Chivalry 2 - ARCHER - CLASS GUIDE 

As an Archer, you are legally obligated to make the enemy team have a really, really bad time.

A good archer generates salt in chat.

The one thing an archer hates is another archer.

One of the big advantages I’ve noticed in using the standard bow, is that you move quicker and your high rate of fire allows for better short range combat. Don’t be afraid to stay in the capture zone, your bow can be used as a melee weapon and most melee classes don’t expect it.

Yep I've had many outcomes where the arrow goes through people and doesn't damage them

I love archers, they make really easy targets for my highland great sword.

Archer tips: With the shortbow try to play hyrbid melee. Harrass before each engagement and look out for easy kills on retreating enemies, but when you have no opportunities for clear shots you can do great work supporting your allies in melee. Switch EARLY, dont wait till the enemy is rushing your face before swapping weapon otherwise you will give them a free hit you cant afford to take. The shortbow excels at being opportunistic, so always be positioning yourself in awkward spots where you're just close enough to the action that the enemy cant reasonably disengage without being shot, but also just far enough back that they cant fully focus on you without being intercepted by your team. In the bigger fights your job is to prevent the enemy from healing and to punish them for flanking. Longbow is slow af and as such you need to fight from a bit further back, which lowers your chances at opportunistic shots. Instead you want to play as a counter-archer primarily but remember that hitting an enemy archer that is aware of you can be a waste of time, as they will evade the shots easy. Instead you want to try to stealthkill them, but as soon as they are aware of you, switch targets whilts pressuring with the threat. Ideally you want to position around cover so they waste time spamming at you whilst you're getting hits on their team; then as soon as they switch focus you go for another stealth snipe. With the longbow its powerful to hit enemies who are just about to engage in melee; one shot and you leave them vulnerable to being killed in one swing by your allies. You can do a lot of work by just tagging each enemy once as they join the main fight and giving your knights a conga-line of easy kills. If you are being focused by melee users, just land one hit then swap to melee. Its not worth trying to land the second shot with the slow draw. So long as you land the first hit you have a favourable fight on your hands, as you will only need one or two hits with your fast weapon, and if you have good mindgames you can outplay a lot of the slower weapons pretty well. Most players will swing fairly thoughtlessly at archers, so practice some duels and take them by surprise.

Warbow is my favorite, takedown is guaranteed 95% of time if you hit somebody. Also what I like to do as longbowman, is to pick up better secondary from dead enemy or if it's laying around, stuff like one handed axe, warhammer, mace, falchion.

I would love to see guides or tips on every subclass, the more chivalry content the better! I've been playing sice beta with some 6 moths break and I still don't know which class i like best, I often find myself playing different role each game :D

Makes me happy to see the "omg fuck off archers" comments in game chat. It means I'm doing my job well.

Javalen's so fun to use. Starting as a Rank 1 Bow Archer was tough and if your aim with it is trash I reccomend just picking up a weapon on the floor and going into battle as a weak melee fighter until you get the Crossbow at lvl 4. The crossbow is pretty is good even for new players. But the javalen and War Bow are godly.

This video is really high quality, you deserve more subs

The fact they have brought back the arrow cam from the first Chivalry game is amazing

For peak performance, pull out the cudger and destroy knights in 1v1

I love playing war bow, I prefer to be just behind the front line, I'm more than decent in melee combat, and I've found that if someone is charging you, two full draw shots and the bow special is enough to either get the frag or it will at least give you enough time to pull out your secondary weapon

The subclasses are pretty unique from each other so I’d rather see you dive into each one in these types of vids 👍

Good channel and nice editing :)

i like thast you kept ''medic stuff'' in there lol made me like and sub

Great guide, archer is my main so im used to getting teabagged lol but its so fun

very nice overview!

“GET THOSE DAMN ARCHERS!”

8:20 happened to me alot at release on epic launcher and made me stop playing the game after a week or two, did they fix this issue with arrows and spears or is it still a problem? I want to get back to the game but not if this bug is still in the game.

I’ve had had a javelin hit an enemy and not do any damage at all but it’s still stuck in them

A good tip would be the Developers adding a button to stop that damn pop up saying press middle mouse for arrow cam.

Good points. How I use them Archer: Highly mobile projectile unit. Should prioritize long range engagement due to low health, may join melee only if absolutely needed (like irl) Crossbowman: Pavise allows more stationary play, while being close support (banner), ideal unit when you want to shoot at enemies between teammates Skirmisher: Close-mid range projectile unit with melee support, should prioritize enemy melee units over enemy archers

how do you switch to the arrow camera?

Thanks for the tips now I won't turn my teammates into porcupines

How do you stop the bow from shooting after you've already drawn it all the way back?

God this looks so much better on pc, i miss my pc

I prefer the longbow over the war bow, the war bow just has too much of a slow draw, the damage output is higher sure but not worth the slow draw. I find the longbow allowing more arrows to be fired off adds more pressure and not only that but war bow only has 12 arrows compared to the longbows 20

I have seen too many of my arrow go through an enemy and not register

Why cant I equip the weathered war bow ? I have it unlocked...

Thank you

i feel like a broken record since like a week or two when saying i cant w8 for chiv 2, but atleast i have you to quench my thirst with content :D and those juicy shots, im no archer main but i did like it in mordhau and imma be honest, as annoying archers can be, i can still respect some of the shots they actually hit

still feels like arrows still have hit detection issue?

How do you unlock it?

how u see arrows in the air ? arrow cam ?

Bit extra tip imo: Learn to fight melee aswell, usually the other classes think archers are easy targets and they just blindly swing at you like complete idiots since you are an "easy kill". There were times where i 4v1 killed heavier classes as an archer in melee just 'cuz of this. (i actually like to go close up as an archer sometimes) It also helps a lot with team objectives, since you can block up paths and occupy a few enemies, or capture stuff etc.

Is they a way for me to just pick an archer class getting spawned with random wepons suck

unfortunately steam release is out and spikes still break in 2 hits but great vid

It feels so hard to hit people with the archer in game :(

I think that archers are good on crowded control

Yea bow attack pretty quick and unsuspected

Imagine the salt you could generate when they patch it. I had a great run and I’d say 70% of my arrows existed.

You need to do therapy tapes, your voice is just epic...

I main archer on ps5. I study/train eastern turkish instinctive archery in real life. 3 most important tips for archer on console. 1: turn off aim assist. 2: shoot fast don't wait just throw ur arrows u got 20 shots, shoot at big groups. 3: U can do alot of damage if u learn to shoot fast in close-mid range. Extra tip the new updates allows u to be horse archer, like turkish horse archers which feels so damn cool.

I find archery difficult on xbox. Shots often times trace right through a target with no hit

50 points for raven claw!

They should def rework the classes a bit (maybe in Chivalry 3?) I know Archers can swing their bow, can they block? No right? They should, nerf archer in other ways (maybe arrows can be blocked but your timing or aim has to be more precise to block) and buff them by turning their bow into a proper melee weapon with a decent damage profile, then you can eventually add a new bow that has crappier arrows but better melee potential Maybe a poison tipped arrow class type too where they can poison their own arrows and swords, which is just small ticks of damage overtime (maybe other classes can also poison tip their own weapons by smearing them in dung around the map lol) This would be similar to fire arrows where it’s an ability that you charge over time Anyways I really hate oil pot and throwable sim general on console, pressing both bumpers at the same time sucks, half of the time I accidentally stab or overhead…

Archers whenever you are playing and you have a capture point you need to be close enough to be counted in the capture. I have played games where we have lost because there were too many archers not in the capture point and the enemy simply outnumbered us

YES MEE LAWRD

I'm really good in fps but hitting projectiles is pretty hard. Also the animations and hit boxes are pretty bad in this game.

I damage more friendlies than enemies with a bow

I fuck people up witht eh javelins. You go for head shots enough times it gets easier. Im still ass with the bow

As someone who used archer class once, never again

I have never played archer and never will

I suck at archer .i be hitting my own team members 😂

Knight

i expected more from crossbow and skirmisher, but only having footage of warbow and nothing else makes this not have that much credibility, and the things stated were quite obvious to anyone that plays for 1hr or 2

2024 Arrows still don't hit their target as they should

The game keeps forcing me to play as the Ax man Everytime I die It won't let me be Archer unless I pick up someone's Bow I skipped the tutorial someone please tell me how to e Archer?

I just bash kill people with crossbow XD OWNED

:D

The archers in chivalry 2 are not half as annoying as in chivalry 1...

Good guide for archer dont be a wuss atleast they're is some archers that will use their knife

Front lines with a bow is much fun, play like COD and drop 100 k on easy moving targets.

Archers are little pricks

Archer guide: Don't be a dick, use a melee weapon like the rest of us

Easy 3 steps archer guide: 1. Pick archer 2. Press F10 3. Go back to step 1

Second

Archer class guide: step one, don’t play the archer.

F yall

Ugh. The basic information is correct, but other than that, the video shows quite bad behaviour. 1. No teamdamage! If 2+ teammates fight a single enemy, don't shoot! If there is a high chance to hit a teammate, don't shoot! 2. Don't camp and try to play sniper. This isn't CoD. Move with your teammates, support them. Being closer to the enemies means more reliable hits and you also draw the attention of the enemy archers. 3. If you have a high K/D as an archer, you are either very good or very bad.

lol you missed 9/10 shots in the background footage... lol

I think you should play more offensively. You are too far from battle. As an archer, yopu should help teammets on 1v1 battles in my opinion, not focus on other archers

"Hopefully they will make arrows more reliable so they will actually hit their targets." Yeah... no, they didn't, and they won't. The collision detection in this game has been total shit since day one, and they will never make it better.

A good archer will get a vote kick against them

the arrows in this game are aids, i literally cant hit shit with it. and i had to mod my skyrim because it has a range limit on arrows. so im not bad with a bow, the arrows are confirmed to be cancerous aids in THIS game.

this video should get you banned on chiv 2 and deleted off of youtube this is disgusting behaviour

Worthless class for incels.

What I hate about archers is not that they kill you from afar. Is that when you finally get near one to hit them, they simple don't die! like they have double the shield or something, and are incredible fast in melee, faster than any others class. That's simple not fair. They are overpowered.

archery is terrible in this game.

Yeesh this was so rambly and poorly paced. You repeat yourself like 6 times to unlock the war bow. Barely give any real advice or strategy beyond "unlock war bow by farming points". Maybe give aiming advice, secondary weapon advice, literally anything really actually useful or beyond surface level. Other youtubers cover these classes so much more in depth

needs nerf