Chivalry : Medieval Warfare

Now Officially Setup in our new Studio!

tibberius — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:33:30 +0000

Hey everyone!

We are now fully setup in the studio! To celebrate, we are going to focus in on patch 2 and recommit ourselves to communicating effectively and better supporting the game as a result.

We hear you, we care and we’re making changes.

First among those changes is every Friday we plan to give you a communications update on what we, the developers, are working on so you can follow our progress better and to improve overall communication. Here is a list of awesome stuff we’ve been working on:

- Global banlist is now fully functional again (So server operators make sure you are using it to reduce the presence of known hackers! The changes you need to make are listed here: www.Chivalrythegame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=9559)

- SDK (Custom Map Tools) progress is awesome, we’re close, no firm date on it yet but we’ve got it mostly working locally and are looking into Steam workshop integration.

- A beta of patch 2 is planned to release as soon as we hit the major bugs to help showcase some of our intended changes and to garner community feedback on them. (Including solutions/adjustments for facehugging, feinting, lookdown overheads, toggle sprint, ghost swings and more)

It is amazing how much faster you can work through issues being in the same room, and good things are coming for Chivalry. We would also like to truly thank you for helping this happen, being in this studio together has been our dream for so long and it’s incredibly motivating to be here. And we owe being here to you, for playing and loving Chivalry so much more than we ever thought possible.

Click for : Studio setup photos!

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What we’re up to – Developer Q&A

tibberius — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:06:51 +0000

A long overdue sitdown with Torn Banner Studios President and Lead Game Designer for Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, Steve Piggott. Talking about the past few months, the future and answering some community questions:

CONTENT UPDATE ONE – RELEASED

Drakir — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:23:03 +0000

Massive Content Update Arrives!

You stand alone in middle of a frigid and blood-soaked battlefield, riddled with corpses so thick that the snow itself is painted red. In your hand lies a Flail, a weapon made for only one purpose. The destruction of all those who oppose you. As a veteran of battle you know the landscapes and arsenal well, but now you must conquer new regions and master unique weapons and tactics. For any man can kill another in the chaos of battle, but the glory of victory in single combat is unmatched. Will yours be a name remembered for all time? Or will you die, bested by another who has mastered the sword. This is Medieval Warfare, and this is a massive update:

13 New Maps

Citadel
Frigid
Argon’s Wall
And 10 new duel arenas

5 New Weapons

Sling
Quarterstaff
Polehammer
Flail
Heavy Flail

2 New Game Modes

Duel Mode (For intense 1v1 Action)
Capture the Flag

Alternate Swings

Can now do left to right swings!

Improved Server Browser and more…

Blood Decals now paint to the ground when you hit an enemy
Can now adjust how long Corpses stay on the battlefield
Much Stronger Hack and Cheat Protection
Music Jukebox in options menu for listening to full Chivalry soundtrack ingame
Optimization
Greatly Improved Spectator mode
Balance adjustments
Bug fixes
General Polish

For free. Want to see it all in action? Here is a video showcasing of the new patch.

For the mammoth sized full patch notes click here!

Up next we plan to release a community issues patch focusing on key items brought up by the community as well as further optimizations and bugfixes!

We told you we would make January!

FREE WEEKEND ON STEAM!

tibberius — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:19:07 +0000

Sharpen your swords and steel your hearts for Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is now FREE on Steam for this weekend only! With a huge content update planned to release soon, now is the best time to get your friends into a medieval bloodbath as the game is also 50% off until Monday at 10am PST! Prove your worth as a warrior and take to the fields in search of glory. In plain English, go play right now, its completely free and already waiting for you in your Steam My Games list.

Hiring Programmers

tibberius — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:05:29 +0000

Senior Generalist Programmer

All applicants should live in the Toronto Area or be willing to relocate for the position.

Description

JOB DESCRIPTION – Programmer

Torn Banner Studios is looking for a talented Programmer to contribute to our recently released game Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and future projects.

Torn Banner Studios is an exciting newly formed Independent studio who is looking for Talented Programmers to join their small team in pursuit of creating great games with a primarily First-Person Competitive nature.

As a member of the team you will be responsible for a wide range of tasks and should expect a variety of issues and challenges to tackle from gameplay, debugging, UI, AI and other programming tasks.

In addition the role will require excellent communication skills as you will require heavy collaboration with team members from other departments.

Requirements

- 2 or 3 Years Game Development Experience
- Familiarity developing and debugging in:
- UnrealScript
- C/C++
- Experience working with Unreal Engine 3 (or the UDK)
- Passion for video games!
- Ability to work under tight deadline and make changes based on feedback.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills.
- Self-motivated and task driven.
- Strong mathematical skills.

Desired Skills / Extras

- Have, or are pursuing, a B.S or M.S in Computer Science
- Experience working on any game or mod (Unreal, CryEngine, Source, custom-built etc.)
- Experience with Steamworks
- Experience with Scaleform and ActionScript 2.0
- Familiarity working with version control (i.e SVN, Git, Perforce) and task-management software (i.e Redmine, Mantis)
- Familiarity with C#, and/or Python
- Familiarity working with Visual Studio 2010

Please send your resume and any information you deem relevant via email to Careers @ Tornbanner.com

Find out more about our game here:

http://www.chivalrythegame.com/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/219640/

First Major Content Update to Land in January!

tibberius — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:57:51 +0000

- Duel Mode, allowing you to continually fight 1 on 1 without risk of interruption

- New weapons, including the Flail and Polehammer featured in the image above

- New Maps, including the Team Objective map Citadel pictured above and several maps for the new Duel mode

As well as:

- Capture the Flag Mode
- Optimization
- Balance adjustments

And for those of you who want the battlefield to be just a little bit messier:

- Blood Decals painting to the ground when a player is struck
- Ragdoll length slider

And of course TONS of bugfixes and polish work to the game overall. All of this is coming to you completely free in January so stay tuned for more details on the update and brush up on your dueling skills!

Also, we have been nominated in this year’s INDIE GAME OF THE YEAR AWARDS and are currently in the top 100, please show your support by voting. To go to the voting page click the image above!

Hotfix Patch Released!

tibberius — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:42:35 +0000

Here is the official changelog:

Keybind fixes
Keybind reset works better
Server player count issues fixed
Several fixes for different causes of server player counts showing as being higher than they are
Fixed issue where player count would be lower than the actual number of players in-game.
Fixed issue where you would be able to join even when the max player count was actually reached.
(Tutorial) Removed achievement text
(Arena) Gate fixes
(Tutorial) Bringing neckhole’s health down no longer blocks the tutorial
(Tutorial) Feint no longer blocks the tutorial
Crash fix in steamworks interface code
Quivers for bows
Possible fix for one circumstance where king objective became weird when king reconnected
Settings saved for join game filters.
Fixed a server browser sorting issue
Polish Localization.

Major Patch Now Live + Plans for the future

tibberius — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:20:58 +0000

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare gets its first major patch, fixing a massive amount of items that the players have been asking for.

Patch includes:

-Completely redone server browser
-Fixed connection issues
-Rework of ranged combat (New animations, sounds, Crosshair, “Feel”)
-Smoothed out animations
-Massive amount of bug fixes and polish
-Balance tweaks
-Fixed auto team balance system
-Improved weapon unlock/rank system reliability

Find Full Patch Notes here: http://www.chivalrythegame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5698

We have also added veteran helmets, which you unlock once you have unlocked all of the primary weapons for a specific class.

Veteran Helmets:

Masons

Agatha

Looking to the Future

Now just a month after release, Steve Piggott, the lead game designer of Chivalry: Medieval Warfare sits down to answer community questions and speak about the future of the game. In the video Steve promises a ton of new, free content coming to Chivalry and also talks about the surprising success of the game and the excitement for the whole team at Torn Banner Studios right now:

Chivalry is also 33% off on Steam right now as part of the Steam Autumn Sale! A great time to grab it for yourself or a friend:

Available here:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/219640/

Update Two weeks after Release

tibberius — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 04:59:33 +0000

It has been two weeks since release and it’s past time for us to give you guys an update on what we are working on. It makes us very happy to be able to say that so far our release has gone very well and player numbers are much stronger than expected, so we are very excited! Which is great news for you aswell- because us being excited means you get patches faster and more post-release content!

So far we have been primarily focused on getting bugs worked out and the first big patch is coming soon, hopefully within the next week or 2. Patch one includes: a complete remake of the server browser, fixed auto-balance, new ranged crosshairs, fixed javelins and keybind improvements among many other items highlighted by our community. After that we’re headed towards our first content update, which will bring a ton of new, free stuff to the game, first up includes new maps, new weapons and duel mode + plenty of surprises.

Basically what we are saying is, we are so happy with how things are going for the game and the reception we have been getting that we are committing to an insane amount of content updates for you guys. I also wanted to thank you all for your feedback so far, anyone who has been posting in our initial impressions post on the forums or just giving us suggestions or feedback along the way, it means a lot and we really are listening and trying to bring the content you guys are asking for. Everyone who has purchased the game has played a role in making our dreams come true and that is something we will remember.

So Thank you! And I shall look to pay deeper respects to you on the battlefield,

Steve & Torn Banner Studios

Release Hotfix 1

tibberius — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:08:27 +0000

Hello Everyone! Release week was completely insane- we are very happy with the interest in the game so far and even managed to hold the #1 sales spot on both Steam and Gamer’s Gate at various points throughout the week! We are very pleased that the game is being received so well and could not be more motivated to keep working on it as a result. We have a bunch of new content in the works for you but first we have to get to the fixes as we know there are some bugs that are holding some people back from enjoying the game. So, just 6 days after the release of our game we are announcing that:

We will be releasing the first hotfix tomorrow at 9AM PST.

Changes:

Removed stats reset and improved rank/unlock system reliability (weapon unlocks will no longer reset)
Fixed crash with server browser
Fixed exploits.
Auto-Team Balance on by default in all official servers
Auto-Team Balance changes to give you notification and not count as death
Fixed being able to join servers that were already full and overload them
Now can only see game servers that are running the same version of the game as you are

We also want to make it clear- this is a hotfix, not a patch. So we know there are still bugs we need to fix and we are working on them, keep in mind its only been 6 days since release. Bugs suck and are frustrating, we understand and we are doing what we can to fix them! Further patches and updates are still coming- thank you for your patience and understanding.

Thank you for helping us take the first step towards making our dream come true, we can’t wait to show you what else we have in store for future updates,

Torn Banner Studios