History VideoGame / Chivalry2

* LadyLooksLikeADude: Players may choose female faces and voice sets, but it doesn't automatically change what the rest of the body looks like. While it makes sense that bulky armor would mask some differences, it still means that the women look quite burly from the neck down. There are armor sets that can only be used alongside the female faces, but this is optional.

** In general combat-capable [=VIPs=] like the Malric's Heir or Argon II are like this, often with much higher HPs than the norm, but with the consequence that if they die, the match is lost.

** In general combat-capable VIPs like the Malric's Heir or Argon II are like this, often with much higher HPs than the norm, but with the consequence that if they die, the match is lost.

* DoNotDropYourWeapon: Averted -- running out of stamina while blocking an incoming strike will cause the weapon to be knocked from your hands. This means falling back to a secondary weapon or bare fists, or else scrambling to find another weapon lying around.

* CriticalExistenceFailure: It doesn't matter on how many battle axe overheads the player can receive or the occasional thrown dane-axe to the face, as long as they have a sliver of health remaining, they can still fight efficiently.

** While all manner of items can be held in the offhand, the only thing that improves your jab attack is a ''flaming chicken''. While kind of a joke weapon, it does allow the tactical flexibility of using a right-handed normal attack or a left-handed jab that lights the opponent on fire.

* KillerRabbit: The Raid on Aberfell map has an area slightly off the main path that includes bones strewn outside a dark cave mouth. Approaching the cave may result in a rabbit flying out and instantly killing your avatar in a ShoutOut to the original killer rabbit.

** Weapons can be used in ways they're not meant to be, such as thrusting with a blunt weapon like a cudgel or hammer, although it can sometimes do much more damage than it realistically should. Bows can be swung as a melee attack, but this is meant as a desperation move rather than something practical. Bows and crossbows can also be thrown for less damage than even a jab.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Tenosians, a new faction introduced in the Tenosian Invasion update, are roughly analogous to both Crusade-era Saracens and the Ottoman Empire. Their armor and weapons notably have distinct Arab and Turkic influences.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Regardless of which side you sympathize with more, the Agathians and Masons have good and bad traits in nearly equal measure. Agatha supports loyalty and honor (good), but their hereditary monarchy lends itself to power abuse (bad). The Masons support self-determination and meritocracy (good), but their policy is to kill everyone who doesn't agree with them, including defenseless peasants (bad).

* AnArmAndALeg: Rarely, a player dealt a near-lethal blow may lose one or both arms and continue fighting for a while in "[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail only a flesh wound]]" mode. This starts a bleed out timer, but doing enough damage quickly will give the player a second wind and let them continue minus the arm(s) indefinitely

* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: In addition to the other usual benefits of [=VIPs=] (increased health and stamina, immune to interruptions), King Argon II has a special sword with an incredibly fast swing and high damage against any armor class. Anyone who is good enough to earn the right to play as him will likely cut down many Masons in record time, regardless of ultimate victory or defeat.

* EscortMission: In the "Escape from Falmire" map, the Agathians must escort another player in the role of war hero Thawne to a docked boat, while the Masons try to kill Thawne or exhaust the clock.

* BlownAcrossTheRoom: Crossbow kills at short range have quite a tendency to send the target flying and spinning head over heels. Being close to a bomb when it explodes on an objective also tends to send everyone nearby hurtling through the air like cannonballs.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In addition to the other usual benefits of [=VIPs=] (increased health and stamina, immune to interruptions), Argon II has a special sword with an incredibly fast swing and high damage against any armor class. Anyone who is good enough to earn the right to play as him will probably cut down many Masons in record time, regardless of ultimate victory or defeat.

* LowFantasy: Although billed as involving ''medieval'' warfare (1300-1500 for the late medieval period), there are a number of things distinctly ''Renaissance'', such as moiron helmets (~1550), petards (1579), and rapiers (1600). However, the setting is also openly based on the [[HollywoodHistory Middle Ages as seen in Hollywood movies]] rather than a 100% realistic setting, so it's plausible the Agathians and Masons invented these things early in this alternate history.

* FamtasyCounterpartCulture: The Tenosians, a new faction introduced in the Tenosian Invasion update, are roughly analogous to both Crusade-era Saracens and the Ottoman Empire. Their armor and weapons notably have distinct Arab and Turkic influences.

* GrievousHarmWithABody: Anyone's decapitated head can be picked up and used as a thrown weapon. Some maps feature baskets of severed arms that can act as a bludgeoning melee weapon (about on par with a cudgel). The Aberfell map features peasants and pigs that are intended to be carried to a boat, but they can be thrown at opposing players for damage as well.

''Chivalry 2'' is a medieval warfare game developed by Torn Banner Studios, and is sequel to ''VideoGame/ChivalryMedievalWarfare''. The Mason Order was victorious in the last civil war and has ruled the land for 20 years. The Agathians are now launching a new offensive under the leadership of King Argon II, while the Masons counterattack anyone and everyone the least bit sympathetic to Argon. Or you can [[ExcusePlot not worry about that]] and just focus on hacking to bits anyone who isn't wearing your team's colors.

* DeathOrGloryAttack: Special attacks on most weapons have a big stamina cost, long windup, and restricted aiming. The risk is that you might be left exhausted, interrupted, or with an outright miss. But if it lands on-target, it cannot be counter-attacked and has massive damage potential.

* HealThyself: Everyone starts with a single-use bandage for healing themselves, and a replacement can be grabbed from any supply box. Certain subclasses can throw down a bandage box that is consumed on pickup, or sound a horn that restores health to multiple nearby allies.

** The amount of armor worn by each class still reflects the amount of punishment they can endure, and the system has been simplified from the prior installment. Archers are essentially unarmored. Vanguards wear a few bits of piecemeal metal, with their relatively low health making them most vulnerable to arrows and cutting weapons. Footmen wear some plate and chainmail, with decent all-round durability but some vulnerability to chopping and blunt weapons. Knights wear full plate, making them very resistant to arrows and cutting weapons, but take a lot of extra damage from chopping and blunt weapons.

* SlobsVersusSnobs: In addition to the OrderVersusChaos dynamic, the Mason and Agatha conflict has shades of this. Levels owned by The Masons have an aesthetic that leans towards TheDungAges, small villages filled with mud and filthy peasants or large military citadels filled with blood and torture devices, and their soldiers often have a more haphazard style of dress. Meanwhile Agatha live in cities that are practically CrystalSpiresAndTogas levels of beautiful, their farming villages look like {{Arcadia}}, and they dress in neat and polished armor sets.
* SuperDrowningSkills: While a lot of water hazards are quite deep with no easy way out (not to mention all the steel that everyone is weighed down with), the player characters will instantly die if water even touches above waist-height.

** The Dane Axe is a potent melee weapon, but is specifically suited for throwing as well. It has a quick release, flies quite far, and does a lot of damage. Axes in general throw better than swords do, which throw better than polearms do.

* WarriorMonk: During the last phase of the Galencourt map, several Agathian players are given the option to respawn as warrior monks. The monks are physically imposing, carry two-handed clubs, and their attacks cannot be interrupted.

** There's a subtle change in the posture of player avatars as health decreases. During certain animations, such as when standing idle or walking slowly, the avatar will become increasingly hunched over in proportion to the amount of missing health.

* BlownAcrossTheRoom: Crossbow kills at short range have quite a tendency to send the target flying and spinning head over heels.