Pirates, Vikings and Knights! OH MY!

[DeafOfficeWorker]

[quote="Barrel Bomber";p="75102"]so teh pirates make it cooler eh...[/quote]

It's always cooler with pirates.

[Buzzy Beetle]

Hmm... looks interesting... Buzzy shall give it a shot...

[DeafOfficeWorker]

[quote="Buzzy Beetle";p="75114"]Hmm... looks interesting... Buzzy shall give it a shot...[/quote]

Yay!

We might be playing tonight. The steam icon will say we're "in game" but doesn't specify which. It's likely PVK II. Just click join, of course.

Breeze through the player's manual (or don't, I never do). It's more than running around and hitting "fire". Most of the weapons require that you hold down fire to "charge" or "build" the strength of your attack. Blocking and parrying are also key (right click).

When the lateral bar is full, you have a special attack available. Specials are available for only one specific weapon for each class. You hit "f" to activate a special.

There is a variety of play modes. My favorite is "booty". You steal and hold treasure chests from the other teams. It's a blast! Hit "e" to pick up the chest, and fire to drop. My second favorite is "booty tag" which is similar to murder ball.

Oh, my nick is DeafOfficeBerserker, Fletch is Letchirious and JCOM is BlackJohnCarter.

[DeafOfficeWorker]

Quickie guide to Pirates, Vikings and Knights II

Basic Controls:

typical w,a,s,d movement config

Left mouse button: Attack
Right mouse button: Block
Reload (for firearms and crossbow): R
Special Attack (crit): F (I reset mine to Mouse3, it works better)
Pick Up Item (treasure chests): E
Drop Item: Left Mouse Button

General Gameplay:

Always the three opposing teams.

"Booty" and "Booty Tag" have a clock for each team which counts down the time which one controls the treasure chest(s).

"Booty" is taking treasure chests from one team's cap point (near their respective spawn), and returning same to yours. Once you pick up a chest you can neither attack nor block. Teamwork is what gets it done here.

"Booty Tag" is similar to murder ball. One guy carries the chest...everyone on the opposing team tries to smear 'em. The team holding the chest the longest wins.

TeamDeathmatch is self-explanatory. There's another where teams battle each other to control a central cap point.

Here's a few tips:

The classes which have a weapon and shield (heavy knight and viking huscarl), can shield bash while blocking. Hit fire while blocking. Very effective against parrots.

The special "crit" attacks are devastating. You build power by registering hits on enemies. The lateral bar with the wolf/dragon/whatever it is on the end, will glow red (the eyes light up too) when you have a special attack ready. Special attacks only work with one specific weapon for that class.

Swords, axes etc. typically build an attack charge by holding down the fire button. The viking beserker (while dual-weilding an axe and sword) is the only exception. You can hold fire to make the beserker continuously swing his weapons.

Just like any FPS, activating quick switch to swap the weapons with your number keys is a benefit.

Black John Carter can tell you about the pirates. That's all he plays. Yar Parrot!

I have resurrected and resumed the use of my former nick "SpicyMcHaggis" as it justs fits this game for some reason.

Please play this mod. It's a very fun distraction from TF2 and DoD:S once in awhile.

EDIT: Oh, one more thing. Due to rabid and rampant llama population, I recommend disabling voice. Having to read the chat is bad enough without the profane/screaming/singing/griefing mic use.

[mr_s]

Or evern better keep away from the online RPG's....


They are as addictive as WOW.

[DeafOfficeWorker]

[quote="mr_s";p="75337"]Or evern better keep away from the online RPG's....
[/quote]

It's not a RPG. It's a FPS using mostly melee weapons. No levels, xp...

[YevGenie]

So what....you can, dl this from a mirror and play online? Is there a friends list? or like a server list? or whats up?

[Tickles]

It's played thru steam.. so yes it has a friends list, server It's a HL2 mod silly bean. The link is posted in the thread on page 1 i think.

[DeafOfficeWorker]

[quote="Tickles";p="75440"]The link is posted in the thread on page 1 i think.[/quote]

It's posted 3 or 4 times throughout this thread. It's in the title for my quickie guide. Here it is again:

Pirates, Vikings and Knights II

It's a free third-party HL2 mod. You play it through STEAM.

Please play this mod with me. You'll like it. I'm hoping if there is enough interest, someone will want to put up a PVK2 Ville server. The game really needs a Ville server.

[JohnCarterofMars]

well, hopefully there will be a good admin mod for this one soon, because as you said DOW, its llama rampant right now. which is normal for most beta games...

it would be sweet to have a fun night with a locked server to show any interested villuns what the game is like.

[llama_beans]

Me like.

[llama_beans]

off topic

[DeafOfficeWorker]

Good pics, llama.

So, let's get some villuns together to play some PVKII one night.

[Dog]

OK....so I played every class and it's fun although it has none of the fluidity of TF2.
Bowman is hard, Captain was hilarious with the homing parrot but my fav was Berserker.

Having said that, I was on a couple of servers where we had bunches of voice-spammin', N-Bomb, F-Bomb swearing jerks and I found myself hitting the darned F1 key to ban their butts out of there.....
I hate other servers....hehe

[DeafOfficeWorker]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="76732"]Having said that, I was on a couple of servers where we had bunches of voice-spammin', N-Bomb, F-Bomb swearing jerks and I found myself hitting the darned F1 key to ban their butts out of there.....
I hate other servers....hehe[/quote]

Unfortunately true.

I have voice disabled. The chat is bad enough.

Really fun game, though. My favorite right now is heavy knight. Skirmisher is pretty fun too.