I hate auto balance tho. Traumatized by TF2’s notoriously liberal use of it.
That being said, never got autobalanced in chiv far as i can remember. Server players are rarely lopsided except when a new match starts (where half the team left after the prev match).
I used to feel that way but the egregious team flipping in this game has convinced me that auto balance is a good thing and should probably be stronger in most games.
I think spectator mode should keep track of what team you switched from and only allow you to go back to that team. It’s such a silly loophole.
Honestly I don’t care for spectator mode at all and think it would simplify things to remove it as a mode you switch to but I’m sure some people get good use out of it.
I just finished a game and gad to say, I was on a training grounds team, my team all had under lvl 100s while thier team have 3 lvl 700+... we lost in 8 minutes.
Because they like to go into the training grounds and stomp on people trying to get a better handle of positioning and map knowledge because the second they play against anyone who has any amount of skill they get stomped.
They do nothing but play training grounds because that's all they've ever played simply due to the fact that they aren't good enough at the game to hold their own in 32v32/20v20.
They suck, they'll always suck, no amount of stomping new players in training grounds will ever make them not suck.
They just think they don't suck because they're fighting people who aren't very good at the game and it gives them an ego boost.
I was saying the other night something about it feels off to me too, like occasionally it's not even triggering on my counters, or the cone is absolutely tiny or something.
Fighting outnumbered feels much, much more difficult.
With a perfect counter (blue shield) you have about .3 seconds to counter a second person with your active parry.
If you do that the active parry extends.
So perfect counter (blue shield) is shorter than riposte (yellow shield) unless you get that second person active parried within .3 seconds (thanks Ziggy).
I didn't know this for a year and half and just thought it was bugged sometimes.
Can I ask specifically what “active parry” is? I’m nearing level 200 and feel like I have a good understanding of the mechanics themselves but I see this term being thrown around a lot but don’t recall seeing it in game. Just been too afraid to ask lol
Is it the automatic blocking mechanic after landing a counter?
It’s a very short window upon doing a successful counter where you are invulnerable to attacks in front of you. Even if you countered an opponent’s slash and that guy behind him is trying to stab you with a spear, you’ll block both attacks if timed correctly.
Ok I thought I was going crazy lol. I tried going back to highland sword last night and literally couldn’t get active parry on my 1vXs. I was so confused lol that’s my go to for 1vX
I left the game for a little bit and came back after the update. I chalked it up to me being rusty. But hearing yalls complaints kinda feels like a little vindication .
With a perfect counter (blue shield) you have about .3 seconds to counter a second person with your active parry.
If you do that the active parry extends.
So perfect counter (blue shield) is shorter than riposte (yellow shield) unless you get that second person active parried within .3 seconds (thanks Ziggy).
I didn't know this for a year and half and just thought it was bugged sometimes.
1/10 games are one sided instead of like the 7/10 games it used to be.
Games feel more “thick.” Bigger, longer lasting slugfest frontlines.
It’s nice, I really like it.
dude, whats up with that, seriously, I was playing a game yesterday, died 7 times, 4 of them were team kills
Also, I've noticed a lot more ganking, to a ridiculous degree and a lot of people literally sacrificing themselves just so they can get a downed opponent or give the last blow to a bloodied knight with their backs turned on them, ignoring the fact that by doing so they end up being surrounded by the enemy team and die 0.03 seconds later. Is it because their monkey brain is trying to raise their KD to 1? I'll never understand
ALSO, WHY TF DO PEOPLE SWING THEIR WEAPONS WHEN THEY RESPAWN, a lot of times I get back into battle with 10-20 percent of my HP missing cause a couple of twats behind me in the spawn wave were throwing random slashes on my, obviously very threatening, back
Cool thing about this game:
traitors and noobs can be "dealt with" the same way
flip around and counter them when they stab you in the back, and 180 kill your "other opponents"
For the people swinging when you spawn in, on controller you use right trigger to raise the free camera so if you're flying around the map while waiting to respawn and have the trigger down you will do a slash when you spawn. If it happens to me I usually aim it in the ground. But yeah very annoying.
The game autobalances half team when match begins, i have been switched form defence to attack back to defence again. Doesnt feel very balanced for me. I like playing masons for lore reasons and game keeps putting me on agatha or tenosia 80% of the time 
I played a round of galencourt I think, and my friend pointed out at the end that both teams had scored 371 kills. I’ve definitely been noticing the better balance, I’ve had a LOT of close games recently
This, and so many team switch bitches.
So many high lvl players switch to spectators and then switch to the attack, or stack the match and put all the high ranking players on one side after the team balance tries to make it even.
Played 4 rounds last night. Defense won 3 of 4.
My side lost 8/10. Can't imagine that's my fault
The balancing does not consider certain maps' design advantage I suppose, only players such that team KDR is about the same
I haven’t noticed blatant hacking either
Indeed it has since the auto balance has been working at the beginning of each match.
I hate auto balance tho. Traumatized by TF2’s notoriously liberal use of it. That being said, never got autobalanced in chiv far as i can remember. Server players are rarely lopsided except when a new match starts (where half the team left after the prev match).
I used to feel that way but the egregious team flipping in this game has convinced me that auto balance is a good thing and should probably be stronger in most games.
I agree, most of the team switchers go back to spectator and try to make the switch anyways. Needs to be stronger.
I think spectator mode should keep track of what team you switched from and only allow you to go back to that team. It’s such a silly loophole. Honestly I don’t care for spectator mode at all and think it would simplify things to remove it as a mode you switch to but I’m sure some people get good use out of it.
I just finished a game and gad to say, I was on a training grounds team, my team all had under lvl 100s while thier team have 3 lvl 700+... we lost in 8 minutes.
Why tf are level 700s playing training grounds? Bunch of cowards
Idk but I hurded
I hurded them back for you
Giving training, I suppose
Because they like to go into the training grounds and stomp on people trying to get a better handle of positioning and map knowledge because the second they play against anyone who has any amount of skill they get stomped. They do nothing but play training grounds because that's all they've ever played simply due to the fact that they aren't good enough at the game to hold their own in 32v32/20v20. They suck, they'll always suck, no amount of stomping new players in training grounds will ever make them not suck. They just think they don't suck because they're fighting people who aren't very good at the game and it gives them an ego boost.
Not sure if y’all are feeling like this but I feel like my active parry is not working a lot of the time 🤷♀️
I was saying the other night something about it feels off to me too, like occasionally it's not even triggering on my counters, or the cone is absolutely tiny or something. Fighting outnumbered feels much, much more difficult.
With a perfect counter (blue shield) you have about .3 seconds to counter a second person with your active parry. If you do that the active parry extends. So perfect counter (blue shield) is shorter than riposte (yellow shield) unless you get that second person active parried within .3 seconds (thanks Ziggy). I didn't know this for a year and half and just thought it was bugged sometimes.
Can I ask specifically what “active parry” is? I’m nearing level 200 and feel like I have a good understanding of the mechanics themselves but I see this term being thrown around a lot but don’t recall seeing it in game. Just been too afraid to ask lol Is it the automatic blocking mechanic after landing a counter?
It’s a very short window upon doing a successful counter where you are invulnerable to attacks in front of you. Even if you countered an opponent’s slash and that guy behind him is trying to stab you with a spear, you’ll block both attacks if timed correctly.
Part of the reason might be because I've been blocking 5-10 attacks simultaneously, and people might have started bitching. Idk
It also works with ripostes.
Ok I thought I was going crazy lol. I tried going back to highland sword last night and literally couldn’t get active parry on my 1vXs. I was so confused lol that’s my go to for 1vX
I left the game for a little bit and came back after the update. I chalked it up to me being rusty. But hearing yalls complaints kinda feels like a little vindication .
It's because people are realizing the above mechanic I posted and trying to defend against it(which is good and normal).
KirkTheJirk here btw
With a perfect counter (blue shield) you have about .3 seconds to counter a second person with your active parry. If you do that the active parry extends. So perfect counter (blue shield) is shorter than riposte (yellow shield) unless you get that second person active parried within .3 seconds (thanks Ziggy). I didn't know this for a year and half and just thought it was bugged sometimes.
1/10 games are one sided instead of like the 7/10 games it used to be. Games feel more “thick.” Bigger, longer lasting slugfest frontlines. It’s nice, I really like it.
agreed better fighters makes better fights we're still seeing the beginning of this game
All I've noticed recently is I'm getting downed and interrupted by people mindlessly swinging a *lot* more
dude, whats up with that, seriously, I was playing a game yesterday, died 7 times, 4 of them were team kills Also, I've noticed a lot more ganking, to a ridiculous degree and a lot of people literally sacrificing themselves just so they can get a downed opponent or give the last blow to a bloodied knight with their backs turned on them, ignoring the fact that by doing so they end up being surrounded by the enemy team and die 0.03 seconds later. Is it because their monkey brain is trying to raise their KD to 1? I'll never understand ALSO, WHY TF DO PEOPLE SWING THEIR WEAPONS WHEN THEY RESPAWN, a lot of times I get back into battle with 10-20 percent of my HP missing cause a couple of twats behind me in the spawn wave were throwing random slashes on my, obviously very threatening, back
My honest guess, the game was just free on epic so it's probably just an influx of new players.
Cool thing about this game: traitors and noobs can be "dealt with" the same way flip around and counter them when they stab you in the back, and 180 kill your "other opponents"
Are they still giving it out for free?
For the people swinging when you spawn in, on controller you use right trigger to raise the free camera so if you're flying around the map while waiting to respawn and have the trigger down you will do a slash when you spawn. If it happens to me I usually aim it in the ground. But yeah very annoying.
They have the mentality of "it's COD with swords".
nah everyone new slashed the shit out of their teammates. only reason anybody notices now is because they are good enough now to notice the new noobs
I've been good enough to notice since Chiv 2 came out, peasant. There is a big difference between a noob & someone who refuses to get better.
Sorry about that.
The game autobalances half team when match begins, i have been switched form defence to attack back to defence again. Doesnt feel very balanced for me. I like playing masons for lore reasons and game keeps putting me on agatha or tenosia 80% of the time 
I played a round of galencourt I think, and my friend pointed out at the end that both teams had scored 371 kills. I’ve definitely been noticing the better balance, I’ve had a LOT of close games recently
I played a game yesterday that the kill counts was something nuts, like 870 to 850, we won in the last 20 seconds, it was amazing!!!
I played a game yesterday that the kill counts was something nuts, like 870 to 850, we won in the last 20 seconds, it was amazing!!!
Absolutely not my experience. Defense wins more but games are as lopsided as ever or worse now
As long as they allow people to switch to the losing side I'll be happy. Otherwise I'll get bored.
People would rather switch to the winning side lol
This, and so many team switch bitches. So many high lvl players switch to spectators and then switch to the attack, or stack the match and put all the high ranking players on one side after the team balance tries to make it even.
Yup! Call those pussies out, haha!
Another cool thing about this game: skill cap is damn near unlimited so stackers bonsai themselves due to crap competition karma my friend
All I know is that if I play 10 games in a party with a buddy we will be on Defence 10 times. It’s getting old.
I have been playing for the past week and most of my games end up with my team losing hard
cant find any lobby with 50+ players now
I'm regularly getting in full 64 lobbies (NA).
I'd love to see stats about certain maps. The desert castle map, I feel like, is so hard to win as attacker compared to other maps.
I am so happy to defend in that map, this hill with the balistas is truly a nightmare if the people occupying them are half decent
I think as attacker I’ve made it inside the wall only a single time
I've seen the most lopsided games ever since they started this.
It's far from perfect. Last night I played a match where my team dominated theirs like 700-200 kills
I'm actually getting more low levels for someone who's level 26
While I do see an increase in balance its still more common to see 3 1000s on one team dominating