Comments on: Mount & Blade: Warband Beta Sign Up

By: Chris Key

Chris Key — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:39:14 +0000

We`re selling Mount & Blade: Warband for only €13.99 at

By: rohin

rohin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:08:08 +0000

i love this game

By: OJ287

OJ287 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:57:18 +0000

Tei

People are making cannons too.

If Warband took M&B to the seas that would be a real step up. Theres been a few ship mods but the AI doesnt work properly with them.

Mount & Blade Pirates! mod with ship combat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYENwmKGSAo

By: underdweller

underdweller — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:55:10 +0000

@Malagate: circling some obstacle should provide ample protection from anyone not willing to get his horse stuck in it and good luck lancing mounted targets. Once dismounted, lance is a wasted weapon slot. You can’t have a bow, shield, onehander and a lance equipped at the same time. Certainly everyone loves one shot kills, but i think it’s too situational. We’ll see.
I pretty much forgot about throwing weapons, never put points into them so i don’t know how much power they get, but they sure have some decent advantages in such a setting – quick, one slot, shield. Likely to be popular, aye.

By: GRIMDARK

GRIMDARK — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:23:44 +0000

YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS more m&b

BTW horse archers will rape in MP

By: Tei

Tei — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:08:42 +0000

Extra ladders is actually nice.

And catapults, maybe :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRxTdiKNSJU

By: OJ287

OJ287 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:00:45 +0000

There’s several mods fixing sieges. Some require very minor changes to text files that change the number of waves of reinforcements, speed of the siege tower and how many hours it takes to build them and ladders.

The best mod actually adds extra ladders to each siege scene.

Text editing:
http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.php/topic,46290.0.html

Extra ladders download:
http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.php/topic,57569.0.html

By: Über Nerd

Über Nerd — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:48:34 +0000

“32 players? thats… almost exactly not what I was expecting. Much better would be a few lords with normal numbers of AI troops. Ho hum.”

32 players + bots off the box
64 players + bots with mods

As I understand they are aiming for the most stable game modes on the box. With inevitable modders tinkering with net code and game modes. That’s pretty much what they have done so far (ie. Original Combat Size slider goes up to 100 with a simple hackery it goes up to 4000), M&B is a bigger curiousity for modders then gamers.

By: antonymous

antonymous — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:13:12 +0000

Applied for the expansion of the best open-world beat-em-up ever.

This game stills the basic motoric needs like Failblivion and other big-budget trash never could.

By: Malagate

Malagate — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:26:50 +0000

To quote Underdweller, “Doubt lances have much a chance against players”, I would personally doubt that, especially as it seems couching has been given a little boost (or has already changed compared to my not-fully-patched M&B game) in that it looks like you can aim your couch charge independantly of where you horse is going. At least that’s what it looks like in the video. Just adds that little bit extra unpredictability, also a couch charge is still the best way to break shields and kill horses. You could just charge, kill the horse, break the shield, then circle around them whilst using a bow to turn them into a pin cushion.

I’ve signed up for the beta, just waiting for them to get back to me now! If you have bought it direct from taleworlds, I hope you kept your confirmation email as that is where I found my key after forgetting where I wrote it down in the first place. I’m really hoping you can choose your load out and character stats in multi, I really want to show how deadly throwing weapons can be when you get good with them!

By: Noc

Noc — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:02:06 +0000

Hmm. Is this an expansion, in the sense that it’ll require the original to play? Or is it one of those expandalone-ly jobs?

I ask because I (finally) got around to playing the demo, and it plays like exactly the sort of thing I’d want to do with friends. Charging around the field in formations, circling footsoldiers menacingly like hungry sharks, showing up as a mob of pikemen to surround and ventilate knights, etc – basically all of the fun stuff you can do with multiple people that single-player can’t quite provide.

And I’m trying to figure out where the price tag’ll end up, since as fun as it is, the fact that we might need to pay for a game and a half makes it a tougher pitch. On the other hand, there’s always the inevitable Steam sale.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:40:49 +0000

I’m looking forward to the largish numbers of players as M&B might be able to do what Age of Chivilary didn’t.