The Most Realistic Swordfighting Game Just Added a SHIELD Character!

[@NotSimo]

Waiting for Polish bros to drop some sick lore in the comment section like they always do

[@xyzak47-pl]

This character is based, and also based around a real historical women. There was an entire fight in the comments under the update with her around historical accuracy.

[@leonlumisaw6517]

One of her titles "she wolf" could be translated as Wilczyca Stepowa/Kresowa. Which is conencted with womens of Cossacks, outlaw noblemans and other hajduks (bandtis). They were as cruel as the 17th century Ruthenia and Ukraine used to be in general. They were raiding churches, other noblemans properties and caravans. Very often fighting with kind of bounty hunters like Dydyńscy brothers, Tatars, Commonwealth army or private armies of noblemans. We even have a word for armed robber on city/village of one nobleman by the band of other and It's called "zajazd".

[@Kefireqs]

simo u dum dum in polish "ludzicka" u dont merge c and k they make together more of a tsk sound with the a on the end its tska ludzi-tska

[@ChillDudelD]

@@leonlumisaw6517 Also to add some context for the less historically literate: in the 17th century, Ruthenia and Ukraine meaning Poland (part of the Polish Crown), just fyi.

[@SumPolishGuy]

I’m Polish and I have no idea about any lore in this, but I can tell you that from 1573-1764 we had an electoral monarchy

[@leonlumisaw6517]

I'm gonna handle It.

[@pawtter_ink]

Hmm ah yes that EU4 polish event we all love

[@figard9855]

Kubold to polskie studio, gra jest tak naprawdę położona w chyba 17 wiecznej Polsce

[@konqist2558]

On bierze te historie głównie z książki prawem i lewem o konfliktach szlachty ruskiej (chodzi o dawne województwo ktorego stolica byl Lwów) tam występują te postacie

[@LaxenLarsson]

Sorry to hear it

[@malahamavet]

Bandit Bae unlocked "i can fix her" said everyone before dying

[@NotSimo]

Lmao I can fix her is wiiiiiiild

[@Steve-gz3sy]

@@NotSimo hey whos to say I wasnt knocked out at the start of the duel and held prisoner against my will? 😉😉

[@mas-z6d]

"I can make her worse"

[@angryeliteultragree6329]

I can kinda understand why there’s no armored guys, but a landsknecht with a Zweihander might be a neat addition to this game.

[@dinofelis9343]

*Landsknecht

[@baronprocrastination1722]

Those aren't mutually exclusive, though? You could just have the guy wear just the arming doublet and he'd still be fit for this game. Though, the Zwei is definitely a fair bigger than most other weapons in this game, though. They're more equivalent to spears or halberds than longswords and sabers.

[@angryeliteultragree6329]

@@baronprocrastination1722 yeah, that’s what I was thinking. That one guy with armor who was the bossfight was op.

[@me67galaxylife]

hum you could just have one off-duty without his armor on ? it's not like people lived with their armors y'know ? you'd remove your armor for most duels or at least possibly be caught without it if attacked

[@saltysocks1074]

Honestly, I'm just waiting for the samurai I think we all know it's coming and is a question of when rather than if

[@Leona_pits]

Waiting for a full plate armor knight to be in the game

[@grass-touched]

I'm waiting for the boomstick gun guy

[@TITANia69420]

Bro, Samuel with Partial Armor already turned him into a boss character. Someone Fully Armoured is gonna be a nightmare

[@raed1642]

Isn't the game set in like the late 17th century? It's pike and shot era not much full plate armors still in use at that time

[@xyzak47-pl]

@@raed1642 It was used on Sweden.

[@pyark]

It's set in the 17th century, so at most people would wear half plate in battle. But these are duels and in those plate wasn't used anymore.

[@calistodorren]

Allexander (doubles guy) is genuinely a solid counter to Maryna, I did a Hema fight against her and was able to hold a 10-20 pts lead on her even on 5💀Diffaculty (48 pts tally)

[@Gamereal6286]

You would think the other characters are smart enough to use a buckler or something and well then she appears and laughs into your face. I love her design so much, especially the "What a pity, oh well, back to looting ☺️" speech. Not to mention you did well in the boss fight, because we know how annoying Samuel is. Maryna, one of the best characters right now.

[@pyark]

Fun fact, it is actually because walking around with a shield would make you look like you wanted to get into fights, while having just a sword was more acceptable. In civil and judicial duels shields were very frowned upon and usually not allowed unless agreed upon beforehand.

[@NotSimo]

@@pyark Very interesting!

[@havingfun-u4g]

@@pyark It would also just be very annoying to carry a shield with you at all times.

[@charliebeareuwu]

Yep, and she's absurdly overpowered lol. She's very hard to hit, the shield almost constantly covers her. She often uses it to deflect your weapon and then cut at the exact same time. As one would do when fighting with a shield and weapon, it's not unrealistic or anything. Just op to fight against her with nothing but a single weapon. And I'm a Kalkstein main, and he's considered a rather high-tier character

[@BabyWhaleFilms]

It’s a game, fun should come first!

[@Steve-gz3sy]

this is actually the reason shields were not allowed in duels unless they we dueling shields witch are more comparable to other dueling off hand weapons like cloaks

[@danielflanard8274]

I would presume that she has already been banned from tournaments for this game if they exist.

[@charliebeareuwu]

@@danielflanard8274 they do. I haven't participated in any, and I don't know for sure, but I would imagine so

[@plebeian3671]

@@danielflanard8274 nope, not banned from tourneys, the way to beat her is that you simply can not fight her like you would any other character, essentially forget ripostes, time her attack with yours or block 1 or 2 attacks and grapple/push/punch/kick her or riposte with side attacks to get around her shield. It's definitely doable but as someone who likes fighting with swords in a sword fighting game, it's very annoying to be forced to use grapple (though side combos do work if your character has decent side combos facing her left hand)

[@NedimTheCreep]

A kazakh woman(turkic) named she-wolf is so wholesome because in turkic mythology, all turkic people come from a she-wolf called Asena.

[@ChillDudelD]

She's not Kazakh but Polish/Ruthenian.

[@mergenocide]

I love how so much of her moves remind me of the recreations by Roland Warzecha. I wonder if they took direct inspiration for the detail on the animations or they simply came from the same sources.

[@damnimbored25]

I'm not polish and I also don't know anything about her but I can tell you without any doubt is that I can 100% fix her, that is not an opinion it is a fact, a cold stone fact.

[@NotSimo]

This is what your bro tells you everytime a week before you have to deal with the aftermath of her breaking his geart

[@Steve-gz3sy]

to be fair bandits probably didnt kill as many people as soldiers did

[@ХристоВасилев-б7у]

Still waiting for greatsword character for berserk time

[@tekken.universal2343]

There is a longsword character............................................greatsword is for countering pike formations not for duels most of the time reson is its slowness and unwieldines compared to smaller weapon

[@yaroslavnedzelskyi8117]

She is no Kazakh, she is Ruthenian, a.k.a. Ukrainian. Kozak - is a type of a light-armoured (or not armoured at all) light horseman, just like the earliest hussars of 15th century and the hussars of Napoleonic Era

[@ChillDudelD]

Polish or Polish-Ruthenian.

[@theodortemplar2881]

Well, actually, Cossacks are not just horsemen. They are a social group of free peasants, who must pay for the right to use the land with a military service. In Russian Empire Cossacks typically lived close to borders and acted as border guard, as well as a highly mobile units, that can be mustered up in times of war very quickly. Basically, peasants, who know how to use arms and have weapons at their homes.

[@yaroslavnedzelskyi8117]

@@theodortemplar2881 To be highly mobile one requires to be a light cavalryman. In moscovite empire? Yes, they were peasants. They were stripped off all their rights. But in the times prior to occupation of Ruthenia (a.k.a. Ukraine - Ruthenia is the original name of the land, just as Ruthenians is the original ethnonym of Ukrainians) by the moscovites, during the period of the Commonwealth, they had the status of shlyachta (a.k.a. minor nobility), at least the registered ones - no matter if they owned private land or estates, or none at all

[@theodortemplar2881]

@@yaroslavnedzelskyi8117 I never said that they WEREN'T cavalrymen. Just pointed the fact, that Cossacks were way more then just a light cavalry unit from some RTS game. Everyone seem to be treating Cossacks like if they were just "Eastern European skins for lancers". Idk if in Ruthenia Cossacks were considered nobles, but in Tsardom of Moscow (as well as in Russian Empire later) they were distinguished from serfs and had their own duties and privileges. Unlike average peasants, who were indeed stripped of all their rights, Cossacks didn't had to pay tribute to feudals and couldn't have their land taken from them. And in return, they had a duty to protect the country from raiders and invading enemies, as well as go to war when king summons them, and bring their own equipment, weapons and horses with them, unlike peasant militia, who must be supplied by the feudal. And by "highly mobile" I mostly meant that they can be gathered and sent to war quickly, unlike peasant militia, who must be trained and equipped first.

[@vorynrosethorn903]

Most actually peasant militia in Russia served in logistics or manual labour such as the construction of fortifications or the maintenance of roads. The peasant militias referred to in older Soviet sources were military serfs, they usually came out of impoverished gentry who bond their military skill to a patron in return for land or upkeep (monastic lands in particular had large military potential in the form of this type of serf). The times of troubles were particularly bad because many of these people were abandoned during the famines and turned into roving bands or the leadership caste of bandits, many joined the cossacks. The Cossacks were off in the wildlands, and despite attempts to control them they tended to be rather difficult. They would later become a social estate proudly upholding their traditions and privileges by acting as colonizers who could protect the borders themselves. They had a lot in common with the Turkic nomads culturally, but were ethnically Slavic (in spite of quite a bit of involuntary intermixing due to them turning the practice of bride catching back round on many local groups in the steppe), and religiously Orthodox (which to a greater or lesser extent meant that they had Orthodox political attitudes, they were monarchist and of mixed attitudes to the social order from the start, they merely wanted it to favour them. As has been pointed out by recent historical research the depiction of the time of troubles as being a time of populist revolution is wrong. It was a struggle between members of the Nobility, Gentry and military servants/serfs (who as said were essentially bonded gentry), as well as the Cossacks, Polish and the Orthodox Church (who were key in the ideological perceptions of the conflicts, and intervened to end the period of instability, resulting in the ejection of the Polish and the election of the Romanovs). The early rebellions were a natural result of wider social problems (notably mass famine and economic disaster) with the loss of central legitimacy with the end of the dynasty conceived of in religious terms as the chosen of God, the miraculous survival of the heir to that dynasty led to the consolidation of marginalised local elites around that figure (notably serfs in the peasant sense took no active political role, and practically no military one), though over time wider conflicts between states, church's and noble houses came into play. It ended with the assertion of religious authority by the Church over the military classes and the election of an inoffensive candidate (a 16 year old boy, both of the highest social standing but also with links to the rebel faction, and indeed who's father would later serve as patriarch during his reign) and a reorientation to focus on the external threats who had only been emboldened in the interim.

[@LightPresident95148]

I would say that because actually all the characters don't exactly look like they're fighting on a battlefield, but more like they'd find themselves in a fight in a bar. So it makes sense that you rarely come across a shield here.

[@Connor_Stabler]

I think the reason the final boss of her Arcade mode was so difficult to kill was that his armor was actually blocking your attacks. I could hear the clanging occasionally when you hit him where it was covering his sides. That makes sense, since the game is trying to be realistic, and putting plate armor on someone you have to fight with a bladed weapon would definitely make them a boss fight, especially if you don't get armor yourself.

[@loneronin6813]

If they haven't planned to yet, I would love to see them add a Mongol warrior to this game. A Hussar would be cool, too! Also, I didn't catch the title of the book mentioned but if it has copies in English, I think it would be right up my alley so to speak.

[@OperatorMax1993]

Jacek is said to be a hussar, would be neat to see a Mongol warrior, even a Greek fighter

[@loneronin6813]

@@OperatorMax1993 Oh I didn't know he was a Hussar. A Greek fighter would be cool! :D

[@Steven-cf1ty]

The Mongols were a backwater state of the Qing by this point in history. Mongol soldiers wouldn't turn up in Poland or the Ukraine.

[@loneronin6813]

@@Steven-cf1ty Regardless, I think it would still be interesting.

[@Gyros-Judo]

missed you papa Simo

[@NotSimo]

A lot of banger videos coming in the future :)

[@bhrigubhatra5589]

​@@NotSimo Would love to see you take reworked Yendrek for a spin.

[@Gyros-Judo]

@@NotSimo can't wait for them 👏

[@Hetnaset]

Don't disregard Forward Y, it hits like a truck and from quite a long distance as well 😉.

[@dylangrizzle]

This game continues to look better and better. I'll certainly be getting this game at some point. 👍

[@joereynolds475]

A claymore welding highlander or gallowglass would be a cool addition as they did fight as mercanaries on the continent at this time period

[@konsyjes]

Word, on that cossack, 100% I'm waiting for him too. Thats my boi right there

[@nitrokid]

Simo, these are 2 obscure games (that I can think of) that has main characters as mercenaries 😂 - Hunted: The Demon's Forge - Cursed Crusade (this one has amazing combat animations and combos 🔥) Both games are janky and charming at the same time. Both also feature two protagonists working together, Army of Two style.

[@UnseenSpartan]

8:59 that was a straight up anime fight for a second 😮

[@ninjabot7945]

I love the katana, as I was trained with it before I got into other swords, but I wouldn't want a full on samurai in the game, but rather thai or korean swordsman that never get any kind of real media attention. A smagakdo swordsman would be an excellent addition

[@HeliosFish]

Incredible game balance from what i can tell as an observer.

[@chadthundercheeks4242]

“I cant let you get close” “fuckin amateur”

[@ThabBodyJab]

Wannanow!

[@Steve-gz3sy]

the problem with shields is they are good weapons and ARMOR

[@BadyearOakarus]

hellish quart at evo when

[@bulldogbryant5909]

They should add a Mongol warrior

[@Trolasso_Gazpachero]

Still waiting for the Verdadera destreza guy, even if its the Eddie Gordo of this game

[@Mountainmantech]

We need some mongolian, or Chinese warriors. And more guys with shields and protection

[@isirachehansa4886]

They should add hopelites Lore accurate hopelite might be too op

[@Zoro-fy3rr]

Yo love the vids simo , jordie dropped a fire new update . Will you be doing an another stream for it soon ?

[@ZecaPinto1]

That new character is 2 or 3 months old actually

[@saas52948]

kipchak classic

[@jamiegladwin]

@simo did anyone ever tell you, you sound like Manny Jacinto?

[@aurelHare]

Hey simo nice vid, i recognized the gwent music but could you tell me the rest of the songs names? thx

[@NotSimo]

Most of them are from the Hellish Quart OST, so just look that up on KZbin, there arent too many of them

[@aurelHare]

@@NotSimo Thanks mate!

[@chorglez]

I NEED a mace character

[@garretwoeller7669]

Greatsword user when

[@trainson7]

good shit

[@MitchellMcc]

ayo new vid :}

[@Ronin3453]

Buckler when?

[@nickcristy1773]

Notifs gang

[@komikherif5427]

-Realistic swordfighting game -Multiple female characters

[@akelenajem431]

Simo do a shinobido playthrough game my life is yours

[@NotSimo]

It's planned in the next 5 videos! Not a playthrough though, more of a review

[@akelenajem431]

@@NotSimo let's fucking gooooo . i noticed you dropped the names in on of you kenshi videos and was like wait other people know about this game

[@Matt-md5yt]

What? Noice

[@donski31]

bro dos'not heard for honor

[@Robisme]

Realistic? A shield ends all duels….. then comes plate armor. Then guns…..

[@ElliotPrice-lg7eg]

Hi

[@bigsmallgiant3751]

It's pronounced Hellish "Cart" by the way.

[@NotSimo]

Wait really? My whole life is a lie

[@larrywinton8]

Khazak?

[@leonlumisaw6517]

Like, she is not Khazak in 100%. She is from Rus Voievodenship of Commonwealth. So more like Cossacks vibes.

[@dayvancowboi9135]

i think he just got cossack and khazak jumbled

[@xyzak47-pl]

@@dayvancowboi9135 Nope - Shes ruthenian, that got her armor from Crimean Tatars.

[@ChillDudelD]

@@xyzak47-pl Poles used kałkans as their standard shields - in the 16-17th centuries that is.

[@ChillDudelD]

Polish or Polish-Ruthenian. Anyway, she's from Poland.

[@LLachs283]

Wrong, most realistig sword fight game is obviously soul calibur

[@Flawed-g4t]

I know i am weeb but i wish there were samurai in this game 😢

[@theodortemplar2881]

Preferably a black one.

[@kennedy072]

Samurai getting dominated because of how useless their techniques. A Chinese swordsman can do better.

[@nicolaspeigne1429]

we added a shiled but to make it fair, we gave it to a woman and she gets tired easily

[@briceonyoutube7215]

Ah yes an Islamic woman...

[@Sarcasticjab]

That's ukrainian or polish clothing/armor, not Islamic.

[@Professor_Genki7]

????

[@moosegoose3159]

>most realistic sword fighting game ever >keeps adding female characters

[@dumb214]

swords don't care about your gender...

[@falconstudios146]

Can confirm. I am a woman, and every time I try to hold a sword, it phases through my hand like a ghost. Women are physically incapable of holding weapons, and no woman has ever engaged in combat at any point in history ever.

[@dustronyt4565]

you'd be surprised by how many women were practicing sword fighting back then, especially among nobility. There's plenty of records, you just have to look 'em up

[@mergenocide]

@@dustronyt4565 Reactionary tourists do actual research? Nahhh easier to whine about minorities.

[@Steven-cf1ty]

​@@dustronyt4565yeah all the records (fictional characters and the extremely rare case of one or two women becoming murderers). Don't be silly lol

[@figard9855]

17:43 504 thats me!!!!!!

[@NotSimo]

Yooooooo you're right! Hahaha

[@stalhein62]

5:08 not historically accurate, 0/10 game 6:32 god damn Simo you have no idea how loud I laughed at this first round 7:52 it may be time to accept you're just not good with this character

[@Phantoms-e]

Can your be quiet. Please

[@stalhein62]

@@Phantoms-e no :-)

[@Phantoms-e]

@stalhein62 you don't need to analyze everything just enjoy the video. I get you want to have history in it but seriously. Note: I'm not being rude I'm just saying it's a little annoying when your pointing something out no one needs to know

[@stalhein62]

@@Phantoms-e cope :-)