Don't even bother to by this game. I played this game A LOT. And you know, it dumb because of players. Not saying, that people are bad or mean, no. Once upon a time this game was able to provide you with fun, but not anymore. It is no longer for newbies cause after lvl 15 you will be FORCED to spent months to get skill to have even a chance to stand against old players. Nowadays people tend to explot game mechanics and buggy engine in their advantage to became better. If you are ready to spent at least 100 hours dying and wathing other players playing - then go on. Otherwise you won't get anyting from this game. Except cancer.

You would think that after all this time the game would be somewhat optimized.

Runs worse now than it ever has.

Can pay to unlock the weapons that you previously had to grind for.

Too much customization with characters, to the extreme that you cannot even tell who is on your team without pointing the mouse at them to see if it's red.

Used to be fun but has gone way down hill.

Too many glitches, repetitive, doesn't seem it will change any time soon or ever. Ok for its price but can't recommend.

When i originally bought this game in early 2013 i was enjoying it a lot. Unique first person fighting with pretty good graphics, awesome sound and especially voice design on top of a good old directional combat system akin to Mount and Blade.

However i could no longer enjoy this game or recommend it to others :gloomy:
I was trying to get back into this game for last two years, but i wasn't able to get any pleasant experience :steamsalty:

I'll explain why.

1. No matchmaking, no skill rating, no balance. Noobs start in paddling pool for little kids and then get thrown straight into adult life to get destroyed by pros.
2. Annoying shaking on getting hit - disorients you, disrupts your concentration, destroys your aimed attacks.
3. Hard to judge the distance and reach of your weapon(either 1st p. or 3rd p.) => miss attacks, and get unexpected hits due to bad distance estimate. (it gets better with experience, but still feels odd compared to some other games and i dont know why)
4. Combat mechanics are too simple and prone to abuse("balerina-knights", reverse overheads, combat sprinting and other questionable "techniques")

Conclusion: Either get it on sale and enjoy till rank 15, or play M&B:Warband and wait for Mordhau.


First off let me comment on the most popular reason in steam reviews - playing above 15 rank.

Basically to find a match you go to a Server Browser, pick any server you like and jump in. However, teams in the match are only balanced by size and anyone can join any team as long as teams stay equal in number of players.

The only thing to allow decent experience to new players are low rank servers, avaiable only to players below 15 rank.
Ranks are gained by earning points in games - for kills, objectives and such, so your ranks is just amount of kills and other stuff you did in game over all your career. Shows nothing but your game time.

But as soon as you get above 15 rank you are thrown in combat against players of all levels.
Which together with lack of any team balance mechanic or skill rating system means matches are often poorly balanced and overall experience is not enjoyable.



Camera shake - every time you get hit in Chivalry your camera shakes(violently).
It is very irritating and anticlimactic. It ruins the rhythm and pace of the game, it disorients the player. essentially kicks your eyes off the screen for split second destroying your contentration. Also because it takes fixed amount of time before you get back full control over camera - it also often makes it very hard to protect yourself after getting hit.
Not only that, but it also affects your weapon too! Which means perfectly aimed strike can suddenly turn away in the last moment if you take a hit.
I can't remember right now, but i am pretty sure that they added camera shaking about half a year after the initial release.
There is no option to turn it off or reduce intensity.
(In case anyone wonders about motion sickness/simulation sickness - i've never had it, the camera shake just irritates the crap out of me, it is simply anti-fun)



Doesn't matter if you play first person or third person - it is very hard to judge how long is the reach of your weapon and how far away your target is. It gets worse when you use higher FoV(which you need here).
There are no tools to help a player with this. You can only rely on your camera perspective, and somehow it feels a bit off compared to other games, even at similar FoV values. In fact overall camera responsiveness feels odd, i don't seem to be able to aim any attack or shot... (mouse smoothing is off)
It gets better with experience, though.
(I dont have any suggestion how to fix this, other than by adding some markers or a radar)

I also want to comment about combat and how boring it can be, but i'm sure many people will disagree with this, especially new players and veteran fans.

In short combat is centered around directional attacks and blocking. There are four directional attacks plus thrust, but only one basic type of protection - blocking. One particular class also can dodge, but the it feels clunky and unresponsive.

There is no weapon collision, no chambering, nothing like that.

In an overly simplified view combat is just repeated attacking and parrying until one person makes a mistake (a mistake of any kind - bad footwork, missing an attack or a parry, missing a feint(cancelled attack)).

Of course there are also advanced techniques - footwork and combat sprinting, crouching and looking down(camera also controls your torso), but they are not as clear and streamlined as i think true game features should be.


Please comment and let me know if you agree, disagree or think i am wrong!

Thanks for reading!

Almost so good but lacks consistency. Blocks and attacks don't always reliably work, unbalanced weapons/classes, and hacks/exploits that mean you're going to be dying a lot to people in situations you know you shouldn't be, be they too fast, invisible attacks, endless stamina, headshot across a map by archer, etc.

Then there's the frequent bugs, the wierd terrain/prop clipping, and the toxic community that's notoriously prone to vote-ban or vote-kick abuse, on all servers including official ones.

Don't spend money on this unless you're insanely bored of anything else to do and you have a mountain of disposable money to burn.

super fun game, buy it when it goes on sale for sure!

the player base is dying though.... i give it another 2 years tops before the official servers get shut down and this game passes on into legend

Applicably, this game was clearly developed with a medieval game engine judging from how shonky it feels, with crusty weapon animations that make them look like props from a BBC TV programme demonstrating to children a very inaccurate representation of medieval weaponry.

The cosmetic items are disgusting, the weapon balancing is stupid, and the fundamental feature, the swordplay is just unbalanced. And the player models? They're stupid.

Solid midevil fighting game. Nothing brings me more pleasure than watching two barbarians duke it out while I come from behind with a mighty swing of a battle axe.. Taking off one or several more heads. <3
Good game.

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11/10

no girl characters that are playable!! >:( also not even a single girl in the audience on the stairs.