I never liked chiv 1 or mordhau or even m&b multiplayer, but this has a level of quality to it that you can really feel.

The atmosphere of the game is what really makes it feel so good, from the massive amount of ordinary objects you can pick up and fight with(candlesticks, bread, branding irons, brooms, logs) to the insane amount of voice lines that can be heard by everyone around you. Theres 3 different voice selection wheels for every voice available and each phrase has two or more ways that the character can say it. You can even dance, pretend youre riding a horse while your character makes horse noises and ride your battle axe like a pony. All that and more, without even mentioning the core gameplay, the combat.

The combat is great, not sure if its the most complex of the genre but it definitely allows the skilled to rise to the top.

There are 4 classes each with 3 subclasses, this is where the game falls a little short as not all the subclasses feel meaningfully different. The biggest difference between the subclasses is the special ability and what weapons you can use, other than that its mostly the same for each class.

The maps also make this game shine, each very diverse visually, although some objectives feel very similar since they are just an object that needs to be broken by the attacking team. Which is where I feel a core gameplay issue is found.

The defending team has a myriad of objectives that are simply objects with a health bar, in order to stop the attackers from breaking them, they have to defend them, the by far best way to stop the attackers is by a certain subclass constructing walls around the objectives, a thankless job with few rewards. Without these walls a single attacker can again and again run in and get a few swings before the defenders collapse on them.

Besides that there are still quite a few obvious bugs they have yet to fix, on the falmire map half the defenders wave can spawn under the map and die instantly on one objective. Baffles me how this isnt fixed yet and if you view certain weapon cosmetics your cosmetic selections will no longer save unless you delete a certain file from your computer and have the game recreate it.

all in all, pretty good, a bit pricy tho.