Pvp

For gun pvp on the server, Ethnowars uses XC and XV which, like nodes, were also made by Xeth for intcraft

Like Nodes, Ethnowars updates and maintains these plugins to a high quality to have fun pvp on the server

Basics

The pvp will vary across the different ethnowars iterations. You wont fight the same way in the Constantinople one as you would in the Matabele one. Different time eras provide various changes to how you would fight on the server. We balance this by changing stats and weapons accoridng to these time eras. Here are some rough-ish bases for how this is decided:

Medieval: Heavy focus on Melee, slow but effective guns. Weaker vehicles like cannons

Enlightenment: Heavy focus on Melee, quicker guns that pack a punch. More advanced vehicles

Victorian: Heavy focus on rifles, lesser focus on Melee. More to do with vehicles like maxims / artillery

WW1 / WW2: Balance between rifles / SMGs / miscellaneous weapons. Melee exists. Also a lot of vehicles like tanks / planes / artillery

Modern: Focus on assault rifles / normal rifles / snipers. Melee also exists. More on vehicles depending on how modern we are talking

Guns

These guns may be different than the ones you see in modern FPS games or other servers. They have a proper recoil which you need to manage to be able to work with them effectively. They can be shot by holding down left click (right click for automatic fire). You can aim by crouching for better accuracy with them. You can see the guns ammo get displayed over your hotbar each time you shoot the gun. To reload it, you can either press your shoot button again, or press your offhand key (by default F) and it will start to reload.

Gun Cooldown

Guns have a cooldown, meaning you cant just fire a pistol, then instantly switch to a rifle and fire it too. If you switch guns and notice that you cant fire one instantly, just wait a bit and the cooldown should be over. This is done to balance the game as otherwise people could just (for example) use 5 Arquebuses to act like a sort of modern rifle.

Vehicles

Like aforementioned, vehicles are just things that you can ride (and sometimes shoot from). This broad defenition extends to weapons like artillery cannons.

It is key to know how to use and position a vehicle properly to get the best results with it. When you sit down on one and move it around, you will see a little green bar show up with information on the Yaw / Pitch / Ammo / Fuel of the vehicle. You can use this to help you determine the best positions and angles to fire your vehicles from.

There could also be fights between vehicles. For example, tanks can have riders who can fire at each other and damage and destroy each others tanks to destroy each other.

Sangbags

The Sandbag is a block that has a higher blast resistance compared to the others. Each player is only able to get a few of per Ethnowar. Use them in really desperate situations, where you need to block off an explosions.