Comments on: Brainwaves From Beta: M&B Warband

By: Gaming

Gaming — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:57:14 +0000

Gaming top – private servers

By: svetoslav

svetoslav — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:36:26 +0000

top 200 private servers

By: Hlof

Hlof — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:12:13 +0000

Please do not know how to start and somebody cracklý multiplayer server?

By: Archonsod

Archonsod — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:50:41 +0000

The difference between Warband and Native is that the AI doesn’t have the sense to shoot the horse.

By: Meep Meep

Meep Meep — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:39:59 +0000

The devs are severely confused about what kind of balance makes a game fun. Anyone who’s played Native in SP knows that horses are very, very favored. There’s little that can be done against them, and it gets really boring using them after awhile.

By: Yargh

Yargh — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:13:14 +0000

This was probably posted before but these are the new single player features that were announced a while back:

Mount&Blade: Warband. introduces a number of features that players have specifically requested and which will vastly improve the overall gameplay experience of this revolutionary title.

Key features revealed for the first time at E3:
- Overhauled graphics; HDR, FSAA, Depth of Field, Soft particles, Tone Mapping and many other effects are all now implemented.
- Majority of Models are being redone.
- Multiplayer battles can now handle up to 64 players with Mods including Team Death Match and Search & Destroy.
- Ability to become the ruler of a faction and convince lords to become your vassals in the Single Player Campaign.
- Ability to upgrade your companions to vassalage by granting them land.
- Improved Mechanics for Soldier Morale: Soldiers will break and run away if their morale gets too low.
- Formations
- Completely new faction (Possibly Asian Influenced according to Screenshots)
- Customizable quick battles
- New weapons, armour, etc. to add with the new faction.
- Diplomacy options
- Improved stragetic AI
- More options in sieges
- Improved horse archery
- It’ll be more difficult to keep soldiers from an enemy faction. For example, if you are a Vaegir and you keep raiding Swadian villages, swadian troops in your party will be more likely to desert and your party morale will be reduced.

By: Yargh

Yargh — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:09:03 +0000

Note that signups for beta testing this are open once more

http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.php/topic,76808.0.html

By: Archonsod

Archonsod — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:09:02 +0000

Beta has reopened if anyone who missed it wants to apply

By: Al3xand3r

Al3xand3r — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:03:28 +0000

I look more forward to the single player enhancements (improvements to everything and more of everything I suppose, as variety is what the original lacks after you exhaust what’s available to you) but online will be a fun diversion also, and it’s bound to spawn many more great modifications too.

I’ll take offense to the visual comments though, maybe the models and what not are worse than something like Oblivion, but Oblivion doesn’t have 100+ troops with individual AI fighting each other in a single skirmish. That would certainly bring any PC to its knees with those graphics. With these however, it runs great, and looks and sounds glorious in the heat of battle.

I love the improved animations and combat enhancements seen in beta videos too, and the improved armor models and textures certainly bring its look more up to par, though I don’t know if that extends to the majority of the single player game too, it could be jarring to have the higher quality stuff mixed in with the pre-expansion models.

By: Catastrophe

Catastrophe — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:21:34 +0000

Is WB stand alone?

Anddd does it have a Singleplayer Campaign component? As I would love additions to the lovely M&B campaign :)

By: Malagate

Malagate — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:56:50 +0000

@Pod, nay, there are about 4 ladders around the castle now, and as of the latest patch those ladders are now easier to knock down from the top of the walls, also the gate to the castle can be opened for sallying forth/walking straight in.

By: woppin

woppin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:50:53 +0000

@Nakki: It needs to be area defense, otherwise people can go horse archer and ride off into the sunset on defense and win the round by boring everyone to death. I agree something needs to be tweaked, round times should be shorter and something akin to TF2′s capture points would encourage players to actually fight each other rather than running away all day.

“There are some rock / paper / scissors into play, so If you see the enemy using X, is a good idea to take Y. But this change (as the other guys will change too), and as people get progressive more wealth, you see better gear, that is nice.
Theres also the random barbarian guy that choose to play naked, but don’t seems to work well.”

The r/p/s is broken for a number of reasons: Cavalry post-hitbox patch are actually poor vs everything, archers/xbow can reliably hit feet now, khergit only get 2 troop types, nord veteran can take 15 throwing axes and kill everything pretty easily.

As for playing naked, you get a handy speed increase, it’s a lot of fun and you can effectively kite infantry playing as a naked archer which can be amusing.