Chivalry 2

This game is innovative when it comes to its approach to melee combat. The two main problems are: first, it's a dead game — barely any lobbies or servers to play on. Second, and more fundamentally, the respawn timer is nowhere near current industry standards. In any modern game, 7 seconds is the maximum respawn penalty for doing something you shouldn't, like killing yourself. In this game, on DEFENSE, I've been hit with over 25 seconds — and if you lose a sector on top of that, the timer doubles. In one match with a friend we were sitting at almost 50 seconds of respawn time. UNACCEPTABLE. I'd rather watch Netflix. And that's not all: you run 3 miles to the front line, get killed in 2 seconds, and repeat the whole process. Once I realized respawn times were much shorter on attack, I refuse to ever play defense again in any match — to the point that I'd rather play against bots, because it seems like plenty of people have figured this out too and there are fewer players willing to defend. Then on attack some times.... after a death cinematic you get a 2-second respawn, but they drop you so far back that it takes almost 30 seconds to reach the front, you get killed, and repeat. It's absurd. Sometimes the servers are so bad you can't tell whether your opponent has bad ping or is cheating. I wouldn't spend a single cent on this game.