Comments on: Age Of Chivalry

By: nogitsune

nogitsune — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:51:23 +0000

The game is largely plagued by the same thing that plagues a lot of other online multiplayer games; “Fragheads”. You know, the people who care more about their killcount than the objectives and their team. It’s a sad universal fact that these guys seem to outnumber those of us who actually want to play as a team.

The fact that the mod, like most other games of the kind, doesn’t discourage (and sometimes encourages) this sort of thing doesn’t really help. But then, I guess they don’t want to alienate the majority of the online gamers as the “fragheads” seem to be. Understandable, I guess.

By: Powerhaus

Powerhaus — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:01:58 +0000

Been playing this about a week, it’s quite a bit of fun. Although the art and levels are well done, the actual combat still needs a considerable amount of polish, and it can be difficult to connect your inputs to the results youre achieving on the field.

By: TychoCelchuuu

TychoCelchuuu — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:36:20 +0000

There are basically a million single player mods but this is a story about AoC so I’ll talk about AoC. I’ve been playing it since the first release on and off and I really enjoy the newest version. I rebound the mouse wheel stuff to the other 2 buttons on my mouse and the combat feels much nicer, and there’s really nothing that can beat hurling a spear into someone’s face or tipping a pot of boiling pitch onto the enemy team. And the lone friendly knight who volunteered to hold them up under the pot. Noble.

By: nogitsune

nogitsune — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:53:50 +0000

I played the mod quite a lot before, and quit. I don’t know if Source just doesn’t do hand to hand combat, but it just doesn’t feel right. You’re not fighting with swords, you’re running around in a ridiculously frantic pace and hitting the fire button over and over hoping for a hit.

I would have liked to see more ways to attack and defend with the swords and shields; some room for variation so that you actually get to outsmart your opponent in a bout of actual fencing rather than just click the LMB faster and having a lower ping.

I don’t know if it can be done completely well with just a keyboard and a mouse, but there are games that have come a lot further, and with a bit of innovation, you can get even more.

By: Crispy

Crispy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:36:44 +0000

If you want single-player maps and TC mods for the Source engine, head to Planet Phillip.

He’s basically got every single-player project ever released for Source. The latest one is an Episode 1 Total Conversion mod in the style of the Cthulhu mythos. Sadly a lot of these mods are buggy on first release and don’t get the attention they deserve when efforts are made to improve them for re-releases. PlanetPhillip is currently beginning a Beta Tester project that will provide testers to (HL2) single-player mods so they can get their first releases as bug-free as possible. If you’d like to help out with the HL2 SP mod scene but don’t have any technical modding skills, drop your details into the Beta Tester list.

Depending on their length, SP TCs are much bigger projects than MP TCs. That’s why you don’t tend to see a lot of them. MINERVA is the polar opposite of a Total Conversion (Foster calls it an “anti-modification”) as it uses about 95% existing assets, and even then to get that level of quality it took the author and his testers just over 2 years for just 4 levels.

By: Flint

Flint — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:42:14 +0000

Seems to be so. There’s a few but the quality isn’t too great. I quite enjoyed Mistake of Pythagoras and its occasionally wacky level design, but then I got hopelessly stuck with no idea what to do.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:18:05 +0000

So, are single-player Source mods (other than MINERVA) just not made? I was hopeful when I read about objectives and story, but then it turned out to still be multiplayer anyway.

By: Riotpoll

Riotpoll — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:38:07 +0000

@Phil White; until in-game voice-chat is as good as Ventrilo there’s no point using it, the terribleness of the source voice chat makes my ears twinge! [EDIT]-Also, just saw what RichPowers said, and have to agree with him.

By: RichPowers

RichPowers — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:36:45 +0000

@Phil

Universal voice chat would be annoying. All of my Source games have voice chat turned off, especially Counter-Strike, which attracts more idiots per public server than any other game. If my friends and I are playing together, we’ll set up a private Vent server instead.

By: Don Hodgson

Don Hodgson — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:02:22 +0000

Age of Chivalry is a source engine mod, so it has built-in voicechat like TF2.

By: Phil White

Phil White — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:41:10 +0000

Do people not feel handicapped/lonely by the lack of universal voice-chat on PCs nowadays?

I could be (probably am) miles wrong, but it seems like a wilderness compared to modern console communities. (The sort of place you’d find Mr Walker on assignment, perhaps.)

Although I’d love to get into PC gaming online again, I think it’s a little backwards of late; even next to PSN.

By: Lord_Mordja

Lord_Mordja — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:34:13 +0000

It’s a fun mod once you get used to it. Comparing it to PVKII is ridiculous though; they’re both completely different in gameplay and ascetics. Oh and Theory, the latest build allows you to hold shields up; just hold down the middle mouse button (default) and your block will hold as long as you have stamina.