2 slot items

[Nemeth]

It's Gnjus, just shoot him in the back when he's in his glorious melee combat and feed on his rage. 

[Gnjus]

You're so bitter, Gnjus

Sure, lets pretend for a moment that i am.....and now please tell me which part of my post was wrong ?

You can call me bitter all you want but you know I'm right. 

[Gurnisson]

Hm, well, I remember a decent amount of guys I played alongside during strategus battles, but apart from that, you're pretty much right in your observations.

[Chagan_Arslan]

i wonder if the 2 slots will deal with the pike in the pocket people ^^

[Elmetiacos]

+1

aside of that i see no reason why there shouldn't be a reset (except for pissing majority of players off and a few stacked looms of noob barmace - still not valid reason why the others should suffer too)

I mean a character reset as we had before, not a database wipe...

[Nemeth]

i wonder if the 2 slots will deal with the pike in the pocket people ^^

Pikes are gonna be drop only, meaning that if you have pike in your hands, whenever you switch to other weapon or try to sheath the pike, you will drop it on the ground.
For slower people - no more pocket pikes. ^^

[Tears of Destiny]

Yay! I can make a dedicated piker alt! Just think of the armor I can wear regularly if the only weapon upkeep is that cheap pike! This could be fun! I do enjoy piking aroung.

[Darkkarma]

This limits shielders to "nothing" unless you want to take throwing axes. When I've fought on foot, I've always had an axe on my back for if my shield broke; I never realised before how OP and abusive I was being. Again, why not just give everyone three slots instead of four?

For every person doing things fairly like you, several are greatly abusing the capabilities of equip slots. Also, a shielder with a broken shield just manual block with their sword. It actually works quite well, especially pierce and blunt damage ones!

[Zisa]

Pikes are gonna be drop only, meaning that if you have pike in your hands, whenever you switch to other weapon or try to sheath the pike, you will drop it on the ground.
For slower people - no more pocket pikes. ^^

eh?
Drop only?
Who thought this up and why did they think this was someohow going to add to gameplay?
I do not use pikes, I think they are cheap cos I am an elitist snob, but this seems punitive.

[Cup1d]

...and what would a dedicated archer know about teamwork ? Back in Strategos you were able to solve most of the battles on your own, i bet you never even remembered the names of the people who fought alongside you, they were here only to die while you sharpshoot your enemies from a safe spot 2 miles away from combat, mostly headshots.......i sure hope the developers dont have any intensions to bring that kind of "teamwork" back to us..........

Oh and protip: watch my squad when there is at least 5 or 6 of us online......it will help you to understand the meaning of teamwork, whether we camp or charge, and we do both.
Too bad this mod still allows your kind of dedicated archer Rambos to be rather successful, but even such scumbags cant do much against proper teamwork.

Yes, I saw this «crushtrough teamwork» at second floor of ruins (or ruined fort map, or river).
But you speak about «teamwork» and I about «tactics». See difference?
«Halp me», «take my pike», «shoot this cav» or «backpedal and I shoot him» - its about teamwork.
«Crossfire», «cavalry flanking», «pikiner line», «tactical retreat», «advantage ground defence»,  timed maneuvres, uses of cavalry, infantry, ranged, obstacles simultaneously - its about tactics.

 

[Elmetiacos]

Pikes are gonna be drop only, meaning that if you have pike in your hands, whenever you switch to other weapon or try to sheath the pike, you will drop it on the ground.
For slower people - no more pocket pikes. ^^

Hah! Didn't I say I'd retire and give up cavalry only for cavalry to get a buff? Here it is! It won't be that much of a buff, though, because too many people now have got good a timing a swing to take out a horse with a sword or axe.

[DarkFox]

There is one thing that scares me in this slot system.Most of people while playing ranged will not use melee weapon=more running away,more gay jumping.

[Baron_Settmour]

There is one thing that scares me in this slot system.Most of people while playing ranged will not use melee weapon=more running away,more gay jumping.

They can run but they always usually die. And if they are not stupid, they will just keep a 1H melee weapon besides their bow and some arrows. On Sterling_Archer, I always carry a soldier's cleaver besides my arrows and bow.

[Dach]

I'm clearly enjoying this post of rage since the last patch I've mostly only used 1 slot of the four disponible. (Except while playing archer. Duh arrows take slots.)

Also even with archery, finally the lesser arrows will get some use. While playing my archer with 2 stack of bodkin arrows I've rarely missed some, even with me being the last survivor.

chadz you rule! 

[Gorath]

Twas about bloody time. 


Also, @Darkkarma: basically it will force you to stay near your shielding teammate if you want to survive longer, which kinda makes sense. We are fighting medieval battles here, not some "im gonna Rambo everything on my own" medieval unrealistic shooter. At least this mod should thrive to get things done "properly".

Your "point" to Darkkarma fails utterly since it relies on some implied sense of historical realism.  Also successful trained x-bowmen in said historical reality were equipped with melee weapons they were well trained in the use of, and had deployable pavise shields to use for cover.