I was waiting for a thread to appear here about the game. I purchased it after seeing dev trailers a while ago. I will say that if I had a chance to purchase this game again right now, I'd wait on it. They really need to fix some balance issues that are so blatant it's hard to not notice them. Archer class feels like it was thrown in at the last ten seconds, along with certain weapons being clearly better than others.
tldr; I'd wait for this game to hit a sale, or wait at least for the first 2-3 patches before picking it up. If you haven't picked up Mount & Blade, I'd try that before this game.
Can friendly fire be turned off? If not, I can easily see a lot of griefing happening.
Nope, it can't be.
You just have to be careful, not get too close. Lot of people are complaining about it BUT it's something you just get over (unless you are playing for stats or something).
This game is fun as hell.
then I imagine the battles quickly turn into 1 vs everyone skirmishes.
So far I have played 6 hours and I can't say there are any huge game breaking balance issues. Room for improvement sure.
Mount & Blade is a completely different thing all togeather from Chivalry. I own Warband and its not even on the same scale as this. The only similarities are its setting. Its funny as my mate is a huge Warband fan and didn't think much to Chivlary either, although he did not give it enough time for it to all sink in.
Archer class takes persistance. Its not my cup of tea but I have played games where there has been some very effective archers.
£19 is a good price for what is on offer.
My co-workers were talking about this game this morning so I checked out the trailer, wow it looks sweet! Different than your normal military FPS shooter for sure which is refreshing. Might pick this up cause a co-worker has two copies left.
I guess our opinions/tastes differ, because at 25$ I really wish I had not of purchased this at release. I've seen multiple people not be able to even connect to multiplayer servers, including friends and me. The server browser is incredibly wonky at times. Vanguards being 90% of the pick on servers due to obvious class benefits, certain objectives being slightly imbalanced/no autobalance (being fixed apparently today), objectives on maps being very hit or miss at times, etc. I understand that warband and Chivalry are SLIGHTLY different in that warband is more methodical and has a higher skillcap, but I'd say if you want to learn/play a new game for this price, get warband over this. Warband also has a single player, and much larger community/servers. I haven't tried WOTR but I've heard good things about that game, too. As for warband not being similar to this game.......I'm really not sure if you've played MP warband. It's pretty identical to this, and has horses too. I think deathmatch, tdm, and KOTH are the only new styles of gameplay that are exclusive to Chivalry, where warband has castle sieges with larger amounts of players on servers (up to 200).
Overall, I just really can't recommend this game to anyone (right now). I have a huge feeling that you will see this much cheaper in the following months, and by then it will be polished.
I haven't experienced these issues. Have you tried reinstalling?
This game is based on Unreal 3 engine, and has similar bugs that Unreal 3 has. But nothing major or anything that would discourage me from recommending this game.