Mount & Blade: Warband

AngusJS · 04-05-10, 09:13 PM

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

Raptor1 · 04-06-10, 01:25 AM

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...

TteFAboB · 04-06-10, 10:10 PM

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):

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.

Officerpuppy · 04-07-10, 03:49 PM

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.

Nordmann · 04-07-10, 04:53 PM

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.

Dowly · 04-09-10, 08:19 AM

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.

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.

Raptor1 · 04-09-10, 08:24 AM

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...

Nordmann · 04-09-10, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Dowly

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.

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

04-05-10, 09:13 PM	#1
AngusJS Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 746 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	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

04-06-10, 01:25 AM	#2
Raptor1 Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Stavka Posts: 8,211 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	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... __________________ Current Eastern Front status: Probable Victory

04-06-10, 10:10 PM	#3
TteFAboB Admiral Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,247 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	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): 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. __________________ "Tout ce qui est exagéré est insignifiant." ("All that is exaggerated is insignificant.") - Talleyrand

04-07-10, 04:53 PM	#5
Nordmann Commodore Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: England Posts: 628 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ "I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea." - H. G. Wells

04-09-10, 08:24 AM	#7
Raptor1 Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Stavka Posts: 8,211 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	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... __________________ Current Eastern Front status: Probable Victory

04-07-10, 03:49 PM	#4
Officerpuppy Engineer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Mansfield, TX Posts: 213 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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.

04-09-10, 08:19 AM	#6
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,055 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	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. 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.