Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

[Cyberarmy]

Never trust Turks

We are smugglers and pirates

 

[Bliblablubb]

One more funfact about "dev's laziness": when I started the game with "death and birth" active, the game spawned quite a few orphan kids of various ages in the clans. But 10 years later I realized: those were just clones of the existing clanmembers!
Each of the BEST_DEAL waifus (except Arwa for unknown reasons) has at least one younger clone. Garios daughter Nadea even 3!

What's the message here? If your wife reaches 40, kill her off and replace her with a younger model?
So sexist.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

One more funfact about "dev's laziness": when I started the game with "death and birth" active, the game spawned quite a few orphan kids of various ages in the clans. But 10 years later I realized: those were just clones of the existing clanmembers!
Each of the BEST_DEAL waifus (except Arwa for unknown reasons) has at least one younger clone. Garios daughter Nadea even 3!

What's the message here? If your wife reaches 40, kill her off and replace her with a younger model?
So sexist.

Guess they managed to get funding from Leonardo DiCaprio

 

[Bliblablubb]

One final update before I retire the game:

As expected the game rubberbanded back to the status quo within a few days, the Mongols and Arabs have quickly retaken their entire territory with no opposition from my lords. Except the Battarians, they drew the short stick by being war'd on by the cheating Vlandians while I was busy elsewhere. And because they cheat, all the cities and keeps they took gained 300 magic militia in a short time, making it impossible to quickly take it back.
If everyone did that, at least conquering had some meaning, but if only Vlandia does that, it feels like a slap in the face. And as cherry on top Vlandia declared war on me again as well.
Faced with another mulitple hours slog of 70+ lords zerg rush I decided to call it a "mission accomplished" and retired Codexia. Last time king Adolf Derpbert ended up sending even his 70 years old governors as Volkssturm at me.

Kinda sad tho, Dexi never got to become Simpress herself, and none of her kids reached adulthood. At least the oldest 'dexspawn got a portrait with a very smug face, that's... something I guess.
But she has to grow into a proper edgelord/lady/mudcrab without me now.

I wonder if Vlandia still cheats (in your favor) if they are your faction...
This game's AI gave me so many flashbacks to Empire: Total War, it was painful.

 

[ArchAngel]

One final update before I retire the game:

As expected the game rubberbanded back to the status quo within a few days, the Mongols and Arabs have quickly retaken their entire territory with no opposition from my lords. Except the Battarians, they drew the short stick by being war'd on by the cheating Vlandians while I was busy elsewhere. And because they cheat, all the cities and keeps they took gained 300 magic militia in a short time, making it impossible to quickly take it back.
If everyone did that, at least conquering had some meaning, but if only Vlandia does that, it feels like a slap in the face. And as cherry on top Vlandia declared war on me again as well.
Faced with another mulitple hours slog of 70+ lords zerg rush I decided to call it a "mission accomplished" and retired Codexia. Last time king Adolf Derpbert ended up sending even his 70 years old governors as Volkssturm at me.

Kinda sad tho, Dexi never got to become Simpress herself, and none of her kids reached adulthood. At least the oldest 'dexspawn got a portrait with a very smug face, that's... something I guess.
But she has to grow into a proper edgelord/lady/mudcrab without me now.

I wonder if Vlandia still cheats (in your favor) if they are your faction...
This game's AI gave me so many flashbacks to Empire: Total War, it was painful.

I am dominant Kingdom on the map with over 30 000 strenght with only Khuzait, South Empire and Aserai still holding some towns/castles but if I was not patrolling the border with Khuzait and SE I would be losing castles and towns all the time. All I do is play whack-a-mole running north-south to break sieges. Like you I carry around 50+ lords from all kind of factions :D. I think I captured leaders of most clans that didn't join me already and nobody wants to join anymore so I got no way to stop their respawning lords.
I ignored main missions beyond getting my brothers and sisters free and doing enough to get my own kingdom started.

Atm I no longer care to capture the whole map, I just play 2h here and there to do some battles and in my quest to have my party only have full tier 6 soldiers (only trying to have Batannian archers, Aserai Heavy Cavalry and Khuzait Khans).

 

[Zanzoken]

One final update before I retire the game:

As expected the game rubberbanded back to the status quo within a few days, the Mongols and Arabs have quickly retaken their entire territory with no opposition from my lords. Except the Battarians, they drew the short stick by being war'd on by the cheating Vlandians while I was busy elsewhere. And because they cheat, all the cities and keeps they took gained 300 magic militia in a short time, making it impossible to quickly take it back.
If everyone did that, at least conquering had some meaning, but if only Vlandia does that, it feels like a slap in the face. And as cherry on top Vlandia declared war on me again as well.
Faced with another mulitple hours slog of 70+ lords zerg rush I decided to call it a "mission accomplished" and retired Codexia. Last time king Adolf Derpbert ended up sending even his 70 years old governors as Volkssturm at me.

Kinda sad tho, Dexi never got to become Simpress herself, and none of her kids reached adulthood. At least the oldest 'dexspawn got a portrait with a very smug face, that's... something I guess.
But she has to grow into a proper edgelord/lady/mudcrab without me now.

I wonder if Vlandia still cheats (in your favor) if they are your faction...
This game's AI gave me so many flashbacks to Empire: Total War, it was painful.

The fact that the Bannerlord devs failed to design a proper endgame is as unsurprising as it is painful.

Here is how it should work. Once you've subjugated about half the map, and your strength is more or less equal to everyone else remaining, they all join forces in a temporary alliance against you. This culminates in a big fucking battle for all the marbles. If you win, congrats, you beat the game. If you lose, then it's not a total game over, but a decent chunk of your kingdom is lost... enough to put you back into equilibrium with the other factions.

BTW the devs who made Sword of the Samurai figured this out way back in 1989.

 

[Bliblablubb]

Here is how it should work. Once you've subjugated about half the map, and your strength is more or less equal to everyone else remaining, they all join forces in a temporary alliance against you. This culminates in a big fucking battle for all the marbles. If you win, congrats, you beat the game. If you lose, then it's not a total game over, but a decent chunk of your kingdom is lost... enough to put you back into equilibrium with the other factions.

They kinda sorta had that build up done with the mainquest but... I guess the intern left for lunch and forgot about it. If my goal is to unite the empire, then after conquering most of the other empire faction holdings, they should accept my asserted dominance and come back into the fold.

Normal dev logic: Conquer 80%+ of the empire culture fiefs, uniting the empire by showing them democracy is weak, then defend the UNITED empire with all hands against the external threats trying to exploit your temporary weakness. Fin.

Taleworld logic: conquer 80%+ of the empire culture fiefs. "We'll rather be homeless bums than joining you again. Monarchy is wrong! Go Oligarchy/Dictatorship!" Then they get plundered by horselords, icyclefags or those guys in the south who always have a suspiciously large amount of sheep with them.... "Okay, maybe joining you sounds like the better alternative". YOU DON'T SAY.

 

[Zariusz]

 

[deuxhero]

One final update before I retire the game:

As expected the game rubberbanded back to the status quo within a few days, the Mongols and Arabs have quickly retaken their entire territory with no opposition from my lords. Except the Battarians, they drew the short stick by being war'd on by the cheating Vlandians while I was busy elsewhere. And because they cheat, all the cities and keeps they took gained 300 magic militia in a short time, making it impossible to quickly take it back.
If everyone did that, at least conquering had some meaning, but if only Vlandia does that, it feels like a slap in the face. And as cherry on top Vlandia declared war on me again as well.
Faced with another mulitple hours slog of 70+ lords zerg rush I decided to call it a "mission accomplished" and retired Codexia. Last time king Adolf Derpbert ended up sending even his 70 years old governors as Volkssturm at me.

Kinda sad tho, Dexi never got to become Simpress herself, and none of her kids reached adulthood. At least the oldest 'dexspawn got a portrait with a very smug face, that's... something I guess.
But she has to grow into a proper edgelord/lady/mudcrab without me now.

I wonder if Vlandia still cheats (in your favor) if they are your faction...
This game's AI gave me so many flashbacks to Empire: Total War, it was painful.

The fact that the Bannerlord devs failed to design a proper endgame is as unsurprising as it is painful.

Here is how it should work. Once you've subjugated about half the map, and your strength is more or less equal to everyone else remaining, they all join forces in a temporary alliance against you. This culminates in a big fucking battle for all the marbles. If you win, congrats, you beat the game. If you lose, then it's not a total game over, but a decent chunk of your kingdom is lost... enough to put you back into equilibrium with the other factions.

BTW the devs who made Sword of the Samurai figured this out way back in 1989.

Total War did that and Realm Divide is a terrible, awful mechanic that does nothing but completely invalidate long term diplomacy, and encourage the player to metagame around the trigger.

 

[Galdred]

One final update before I retire the game:

As expected the game rubberbanded back to the status quo within a few days, the Mongols and Arabs have quickly retaken their entire territory with no opposition from my lords. Except the Battarians, they drew the short stick by being war'd on by the cheating Vlandians while I was busy elsewhere. And because they cheat, all the cities and keeps they took gained 300 magic militia in a short time, making it impossible to quickly take it back.
If everyone did that, at least conquering had some meaning, but if only Vlandia does that, it feels like a slap in the face. And as cherry on top Vlandia declared war on me again as well.
Faced with another mulitple hours slog of 70+ lords zerg rush I decided to call it a "mission accomplished" and retired Codexia. Last time king Adolf Derpbert ended up sending even his 70 years old governors as Volkssturm at me.

Kinda sad tho, Dexi never got to become Simpress herself, and none of her kids reached adulthood. At least the oldest 'dexspawn got a portrait with a very smug face, that's... something I guess.
But she has to grow into a proper edgelord/lady/mudcrab without me now.

I wonder if Vlandia still cheats (in your favor) if they are your faction...
This game's AI gave me so many flashbacks to Empire: Total War, it was painful.

The fact that the Bannerlord devs failed to design a proper endgame is as unsurprising as it is painful.

Here is how it should work. Once you've subjugated about half the map, and your strength is more or less equal to everyone else remaining, they all join forces in a temporary alliance against you. This culminates in a big fucking battle for all the marbles. If you win, congrats, you beat the game. If you lose, then it's not a total game over, but a decent chunk of your kingdom is lost... enough to put you back into equilibrium with the other factions.

BTW the devs who made Sword of the Samurai figured this out way back in 1989.

Total War did that and Realm Divide is a terrible, awful mechanic that does nothing but completely invalidate long term diplomacy, and encourage the player to metagame around the trigger.

Yes, I much prefered the daemon invasion mechanisms from Warlock. At least, it didn't make your allies try to murder you overnight.

 

[Joggerino]

It's not a good siege battle if you don't look like a porcupine by the end of it.

 

[Victor1234]

Every once in a while I look over the Taleworlds forums to see how things are going. The old fans are still unhappy. I look through the modding forum and Steam workshop to see what's cooking and there's 1 total conversion mod. Is this game that unmoddable still? Last I checked about a year ago, there was a guy working on bringing back the Freelancer mod from the previous games (join a lord's army as a grunt and work your way up) but posted a nastygram about how this game sucks for modding and he's leaving.

Now it's all just butter memes in the workshop and something called Grip My Axe on the official forums....

 

[deuxhero]

Most modding isn't on the official forums anymore. Case in point being that Freelancer is already in Bannerlord via the Serve as Soldier mod, and I'm pretty sure its been out for over a year now.

 

[Justicar]

Trash game for trash brains.

 

[Victor1234]

Most modding isn't on the official forums anymore. Case in point being that Freelancer is already in Bannerlord via the Serve as Soldier mod, and I'm pretty sure its been out for over a year now.

Weird. I see it's on nexusmods but not the Steam workshop. Are there any of total conversions around besides Eagle Rising? Don't see those on nexus, forums or steam.

 

[deuxhero]

Check ModDB. None are released, but stuff like Shokuho gets semi-regular updates

 

[thesecret1]

In the name of Jerusalem 2 also looks promising. Also I think some Warhammer mod got released?

 

[Herumor]

Also I think some Warhammer mod got released?

That would be The Old Realms - it's on both ModDB and Steam Workshop: https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-old-realms.

Personally, I'm waiting for Kingdoms of Arda.

 

[Jenkem]

REMEMBER TO VOTE IN THE STEAM AWARDS FOR MOUNT AND BLADE II: BANNERLORD FOR MOST INNOVATIVE GAMEPLAY

 

[Wystan]

I was gifted this game for Christmas and have put in 14 hours so far. It was a good game to receive as a gift, I like feeling obligated to play it so that I can then talk about it with my brother who gave it to me (and has 4000h in its single player)
I made myself a mongol, and it took me a while, but I am starting to feel the call of the horde now that I have started recruiting horse archers in larger numbers. My favourite moment so far was early on when I joined in on an ongoing battle and me and the other leader were the only ones with horses - we looked absolutely stunning as we thundered forth towards the enemy. Him a black knight charging ahead with his lance, plowing through the looters, and me with my little fur hat pelting them with my arrows over his back.

 

[Wystan]

Hashimon Ögurei
I picked the Banner because I wanted my horde to look like zerg swarm from afar. My Units.

 

[Hellion]

The Text Parser is making a comeback.



It has "RPG Games" in the title so you know it's good.

 

[copebot]

Downloaded 1.1 beta after a long absence from the game. I put in most of my ~100 hours during the initial release, so it's been a while. Performance seems to be improved, but I can't really tell if it's just going from a 2080 / overclocked 7700K to a 3080 Ti and a 10900K. Seems like there are a lot more little quests in the game. Being able to skip the campaign stuff with "Sandbox" mode is good. It seems like they redid all of the perks in the game. The AI seems to be different, as well. It used to be a lot easier to juke archers and other ranged weapons. Playing on all "Realistic" plus ironman etc. is a lot tougher than I remember it being, at least while using a two-hander.

 

[ArchAngel]

Downloaded 1.1 beta after a long absence from the game. I put in most of my ~100 hours during the initial release, so it's been a while. Performance seems to be improved, but I can't really tell if it's just going from a 2080 / overclocked 7700K to a 3080 Ti and a 10900K. Seems like there are a lot more little quests in the game. Being able to skip the campaign stuff with "Sandbox" mode is good. It seems like they redid all of the perks in the game. The AI seems to be different, as well. It used to be a lot easier to juke archers and other ranged weapons. Playing on all "Realistic" plus ironman etc. is a lot tougher than I remember it being, at least while using a two-hander.

Performance was massively improved during beta. I always wonder how it manages to run so well on my old PC with 960

 

[Zariusz]