During the announcement at the end of 2013, the creators Kingdom Come: Deliverance announced that their goal was to release the most realistic RPG about the Middle Ages, in which, respectively, there will be no place for magic or for other fantasy.
Historical reliability is one of the key aspects of the game that developers from Warhorse They read with trepidation. Including, of course, in everything regarding the battles in general and fights on swords in particular.
To convince users of seriousness of their intentions, the developers published a fresh release of their video days in which they told how not it is not easy to recreate in an interactive world Kingdom Come: Deliverance Fights on swords that would look and feel like real. Nevertheless, the team Daniela Vavra (Daniel Vavra) does not give up and promises the first person, taking into account physics and even the placed clashing became in contact with each other weapons and armor. All in order to feel like a fighter – albeit very talented – that period.
By the way, along the way Kingdom Come: Deliverance Players will be able to wave not only a sword. True, at the moment Warhorse I am not yet ready to demonstrate gameplay with other types of weapons.
Finally, we recall that the release Kingdom Come: Deliverance The PC is scheduled for the summer of next year, after which, after a couple of months, the game is expected on consoles (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One).
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In Mount and Blade, all animation is just reduced to the movement of weapons in four straight lines, approximately like the dolls of wooden. There are no technologies there, the idea is the main thing there, for it M&B and love.
In this game, even still looks a little wooden, but all sorts of magnitude more beautiful. And I admit that it will not be as interesting as M&B, but to write that the animation is worse, this is complete nonsense.
The best visual implementation of the https://noidverificationcasinos.co.uk/litecoin-casinos/ battle on the swords that I have ever seen in the Vidio Games. I hope the guys will succeed.
What about another weapon? In the Middle Ages, they didn’t fight, and they used the sword only in a certain situation.
I don’t know how how, but in the rollers the game looks pretty boring. Well t.e. I don’t want to make a guess, but the battles in the videos look somehow … just boring. I hope in real life it will be much better
Well, the fighting looks good but. (My pink dreams) It would be cool if the PlayStation Move was still screwed to this, I would understand it would be cool.
Any systematized Military art with the use of cold weapons (be it a sword, sword, a spell, Daito or a knife) is fencing (from the word “fechten”-fight, fight). Fencing is the art of with a sword to resist the sword, not to man. This was trained by both Roman gladiators and the Middle Age knights. And the current ones are
just a props with elements. How many of them are “modern” soldiers are taught to own a sword or saber? The maximum that aesthetically twist and twist them.
It would be interesting to look at this fight in Skyrim ..
and in general I have a question: what will happen in a battle in two per one? With such realism, they should just bother in 30 seconds.
By the way, along Kingdom Come: Deliverance, players will be able to wave not only with a sword. True, at the moment, Warhorse is not yet ready to demonstrate a gameplay with other types of weapons.
Put on his helmet, picked up Move and drove. Although if you also fight in the crowd and so that there is a larger place in the house, then yes. 100 by 100 meat would be very interesting. )
Given that other types of medieval weapons will be involved in the game, then the work of animators and teams Motion Capture is seen simply colossal.
The fashion of scolding the Middle Ages appeared even in the Renaissance, when there was a sharp denial of everything that was related to the recent past (as we know), and then with the light hand of the historians of the 19th century, this most dirty, cruel and rude medieval began … times from the fall of ancient states and until the 19th century, declared triumph of mind, culture and justice. Then myths developed, which are now wandering from an article to an article, frightening fans of chivalry, a sun king, pirate novels, and all romantics from history in general.
Myth 1. All the knights were stupid, dirty, uneducated marshmallows
This is probably the most fashionable myth. Each second article about the horrors of medieval customs ends with unobtrusive morality – see they say, dear women, how lucky you are, whatever modern men, they are definitely better than the knights that you dream about.
Let’s leave the dirt for later, there will be a separate conversation about this myth. As for non -education and stupidity … I thought here recently, as it would be funny if our time was studied by the culture of “brothers”. You can imagine how then there would be a typical representative of modern men. And you won’t prove that the men are all different, there is always a universal answer to this-“this is an exception”.
In the Middle Ages, men, oddly enough, were also all different. Karl the Great collected folk songs, built schools, knew several languages himself. Richard Lion’s Heart, considered a typical representative of chivalry, wrote poetry in two languages. Karl Sweely, who is loved in literature to derive a sort of bole-machi, knew Latin very well and loved to read ancient authors. Francis I patronized Benvenuto Chellini and Leonardo da Vinci. The polygamist Henry VIII knew four languages, played lute and loved the theater. And this list can be continued. But the main thing is that all were sovereigns, samples for their subjects, and for smaller rulers. They were guided by, they were imitated, and those who could like his sovereign as his own – and the enemy from the horse, and write to a beautiful lady, used respect for them.
Yeah, they will tell me – we know these beautiful ladies, they had nothing to do with their wives. So let’s move on to the next myth.
Myth 2. The wives "noble knights" were treated as property, beat and did not put in a penny
First I repeat what I already said – the men were different. And in order not to be unfounded, I will remember the noble lord from the XII century, Etienne II de Blois. This knight was married to a certain Adele Normann, daughter Wilhelm Conqueror and his beloved wife Matilda. Etienne, as befits a zealous Christian, went on a crusade, and his wife remained to wait for him at home and manage the estate. Banal, it would seem history. But its peculiarity is that Etienne letters to Adele came to us. Delicate, passionate, yearning. Detailed, smart, analytical. These letters are a valuable source on the Crusades, but they are also evidence of how much the medieval knight could love some kind of mythical lady, but his own wife.
You can recall Eduard I, whom the death of the adored wife shocked and brought into the grave. His grandson Edward III lived in love and consent with his wife for more than forty years. Louis XII married turned from the first lecherous of France into a faithful husband. Whatever skeptics say there, love – the phenomenon is not dependent on the era. And always, at all times, they tried to marry their beloved women.
Now we move on to more practical myths that are actively promoted in the cinema and strongly knock down a romantic mood from lovers of the Middle Ages.
Myth 3. The cities were a landfill.
Oh, which they just do not write about medieval cities. Up to the point that I had a statement that the walls of Paris had to complete so that the sewage poured outside the city of the city would not pour back. Spectacular, is it not true? And in the same article it was argued that since in London the waste of human life was merged into the Thames, it was also a continuous stream of impurity. My rich imagination immediately hid in hysteria, because I could not imagine where so much sewage in a medieval city could come from. This is not a modern multimillion-dollar metropolis-40-50 thousand people lived in medieval London, and not much more in Paris. We will leave aside a very fabulous story with a wall and imagine the Thames. This not the smallest river spills 260 cubic meters of water per second into the sea. If you measure it in the baths, you get more than 370 baths. Per second. I think further comments are unnecessary.
However, no one denies that the medieval cities have not been fragrant roses. And now you just have to turn off the sparkling avenue and look into the dirty streets and into dark gateways, as you know – the washed and lit city is very different from its dirty and smelly inside.
Myth 4. People did not wash for many years
It’s also very fashionable to talk about washing. Moreover, completely real examples are given – the monks who have not washed from the excess of "holiness" for years, the nobleman, who also did not wash from religiosity, almost died and was washed by the servants. They also like to remember Princess Isabella Castille (many saw her in the recently released film "Golden Age"), which vowed not to change linen until the victory is won. And poor Isabella kept her word for three years.
But again, the conclusions are strange-the absence of hygiene is declared the norm. The fact that we are talking in all examples about people who vowed not to wash, that is, they saw in this some kind of feat, asceticism, is not taken into account. By the way, Isabella’s act caused a great resonance throughout Europe, in honor of her a new color was even invented, so much was shocked by this princess vow.
And if you read the history of the baths, and even better – go to the appropriate museum, you can be amazed at the variety of shapes, sizes, materials from which baths made, as well as methods of heating water. At the beginning of the XVIII century, which is also loved by the age of mud, one English count even a marble bath with cranes for hot and cold water appeared in the house – the envy of all the acquaintances who went to his house as an excursion.
Queen Elizabeth I took the bath once a week and demanded that all courtiers also wash more often. Louis XIII generally IOC in the bath every day. And his son Louis XIV, who is loved to cite as an example as a king-king, because he just did not like baths, wiped with alcohol lotions and really loved to swim in the river (but there will be a separate story about him).
However, in order to understand the failure of this myth, it is not necessary to read historical works. It is enough to see the pictures of different eras. Even from the Hangery Middle Ages there were many engravings with the image of bathing, washing in baths and baths. And in later times, they especially loved to portray half -dressed beauties in the baths.
Well, the most important argument. It is worth seeing the statistics of soap production in the Middle Ages to understand – everything that they say about the general unwillingness to wash is a lie. Otherwise why it would be necessary to produce so much soap?
Myth 5. Stiring all terribly from everyone
This myth directly follows from the previous. And he also has real proof – Russian ambassadors at the French court complained in letters that the French "terribly stinks". From which it was concluded that the French did not wash, stink and tried to drown out the smell of spirits (about perfumes – a well -known fact). This myth flashed even in Tolstoy’s novel “Peter I”. The explanation for him is nowhere easier. It was not customary to strangle Russia in Russia, while in France the spirits simply doused. And for a Russian man, the Frenchman stinking of perfumes abundantly “stinking aki wild beast”. Who traveled in public transport next to a heavily pouted lady, he will understand them well.
True, there is another certificate regarding the same long -suffering Louis XIV. His favorite, Madame Montespan, once in a fit of quarrel shouted that she was stinking from the king. The king was offended and soon after that he parted with the favorite finally. It seems strange – if the king was offended by what stinks of him, then why should he not wash? Yes, because the smell was not from the body. Louis had serious health problems, and with age it became bad to smell like his mouth. It was impossible to do anything, and of course the king was very worried about this, so Montespan’s words were a blow to him in a sick place.
By the way, do not forget that in those days there was no industrial production, the air was clean. And therefore, on the one hand, the hair and skin were not greeted longer (recall our air of megacities, which quickly makes washed hair dirty), so people basically did not need washing longer.
Myth 6. Clothing and hairstyles teemed with lice and fleas
This is a very popular myth. And he has a lot of evidence-flea traps that really wore noble ladies and gentlemen, mentioning insects in the literature, which of the granted, fascinating stories about monks, almost alive by fleas. All this really testifies – yes, fleas and lice in medieval Europe were. Only now the conclusions are drawn more than strange. Let’s think logically. What is the flea trap at general? Or the animal to which these fleas should jump? It is not even necessary for special fantasy to understand – this indicates a long, people and insects going with varying success.
Yes, fleas and lice were a real scourge in Europe. A large number of pets contributed to this (whoever has a dog knows how it will not take care of it, the fleas will still start), complex multi -layer clothing, which was more often cleaned than washed, and simply imperfection of the means of combating parasites. The only really effective way was – to shave the hair, and boil linen. But how long it gave it? Even in our highly civilized times, it is worth one child in the kindergarten to get vaska, as absolutely everyone is checked, because these insects have a sweet feature to skip all living creatures nearby.
The largest fans of this myth I would advise to read the "Pedagogical Poem" Makarenko. It tells in detail how intelligent people fought with parasites for two years. They were all clean and civilized people, constantly washed and forced the same to do the pupils, washed their clothes and boiled, in general, they fought in all the twentieth century -affected ways. But as soon as the next brand new, the bloshny epidemic began in the colony. What can we say about the Middle Ages, where hot water was a luxury, and there were no chemical means of combating parasites at all. And in modern times there were cases when, on the royal order, the whole army was overwhelmed in order to at least temporarily get rid of insects.
Myth 7. No one cared for hygiene
Perhaps this myth can be considered the most offensive to people who lived in the Middle Ages. Not only are they accused of the fact that they were stupid, dirty and smelly, they also claim that they all liked this.
What was supposed to happen to humanity at the beginning of the 19th century, so that before that he liked to be dirty and lousy, and then suddenly hesitated sharply?
If you look through the instructions on the construction of locking toilets, you can find curious notes that the drain must be built so that everything goes into the river, and does not lie on the shore, spoiling air. Apparently people still did not really love the stench.
Let’s go further. There is a well -known story about how one noble English woman made a remark about her dirty hands. Lady, rattled: “You call it mud? You should have seen my legs ". This is also given as an example as a lack of hygiene. And someone thought about strict English etiquette, according to which even to tell a person that he spilled wine on his clothes-this is impolite. And suddenly they say to the lady that she has dirty hands. This is to what extent other guests should have been outraged to violate the rules of good tone and make such a remark.
And the laws, which every now and then issued the authorities of different countries – for example, prohibitions to pour slop into the street, or regulation of the construction of toilets.
The problem of the Middle Ages was mainly that it was really difficult to wash then. Summer does not last so long, and in winter in the hole, not everyone can swim. Firewood for heating water was very expensive, not every nobleman could afford a weekly bath. And besides, not everyone understood that diseases were happened from hypothermia or insufficiently pure water, and under the influence of fanatics they wrote them down to wash.
And now we are smoothly approaching the next myth.
Myth 8. Medicine was practically absent.
Why just do not hear about medieval medicine. And there were no funds except bloodletting. And they gave birth to everything on their own, and without doctors even better. And all the priests who were given to the mercy of God and only prayed all the medicine.
Indeed, the first centuries of Christianity with medicine, as well as the rest of the sciences were engaged mainly in monasteries. There were hospitals, and scientific literature. Their monks were much added to medicine, but they used the achievements of ancient doctors well. But already in 1215, surgery was not recognized as a church business and passed into the hands of barber. Of course, the whole history of European medicine simply will not fit into the framework of the article, so I will dwell on one person whose name is known to all the readers of Dumas. We are talking about Ambroise Pare, personal doctor Henry II, Francis II, Karl IX and Henry III. A simple list of what this surgeon has introduced to medicine in order to understand at what level surgery was in the middle of the 16th century.
Ambruez Pare introduced a new way of treating new gunshot wounds then, invented prostheses of the limbs, began to perform operations to correct the "hare lip", improved medical instruments, wrote medical works on which surgeons later studied all over Europe. And childbirth is still accepted by his method. But the main thing is that the couple invented a way to amputate the limbs so that a person does not die from blood loss. And in this way, surgeons still use.
But he did not even have an academic education, he was simply a student of another doctor. Not bad for the "dark" times?
Conclusion
Needless to say, the real Middle Ages is very different from the fabulous world of knightly novels. But also to dirty stories that are still in fashion, it is no closer. True, probably, as always somewhere in the middle. People were different, they lived differently. The concepts of hygiene were really quite wild in a modern look, but they were, and medieval people took care of cleanliness and health, as far as their understanding was enough.
And all these stories … Someone wants to show how much modern people are “cooler” of the medieval, someone just asserts himself, and someone does not understand the topic at all and repeats other people’s words.
And finally – about memoirs. Talking about terrible morals, lovers of the "dirty Middle Ages" especially like to refer to memoirs. Only for some reason not on a commander or Laroshfuko, but on memoirists such as Brantom, who probably issued the largest gossip in history, seasoned with his own rich fantasy.