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herearemanywaystoswinga swordin

Chivalry 2 : a basicleftmousebutton

swipe,alternateswingsboundtoside

buttons,jabsandoverheadstrikes

thrownwiththemousewheel,anda specialattack

boundtoQ.There’salsoa ‘yell’key.Forthose

momentswhenyouneedtoyell.

breaking through, clashes on bridges,

longbows and crossbows, and horses.

I didn’t get to play those 64-player

objective-based maps, just smaller team

deathmatch rounds. We were all new to it,

so it was mostly a mess of bloody

accidents and team kills, but finesse

definitely isn’t impossible.

GET MEDIEVAL

You can duck under swings – bobbing like

a boxer by hitting crouch and a directional

key – block, dodge, and counter. To be any

good you need to gauge distances

accurately and throw deliberate strikes at

varied speeds, using the mouse to twist

into the arm movement. It’s possible to

feint, smoothly slipping from a forehand

strike to a backhand or a jab. There’s

always a way to get out of a bad situation

and put your opponent off guard.

The differences between Chivalry 2

and Mordhau are subtle, but you’ll feel

them if you play one right after the other.

Chivalry 2 doesn’t feel as twitchy. To parry

in Mordhau, you tap the right mouse

button just before your opponent’s swing

connects. In Chivalry 2, you hold down the

right mouse button to block, but your

opponent will have the advantage after a

blocked strike unless you can slip in a jab,

throw a counter, duck, or reorient. Skill in

one game will transfer to the other, but

they’re in no danger of being identical.

There’s more to Chivalry 2 than

swordplay complexity: subclasses add

new weapons, character customisation

has been expanded, and if I’d had a

chance to try mounted combat I might’ve

focused on learning how to deliver

precision horse kicks.

There’s no set release date yet, and I

suspect there’s a good amount of tuning

to do in a game with so many ways to kill

and to die. But just a brief demo at this

early stage left me with high expectations.

Tyler Wilde

THE DIFFERENCES

BETWEEN CHIVALRY

2 AND MORDHAU

ARE SUBTLE

PLAYED

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This medieval warfare sequel

comes out swinging

CHIVALRY 2

I didn’t want my time with Chivalry 2 to

end.It was fun even as a sloppy newcomer

tothe medieval combat genre, but what

gotme excited was the sense that a

erson could get really, really good at

swinging one of these swords around –

thatit’s grounded in physical techniques.

Like its 2012 predecessor, and popular

ewcomer Mordhau, Chivalry 2 aims at

delivering the full medieval battle

experience. It’s about moshing with steel,

swinging and stabbing and blocking as

arrows and limbs and heads streak by.

There’s a map in which attackers push

attering rams up to castle gates before

Chivalry 2

PREVIEW

RELEASE

2020

DEVELOPER

Torn Banner Studios

PUBLISHER

Tripwire

LINK

chivalry2.com

NEED TO KNOW

I did not know you

could do this.

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