Lord Adherbal
05-31-2005, 18:25
In case some of you are not aware of it: "Chivalry Total War" is an RTW mod inspired by Medieval TW. More importantly (and thats why I post this here) it's especially written for multiplayer, unlike all other mods (not including the "Samurai" mod for MTW). That means that MP imbalances will be investigated andd addressed faster then any TW game ever did :)
Although I've given up on RTW vanilla (the unit balances just feel too wrong for me to be enjoyable) I respect every initiative to keep the TW MP community alife and go back to the days of MTW/VI. The majority of you will probably not know me and probably consider me as a "noob" based on my join date. I did however start playing MTW MP at the end of 2003 and became fairly skilled in VI in early 2004. Multiplayer gaming was nothing new to me as I had spent over 3 years playing the Age of Empires games only (yep, that "clickfest" game ;)).
The reason for this personal introduction is that I hope ChivTW will not be underestimated "because I'm just a newcomer". I intensively played all TW games and I too long for the gameplay and community of the past (before the rude noobs and RTW imbalances destroyed a great deal of that). ChivTW's current balance wouldn't be half as good without the help of [VDM]Buukenshin (that name should be more known among you), so my thanks go to him for that (even tho we have our disagreements). And obviously there is the rest of the dev team who are doing an excellent job, but they have few influence on the MP gameplay, units stats etc.
To get to my point, I really respect the CoH efford, and want the "Coders" to know I'm doing my part in improving the future of the TW MP community. And hope that you give this mod a fair try - you might even like it :)
Some more info about the mod:
This mod is NOT a copy of MTW. The units and especially gameplay are inspired by it, but the mod tries to be more historically correct and realistic then MTW was. Not to mension that the RTW engine allows for whole new gameplay elements.
We've released an "Early Era MP beta (http://www.stratcommandcenter.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9939)" a while ago, featuring (almost) all early era factions and units for custom/MP battles.
We've recently started a small ladder for the small fanbase that we currently have. It's much more for fun then real competition tho. You can find it here (http://users.skynet.be/Carthaginian/RTW/website/ladder.htm). This page is part of a MP community site for the mod that I'm currently working on. The MP battle replays (http://users.skynet.be/Carthaginian/RTW/website/replays.htm) page is also online. If you want to get an impression of the mod's gameplay I suggest you take a look at these replays.
I'm hoping that with the next release - which will include a fully functional campaignmap and actual Castle sieges - we'll be able to attract a lot of new players to the current tiny MP fanbase we have, so that the mod will be actively played online. The MP community site and ladder will also be officialy announced at the next beta's release.
I know a lot of you don't believe a mod will ever work in MP, but I atleast wanna give it a try
Regards,
Adherbal
Although I've given up on RTW vanilla (the unit balances just feel too wrong for me to be enjoyable) I respect every initiative to keep the TW MP community alife and go back to the days of MTW/VI. The majority of you will probably not know me and probably consider me as a "noob" based on my join date. I did however start playing MTW MP at the end of 2003 and became fairly skilled in VI in early 2004. Multiplayer gaming was nothing new to me as I had spent over 3 years playing the Age of Empires games only (yep, that "clickfest" game ;)).
The reason for this personal introduction is that I hope ChivTW will not be underestimated "because I'm just a newcomer". I intensively played all TW games and I too long for the gameplay and community of the past (before the rude noobs and RTW imbalances destroyed a great deal of that). ChivTW's current balance wouldn't be half as good without the help of [VDM]Buukenshin (that name should be more known among you), so my thanks go to him for that (even tho we have our disagreements). And obviously there is the rest of the dev team who are doing an excellent job, but they have few influence on the MP gameplay, units stats etc.
To get to my point, I really respect the CoH efford, and want the "Coders" to know I'm doing my part in improving the future of the TW MP community. And hope that you give this mod a fair try - you might even like it :)
Some more info about the mod:
This mod is NOT a copy of MTW. The units and especially gameplay are inspired by it, but the mod tries to be more historically correct and realistic then MTW was. Not to mension that the RTW engine allows for whole new gameplay elements.
We've released an "Early Era MP beta (http://www.stratcommandcenter.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9939)" a while ago, featuring (almost) all early era factions and units for custom/MP battles.
We've recently started a small ladder for the small fanbase that we currently have. It's much more for fun then real competition tho. You can find it here (http://users.skynet.be/Carthaginian/RTW/website/ladder.htm). This page is part of a MP community site for the mod that I'm currently working on. The MP battle replays (http://users.skynet.be/Carthaginian/RTW/website/replays.htm) page is also online. If you want to get an impression of the mod's gameplay I suggest you take a look at these replays.
I'm hoping that with the next release - which will include a fully functional campaignmap and actual Castle sieges - we'll be able to attract a lot of new players to the current tiny MP fanbase we have, so that the mod will be actively played online. The MP community site and ladder will also be officialy announced at the next beta's release.
I know a lot of you don't believe a mod will ever work in MP, but I atleast wanna give it a try
Regards,
Adherbal