things 7 hours in taught me:

-level 200s and higher are gay
-maul users are gay
-people with armor like theyre some kind of barons are gay


will update as i get more experience

When I first played this game I absolutely hated it. It is janky as hell, the servers are terrible, the combat is a comical joke of hitbox exploits.

Yet 5 years later I am still here playing it. Has one of the most esoteric communities. The life of a typical player (i.e. not a tryhard):

Hours 1-10 - no idea what the hell is going on or what is killing you.
Hours 11-25 - vaguely competent, can block and use different attacks. Maybe move on from Default Archer to Default Knight.
Hours 26-50 - start to customise builds, actually have ability to kill some players with mix of blind luck and basic feints.
Hours 51-100 - learn many techniques, reliably get a positive, if very modest, K/D ratio.
Hours 500+ - give up any pretence of getting good and beating the associated mix of insane tournament players and blatant hackers and instead start trolling hard - bear trap spamming, killing top level plays as a rock throwing dwarf.
Hours 1000+ - Download lutebot, muck about on custom servers with lightsabres, start adding complete randoms to your friends list
Hours 2000+ - start to succumb to madness and forms of psychosis. Download frankenstiener and make the ugliest characters conceived since Elder Scrolls Oblivion. Use a catapult as a trampoline. Watch might parades of strange folk. Dance in front of a full moon. Witness clones of 20 of the same character jump down a pit. See meme characters commit to only killing players with rocks, players armed with only frying pans, characters stuck on the same voice line over and over.

Come for the crappy combat. Stay for the freaks.

Yours truly, Lord Crumpington a Pillar of the Mordhau Community.

Bring back old hoard mode.