Mount & Blade: Warband
 

I just got this game for 30 bucks. The multiplayer is a blast. Defending or storming castles, leading a cavalry charge into infantry and sniping with crossbows is a lot of fun.

Plus, the graphics settings are comprehensive enough to let me run it on my ancient computer.

http://www.taleworlds.com/main.aspx

Aye, Warband is a big improvement over the old M&B, now we just have to wait for all the good mods to come out for it...

I bought it for the multiplayer and it can be enjoyable if your pings are low, though after a while I tire of the hectic sword play, it's really intense and you need all your focus to survive at it. Archery and Cavalry tire less. I still don't understand how the Gold system works, but I think it should work by damage dealt or hits and not by kills, since you can weaken your opponent only to have some random guy jump in for the final blow; you'd do all the work and he'd take all the Gold.

But if there's something bad about the game, I'd say it's the lack of an Operation Flashpoint like local voice comms, where people nearby can talk to each other. Typing sucks a lot in this game.

Anyway, the multiplayer is great fun indeed, and playing Mount & Blade with real people is completely different than the AI, for with human players we have real intelligence and psychology at play, and you see all sorts of things and situations you'd never see with bots and AI. For example, I had this happen today (though with melee weapons):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXHOYQ5uOxE

It's really funny how people can get afraid and intimidated, even though they have superior numbers, or become dauntless and even careless on the other hand. People are a million times more fun than bots, and if you never played Warband's multiplayer, you never played Mount & Blade at all.
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Seems a bit expensive IMO, I thought it would cost about $20-25.
Maybe I'm just spoiled since I bough M&B back when it was only $10.

Ditto. I bought the original for around £9 back when it was in beta. Warband is a big improvement, no doubt, but I'm not going to shell out £24 for it. Hopefully they'll drop the price in a few weeks.

Bought the Warband today, had played M&B briefly at mate's place when it was 0.8 or 0.9. It's somewhere with Rome:TW on my greatest games list, pretty high. Absolutely love the mounted combat, nothing's better than charging that line of archers that is punishing your foot soldiers with an big 2h war axe. :DL

Needs more gore tho, I want to see heads fly off when I swing my axe or have the choice to go around and stab the knocked out enemies to death with a sword after the battle. That'd be so awesome. :rock:

I liked mounted combat up until my latest character, now I'm a bigger fan of fighting on foot. Chopping people from horseback is good, but charging on foot and wildly swinging an axe at people on all directions is funner IMO.

Well, that and the fact that I managed to kill of a ~30 forest bandit band alone by extended usage of a shield and the move backwards key...

It's probably a good idea to keep all sharp implements away from Dowly, the two would be a very bad combination! :o

Ow come on, I want to get medieval on their arses. :yep:

Multiplayer is fun! :yeah:

Even though I died most of the time, being good in single player doesn't mean being good in multiplayer. :O:

There are a lot of highly skilled players there.


I'm not used to manual defence, so as soon as I lose my shield I'm an easy opponent. Something I have to practice in order to have any chance surviving.

Lots of archers/crossbowmen. :o


Managed to get some kills so it wasn't all bad. :)

Gah, the kings are real wankers. I offer my sword to them and what I get in return? Some small bordertown that gets raided constantly. How am I supposed to raise army with funding going on and off constantly? :shifty:

Hehe, same here. :DL
I got Rduna from the King of Swadia, it's not been raided yet though. But as soon as Swadia is at war with the Vaegir or the Khergit Khanate it will be.

I'm not looking forward to a war against the Khergit.

Bah, you think you have problems, I'm a vassal of the Swadians and King Harlaus is the sorriest excuse for a monarch I'ver ever seen. At one point, we were just out of a long war with the Nords, in a losing war with the Khergits (It's always a losing fight against these guys unless you outnumber them with heavy cavalry or insane numbers of spearmen). Well, the Rhodoks declare war on us, and the first thing Mr. King does is order a feast on the other side of the kingdom while the green guys overrun one of our castles and besiege a city...Yeah, thanks...

Haha, aye, noticed that King Harlaus is a bit of an tosser. Ow and got Rduna too from him. Thanks. :shifty:

Now started as Nords and oh boy, are we kicking some Swadian arse or what? :DL Not really capturing anything, just hunting them down and massacring them with 3 to 1 ratio on troops in most battles. :haha:

Have been trying to build up relations with the other lords and hopefully during this war I get me my own castle, troop wages are sky high atm due to the war, so really need a better income soon. :hmmm:

Get your honor up... (Release captured lords) And you'll suddenly find yourself friends with people you've never even met before...

I abandoned my first game in Warband because I screwed up a fair things but I had like 50 Honor and when I ran off to join help that Arryn the Prom Queen or whatever she's called help secure her place on the throne of sassanid empire some of the lords I was fighting had like 40+ relations with me. :rotfl2:

Also if you want fiefs, DO NOT BECOME THE MARSHAL. >_> Your Controversy skyrockets because you get blamed for everything, even on a peasant stubbing his toe on a rock.