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MORDHAU Free Download GAMESPACK.NET I pull back my giant Zweihänder sword, ready for a stab, and then cancel my attack at the last second. My opponent falls for it, parrying a blow that never arrives. I haven’t dealt any damage yet, but in that instant I already know the fight is won. It’s in moments like this, where you work out how to expose an opponent’s weaknesses within the first few seconds of a fight, that I realised all the struggles I had during Mordhau’s painful opening hours were worth it. After a short flurry of strikes and counters I draw my blade back for the second time. Again, I feint at the last moment, and again they bite, blocking at thin air. This time I’m ready to pounce, and they’re still recovering from their parry as I thrust forward. My blade jabs between their eyes, their neck snaps back as they fold to the floor, and their sword clatters on the cobblestones. “Good fight”, they say in chat as my next opponent approaches, twirling a spear. Most of Mordhau’s modes are team-based frays, but its one-on-one duel servers best expose the brilliance of its medieval melee combat system. You can stab, you can strike from different angles by flicking your mouse, you can feint, “morph” from one type of attack to the other mid-swing.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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Or “chamber” an opponent’s attack by matching the angle of their blade for an instant counter. It’s initially overwhelming. I learned the mouse movements in an afternoon, but knowing when to use each move took me far longer, and I spent my first five hours dying repeatedly. During that time I wished Mordhau had a more in-depth tutorial so I could learn by playing instead of turning to YouTube guides. However, once I’d realised the importance of holding my nerve against an enemy’s feints I started to improve quickly, learning from my mistakes in each duel and turning tricks that had once worked on me back on my opponents (as demonstrated above). That feeling of constant skill progression keeps me coming back. Nearly 30 hours in, I’m still picking up new combos of feints and morphs, and I’ve spent whole evenings fighting opponents in the same duel server without getting bored. Landing a hit is satisfying in its own right thanks to gory physics and crunchy sounds.It helps that landing a hit is satisfying in its own right thanks to Mordhau’s gory physics and crunchy sounds. Your blade rips into opponents with a bloody squelch, lopping of arms, legs, and heads as torsos go limp and ragdoll.

Massive battles.

The smooth animations help sell the fantasy whether you play in first or third-person, and your character feels responsive, grunting when they exert effort and groaning when they get tagged by an arrow. It’s even more impressive when body bits fly in Frontline, Mordhau’s flagship mode. It’s a 64-player team-based battle in which you progressively capture control points on large maps, pushing the enemy back to their spawn. The scale and variety of these maps is impressive: each has a distinct look, from the white hills of Mountain Peak—the blood glistening on the snow has a certain morbid beauty—to the muddy battlefield of Camp, the largest map. My favourite among the four is Grad, in which one team spawns in a walled keep and the other in a wood across a field. Between them are towers with spiral staircases, ladders, log huts, stacks of hay and a lumber mill, each offering different tactical options. Sometimes I take my powerful Zweihander build and rush to the front lines to bash some skulls; sometimes I play an archer and fire on enemies trying to scale the castle walls; other times I pick a fast, unarmored character that can move around enemy flanks.No One Survived

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The character creator is robust in terms of your stats and the appearance of your armor (but not in the diversity of the character underneath, unfortunately) and lets you play any build you like: you start with a blank slate and allocate points shared between weapons, armor pieces, and perks. It has no restrictions on where you can spend those points, so you could create a heavily armored knight who only carries firebombs and has near-silent footsteps, if you really wanted to. I’ve yet to try a playstyle I haven’t enjoyed. When you have 64 players swinging weapons and slinging projectiles at each other each fight becomes a spectacle, and even if you’re not racking up kills you can still have fun just watching the chaos unfold. The other Frontline maps, sadly, aren’t as good as Grad. Two are fairly uniform and fighting on them feels roughly the same no matter what control point you’ve reached. Taiga, the last of four Frontline maps, feels like it was built for dull stalemates: once a team captures the central control point it’s difficult to wrestle it back, and as an attacker I feel like I’m being repeatedly funneled down the same narrow walkways into the crosshairs of waiting archers, which is simply not fun. But whenever I’m frustrated, I just switch to a different mode, of which Mordhau has plenty – including a Battle Royale.

Free-form melee and ranged combat.

None stand out next to Frontline or Duels, but each requires a different playstyle, so you’ll always find one to fit your mood. If Frontline feels too random you can try Skirmish, a team mode without respawns, encouraging more caution. If rounds of Battle Royale feel too drawn out, you can jump into a free for all or team deathmatch. It even has a horde mode against AI for when you need something more brainless. I’ve enjoyed playing each mode, even Frontline on its worst maps, and that’s largely because they’re underpinned by the same deep fighting system. I love the mental gymnastics required to beat an experienced opponent—you have to tease out their weaknesses and create a plan to capitalise before they do the same to you. You’re bluffing and double-bluffing moves while deliberately telegraphing others, probing for a metaphorical chink in their armor so that you can sink your blade into a literal one. Finding and exploiting it feels fantastic. I get the same thrill from beating my opponents as I did in Chivalry.I get the same thrill from beating my opponents as I did in Chivalry, the 2012 multiplayer game that heavily inspired Mordhau.Mahokenshi

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I eventually lost interest in Chivalry because players could abuse the physics system to attack in ways that barely looked human, such as spinning full circle in the air, bending over backwards, and hitting you from behind their head. Mordhau feels more grounded, like its rules are easier to understand and more difficult to exploit. Unfortunately, it also comes with its fair share of hassles. That starts with the performance: Mordhau hangs on a blank screen for 10 seconds nearly every time I boot it up, and when I load into a server there’s a good chance I’ll be instantly disconnected and sent back to the main menu. The end result is that it’s not nearly as quick and easy to get in and start playing as most games are. It has its fair share of trolls, too, from team killers to players that build defensive walls inside their own spawn rooms, trapping teammates. And naturally, there are unsavory characters in the chat. It’s not developer Triternion’s fault these players exist, but it’s worrying that there are no tools to report players in-game, for example, so their behaviour – including rampant racism and homophobia – persists and goes unpunished. A chat filter would easily catch much of the hate they spew, while a ban on building in spawn areas is surely a no-brainer to add. Most games that hand you a sword and point you in the direction of a battalion of foes feel empowering and heroic.

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After a few rounds of Mordhau, the prospect of heading once more into the breach seemed more terrifying than anything else. Of all the multiplayer melee games I’ve played over the years, this one has decidedly the highest skill cap and the least patience for those who haven’t taken the time to learn its complex, twitch-based combat. The upside to that is when you do go on a hot streak, you feel like way more of a badass than any of those more forgiving games can ever let you feel. The basic premise is pretty simple. In the default Frontline mode, you take up arms as a rugged warrior from one of nine classes (or you can design your own) and rush into the fray in up to 32-v-32, objective-based skirmishes on attractive, realistically-structured medieval battlefields. Then, you probably die pretty quickly to someone a bit quicker or more experienced than you and respawn, hopefully having learned something to take forward into your next brawl. Each clash of swords can look deceptively simple, but is actually highly complex in the huge variety of attacks, parries, and counters available to you. A well-scripted and straightforward tutorial will run you through the fundamentals, but it’s another matter entirely to execute the correct moves at the right time.

It takes many hours just to start feeling competent, but the satisfaction of growing confidence as your execution improves is something no numerical progression system can really replicate. It reminded me a lot of Sekiro, in that I started out as an absolute scrub and eventually started to think of myself as a badass swordsman. I mean, at least sometimes Everything you do in melee is highly dependent on split-second timing, so sloppy or indecisive swordplay will be punished heavily by experienced players. You can’t hold down block while brandishing a sword, for instance. Left-click executes a timed parry that only works for about a second, so you need to sync it up with your opponent’s movements. And almost any defensive measure you deploy has an equivalent counter that will slap it aside with ease, so most duels will favor whichever player can read their opponent and react quickly and aggressively. It is a bit of a bummer that there’s not a lot you can do when you’re just learning the ropes and want to take a more relaxed, support role. There is an engineer class who can shake things up by deploying siege weapons and the like, but I often found my contributions in this area were relatively small and easily undone by the other classes. In other multiplayer games like Battlefield 5 and Overwatch.

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I can focus on reviving teammates or locking down a point if I want a little bit of a break from high-intensity combat, and Mordhau doesn’t support that playstyle especially well. Even with its early success, I worry that this will shrink the number of players who can really get into Mordhau. If I want to invite my younger cousin who isn’t up to Murderlord level in melee action games into a match, there would be comparatively less for him to do that might make him feel useful. Even the most hardened swordsman has to admit that giving less twitch skilled players something meaningful to do only helps fill the servers and give us more fresh meat to beat up on. That doesn’t work if they all get frustrated and leave. Archery, too, I found a bit disappointing. Mordhau has gone the route of making arrows very powerful, but very difficult to land a hit with. Drawing back the bow requires about a second in which your crosshair moves in a semicircle, making it almost impossible to aim, then gives you a couple seconds of a steady hand before you start to wobble and lose your aim. The projectiles themselves are fairly slow and experience significant drop-off after leaving the string. This comes across as very realistic, but not especially fun, and it makes becoming an even somewhat effective archer even more difficult than getting the hang of melee. The root of the problem is trying to simulate realistic archery in what are, ultimately, pretty unrealistic conditions.Arietta of Spirits

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