The Shocking State of Mordhau in 2024

[@Stouty]

bro paid for mordhau coaching just to get told to play chiv 2 ✋💀🤚

[@sawmanUK]

Worth every penny

[@Cbibeau27]

I have 500 hours and only level 36

[@Cbibeau27]

I love mordhau

[@Cbibeau27]

​@@sawmanUKI got game for free from epic games is the most played game in epic

[@catedoge3206]

@@Cbibeau27 yuh

[@PlantFromDiscord]

i have played mordhau for around 2.1k hours, and i can say without a doubt that playing it like an idiot and throwing rocks or using stupid weapons is by far the best way to play

[@TMNTfever]

I remember adding rocks to one of my skirmish builds, and I got so many kills from people trying to run away from dying in a duel.

[@darkgreen9360]

I’ve been playing for years and the only thing I’m capable of is running around spamming V

[@reverand33]

Agreed. I spent more time in the character creation making game of thrones characters and dumb stuff like a guy that just throws frying pans.

[@unseenhero9726]

Yes minion build with rocks reigns supreme

[@cybernetic_crocodile8462]

The problem of Mordhau is, that the learning curve is so damn steep, that 90% of new players will fall out of game before they reach even mediocre level of fighting ability. In conjunction with the fact, that it is niche game, the population is small, and most of it are the absolute sweatlords with thousands hours in it, who are so good at the game and exploiting it, that from the perspective of newbie they are practicaly cheating. I kind of quit the game over year ago, and I can already see from just this video, that the community is pretty much the same people as back then.

[@EldeMonio-f8r]

I almost gave up but I discovered bear trap. Thank god.

[@cybernetic_crocodile8462]

@@EldeMonio-f8r *opponent falls into beartrap* "Oh hello!" *Plain laugh.mp4* *the ugliest MFer you ever saw pops out of nearby bush with Partisan, looking at downed opponent*

[@Catbeans99]

There is no learning curve, flail around like you are having a world record seizure, bending and twisting in ways that are impossible, then swing.

[@donnythedealer9761]

yeh man, its constantly sweaty people. So jarring cos its actually such an immersive medieval game

[@solomongorringe69]

Congrats, maybe next time watch the video before you comment. Instead of regurgitating everything in the vid.

[@thelordus]

imagine a proper single player experience like KCD or an MMO with a mordhau/chiv combat style... dream game

[@sawmanUK]

If only.... if only....

[@berthold64]

>MMO OH NONONONO LMAO

[@roddangerson2046]

Gross

[@thelordus]

played it a fair bit, promising but the combat needs serious work @@MuntCuncher69

[@motisu7362]

hum.. mortal online 2

[@Maxamili]

Sad to hear the devs abandon this game. I found this video because I was curious too see if the game was still active. Had a lot of fun playing Mordhau when it first came out.

[@voidling2632]

this aged like milk

[@booster1454]

@@voidling2632meh, the only difference I noticed since the update is more characters running around with the Arkanist mask looking like Destiny characters lol

[@An_Cummanach]

​@@voidling2632 2 updates in a full year ain't really the boast yoy think it is. Especially when both are mostly just armour and 1 map half full of reused assets.

[@TheShadowprototype]

@@voidling2632 Is still pretty much dead and abandoned for starved content, with the same sweaty sweatlords playing and abusing mechanics

[@sawmanUK]

12:25 the music got claimed even though its free to use apparently, so I have a short here: kzbin.infoxs3UAM90lSc Thanks for watching, leave a like if you want to see me play more Medieval games! Also Website: www.DogWaterGaming.com

[@picksleet9268]

Its unavailable the short

[@Sir_Qomorah]

Mordhau is not about becoming better and beating everyone. Mordhau is about absurd situations and deaths, naked dwarven children with hammers, chad lvl1 bowman, and other specific humor

[@TMNTfever]

I'm not sure if you're truly playing Mordhau if you don't kill your own teammate for hitting a bard, and then dancing on their corpse and using a med pack from an enemy, while also getting jerked off by them.

[@booster1454]

Exactly, I’m a fairly new player (lvl 43) and I’ve been more concerned with learning how to use the interaction menu rather than learning how to deck every single player I see. It makes the game that much more enjoyable when you can randomly hold full on conversations with enemies while others are fighting, it’s funny as hell. And makes the game not enraging at all when you stop caring about your K/D. I’m not gonna beat people who have been playing this for 5 years

[@TheRadoss]

@@booster1454 i have around 1k hours on the game, i can say that the only time i play serious is in duels, every other time i just get on the lute bot and entertain or just mess around, the amount of clips that i have that had me dying of laughter, this is the only reason i prefer Mordhau even though its designed to be more competitive i feel like the way you play is alot less linear.

[@SperberMeister]

it was at least. those days lay far behind. only sweat now.

[@quenquent95]

Mordhau modder here, not the most active ones but still sticking around. Wanted to give some insights regarding modding Mordhau. I made a custom Horde skill tree that is used for maps like Helm's Deep and helped the map maker Zoom here and there with the map, alongside other devs. As far as I know, there are two points in time where many mods "died" in Mordhau: the Unreal engine update and the official SDK launch. On September 7 2021, Mordhau was updated to Unreal Engine 4.20 to 4.25. This is pretty much the point a lot mods "died" because they just broke entirely and the modders didn't want to bother trying to update their mod without even having access to an official modding SDK. Best example being the Star Wars mod. On December 14 of the same year, the official modding SDK was released. It was pretty much the unofficial SDK that was used by modders back then, an edited version of the Unreal Engine SDK (the software you would use to pretty much make any Unreal video game), but now it was officially supported by Triterion and using up-to-date files. So, problem solved right? People can mod without issues as the game gets updated? Well, no. Problem is, the SDK doesn't get updated alongside the game. This pretty much means, if as a modder your mod breaks after an update, how are you supposed to know what broke? And that's how many mods die out. Now to give credits where credits is due, the devs have been pretty communicative in the modding Discord. I want to give a special shout-out to Crazy Mike, Mordhau modder turned Triterion dev, and Geach, who's been giving a hand to many Mordhau map makers. Hell, even when compared to various AAA companies that either don't try to help their modding community or even straight-up prevent modding in their games, Triterion is actually doing an effort there, with stuff like being able to download the server's mods from the server (would be better if Mordhau wasn't running an outdated version of Modio's...). Could it be better? Of course, by a large margin, but it's far from bad or even terrible modding support by the devs. But what they aren't providing is slowly killing the modding community.

[@ArimasVR]

I love Mordhaus combat system but coming from Chiv II makes learning the swordplay a bit difficult because in Chiv you just simply press right trigger for a slash, right bumper for a stab, and left bumper for your overheads and you push your right stick in to change your attacks positioning. Whereas Mordhau says to hell with that, we'll give you complete control over your attack directions and speed as well as giving you one of the most realistic and accurate hit boxes.

[@BohSuperPersona]

i think that mordhau has more possibilities than chiv2 and a lot of potential but the lack of players pretty ruins it

[@Nico_Conradie]

Developers are completely to blame, the game was so good on release, it had tons of hype as well. but the developers did nothing for months/years after release and the game slowly died off. I had about 400 hours in first 2 months it was amazing back then.

[@benoitballs1436]

@@Nico_Conradie Yeah, once enough people started to learn how to pretty much break the game, the devs doubled down on their whole "embracing the skill gap" thing, until eventually just to win a fight you had to know how to double wessex pickle reverse drag. It was basically a battle of exploits for a looong time, who could do the more unreadable animation glitches, hitbox manipulation, etc. and almost everybody just left. A lot of the people who stayed, eventually left because high-level gameplay just wasn't fun. All of the people who were super popular montage makers and coaches even left, and they were making a LIVING off of the game.

[@almightybogza]

​@@benoitballs1436True AF !!! As soon as the exploits became popular the game became unfun. I dont care if its "skill" to do helicopter moves lmao, that shit breaks my immersion and instantly makes me want to quit. Chiv2 has that too but its rare.

[@AngerMaker413]

@@benoitballs1436sounds like they thought they could take the Tarkov strategy and run with it instead of fixing the game lol.

[@kiwicami287]

@@Nico_Conradie Yeah i got the game pretty much day one and it was so much fun, it was the lack of content that drove me away, came back once in a while but it didn't stick, i enjoyed duel servers and made friends there as well but that's about it, now i came back to it recently and there's nothing but sweatlords, no thank you. Also the lack of proper matchmaking and balancing killed it as well, so damn many one sided matches... I also enjoyed modded wacky servers, those were really fun but they're not here anymore...

[@JK.Fraser]

If mordhau played exactly the same as it currently does, and just changed two things, it would be more friendly to a general audience and it would have a much larger player base. 1. Weapon velocity should matter more. Most of the best players learn how to manipulate swings so that they either strike earlier or later than expected, which is fine, and fair, but some will strike in such a way that, while it does full damage on hit, it has almost no velocity. It would be better if, especially on drags, the damage was modified based on velocity. I say it this as someone who uses drags a lot. 2. Animations need to be improved or some other elements added in to telegraph appropriate block / parry / riposte queues. Many people play weapons solely because the animations are hard to read, and when you move just right they downright break. Add a broken animation to a swing manipulation, and you'll be hit in the head by a maul that springs out of a jester's bum.

[@GrandGoblin]

I had fun in Mordhau all the way up to Chiv 2's release. The playerbase sucked all the fun out of Mordhau's most fun element, custom loadouts.

[@zoom4897]

I have currently 2.3k hours in the game. If we count the modding that I did for this game, it would reach up to 5k hours. It's safe to say the devs really butchered their own game by neglecting the community over and over.

[@gd7663]

as a mordhau player with over 1000 hours, I can tell you to play it you need a very different mind set than any other game, you need to be ready to get your ass handed over to you on a golden platter at every opponent you meet, if you expect to win you just rage and get even worse than you already are. And you need to be immune to chat insults. People might just think its a toxic community, but theres a very good reason for that, if you get someone mad in the game, they will make more mistakes usually and be easier to kill, ive been victim of this strategy numerous times until I decided to just ignore insults. The learning curve for new players is also extremely steep indeed, people who never played that kind of game will definitely see everyone like an unsurmountable brick wall and even after 1000 hours in the game I still find people like this and against them I have to see every parry, every landed hit like a small achievement because. Just being able to go toe to toe with lvl 100-200 players for more than a minute is a victory. Every kill a trophy. To truly have fun in this game, you need to put a lot of time and efforts into it first, play everyday, fight the hardest players you can find and never give up, be relentless. Never refuse a fight. When you start to get good, this is when the game shines and you will always have a good laugh playing it because this game is just as hilarious as it is hard. It also just feels so good when you start to actually feel dangerous to some people, to be a fucking brick wall yourself to more and more players and start discovering some fucking badass moves. When you start being able to take multiple guys at once is even better, really nothing beats having a good duel then suddenly get jumped and you have to fight 2 guys unexpectedly and you just rip both of their ass open like its nothing... just love that feeling. The game is amazing, it just needs a major investment of time and nerves of steel. Because this game is fucking metal. \m/

[@narckiller6561]

should i get it on console?

[@gd7663]

@@narckiller6561 hell no, get it on PC dude if you do, playing this game with a controller would be a nightmare trust me... precise control of your camera is very important in this game because this camera movement also gives physical motion to your player character, wich lets you dodge hits and perform better attacks... anyway im just repeating whats being said in the video. If you get it on console, just keep in mind most play with keyboard and mouse and a lot of players you will meet are more difficult than a darksouls boss

[@arthurg.calixto3338]

So you're telling me the game is just a toxic time sink?

[@stanleesomanly9585]

Bro I honestly couldn't read all of this preps on the writing dedication tho

[@Wahetp0le]

I have around 500 hours in this game, still hopping in time to time. Its really good game, just sad that pretty much abandoned.

[@jeankirchstein2552]

Mordhau came out at a time when people wanted chiv 2 but it wasn't announced yet so this was the next best thing then chiv 2 came out and the rest is history

[@sawmanUK]

I love Chiv 2, but If they could get their act together and allow mods... well.. it would be miles a head of anything out there

[@alec4025]

​@@sawmanUK mordhau has mods and actual good combat. I don't think there's anything that could make me move to chiv 2. Even if mordhau has like 100 players

[@waziendiny]

​@@alec4025 I play both back to back but at the end of the day i still find Mordhau to be enjoyable due to the combat and memebility. Chiv 2 just feels like a casual game to me.

[@L4dy_Kum]

Chiv 2 is literally dog shit, combat sucks, content sucks, no good customization, and in general no freedom like you can find in mordhau.

[@bobsherman3055]

@@L4dy_Kum enjoy sitting in your dead game while everyone else plays chiv 2, shit has 1k people playing it on peak hours

[@overlordmae9090]

As a lvl200+ player+ I can say its really fun if you know how to fight well... but it takes ages before you can get enough experience with the game to get to that point.

[@sawmanUK]

Yea , I’m sure feeling it as a noob 😹😹

[@weeboce]

level 200s are the reason the games dead - level 30

[@bankshaft132]

@@weeboce Facts, spent my first 800ish hours in duel servers watching veterans shit on noobs without remorse, most don't get a chance to learn

[@johnreeves3876]

No matter how much I coach my friends there is no way to conceptualize your way out of having to fill your memory with all the weapon timings and feint animations.

[@foxskyful]

obviously it will be more fun if you know to fight well, but one of reason why fighting is more difficult and worst than chiv 2 is animation and also one of the main reasons why most new players prefer and stay longer in chiv 2

[@maboilaurence8227]

I know Mordhau is hard and Chivalry is more accessible and with better maps, but damn is Mordhau just way more fun in big servers. I don't even care about getting kills, just messing around is hilarious.

[@GraveUypo]

yeah i used to play bard and it was just silly fun. sad to see that apparently this game became a sweatfest. used not to be as much. there were already try hards, and that's fair enough, but there was always place for just having silly fun when you wanted.

[@derdox6720]

@@GraveUypo what? it's always been a sweatfest, the two groups of trolls and sweatlords just never interact, so new ppl that play this game the normal way fighting at the frontline rarely see the trolls in the corner setting up a bard concert, organizing a dwarf revolt or building a fistfighting ring and it's still the same. there are still bards and otherkinds of trolls in every server don't worry

[@Machine_in_pain]

I think like in Chiv 1, games pop wont get any lower until a new melee slasher with the same comp skill lvl comes out. Great video and very nice editing, subaracribed

[@alexcardenas9546]

Naraka Bladepoint.

[@erfrenli3331]

I played Mordhau on and off since launch, and I'm reinstalling now after a year not playing at all. I like duels. I can guarantee that after more than a reasonable lapse of time waiting in queue I'll be faced with newbies whom I'll try to help but nonetheless will get salty at me and insult me saying I use cheap tactics, or I'll get absolutely thoroughly destroyed by some dude with an executioner's sword. I'll edit this comment confirming or denying my hypothesis. Edit: waited about 5 minutes (less than expected) got absolutely thoroughly destroyed by some dude with an executioner's sword. Though I didn't know you retain retain your old rank for this long, which mine doesn't align with my rusty skills.

[@ItsLucaIguess]

Honestly if Chiv 2 had the character customization of mordhau I wouldn’t be considering buying mordhau for the drip which is lacking in chiv 2

[@ValidatedPerson]

Mordhau has a potential to be the best and top Chiv 2 show its running for money but problem is they dont know what to do with it. They throwed bunch of things together and see what sticked. First it supposed to be comp duel game, then 64 player medieval battlefield with flags , then Chiv 1 obj type game and then meme simulator. Also some things didnt help like f.e. they bullied casuals and newbies out of game with things like bloodlust perk (insta full heal on kill), steep learning curve, lack of good tutorial on dragging/acceling. I really really wished they bounce back after Chiv 2 launch and it give them spur to compete with Torn Banner instead they released 2 updates and said screw it and ditched the game. But still I dont think this game will die because its unique and fun and has solid core and good amount of depth.

[@Spidr-man_]

The difference in player base between more and chiv might be even bigger now. About a couple of weeks ago chiv 2 was given out to Epic Game members for free and since then there’s been a LOT more players

[@lorengarms9836]

I do believe the game can pick back up to a normal amount of players but it needs to settle down a bit more, and maybe add some additional game modes or something. The combat just scratches an itch in my brain that chivalry never will, the movement and attacks feel like they carry real weight, so there's a lot of potential. I'd even be really excited if they used this engine to make a different game, even a single player rpg or something maybe similar to kingdom come but with this style of gore and combat

[@retro2405]

The issue is that even more modes will only scatter the playerbase even more, meaning what little players remain would be spread out even thinner.

[@blu3dreaming996]

Kinda a bad idea cause if we got more game modes that’s more places for an already small community to scatter into

[@derdox6720]

the problem is that they always refused to include microtransactions. refusing to take extra money after a game is bought is commendable, but you can't really finance continuously updating a game when you don't get extra finances after the players already bought your game. the 1 dlc they release every year probably doesn't help much with that either

[@aev6075]

My fav or mordhau. Be annoying, run away, give a morning star to the face from behind corner, run away, trap the enemy on bear trap, give morning star to the face, run away, give a morning star to the face from behind the corner, kill the enemy, squat on him, play be lute.

[@sezlegend75]

I dumped 600 hrs of my life into this game in 2019 to 2020 and It was probably some of the most fun I've ever had tbh, It's really sad when I joined back about a month ago to hop into a duel server, get rdmed a ton then join a new one to meet level 300+ absolutely dumpster on me also seeing frontlines only have high ping servers and overall looking at the new UI compared to what I was used to made it so uncomfy to get back into I dropped it yet again and I'm so sad to say that I don't think I could really get back into it, and I will say Chiv 2 doesn't seem for me either

[@quinnkoszarek7211]

You’re not the only one. Coming from the same background and kind of was left feeling sad knowing exactly why the game is dead. There are some people that still coach but I feel that the only chance we had to train people was when it became free on epic games, and you and I both know the tryhard sweats took full advantage of the new players. There should have been training servers, locked lobbies for low levels, and so much more for a chance for player retention. All thats left are the sweats.

[@Filius_Tonitrui]

If you think the game is dead at this point, just try to join an Aeternis server. It' a miracle if one has 5 players at any point without an event going on, which is a damn shame because that mod is great.

[@bylson5585]

got this game free on epic and have sunk 500 hours into it, still play sometimes when you get a lobby of good people it can be fun with the emote and voice line system there is but apart from that its pretty much dead which is kinda sad I imagine when it dropped in 2019 it was a fun time

[@Icetubexd]

It was such an insanely fun time in 2019 that I have refused to drop the game ever since. I just buckled down and got good when I noticed everyone clowning on me. But I can't say anything in this video is wrong, must've been real tough to start out when the game dropped on Epic, it was all sweats already then.

[@derdox6720]

i'd say it was alot of fun until around 2021 and thats when it slowly started being neglected and dying

[@derdox6720]

weird how videos like this about games i've been playing for years make me sad while i smile about the goofy parts i can relate to i absolutely believe you can have fun in this game without being a sweatlord, but you have to be a special kind of special for that i guess

[@lucasmartins2969]

The combat in mordhau is a lot better then chiv 2, it just feels better, meatier and satisfying, the game is funnier with lots of troll possibilities, but its a dead game and the devs dont give a shit about the game, so..

[@defective.6192]

Yeahhh... nearly 1000 hours, you know the community is getting small when every day you play, you see the same faces

[@Promise_XD]

I started playing Mordhau with friends which is probably the main reason I still play this game now. Around a year later I'm at level 135 and I consider myself a top tier player for the most part. If you're a new player and you want to enjoy this game, play it with your friends who are equally low level, or search for DUEL servers and fight new people. Regardless there will always be a skill gap due to the lacking playerbase of this game. I always run into people I know every single time I hop on a duel server. It's a small community which in a weird way is quite nice.

[@grogabidon]

3:04 what is piano music on background?

[@memento6213]

merry go round of life. it sounds like it was played on an out of tune piano

[@grogabidon]

@@memento6213 Thanks a lot, I already thought that I never gonna find it.

[@saftigerkeks5212]

As a level 240 player (around 4k hours) I still get my ass handed to me by a lot of players. Its not about being the best, because you probably never will be, but just having fun with the game. Just a few days ago we had a full server go neutral, dress up as the default knight, and just started messing around. Someone took a toolbox and made a fighting ring out of spikes, where we had 1v1 fistfights, while we watched them fight, as few guys played on their lutes. I probably got like 2 kills in that round, but still had a great time, so it really doesnt matter what K/D you have.

[@WaiGee_]

I have played quite a few games with steep learning curves, tf2, csgo, sf3 and quake being the big ones and somehow mordhau still has the most brutal one. I like it a lot but man this one is so damn hard to wrap my head around and not get immediately demolished. Chiv2 is so much easier to learn and the scale of battles are so much mote immense. i can see why it has more players

[@fattyMcGee97]

It actually upsets me that the devs ditched this game. I hate myself and prefer mordy's combat to chiv2. I genuinely do not enjoy chiv 2 at al so if Mord dies then I'm kinda screwed

[@ryan3371]

When mordhau dropped the BR mode is when I knew they did not know how to keep their game alive. Honestly I would love to see a BR mode come back or even an extraction type mode for Mordhau. These war type game/gamemodes always have short lifespans because they get so boring,

[@alexm6010]

Name of the song at 3:03?

[@michalpiskorski9731]

Mordhau is my biggest comfort zone to chill in multiplayer enviorment. The community is just hilarious, no try hards just good vibes and then at modded servers at 3 am you can the most bizzare experiences fighting with berserk swords duels while listening to system of down or watching random videos on cinema screen while emoting with everyone. It really takes me back to my childhood times of the internet of pure randomness and having fun. Got about 600 hours in it and I never unistall it xdd I gotta admit that we are quite racist with beginners but it just makes it more satisfactory to become a bit better a it and join the cool kids club

[@LyllianaofMirrah]

i liked that mordhau has more customization options but damn southeast asia server is dead as hell

[@Ka4ri1]

This video made me realize that Mordhau is just my guilty pleasure, i'm not really sure why i instantly fell in love with Mordhau first try and when i tried chiv 2 i said "meh", i manage to have fun even tho i get demolished in Mordhau (tbh only in the big scale fight modes, because in the deathmatch i always have some fan killing me always for no reason who casually is a sweat lord)

[@floogleborp9603]

I saw a clip of this game on youtube shorts and bought it to try it out. Still haven't played it yet it's still downloading. Edit: I played the game and I love it

[@casualcrusader]

as a mordhau veteran of lvl 176, i think this was a very fair review and i agree with all the points you made. im too far gone to ever leave this game, i'll be one of the final 5 consistent players mark my words

[@mz7688]

As a lvl 216, I'm with you brother

[@derdox6720]

as a lvl 201 player that has never put any sweat into the game and has been playing dwarves exclusively since they were patched in, this video made me sad

[@Champion_14]

Devs ruoned the game sadly... so much potential in fpm, hope we get a game worthy of the genre in time

[@steen275]

I have fun then i get destroyed by a squad of lvl 200s and i lose motivation to play

[@baghoulio]

I recently came back to Mordhau after not having played it since a few months past it's release, and I've been adoring it. Not cause I'm good, cause I'm definitely not, but just because it so insanely goofy and the brief moments of intense duels in the battlefield or surviving a 2v1, or dying in a whole host of absurd ways, or rare moments of near-genuine line formations battling for inches of ground at a capture point are so entertaining and varied. I only play invasion/frontline on this return cause it's where all the goofiness resides. And to me, the small player base has almost been a boon, cause I can find nemeses or godlike players that I strive to beat or even simply scratch on the battlefield and there's like a miniature lore that develops in my head (if anyone is familiar with the players loob, MORDHAU, or Uhtred of Bebbanburg, then say so and you will expand my headcanon). I don't know how long it'll last, it's only been a couple weeks so far, but I love this goofy ass game and it will always have a special place in my heart. And I know this is mostly just a me thing, but the joy I feel sometimes when I get my ass handed to me by someone who is clearly just really good and experienced is a very rare feeling in PvP games. Yes there are times when its frustrating but theyre mostly just while I'm derusting for the day.

[@krupzug5359]

4:25 Song name anyone? 👀

[@XdaInsane]

Shazam is not working for me but it is such a banger that I am half tempted to record a copy of the riff lol

[@krupzug5359]

Yeah, unfortunately Shazam didn't work for me either ^^​@@XdaInsane

[@gndmofall]

Once a bowblade, always a bowblade

[@sawmanUK]

But i'm good at it...

[@zanza8197]

Mordhau started out great and had all the potential to be a true Successor to Chivalry 1. It addressed a lot of issues that Chivalry 1 had and they did so successfully. However down the line the have gone into the wrong direction. Essentially they removed all punishment from the game, You will find your self in situation where you out play people by forcing them to miss and reading feints not once's but around 8 times and it simply doesn't get rewarded as its very difficult to run out of stamina. Basically spam gets rewarded while good plays are being punished. Accuracy has also been removed from the game, Its now at a point that Chivalry 1 has more accurate parry boxes then Mordhau while Mordhau used to have excellent parry boxes that required directional parrying, Now a days just look at the ground it will parry regardless. This creates a huge advantage for 3e person as you can see more and your accuracy is no longer all that important. You have weapons that are all of the same speed yet their damage greatly varies, For example take maul can 1 shot yet is just as fast as lets say a long sword, Great balances right there. Chivalry 1 had its issues like reverses and insta hits, But overall it was pretty balanced, Something very much missing in Mordhau. People don't like that especially not those that play competitively thats why Mordhau has dropped of much quicker then Chivalry 1 did. To best sum the issue up, Imagen CS2 having no difference in money between casual and ranked or that you just take the negev and just start blasting while not having a long reload time and not having a significant movement speed decrease. That is what Mordhau essentially has gone into. Dont be a foolt either, People often say that it has a higher learning curve, It sure used to be like that, Right now thats not the case there are only 4 things that you would need todo in mordhau to be quite successfull. 1. Learn how to accelerate lmb in specific which is not that difficult, 2. Spam feints, Dont worry by the time your stamina becomes critical low your opponent has to read at bare minimum 7 feints and that is not a easy feat and can almost be said that its more luck based especially when it becomes a 50/50 guessing game between acceleration and feints, Accels require pre parry while feints require late parry. 3. Use kicks alot, They can even intercept ripostes and do an enormous amount of damage. 4. Never stop attacking, Just like feints you don't have to worry about stamina all that much, you can always cancel your attack to parry and you can do this a awful lot, To the point that the fights are long over before it becomes a issue.

[@PedroDoderoEscalante]

4:28 what song is this?

[@sawmanUK]

Count Dankuka intro theme 👍

[@astro8807]

I’ve got 980 hours in this game, it’s the most mechanically challenging game to get good at I’ve ever played

[@OrlandoShroom]

Agreed. This and Kingdom Come: Deliverance

[@CasabaHowitzer]

​@@OrlandoShroomvanilla KCD is the easiest game in the world if you just master strike everything, also works on hardcore.

[@bankshaft132]

Devs could have added something like K/D based noob servers, if your K/D gets too high, you get booted, this would deal with the smurf issues. I came up with that in like 20 seconds, they obviously didnt put much thought into it

[@sauceboss8693]

theres literally only 1-2 fullish servers at a time theres not enough people for that

[@bankshaft132]

@@sauceboss8693 *They could have* Like two years ago

[@Jamio_]

I still play this on and off, and it can still be so much fun. In my opinion, one of the biggest issues is the huge skill gap between new/average players and veterans. Veterans know how to use and abuse the animations, feints and morphs well beyond what is ever taught to newer players. New players just get shat on for a bunch of games playing with the same veteran players, get bored and refund.

[@BuzzardCheapAnimations]

I played this game with my friends for years nonstop, until theu did that update changing horde mode. Ever since they added that stupid noble that doesnt allow you roam the map freely we havent played it at all. Its really sad, it took away all the fun of being chased by hordes of enemies all over the map trying to kill you, now its all about defending a dude that walks in circles in the middle of the map

[@B_Mollhausen]

Imma be real with you chief, I’m not practicing chambering for 100 hours just to still get my ass beat.

[@skullboy108]

Mordhau strangely enough is my comfort game. I log in, run around like a chicken with my head cut off and just muscle memory through every fight. I love Mordhau, and I'm sad to see it decay like it is. Even with the sweats, bless this mess. No other game feels like it, and my slow climb to becoming good at the game feels like constant progress because there is always at least 4 people in the lobby who can dumpster me at any moment, but every now and then I make them flinch.

[@autumnjeserich2689]

I love mordhau even though I'm horrible at it despite buying it like the first week when it launched. I really really wish they would of incorporated more player created maps. They also really screwed themselves by combining the frontline and invasion game modes that nobody asked them to do. Servers are bad at certain times of night to where the choice is play on a server with 15 players on it or deal with 200 ping. The putrid state of US west servers also doesn 't help in my case

[@AltrayuJefferson]

Mordhau has the perfect amout of players imo. Large enough to always get matches but small enough to come across the same players and get recognized. You develop good friendships over time. Next thing you know someone kills you from behind and 5 people you are cool with immediately chase them down spamming their battle cry.

[@Hikurac]

It's important to consider that Mordhau isn't a live-service game. There is no battlepass, seasonal skins, etc, like Chiv 2. It's a traditional one-time purchase game from 2019. I think Stouty is right about the missed opportunities in community/mod support but beyond that, I wouldn't expect anything from an indie studio that isn't receiving a cash flow. The best you can hope for is for them to make a new game. As for population between Mordhau and Chiv 2, it probably just depends on your region. At this moment according to the server browsers of each game, for NA East Chivalry 2 has 258 players and Mordhau has 274 players.

[@An_Cummanach]

Almost every mordhau update within the last 2 years has locked new skins and armour behind a paywall.

[@lawpete556]

i started playing back in mid 2021, and nowadays im level 98 and *decent* at the game, not good, just decent, thats why i love it so much i think, most deaths i can tell what i died to and how the guy killed me, vs chiv 2 where the combat feels veryyyyy floaty and almost as if the weapons are just swinging through syrup instead of air and wood and steel and flesh, it just doesnt *feel* good, even if im doing pretty well in the match i dont feel good because the combat doesnt feel good, whereas in mordhau i feel good when im halfway up the scoreboard

[@theashenstorm5509]

The entire game just turned into faint spam and "dragging" which is just looking away swinging and looking back

[@AloeVerafied]

There’s a game in development called Renown which is supposed to be a survival game with mordhau esque combat

[@-Lazy]

4:40 THERE IS A HOG ON THUS MAP?

[@derpgloostick9568]

I could only imagine a universe in where the devs didn’t get addicted to coke and abandoned this game

[@Vesslethis2007]

Got this game for free its pretty good still as i remmebered funny pvp

[@DaedalusRaistlin]

What ever happened to 64 player servers in Mord? All I get is 32 or 16 player servers. And there's usually only 1 or 2 servers populated in my region. It's probably the lowest population game I've played in the last few years. I just loaded the game up at 2pm on a Saturday, and the most populated server has 10 people in it.

[@Zlonk7]

Im guessing you live in australia. I live in europe and regularly get full 64 and 48 player lobbies on invasion and frontline

[@DaedalusRaistlin]

@@Zlonk7 Yup, I do. We've got very small communities unfortunately.

[@BattlerEvil]

nah i play in EU and NA this game is dead every day for me with barely 40 players or 60 players on a match of frontline/invasion

[@Balu_420]

The boy is fighting Melon Dog, one of the mods and one of the strongest players out there and asks himself how one player can be so hard to beat. Yes, thats Mordhau! There is some true lords of the swords

[@pointblank25]

I genuinely enjoy how small the community actually is. The community beyond the usual edgy jokes ends up being a riot, and it ends up feeling like an old server you’d go to with the same usual people on like counter strike or TF2. It has the same problem fighting games have where you have to put in a ridiculous amount of practice to be good, and because you can’t really complain without getting bullied, it’s not for everyone, but I’m still learning more even 500 hours in, and still laugh my ass off every night I play it because of the people.

[@irvingdavidramirezgonzales1628]

When I joined, I got tired of the sweats, but I'm still going at the current 332 hours of gameplay I have to this very day, and I love it. It can be very silly and very serious. When new players join, I tell them that the road will be very hard and offer them help and teach them what I know (for as long as they feel like it).

[@karsb2012]

lol bro what was that sick riff when you talked about stouty

[@thesunman]

quit this game maybe 2 years ago now when I sold my PC but I had like 1,000 hours in it and the best memories out of any game I remember one time it was just a random invasion match and like half the team organized into having toolboxes and it was just overpowered because everyone was working together and it was so fun it felt like we had a fort and I would always try to recreate that I remember playing this server called like "Feitoria" (no RDMing duel server)or something and one time this guy joined called the "Frog King" and eventually he amassed an entire following of people with green armour and we took over the server killing everybody and getting vote kicked it was so awesome the character customized and body language and things like that are deeper in Mordhau than any game it led to so many funny situations and memories hopefully I can play it again one day

[@GraveUypo]

i had a blast with this game in 2019. kinda been meaning to get back on to it, specially now that it can be played in VR.

[@derdox6720]

oh no bro you missed out on the dwarf update

[@waskesu]

Song name on 9:50?

[@Zakariia]

whats the name of the song at 1:45 ?

[@Raymond670]

Dagothwave

[@wassup287]

Mordhau is one of my most played games according to my steam profile. Even after 400 hours I would struggle to call myself an average player and had to resort to troll builds just to glean any enjoyment from the game between getting slaughtered. Cant revisit the game without starting the learning curve over, cant recommend anyone even pick it up.

[@WindowsAndGhosts]

Mordhau is an incredibly fun game with some extremely unfun aspects. My favourite times are, sadly, in duel servers against people who aren't using animation-abuse to win cheap fights. I'd like the devs to actually fix these issues but from what I've heard, the person in charge of that flat out refuses to fix it.

[@TMNTfever]

Bouncing back on the 29th with demon hordes and 2 weeks of triple money and xp!

[@SoterDave]

Chivalry 2 has its own set of problems. Issues that, in all honesty, are even worse than the ones Mordhau has.

[@Angus1995]

Where did you get the footage at 0:14 from? That was me with the pole axe lol

[@mr.sabaton2539]

Honestly Mordhau has become one of my favourite games. Yes the learning curve is very steep and the beginner experience can be very harsh but i think it could be made a bit better with an actually usable tutorial on basic and more advanced moves. I'm level 180 in the game an Im nowhere near being actually good, yes i have my moments and Im usually in the top 5-7 players but veterans still kill me with ease. At first I started as archer because that was an easy mechanic to use but i had to force myself to go into melee combat from time to time to improve. I love the community, its not true that most people are sweatlords, most people are really wholesome, maybe its because of the small playerbase but there are a lot of memers and bards who dont fight just play music on lute, cheering everyone up. The problem with the game can be boiled down to some of the games mechanics, for example, the momentum or force of a swing or thrust has no relevance, if you touch the enemy with your blade its gonna do full dmg no matter if it was a full blown swing or you moved your sword 3cm, that enables very skilled players to pull off absolutely unrealistic body-bending moves. High-end Mordhau gameplay is all about manipulating the hitboxes of the player, the weapons and the attack animations. Its possible to stab someone quickly while the enemy cannot even see the stab animation therefore unable to react. Fixing some of these could make the game much more balanced and way more friendly to learn. The high-end players would still dominate but it wouldnt be a pain to get to a medium skill level. Oh and one more thing, sometimes parries can behave very strangely, pro players can parry 5-6 strikes from different angles and timing with the same parry which is ridiculous.

[@sock4118]

I remember back near lauch I loved mordhau, but its true the playerbase that's around is both too sweary and toxic (which isnt anything new btw) to enjoy anymore, as many things as there are to love with this game ill have to go play my more casual game that actually bans people for spamming slurs in the chat

[@thebandido9992]

I really tried to be a mordhau player when they putted it free on epic games store but... I cant with all the toxicity, I goy back to chiv 2

[@melonicpc5329]

I think the newest update may have revived the game a little.

[@dococapocalypse7580]

guess i got lucky because my introduction to slashers was Mordhau. didnt realize it was the sweaty one at the time 😅

[@snurk3661]

The Big Biggens Brigade made it in the video nice 0:24 0:26

[@CaptainPeanut]

Mordhau is still to this day the best viking combat game on the market. Nothing else comes close.

[@lorenzovilla2385]

The gameplay of mordhau is better than chivalry 2

[@endlessthunder6161]

Been playing mordhau and Chivalry 2 Here is my verdict: Maps/ intro: Chivalry 2 Combat: Mordhau; it just felt more challenging but sometimes its goofy when you are fighting high lvl players.. it’s like they are possessed! Chivalry combat is easy! But also fun! Character customization: Mordhau 100% you can create any character that you can phantom! Chivalry is mediocre.. if they have the same level of customization as Mordhau.. it would get more players!

[@twelvevoltage]

bro dont think i dont notice fckng dagoth wave

[@curseditem8354]

it's really saddening how you just get your teeth kicked in immediately after joining and there is zero to no chance at getting better

[@irBribe]

Doing my part i play a few hours a month im near 100 hours and im barely level 30. Got my first warden yesterday and it was weird being a big buff dude that normally shits on me but idk how the fuck to do anything other then drag and accel. I occasionally remember to fake a hit.

[@LetsGoCatchUsSomeFISH]

I was a new player once, only really started 2 years ago. It was a grind for a while, but then things come naturally like feinting, clashing, and all of that. Went from bottom of the leaderboard, to top of it pretty quickly. Think I’m level 29 right now. Oh, and the update came out.

[@hankmoody5514]

The Mordhau combat system is superior, but the devs have just made bad decision after bad decision. Stouty is right, there were some crazy good mods, Star Wars and then the MMORPG one that disappeared. I'll keep playing till it's completely dead, but damn it sucks.

[@s0lid_sno0ks]

It's funny how "dead" games can still have thousands of daily players and matches constantly running and filling up.

[@sawmanUK]

Tbf, i think there was a time Mordhau fell off quite a bit, but with recent updates its crept back up

[@s0lid_sno0ks]

@@sawmanUK if you check steam charts and expand to all, it's at its lowest point ever. It bumped a tiny bit with the update, but not much and it dropped right back down. If it drops consistently below 7 or 8 hundred it might start to death spiral, but if it maintains 1k, I think it'll be fine. I think the only thing that could truly kill Mordhau would be Mordhau 2. I think it won over a core audience who will never leave it and it will keep churning new and returning players.

[@sawmanUK]

@@s0lid_sno0ks I think you have to look at its competitors, Chivalry 2 has been available on console, epic store and steam and has forever seemed more popular. Mordhau has just been very slow to get their product out. I think as well, as a genre of games it does good in terms of population, but from a business standpoint, those numbers are low and cant be making much if any money for the devs.

[@s0lid_sno0ks]

@@sawmanUK It's definitely not as popular as Chiv 2, but how could it be? Chiv 2 is the easier game. That is always going to be an advantage for player populations. Even if they shut down the official servers, which I don't think will happen for a while, private servers could help it limp along. They should just make it f2p and sell gold, tbh.

[@jigglybiggs2000]

Im a console player and im kinda good with controller ( not a pro ). Drop 40+ kills on average but the most I've gotten was 86 kills in one match

[@xXSlyfoxMinionXx]

Something i dont understand about people who put thousands of hours into games like this and Chiv. What is the joy in doing all of tbe crazy dance moves? It takes me directly out of the immersion. Doesn't anyone want a game that feels like you're fighting warriors on a battlefield? I rhink Chivalry 2 did a pretty decent job with that, all things considered. Even the sweatiest Chiv 2 players still feel engaging to fight instead of just alien. Personally, i think the only way to actually have the kind of experience im talking about is in a single-player setting, but there's just nothing out there that can deliver that.

[@goatskin4487]

get gud

[@xXSlyfoxMinionXx]

@@goatskin4487 get outside

[@BLaCkKsHeEp]

its all about Chiv 2 now BUT it could use some more stand alone modded servers.. i really wanna see like a RPG zombie invasion kinda thing and we all defend the villages/castles/outposts from the advancing horde. some looting and trade mechanics. gotta buy weapons with gold instead of spawning with class specific ones. stuff like that

[@srroblesito5521]

Como jugador con mas de 700 horas y casi nivel 150 puedo decir que este juego es divertido si sabes pelear. A mi al principio solo veia jugadores de un nivel muy alto y me partian el culo, pero mejore y ahora les parto los ojos xd Lo unico malo la poca gente y falta de comunidades de otros idiomas.

[@Vidyadude]

Even if Chivalry 2 had mod supports, no one would mod it. It doesn't have an active community.

[@Ix.MSH888]

I have been playing chiv 2 for 9 months It's great but its problem is that there is no diversity in the game modes I mean it is just a team mode or a duel

[@Ix.MSH888]

I am very confused whether to play the game or no I think that I will master it easily because I am an excellent player in chiv2 I want more freedom There are many activities that I can do opposite of chiv2

[@franpschorr3646]

I play a lot of archery in both Mordhau (close to 1K hours) and Chiv 2 (Probably a couple hundred hours), an while I think archery is a lot stronger in Chiv (do to bigger damage values and most classes not having a way to block projectiles) the longbow in Mordhau feels sooooooooooooooooo good to use. I don't think there's a bow I like more in any game. Chiv 2's ranged weapons feel janky and unreliable. Also the female French voice lines are the pinnacle of voice acting and writing. I think one of my dream games would be for a group to buy up Mordhau and make a new game similar to Dark and Darker but keeping Mordhau's high skill combat and more grounded reality. We need more games with Mordhau's combat system it's to good not to be used and shared.