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

Don't know if everyone knows this, but get mules and horses and you can carry a lot more. Also I think you move faster on the map, since infantry can sit on the horses now while travelling. At least that is how I imagine it

 

These persuasion checks are funky shit.

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Uh... I click on everything!

 

You can buy a wood workshop, I assume you can get free wood from that. Or you just buy the wood in stores. Then you can melt weapons and get wood that way.

 

I failed the persuasion and had to kill the lover in a duel

 

It's a commodity you can buy off forest villages.
A lot of stuff you can buy from traveling parties now.
Villagers offer the cheapest price for their goods since they just want to go home asap.



Also with a decently trained Warband of 30 or so, you can probably take on a small militia guarding a village.



Raiding is still a good way to make easy money in this game. No one came to the rescue. The 15 surviving villagers just watch in dismay as I torched their shit.

They enter the ruins once I left...

 

Skill progression is REALLY fucking slow past 50-60. It would probably take THOUSANDS of hours to max a few skills.

 

Do any of you have problem with missing armours in shops? I dont find any battanian armour or many armour pieces from troop trees. Its like they forgot to enable item availability in markets.

 

The trading screens and variety definitely needs updating.

 

For example from all these armours i only found in shops northern coat of plates.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mountandbl...rmor/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

 

When defending an Imperial city, have you noticed those naphtha/greek fire containers that are right next to regular stones over the gatehouse, which you can throw at enemies? Apparently they cause SPLASH DAMAGE.

I was defending, and the attackers bugged out and just started piling on my gate and trying to smash it down. I started hurling these things at them and 6-7 throws later I ended up killing almost 200 troops. I'm uploading a video of this as we speak.

 

Yeah especially given that you can't f. ex. increase fightan skills in tournaments at all anymore, and there's very few instances that let you improve your non-combat skills - can't exactly just spam your surgeon skill. And for now at least there's no skill books available either. Half-tempted to do a cheaty character with max focus on everything until they do a balance pass on skills.

 

You think that 400k worth of tier 6 armor can help you solo against a bunch of peasants with scythes and stones or 3 forest bandits? FORGET ABOUT IT.

 

If youtube selects low quality as the default, it's probably because I just uploaded it.

 

Armor? Who needs armor?

https://www.reddit.com/r/mountandblade/comments/fsu51h/ah_yes_overpowered_looters/

 

Meanwhile in some Warband mods you could solo entire armies while clad in the strongest armour available.

What's the best reason to invest time and skill points into crafting? From what I reckon you can melt weapons and sell the iron and steel for profit.

 

I agree with most of this. The game is fun and has a lot of potential, but to have this many major issues after such a long development time is pretty insane.

I feel comfortable saying Taleworlds has eclipsed Bethesda as the most incompetent studio ever relative to their success.

 

My impression from a bit of playing and much reading of comments is that this is not in a seriously playable state yet. More like a technology demo with the intention to get as many crash reports from users as possible.

 

Get some Tournament Arrows (arrows that do blunt damage) and at the end of a battle use your remaining arrows to shoot your own men: plenty of wounded to practice medicine on.

Tournament Arrows are pretty useful anyway, a good way to get extra prisoners. Give them to all your companions and you'll be swimming in ransom money.

 

Game is a lot of fun. It does feel unfinished and "beta", but even though I feel tempted to hold out I got suckered in(currently have a few days off on medical leave).

A few questions to people who played Warband:

- How does it compare to the previous game feature-wise? Are most of the mechanics implemented in warband already in?
- Are "wanderers" the only companions you can recruit? Or is there a way to recruit nobles/notable persons and etc?
- Seems to me these available companions are randomly generated at the beginning of the game and not generated again, so playing with hero death activated might become an issue down the line.

 

Played for 08 hours without a single crash so far. Performance is choppy on my laptop but it improved a lot since I lowered audio quality.

 

I hope it's just a bug/wrong armor/dmg values and not the wrong kind of Pendor influence tbh.

 

Is that your actual framerate or just the video being weird?

 

Prices seem pretty unbalanced though and there are bugs in the ruleset, right?

 

Got 28% off coupon on Fanatical for this, should I buy it?

 

Anyone playing with "enable death" on? How does it work? Do you have a random chance of dying every time you lose a battle?