Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

[Bulba]

warband vanilla was mediocre at best, with diplomacy and that mod with formations + ladders and other tweaks, was for me the best game played in the last 10 years. MB was never good without mods, but some of the main mods make the game awesome, and not horrible conversion liek prophesy of splendor or the other one..

• Diplomacy gives you clear stats on your relation with the lords and their relation to their kings. On top of that it helps you manage the castles, fiefs or kingdom much easily with the help of advisors and wife.

• PBOD it simply fixes the battles with AI Lords, due to addition of formations and improved battle AI. Along with this comes special formation for players troops, and new additions like spear bracing, horse lance, companions as bodyguards and more.

• Freelancer allows you to enlist into a lord army alone and rise in ranks from recruit to knight(based on the faction troop tree), gain good loot from battles, money and relation with the faction and the lord. You can also keep the last equipment if you stayed long enough in service (45 days at the moment).

If you can stomach 1.143 try my mod it brings the best of Warband in one package + my personal tweaks and features: http://www.moddb.com/mods/warband-enhanced

this mod comp sounds great. replay № 1000000 incoming

 

[pakoito]

warband vanilla was mediocre at best, with diplomacy and that mod with formations + ladders and other tweaks, was for me the best game played in the last 10 years. MB was never good without mods, but some of the main mods make the game awesome, and not horrible conversion liek prophesy of splendor or the other one..

• Diplomacy gives you clear stats on your relation with the lords and their relation to their kings. On top of that it helps you manage the castles, fiefs or kingdom much easily with the help of advisors and wife.

• PBOD it simply fixes the battles with AI Lords, due to addition of formations and improved battle AI. Along with this comes special formation for players troops, and new additions like spear bracing, horse lance, companions as bodyguards and more.

• Freelancer allows you to enlist into a lord army alone and rise in ranks from recruit to knight(based on the faction troop tree), gain good loot from battles, money and relation with the faction and the lord. You can also keep the last equipment if you stayed long enough in service (45 days at the moment).

If you can stomach 1.143 try my mod it brings the best of Warband in one package + my personal tweaks and features: http://www.moddb.com/mods/warband-enhanced

How is this better than Floris?

 

[Metro]

It's not.

 

[Indranys]

And bros please, don't forget the mighty Brytenwalda.
The newest Rome at War SP mod is actually quite fun too.
Sarissa bitches, it's sarissa raep time!

 

[Metro]

Tried Brytenwalda, wasn't impressed. Wasn't impressed with 1257, either -- the AI was retarded.

 

[Oesophagus]

So it'll be prettier Warband basically... Not much incentive to spend jewgold there, my experience with MB now consists of playing the game for 1-2 hours and remembering that all it amounts to is grinding.

 

[belated]

M&B is all about mods, so hope that stays the same in Bannerlord.

 

[Spectacle]

Brytenwalda suffers hard from too much Blade and not enough Mount. Horseback combat is by far the most fun in M&B.

 

[Thane Solus]

warband vanilla was mediocre at best, with diplomacy and that mod with formations + ladders and other tweaks, was for me the best game played in the last 10 years. MB was never good without mods, but some of the main mods make the game awesome, and not horrible conversion liek prophesy of splendor or the other one..

• Diplomacy gives you clear stats on your relation with the lords and their relation to their kings. On top of that it helps you manage the castles, fiefs or kingdom much easily with the help of advisors and wife.

• PBOD it simply fixes the battles with AI Lords, due to addition of formations and improved battle AI. Along with this comes special formation for players troops, and new additions like spear bracing, horse lance, companions as bodyguards and more.

• Freelancer allows you to enlist into a lord army alone and rise in ranks from recruit to knight(based on the faction troop tree), gain good loot from battles, money and relation with the faction and the lord. You can also keep the last equipment if you stayed long enough in service (45 days at the moment).

If you can stomach 1.143 try my mod it brings the best of Warband in one package + my personal tweaks and features: http://www.moddb.com/mods/warband-enhanced

How is this better than Floris?

I hate Floris, weird troops and many things poorly made as a total conversion, i prefer standard vanilla units, a little balance, diplomacy mod its a must and on graphics just small improvements here and there, but of course its subjective, havent tried it for a long time, maybe the updates polished it.

 

[Zewp]

Yeah, Floris introduced two shit things for every good thing it introduced.

 

[Metro]

Floris rules, you should get raped by a machete.

 

[WhiteGuts]

Did anybody try Silverstag ? It's supposed to be Floris++.

 

[Indranys]

Tried Brytenwalda, wasn't impressed. Wasn't impressed with 1257, either -- the AI was retarded.

Brytenwalda suffers hard from too much Blade and not enough Mount. Horseback combat is by far the most fun in M&B.

Yeah if you hate to fight as a footman then you'll hate Brytenwalda.
But damn I just love it, spears, shieldwalls, saxons and shit.
It's more of a small skirmishes + raids than epic battles stuff.
Fighting side by side with a ragtag band of sheep fuckers who can't swing shit and seeing them transforming into proper warriors is really something.
A lot of mods lack that kind of feeling IMO. Playing as a grunt with freelance mod in Floris, Pendor etc isn't as fun as Brytenwalda.

The setting is also brilliant IMO, they really nailed the atmosphere up to the tiny details.
Floris has more modern features, but Brytenwalda isn't that shabby for an old mod.
But having pre battle order mod like in those newer mods will be great indeed.

 

[Space Satan]

Well, not bad so far. In fact it looks like a modder wet dream.

 

[Turisas]

Step aside, Geralt.

 

[Avellion]

YES!!!

Finally I can realize my dream of pillaging villages and rape its villagers in HD!

 

[Eyeball]

Mildly worried about "adding much better graphics without sacrificing performance." Not sure how they intend to do that, considering the dozens of individual characters is what makes M&B so damned great. Still, the terrain editor at least looks quite grand, so maybe there's hope for this game yet.

 

[BrickManslab]

Given how much time modders wasted on building maps and villages that no-one ever saw because the town menu made it pointless, anything that makes that process easier so they can move on to real content is a good thing.

 

[IDtenT]

OMG. That is one serious editor that.

 

[Severian Silk]

If the RPG/strategy systems aren't expanded I don't care how good the game looks. Meh.

I started playing M&B back when in development at version 0.7x and it's hardly improved since v0.8.

This.

 

[Zewp]

Warband was just a slightly improved Mount & Blade and it didn't even do much to hide that fact. Mount & Blade 2 is going to have to do a lot better if they want me to purchase it at any time other than when it's on a 75% off sale.

 

[Turisas]

slightly prettier

M&B was a great game but let's be honest here, it looked like shit from day one.

 

[Merlkir]

You clearly know a lot about game graphics, I agree with you.

 

[Turisas]

You can't be implying Boringlord is that much of a leap. The models and animations look horribly stiff. It's like an ENB mod with HD textures.

We've barely even seen animations yet for fuck's sake, you can't judge them based on those few glimpses at the end. The environments, which we actually have seen now, are much improved. We had those screenshots about models before and yeah, they don't look massively improved I'll give you that, but that doesn't mean it'll be the final look for them.

And even if that's the case, mods will fix it since we'll have some proper tools this time around - and seems like TW is being smart with the engine being made with mods in mind so that it doesn't shit the bed as soon as you introduce some higher-resolution textures etc.

 

[IDtenT]

I honestly can't wait, fuck the haters.