and shoot away.

It's up to you.

Edit: Also take into consideration that you're a support class, and more importantly, a finisher, cause everything you hit that have already lost a tiny bit of HP, is going down. Think about it.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Prpavi on December 02, 2011, 12:10:41 pm
You tell me what to do then. No PD or such affecting damage. Normal melee rarely die from 1 bolt unless already damaged. Semi-long range shots almost never 1 shot-kill. Sure if they run quickly at me and I fire at point-blank range. Then they often die with 1. But most of combat doesn't happen like that.

want a cool story bro?

ure a support class and so are archers, you are not supposed to top the charts, one shot ppl.

I am currently wearing heavy ass loomed plate just so you wouldnt one shot me, i play a lets say "slayer" class where i help my team killing allot of ppl (i consider maps under 20+ kills unnsucesfull rounds for me) cuz in the year ive played this i realised that is what im best at, im not super tactical, im not really patient, im not a really good rider so i rush in like a mad man creating oppenings, hoping my teammates will follow and benefit from my death if that occures.

 i have 77 body armour and a bolt can sometimes take 70-80 percent of my HP, so you think that doesnt affect me? every fucking peasant cant one hit me after ur shot, so yes u have an immense impact of the battlefield, you are playing your role. if you wanna be a tank play 2h/plate dont pewpew from the roof.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tor! on December 02, 2011, 12:13:29 pm
4 arrows sound more likely to me, given the math. Unless you always face 8 or 9 PD archers.

Here, just for you.

This is against Nord_Hans, lvl 27, 7pd 151archery wpf, +3 rus bow and +3 tatar arrows
On my character I got 18 strength, 2 ironflesh, 62 body armor:

Running towards;
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Standing still;
(click to show/hide)

And one of the shots when we tested did almost no dmg at all:
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Now I wonder how that would be against bodkins!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 02, 2011, 12:15:16 pm
want a cool story bro?

ure a support class and so are archers, you are not supposed to top the charts, one shot ppl.

I am currently wearing heavy ass loomed plate just so you wouldnt one shot me, i play a lets say "slayer" class where i help my team killing allot of ppl (i consider maps under 20+ kills unnsucesfull rounds for me) cuz in the year ive played this i realised that is what im best at, im not super tactical, im not really patient, im not a really good rider so i rush in like a mad man creating oppenings, hoping my teammates will follow and benefit from my death if that occures.

 i have 77 body armour and a bolt can sometimes take 70-80 percent of my HP, so you think that doesnt affect me? every fucking peasant cant one hit me after ur shot, so yes u have an immense impact of the battlefield, you are playing oyu role. if you wanna ge a tank play 2h/plate dont pewpew from the roof.

I'm not saying I want to one shot anyone. It was that other guy talking crap about such things happening. Sure from point-blank to light armour targets.

And as I told already, I'm not shooting anyone as 2h.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: karasu on December 02, 2011, 12:16:51 pm
I'm not saying I want to one shot anyone. It was that other guy talking crap about such things happening. Sure from point-blank to light armour targets.

And as I told already, I'm not shooting anyone as 2h.

Why do I even try to show some things to people who make dumb hears. Sigh.


Proceed with the rage thread, it's most amusing.  :oops:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Fluffy_Muffin on December 02, 2011, 12:19:45 pm
The problem isnt ranged, the problem is ladders and roofs....
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 02, 2011, 12:25:59 pm
You tell me what to do then. No PD or such affecting damage. Normal melee rarely die from 1 bolt unless already damaged. Semi-long range shots almost never 1 shot-kill. Sure if they run quickly at me and I fire at point-blank range. Then they often die with 1. But most of combat doesn't happen like that.

Or maybe it's you doing something wrong if you die from 1 bolt...

NO, I am 100% with Karasu, although I would like to see some give and take, and players recognise the real ranged problem: Crossbows. Arbalest IS a 1shot kill, if you are not 1hitting with an arbalest, you ARE doing it wrong.

Warbow and Longbow cannot be used on horseback, make horsebows (Nomad, Strongbow etc) ONLY usable on horseback. 24 agi 5 PD kiters with mace are as bad as the new class I see alot (On teamspeak we call them Daves: Heavy armour, 2hmace, good melee stats yet they always run round corner to reload their 1shot arbalest, we blame Dave for this, hence they are called Daves). These guys make no sacrifices in melee, yet can 1shot crossmap aswell: Make 2h mace 2slot, or put a controlling stat on crossbows. I have used the 2h mace as a main weapon before, its an awesome weapon, yet being able to take it WITH an arbalest....

So, in short, lots of archers can be a pain, but smart use of shields negates them: Arbalest spammers that shoot thru shields and still 1hit...who can wield a very powerful melee weapon, and wear heavy armour, combined with the new reload speeds of Xbows, and pinpoint accuracy crossmap, the extreme speed of the misile meaning its easy to aim, and hard to dodge.

I understand that the balance team includes a crossbow lover, but this is now ridiculous.

BTW: I am neither archer nor crossbowman, nor a 2handed greatsword/polespammer HERO who wants the game balanced for them (as it has been for a while tbh), Im just a poor shmuck with a 1h sword and some javelins to stop the HA goons.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tindel on December 02, 2011, 12:28:03 pm
Im lacking an option to vote for,  it should be something like:

Eu1 has never been fun, too long respawn and instakill cav = boring

I only play siege
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Leshma on December 02, 2011, 12:34:14 pm
The day you implemented slots, was the day my hybrid wept

Dude, my pure 174 WPP twohander is even more pointless than your hybrid. See, I have 20 WPP more than average player, yet I don't have ranged abilities like most do. Playing this mod is lame because there is so many people who will shoot/throw stuff at you until they get you more manageable 20% HP and less and then fight you with their maces of doom.

But that's not the reason why battle isn't fun anymore. Battle isn't fun because it's boring. It's boring because it's the same shit for a long time and doesn't change over time at all...

Siege as alternative is broken and pointless.

Defend the lesbian maiden is silly PvE mod.

Stronghold isn't finished but when it gets finished it will be boring for most people as well.

We need new, fun game modes!

Somehow, I have a feeling that until Strategus dies there won't be fun in c-rpg. Strategus significantly slowed down c-rpg development and that's a mod only 50 people actively play and can't live without it.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 02, 2011, 12:35:26 pm

BTW: I am neither archer nor crossbowman, nor a 2handed greatsword/polespammer HERO who wants the game balanced for them (as it has been for a while tbh), Im just a poor shmuck with a 1h sword and some javelins to stop the HA goons.

Maybe reason why you die from 1 bolt when some archers can take 2 with next to no armor. And please tell what me and my two friends are doing wrong if many (not all!) can take 2 bolts. You are talking like it would be always like that with ease.

Me? I rarely die from 1 bolt. Almost never actually unless it's headshot or I was already damaged.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Odion on December 02, 2011, 12:40:37 pm
just remove ladders from battle!


there is no problem with range in siege because:

1: they are not the primary objective (the flag is)
2:they are REACHABLE

but when you play battle with archers that camp UNREACHABLE spots you make half the player base useless.

even if you nerf bow damage to 1, archers will still be a problem because of unreachable roofs
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 02, 2011, 12:42:54 pm
Just make ladders more durable. Every 2 hander can carry their own ladders if they wish and kill those archers. Most of time they just don't. It's easier to cry here at forums and demand nerfs to everyone else when you just _want_ to play easy rambo-mode.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Herkkutatti on December 02, 2011, 12:45:41 pm
put limits to each team 15 ranged and 10 cav max!!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tot. on December 02, 2011, 12:47:31 pm
I dont play battle - unless I totally have to - since it's a bullshit mode which belongs to e-sport wannabie games like CS and isnt a medieval battle simulation one bit, but if I were to play it the biggest issue would be that for an infantryman most of the time battle mode is either taking cover from ranged fire or chasing them. Not fun at all.

Hard-limiting amout of ranged to like 5-10% would make things better certainly.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Leshma on December 02, 2011, 12:48:36 pm
You know when I get sick in my stomach?

When after a new patch where archers have been nerfed, some lowlife dedicated archer comes and says how game isn't fair, how xbowmen are stronger than them. Like there is just two fucking classes in the whole game and both are ranged.

Koldborn is right, this isn't the game for people who came here to learn and enjoy advanced melee combat (compared to other games yet still silly and simple). On every newbie like Grumbs comes 9 newbies who wan't to play sniper or Legolas and 50% of them are some history, medieval loving douchebags who like to pull that famous "Agincourt" argument when it comes to balance discussions.

Sadly for us, we need a  completely historically inaccurate game to enjoy advanced melee combat, a game where history students won't come to fulfil fantasies, in which they take role of their ancestors who fought in that battle and did that and blah blah blah.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 02, 2011, 12:49:38 pm
Fyi problem is not about ranged damage.
It is about ranged amount.

I don't understand people saying "Get a shield nab" .
Yes Einsteins you can block an incoming arrow from like 120 degrees .
Getting a shield is not a solution . It helps for 30seconds or 1 minute . It protects you from insta-headshot at the beginning but when you decide to "play" as a 2h or non-spartan polearm character , you should unsheate your shield and pick your poleaxe or 2handed sword when you do that you just die without even swing your weapon cuz our "support" archers shoot anything . They shoot to melee they sometimes shoot their teammates but they take the risk to TK just to kill enemy infantry.This is unrealistic bullshit.
Even if you are a dedicated shielder once you are fighting with enemy infantry you move cuz you know there are really less people who can't block on EU_1 so you should use footwork and turn enemies to create opportunities to your teammates or to kill them . When you do that an asshat from an unreachable roof shoots you from behind.
I am not against ranged on servers but this is not realistic and getting boring these days.

Im sure most of the people got bored of chasing 5 archers at the end of the round they just spread out , run like bundle of stickss and surround you then pew pew to death...

Some turds posted some historical so called "facts" to support archery but you guys forget 1 thing .
Archers were firing to soften enemy ranks before infantry charge. When melee battle occurs they just shoot other incoming enemy regiment or fleeing enemies they weren't skilled enough to headshot an enemy infantry while he was fighting 3 men...

Value of life is low in cRPG compared to rl ofc cuz its a game that's why archers can take the risk to TK and master their "sniping skills"
It's ok when 10-20-30 archers doing that but when it becomes %50 of the server it kills the game.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tot. on December 02, 2011, 12:59:45 pm
Oh BTW. someone mentioned historical accuracy and the effectiveness of ranged - if we were to delve into this then first obvious question is why plate armor doesn't completely negate archery aside from really lucky arrows. They wouldn't be bothering with crossbows if it didnt, you know.  :wink:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tor! on December 02, 2011, 01:00:11 pm
Fyi problem is not about ranged damage.
It is about ranged amount.

It's both man, dmg is crazy as well.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 02, 2011, 01:13:35 pm
It's both man, dmg is crazy as well.
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So to long story short:
For realism archery damage is ok but melee damage is way too low.
For game balance you are right if i survive 3-5 giant weapon swings to my chest i could've survive more than 10 arrows to my chest.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Paul on December 02, 2011, 01:18:19 pm
I like how I managed to redirect some of the archer hate towards xbows.

Two ideas I had to make turn and run less attractive for ranged would be

1)
Allowing ammo (arrows&bolts) only in the 3rd and 4th item slot. With that taking 3 ammo stacks is impossible and people would always have a spare slot for a melee weapon. It would fit the historical context too because I doubt that there were any ranged troops without a fallback melee weapon. Disadvantage some fellow dev brought up is that this reduces equipment layout choices. Obvious advantage is that it reduces the overall ammo count and the need for an archer to turn and run if he has no melee weapon.

2)
I'll ask cmp for the Native sprint mode code. Maybe we can make it so that someone with a bow or crossbow in the inventory has a slower sprint mode than a melee guy. With that even a lighter armored ranger can't simply run away, turn, shoot and run again. The melee guy would catch him quickly.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Xant on December 02, 2011, 01:24:17 pm
Number two sounds very good. Essentially, it'd achieve 1) too, because any smart archer would bring a melee backup.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 02, 2011, 01:26:28 pm
Guess what, get a fucking shield, it's not hard to waste 1 or 2 points in shield skill, arrows don't penetrate shields, bolts do.

Yes they do. Except when the shielder is exactly ( 10° error maximum ) facing the archer, or when he got 8+ shield skill.

And anyway, as soon as there are two archers on the opposite side, the shielder is pretty much dead.


The class that is designed to counter archers is in fact better at killing melee. Just like with every build you can think of, the easiest prey is melee. Melee attack melee because they are closer and willing to engage. Ranged attack melee because they can't defend. Cav attack melee because they are occupied/helpless (killing 1h is the easiest thing to do for a lance cav). Now if we consider the other classes, it appears that ranged are the hardest preys. As melee, they will run in various directions and shoot you in the back. They are able to run away and attack you at the same time. Cav however, can't do that. They are forced to come in melee range to hit, therefore even if they flee they can't attack back, which means that in reality they never flee. Furthermore the majority of footmen have weapons long enough to have better chances than 50% against a lancer. Only 1h require a good loljump to kill the cav, but it's doable. Not to mention that you can still chamber the lance. So in the end, inf will never catch a fleeing cav, but anyway a fleeing cav is like a dead cav as he can't do anything. However, ranged are both able to kill the fleeing cav, and to attack and retreat simultaneously.

In the end, Ranged can hunt everything and protect against everything (either camp a roof and be immune to cav, or run and be immune to inf, in the end it requires both a cav and an inf to kill a runner). Cav can only hunt 1h but that's not very effective. Most of the cavs are just ninja's, killing the unaware. They are only protected against melee. Inf can only hunt other inf and are protected against nothing.

When a melee kills a ranged, the only way it happened is because the ranged made an error :  not being aware, or waiting too long before fleeing. When a melee kills a cav, the cav shouldn't have attacked because the melee had a long enough weapon / wasn't really unaware.

Melee have the worst initiative. This should be balanced with damage / survivability etc. Most of their kills are purely defensive : someone else thought they'd kill you, and in the end you killed him. It's even worse for shielders that have to move with additionnal weight.

I'd really like to see some incentive for making more anti-archer and anti-crossbow chars. Shielders fail at this, because even though they are a little bit protected against ranged, they are totally helpless when it comes to actually kill them. Shieldless throwers are better anti-archers than 1h/shield. I say we need a buff to anti-archer throwing weapons (mid-low cut damage, low upkeep and good missile speed), a decrease in shield weight and an increase (more like a balance between round and non-round shields) in shield coverage (together with a slight nerf to the shield skill on shield coverage).


What is amusing is that people usually complain about poor class autobalance "all the archer and cav in one team, all the inf in the other" then say "classes are pretty much balanced". If classes really were balanced, disbalanced class teams wouldn't be a problem. Furthermore, solving this problem for cRPG with a tweak to the autobalance won't solve the issue for strat.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 02, 2011, 01:26:34 pm
Actually... I think option 1 is quite nice. 1-2 stacks of arrows / bolts should be enough and battles would actually be more interesting when after archer-fest there would be melee-smash!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 02, 2011, 01:30:02 pm
I like how I managed to redirect some of the archer hate towards xbows.

Two ideas I had to make turn and run less attractive for ranged would be

1)
Allowing ammo (arrows&bolts) only in the 3rd and 4th item slot. With that taking 3 ammo stacks is impossible and people would always have a spare slot for a melee weapon. It would fit the historical context too because I doubt that there were any ranged troops without a fallback melee weapon. Disadvantage some fellow dev brought up is that this reduces equipment layout choices. Obvious advantage is that it reduces the overall ammo count and the need for an archer to turn and run if he has no melee weapon.

2)
I'll ask cmp for the Native sprint mode code. Maybe we can make it so that someone with a bow or crossbow in the inventory has a slower sprint mode than a melee guy. With that even a lighter armored ranger can't simply run away, turn, shoot and run again. The melee guy would catch him quickly.
Actually i have an idea to lower projectile spam:

3)
Why not making quivers 2 slots but increasing +arrow bonus per heirlooms ?
Let's say 25 bodkins total when it is masterwork ?

This will not affect dedicated archers so much but this will lower the number of "Hey i fail at blocking and with 30+ arrows i can get an easy and lucky kill why shouldn't i just make an alt/stf or main to just shoot arrows to my teammates/enemy i don't care i'll just rain down arrows for the lulz" guys ?

I don't want to play without bagge,jambi,zerobot1(New pain in the ass:P),nebun,hetman,radh,KMC,Pandor,Sojetsu,Tenne,OktarBabuna etc...
I like having those skilled archers on my or enemy team they colorize the battlefield but unskilled lucky assholes who just raindown arrow is fucking it up and they'll suffer with 15 arrows till they play and learn archery very well by retiring multiple times and get a good amount of ammo !

DISCUSS !!!!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 02, 2011, 01:31:36 pm
Dedicated archers will always pick more arrows from ground when they run out, just make it work ok (not like nowdays when you pick one, you lose all. Buggy as hell). Like this... they need to come down from roof at some point.

Win-Win.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Moncho on December 02, 2011, 01:35:04 pm
I like how I managed to redirect some of the archer hate towards xbows.

Two ideas I had to make turn and run less attractive for ranged would be

1)
Allowing ammo (arrows&bolts) only in the 3rd and 4th item slot. With that taking 3 ammo stacks is impossible and people would always have a spare slot for a melee weapon. It would fit the historical context too because I doubt that there were any ranged troops without a fallback melee weapon. Disadvantage some fellow dev brought up is that this reduces equipment layout choices. Obvious advantage is that it reduces the overall ammo count and the need for an archer to turn and run if he has no melee weapon.

2)
I'll ask cmp for the Native sprint mode code. Maybe we can make it so that someone with a bow or crossbow in the inventory has a slower sprint mode than a melee guy. With that even a lighter armored ranger can't simply run away, turn, shoot and run again. The melee guy would catch him quickly.

This might work for the hornbowmen, but for the archers with 2 slot bows (to which i belong), number 1 will not make a difference at all (the bow takes slots 1 and 2!). Also, why cant I just have my longbow and a long dagger? Thats my build, I like to have high agi and rush in and out of range while facestabbing people (if i cannot run).
About 2), why would a guy with a huge axe (or pole, or shield and 1h, etc) run faster than a guy with a piece of wood with a string to it?
Annoyed at archers running? Get some stones/throwing knives!
Annoyed at getting hit by arrows? Use a shield, it is not perfect, but it will protect you (at least it will force the archer to have to avoid it thus making him lose time).
About 3) by koyama, then there would be a huge unbalance between weapon looms and arrow looms, which would make it so much better to loom arrows, also wrt repair costs, it would need rebalancing, but i think it has potential
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Vibe on December 02, 2011, 01:36:27 pm
Dedicated archers will always pick more arrows from ground when they run out, just make it work ok (not like nowdays when you pick one, you lose all. Buggy as hell). Like this... they need to come down from roof at some point.

Win-Win.

It's incredible how biased you are. Archers have way enough arrows to stay on roof for most of the round. Unless you actually want archers to have 15-20 arrows.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 02, 2011, 01:40:13 pm
I need your opinions about "2 slot quivers" suggestion.
Please share your ideas.
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,21623.msg311030.html#new
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 02, 2011, 01:42:54 pm
2)
I'll ask cmp for the Native sprint mode code. Maybe we can make it so that someone with a bow or crossbow in the inventory has a slower sprint mode than a melee guy. With that even a lighter armored ranger can't simply run away, turn, shoot and run again. The melee guy would catch him quickly.


This sounds worth a try ;)
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 02, 2011, 01:45:53 pm
This might work for the hornbowmen, but for the archers with 2 slot bows (to which i belong), number 1 will not make a difference at all (the bow takes slots 1 and 2!). Also, why cant I just have my longbow and a long dagger? Thats my build, I like to have high agi and rush in and out of range while facestabbing people (if i cannot run).
About 2), why would a guy with a huge axe (or pole, or shield and 1h, etc) run faster than a guy with a piece of wood with a string to it?
Annoyed at archers running? Get some stones/throwing knives!
Annoyed at getting hit by arrows? Use a shield, it is not perfect, but it will protect you (at least it will force the archer to have to avoid it thus making him lose time).
About 3) by koyama, then there would be a huge unbalance between weapon looms and arrow looms, which would make it so much better to loom arrows, also wrt repair costs, it would need rebalancing, but i think it has potential
I agree but archery and xbows are the only "classes" that has increasing damage potential by looming 2 items.
I mean if you use a 2h you can increase your damage by triple looming your weapon but for archery you get bonus damage by triple looming your weapon plus bonus damage by triple looming your arrows . This suggestion will only change the priority of looming order of dedicated archers.They'll just loom their arrows then bows nothing much maybe some tweaks to those stats needed to make it balanced.
Eventually that will help to decrease archer spam on servers without harming dedicated archers imo.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 02, 2011, 01:48:11 pm
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Why is everyone SO upset over run and shoot archers. ITS SO EASY to disarm this tactic, just the same way you disarm backpeddlers: DONT FUCKING CHASE THEM! Just stand behind a tree/wall/teammate/horse/shield/rock/hill/castle/hut/mill/anything. If you dont chase them, they wont run. This will make ppl say "But how to kill then! Your stupid!" but in reality, it's the main tactic that WAS used by infantry to combat archers: Just hide. When they get bored of standing in an empty field they will come to look, and when they too close to escape, you jump out and bang. Dead archer. Chasing them is so stupid it makes my brain hurt that ppl like Paul are thinking of making chasing them more effective: CHASING ARCHERS is supposed to get you killed.

Ultimately, if you REALLY dont want to get shot, you can just make your hitboxes vanish in Warband anyway, by spamming your mouse while you feint spam: Unhitable by any ranged weapon: Its a glitch abuse but since it has never been adressed, I guess it qualifies as a feature. This works equally well in native and crpg. Anyone who says this isnt so has very limited experience of high end native players. They dont get shot, even with native lazergunbows.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Vibe on December 02, 2011, 01:52:16 pm
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Why is everyone SO upset over run and shoot archers. ITS SO EASY to disarm this tactic, just the same way you disarm backpeddlers: DONT FUCKING CHASE THEM! Just stand behind a tree/wall/teammate/horse/shield/rock/hill/castle/hut/mill/anything. If you dont chase them, they wont run. This will make ppl say "But how to kill then! Your stupid!" but in reality, it's the main tactic that WAS used by infantry to combat archers: Just hide. When they get bored of standing in an empty field they will come to look, and when they too close to escape, you jump out and bang. Dead archer. Chasing them is so stupid it makes my brain hurt that ppl like Paul are thinking of making chasing them more effective: CHASING ARCHERS is supposed to get you killed.

Ultimately, if you REALLY dont want to get shot, you can just make your hitboxes vanish in Warband anyway, by spamming your mouse while you feint spam: Unhitable by any ranged weapon: Its a glitch abuse but since it has never been adressed, I guess it qualifies as a feature. This works equally well in native and crpg. Anyone who says this isnt so has very limited experience of high end native players. They dont get shot, even with native lazergunbows.

Your post tells melee to kill archers by... not chasing them?

well lol
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 02, 2011, 01:52:31 pm
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Why is everyone SO upset over run and shoot archers. ITS SO EASY to disarm this tactic, just the same way you disarm backpeddlers: DONT FUCKING CHASE THEM! Just stand behind a tree/wall/teammate/horse/shield/rock/hill/castle/hut/mill/anything. If you dont chase them, they wont run. This will make ppl say "But how to kill then! Your stupid!" but in reality, it's the main tactic that WAS used by infantry to combat archers: Just hide. When they get bored of standing in an empty field they will come to look, and when they too close to escape, you jump out and bang. Dead archer. Chasing them is so stupid it makes my brain hurt that ppl like Paul are thinking of making chasing them more effective: CHASING ARCHERS is supposed to get you killed.

Ultimately, if you REALLY dont want to get shot, you can just make your hitboxes vanish in Warband anyway, by spamming your mouse while you feint spam: Unhitable by any ranged weapon: Its a glitch abuse but since it has never been adressed, I guess it qualifies as a feature. This works equally well in native and crpg. Anyone who says this isnt so has very limited experience of high end native players. They dont get shot, even with native lazergunbows.
You never play on EU_1 i guess =)
Infantry can't leave the tree and attack cuz if he does that he'll die.
Archer can't go closer to tree and try to shoot from closer place cuz he'll die.

So both of them wait till flags then boooom HEADSHOT.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 02, 2011, 01:53:44 pm
This will make ppl say "But how to kill then! Your stupid!" but in reality, it's the main tactic that WAS used by infantry to combat archers: Just hide. When they get bored of standing in an empty field they will come to look, and when they too close to escape, you jump out and bang.

You are clueless aren't you ?

While the inf is hiding, he's as good as dead. Hell, in the extremely unlikely case there is more than one archer, he is dead.

Not to mention that sometimes there isn't anything to hide behind, and that one archer can pin down as many inf as he likes if they think like that.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: karasu on December 02, 2011, 01:58:09 pm
I like how I managed to redirect some of the archer hate towards xbows.

Two ideas I had to make turn and run less attractive for ranged would be

1)
Allowing ammo (arrows&bolts) only in the 3rd and 4th item slot. With that taking 3 ammo stacks is impossible and people would always have a spare slot for a melee weapon. It would fit the historical context too because I doubt that there were any ranged troops without a fallback melee weapon. Disadvantage some fellow dev brought up is that this reduces equipment layout choices. Obvious advantage is that it reduces the overall ammo count and the need for an archer to turn and run if he has no melee weapon.

2)
I'll ask cmp for the Native sprint mode code. Maybe we can make it so that someone with a bow or crossbow in the inventory has a slower sprint mode than a melee guy. With that even a lighter armored ranger can't simply run away, turn, shoot and run again. The melee guy would catch him quickly.


Pretty cool ideas, but with the 1st one are you taking into account the bugs on arrow pickings related to which position on the slots is which item? This is a terrible bug (or feature to some) for every ranged user.

I've tried several different orders in the inventory, in some the quivers go empty, others it drops the bow, and in others it drops the melee weapon. Commented this with Tenne several times since we have the same play style, and we're still trying to find the "perfect" order and which items.

This situation led sometimes to some funny moments with people asking "wtf kold y r u dropin' your shit everytime you pick an arrow" which I could only answer with " ¯\(°_o)/¯ dunno lol" to resume the event.


Also, tl;dr the last posts I've made, I couldn't give a blatant fuck anymore about all the class fights and extremely biased comments by either players/admins/item balancers/devs (cause it exists and we all know it does, it's an humane reaction and comprehensible), simply by the single fact that I play this game by it's WHOLE, I change specc every single gen, I have alts for every possible build on this game and I try to understand at deep every of them, and when I talk, I talk out of personal experience not out of thin air, and I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which leads to the usual hatred from both players and devs.

So, play on, have fun, whatever.

PS: We need Admins in Siege Servers (notice the intentional lack of the term "more" before the "admins"?).

PS2: Leshma Xant looks like a ritardo with your stuff (even more than usual), specially using the cmp mask. I've already given the idea to change the model to honor cmp into this beauty
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Cheers, rage one.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 02, 2011, 01:59:43 pm
It's incredible how biased you are. Archers have way enough arrows to stay on roof for most of the round. Unless you actually want archers to have 15-20 arrows.

Just read what dev suggested before commenting loads of crap out of your mouth. Less arrows for archers...
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 02, 2011, 02:06:15 pm
Just read what dev suggested before commenting loads of crap out of your mouth. Less arrows for archers...
Tell me 1 archer that takes 3 quivers ? =)
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 02, 2011, 02:10:48 pm
Im on eu1 every day: I chase archers all day, cause I got a shield, and throwing weapons. I fucking love it when they run, I run faster, I throw things at them, and when they turn I shield up and keep coming. Thats the solution I pick. Againts multiple archers, its more difficult. But it's more difficult to fight multiple opponents of ANY type, not just archers:

But chasing them without a shield or anything to throw at them IS RETARDED: Just dont chase them. They are almost all kids anyway, who will get bored and come to try to sneak shots at you in your hiding place, just keep slipping back and back untill they have over committed, and rape them. But if you are last guy, againts 5 archers, your screwed: SO what? 95% of the time as last man vs 5 of ANYTHING your screwed, whether they spammitards, polestunners, steelshielders, 2handedheros, w/e, 5vs1 you are probs gonna die. I just dont get why everyone thinks melee should be able to run to ranged and kill: Melee are the smart players, with tricks and tactics to beating each opponent type they face: Running at rangers should NEVER be one of your tactics. MAKE them come to you, if they wait for flag, rush it, they have to fight or let you have it, if they try to shoot you off it, just spam mouse in circles and they cannot hit you...its that easy...ranged also only classtype that RUN OUT OF WEAPON: My sword never runs out of cuts, their bow WILL run out of ammo.

You guys all obsessed with changing the game, when you need to change the way you play it. I'll quote you the motto we used at work "Man up, or fuck off". I choose to man up, and adjust how I play to defeat them. Now unless they massively outnumber me, archers have to fuck off. They cannot kill me, they cannot run from me. I dont see the problem: Shot in the back while fighting someone else is no different to backstabbed while fighting someone else: Gank is Gank, once your dead its completely irrelevant wether the killer was stood 2 yards or 200 yards from you, backstab is backstab.

There are real problems with the mod, weapons with hitboxes that massively outreach their models, blockmeshes that dont match hitboxes, massive hybridisation advantages for xbows over everything else, cavalry sound needs fixing, bumpstabs with lance even tho its physically impossible, etc. Some my old friends wishing to be Legolas arent a problem. Address real issues. Dont change the game to fill holes in your playstyle.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 02, 2011, 02:10:55 pm
Tell me 1 archer that takes 3 quivers ? =)

Horse archers. Actually played one before my current gen.

And you still didn't read suggestion about reducing it to 1 quiver or so.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 02, 2011, 02:20:55 pm
But chasing them without a shield or anything to throw at them IS RETARDED: Just dont chase them. They are almost all kids anyway, who will get bored and come to try to sneak shots at you in your hiding place, just keep slipping back and back untill they have over committed, and rape them.

MAKE them come to you, if they wait for flag, rush it, they have to fight or let you have it, if they try to shoot you off it, just spam mouse in circles and they cannot hit you...its that easy...ranged also only classtype that RUN OUT OF WEAPON: My sword never runs out of cuts, their bow WILL run out of ammo.

You are playing in your dreams aren't you ? Hiding only leads to dying or loosing when the MOTF flags spawn. There's no way around that. The archer goes to the flag and flees when you approach, if he didn't kill you after all this, he's level 10 or a terrible player.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Frankysan on December 02, 2011, 02:23:04 pm
do something for crossbows guys i keep getting oneshot in full lordly medium set, and not talkign about headshots. This is insane!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tomas_of_Miles on December 02, 2011, 02:26:18 pm
NO, I am 100% with Karasu, although I would like to see some give and take, and players recognise the real ranged problem: Crossbows. Arbalest IS a 1shot kill, if you are not 1hitting with an arbalest, you ARE doing it wrong.
So, in short, lots of archers can be a pain, but smart use of shields negates them: Arbalest spammers that shoot thru shields and still 1hit...who can wield a very powerful melee weapon, and wear heavy armour, combined with the new reload speeds of Xbows, and pinpoint accuracy crossmap, the extreme speed of the misile meaning its easy to aim, and hard to dodge.
I understand that the balance team includes a crossbow lover, but this is now ridiculous.
BTW: I am neither archer nor crossbowman, nor a 2handed greatsword/polespammer HERO who wants the game balanced for them (as it has been for a while tbh), Im just a poor shmuck with a 1h sword and some javelins to stop the HA goons.
No offense, but I think a crossbowman is more qualified to say whether their weapon 1 shots all the time, or is hard to dodge. As said before, close quarters the crossbow has deccelerated less so retains it's damage, and is more likely to 1 shot. Also bring into that the speed bonus of running towards someone. In close combat, the release of the arbalest has a delay which can make shooting a skilled dodger pretty hard. I made a stf longbowman and I found it much easier to hit people from long distances, as shoot speed was nice for long distance, and I could adjust my aim more often if I missed. I often don't one shot with my arbalest, and it is masterworked, as are my steel bolts. With 130 wpf the reload time is not excellent. I won't deny it is one of the deadliest weapons in the game but I don't think it is either the problem here or the point of the thread.

If I get tired of the population of the server (too many cav, vs Grey's on small siege :D) then I go to another server. And that's after I've tried to adjust my tactics. I think Koldborn mentioned Chase and Cooties' survivability. This is a good point. Before you criticise the balance of the game look at your own character and playstyle and see whether you can change it for the situation.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 02, 2011, 02:36:41 pm
You are playing in your dreams aren't you ? Hiding only leads to dying or loosing when the MOTF flags spawn. There's no way around that. The archer goes to the flag and flees when you approach, if he didn't kill you after all this, he's level 10 or a terrible player.

Just spam mouse round while you feint: You cannot be hit. 10 gens of being an archer and I can confirm it.

Also, I assume all arguments are based off ONE infantry vs ONE archer, after that is doesnt matter what class you are, 2v1 you are going to die unless the 2 are utter noobs. Also I assume that we are discussing lvl 30+ players, since obviously at lvl 20, lvl 30 archer is gonna mince you, since he has more Athletics, PS and IF than you most of the time.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 02, 2011, 02:38:37 pm
he's level 10 or a terrible player.
Which you hardly see on EU_1 =)
Therefore you die.
I dunno about other servers guys don't forget that this discussion is about EU1 .
On EU_1 we have lots of skilled archers plus sometimes shitloads of unskilled archers who just shoots anything.Arrows doesn't glance . You have like 30 arrows to shoot. If there are 20 archers in 1 team that makes 600 arrows.
Let's say 10 of those 20 archers are skilled and 2/5 arrows that they shoot are succesful.
that makes 120 successful shots by skilled archers.

let's say the other 10 archers hit succesfully with 1/5 ratio 
that makes 60 successful shots by unskilled archers.

180 succesful shots.
Let's say it takes 5 shots to kill a guy(Counting shields to break,horses to kill) >>> 180/5=36 guys dead .



Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tavuk_Bey on December 02, 2011, 02:44:35 pm
do something for crossbows guys i keep getting oneshot in full lordly medium set, and not talkign about headshots. This is insane!

I WONDER HOW PEOPLE ONE SHOT TINCANS WITH XBOWS. SOME PEOPLE SURVIVE MY ARBALEST HEADSHOTS WITH THEIR BARE SHITTY NAKED HEADS.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 02, 2011, 02:58:21 pm
@ Karasu: Only pick up arrows of your own type: If you got bodkins, any bodkins (any level of 'looming) will get you an arrow without a bug, but any other type will mess your slots up: I think this is fine, dont be greedy, stick to arrows you got.

@ koyama: You didnt calculate properly, Shields sap many many arrows, and lots of arrows are lost into teammates backs XD

@ Tomas: I dont have an issue with Arbalests being in the game, or their 1 hitting, or anything like that: My problem with them is that you can have a 1hit ranged weapon, 8 ATH, a good melee weapon, and heavy armour on without sacrificing much accuracy. And thats lvl 30, I believe Dave now has 9 ATH.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: RandomDude on December 02, 2011, 03:00:51 pm
50% of the time I love eu1. The other 50% of the time there's always something to rage about if so inclined.

Last night it was too much archery on 1 team for sure.

Another night it might be 12 cav on 1 team.

Another night it might be that I just suck.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 02, 2011, 03:01:49 pm
Lots of complaining about ranged lol, a arbalest shot to my body deals 60-80% damage wich isnt very much and i have a total of 56 body armor. Also get a shield.

The only thing i dislike about ranged is that when my team is full of archers and xbowmen it feels lonely fighting armies with like 5 men against 20 so yeah balance needs to put equal amount of archers on each team if possible.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Overdriven on December 02, 2011, 03:01:51 pm
Wow so many dumb biased arguments.

I personally think ladders should be removed. That would at least help the situation.
1)
Allowing ammo (arrows&bolts) only in the 3rd and 4th item slot. With that taking 3 ammo stacks is impossible and people would always have a spare slot for a melee weapon. It would fit the historical context too because I doubt that there were any ranged troops without a fallback melee weapon. Disadvantage some fellow dev brought up is that this reduces equipment layout choices. Obvious advantage is that it reduces the overall ammo count and the need for an archer to turn and run if he has no melee weapon.

2)
I'll ask cmp for the Native sprint mode code. Maybe we can make it so that someone with a bow or crossbow in the inventory has a slower sprint mode than a melee guy. With that even a lighter armored ranger can't simply run away, turn, shoot and run again. The melee guy would catch him quickly.

1. That would be a pain for horse archers who can't pick up arrows as easily as foot archers and so we need more ammo. I like the suggestion of increasing loomed arrows ammo as a result of this. Also if you do this, allow for any arrow type to be picked up and added to your quiver, like it was before. Otherwise it would be a pain in the arse.

2. Not sure I like that. I'm all for making ranged a bit slower. But there is no way in hell a melee guy in armour should be able to keep up with a light archer both from a balance and realism pov in the long run. I think removing ladders would help. But yes, also give archers melee capabilities. Right now they don't really have any, regardless of what build you take unless you pick up stuff off the battlefield and then you'll be hammered into the ground.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 02, 2011, 03:01:59 pm
Also, I assume all arguments are based off ONE infantry vs ONE archer, after that is doesnt matter what class you are, 2v1 you are going to die unless the 2 are utter noobs.

Except this is flat out false.

2 melee vs 1 melee ? The solo guy has good chances. Even 10 melee vs 1 melee can end up with the lone guy winning, with all the 10 enemies being average players with lvl 30 chars. It's even worse with full cav round ends (a very rare occurence, cav usually die before the round ends). One cav can defeat 20 other cav as the allies can't help much. A little distraction maybe, but cav vs cav is essentially a "one at a time" type of combat. With a little bit of skill, you can avoid being blocked by enemy horses for a very long time.

2 archers vs 1 melee ? The melee, with or without shield, dies. Archers don't get in the way of each other and the benefits of outnumbering the enemy are greater than with any other class.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Overdriven on December 02, 2011, 03:04:37 pm
2 archers vs 1 melee ? The melee, with or without shield, dies. Archers don't get in the way of each other and the benefits of outnumbering the enemy are greater than with any other class.

That much is true. Even if they have a shield all you have to do is circle them and it's instant death. A fav tactic of horse archers if there's 2 in a team.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Elmokki on December 02, 2011, 03:14:07 pm
If you want to keep current archer dps more or less intact, at least make shooting bows slower (and increase damage in compensation)

The reason I don't categorically hate crossbows is that they don't spam bolts (or if they do it's a weak crossbow) and if they run away they at least won't shoot while doing that.

The reason I hate most archers is that they shoot those very deadly arrows at a very rapid pace making approaching them even from like 10 meters hugely dangerous due to each hit slowing you down (or holding shield up slowing you down, if not as much) and most of them just run away when you are close enough.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: karasu on December 02, 2011, 03:45:22 pm
@ Karasu: Only pick up arrows of your own type: If you got bodkins, any bodkins (any level of 'looming) will get you an arrow without a bug, but any other type will mess your slots up: I think this is fine, dont be greedy, stick to arrows you got.

Sadly it doesn't work that way, several times happened to me to pick up other arrows of the same type and same loom level, and I got 0 arrows on both or 1 quiver.

It's not a matter of being greedy, it's a matter of using the brain if you get more chances to win.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kato on December 02, 2011, 03:46:48 pm
2 very easy implementable solution for decrease rage and whine about archery, was bring in many times already.

1. remove ladders from battle server
2. balance by class too, so both team have approximately same amount of archers and cav
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 02, 2011, 03:57:21 pm
Sadly it doesn't work that way, several times happened to me to pick up other arrows of the same type and same loom level, and I got 0 arrows on both or 1 quiver.

It's not a matter of being greedy, it's a matter of using the brain if you get more chances to win.

Hmmm, weird, I never had a problem grabbing bodkins (I always used bodkins) at any point, but then I usually wouldnt grab any that werent my ones I missed with (yes Im that anal I track where they go most times) untill I had hit 0. I take it all back if that doesnt work for you, I guess me all get weird results with the slot system. :D


2 melee vs 1 melee ? The solo guy has good chances.

NO. 2 melee who arent hungry hippos can easily dispose of 1 enemy: 2 hungry hippos can easily die to 1 enemy: I stated, decent players. A decent player will help his teammate, they will back the guy up untill he has nowhere to go, then they will attack with different swings: no way to block 2 directions, your dead. Im not interested in how noobs rush into each others way in a massive teamhitting orgy. Thats not a gank, its just wank.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gheritarish le Loki on December 02, 2011, 04:06:07 pm
Get a shield ppl!!

What! you're not able to put your shield in multi differencial way, you noob!
What! xbow bolt are not stopped by your shield, you must be a noob then!
What! this archer run faster than you, hey noob you should have 8 athletic with no armor!
What! they are on roof, you don't have your pocket ladder, you noob!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Boerenlater on December 02, 2011, 04:13:06 pm
Get a shield ppl!!

What! you're not able to put your shield in multi differencial way, you noob!
What! xbow bolt are not stopped by your shield, you must be a noob then!
What! this archer run faster than you, hey noob you should have 8 athletic with no armor!
What! they are on roof, you don't have your pocket ladder, you noob!
So what you're saying is become the archer only without the bow to counter?
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: B3RS3RK on December 02, 2011, 04:25:41 pm
Its a mix of too many ranged and accessible roofs.One I could bear, but both together make the game really shitty to play.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gheritarish le Loki on December 02, 2011, 04:29:05 pm
So what you're saying is become the archer only without the bow to counter?

I was saying sarcasm, but there is something true, the only counter to ranged is ranged.
Now you wonder why there is so much ranged on server...

I mean shielders are know a pityful easy target, unless you have a minimum of +6 shield skill (and then you hit as hard as an asthmatic grandmother) your shield is useless, shield don"t protect you anymore against ranged and you are slow as hell, and i just speak of one vs one fight, because 2 archers, one on each side and you're dead for sure...

Don't understand me wrong, i don't say archer are op, i just say there is no more counter and far too much ranged on servers.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 02, 2011, 04:49:16 pm
Also... why not add some more melee maps in rotation? There's only couple village maps in rotation currently. Most are open desert / roof camping maps so no wonder that players are playing archers.

edit: And cavalry.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Cyber on December 02, 2011, 04:50:04 pm
People expect different things from the game. Some just want a realistic medieval battle, some only care about melee combat, others want all classes to be balanced.  What i love most about this game and what kept me around so long is the awesome melee combat. Best i have seen in a game yet, ranged combat is quite simple and has been done before in several games, so it's really not that appealing to me.

For me ranged is quite frustrating, and it's not because i can't handle it. I have a lot of experience playing this game and played most of my time as a shielder. Unless im seriously outnumbered i usually don't get hit by ranged just by positioning myself correctly and using my shield. However I can also never even attack a archer myself, they can always outrun me, unless i just make some agy char and sacrifice my armor to catch them.

What some people might feel about ranged is that when you fight a melee player, or even cav no matter the situation it feels like your skill actually matters and you always have a chance to actually fight them. Even if you are outnumbered you still have a chance to fight back. However ranged classes can just attack and do damage to you (even if it's just your shield) without risking taking any dmg themselves and giving you a chance to fight them back, no matter how good you might be. When a pure melee player manages to attack an archer it is only because they made an error.

Obviously it might make it in a way feel more like an actual battle and force you to use teamwork to beat different enemy classes but really even historically archers were used to soften up enemy ranks and were not skilled enough to headshot someone while hes fighting 4 enemies, run away and repeat doing it, but i don't like to use any realism discussion for game balancing. Ofcourse this is just how ranged combat works and imo they are not OP in any way compared to melee or cav, i guess i just personally dislike ranged in this game, but this is just what i enjoy about this game and it may be completely different for other people.

Anyway after typing all this nonsense really the only thing i see to make the situation better is to make archers a lot slower like has been previously suggested, so most melee people can catch up to them. In that case archers would somewhat actually have to rely on their teammates aswell to survive. Since they would not be able to outrun half the enemy team alone they might have to stick closer to their teammates and think more about their positioning on the battlefield since they would not be able to flank from million sides and outrun any danger they encounter. This would but them bit more into a support class role aswell. You also would get slight chance of winning a 1v2 situation vs ranged as infantry.

For me though, i would be able to handle all that ranged spam but the game is just starting to get boring like will almost any if you play it for too long. It has mainly been the same old thing for almost 2 years now. Only thing that can really make me stick to a game for a long, long amount of time is large MP competetive scene which always gives you fun challenges. That is why i have sticked so long to games like Starcraft, counter strike 1.6 even though i like them less then warband. Im secretly hoping that they focus more on Multiplayer with M&B 2 and we can get something like that there.

/// Edit: Damn this turned out to be a long post:O writing it went so fast, probably repeated myself 10 times there, gonna read it over later when i have some time.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tindel on December 02, 2011, 05:04:41 pm
Add tdm and ctf as game modes.
These modes favor melee more.


Battle is about survival and thus favors ranged.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Teeth on December 02, 2011, 05:06:57 pm
EU 1 is still my server of choice. There is a whole lot of ranged these days, but they are 30% of my free kills. They make battle more interesting. Melee server doesn't quite give the same experience.

If ladders get removed it will be fine
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Leshma on December 02, 2011, 05:07:13 pm
What! this archer run faster than you, hey noob you should have 8 athletic with no armor!

I have 8 ath and 5 total armor weight and a 4.5 weight Old Heater shield and I can't catch them archers :?
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: B3RS3RK on December 02, 2011, 05:10:18 pm
I have 8 ath and 5 total armor weight and a 4.5 weight Old Heater shield and I can't catch them archers :?

Probably the shield.I have something bout 5 weight in armor and 7 ath and I catch almost every archer these days.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Leshma on December 02, 2011, 05:12:38 pm
Probably the shield.I have something bout 5 weight in armor and 7 ath and I catch almost every archer these days.

Yeah it's the shield... I've tried to catch Vitek and Slv with such setup and failed. Also at times I've actually came close and switched to sword dude just shot me...

I can and I killed plenty archers in my heavy gear but that's because they are stupid fucks and I always flank them and come behind their backs. But chasing aware archer is pain in the ass.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: B3RS3RK on December 02, 2011, 05:15:40 pm
Take away the shield and just run weirdly around :D many archers will fail, especially if you are close so they get fearsome and miss their shots.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Leshma on December 02, 2011, 05:17:54 pm
Take away the shield and just run weirdly around :D many archers will fail, especially if you are close so they get fearsome and miss their shots.

I do that in my heavy gear but in light is too risky. Dude might be so terrible at aiming that some of his shots actually go that wide and hit me straight in the face while I'm doing "retard" dance...
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: B3RS3RK on December 02, 2011, 05:18:38 pm
 :lol: yeah that happened to me sometimes, too.

Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 02, 2011, 05:21:06 pm
NO. 2 melee who arent hungry hippos can easily dispose of 1 enemy: 2 hungry hippos can easily die to 1 enemy: I stated, decent players. A decent player will help his teammate, they will back the guy up untill he has nowhere to go, then they will attack with different swings: no way to block 2 directions, your dead. Im not interested in how noobs rush into each others way in a massive teamhitting orgy. Thats not a gank, its just wank.

You definitely play another game. Good melee players often dispatch 2-4 decent, non-greedy players without even a single teamhit happening. That's part of what keeps melee interesting and isn't even a rare occurence in mid-round.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: OttomanSniper on December 02, 2011, 05:56:43 pm
Poll result : "Lots of ranged makes the game unplayable ..."

Pls answer this question : Why don't play on this server : http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,20872.0.html ? I play on this server some times but i see only 2 or 3 player, why don't come? I know why : U don't know how to block, can't found easy targets (archers).

My suggestion enough understandable : Remove archery from game and give free respec. (Devs remove horse archery (because cRPG must like Stronghold) but don't give free respec...) Everyone egocentric why ? I want see in this game all class balanced like this : 2H = HA = Archery = Lance = Polearm = Throwing = Shield... But i dont see (K-D) 50-1 archer but i see cav or 2H...

Archers can't use heavy armors or ironflesh, but i don't see any archer say this : "archery ruining my game  :cry:" We are (archers) most easy targets for other archers but its not runing our game.

Pls play on cRPG_Melee, happy games. Thanks for read.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Stabby_Dave on December 02, 2011, 06:08:32 pm
The game is balanced as it stands. Archers camping places that are unreachable is the main problem in battle. Right now on EU1 one team has half their players, not only archers but also xbows and inf just sitting on roofs for most the round with no way to get up. It makes the game boring as fuck.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 02, 2011, 06:16:29 pm
Poll result : "Lots of ranged makes the game unplayable ..."

Pls answer this question : Why don't play on this server : http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,20872.0.html ? I play on this server some times but i see only 2 or 3 player, why don't come? I know why : U don't know how to block, can't found easy targets (archers).

My suggestion enough understandable : Remove archery from game and give free respec. (Devs remove horse archery (because cRPG must like Stronghold) but don't give free respec...) Everyone egocentric why ? I want see in this game all class balanced like this : 2H = HA = Archery = Lance = Polearm = Throwing = Shield... But i dont see (K-D) 50-1 archer but i see cav or 2H...

Archers can't use heavy armors or ironflesh, but i don't see any archer say this : "archery ruining my game  :cry:" We are (archers) most easy targets for other archers but its not runing our game.

Pls play on cRPG_Melee, happy games. Thanks for read.

English very very bad ? Can't help to say that as none of your points make sense or are remotely related to the game. No archer cries about melee or other archers simply because there aren't any reasons to from an archer point of view. The first have to pass through a death field and the second will only aim at you when your whole inf meatshield died.

The reason many people don't go on pure melee servers is because there most players are extremely good duelers and have pure melee builds. Any build that trades a little melee power for a shield or to use a horse are and will always be sub-par there.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: OttomanSniper on December 02, 2011, 06:18:21 pm
If "remove ladders from battle" (this is a nerf) solve this problem, its ok, remove this ?! But stop nerfing, "remove ladders from battle" must be last nerf... Archery not fine now.

English very very bad ?

Yes, very very bad.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gheritarish le Loki on December 02, 2011, 06:27:32 pm
@Leshma: so it´s even worst than i thought...

Anyway, i don´t think that thing will change, archer syndicate lobby is.strong! Fact is that they don´t understand that inf don´t want a game with no ranged, inf just want to enjoy the game as archer do...

Tbh i was archer when i started to play, then i learn how to block and started to enjoy melee fight, now i find melee more fun and rewarding.

Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Chico on December 02, 2011, 06:35:48 pm
The reason many people don't go on pure melee servers is because there most players are extremely good duelers and have pure melee builds. Any build that trades a little melee power for a shield or to use a horse are and will always be sub-par there.
Seems like that archers can even catch ya up on the melee only servers and ruin your game. Truly, they are OP, we should get rid of'em!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gnjus on December 02, 2011, 06:40:02 pm
You guys are really fighting over nothing here. Removing ladders from Battle Servers was suggested ages ago, in every possible way there is, from nice, decent suggestion threads to blatant rages & insults yet nothing, ABSOLUTELY nothing was ever done about it. How can we even make any other suggestion about anything while such an easy, basic, trivial & absolutely necessary thing can't even get a proper reply from any developer, let alone a proper course of action ? How hard can it be ? Even a complete fool would have to agree on this one, what we call "battles" is far, far away from "battle", you could use dozens of terms for it but not this one. How & why they refuse to understand the level of enhancement with this small, easy but a very significant "move" is really shocking. Just remove the ladders from all battle servers, don't give us a 30-slot server without it and say " There you go, assholes - enjoy yourselves." It's the same with melee only servers. None wants to play there, its not fun and no one ever asked for it but all these archers just tell you to go there instead "asking for further archery nerfs", which is not what all these arguments are about, at all. None wants to nerf archers to hell or "destroy" that class completely, people just want to play BATTLES, instead of acting as practicing targets to a bunch of unreachable "national heroes", that's all.  :wink:

I mean seriously: back in the old days at least some teamwork could've helped you to do something, now even that doesn't help anymore. Team with more archers on roofs wins and there's nothing you can do about it. Awesome.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: karasu on December 02, 2011, 06:47:20 pm
I miss XP barn.  :(
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tzar on December 02, 2011, 06:50:46 pm
At fifteen, I had the will to  learn ; at thirty, I could stand ; at forty, I had no  doubts ; at fifty, I understood the heavenly Bidding ;  at sixty, my ears were opened ; at seventy, I could  do as my heart lusted without trespassing from the  square.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Chico on December 02, 2011, 06:53:13 pm
lalala...

You guys aint helpin' with your bunch of archer alts either. I understand what have you tried to achieve over there with all that highlighting and exaggerating of the archers amount etc. but with your performances as an archers it went kind'a contraproductive.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Boerenlater on December 02, 2011, 07:10:41 pm
So who here does really think nerfing archers more is a solution?
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gnjus on December 02, 2011, 07:12:47 pm
You guys aint helpin' with your bunch of archer alts either.

As the good old Razor Ramon would say: "You picked the wrong guy, Chico".
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Chico on December 02, 2011, 07:19:12 pm
As the good old Razor Ramon would say: "You picked the wrong guy, Chico".
Well maybe i did, maybe Montgomery_Burns aint your alt, then i apologize to you. You cant blame me, he seems very similar to your char. :wink:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gnjus on December 02, 2011, 07:26:49 pm
Well maybe i did, maybe Montgomery_Burns aint your alt, then i apologize to you. You cant blame me, he seems very similar to your char.

Actually it was Mr_Burns, not Montgomery. He was a crossbowman and i played him for like 10-20 hours maybe, back when i was playing at all, ofc. He is deleted for like 3 months now, together with all of the other chars i had, including a generation 10 level 33 main. :wink:

As for my lads: several of them just tried to play archers the best they could but every single one of them quit it very soon because its simply not in our nature to play such a my old friendgy class. It's not that we are homophobic, i assure you, but that kind of bundle of sticksry is not our sport, we simply can't enjoy it. Bandits were mostly 2h/polearm/cavalry. We had little to no archers, crossbowman, throwers & even shielders and I'm proud to say we were hard core, no matter what.   :wink:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Chico on December 02, 2011, 07:31:31 pm
Sounds more like knights to me. :lol:
As bandits, i would imagine some forest ambush of cowardly archers 'n' scums with knifes.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gnjus on December 02, 2011, 07:35:29 pm
Sounds more like knights to me.  :D
As bandits, i would imagine some forest ambush of cowardly archers 'n' scums with knifes.

Don't you worry about that, what we lacked in our weapons of choice we more then successfully compensated with our ugly mugfaces & "pleasant" personalities. With a face like mine you don't need a bow to make a successful ambush, all you need to do is show up.  :wink:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Chico on December 02, 2011, 07:51:11 pm
Ya right, now i have to apologize for realz, for pointing out any kind of similarity between Gnjus mugface and that Montgomery's guy(whos playin seige these days).
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: sharker807 on December 02, 2011, 08:07:39 pm
4 arrows sound more likely to me, given the math. Unless you always face 8 or 9 PD archers.

How many arrows would be a fair amount to take against a double triple loom end level archer?
Ya right, now i have to apologize for real, for pointing out any kind of similarity between Gnjus mugface and that Montgomery's guy.


you sure about thay paul, i have trouble one shotting archers and other light armour players take three sometimes with my mw arbalst and mw steel bolt, and people are saying nerf the xbow! i don't think so, it should be buffed if anything and the accuracy is awful since it's  been nerfed, i got 179 wpf and it fly's all over the place
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Leshma on December 02, 2011, 08:10:49 pm
Bandits were mostly 2h/polearm/cavalry.

Yeah but Fellowship of Gnjus was 80% shielders with dem axes and throwing and some lawlpikes. Good times :wink:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Fluffy_Muffin on December 02, 2011, 08:17:44 pm
I dont even care if you buff archers, just remove ladders from battle and im happy
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Plaksteris on December 02, 2011, 08:20:57 pm
Two words

BYZANTIUM LEECHBANNER!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Rage_Guy on December 02, 2011, 09:54:55 pm
ITS FUCKING TRUE,BRINGS TO X5 REALLY FAST!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: polkafranzi on December 02, 2011, 11:39:31 pm
Btw(,) play Na1(*NA1)(,) it's way better(.)  were(We're) AMERICAN(,) we have a clan called USA AMERICA (lljk)(,) so yes it's way better :P. IDK if it's true but I see more admins on and better games(? not just cRPG?) there as well :P
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: MaHuD on December 02, 2011, 11:45:07 pm
I find that EU_1 lacks teamplay. Sure there are some nice guys who try to work together, but most players seem to be either dumb, trolling, or useless.
Let's say someone is under attack by like 3 guys, and you jump in to help him and he just runs away and leaves you to fight alone.
Now if he was an archer and started shooting the guys, I would be allright... But nope, just retards running away.

Which results in the melee just circling around, easy kills for cav aswell.

Or what about a guy clad in armor, big two hander, he get's hit by someone, tries to attack, but is too slow gets hit again, tries to attack (not block!) and gets hit again and again untill he dies... Not a single block.
Why where these guys given XP or Gold at all, they haven't even gained any experience!
These nubs make it hard to balance the teams as well.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Prpavi on December 03, 2011, 12:49:32 am
So i did a test right now on EU 1

i was going for an archer called Blackbow_the_Pimp trying to dodge the arrows but not really basically running at him.

im wearing lordly milanese plate and lordly plate mittens with 21 STR 100% HP and 4 IF.

He had Rus Bow and Bodkins.

I was dead in exactly 3 arrows, no headshots, all 3 bodyshots.

You tell me if that is "balanced" or "viable"

cheers
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Chasey on December 03, 2011, 01:36:35 am
i have 70 body armour and i find that a dedicated archer ( with looms ) will 3 shot me too
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Prpavi on December 03, 2011, 02:02:07 am
yeah i forgot to write my lordly set has 77 armor.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Joker86 on December 03, 2011, 02:24:56 am
I just want to throw in two things that come to my mind that could perhaps, under certain circumstances and with a lot of luck shift the relation between ranged and melee fighters into the right direction again. Unlike usually this time I am everything but sure my suggestions are good, so I just mention them and explain them shortly, and someone might pick them up and either support or decline them.

1st: With WSE more or less anything is possible, that's at least what the devs said. How about dividing damage types into ranged an melee damage? This way you could make certain things (horses, armours, shields) extraordinarily resistant to ranged damage, while still being vulnerable to melee. Horses would be such an item, making light cavalry a better archer hunter. (Which, on the other hand, would make horse archers more of a bitch... hhmmm...  :? )

2nd: Perhaps it's the wrong approach to try to lower the amount of archers by nerfing them and making them unattractive? How about making the other classes, especially infantry more attractive? You could lower the item weight of shields and melee weapons. Of course this would buff cavalry as well, but item weight is not so much of a problem for them. Or you could make a bigger "gap" between the protection values of light and medium armour. I still say that infantry is the least attractive class of all three "supra-classes".
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Rage_Guy on December 03, 2011, 02:44:01 am
No much difference,if i go in my money making rags(16 body armor)I get 2 shot,If I go with my "good" armor(55 body)it takes 90% hp from 2 shots.FUCK THAT!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kato on December 03, 2011, 02:47:43 am
1st: With WSE more or less anything is possible, that's at least what the devs said. How about dividing damage types into ranged an melee damage? This way you could make certain things (horses, armours, shields) extraordinarily resistant to ranged damage, while still being vulnerable to melee. Horses would be such an item, making light cavalry a better archer hunter. (Which, on the other hand, would make horse archers more of a bitch... hhmmm...  :? )

Its already here, but only to make ranged stronger. Blame Paul.
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,16201.0.html
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 03, 2011, 03:36:53 am
English very very bad ?

Did the pot just call the kettle black? Methinks it did. Ironic.

So i did a test right now on EU 1

i was going for an archer called Blackbow_the_Pimp trying to dodge the arrows but not really basically running at him.

im wearing lordly milanese plate and lordly plate mittens with 21 STR 100% HP and 4 IF.

He had Rus Bow and Bodkins.

I was dead in exactly 3 arrows, no headshots, all 3 bodyshots.

You tell me if that is "balanced" or "viable"

cheers

Blackbow is not even hard to kill, AND hes not the best shot. If you are upset that a player with just as many or more heirlooms than you killed you in 3 hits, WHY are you? How many times would you have to hit him to kill him? 1? 2? 3 if he manages to walk "into" your swing so it catches him just at start of animation and does little dmg? You cannot kill him from range, he cannot kill you in melee, you both made descisions, sounds like you just butthurt that he made a better one. Stop raging at archers. They aren't OP, they aren't even P anymore. They are just peasants once you reach them, and if your entire team has no shielders/heavy cav to flatten them, blame balance, not their class choices.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gnjus on December 03, 2011, 04:30:38 am
Did the pot just call the kettle black? Methinks it did. Ironic.

Blackbow is not even hard to kill, AND hes not the best shot. If you are upset that a player with just as many or more heirlooms than you killed you in 3 hits, WHY are you? How many times would you have to hit him to kill him? 1? 2? 3 if he manages to walk "into" your swing so it catches him just at start of animation and does little dmg? You cannot kill him from range, he cannot kill you in melee, you both made descisions, sounds like you just butthurt that he made a better one. Stop raging at archers. They aren't OP, they aren't even P anymore. They are just peasants once you reach them, and if your entire team has no shielders/heavy cav to flatten them, blame balance, not their class choices.

I'm no admin (god forbid) but if I was and if you ever requested a name change (while it was not allowed) from Blind Guy into a Stupid Guy I'd accept it and abuse the system willingly within a second, just because you deserve it, even if it meant for chadz to strip me off my admin duties.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Jambi on December 03, 2011, 08:33:03 am

I don't want to play without bagge,jambi,zerobot1(New pain in the ass:P),nebun,hetman,radh,KMC,Pandor,Sojetsu,Tenne,OktarBabuna etc...

DISCUSS !!!!

Get rid off rooftops, and 92% of these Archers you named would suck terrible :-)

I still like to play on EU 1... if only it is to set an example for other "good" archers, that you dont need to camp rooftops to be on the top of the board.
If you want to breed haters as an archers, do it in a honorable way.
Make yourself a target, support your melee teammates, eliminate the good players on the enemy team.
Do not spam arrows from some hard to reach rooftop at random peasants. Its lame and not skillfull.
All-in-all dont go for the kills, go for the team.

But yeah, the amount of range spam is getting horrible.

Ive said it already so many times....
Nerf like they did too archers, remove there ability to hybrid. Give them same restrictions as archers have on armor/weapons.
Nerf Rooftops
Nerf the Hornbow,  unable use of bodkin arrows for 5 and less PD req bows. Nerf the speed.

And i think banner balance sometimes realy fucks up the teams. Sometimes you get 3 diffrent clan stacked up against a team of randomers

PS. if i were to give you names of good archers. i would name

Merc_Mustikki (my inspiration when i started playing cRPG)

DRZ_Nebun

Hetman_the_grey

and probably DoG_Inhuminatie... when hes not hunting peasants :D

For those players having trouble with ranged spam, i would suggest more teamplay.
Ive seen alot of players in 22nd, who know perfectly how to deal with ranged.
Find a shielder and buddy up with him.
I believe its not the ranged spam that is ruinign the game, i think its the lack of shielders. Most players nowadays are polearmers or 2handers. We need more people like Kinngrimmy
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlackMilk on December 03, 2011, 09:26:48 am
ranged COWARDS make it unplayable. its hard enough already to fight cav and polearms, but they jsut take all the fun thats left out of the game
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tzar on December 03, 2011, 10:17:26 am
If the devs wanted to fix the problem with the current ranged spam they should imho.

A. Increase the weight of the bows so they cant kite around all day an remove ladders archer´s can keep their High dmg pierce bodkins arrows but they will be forced to engage their counter classes such as shielder´s an cav.

B. Archer´s lose their bodkin arrows with pierce and only the longbow have the pierce dmg like before the archer buff but they can still kite all day an camp roofs but they will be forced to aim for weak spots to deal the same dmg as before.

I prefer A. Tbh since i don't mind the dmg archers deal but that you cant catch em or force em down for the roofs...

Its pretty plain an simple right now the only good counter to range is other ranged thus we have the current sick amount of ranged players...

If they devs really want´s more teamplay into cRPG why is it only the inf who have to play that way an not archers??

PS: im a shielder so dont give me the bring a shield argument  :wink:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: dado on December 03, 2011, 10:43:38 am
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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Prpavi on December 03, 2011, 10:59:31 am
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ah yess dado

this should be the new movement!

make a topic nao!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 03, 2011, 10:59:57 am
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I unintentionally click on "Like"  :lol:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tot. on December 03, 2011, 11:00:04 am
For those players having trouble with ranged spam, i would suggest more teamplay.
Ive seen alot of players in 22nd, who know perfectly how to deal with ranged.
Find a shielder and buddy up with him.

So you're saying it's okay that to deal with an archer teamwork is required between multiple people even though no other class has such requirement? And also that the archer can just run away and those two or more people won't be able to do anything about it?

Not to mention that argument is completely invalid when there's 2 or more archers, because even unless they're completely braindead they will kill their alleged counter-class with most simple crossfire.

I get that you feel threatened because so far ranged was such an easy and convenient way to play but it seems that there's some deep fallacy in the archers perspective if you see nothing wrong with game mechanics that makes it extremely difficult to fight against you unless they heavily outnumber you and cooperate just to kill you, one guy.



BTW. Question to cmp/devs: out of curiosty, with new WSE system etc. could crosshair sway be added?
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: dado on December 03, 2011, 11:09:22 am
ah yess dado

this should be the new movement!

make a topic nao!
nah , i will spamm cmp and chadz with this picture until they ban me or remove ladders :D
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Prpavi on December 03, 2011, 11:52:56 am
make a topic so the whole community spamms them with it!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 03, 2011, 12:38:36 pm
I'm no admin (god forbid) but if I was and if you ever requested a name change (while it was not allowed) from Blind Guy into a Stupid Guy I'd accept it and abuse the system willingly within a second, just because you deserve it, even if it meant for chadz to strip me off my admin duties.

That's a great argument style: can't counter my point so you call me stupid. Looks like YOU need to apply for that namechange, from Gnjus to Im_Butthurt_that_I_cant_dodge_so_it_MUST_be_the_games_fault. You never even THOUGHT for a second about it: Blackbow is lvl 33 for example: YES hes gonna rape ppl quickly and effectively from range, same as a good 2hander at lvl 33 walks thru large melees, dropping players left and right with a single swing, while swords and axes bounce from his face and chest.

Then guess what: he clears out to other side of the battle, archers see him, they shoot him down in 3/4/5 arrows. But if they dont, and he gets to them: He kills them in 1/2 hits. Unless you make archers viable in melee again, you cannot nerf their ranged abilities. I think we can ALL agree now that the issue IS archers AND Daveclones being ROOFMONKEYS, not archers being OP. Because while I dont miss platearchers 1hitting everything they focus on in a single hit from 3 miles off, I also don't miss the way you USED to rush to an archer to see them pull out a Poleaxe bigger than yours, swing it faster and kill off another 20 players in melee.

Also, while he is being elitist about it, Jambi is right: The good archers DONT camp the roofs. I didnt mainly because with how innacurate a MW longbow is at 6PD, I wanted to make nice shots, so I would be right behind my teammates, shooting enemies as they try to engage with my mates.

Removing ladders seems an extreme measure, since they can be fun, but maybe limiting them to siege is the easiest solution without any class having its heirlooms rendered useless once again...
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gnjus on December 03, 2011, 12:45:14 pm
That's a great argument style: can't counter my point so you call me stupid. Looks like YOU need to apply for that namechange, from Gnjus to Im_Butthurt_that_I_cant_dodge_so_it_MUST_be_the_games_fault. You never even THOUGHT for a second about it: Blackbow is lvl 33 for example: YES hes gonna rape ppl quickly and effectively from range, same as a good 2hander at lvl 33 walks thru large melees, dropping players left and right with a single swing, while swords and axes bounce from his face and chest.

Then guess what: he clears out to other side of the battle, archers see him, they shoot him down in 3/4/5 arrows. But if they dont, and he gets to them: He kills them in 1/2 hits. Unless you make archers viable in melee again, you cannot nerf their ranged abilities. I think we can ALL agree now that the issue IS archers AND Daveclones being ROOFMONKEYS, not archers being OP. Because while I dont miss platearchers 1hitting everything they focus on in a single hit from 3 miles off, I also don't miss the way you USED to rush to an archer to see them pull out a Poleaxe bigger than yours, swing it faster and kill off another 20 players in melee.

Also, while he is being elitist about it, Jambi is right: The good archers DONT camp the roofs. I didnt mainly because with how innacurate a MW longbow is at 6PD, I wanted to make nice shots, so I would be right behind my teammates, shooting enemies as they try to engage with my mates.

Removing ladders seems an extreme measure, since they can be fun, but maybe limiting them to siege is the easiest solution without any class having its heirlooms rendered useless once again...

Seriously - you should get a grip & pull yourself together, since most of your post is such a nonsense that I'm not even gonna bother with answering. Until then:
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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: dado on December 03, 2011, 12:49:41 pm
You never even THOUGHT for a second about it: Blackbow is lvl 33 for example: YES hes gonna rape ppl quickly and effectively from range, same as a good 2hander at lvl 33 walks thru large melees, dropping players left and right with a single swing, while swords and axes bounce from his face and chest.
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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 03, 2011, 12:51:51 pm
now i get why there is so much ranged spam in siege nowadays... they all came cos they have no more targets in battle...  :(
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Prpavi on December 03, 2011, 12:56:04 pm
bla bla... im so smart and "tactical"


and my igronre list grows stronger yet.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Frankysan on December 03, 2011, 12:58:03 pm
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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 03, 2011, 01:40:22 pm
i have 70 body armour and i find that a dedicated archer ( with looms ) will 3 shot me too

prepatch with 72 armor and 75hp, i could sustain 4-5 short range arrows and 1 arbalest bolt leaving me at 30%
post patch with 66 armor and 75hp, i could barely sustain 4 arrows. 1 arbalest bolt leaving me at 15%
short range headshots (bodkins, steel bolts) are still 1shot1kill even with klappvisier and that health amount.

now i roam around with 51 body armor (+2 lamellar, +3 mittens) and 58hp. i get regularily 2 shot under 10-20 meters and 3shot above 20 meters.

well i can live with it unless when i finally get near an archer he just start kiting while two other archers pops out leaving me in a death triangle.

xbowmen are fine anyway. they can't kite you by running and shooting and usually a xbowman will switch melee and start fighting.

Get rid off rooftops, and 92% of these Archers you named would suck terrible :-)

I still like to play on EU 1... if only it is to set an example for other "good" archers, that you dont need to camp rooftops to be on the top of the board.
If you want to breed haters as an archers, do it in a honorable way.
Make yourself a target, support your melee teammates, eliminate the good players on the enemy team.
Do not spam arrows from some hard to reach rooftop at random peasants. Its lame and not skillfull.
All-in-all dont go for the kills, go for the team.

But yeah, the amount of range spam is getting horrible.

Ive said it already so many times....
Nerf like they did too archers, remove there ability to hybrid. Give them same restrictions as archers have on armor/weapons.
Nerf Rooftops
Nerf the Hornbow,  unable use of bodkin arrows for 5 and less PD req bows. Nerf the speed.

And i think banner balance sometimes realy fucks up the teams. Sometimes you get 3 diffrent clan stacked up against a team of randomers

PS. if i were to give you names of good archers. i would name

Merc_Mustikki (my inspiration when i started playing cRPG)

DRZ_Nebun

DRZ_Hetman


maybe hetman_the_grey  :wink: he's an assault archer. hornbow and mace. he never run or kite, he just steamroll other archers and then focus on priority targets. when engaged, switch to melee and often gets ganked with honor.

nebun, kmc and sprut, are the best known rus archers. accuracy there is impressive.

you see, the points is not the good archers... the no-skilled archers just kite you forever since they never gave a shot to learn some basic melee stuff.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Bulzur on December 03, 2011, 01:44:34 pm
Too many archers and cav.

But when they've got a superior cavalry, that can pwn all our noob archers, then it's indeed a one sided battle.

Archers should learn how to shoot horses, before learning how to climb a ladder while having his bow drawn out. Just saying.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Idzo on December 03, 2011, 01:59:57 pm
Remove ladders....
Game is unplayable last days... 3 hits and you are doomed...

Something should be done about number of ranged... there are usualy several archers ft. almost every third person using xbow, if you add HA's...
You dont have to be genius to figure out that somethings wrong...

If you can't figure out some shit, than you can see all of that flyin' shit all around when you enter server, except if you aren't BlindGay...

Btw. sometimes there is too much cav, but you can handle that with long spear or pike.. ranged guys just run away and delay if Thomek's not on server  :mrgreen:


SMRT FAŠIZMU, SLOBODA NARODU!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 03, 2011, 02:39:40 pm
Remove ladders....
Game is unplayable last days... 3 hits and you are doomed...

Something should be done about number of ranged... there are usualy several archers ft. almost every third person using xbow, if you add HA's...
You dont have to be genius to figure out that somethings wrong...

If you can't figure out some shit, than you can see all of that flyin' shit all around when you enter server, except if you aren't BlindGay...

Btw. sometimes there is too much cav, but you can handle that with long spear or pike.. ranged guys just run away and delay if Thomek's not on server  :mrgreen:


SMRT FAŠIZMU, SLOBODA NARODU!

at least against cav you have a chance to fight back. instead dodging zillion flying stuff and being kited then surrounded in the end is not worth the time. that's also why a lot of people have ranged alts to log just in case... and then starts the ranged CoD: Medieval Warfare galore.

then people start switching to siege, ranged gets bored to play CoD in battle and join siege too. but at least in siege you can let the archers run to hell while you do your cap/defend duties.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Memento_Mori on December 03, 2011, 03:46:23 pm
Balance by classes or something, it's ridiculous versing a team with majority cav or archers when your team only has 2-3 archers/cav.



IMO make it so there's a chance of equal cav and archers on both team.

IMO get ladders out of battle
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: karasu on December 03, 2011, 03:47:33 pm
at least against cav you have a chance to fight back. instead dodging zillion flying stuff and being kited then surrounded in the end is not worth the time. that's also why a lot of people have ranged alts to log just in case... and then starts the ranged CoD: Medieval Warfare galore.

then people start switching to siege, ranged gets bored to play CoD in battle and join siege too. but at least in siege you can let the archers run to hell while you do your cap/defend duties.

Yep, been having fun playing with corrado, cora, mala, etc on siege lately, so much more rewarding than battle where you spawn and either you get insta lanced by gay cav hungering for free kills to boost the e-peen or getting 1 shot by running/camping ranged.  :oops:


I miss the good ol' times when was fun playing with actual good archers/supporters such as Tenne and the old Mustikki (he's so rusty now, shape up!) p.e., players who actually know what supporting means, not this new wave of terrible machinegunners that think they are great just cause they can spam 30 arrows in half a minute with pierce damage, which eventually it has to hit something hard, and when a challenge comes, they just run like little girls cause it's really hard to block 3 or 4 directions with a mouse  :rolleyes: .


Sheesh.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Leshma on December 03, 2011, 03:52:28 pm
You just jelly cause I gave my stuff to Xant :D
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: karasu on December 03, 2011, 03:52:58 pm
You just jelly cause I gave my stuff to Xant :D

Yesh, now i have to buy my own rus scale :<

I mean, love is over.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Leshma on December 03, 2011, 03:55:28 pm
I would give it to you if you weren't damn my old friendcher :P

Only 2Hs get to wear 2H gear!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: karasu on December 03, 2011, 03:56:14 pm
I would give it to you if you weren't damn friendly archer :P

Only 2Hs get to wear 2H gear!

Imma goin 1h shield next gen, and 2h prolly on the next.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Frankysan on December 03, 2011, 04:38:44 pm
at least against cav you have a chance to fight back. instead dodging zillion flying stuff and being kited then surrounded in the end is not worth the time. that's also why a lot of people have ranged alts to log just in case... and then starts the ranged CoD: Medieval Warfare galore.

then people start switching to siege, ranged gets bored to play CoD in battle and join siege too. but at least in siege you can let the archers run to hell while you do your cap/defend duties.
you got a point here. I actually prefer to walk in the open field and face cav with a no stab weapon than staying close to village and get shot into pieces.
HA are less of a problem compared to roofmonkeys too, easier to dodge (i guess harder to aim for them).
It's not about being a good/bad archer, we don't stand a chance of fighting back. About crossbows, how easy is to aim with those at medium range?i'm not talking about dave with over 170 wpf and arbalest, that's fair, but holy crap random guys often low level can snipe us from safe distance, supported ofc by 20 dedicated archers.
kiting may have been nerfed, i'll never ty enuff for removing jumpshots, but  you know what?
GIVE US BACK SOME ARMOR if you think bow dmg it's fine. If you are worried about PEWPEWERS no worries, they will still loose 2/3 health at least from all the ranged around.........since all of them keep shooting in melee and hide behide corners after TH... yes you do this all the time and all of you!
for those of you calling shit like "GET A SHIELD":
kinngrimm may not be very active lately, but if there's someone in this mod with a build wich can be considered "anti archer" is kinn. He's still shocked by the number of ppl shooting from different directions when engaged in melee fights...
come on don't you all guys find hilarious when you are in melee 1 on 3 still managing to survive and kill enemies, and you get finally shot in a feet by some sneaky bastard?
it's about numbers, is too viable bringing a gun to a knife fight atm  :mad:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: dado on December 03, 2011, 05:24:00 pm
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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Jambi on December 03, 2011, 10:09:09 pm
I get that you feel threatened because so far ranged was such an easy and convenient way to play but it seems that there's some deep fallacy in the archers perspective if you see nothing wrong with game mechanics that makes it extremely difficult to fight against you unless they heavily outnumber you and cooperate just to kill you, one guy.

Lewl, i would love to see you try play an archer like i do, good luck!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Jambi on December 03, 2011, 10:12:38 pm
If the devs wanted to fix the problem with the current ranged spam they should imho.

A. Increase the weight of the bows so they cant kite around all day an remove ladders archer´s can keep their High dmg pierce bodkins arrows but they will be forced to engage their counter classes such as shielder´s an cav.

B. Archer´s lose their bodkin arrows with pierce and only the longbow have the pierce dmg like before the archer buff but they can still kite all day an camp roofs but they will be forced to aim for weak spots to deal the same dmg as before.

I prefer A. Tbh since i don't mind the dmg archers deal but that you cant catch em or force em down for the roofs...

Its pretty plain an simple right now the only good counter to range is other ranged thus we have the current sick amount of ranged players...

If they devs really want´s more teamplay into cRPG why is it only the inf who have to play that way an not archers??

PS: im a shielder so dont give me the bring a shield argument  :wink:

Funny Tzar.

Awesome to see that most people whining about ranged are Strenght stacking characters. 1-2 hit people in melee and abuse polestagger.
But ontop of that they also want to faster then everyone else.

I suggest you play DC  Universe Tzar, you can play as a super hero there.  :lol:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Jambi on December 03, 2011, 10:15:38 pm
you see, the points is not the good archers... the no-skilled archers just kite you forever since they never gave a shot to learn some basic melee stuff.

Well, you've seen me hopefully. Its perfectly viable to use you bow even in melee, and especially to make shielders go wtf.. when you do the Jambi sidestep :D
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gurnisson on December 03, 2011, 10:16:52 pm
Funny Tzar.

Awesome to see that most people whining about ranged are Strenght stacking characters. 1-2 hit people in melee and abuse polestagger.

He's 1H shield, so he ain't busing polestagger anymore.

Also, I've been 30/9, 27/12 and now 21/18. The two first ones were frustrating because winning 1 vs. 4 and other type of gankings was next to impossible because you were basically a snail. The last one, the one I'm using now is frustrating because an archer with rus bow takes over 50 % of my health with one arrow. I doubt it's the strength stackers that whines because archers were tolerable for me when I used strength builds. :)
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Jambi on December 03, 2011, 10:22:19 pm
He's 1H shield, so he ain't busing polestagger anymore.

Also, I've been 30/9, 27/12 and now 21/18. The two first ones were frustrating because winning 1 vs. 4 and other type of gankings was next to impossible because you were basically a snail. The last one, the one I'm using now is frustrating because an archer with rus bow takes over 50 % of my health with one arrow. I doubt it's the strength stackers that whines because archers were tolerable for me when I used strength builds. :)

Meh people like 22nd_Phase still gets me alot. He has around 9 athletics, kills every kind of build he sees.. and survives thru most of the mid-rounds.
I tihnk most people just need more teamplay, L2P, show shield or gtfo :D

Hint: there's 0 req shields now... that you can use to get from Cover point A to Cover point B! wewewt!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 03, 2011, 10:23:31 pm
blablabla i'm hero blabla try to play like me blablabla

blablabla you trying to be a hero while I AM blablabla

you don't know who i am! you never saw me! i'll do the JAMBI SIDESTEP plus roundhouse AOE arrows volley of the dragon fire!

blah my build is blah blah technically STR nails bla bla but i'm jambi so blah blah

happens you have a brother playing cRPG? maybe called Olwen or LOLwen?
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gurnisson on December 03, 2011, 10:32:13 pm
Meh people like 22nd_Phase still gets me alot. He has around 9 athletics, kills every kind of build he sees.. and survives thru most of the mid-rounds.
I tihnk most people just need more teamplay, L2P, show shield or gtfo :D

Hint: there's 0 req shields now... that you can use to get from Cover point A to Cover point B! wewewt!

As a jack of all trades piker (long awlpike) I do expect to get raped by archers, because I can't carry a shield, and as long as I die to them while they're reachable, I find it fair. When the my old friends are hiding on a roof, it leaves me frustrated, and I would say rightly so. I know you're not that kind of archer, you're just a skilled archer supporting your team on the ground like archers should do, and I won't complain if such archers kill me

happens you have a brother playing cRPG? maybe called Olwen or LOLwen?

What's your point, silly?
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tzar on December 03, 2011, 10:42:04 pm
Funny Tzar.

Awesome to see that most people whining about ranged are Strenght stacking characters. 1-2 hit people in melee and abuse polestagger.
But ontop of that they also want to faster then everyone else.

I suggest you play DC  Universe Tzar, you can play as a super hero there.  :lol:

Since when did 15/24 make you a str whore?  :shock:

Also when i was polearm last gen i also had 15/24
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 03, 2011, 11:34:35 pm
What's your point, silly?

discovering great egos is fun.
trolling wannabe heroes is fun.
reading biased balance points by a one-man-army wannabes is fun.
olwen in the past, jambi today, me tomorrow?

no offense meant. boring saturday night, baby is sleeping, wife is watching supernatural episode 10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QBmTHwR3hg
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tzar on December 03, 2011, 11:44:04 pm
discovering great egos is fun.
trolling wannabe heroes is fun.
reading biased balance points by a one-man-army wannabes is fun.
olwen in the past, jambi today, me tomorrow?

no offense meant. boring saturday night, baby is sleeping, wife is watching supernatural episode 10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QBmTHwR3hg

You should come on our Ts for epic ego rage
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 04, 2011, 08:30:53 am
Yesterday it was quite weird to play when there was nice villagemaps going in rotation (no desert camping maps). Melee actually did quite well there and it surely was fun again. I also noticed quite a few good old 2h players taking shield or throwing in their builds. Maybe its all about map rotation and players actually picking their builds to suit current situation.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tristan on December 04, 2011, 11:31:09 am
Yes, it was nice to see a whole group of mercs online.

Yesterday I visited the American siege server and the whole reddit team played together.

This just reminds me what keeps me at warband. Teamplay.

I don't believe the right way to go about archery is to limit classses. Sorta opposite of what cRPG stands for aye?

But it might be needed to go back to pre-all_bows_have_pierce days.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 04, 2011, 11:54:12 am
Yes, it was nice to see a whole group of mercs online.

Yesterday I visited the American siege server and the whole reddit team played together.

well is not that hard when all the players speak their native language.
in EU we have a consistent number of people that can't read or write english so..

often i find me and few others trying to doing teamwork by typing spotted enemies, weak spots, ninja assaults. the remaining 70% of the team just climb ladders with gates open, kick teammates from ladders, destroy team ladders, random swing in the middle of his team, camp on a far tower with a toy bow or hide somewhere or wear barely legal gear to not get a leech kick poll.

sometimes instead (usually before or after a big strat battle), clans join the siege and you really see epic flag battles, a clan commando ladderstorming a weak spot, a clan tightly defending a good narrow flag access.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 04, 2011, 01:18:16 pm
discovering great egos is fun.
trolling wannabe heroes is fun.
reading biased balance points by a one-man-army wannabes is fun.

save internets billings and use mirror.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 04, 2011, 01:25:51 pm
save internets billings and use mirror.

this said by a blind guy sounds so funny...
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Grumbs on December 04, 2011, 03:02:12 pm
I just want to throw in two things that come to my mind that could perhaps, under certain circumstances and with a lot of luck shift the relation between ranged and melee fighters into the right direction again. Unlike usually this time I am everything but sure my suggestions are good, so I just mention them and explain them shortly, and someone might pick them up and either support or decline them.

1st: With WSE more or less anything is possible, that's at least what the devs said. How about dividing damage types into ranged an melee damage? This way you could make certain things (horses, armours, shields) extraordinarily resistant to ranged damage, while still being vulnerable to melee. Horses would be such an item, making light cavalry a better archer hunter. (Which, on the other hand, would make horse archers more of a bitch... hhmmm...  :? )

2nd: Perhaps it's the wrong approach to try to lower the amount of archers by nerfing them and making them unattractive? How about making the other classes, especially infantry more attractive? You could lower the item weight of shields and melee weapons. Of course this would buff cavalry as well, but item weight is not so much of a problem for them. Or you could make a bigger "gap" between the protection values of light and medium armour. I still say that infantry is the least attractive class of all three "supra-classes".

Nice ideas. Especially about using the WSE to balance better, like lighter shields. They could make the 1-2 skill shields lighter but less appealing to true sword & boarders (reduce speed?..kinda unintuitive but the idea is to allow 2 handers to be protected and not be overly weighed down, while not making them OP for 1 handers)

Another thing is to me if you apply all your damage from range you should get some kind of balancing to reflect that safety, like being a glass cannon. Even archers/crossbowmen can be quite heavily armoured and have the same HP as everyone else.

I was also thinking that it would be more "PVP" to encourage archers to priorities other archers / horses rather than melee fighters, by making their damage type unique for low armoured characters and making sure all range guys have low armour. Maybe chain or higher will do significantly less damage than leather/cloth and ensure range character will use that armour type. Also make the stagger or interrupt they do when they do damage based on the amount of damage they deal. ATM it seems as long as you hit someone they get the interrupt for the same length no matter the damage.

I'm also not sure about ladders. Where you place ladders can have a nice impact on a map and make people play it a bit differently. But they do make it so much easier for people to play safely like they're sniping in some FPS game. Maybe make it so you can't damage them? But then you will get griefing. I have a feeling just removing them is the easiest option but then the maps may be played the same way each time. They are very 1 dimensional atm and only used for archers to get into safe areas.

Personally I don't want a game without all the character types, ranged adds to the depth a bit imo and makes you approach situations differently to how you would if it was pure melee. But it feels a bit too "snipey" without the archers having to sacrifice much for their damage, either by putting themselves at risk or being encouraged to play strategically
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 04, 2011, 03:29:08 pm
 :)
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kraaken on December 04, 2011, 03:53:34 pm
I don't like the ideas about constraining and limiting the classes, I think the problem is the teamwork as it has been already mentioned before. It would be nice to have some kind of system encouraging teamplay (like more XP for assissting the leaders ) or better communication between the players.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 04, 2011, 04:35:14 pm
SOLUTION could be to keep multiplicator but also a system from before: XP for being in the fights, near the kills. So rangers still get XP, but melee players will be getting more. Encourage fighting/shooting nearby.

@GRUMBS: Archers DO try to target other archers, but depends on the awereness like all archer kills: Shooting unaware enemy is easier than aware enemy, like 10 times as easy: archers KNOW this so they move between shots and dodge without even being shot at. Melee players get concentrated on a fight, forget to keep dodging, bam. SO since ammo is limited, archer wishing to do most DMG and help his team most WILL target unaware fighters in melee because enemy archers are always watching for the dodge. But you know: Rock>Scissos>Paper>Rock>Scissos>Paper>Rock>Scissos>Paper>Rock>Scissos>Paper>Rock>Scissos>Paper>Rock>Scissos>Paper.......
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Joker86 on December 04, 2011, 05:25:53 pm
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Thanks, finally someone answered.

I don't know how much the following idea would go against the principle of cRPG for free character development, but how about changing the character skill system in the following way:

Next to strength and agility you get three more attributes, I will just call them Blue Blood (BB), Hawk Eye (HE) and Heavy Grunt (HG).

Now let's watch the skills (the numbers in the brackets show the relation between the skills and the corresponding attribute)

Agility skills are:

- athletics (1/4)
- riding (1/4)
- shield (1/4)
- horse archery (1/4)
- weapon master (1/4)

Strength skills are:

- Iron Flesh (1/4)
- Power Strike (1/4)
- Power Draw (1/4)
- Power Throw (1/4)

As you see, except of the relation of the needed skills nothing changes here.

Next to this you have the choice of unlocking ONE of the following skill trees:

Blue Blood

- Dressage Riding (1/3) [Riding Skill]
- Jousting (1/3) [Weapon Master]
- Melee training (1/3) [Power Strike]
- Defense (1/3) [Shield Skill]

Hawk Eye

- Strong Back (1/3) [Power Draw]
- Strong Shoulders (1/3) [Power Throw]
- Marksman (1/3)[Weapon Master]

Heavy Grunt

- Strong Right Arm (1/2) [Power Strike]
- Strong Feet (1/3) [Athletics]
- Strong Body (1/2) [Ironflesh]
- Strong Left Arm (1/2) [Shield Skill]
- Experienced Warrior (1/3) [Weapon Master]


As you can see some skills have received different names, but remain actually the same. Concerning the attributes all new attributes count as "Strength".

Technically it's easy:

The skills ingame remain the same. Only the skill screen on your character page gets some kind of "mask", and you can only change your skills via this mask.

Same skills and attributes get added. This means someone with Strength 6, Heavy Grunt 9, Iron Flesh 2 and Strong Body 4 has 15 stregth ingame (important for weapon difficulties) and Iron Flesh 6.

The Idea behind this is to limit the access to skills you class doesn't need really, and also balancing the different amounts of skills some classes need to work properly.

This is an example, of course, and please don't hang yourself up on some values, it's just an example to show how it could be made with making the skill system more complicated.

The only thing I think that could be more complicated is making the difficulty values for different weapons. E.g. a Flameberge could have difficulty 18 concerning "Heavy Grunt" points or difficulty 9 concerning "Strength" points. Or, for example, 1 Strength and 15 HG, 2 strength and 12 HG and so on. You get it? You have to waste your valuable class attribute points for strength to use weapons your class is not meant to have.

For example an axe could have Heavy Grunt difficulty 12, Hawk Eye difficulty 15 and strength difficulty 9.

Something like that. I already discovered a few flaws, but it's just a suggestion for thinking into a direction.  :wink:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Rage_Guy on December 04, 2011, 10:36:20 pm
bullshit,just remove pierce from bodkins
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: bonekuukkeli on December 04, 2011, 10:55:10 pm
Make it so that when you destroy ladder, it drops down as object you can use again. Like this melee at ground still have choise to rebuild ladders and reach those campers.

And... better map planning. There's really nice maps out there where archers ain't problem at all.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: SoA_Sir_ODHarry on December 04, 2011, 11:21:19 pm
the evil root of roofcampers are maps which allow it
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: rufio on December 05, 2011, 03:22:01 am
Here, just for you.

This is against Nord_Hans, lvl 27, 7pd 151archery wpf, +3 rus bow and +3 tatar arrows
On my character I got 18 strength, 2 ironflesh, 62 body armor:

Running towards;
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Standing still;
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And one of the shots when we tested did almost no dmg at all:
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Now I wonder how that would be against bodkins!
just thought id bump this up again, since its solid proofs, before paul comes in with his archer propaganda
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Lech on December 05, 2011, 10:57:35 am
Yeah Rufio, this is bullshit!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Paul on December 05, 2011, 11:33:05 am
Wat? I did similar tests and calculations. What is your point? My is that tatar and bodkins aren't that different damagewise after patch while people still hug that bodkins horribly OP myth. Do you want to take 6 arrows or more in your armor? Do you want archers only to shot other archers while you meleegay undisturbed? Also, get some more IF.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: rufio on December 05, 2011, 11:42:17 am
i have 21 str and 5 if paul, i think that is way more then the average player, but thx , and ofc be free to go on with ur game killing archer propaganda, and il keep lobbying against it
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Paul on December 05, 2011, 11:51:23 am
That's fucking bullshit. Archers are one of the weakest classes and without the roof camp thingy they will be fucked even more. And I still hope chadz will agree to ladder removal for battle at some point.
There had been a long history of archer nerfs and while I keep them in mind most people do forget them. PD wpf reduction, ammo nerf, damage nerf(in the beginning every bow/arrow was pierce), shot speed nerf, jump shot removal, armor restriction, melee weapon restiction (slot system), a lot slower than Native animations, etc.
As an individual in cRPG it usually sucks to be an archer. However for Strategus archers rule. That caused the increased amount of archer (mains) for me. People get shot more often and then rage about it.


Also you said that you have 2 IF before.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: justme on December 05, 2011, 11:52:42 am
Wat? I did similar tests and calculations. What is your point? My is that tatar and bodkins aren't that different damagewise after patch while people still hug that bodkins horribly OP myth. Do you want to take 6 arrows or more in your armor? Do you want archers only to shot other archers while you meleegay undisturbed? Also, get some more IF.

if you want them to make so much damage, why they need to be so precise? balance things ffs
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Lech on December 05, 2011, 12:03:43 pm
if you want them to make so much damage, why they need to be so precise? balance things ffs

It's better to create skill requirements than spray-and-pray class. Anyway, with my 15 STR and 3 IF i still am 2hit killed using 53 body armor (yep, 2 body shots), and 1 hit killed by xbow. I find it distasteful, as my armor don't really help against arrow despite huge cost, weight (speed reduction) and double-triple looms.

Archers aren't weakest class, they can run away from melee with impunity, thanks to high weight of shields and low weight of bows and quivers.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Leshma on December 05, 2011, 12:19:00 pm
That's fucking bullshit. Archers are one of the weakest classes and without the roof camp thingy they will be fucked even more. And I still hope chadz will agree to ladder removal for battle at some point.

Why don't you give them back melee abilities but in return nerf ranged damage a little bit. Cap number of quivers by 2 but make them take just one slot. Make bastard swords one slot. Give them more wpp so they can put at least 100 in melee proficiency. But don't forget to nerf ranged damage. Allow hybrid archers again, they are immensely more fun to play than this cowardly pure bullshit of an archer.

Good players are complete players and they will do good with such hybrid builds. Bad will still have crappy k/d because they are unexperienced.

And about you being worse archer than anything else: you live in Germany and have really good ping which grants you certain advantages in melee combat. You might have good response and fast reflexes which is very important on duel server but in battle experience is far more important and essential for archery. Maybe you're lacking battle experience, there are many archers who do very well but they aren't really good duelers, they just know how to play battle.

Also,

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archer nerfs:

PD wpf reduction

Melee fighters need armor to be super effective but if they choose to wear it they lose wpf, archers don't need armor as much so there must be some way for them to lose wpf if they want to be super effective. In other words it's not a nerf, it's a very good decision made by balancing crew.

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ammo nerf

It's a good thing. Before, when archers had 50 arrows to shoot, not a single archer cared about precision and aiming. They just spammed arrows like mad.


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-
-damage nerf,
-shot speed nerf,
-jump shot removal,
-armor restriction,
-melee weapon restiction (slot system),etc.

- damage was lulz in december 2010.
- shot speed LOLOL, in dec. 2010. bows were more like miniguns
- jumpshot is stupid and was abused too much, just like hiltslash is now abused
- dude, if archers were able to wear heavy armor without restrictions everyone would choose to play an archer, all others classes would be pointless, native is dead because of this
- slot system is bullshit, i agree

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As an individual in cRPG it usually sucks to be an archer.

Yet, many choose to play the class. I would play it myself if you would allow hybrids again because that hammer is kinda silly weapon although I'm able to kill many noobs with it :D
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 05, 2011, 12:34:04 pm
That's fucking bullshit. Archers are one of the weakest classes and without the roof camp thingy they will be fucked even more. And I still hope chadz will agree to ladder removal for battle at some point.
There had been a long history of archer nerfs and while I keep them in mind most people do forget them. PD wpf reduction, ammo nerf, damage nerf(in the beginning every bow/arrow was pierce), shot speed nerf, jump shot removal, armor restriction, melee weapon restiction (slot system), a lot slower than Native animations, etc.
As an individual in cRPG it usually sucks to be an archer. However for Strategus archers rule. That caused the increased amount of archer (mains) for me. People get shot more often and then rage about it.


Also you said that you have 2 IF before.

i had a level 39 archer back in the 230wpf 7PD spawn-to-spawn headshots+bec de corbin melee backup weapon era. back then, someone with a good aim and same good melee skills, could take out EASLY 10 enemies per round. pululu (sawa) anyone?

so talking about how retarded archer in native is and using that to say "archers got a lot of nerfs!" is not really objective.

2h got grounded a lot (morningstar crushthru removed, barmace crushthru removed, greatswords thrust nerf, weapon speed nerf every patch, armor nerf, no more agi adding 0.5% weapon speed)

if we should compare it to native too (as you did) is really gimped down to hell.

so...

also a lot of ranged start by playing 2h. they can't block shit for 1 week and instead keep training, just roll archer roofcamping mode (as they pretty much suck at melee. so 0 slot hammer to use for manual blocking is a no go.)

still good archers dominate strat and battles. and even in siege, concentrated fire really turn the round tides.

people keep adapting, so taking out discussing about the really old balance fixes, is meh.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Paul on December 05, 2011, 12:34:10 pm
Instead of damage or precision nerfs(latter is the death of skillbased archery) I would do this 3 point plan:

1) Get 'em off the roofs!
Simply remove ladders from battles. Ranged will be forced to fight from reachable places, making them much more vulnerable to cav(in the open) or sneaky inf (with buildings) attacks. Archers would probably suffer more from that because crossbowmen usually got an excellent awareness thanks to the reloading break. This would probalby encourage teamplay. chadz is against ladder removal as it is now though.

2) Don't let 'em get away!
Lower the ability to sprint for players with bows or xbows in the inventory. This will make turn&run less effective because for example a shielder could catch up while at the moment he is usually outpaced. Encourages teamplay together with inf.

3) Make 'em real men!
No melee weapon builds and equipment layouts of course lead to turn&run tactics. I would make it so that there is no real reason not to bring a sidearm for an archer. For that I would lower the maximum amount of ammo stacks to 2, probably only allow them in the 3rd and 4th equipment slot. With that archers should bring a melee weapon and maybe even make them stand and fight instead of running. Encourages teamplay even more because even if the archer can't kill the meleegay he can at least keep him busy with blocking until help arrives.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 05, 2011, 12:38:07 pm
Instead of damage or precision nerfs(latter is the death of skillbased archery) I would do this 3 point plan:

1) Get 'em off the roofs!
Simply remove ladders from battles. Ranged will be forced to fight from reachable places, making them much more vulnerable to cav(in the open) or sneaky inf (with buildings) attacks. Archers would probably suffer more from that because crossbowmen usually got an excellent awareness thanks to the reloading break. This would probalby encourage teamplay. chadz is against ladder removal as it is now though.

2) Don't let 'em get away!
Lower the ability to sprint for players with bows or xbows in the inventory. This will make turn&run less effective because for example a shielder could catch up while at the moment he is usually outpaced. Encourages teamplay together with inf.

3) Make 'em real men!
No melee weapon builds and equipment layouts of course lead to turn&run tactics. I would make it so that there is no real reason not to bring a sidearm for an archer. For that I would lower the maximum amount of ammo stacks to 2, probably only allow them in the 3rd and 4th equipment slot. With that archers should bring a melee weapon and maybe even make them stand and fight instead of running. Encourages teamplay even more because even if the archer can't kill the meleegay he can at least keep him busy with blocking until help arrives.

exactly. specially the last point as is the most annoying thing happening to this mod from a while.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gnjus on December 05, 2011, 12:42:08 pm
3) Make 'em real men!

This would require too many real-life spine-implantation surgeries and your donations can't cover it.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Prpavi on December 05, 2011, 01:26:13 pm
That's fucking bullshit. Archers are one of the weakest classes and without the roof camp thingy they will be fucked even more. And I still hope chadz will agree to ladder removal for battle at some point.
There had been a long history of archer nerfs and while I keep them in mind most people do forget them. PD wpf reduction, ammo nerf, damage nerf(in the beginning every bow/arrow was pierce), shot speed nerf, jump shot removal, armor restriction, melee weapon restiction (slot system), a lot slower than Native animations, etc.
As an individual in cRPG it usually sucks to be an archer. However for Strategus archers rule. That caused the increased amount of archer (mains) for me. People get shot more often and then rage about it.


Also you said that you have 2 IF before.

thx for the Hard Lolz in the morning.

Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Vibe on December 05, 2011, 01:58:24 pm
Instead of damage or precision nerfs(latter is the death of skillbased archery) I would do this 3 point plan:

1) Get 'em off the roofs!
Simply remove ladders from battles. Ranged will be forced to fight from reachable places, making them much more vulnerable to cav(in the open) or sneaky inf (with buildings) attacks. Archers would probably suffer more from that because crossbowmen usually got an excellent awareness thanks to the reloading break. This would probalby encourage teamplay. chadz is against ladder removal as it is now though.

2) Don't let 'em get away!
Lower the ability to sprint for players with bows or xbows in the inventory. This will make turn&run less effective because for example a shielder could catch up while at the moment he is usually outpaced. Encourages teamplay together with inf.

3) Make 'em real men!
No melee weapon builds and equipment layouts of course lead to turn&run tactics. I would make it so that there is no real reason not to bring a sidearm for an archer. For that I would lower the maximum amount of ammo stacks to 2, probably only allow them in the 3rd and 4th equipment slot. With that archers should bring a melee weapon and maybe even make them stand and fight instead of running. Encourages teamplay even more because even if the archer can't kill the meleegay he can at least keep him busy with blocking until help arrives.

Nice, I believe this would make battle server a bit more... bearable
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Templar_Ratigan on December 05, 2011, 02:15:40 pm
Eu 1 is terrible for very simple reasons.

Firstly it skips horribly.

Secondly it has way too many people.

and thirdly the teambalance is obviously atrocious.

But I doubt anything can be done about that.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: karasu on December 05, 2011, 04:32:50 pm
Instead of damage or precision nerfs(latter is the death of skillbased archery) I would do this 3 point plan:

1) Get 'em off the roofs!
Simply remove ladders from battles. Ranged will be forced to fight from reachable places, making them much more vulnerable to cav(in the open) or sneaky inf (with buildings) attacks. Archers would probably suffer more from that because crossbowmen usually got an excellent awareness thanks to the reloading break. This would probalby encourage teamplay. chadz is against ladder removal as it is now though.

2) Don't let 'em get away!
Lower the ability to sprint for players with bows or xbows in the inventory. This will make turn&run less effective because for example a shielder could catch up while at the moment he is usually outpaced. Encourages teamplay together with inf.

3) Make 'em real men!
No melee weapon builds and equipment layouts of course lead to turn&run tactics. I would make it so that there is no real reason not to bring a sidearm for an archer. For that I would lower the maximum amount of ammo stacks to 2, probably only allow them in the 3rd and 4th equipment slot. With that archers should bring a melee weapon and maybe even make them stand and fight instead of running. Encourages teamplay even more because even if the archer can't kill the meleegay he can at least keep him busy with blocking until help arrives.


Totally agree with 3) but the other two you simply can't have both at the same time. Taking this into account would make sense, not to even gimp the archer more (surviv-wise) but fix the ladder system in battle servers.

There are several methods to tweak this on battle servers imo, either make them unbreakable or extremely hard to break, make ladder unsheathable once again, limit the number of ladders available per round/map, get new admins to avoid constant game stalling  :oops:, etc.

A single decent shielder can go up that ladder and wreck havoc amongst the several camping players, a single decent arbalester can clear a rooftop 1 by 1 easily, damn even horsies can go to rooftops sometimes D:

These are just small tweaks that can easily avoid the "kill it with fire" easy option regarding archery.

Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Skysong on December 05, 2011, 05:01:56 pm
Problem is there are too much (or too often) village maps. So it becomes a roof fest.
Making roof unreachable is not enough also. We need some more open fields.
Some ruins/small walls/rivers/woods are ok in the field but no more village every round. 
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tristan on December 05, 2011, 05:12:03 pm
I love your signature Karasu :D
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 05, 2011, 06:27:00 pm
Problem is there are too much (or too often) village maps. So it becomes a roof fest.
Making roof unreachable is not enough also. We need some more open fields.
Some ruins/small walls/rivers/woods are ok in the field but no more village every round.

well we need urban warfare also. unreachable roofs are an improvement since you can't play just open maps or we'll see the old cav ruin-like spam back.


Totally agree with 3) but the other two you simply can't have both at the same time. Taking this into account would make sense, not to even gimp the archer more (surviv-wise) but fix the ladder system in battle servers.

There are several methods to tweak this on battle servers imo, either make them unbreakable or extremely hard to break, make ladder unsheathable once again, limit the number of ladders available per round/map, get new admins to avoid constant game stalling  :oops:, etc.

A single decent shielder can go up that ladder and wreck havoc amongst the several camping players, a single decent arbalester can clear a rooftop 1 by 1 easily, damn even horsies can go to rooftops sometimes D:

These are just small tweaks that can easily avoid the "kill it with fire" easy option regarding archery.



totally agree. there is no need to screw all things up. balance is achieved at little steps.. it's a too fragile variable.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Rage_Guy on December 05, 2011, 10:33:26 pm
When I joined crpg(may 2011) there was shittons of damn good maps,balanced for everyone(my old friend-chers,melee,backstabber cav)I really liked those maps,but now all maps look same for me roofs,roofs,villages,roofs.....
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlackMilk on December 05, 2011, 10:40:19 pm
Maps on Siege are even worse.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gomer on December 06, 2011, 02:05:14 am
Wow this is a post for a bunch of whiney bitches. Don't like the game? Don't play. I don't need to hear your shit. Arcvhers are fine it takes 3-4 arrows with 8pd for me to kill a medium armored guy so it's fair. There's tons of us... There's tons of melee! Don't remove ladders make them unbreakable in battle only breakable in sige. Shut your shit up about turn and shoot. It's luck if we kill you. It's a valid tactic. When 4 guys chase us around the map those 4 guys are out of the fight and therefor it's tactically applicable. SHUT UR SHIT UP STOP BITCHING

Btw Auto Balance is fine. The other day I was on a team of 20vs40 the 20 team won because auto balance is cool :P You hate auto balance when you lose and love it when you win. Shut your bitching up. chadz doesn't listen to bitching so if you have a valid complaint make one and stop your crying.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Xant on December 06, 2011, 02:09:02 am
stop bitching gomer
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 06, 2011, 02:14:27 am
Maps on Siege are even worse.

YEAH gotta hate those siege maps. With the castles, and the walls...its like, defense get such a big advantage being able to hang out on those towers. I mean, I LIKE attack, but hit hard.

Injustice.

/sarcasm

Your supposed to be killed in droves by rain of arrows in siege, that's why attackers get instant respaws while defenders have a coffee break each time they down.

I dont see archers complaining too much about the facts that: If they want to kill with arrows they sacrifice accuracy through PD, the new armour weights mean they MORE innacurate, they can either have ammo or a decent sidearm, they sacrifice ammo for PD, if they not aware they get raped by SILENT footed guys in plate armour who must have Sneak skill at 100 to be so quiet, cav that doesnt always make a noise before they are couch lanced, throwes who can one hit them while dodging.

WHY dont they complain too much? Answer: realistic perspective: EVERY other class rapes them in melee, they rape UNAWARE guys. Just that. Players who arent dodging, hiding, shielding, spamming mouse to banish hitboxes, too far away, behind teammates. Even then, with 6PD and a Rus/Longbow, 1 shot in 5 that you aim well at an unaware player just goes AWOL off at a tangent, arrows clip on buildings/poles/trees/walls/rocks where swords go right thru, sometimes the arrow just hits warpspeed and vanishes (Although this is still present, it has been much improved).

Im very sorry to who my opinion offends, but I still see 95% of players complaints about archers as the whine of players who just dont like getting shot cause they built 15/24 with all WPF in 2hander so they can be the epic hero their ego believes them to be. Guess what guys: best warrior from myth and legend is Achilles, and he died to arrow spam, just like Boromir.

Now go reroll with a shield and 7 athletics: have fun hunting archers in their dozens, I know I am.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gomer on December 06, 2011, 02:23:27 am
YEAH gotta hate those siege maps. With the castles, and the walls...its like, defense get such a big advantage being able to hang out on those towers. I mean, I LIKE attack, but hit hard.

Injustice.

/sarcasm

Your supposed to be killed in droves by rain of arrows in siege, that's why attackers get instant respaws while defenders have a coffee break each time they down.

I dont see archers complaining too much about the facts that: If they want to kill with arrows they sacrifice accuracy through PD, the new armour weights mean they MORE innacurate, they can either have ammo or a decent sidearm, they sacrifice ammo for PD, if they not aware they get raped by SILENT footed guys in plate armour who must have Sneak skill at 100 to be so quiet, cav that doesnt always make a noise before they are couch lanced, throwes who can one hit them while dodging.

WHY dont they complain too much? Answer: realistic perspective: EVERY other class rapes them in melee, they rape UNAWARE guys. Just that. Players who arent dodging, hiding, shielding, spamming mouse to banish hitboxes, too far away, behind teammates. Even then, with 6PD and a Rus/Longbow, 1 shot in 5 that you aim well at an unaware player just goes AWOL off at a tangent, arrows clip on buildings/poles/trees/walls/rocks where swords go right thru, sometimes the arrow just hits warpspeed and vanishes (Although this is still present, it has been much improved).

Im very sorry to who my opinion offends, but I still see 95% of players complaints about archers as the whine of players who just dont like getting shot cause they built 15/24 with all WPF in 2hander so they can be the epic hero their ego believes them to be. Guess what guys: best warrior from myth and legend is Achilles, and he died to arrow spam, just like Boromir.

Now go reroll with a shield and 7 athletics: have fun hunting archers in their dozens, I know I am.

This +100
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Joker86 on December 06, 2011, 04:14:23 am
You can write such a whine post about the bad life of almost any class.

Fact is, that playing an archer has some undeniable advantages, completely independat from certain item values. That's why ranged fighting prevailed over melee in history. It's those reasons that make archery be always more attractive than melee, considering the relation of effort and success. This won't change until you nerf archery down so much that it becomes almost unplayable, which is not what I want.

In my eyes an archer is not OP. The problem is, that a bunch of archers can protect each other, so that their comined strength doesn't get added, it's multiplied. That's why we have those problems on the servers. Ranged spam is not deadly because it is incrediby accurate or damagin, it's because it's spam! There is too much of it!

I think a point is reached where there is absolutely no sense in nerfing archers more (and I still say it's bundle of sticksry to choose ranged fighting in a game that has the focus on melee. It's like playing Hitman with the M60 light machine gun or snneaking around in Serious Sam: retarded. But everyone is free to do as he likes.

(Btw I created a "skip the fun"-archer this evening and connected to the server for a few minutes, just for testing. It's a totally retarded build with 10 PD, longbow and bodkins, I need half an hour to draw the bow, and I never really played an archer before, except of perhaps two hours a few weeks before the upkeep patch came. My character has a 4/4 - K/D - ratio now, of which I once killed the Nr. 6 and the Nr. 2 of the enemy team. Do not tell me ever again archery needs any special skills, it's easy mode fighting with LMB. I would like to see an archer play a melee character the first time and kill the Nr. 6 and Nr. 2 of the enemy team at an overall K/D of 1:1...)

The point is that as you can't make archers less attractive any more without crippling them totally, you need to make the other classes more attractive, especially infantry. I made a few suggestions, but I know the devs don't care anyway. But I hope they see that balancing the values of bows and arrows is not the solution.

P.S.: Archers are gay.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlackMilk on December 06, 2011, 07:05:36 am
Wow this is a post for a bunch of whiney bitches. Don't like the game? Don't play. I don't need to hear your shit. Arcvhers are fine it takes 3-4 arrows with 8pd for me to kill a medium armored guy so it's fair. There's tons of us... There's tons of melee! Don't remove ladders make them unbreakable in battle only breakable in sige. Shut your shit up about turn and shoot. It's luck if we kill you. It's a valid tactic. When 4 guys chase us around the map those 4 guys are out of the fight and therefor it's tactically applicable. SHUT UR SHIT UP STOP BITCHING

Btw Auto Balance is fine. The other day I was on a team of 20vs40 the 20 team won because auto balance is cool :P You hate auto balance when you lose and love it when you win. Shut your bitching up. chadz doesn't listen to bitching so if you have a valid complaint make one and stop your crying.
Nevermind dude, just nevermind.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gomer on December 06, 2011, 07:49:05 am
Nevermind dude, just nevermind.
Dude... I read this post and it made me angry. Yes this game needs improvements. Melee fighters complain about archers ans Cav because they get killed by them. Nerf us till we do no dmg right? Please shut up we got nerfed enough. LEAVE Britney ALONE
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gomer on December 06, 2011, 07:51:34 am
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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: polkafranzi on December 06, 2011, 08:26:20 am
Arcvhers are fine it takes 3-4 arrows with 8pd for me to kill a medium armored guy so it's fair.

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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 06, 2011, 08:57:29 am
Btw Auto Balance is fine.

many many times i fought in 15vs25-30 and sometimes winning just to see the red text "you don't get a bonus multiplicator. Team1-14500 Team2-234356736345345635767

i even saw a 8vs25. elite players in team1, peasants and average jam in team2. team1 obviously won with the 8 players doing a race bout the score. so no...

autobalance "should" mix high teamvalue players with low teamvalue players.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Prpavi on December 06, 2011, 09:12:41 am
Wow this is a post for a bunch of whiney bitches. Don't like the game? Don't play. I don't need to hear your shit. Arcvhers are fine it takes 3-4 arrows with 8pd for me to kill a medium armored guy so it's fair.

So i did a test right now on EU 1

i was going for an archer called Blackbow_the_Pimp trying to dodge the arrows but not really basically running at him.

im wearing lordly milanese plate and lordly plate mittens with 21 STR 100% HP and 4 IF.

He had Rus Bow and Bodkins.

I was dead in exactly 3 arrows, no headshots, all 3 bodyshots.

You tell me if that is "balanced" or "viable"

cheers

ure full of shit brah  :wink:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 06, 2011, 10:33:51 am
Arcvhers are fine it takes 3-4 arrows with 8pd for me to kill a medium armored guy so it's fair.

SHUT UR SHIT UP STOP BITCHING

 :lol: :lol:

3-4 arrows with pd8 on say a 45 armor "guy"?

with this maybe...

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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gheritarish le Loki on December 06, 2011, 12:25:48 pm
c'mon guys don't be harsh with the archer lobbying services! and get a shield! (euh, no in fact it's useless, but...)

Btw, it's funny that you never see good archer posting in such thread....
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 06, 2011, 12:30:43 pm
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many many times i fought in 15vs25-30 and sometimes winning just to see the red text "you don't get a bonus multiplicator. Team1-14500 Team2-234356736345345635767

i even saw a 8vs25. elite players in team1, peasants and average jam in team2. team1 obviously won with the 8 players doing a race bout the score. so no...

autobalance "should" mix high teamvalue players with low teamvalue players.

Well, that or if Autobalance has set the teams, and less than 5% of that teams "value" according to the autobalancer leaves/quits/dc's during the round, there SHOULD be a multi for it, since the balancer worked the teams out as fair, then claimed them not to be fair...
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Fartface on December 06, 2011, 02:33:43 pm
Get a shield.
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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Fartface on December 06, 2011, 02:34:56 pm
many many times i fought in 15vs25-30 and sometimes winning just to see the red text "you don't get a bonus multiplicator. Team1-14500 Team2-234356736345345635767

i even saw a 8vs25. elite players in team1, peasants and average jam in team2. team1 obviously won with the 8 players doing a race bout the score. so no...

autobalance "should" mix high teamvalue players with low teamvalue players.
It is because ur awesome.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 06, 2011, 03:03:37 pm
It is because ur awesome.

uhm no. never said i was in the elite commandos team  :mrgreen:

... but why AN everywhere?  :?
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Prpavi on December 07, 2011, 11:40:02 am
lol the situation on EU 1 atm is horrible, only 40-50 ppl most of them ranged, shotguns around every corner, easy topping the charts with and archer troll alt.

come one come all we having fun!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 07, 2011, 01:03:56 pm
lol the situation on EU 1 atm is horrible, only 40-50 ppl most of them ranged, shotguns around every corner, easy topping the charts with and archer troll alt.

come one come all we having fun!

i think there is no point playing a game if isn't fun. that's why i don't play normal battles anymore. pity the ranged assjam start to infest siege servers too.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlindGuy on December 07, 2011, 04:36:19 pm
lol the situation on EU 1 atm is horrible, only 40-50 ppl most of them ranged, shotguns around every corner, easy topping the charts with and archer troll alt.

come one come all we having fun!

Im fine with the idea that you dont like ranged so much, but dont like and say you were topping the server...with anything...
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Camaris on December 07, 2011, 04:43:08 pm
i think there is no point playing a game if isn't fun. that's why i don't play normal battles anymore. pity the ranged assjam start to infest siege servers too.

lol yeah played siege today and over 50% of my deaths were by ranged.
go back to your roofs in battle.....
actually in siege they did very well. a lot of archers got really good stats
and were in the top scores.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 07, 2011, 05:04:34 pm
lol yeah played siege today and over 50% of my deaths were by ranged.
go back to your roofs in battle.....
actually in siege they did very well. a lot of archers got really good stats
and were in the top scores.

yes but at least if you get headshot at the spawn, you respawn again in seconds.. we can even live with that .. while in battle no. so less pain...
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Fartface on December 07, 2011, 05:22:42 pm
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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Blondin on December 07, 2011, 05:24:07 pm
Get a brain?

(Sorry, was easy).

Anyway, plz stay on battle server don't come to siege!
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Fartface on December 07, 2011, 05:29:08 pm
Get a brain?

(Sorry, was easy).

Anyway, plz stay on battle server don't come to siege!
I remember the times i had one... Good times  good times :mrgreen: .
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Turboflex on December 07, 2011, 05:59:20 pm
yes but at least if you get headshot at the spawn, you respawn again in seconds.. we can even live with that .. while in battle no. so less pain...

Also on siege archers are bad at fighting on flag, so they can be annoying but probably won't be affecting match much (besides if there is large archer imbalance causing the team with more archers to lose)
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: polkafranzi on December 07, 2011, 06:39:22 pm
an = a, e, i, o, u.

a = b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gurnisson on December 07, 2011, 07:01:10 pm
an = a, e, i, o, u.

a = b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z.

An hour
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: polkafranzi on December 07, 2011, 07:08:44 pm
An hour

There are always exceptions, but the general rule is fix.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gurnisson on December 07, 2011, 07:28:00 pm
I know. :lol:
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Fartface on December 07, 2011, 08:39:50 pm
an = a, e, i, o, u.

a = b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z.
What is this?
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Teeth on December 07, 2011, 08:44:46 pm
Devs should either start playing their own game, or get some advisors that are objective and play the game and have them point out the obvious flaws in this game. Battle is getting less and less fun for me.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on December 07, 2011, 09:27:23 pm
What is this?

something you need to study  :lol:

Devs should either start playing their own game, or get some advisors that are objective and play the game and have them point out the obvious flaws in this game. Battle is getting less and less fun for me.

edit it before a "buy a shield!" mob scream flood the thread!

no seriously... we need a "ranged only" server...

If Mohammed will not go to the mountain...
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Teeth on December 07, 2011, 09:48:38 pm
I want to change my vote, I voted 'Main problem is ladders to roofs , the amount of ranged is fine.' It isn't, its getting worse, the amount of archers is going berserk. There is too much ranged on the server. And they deal too much damage.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: BlackMilk on December 07, 2011, 09:57:56 pm
I <3 Melee only Server.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Teeth on December 07, 2011, 10:00:32 pm
I <3 Melee only Server.
Me too, its fun, sadly for some reason I have a 130 ms on all not official servers since today. EU 1 is making me cry a little.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Leshma on December 07, 2011, 10:05:39 pm
edit it before a "buy a shield!" mob scream flood the thread!

And when you get shot while holding the shield up don't whine how it's unfair, just remember this fact:

Get a fucking shield or stand behind a tree if you don't want to get shot, ranged units served a vital purpose in middle age battles.

Agincourt.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: The_Angle on December 07, 2011, 10:17:21 pm
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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tzar on December 07, 2011, 10:31:20 pm
Remove ladders ffs plz just do it all rdy god...
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 07, 2011, 10:47:46 pm
What is this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb4jn5y94g

On subject :

"The path of the righteous melee is beset on all sides, By the inequities of the archers and the tyranny of crossbowmen.
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, Shepherds the noobs through the valley of arrowstorms,
For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost fun.
And I will remove ladders upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger Those who attempt to poison and destroy cRPG.
And you will know my name is the Player when I lay my vengeance upon thee."
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tzar on December 07, 2011, 11:41:51 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb4jn5y94g

On subject :

"The path of the righteous melee is beset on all sides, By the inequities of the archers and the tyranny of crossbowmen.
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, Shepherds the noobs through the valley of arrowstorms,
For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost fun.
And I will remove ladders upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger Those who attempt to poison and destroy cRPG.
And you will know my name is the Player when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

Thx new sig an also i can just see Samuel jackson preaching that shit mayn
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 08, 2011, 12:49:37 am
Thx new sig an also i can just see Samuel jackson preaching that shit mayn

Thank you too !


May that glorious sig invade this forum.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Banok on December 08, 2011, 03:42:53 am
This is why its not fun anymore

http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,18246.msg260707.html#msg260707
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Tzar on December 08, 2011, 07:54:55 am
Thank you too !


May that glorious sig invade this forum.

Made a few changes to that sig hope u don't mind lol
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gnjus on December 08, 2011, 09:55:19 am
We have a saying here, which is like: "One who works - makes mistakes". Now we know why chadz loves peasant archers so much that he doesn't wanna remove the ladders from battle servers:

Heavy spoiler incoming, content not safe for viewing & working, especially if you're animals friend:

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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Fartface on December 08, 2011, 10:02:40 am
something you need to study  :lol:
Me and studying you nuts?
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Overdriven on December 08, 2011, 12:39:55 pm
I want to change my vote, I voted 'Main problem is ladders to roofs , the amount of ranged is fine.' It isn't, its getting worse, the amount of archers is going berserk. There is too much ranged on the server. And they deal too much damage.

Funny thing is it can often be anti whatever threads that increase numbers. I remember the anti-HA thread that went on for pages and pages. Before that thread, there were around maybe 4-5 regular HA's on the EU servers. After that thread reached 15 pages or so, suddenly there was a huge jump in HA alts and we were suddenly regularly seeing 5 or more in a server at once. These 'zomg its OP and killing the mod' threads actually just make the situation worse because people gravitate towards something if it's said to be to strong.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gurnisson on December 08, 2011, 12:46:30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb4jn5y94g

On subject :

"The path of the righteous melee is beset on all sides, By the inequities of the archers and the tyranny of crossbowmen.
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, Shepherds the noobs through the valley of arrowstorms,
For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost fun.
And I will remove ladders upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger Those who attempt to poison and destroy cRPG.
And you will know my name is the Player when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

I love that scene and that movie, but you're cavalry which means you're not as innocent either. 8-)
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: djavo on December 08, 2011, 01:00:22 pm

Heavy spoiler incoming, content not safe for viewing & working, especially if you're animals friend:

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Heavy spoiler incoming, content not safe for viewing & working, especially if you're animals friend:

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Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 08, 2011, 03:04:10 pm
Buhu archers are so mean to me buhu.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 08, 2011, 03:35:21 pm
Made a few changes to that sig hope u don't mind lol

Nope. However, your font is shit.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Teeth on December 08, 2011, 05:22:27 pm
Funny thing is it can often be anti whatever threads that increase numbers. I remember the anti-HA thread that went on for pages and pages. Before that thread, there were around maybe 4-5 regular HA's on the EU servers. After that thread reached 15 pages or so, suddenly there was a huge jump in HA alts and we were suddenly regularly seeing 5 or more in a server at once. These 'zomg its OP and killing the mod' threads actually just make the situation worse because people gravitate towards something if it's said to be to strong.
Which is great, I have been recently convinced that making the ranged spam worse and worse is the only way devs are ever going to fix it. So look for my archer alt soon. If 50% of the server is archer and hundreds of players start leaving cRPG, they'll probably stop and think that something is wrong.

This thread is not at all a zomg its OP mod. AFAIK its actually underpowered individually, but should be nerfed further because the class is hugely popular and needs to be inferior to keep the percentage of archers reasonable.

If they would just remove the ladder 80% of my issue with this would be solved. The other 20% I'm able to live with. If the devs don't see the need for that, they should start playing their own fucking mod, alternatively they could listen to the community. I think the majority definitely thinks that ladders should be gone and have good reasons for that.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 08, 2011, 06:27:36 pm
Which is great, I have been recently convinced that making the ranged spam worse and worse is the only way devs are ever going to fix it. So look for my archer alt soon. If 50% of the server is archer and hundreds of players start leaving cRPG, they'll probably stop and think that something is wrong.

This thread is not at all a zomg its OP mod. AFAIK its actually underpowered individually, but should be nerfed further because the class is hugely popular and needs to be inferior to keep the percentage of archers reasonable.

If they would just remove the ladder 80% of my issue with this would be solved. The other 20% I'm able to live with. If the devs don't see the need for that, they should start playing their own fucking mod, alternatively they could listen to the community. I think the majority definitely thinks that ladders should be gone and have good reasons for that.


Indeed. But alas everything in the mod is done to force you into choosing your class and sticking with it. Playing alts doesn't give you anything. That way players can't react to balance changes and things seem more balanced/less broken than what they really are.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Vibe on December 09, 2011, 08:55:38 am
Played about 4 maps yesterday on EU_1. Every map pretty much every single archer was on the roof.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 09, 2011, 09:13:47 am
Played about 4 maps yesterday on EU_1. Every map pretty much every single archer was on the roof.


Let me guess, someone stole your sweet roll ? half the "warriors" of each team were on the roofs ?
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Vibe on December 09, 2011, 09:25:52 am

Let me guess, someone stole your sweet roll ? half the "warriors" of each team were on the roofs ?

Pretty much. Whenever I force myself to play on battle server I regret it soon after joining.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Dalhi on December 09, 2011, 07:25:38 pm
Fuckin' great  :rolleyes:


I just joined battle server for the first time in last few days just to get spawn raped by cav...  :rolleyes: fucki this, I'm going back on siege server.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: HarunYahya on December 10, 2011, 03:39:50 am
I found the solution.
Wear no armor get a crossbow + shield + 1 slot 2h weapon like mace and enjoy your WW1 alike battle.
Move from cover to cover and shoot behind trenches .
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Kafein on December 10, 2011, 12:49:42 pm
I found the solution.
Wear no armor get a crossbow + shield + 1 slot 2h weapon like mace and enjoy your WW1 alike battle.
Move from cover to cover and shoot behind trenches .

Like playing BF3 on that horrible metro map, on conquest mode with 64 players. Totally like WW1.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Remy on December 10, 2011, 04:29:34 pm
It may just be that I have not played an endless number of rounds, but coming back after a month of no activity I find the game essentially exactly the way I left it.

Both as a HA(main) and a 2H(alternate).

That being said roof camping is still a bit much and  I think it would be interesting to add more of an objective to battle. (Such as Master of the Field spawning much earlier, to force some movements).

Finally, as others have said the problem is the balance and number of archers, not the abilities or power of a archers as a class. When the teams are fairly balanced in regards to classes and skill then it is actually seems to work quite well.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Christo on December 10, 2011, 04:32:11 pm
I think it would be interesting to add more of an objective to battle. (Such as Master of the Field spawning much earlier, to force some movements.)

What he said.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Teeth on December 13, 2011, 05:07:45 pm
Instead of damage or precision nerfs(latter is the death of skillbased archery) I would do this 3 point plan:

1) Get 'em off the roofs!
Simply remove ladders from battles. Ranged will be forced to fight from reachable places, making them much more vulnerable to cav(in the open) or sneaky inf (with buildings) attacks. Archers would probably suffer more from that because crossbowmen usually got an excellent awareness thanks to the reloading break. This would probalby encourage teamplay. chadz is against ladder removal as it is now though.

2) Don't let 'em get away!
Lower the ability to sprint for players with bows or xbows in the inventory. This will make turn&run less effective because for example a shielder could catch up while at the moment he is usually outpaced. Encourages teamplay together with inf.

3) Make 'em real men!
No melee weapon builds and equipment layouts of course lead to turn&run tactics. I would make it so that there is no real reason not to bring a sidearm for an archer. For that I would lower the maximum amount of ammo stacks to 2, probably only allow them in the 3rd and 4th equipment slot. With that archers should bring a melee weapon and maybe even make them stand and fight instead of running. Encourages teamplay even more because even if the archer can't kill the meleegay he can at least keep him busy with blocking until help arrives.
Oh my god, I missed this post. Paul is agreeing with the community without trying to be funny! Now tell chadz to stop crying cause his precious ladders will still be on strat and siege, or tell him to play a few hours on EU_1 as his polearm character.

Donkeys can't climb ladders, so why does he love them so much? chadz elaborate on your love for ladders! Everyone can see they are slowly wrecking battle mode.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Thomek on December 14, 2011, 01:03:44 am
I'd say let's meet in the middle first and see how it goes.

Make ladders more exclusive, 3 or 4 slots for the smaller ones too (or all, simply)

I see why ladders are a cool feature, just its a problem that every pure 2h or pole, or many shielders can bring them, even archers with 1 slot bows and 1 quiver.. or xbowmen etc..

with 3 slots ladders, no ranged can carry them without loosing their ranged ability, and pole and 2h would nerf themselves to inferior weapons if they choose to bring ladders.

With 4 slots ladders, only the most hardcore teamplayer with a self sacrificing mind would bring them. Players sacrificing themselves for the team or multi is pretty rare...

Anyhow I think such a change would make roofcamping a rare occurence, rather than every single map.. Perhaps.

Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: hippy_with_a_scimi on December 14, 2011, 01:05:17 am
I'd say let's meet in the middle first and see how it goes.

Make ladders more exclusive, 3 or 4 slots for the smaller ones too (or all, simply)

I see why ladders are a cool feature, just its a problem that every pure 2h or pole, or many shielders can bring them, even archers with 1 slot bows and 1 quiver.. or xbowmen etc..

with 3 slots ladders, no ranged can carry them without loosing their ranged ability, and pole and 2h would nerf themselves to inferior weapons if they choose to bring ladders.

With 4 slots ladders, only the most hardcore teamplayer with a self sacrificing mind would bring them. Players sacrificing themselves for the team or multi is pretty rare...

Anyhow I think such a change would make roofcamping a rare occurence, rather than every single map.. Perhaps.


that is a great suggestion Thomek   +1
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: polkafranzi on December 14, 2011, 01:09:06 am
With 4 slots ladders, only the most hardcore teamplayer with a self sacrificing mind would bring them. Players sacrificing themselves for the team or multi is pretty rare...

These people will be heroes with their 0slot weapon, those suggestions are all win Thomek would like to see them implemented.
Title: Re: [POLL] About EU_1 Battle.Why its no fun anymore ? Or is it fun ?
Post by: Vexus on December 14, 2011, 01:11:45 am
I'm surprised they didn't make them 2-3 slots from the get go when slots where implemented I mean it's an obvious thing to do but what am I talking for it seems chadz loves roof campers.