Pirates, Vikings & Knights II Released

[MJ]

so is this dm with swords and axes?

[Skjalg]

so is this dm with swords and axes?

Hm.. Its more to it than that, for one theres ranged weaponry in there too, and theres 4 different game modes.. But yes, you kill other people with weapons.

[MrBaracuda]

Pretty boring compared to the old one. Plus it has lost most of its charme.

[Spellbinder]

Downloading and installing now!

[Cybbe]

I'll try that.

I can usually hold my own 1 on 1 (pirates for life) but due to the confined nature of most of the maps it usually ends up 3 on 1

Got a 6 kill with the powder keg earlier, everyone was fighting each other and I rolled it in the middle

Also, don't underestimate the strength of a cutlass once you master blocking. I've meleed several vikings and won as a pirate. Same procedure goes as with the knights, although if you're fast, you can squeeze two hits in for each time you block him. Otherwise, stick to a defensive position and only pull off one hit per block.

And you'll even pull through with enough health to take on another viking! Yaaargh!

[Rick_D]

i posted my thoughts over at their forum after playing it on release night:

http://www.pvkii.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2283

personally i think it has a lot of potential and is pretty damn good for such an early release

[Spellbinder]

Awsome review/critism of Rick_D and wilco there! Good job guys. I played 2 maps early in the morning and i like it so far and i will try it out more.

[Zacker]

Fantastic to hear that you got a public release finished guys! It sounds like you did a great job on it.

[Evert]

Looked great from what I saw.

Are there any experience-gaining ala natural selection planned/in it?

Like getting to be captain if playing as pirate, an even bigger knight with spikes 'n shit on his armor, and the viking could be well...a fat viking.

[FrieChamp]

The feedback has just been great, and we have more players than the might and magic game has

Owned

Sounds great guys, I'll give it a whirl later!

[JAL]

I'm enjoying the game so far. Congrats to Skjalg and teh team.

[Ginger Lord]

Yeah its a very polished first release, raises the bar for other mod teams

*grumble*

I guess you already had the tried and tested format from PVK so thats half the battle won.

[Mazy]

Cool guys, I'll check it out when I get home~

[Ginger Lord]

Well I tried playing with Skalg's tips, doesnt seem to make too much difference.

Vikings seem to run faster than you can back and combined with a charged up big fucking axe attack with a seemingly huge hit radius is getting annoying now.

I'm seeing the axe come down 3-5ft away from me ingame and dieing from it, could be lag but I've not seen a margin as big as that in any other Source Game.

Knights however, are not easy to kill, but fun and possible. Vikings just seem to be spamwhores Especially as everyone seems to join the Viking team now knowing their power!

I think I'd do a few things, reduce the range on the axes and tweak the damage down a bit. Or reduce the 2 weapon fire rate by about half or perhaps even make the player have to use both LMB and RMB, tap alternatly to attack? Could be interesting and the lack of a block could allow the damage to stay the same.

Also some little sound when your special meter is full, it usually fills up in manic combat and I always miss it, or dont have time to look up before I get pounced on by another 3 vikings

Edit: Was on island or whatever one it is you have to get the treasure chests and the Vikings won with 2 guys, they just got the chests slowly and then just went crazy around their ship, the knights could just about take it with 3-4 of them but with 4 pirates we couldnt do a thing

[KoKo5oVaR]

That game is just GREAT

seriously, congrats to you and your team skjalg, you did a very nice work. It's just too fun to insult the other player while fighting a duel

the gameplay is really smooth, maps are nice thought

the only critic i'd have, is that my poor PC doesn't stand more than 5 players at the same time it brings down my fps, so it's really hard to play on servers with more than 15 players :/