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Title: slowpikes
Post by: no_rules_just_play on May 02, 2013, 05:51:12 pm
i wanted to post this in technical forums, but i know i would get a warning.

basically: if i use transitional armor and a pike and bonk uses his full plate and a great maul, bonk is faster then me. If I use my cuir bouilli and a pike, he is about the same speed.

If he comes at me with his overhead ready, i have to hold an overhead and either try to run away while backpeddeling with my block up or try to get around him. The only problem is that if i try to get around him he releases his attack seemingly about to miss me but than drags his weapon over the ground to hit my foot. which obviously does knockdown. If i backpeddle in any armor with my block up he is way faster then me.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Zlisch_The_Butcher on May 02, 2013, 05:57:31 pm
You can like run in the other direction instead of just S keying, pretty sure bonk got 0 ath, you could also learn to properly also drop your pike and take out your sidearm, not crutch plate, have the 18 other HREs on your team on siege kill him for you.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Casimir on May 02, 2013, 06:02:06 pm
using a longspear with 0 wpf has convinced me that there is absolutely nothing UP about such weapons.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: no_rules_just_play on May 02, 2013, 06:21:07 pm
my problem isnt really that i am so slow. but that bonk still can be so fast.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Ulter on May 02, 2013, 06:54:50 pm
You presented the situation as a 1 vs 1 fight. The game should not be balanced around duels.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Casimir on May 02, 2013, 06:56:42 pm
Also aren't mauls basically the most effective melee counter to thrust based polearms?
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: no_rules_just_play on May 02, 2013, 06:57:40 pm
bonk should be slow as fuck in his plate with his super heavy gear and a 36/9 build

i have a 15/24 build. i think you get my point.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: sF_Guardian on May 02, 2013, 07:06:14 pm
Pike is not a dueling weapon and a maulers is the Pike's worst counter.
Get this point and stop whining about the game not being perfectly suited to
your playstyle.
Mauls got nerfed over and over, I can lolspam nearly every mauler with my HBS.

EDIT: to say something friendlier:

Pike slows you down as fuck because of it's lengt decrases your running speed.
Armor weight decreases effective WPF and running speed, the attack speed
stays pretty fast with low WPF, though.

Sometimes it's better to change the playstyle than to whine about mechanics.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on May 02, 2013, 07:07:00 pm
i think you get my point.

I think I get your point

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Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: no_rules_just_play on May 02, 2013, 07:17:30 pm
its not only about the 'maul' its the fact that a plated guy outruns a piker
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Zlisch_The_Butcher on May 02, 2013, 07:21:05 pm
its not only about the 'maul' its the fact that a plated guy outruns a piker
Which is pretty fucking fair.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: no_rules_just_play on May 02, 2013, 07:22:14 pm
3 athletics fullplate bundle of sticks outrunning a 8 athletics tryhard because fuck you he has a long stick?
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Gurnisson on May 02, 2013, 07:31:48 pm
Why would you go 15/24 and use transitional and cuir bouilli? I'd go with more strength if you're going to wear such heavy gear.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: sF_Guardian on May 02, 2013, 07:39:05 pm
You need str for heavier gear like Gurni mentioned and also its pretty dammn needed to keep the roflcopters at slow running speed.
You know, balance and such stuff (although STR builds ain't balanced very well atm but thats a different story).
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Rhaelys on May 02, 2013, 07:46:24 pm
It sounds about right. You are looking at the situation from a biased perspective, complaining that a full plate 3 ath person with a great maul running forward is faster than you can backpedal with 8 athletics and a 300 length pike.

If you want to actually use your 8 athletics to your advantage, try equipping a shorter weapon because weapon length directly reduces movement speed.

Also a Great Maul vs a Pike 1v1 should go in the Great Maul's favor 99% of the time.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Jack1 on May 02, 2013, 07:52:11 pm
Or a choice would be to just run with the W key away from him.... An not wait for him to catch up and hold overhead.

Anyways pole arms such as pikes are support weapons, thus should not leave the pack.

Maul wins 100%
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Torben on May 02, 2013, 07:54:43 pm
its not only about the 'maul' its the fact that a plated guy outruns a piker

Florian (thats me) in plate could outrun a backpedaling usain bolt with a 2 meter stick in his hand,  no problem.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Kafein on May 02, 2013, 08:16:04 pm
Weapon length reduces your movement speed.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: no_rules_just_play on May 03, 2013, 06:04:10 am
It sounds about right. You are looking at the situation from a biased perspective, complaining that a full plate 3 ath person with a great maul running forward is faster than you can backpedal with 8 athletics and a 300 length pike.

If you want to actually use your 8 athletics to your advantage, try equipping a shorter weapon because weapon length directly reduces movement speed.

Also a Great Maul vs a Pike 1v1 should go in the Great Maul's favor 99% of the time.
i was talking about running forward.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Rhaelys on May 03, 2013, 07:08:26 am
i was talking about running forward.

i wanted to post this in technical forums, but i know i would get a warning.

basically: if i use transitional armor and a pike and bonk uses his full plate and a great maul, bonk is faster then me. If I use my cuir bouilli and a pike, he is about the same speed.

If he comes at me with his overhead ready, i have to hold an overhead and either try to run away while backpeddeling with my block up or try to get around him. The only problem is that if i try to get around him he releases his attack seemingly about to miss me but than drags his weapon over the ground to hit my foot. which obviously does knockdown. If i backpeddle in any armor with my block up he is way faster then me.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: no_rules_just_play on May 03, 2013, 07:26:13 am
basically: if i use transitional armor and a pike and bonk uses his full plate and a great maul, bonk is faster then me. If I use my cuir bouilli and a pike, he is about the same speed.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Zlisch_The_Butcher on May 03, 2013, 07:45:44 am

Which is pretty fucking fair.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Kafein on May 03, 2013, 10:15:48 am
Yeah I don't see the problem with that. Long sticks making you slow on your feet is pretty much the same logic as quivers slowing archers down.
Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Count_Grishnackh on May 04, 2013, 11:42:25 pm
Consider the following: When you are using a pike, you are running around with a 3m long stick which was made to kill people from that particular range. Meanwhile, your opponent, the mauler has an 8kg heavy rock glued to a stick which is like 80cm long, made to violently rape people from THAT particular range.
Also when you release a swing with an 8kg heavy maul you can't stop it and it will gain speed.
ALSO you have 5315 sidearms on you, why don't you just use them?

Title: Re: slowpikes
Post by: Count_Grishnackh on May 04, 2013, 11:43:57 pm
3 athletics fullplate bundle of sticks outrunning a 8 athletics tryhard because fuck you he has a long stick?
Have you ever tried pole vaulting?