PVKII 2.0 is out Thursday!

CoolCookieCooks

<div class="IPBDescription">ARR PARROT!</div>Pirates, Vikings & Knights II is a mod ive been testing for the past few months, and I must say the new patch is quite amazing. 3 new classes and 2 new maps have been added. For the pirate team, the captain has been added who can command around his parrot to attack unsuspecting foes, or blast them away with his mighty blunderbuss. The vikings have the huscarl; an axe wielding maniac who has a massive axe to deal massive close range damage, and throwing axes for those ranged enemies. The knights have the archer, wielding a trusty bow/crossbow he is the master of ranged attacks.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWwr0r_q_-U" target="_blank">Trailer:</a> (Fixed! thanks Faskalia)
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The patch is out this thursday so I expect some of you NS groupies to get a game going together <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />


Website: <a href="http://www.pvkii.com" target="_blank">Clicky</a> (Shh hellbilly)

chao

Nice, really liked the first beta =)
Yay for colosseum!
What type is the other new map?

Faskalia

<!--quoteo(post=1669535:date=Feb 4 2008, 07:23 PM:name=CoolCookieCooks)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CoolCookieCooks @ Feb 4 2008, 07:23 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1669535"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Pirates, Vikings & Knights II is a mod ive been testing for the past few months, and I must say the new patch is quite amazing. 3 new classes and 2 new maps have been added. For the pirate team, the captain has been added who can command around his parrot to attack unsuspecting foes, or blast them away with his mighty blunderbuss. The vikings have the huscarl; an axe wielding maniac who has a massive axe to deal massive close range damage, and throwing axes for those ranged enemies. The knights have the archer, wielding a trusty bow/crossbow he is the master of ranged attacks.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWwr0r_q_-U" target="_blank">Trailer:</a>
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The patch is out this thursday so I expect some of you NS groupies to get a game going together <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Only WWwr0r_q_-U goes in the tags.

Liku

Looks like good fun, but I really wish the animations were on par with the modeling and mapping.

locallyunscene

That looks really cool. The exploding barrel looks insanely powerful though.

TychoCelchuuu

<!--quoteo(post=1669551:date=Feb 4 2008, 02:13 PM:name=locallyunscene)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(locallyunscene @ Feb 4 2008, 02:13 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1669551"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->That looks really cool. The exploding barrel looks insanely powerful though.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

It's been in since Beta 1.

Abra

Back in the days when you didn't have to light them when throwing them.

Crispy

Finally, I get to play as a character with a claw!

(well, hook, but good enough!)

I'm up for a game on the weekend...

lolfighter

I had some decent fun doing kamikaze runs with lit gunpowder barrels. I bet the whiners have somehow ensured that that's no longer possible, haven't they? If not, please tell me, I might want to try this again.

CoolCookieCooks

It's still possible to run in and kamikazie keg people, yes <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Crispy

<!--quoteo(post=1669568:date=Feb 4 2008, 10:52 PM:name=CoolCookieCooks)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CoolCookieCooks @ Feb 4 2008, 10:52 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1669568"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It's still possible to run in and kamikazie keg people, yes <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Also it looks like they've actually fixed the 'king of the hill' tower so you can't just lob kegs up and kill EVERYONE so only Pirates win.

lolfighter

<!--quoteo(post=1669585:date=Feb 5 2008, 03:32 AM:name=Crispy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Crispy @ Feb 5 2008, 03:32 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1669585"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Also it looks like they've actually fixed the 'king of the hill' tower so you can't just lob kegs up and kill EVERYONE so only Pirates win.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Can you still run up there with a lit keg while giggling and frothing like a madman and wipe the entire tower out in a blaze of glory so yer mateys can then take the tower? Or are pirates relegated to using their laughably underpowered sabers in puny attempts to assail the tower only to meet with the business end of a giant axe or sword at the top of the ladder?

TychoCelchuuu

<!--quoteo(post=1669607:date=Feb 5 2008, 04:55 AM:name=lolfighter)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lolfighter @ Feb 5 2008, 04:55 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1669607"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Can you still run up there with a lit keg while giggling and frothing like a madman and wipe the entire tower out in a blaze of glory so yer mateys can then take the tower? Or are pirates relegated to using their laughably underpowered sabers in puny attempts to assail the tower only to meet with the business end of a giant axe or sword at the top of the ladder?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes and no, respectively,

lolfighter

Time to giggle and frothe, then...

Hellbilly

Your lack of link to the actual mod itself forced me to use Google! omgosh fail! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":0" border="0" alt="wow.gif" />

<a href="http://www.pvkii.com/" target="_blank">http://www.pvkii.com/</a>

Geminosity

silly LF, the saber isn't underpowered <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

You just cap rounds from your pistol into people until you've got your special up THEN you insta-kill them all with your saber <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
Works a treat!

lolfighter

It's far more effort than just dropping your unlit barrel at your feet and hacking it with your saber though. It also doesn't get people riled up as much.

Geminosity

oh I dunno, I managed to get quite a few death threats doing my gun-saber routine. They get irked at you pecking away at them with the pistol to begin with and then howl at how unfair it is when you run them through with your 1-hit kill unblockable attack :D

lolfighter

But there are far less EXPLOSIONS when you just pistol and cutlass them!

Crispy

<!--quoteo(post=1669713:date=Feb 6 2008, 05:09 PM:name=lolfighter)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lolfighter @ Feb 6 2008, 05:09 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1669713"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->But there are far less EXPLOSIONS when you just pistol and cutlass them!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->But much more Peter Pan. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerd-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::nerdy::" border="0" alt="nerd-fix.gif" />

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CoolCookieCooks

Actually knights pretty much win the level with the tower (desertruin). Their special attack clears out every single player in the tower and you get one bugger that likes to camp at the top of the ladder bouncing people off with his shield.

lolfighter

Which is why they deserve to get asploderated.

ZupiCo

<a href="http://www.pvkii.com/" target="_blank">IT'S OUT!</a>

Go go go!

Thansal

so, not to really hate on the game (well, not much), but is it really any different then PVK1, except for slightly better graphics, and fewer features?

Crispy

<!--quoteo(post=1669862:date=Feb 7 2008, 06:44 PM:name=Thansal)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Thansal @ Feb 7 2008, 06:44 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1669862"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->so, not to really hate on the game (well, not much), but is it really any different then PVK1, except for slightly better graphics, and fewer features?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Did PVK I have directional melee attacks AND directional blocking? Did it have 4 game modes across 7 maps? Did it have 6 classes, each with a 'special' skill? Did it have about a gazillion custom taunts and voice calls for each character? (e.g. "T'is but a scratch!")

Thansal

ok, I don't think it had the directional attack/blocking.

The rest? I think so.

I mean, there was TDM, CTF, and KotH

And there were more classes IIRC <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> (I think at least 3 for each team)

Svenpa

If people like this I bet you will equally like Dark Messiah MP, no directional cutting/blocking or unique teams but more polished animations at least, the rest is pretty much the same.
I'll give this a spin before I say more.

TychoCelchuuu

<!--quoteo(post=1669874:date=Feb 7 2008, 03:53 PM:name=Svenpa)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Svenpa @ Feb 7 2008, 03:53 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1669874"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If people like this I bet you will equally like Dark Messiah MP, no directional cutting/blocking or unique teams but more polished animations at least, the rest is pretty much the same.
I'll give this a spin before I say more.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Except PVK is hilarious.

JediYoshi

woot, quite the birthday gift :D

Geminosity

<!--quoteo(post=1669721:date=Feb 6 2008, 08:26 PM:name=CoolCookieCooks)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CoolCookieCooks @ Feb 6 2008, 08:26 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1669721"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->you get one bugger that likes to camp at the top of the ladder bouncing people off with his shield.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

~attempts to look innocent~
:3

Faskalia

<!--quoteo(post=1670170:date=Feb 11 2008, 07:19 PM:name=Geminosity)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Geminosity @ Feb 11 2008, 07:19 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1670170"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->~attempts to look innocent~
:3<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Because everyone seems to have troubles with pvk_desertruin.

Pirates can nuke the whole tower, but don't have that much staying power once they are up.
Knights can use archers to wound people on the tower from safe distance and knights are equally good at holding and taking the tower.
Vikings can use axe throws to weaken people on the tower and then they have to try to storm it. They are not very good at holding that thing though.

From my experience this leads to normally 2 scenarios:
Vikings get bored from attacking the tower and decide to spawn rape knights
OR
Vikings get bored from attacking the tower and decide to spawn rape pirates.

So although vikings ahve little chance of victory themselves they pretty much decide who will win that map <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />