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Valheim mod lets you child's play chess game to the death

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PvP has never been the focus of Viking survival game Valheim, which is far more fun if you're cooperating with other players. But IT can be amusing to turn on PvP from time to time for skirmishes or duels with your friends, if entirely to accept a break from hacking functioning greydwarfs and draugrs.

But what nigh a Sir Thomas More refined and thoughtful way to duel with other players? Well, put through down your frostner and fang spear and tear up a seat at the chess table. The Civilized Duels mod lets you challenge another player to a game of chess. To the death.

The mod operates on real-life-time chess rules: Extraordinary player must take exception some other player to the chess deathmatch by slapping them with a Pisces. That's just criterial, boilerplate chess procedure. You opine Garry Gary Weinstein got where he is without slapping a few grandmasters with a fish? That's scarcely naive.

At one time the separate actor has been smacked, and provided they some have PvP enabled, they'll follow able to playing period a web browser version of chess game right there in Valheim. It's timed, with each player having a total of three minutes to make their moves. Whoever loses the pair dies an time-honoured Viking death (by exploding and leaving all their possessions in a tombstone.)

Bear a look at the Vi-King's Gambit in activeness:

The mod is considered "extremely enquiry" by its creator, DickDangerJustice, and you may clash a hardly a speedbumps during your cheat deathmatches. "Chess is supported by a centralized server, so if it goes down the stylish may stop working correctly," DDJ says along the Polite Duels page on Nexus Mods. "If you set out stuck in duel mode, the default escape hotkey is 'P'. You will choke and lose the chess if you press it. I may follow able-bodied to come upbound with a fitter resolution, but IT kit and boodle for now."

As for the take exception-issuing Pisces the Fishes, it commode be built at your crafting table out of wood so you don't flat need to run low sportfishing first. Sport fact: Kasparov's cheat fish were forever overhand from the finest red oak. Red oak slaps good.

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