Comments on: Mount & Blade: The Last Furlong

By: Elochai

Elochai — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:16:49 +0000

i’ve played m&b for a long time now..
had some trouble in the beginning with the bandits but after a while i found out strats to get them..then i fought the bands alone since all the mercs and recruits just get slain..
on a horse with a lance, just riding them down, sircling and riding another down..works like hell..got lots of levels then started recruiting..now i’m a vassal of lady isola with a army of 100 approx. and have many fiefs..
you guys saying it’s imposible and so lame a game..
stuff it and get yourself a brain..suddenly it all will become much easier..

By: bolek

bolek — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:59:42 +0000

i met 2 exact copies of myself at this khergit castle, i think it started with t. all the gards were lined up and swaying like zombies, and the copies had broken in with this seige weapon.

By: Tei

Tei — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:43:26 +0000

This game is a classic. Like Mule, Baldurs Gate and Sim City.

You are able to dislike it. Anyway…

By: .....

..... — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:34:40 +0000

can any give me the sereal kay for free pls

By: Aegis

Aegis — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:02:17 +0000

A genuinely excellent game. I expect a 90% review in PC Gamer soonwise, and a 6 page preview… um… soonerwise. Yeah. That makes intawebs sense.
The community is good, but since around .93, it seems like they think they have to smarten up for the rest of the internets. Fools.
Also – to anyone complaining that “it’s not ready for release” go and take a look on the forums (forums.taleworlds.net), have a butchers at the TODO lists of features promised for 1.00 accumulating around the place, and it should become clear that this is going to get a lot better.
Also – anyone who compares the combat to Oblivion will be shot on sight.

/em goes and digs out his email with the serial key in it

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:57:01 +0000

Alex – first thing you need to do is get to a city and fight in the arena until you ‘get’ the controls and a few fighting tricks. Then go to taverns and villages and try to hire as many people as you can.

It is very unfair at the start, and sometimes in the mid-game too. It’s one of the things they’ve screwed up in the more recent releases. Generally speaking, at the start, avoid everyone except raiders and mountain bandits. The centre of the map should feature both. Always avoid the southeast – horse bandits are a joke. The north coast has viking bandits who are too dangerous without an army. The forest in the West has archers who are just not worth the casualties.

By: Sucram

Sucram — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:55:38 +0000

If you are getting beaten up by bandits it’s because you aren’t using a lance. Pole arms are the medieval WMD’s and using then is akin to strapping yourself to a redeemer missile.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:07:01 +0000

I’ve tried and tried again, the whole bandits-kicking-my-arse thing is just too annoying. It also feels kind of unfair, in a way, maybe not to a seasoned player, but it does feel like it to me and that just sucks the fun right out of it.

By: Da'Jobat

Da'Jobat — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:09:09 +0000

I have owned mount and blade since 0.540 or some number around there, and it has simply gone from strength to strength so fast. It never seems out-dated and it is incredibly good fun to play, and i would recommend it to anyone, if not only to support the indie devs.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:00:58 +0000

Hmm. Wasn’t Mount and Blade one of these hallowed things people whispered about in awe? What’s with this rage come release?

A few releases back, it stopped being a great combat game with a simple map and travel and ‘quest’ system that merely needed perfected combat and a bit of polish to be a thing of greatness, and started being a horrendously broken, tedious and annoying RTS with good but seriously under-developed combat and about fifty extraneous ’sandbox’ feaures that don’t quite work but take up all the developers’ time so that the combat still doesn’t get fixed.

It remains great, but I fear it will fall far, far short of its potential. As a fighting game though, it’s still miles ahead of any competition, and at least 6,000 times better than any other RPG combat system. Switch the cheats on and just teleport around getting into scraps as you see fit – trying to play a proper ‘career’ in the latest betas would just be hopelessly frustrating. Especially if you’re new to the game – I’ve been playing it for a couple of years, and it can still be ragingly unfair, especially at the start.

Plus the arena fights are a bit crap where once they were an ideal training ground. They’re not as good as they were, but if you’re new, the first thing you should do is get to a city and practice fight in the arena. It’s risk-free, you’ll get to practice with random weapons, get a bit of experience and possibly make a little prize money.

I do love Mount and Blade, and I’ve had more than my money’s worth from it already. But I don’t feel too optimistic about the release.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:27:12 +0000

Right, played it a bit more. I’m one of the “I don’t get the combat”-people, which isn’t that surprising, as I’m not a naturally videogame-combat-talented person in the first place, but I do feel like I’m hardly ever hitting anything.

The constant attacks from bandits started to get really grating. I was having quite a bit of fun, then I just got hit by endless waves of bandit attacks, got completely reintroduced to every nook and cranny of the world map via the splendid art of dragging and that made me quit the game. I guess if I wasn’t as shit at the combat, I wouldn’t mind so much, but I am so I do.

I haven’t given up though, I’ll try again later.

Most handy hint I encountered during loading screens: how the TAB button makes you instantly travel between locations. TAB is your friend, in this game.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:59:06 +0000

Essentially, the 3D areas are generated anew every time you enter them. If you have a horse and enter a city’s streets direct from the overworld, you’ll start outside the city and be on horseback. If you then go in and out of a building, however, you’ll be on foot without your horse.

Your horse hasn’t disappeared, it’s just not in the instanced 3D town bit right now. It’s still in your inventory/party and will be there again if you re-enter the town.