Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

[Metro]

So glad they're spending their time/money on this highly important feature.

 

[Space Satan]

Maybe will feature a token Warhammer rule - when the soldier is promoted heremoves his helmet.
On the other hand - they can explain open helm by making full helmets available only to the highest tier troops. Common men-at-arms most probably will have a helm that barely covers his ears... if he isl ucky.

 

[Turisas]

So glad they're spending their time/money on this highly important feature.

It'll make the interactive prostitute sex mods more interesting.

 

[deuxhero]

Actually isn't Bannerlord a prequel? Put it in pseudo-rome instead of pseudo-middle ages, and you don't have TOO many closed face helms to worry about (there's still the stupidly iconic corinthian and cassis crista, but it's the clear minority)

It's also a good excuse to add slings. I want slings damn it!

Also: are they stick all these highly detailed and individualized faces onto the same body again? Doesn't need to be full Dragon's Dogma type stuff, but some model variety (ESPECIALLY for different cultures) is needed

 

[Spectacle]

Actually isn't Bannerlord a prequel? Put it in pseudo-rome instead of pseudo-middle ages, and you don't have TOO many closed face helms to worry about (there's still the stupidly iconic corinthian and cassis crista, but it's the clear minority)

It's also a good excuse to add slings. I want slings damn it!

I believe we know fuck all about the setting apart from the first concept art shown depicted iron age style tribes men.

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[Merlkir]

I'm going to assume "disable dynamic facial expressions during battle" will be a graphics option. Seems like it would be too big a perfromance hit for too little gain (most higher level troops don't have visible faces).

It's most likely a simple vertex animation switch with some curve blending inbetween. Shouldn't be very performance intensive at all, you have vertex shaders in Warband mods already. (wavy grass, flags etc.)

Also: are they stick all these highly detailed and individualized faces onto the same body again? Doesn't need to be full Dragon's Dogma type stuff, but some model variety (ESPECIALLY for different cultures) is needed

Some of the development footage showed all kinds of body sliders, so no.

I believe we know fuck all about the setting apart from the first concept art shown depicted iron age style tribes men.
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We know quite a bit more than that actually. It IS a prequel, the old Calradian empire is about to fall and the factions won't include Nords (who arrived later). There are three major factions and supposedly several smaller regional ones. (like bandits and tribesmen)

 

[deuxhero]

Interesting. What's the screenshot with body sliders and concept art with iron age tribes?

 

[Dickie]

I haven't really been following the game at all, but this is the first time I'm hearing about marriage in the game. Will it be a romance simulator, as well? My excitement for this game is fast approaching zero.

 

[deuxhero]

It was in Warband too.

It was OK for what it was there: A pretty much entirely political thing. Either you used marriage to enter the nobility or you played evil queen and married the most powerful single guy you could find (with a bonus if he had powerful relatives who could join you in any rebellion you start) and controlled him like a puppet.

 

[Spectacle]

I haven't really been following the game at all, but this is the first time I'm hearing about marriage in the game. Will it be a romance simulator, as well? My excitement for this game is fast approaching zero.

Marriage ≠ romance.

Play the following game for 200 hours then come back and post about your experiences with marriage and romance:
http://www.crusaderkings.com/

 

[Turisas]

Actually isn't Bannerlord a prequel? Put it in pseudo-rome instead of pseudo-middle ages, and you don't have TOO many closed face helms to worry about (there's still the stupidly iconic corinthian and cassis crista, but it's the clear minority)

I think one of the factions is exactly that.

 

[deuxhero]

Knew about that screenshot, just the limited stuff scene doesn't really say firmly "this is rome"

Didn't know about that concept art though. Nice to see. Hope they have slings.

 

[Dickie]

I haven't really been following the game at all, but this is the first time I'm hearing about marriage in the game. Will it be a romance simulator, as well? My excitement for this game is fast approaching zero.

Marriage ≠ romance.

Play the following game for 200 hours then come back and post about your experiences with marriage and romance:
http://www.crusaderkings.com/

But they're focusing on immersion now. CK is definitely not immersive. I'm just worried about the whole game since they seem to think grafx was the biggest complaint anyone had.

 

[Merlkir]

Yep, that should be the declining Calradic empire faction.

 

[Metro]

The funny thing is who gives a shit about the graphics of a town when most of the time you're better off just using a quick menu mod to visit the market/manage shit (versus riding around the two or three tedious and uninteresting streets filled with generic npcs). I'll be hugely disappointed if empire management isn't more fleshed out when they spent all this money on graphics.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I wouldn't mind if bounty quests took more effort than go to settlement, find suspicious guy and beat him.

 

[Abelian]

I wouldn't mind if bounty quests took more effort than go to settlement, find suspicious guy and beat him.

Why? That's what Dog the Bounty Hunter does basically.

Spoiler

Disclaimer: I've never watched the stupid show except for a couple of minutes due to morbid curiosity

 

[Turisas]

https://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/Bannerlord/Blog/8

New blog post, all about DECLINE! this time (and maybe factions a little).

 

[Metro]

They make a blog post about factions and people spooge (in the comments section). Let me know when they make one about updated mechanics. Although it's nice they're adding 'minor' factions -- guess that means joinable bandits or something?

I winced when I read: "an emotionally grabbing narrative hook."

 

[Zewp]

Has there been any word on whether this game will actually have any content? I couldn't give a fuck about factions if the game is going to end up being just as lacklustre as Warband was. I recently started playing Warband again and I was amazed all over again at how unfinished it feels.

 

[Metro]

Define 'content.' It's intentionally designed to be a sandbox. If you mean better empire management mechanics, more interesting castles/cities, slightly more involved repeatable-type quests then, yes, that would be nice. If you mean a focused single player experience then... probably not. And it works horribly in this type of game. See, e.g., Fire and Sword.

Also, I accept the fact that it's still going to be somewhat 'minimalist' as they make support modding. Warband (to me, at least) is one of those games that I played vanilla, then had fun with one mod, then another, then another. So long as it's reasonably priced around $30-40 I will...

 

[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

 

[IDtenT]

I had great fun with Napolean.

 

[Space Satan]

At least they recognize the importance of modding

 

[Eyeball]

I've yet to see anything about Bannerlord that made me excited for its release. And I consider MB1 to be the best game made post-2000.