Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

[AgentFransis]

At some point I'm going to have to ask the important questions.

Ok... better get over it fast... *gulp* soo....

How does the whole "getting babies" thing work?

In bannerlord, surely. Errm... yes.

First you need to get married - no fooling around. Then when your wife is in your party you can get a random event at night that she's ready for action. Then it's a lot like a battle. You use your polearm skill to thrust your spear until you defeat her. The riding skill helps too.

When you're not married you instead train your one handed skill at night.

 

[Zanzoken]

Wife doesn't need to be in your party. You just need to be in the same place for a day or two.

In my last run my wife wasn't a fighter so she stayed home. I waited around at home for about a week until she got pregnant first time, after that I'd just go home for a couple days once she had baby and she'd immediately get pregnant again. As long as you aren't staying away on campaign forever it's pretty easy to make a big family.

 

[ArchAngel]

Wife doesn't need to be in your party. You just need to be in the same place for a day or two.

In my last run my wife wasn't a fighter so she stayed home. I waited around at home for about a week until she got pregnant first time, after that I'd just go home for a couple days once she had baby and she'd immediately get pregnant again. As long as you aren't staying away on campaign forever it's pretty easy to make a big family.

She does not need to be in your party or at same place at all. Even if you don't see her for longer periods of time you will get messages that she is again pregnant
She also knows how to make sure squireboys keep her sharp for the battlefield

 

[Zariusz]

Mods will turn this game into Crusader Kings 2, im sure of it.

 

[Bohrain]

Waiting for mods to turn it into Sengoku Rance.

 

[Dakka]

Incest will be involved at some point.

 

[Zariusz]

Bannerlord nexus will probably explode from cheap sexy waifu companion mods made by horny asian coomers. Like Skyrim.

 

[deuxhero]

My wife. What a woman Heir to the throne too.

Also notice that influence is pretty much broken too.

Currently Ira (and any heir) loses this if you marry them do it moving them to your clan. Seems to be a bug.

 

[Funposter]

Bannerlord nexus will probably explode from cheap sexy waifu companion mods made by horny asian coomers. Like Skyrim.

it already has

 

[Zariusz]

Is the rumor that Taleworlds swapped models for Ira and Rhagaea by accident true? Like originally Ira was going to be hot one?

Spoiler

Yes i stole meme from reddit, but i made it better

 

[RK47]

Hm, I think I understand why the AI can't reinforce themselves when they form a large army for a campaign.
Since forming an army requires influence and once separated, you need to burn influence again to rejoin, they saw no other way to profit except to just raid the countryside since the army is too slow to engage smaller stacks and it's too small to siege any target.

Also, I want concubines. Harems. Bitches. Whatever your culture calls it.
And maybe allow the player to hire whores that improve the traveling army's morale for a week before they are sent back because they got pregnant or something.

Re: Influence System
Once you joined a kingdom you will want a lot of influence to spend on stuff.

Here's how to get them quickly:
Donate garrisons.
Donate prisoners to dungeons.

What to spend on:
Fief voting.
Do not be discouraged if it's just 30% - this isn't a democracy. 30% is your chance of winning that vote for fief.
If you have a lot of influence to burn and really want a city that is owned by your colleague, go ahead.

It's a 2 step action:
1. You need to burn 200 influence to get the voting started and if it passes,
2. Another 300 influence to improve your chance of winning that fief. Or else someone else gets it.

You can also spend influence to gather an army for sieges, but good luck with the AI spamming those often. It's quite a miracle to gather like 2-3 lords at a time.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Managed to acquire a city as an independant tier 2 clan with fewer casualties than taking a bandit hideout. Worked as a mercenary fighting for Battania against Vlandia, found an isolated city but realized if I seiged it the ~200 garrison could rush out and wipe me out. Vlandians were also at war with empire. ~600 man imperial army walks up to city, presumably to seige it. I seige it just before they get there. Garrison rushes out, empire joins me to wipe out the enemy troops while my guys sit back and watch. I immediately resume the seige, against a now empty city. Vlandian caravan shows up trying to get into the city a bit later after the empire left (he can't join my seige since I don't work for him.) I end the seige, quit my contract, let the caravan get right next to me... and ambush it, allowing me to declare war on vlandia independantly. Resume seige. Attack walls with no seige equipment, just 80 dudes and ladders. City has built up... 6 militia to fight back since they tried to rush me down. Sacking the city nets me less than 2 renown and ~4 pieces of tier 2 equipment worth maybe 500 gold. I am now in possession of a fief, preventing me from becoming a mercenary, but too low tier to start my own kingdom. Fucking glorious.

 

[Ruchy]

I want a mod that adds in a childbirth mini game, if you fail the game either your wife dies, the baby dies or both.

 

[Zanzoken]

I just realized that when you sign up as a mercenary, the price you are quoted is per point of influence you earn. So if you fight in a big battle and earn say 10 influence, and your contract is for 80 gold, you'll be paid out 800 gold over the course of a few days.

I don't know if the merc system has always worked this way and I'm just now realizing it, or if it was patched. But now that I understand how it works I think being a merc is a better option for early game than I initially figured.

 

[RK47]

I just realized that when you sign up as a mercenary, the price you are quoted is per point of influence you earn. So if you fight in a big battle and earn say 10 influence, and your contract is for 80 gold, you'll be paid out 800 gold over the course of a few days.

I don't know if the merc system has always worked this way and I'm just now realizing it, or if it was patched. But now that I understand how it works I think being a merc is a better option for early game than I initially figured.

It's basically free cash for popamole session vs looters n crap.
Until the liege declare too many wars and gets your caravans under attack.

 

[wyes gull]

Having started 4 different games I have to say, the map feels fucked. I guess you could chalk it up to "realism" but realism can get bent in the face of optimal gameplay. As it stands, Sturgia and the Aserai rarely factor into any big clusterfuck and Vlandia doesn't factor -at all-. Maybe if they're the ones who get to snowball but even then, their own settlements are already set. The biggest players in my experience are usually Battania and one of the Empires, usually South. And that's where the action pretty much always is, in the center of the map; everyone at war with everyone else, fun times. Elsewhere though, Sturgia and the Aserai are either loathe to start campaigns or inept at them and Vlandia just sits there. What I'm getting at is you rarely ever see these unless you're in the faction or you're passing by on a conquering spree. Watching them ingame feels like playing Sarranid in Warband but even then, you had Khergit action on one side, treefucker action on the other and Swadia straight up the middle.

It's too late in the game now but I wish the map was designed with more of a FPS deathmatch arena philosophy (or even RTS skirmish maps), even if it looked a tad artificial. And no, not looking for complete balance either, just openings so that everyone can get in on the fun. Sure, AI improvements could fix this but then fixing it will probably mean exposing the factions in the middle. And you could argue they should be exposed what with being surrounded on all sides but on a game such as this, unpredictability of outcome should supersede IRL logic.

But eh, early access and all.

 

[RK47]

I agree somewhat.
In my current game Battanians have lost all their cities and holed up in a single castle.

Vlandian's cautious liege could've played a part in the long wait to invade. IIRC in my game, it took all 3 empires to declare war on the Battanians before Vlandians joined in the rape.
And Battanians eventually got wiped off the map after months of taking losses on the field.

Right now I'm with Vlandians and the conflict post-Battania is a fun one.
I already saved Western armies a few times from the North and Battanian remnants.
And my mercenary beheading spree made me a target.
Alone the merc bands are weak but together they can be a super-fast chase group that can gang up easily.

Won that battle with heavy casualties. Decided to punish these bastards.

 

[thesheeep]

When you're not married you instead train your one handed skill at night.

I will not accept any character that will not automatically train the two handed skill at night.

 

[eric__s]

Is the rumor that Taleworlds swapped models for Ira and Rhagaea by accident true? Like originally Ira was going to be hot one?

Spoiler

Yes i stole meme from reddit, but i made it better

On what planet is Rhagaea hot? She looks like Alfalfa from Our Gang.

 

[Black Angel]

Didn't know Mountain Blade II: Lord of Banner would be a netflix adaptation of Otoyomegatari

 

[Aemar]

Patch Notes e1.1.0

Greetings warriors of Calradia!

Today, we are moving the current beta branch to our main Steam branch. Below you will find the original changes included in the beta branch, our previous hotfix to the beta branch as well as some additional changes that we have done since.

This will make it so that the public and beta branches are equal. We will likely update the beta branch in the near future.


Versions
Native: e1.1.0
SandboxCore: e1.1.0
Sandbox: e1.1.0
Storymode: e1.1.0
CustomBattle: e1.1.0

Latest Changes:

Multiplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a rare crash at the beginning of a battle.
  
• Fixed a rare crash that occurred when AI tries to find the missile range of a melee weapon.

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred when the player successfully defected a lord through barter.
  
• Fixed a crash that happens when the player character was walking on the campaign map after creating their own kingdom.
  
• Fixed a crash caused by villager parties that don't have healthy troops.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurs on the campaign map due to a problem with tournament renown gain.
  
• Fixed a rare crash with AI thinking behavior in the “Need access to village commons” quest.
  
• Fixed a rare crash that occurred due to log entries when a player battle ended.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when attacking caravans without a leader.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a clan leader died and the selected heir was a lord that had recently been released or escaped from captivity.

Save & Load

• Prevented the main storyline epilogue pop-up from reappearing every time the game was loaded.
  
• Fixed a save system backwards compatibility problem with saving primitive data types.
  
• Game now loads skill levels correctly from save games created with versions prior to 1.1.0

Campaign Map

• Added a middle layer for nameplate visibility on the campaign map. We now have a stage where players can see both towns names and castle names.

Battles and Sieges

• If a player’s fortification is besieged, they are warned by a text that appears in the top center of their screen. (Beforehand it only happened when the assault was already underway. Now we have 2 warnings - one when the siege begins and one when the assault starts.)

Clan and Party

• If a player’s clan party is attacked, they are now informed with a center top notification.
  
• The recruiting frequency of lords who are in a good financial situation was increased. They will now try to fill their party limits more frequently.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the consumption of more than 1 horse when we upgraded a troop to a mounted soldier while having several types of horses in our inventory.

Kingdoms and Diplomacy

• Executions now also cause negative relations with honorable lords (if the executed is honorable too) and negative relations with friends of the executed. Additionally, we added further notifications for these consequences.
  
• Mercenary minor factions no longer join kingdoms they are at war with.
  
• Players can now fire mercenary factions they hired previously via dialogue. Players are asked to pay an appropriate wage per remaining influence. (Normally, we convert 20% of their earned influence to wage per day.) If the player rejects payment, they lose relations with the mercenary clan leader and the contract is cancelled.
  
• Player’s mercenary payment per influence was stable after they entered a kingdom. Now it is refreshed every 30 days.
  
• In some cases after a kingdom had been eliminated, the lords continued to spawn in a map location that is not reachable (near Rhesos Castle). They now spawn at a random settlement gate of their culture.

Economy and Trade

• Caravans are now seen as more valuable targets by bandits and minor factions, which means that they will be attacked more. This will increase the number of battles that involve caravans. Previously, caravans were a nearly totally safe investment. Now bandits and minor faction lords sometimes attack caravans even if they are a bit stronger.
  
• The pottery shop was very profitable - by creating 2 pieces of pottery (80 denars each) from one clay (20 denars) and doing this 4 times a day. Now one clay produces 1 pottery and pottery demand is halved to make its0 price more stable.

Other

• Fixed the age of the player's brother.
  
• Further fixes for NPC weight and build parameters as well as some NPC age fixes.

Previous Beta Hotfix:

• Reverted the weight and build changes of NPCs and troops, so that overweight characters are much less common. Kept the changes for special high-tier units such as Falxmen.
  
• Character Skill Levels will no longer be automatically increased when a save game from a version before 1.1.0 is loaded.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred after taking prisoners in hideouts.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a character maxed-out their attributes and focus points.
  
• Fixed the black particles bug.
  
• Fixed some performance spikes that happened during missions.
  
• Fixed a battle crash that was caused by a character having no culture.

Initial Beta Changelog:

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a rare formation AI exception.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a mount without a rider heard an arrow.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred at the end of the "Army of Poachers" quest when the AI tries to continue fighting.
  
• Fixed a crash that happens when a campaign is started for the second time without exiting the game.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when selecting the option to attack in the “Rival Gang Leader” quest after loading a game.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when AI characters tried to barter prisoners.
  
• Fixed a bug where talking to a companion in settlements during the main storyline would crash the game.
  
• Fixed a crash in main storyline conspiracy phase.

Performance

• Ram and VRAM usage is reduced and many leaks are fixed.
  
• Scene loading performance improvements.

Localisation

• Improvements, additions and corrections for Turkish and Simplified Chinese translations.

Art

• Added new armour "Northern Lamellar Shoulders".
  
• Added new armour "Plated Helmet".
  
• Assigned a banner to poachers and other neutral parties.
  
• Overhauled all of the NPC faces to reduce asymmetry, tone down exaggerations and create culturally appropriate and appealing phenotypes.
  
• Updated some of the lords and ladies faces for a more culturally appropriate look.
  
• Updated nav meshes in “sea_bandit_a”, ”battle_terrain_p”, “battle_terrain_020”, “battle_terrain_029” and “battle_terrain_030”. This should resolve unwanted fights in water and improve fleeing behavior in these scenes.
  
• “Aserai_town_a” civilian scene related fixes.
  
• “Aserai_town_b” civilian scene related fixes
  
• “Empire_town_j” siege scene siege related fixes and seasonal improvements.
  
• “Khuzait_town_004” siege related fixes and visual improvements.
  
• “Aserai_castle_002” siege related fixes.
  
• “Vlandia_castle_005a” siege related fixes.
  
• “Sturgia_castle_003” siege related fixes.
  
• “Khuzait_castle_002” siege related fixes.
  
• Night atmosphere illumination amounts adjusted.
  
• Visual fixes for battle scenes.
  
• Winter season issues with steppe scenes have been fixed.
  
• Winter related problems with the outer meshes are solved.
  
• Low-poly tree meshes are now used in hideout prefabs.
  
• Agent spawn positions in some scenes are fixed.
  
• Fixed a season problem with Aserai's arena.
  
• Issue with Battania arena spawn points being too close to each other is fixed.
  
• Fixed some scene issues of Aserai Village.
  
• Fixed merlon physics issues of Vlandian Castle parts.
  
• Fixed some lighting issues of Empire Lords Hall.
  
• Fixed physics issues of Battania Castle Wall.
  
• Fixed UV issues of Sturgia Castle Gatehouse.
  
• Fixed an error while opening the Forest Hideout scene.
  
• Refined snowy atmospheres.
  
• Beard intersecting helmet issues were fixed for
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  • Empire_guarded_lord_helmet"
  
  
• Nordic sloven armour's bones problem fixed.
  
• Fixed clothing clipping issues.
  
• Replaced some textures and meshes.
  
• Updates on Hero Creation Stages:
  • Some clothes updates.
    
  • Poses overhaul.
    
  • Face animation.
    
  • Scene lighting.
    
  • Skin shader updates.
    
  • Specular texture channels updated.
    
  • Diffuse Texture updated.
    
  • Beard /tattoo material:
    • Alpha and colour updates.

Campaign Map

• Parties participating in an event are no longer moving, which fixes some footstep sound issues.

Audio

• Fixed that Campaign music could play many tracks in a quick succession.

UI

• Implemented trade perks that relate to profit in inventory.
  
• Minor UI tweaks and fixes in Crafting, Barter, Save/Load, Recruitment, Board Game, Siege screens.
  
• "No Saddle"" visuals in Inventory.
  
• Removed helmets from hero portraits to see their faces more clearly.
  
• Added Weight Carrying Mount and Speed Mount icons in inventory mount tooltip panel.
  
• Fixed spacing issue with 'ğ' character in Turkish localisation.
  
• Fixed barter offer item visuals not being visible.
  
• Enabled being able to give names with space and numbers in creation.
  
• Fixed two hints showing up in inventory equipment slots.
  
• Changed character developer traits from texts to icons.
  
• Implemented a basic item tooltip, now players can see the basic stats of a tournament prize item.
  
• Added "Busy with an issue" or "Busy with a quest" or "Busy with a common area" in Create a Party instead of just a "Busy" explanation.
  
• Fixed attribute and focus point tooltips to reflect correct numbers.
  
• Moved NumberOfCorpses and MaxSimultaneousSoundEventCount to performance options.
  
• Implemented being able to sort/move modules in the launcher.
  
• Renamed "Resume Game" to "Saved Games".
  
• Added minor faction filter to clan page list page.
  
• Added tooltips to map bar circle notifications.
  
• Added new perk icons.
  
• Fixed banner visual errors with some icons and banner icons not matching with the UI.

Battles and Sieges

• Simulated battles no longer give more XP than fought battles.
  
• Added missing patrol spawn positions to forest hideout scenes. Forest hideout missions should now open normally.

Combat AI

• AI quality for NPCs is now determined by skill points in the current weapon's governing skill instead of overall character level.
  
• A tactics bug related to the defensive ring that occurred when archers ran out of ammunition has been fixed.
  
• An issue in caravan/villager battles that could potentially cause unexpected behavior at agent processing level was corrected.
  
• Cavalry not being able to hit enemies right next to them when they had swingable weapons and circling each other endlessly issue fixed.
  
• Bodyguard troops could rarely stop moving when their commander died, this is now fixed.
  
• Mounted agents can calculate enemy positions better and thus more accurately aim their thrust attacks.
  
• Some agents couldn't move properly due to invisible scene AI barriers. This has been fixed.
  
• Fixed some Sea Bandit AI issues.
  
• Agents attack less often if the combat AI difficulty is set to normal.
  
• Holding ready duration for attacks was added as a driven property and tied to melee combat skill in order to make easier/less able AI agents fight less relentlessly (i.e. they will wait for a while before releasing their attack).

Character Development System

• Level 1 characters now start with 120 skill points.
  
• Reduced XP required to learn higher skill levels.
  
• Troops can now upgrade more easily.
  
• Reduced wanderers' skills outside their main area of expertise, making them easier to level up.
  
• Made wanderer age correlate roughly with their skills.

Kingdoms and Diplomacy

• Fixed bug where fiefs were regarded to have a negative value in barters if the “Everything Has a Price” perk was enabled.
  
• Fixed a rare bug where the AI proposed a kingdom decision on behalf of the player clan.

Economy and Trade

• Prices for armour were changed and high tier boots and gauntlets now cost more.
  
• Range weapon prices have been re-adjusted.

Quests & Issues

• Reviewed about a third of the quest issues, improving dialogues and persuasion:
  
• Major changes in particular to “Family Feud” and “Spy Party”.

Other

• Icons on banners and shields were not appearing. They are fixed now.
  
• Updated "Imperial Legionary"" equipment.
  
• Minor updates to Sturgian troop tree equipment.
  
• Added more variation to caravan master's equipment.
  
• Added more variation to helmet drops from troops.
  
• Various other fixes to troop trees and stats.
  
• Armor values of various equipment have changed to better match their visuals and increase faction armor variety.
  
• Armor values of mount bardings and harnesses were changed to match their visuals.
  
• Riding a horse without a saddle now incurs 10% penalty to max horse speed and maneuvering.
  
• NPC agents carrying heavy items (apple baskets etc.) will no longer run (with items in hand) when the player asks them to take him/her to a particular agent.
  
• Added an "Exposure Compensation" option that allows players to adjust the brightness levels of the visuals to their preference.
  
• Fixed missing items for blacksmith characters in towns.
  
• Some grammar mistakes and typos were fixed.
  
• Fixes a bug that caused the player character to be invisible.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused characters to spawn without any equipment.

Multiplayer

Animations

• Fixed some wrong cavalry idle animations.
  
• Fixed a rare condition in which client rider gets stuck in defense animation after a successful hit.

Audio

• Implemented a Voice Spamming Filter for multiplayer.

Design & Balance

• Damage interrupt threshold values are set as 5.
  
• Headshot damage multiplier is increased from 1.7 to 2 for pierce damage.

Map Related

• Bug fixes for Harbour of Ovsk.
  
• Bug fixes and improvements for Castle of Fen Altai.
  
• Some spawn locations are re-adjusted for team balance. Atmosphere has changed.
  
• Added particles to be formed when the breakable wall is damaged.

Other - Miscellaneous

• Slow motion and pause cheats are disallowed during multiplayer matches.

Performance

• Decreased bandwidth usage of impact sounds.

Server & Network

• Server Improvements.

Both - Singleplayer & Multiplayer

Crash

• If the AI is not holding a ranged weapon, it tries to find a ranged weapon in its equipment and uses this weapon to calculate attacking scores against distant enemies. During this weapon selection some equipment was causing a crash. This was fixed.

Performance

• Improved the performance of the sound system.
  
• Big improvements for the multi-core performance of the game.
  
• We now select Maximum sound count according to your CPU's core count. You can increase this setting if you have a recent CPU. We've also added a new very low(64) option.
  
• Some other minor performance improvements.

Audio

• UI sounds don't get cut by other UI events anymore.
  
• Added "is missile"" check to crafted weapons' impact sounds (like Throwing Axes).
  
• Fixed Ballista reload sound phasing.
  
• Minor changes in hearable distance of loud sounds.
  
• Fixed some Vlandian scenes opening up with an echo.

Combat AI

• Improved the calculation of ranged units for the enemy's future position.
  
• Ranged units can target mounts or different enemy bones. Cases that caused errors during this calculation are fixed.
  
• After issuing the "Hold Fire" command, the AI weapon selection gives less priority to ranged weapons that have a secondary melee mode.

Other

• Added an option to disable controller vibration.

 

[Peachcurl]

Mounted agents can calculate enemy positions better and thus more accurately aim their thrust attacks.

Oh snap. I'm ded. DED!

 

[Zanzoken]

Caravans are now seen as more valuable targets by bandits and minor factions, which means that they will be attacked more. This will increase the number of battles that involve caravans. Previously, caravans were a nearly totally safe investment. Now bandits and minor faction lords sometimes attack caravans even if they are a bit stronger.

Fair play, but unless they nerf the speed of caravans as well then this change probably won't achieve much.

As it stands now any party large enough to threaten a caravan will never be able to chase one down.

 

[Peachcurl]

By the way, thanks for the how-to-get-a-child tips. Figured out I had to disband my spouses party and take her into my own. Production started.

 

[Zariusz]

Isnt this just original e1.1.0 update? Maybe they just included hotfixes from other versions.