BETA Access, which allows you to play the BETA version of the game before the official release.It was the type of mutual, agreed upon sportsmanship that you rarely find online these days. You’d initiate a duel by flicking the mouse and down and crouching to simulate a bow and then fight it out. Early on there weren’t even official ‘Duel’ game modes, so instead players would host servers with custom “honor system” rules that you’d respect two people dueling and wait your turn off to the side. When I used to play the original Chivalry pretty much daily, I mostly did so as a duelist. That new battle size is immediately put to good use because at the start of each match, a “commander” NPC on each side is giving a speech to get the troops riled up and the bloodbath begins with a classic medieval charge towards the middle where steel meets steel. Now, we’re fighting it out with 32 warriors fighting for the blue and white, aka Agatha Knights, against 32 warriors on the red and black, aka Mason Order. Epic BattlefieldsPerhaps the most exciting part about Chivalry 2 is the massive 64-player battlefield size. You can even keep fighting with a missing limb or get back on your feet after getting knocked down if you beat to death your opponent with your bare hands before they finish the job. It’s truly a “by any means necessary” ordeal here. I’ve tossed lumber at enemies, used decapitated heads as rocks to toss at opponents, and at one point even chucked a Blacksmith’s anvil. Speaking of which-you can pick up and use pretty much anything you see. Limbs get lopped off left and right and seeing heads roll is as common as a stray arrow on the battlefield.
Chivalry 2 doesn’t shy away from blood and gore either. Those intricate moments of back-and-forth between two warriors are sacred and special, rivaling even the best duels from Game of Thrones. Just be careful-friendly fire is a very real concern in this game and you have to always be aware of where your weapon is swinging. It’s absolutely exhilarating to block a slash to your side, flick the mouse up and swing down at their head as you clang off their sword, side-step away from their stab, and crouch down to swipe at their waist, kick their guard, and finish them off with a stab to the heart. I can’t think of many games that can cause my adrenaline to spike so rapidly as when I’m in the middle of a tense 1v1 fight to the death in Chivalry. If you block perfectly enough, it’ll stagger them back a bit and give you an opening to counter and-better yet-if you can anticipate their exact strike and replicate it back after a perfect parry then it’s an almost always guaranteed hit.ĭueling another skilled combatant in Chivalry 2 feels like an aggressive, highly-competitive dance. Blocking attacks is a careful exchange because you essentially have to line up your weapon with the tip of theirs at just the right moment. But when you’re on the receiving end is where the real skill comes out. Combat in Chivalry is one of the best examples in a game ever of “easy to learn, difficult to master” as the concept of swinging and aiming your sword is dead simple. I played with mouse & keyboard mostly in first-person (you can switch to third-person now, if you want) and after a couple of games the muscle memory started to kick in. Of course you can get more complex if you’d like by feinting, comboing attacks together, and turning your body into swings to try and land the start of the attack sooner on your enemies. In Chivalry, everyone has three basic attacks with their melee weapons: horizontal slash, vertical slash, and a stab. Mashing the ‘yell’ button while running down a hillside with my allies really gets you in the mood immediately. And most importantly, there is that perfect balance of Monty Python-style humor mixed with weighty and visceral medieval battles. There are still a mixture of game modes from the more straight-forward Team Deathmatch to the grand and cinematic Team Objective modes.
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