Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord - now available on Early Access

Kingmaker has been through it's cycle of fixing already; M&B2 has not. Don't let the hype get to you (because it doesn't look much like hype from where I'm sitting).

 

Is there any reason for marrying a normal lady? The warrior girls come fully equipped with end game equipment and can lead armies and you can breed them while on campaign.

I went for the imperial empresses daughter this time around her stats are super high too. Almost Noldor warrior good.

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Oh also they nerfed the rhomphaia big time over 100 damage and took off the furry tufts on the model (they looked kinda low quality) so for polearm users go back to couched lances.

 

Why are enemies so slow to turn around? I can beat much tougher enemies by just circling around them away from their shield cover.

 

Yeah that needs to be sorted as well, you can easily win tournaments even with a character that has nothing invested in the combat skills. I shouldn't be winning duels against empire cataphracts when I still have complete shit gear and lowbie skills.

 

It's happening here too. It's definitely a memory leak issue as the game starts smooth and gets worse over time until it gets to an unplayable state, which is only fixed by restarting the computer. In my case it doesn't really matter the settings.

 

oops!

 

How do you play if you decide NOT to be a horse archer?

 

You don't. Game should be called Mount and Bow.

 

Master and commander, just sit back and let the plebs charge. Lancer's fine too but I guess you need to have some skill in polearms to get rid of the lance wobbling when couched.

 

Enemy AI is brilliant. Just seen AI commander running away from player's army while dying from hunger. AI apparently ignores all friendly castles/towns where it can hide, instead it just keeps running while dying from hunger....

 

Might want to lower the sound quality in Windows too when you are at it. I remember it fixed issues for me in another game. Can't remember which ones now, but it was very similar. Every time there was a lot of different sounds it just lagged, murdering my CPU.

Edit:

I think it was Arma 3 actually.

 

I got myself a copy from a friend overseas, played a couple of hours. Did a few 1v1 custom battles to try out the new combat system. Can't seem to trigger a chamber block, I wonder what I'm doing wrong. The attack chaining is interesting but I'm not sure what its benefits are, they seem just as fast as normal spamming, are they stronger?

I get quite bad stutters too. I did a few tests - entering an area right after starting the game gives me acceptable performance (and I truly have an ancient machine - q9550, 8gb ddr2 ram, r9 270, ssd) so it seems I can run the game. Entering new areas makes the game stutter, relaunching the game resets the problem.

 

I get ~ 140 FPS on ultra settings with stutters to 90s.

 

I hope I'm just thick and missing the joke but, just in case, ---> coronavirus

 

The FPS is not the problem. Game frequently stutters for half second. And it seems like game doesn't cache anything, i saw it reload textures when i just went into inventory screen few times which also causes stutter.

 

The chamber blocking is screwy, I've only triggered it by accident so far. It's on the devs' to-do list. Could just be my imagining but there seems to be at least a small damage bonus with the chaining.

I get no stutters at all, seems to all be related to RAM and CPU.

 

I've just successfully laid siege to the second castle. But, I am not allowed in by the new castle commander.

 

on baby difficulty

 

Thanks, I'll try out this fix as well. Still waiting for that first serious batch of bug fixes, or at least for some word about it.

Practice fights and tournaments in the Sturgian arenas feel amazing. The Northern style of combat, with its axes, round shields and thrown weapons, has been taken to another level in Bannerlord.

 

This was an issue with the old M&B/Warband as well, and it was fixed the same way.

 

Happened to me to , except the castle was mine before...They dont even revote to give it back to you.Next playthrought as bandit king and i fuck all of them...

 

I took part in two sieges, both times the AI beat the local garrison with ~100 losses, then immediately took off for another town instead of fortifying for the inevitable counter attack. So instead of defending a castle siege with 400 vs 600, it's an open battle and we get slaughtered.

Well, I wouldn't expect the AI to be super competent but this seems like something they should fix.

 

Anyone seen this post yet: https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/reus-rants-critiques.399783/

 

Mountain Bow!

 

Holy shit I hope they don't listen to this guy (on this subject, other than that its a good list)