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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord | Early Access Discussion
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Just saw a YouTube vid of this. This looks amazing. Just a big ass battle in a castle. Think ima buy it off gp. Does anyone know if using a controller is possible?
well that was a hard gang fight
I attemped this quest around 10 times but there was always a straggler hidden somewhere up there. The soldiers would run in circles around the block looking but never found anyone.
Eventually gave up, enabled cheats and used a shortcut to kill everyone.
Anyone else getting crashing while moving around the map? I'm only a couple hours in and it's happened twice, cause seems random just starts to chug and crash to desktop.
This game has a lot of potential but it's pretty rough. Several types of quests won't complete for me and I'm often getting infinite load screens that I have to close the game for.
also it's more of a grind than warband was and most of the cheats to mitigate that no longer work.
I probabaly won't play too much more before I hang it up and wait for patches and mods.
also it's more of a grind than warband was and most of the cheats to mitigate that no longer work.
I probabaly won't play too much more before I hang it up and wait for patches and mods.
Bought this in the morning and played about 11 hours today...really enjoying it. I never played any of the other games and didn't watch much gameplay so i went in pretty blind.
I've only had one crash and a couple texture glitches, but besides that it's ran flawlessly.
I've only had one crash and a couple texture glitches, but besides that it's ran flawlessly.
so put in about two hours
Interface is really bad. Got two TPKs because I didn't realize I hadn't actually equipped what I bought
But it is fun. I like the combat system (not sure if it is particularly different from Warband or if I just learned how it works) and, like before, I love the arena battles when I don't get screwed over in terms of weapons
But yeah... assuming it is me forgetting how to play the game but my spear/sword combo seems pretty dangerous. Feeling I should grab a bow instead.
Interface is really bad. Got two TPKs because I didn't realize I hadn't actually equipped what I bought
But it is fun. I like the combat system (not sure if it is particularly different from Warband or if I just learned how it works) and, like before, I love the arena battles when I don't get screwed over in terms of weapons
But yeah... assuming it is me forgetting how to play the game but my spear/sword combo seems pretty dangerous. Feeling I should grab a bow instead.
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The directional shield blocking has destroyed my zen. I used to be pretty good with shields, but now I keep fumbling blocks and getting hit...
And your other post about momentum-based damage, yeah that's in. In the bottom right there's info for every attack, including relative velocity (which modifies damage dealt). So something as simple as moving towards or away from an enemy while performing the same attack can alter damage, sometimes dramatically.
Once you increase your clan level (by completing the first non-tutorial quest) your army capacity will basically double. Certain perks, and I think your total renown, also increase max army size. It's not explained well, but basically don't worry about your army capacity--like everything in the game, it gets better just by playing.
If you like Kenshi, you will like Mount & Blade.
And your other post about momentum-based damage, yeah that's in. In the bottom right there's info for every attack, including relative velocity (which modifies damage dealt). So something as simple as moving towards or away from an enemy while performing the same attack can alter damage, sometimes dramatically.
I was trying to figure this out, and I think that skill just raises really slowly if you have low morale (i.e., are losing battles) and a small army. I wasn't getting any XP in it for a looong time, then suddenly gained one level in it outta nowhere.
Once you increase your clan level (by completing the first non-tutorial quest) your army capacity will basically double. Certain perks, and I think your total renown, also increase max army size. It's not explained well, but basically don't worry about your army capacity--like everything in the game, it gets better just by playing.
I narrowed down the crashes I've been having, its an escort mission from Daven the silk vendor in Tyal. The escort needs to visit two settlements, but when it gets to the first it hard crashes. I tried sending the bug report but that too errors out (lol). The game prompts to try safe mode, but that too crashes.
I have a save from about an hour earlier so I guess I'll try rolling back and see what happens, I'll avoid that quest though. I was quite enjoying it otherwise, slowly building up my army of recruits and converts.
I have a save from about an hour earlier so I guess I'll try rolling back and see what happens, I'll avoid that quest though. I was quite enjoying it otherwise, slowly building up my army of recruits and converts.
When you have them captured (they're in the right hand column on the screen, underneath your troops), if you mouse over them you should see that you have an option to hire them.
I haven't finished that quest myself yet, but I've spoken to 3 of the required 10 nobles - all of them were faction leaders I happened upon randomly in the field. They had a blue exclamation mark next to their name.
Not sure if my save is bugged or what, but I'm getting the exact same crashing bug again even after reloading an old save. I think I'm done with this for now, I'll come back once things get ironed out.
Does the game let you know if you are missing a horse when you can upgrade to cavalry? Or can you potentially not know if there are no horses in your inventory?
Been playing it for about 7 hours and it's fantastic. However, it really just feels like a remaster of Warband. I'm not sure there's enough fresh ideas here to really call it a sequel.
Again, if you loved Warband this is just more of that. Maybe my expectations were too high, but after so many years of waiting I haven't seen anything that has blown me away.
Again, if you loved Warband this is just more of that. Maybe my expectations were too high, but after so many years of waiting I haven't seen anything that has blown me away.
Yeah, the upgrade will be blocked out/red and it will say something like no horses available.
Typically they'll be roaming the map. Talking to other nobles will let you know where they were seen last.
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Also note that it requires war-ready horses, so no mules or sumpter horses or the like. Doesn't really communicate this well ATM, but the ESC screen tips cover it IIRC.
How the hell do I freaking start this caravan quest. All I can do is tell him I'll be ready to head out soon.
Played for like 10 hours today omg. Feels like a remake of Warband with a byzantine faction and better politics. I'm loving it.
Ugh, I've tried to enter a Sea Raider camp to clear it out and get stuck on the loading screen, so I have to force quit the game. This has happened twice. This at the Sea Raider camp south of Vladiv Castle and just southwest of the village of Glavstrom.
Can anyone help me with this? I'm supposed to escort this caravan but I have no idea how to make it go. I'm going to fail this one as there's not enough time left and they still haven't left, but I'd prefer not to fail future ones.
I've played like 10 matches of the multiplayer and nothing else. I never regretted my purchase. I wonder what the single player will hold for me.
Might be too late now, but after taking the quest, you have to Leave town and the caravan will appear soon after. Hope that helps.
Looks like I completely misunderstood, it said caravan, but they just gave me a guy and the horses and I didn't know. So now i have a criminal rating and really bad relations with them now lol.
There's a lot of systems but I think the tutorial is pretty good and the openness of the game means you only ever really get thrown in as deep as you choose.
This coming from someone with very little prior experience with the series.
I believe you have to refine 2 pieces of hardwood at the smithy.
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Yeah, it's really counterintuitive.
If you talk to any lord in a major faction, they'll direct you to the person to talk to in that faction. It's all the leaders, plus another couple people. Talking to the characters will reveal different perspectives of this big battle.
(To track down a character, start by clicking a highlighted part of dialog, or right-clicking on the character tab in the bottom left, where you can reach the 'heroes' part of the M&Bpedia. Their last location and recent events will help locate 'em. Though if they're imprisoned you're out of luck. Filtering heroes by Faction Leaders and Met Characters or w/e will help narrow down who you've missed.)
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Yeah, there's an extensive singleplayer sandbox campaign.
Note that in Early Access, it's incomplete right now, with some missing features, lack of polish, and some bugs. Lots to do, but you will run into some issues.
Pretty simple. We can answer any questions you have. But the early game is not actually that complicated.
Kill bandits and looters.
Sell their drops for gold, and hold on to their food, and any items that are better then what you have equiped.
Buy soldiers and food from towns.
Buy horses from towns for each person in your army so you can run down enemies on the campaign map.
Rank up your soldiers when they are ready to get stronger.
Repeat.
This Spy Party quest must be bugged to shit. I've wandered around the town and talked to every person in existence in that town and not met anyone who's a contender in the tournament.
The multiplayer alone is leaps ahead of Chivalry or Mordhau
I never knew I could have so much fun in a game like this.
I never knew I could have so much fun in a game like this.
Been playing the game and watching a bunch of Streams on Twitch and just saw this absolute gem. Man I love Mount&Blade. https://www.twitch.tv/criken/clip/AnimatedFuriousWalletPrimeMe?filter=clips&range=7d&sort=time
I spent a good stretch of time yesterday grinding smithing, just making a bunch of swords, melting them all down, and making them again, resting when I couldn't smith anymore.
I got it up to 40.
The skills go over 200 I believe.
If you thought making daggers in Skyrim was a tedious grind, you ain't seen nothing.
I got it up to 40.
The skills go over 200 I believe.
If you thought making daggers in Skyrim was a tedious grind, you ain't seen nothing.
if anyone is trying to play a bandit/marauder character just a heads up, I think raiding is bugged right now. If I weaken a settlement to the point where I can raid it and the local defense rolls up to deal with it, I get stuck in a weird dialogue loop that goes as follows: parley with party leader, go to attack screen, click attack, dialogue with the town villagers (which, hilariously, is unrelated to me sacking their town—it's just the usual "hail traveler we're going to town wassup??" thing). If I choose to let the villagers go, I get stuck back in the parley with the defenders and the whole thing starts over again.
here's the weird part: choosing to attack the villagers then takes me to a fight with the other party of defenders. it'll even show the villagers' army stats in the attack screen first, then take me into a fight with the defending warband. then, if i win THAT fight, it takes me back into the default "hello there :)" dialogue with the villagers again! it's very funny but is making it difficult to play a roving not-mongolian/not-viking bandit crew right now. I've tried this on three characters and it happens every time I stay raiding a village long enough for a warband to try and parley with me.
here's the weird part: choosing to attack the villagers then takes me to a fight with the other party of defenders. it'll even show the villagers' army stats in the attack screen first, then take me into a fight with the defending warband. then, if i win THAT fight, it takes me back into the default "hello there :)" dialogue with the villagers again! it's very funny but is making it difficult to play a roving not-mongolian/not-viking bandit crew right now. I've tried this on three characters and it happens every time I stay raiding a village long enough for a warband to try and parley with me.
I had the same experience. Ended up refunding the game after struggling with that particular quest. Shit got repetitive and annoying real fast.
i just retreated and failed the quest, fuck it i don't really care about the rep at the moment
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