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Community => Other Games => Topic started by: MaleMaldives on March 01, 2011, 05:21:23 PM
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Anyone play this game? If not I highly recommend it. It is very similar to to BM, but you actually fight and lead troops in real time. Also has a lot of mods so you can find the style of game you like.
I am currently playing Prophecy of Pendor mod looking forward to 4.0.
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Yep, one of my other favourite games :) Big sandbox, going up as lowly landless Noble to managing your own Realm, excellent (Cavalry) battles and with a big battlesize and unlimited corpses on the battlefield, you get some really great pictures, especially after a close fight. The game has a few issues, but the mods bring a lot of extra playability and solve most of those issues and really enrich the game (And some are becoming as much as standard as Native, like the Diplomacy Mod). I don't even play the Multiplayer!
Only issue for me is that Warband has become unplayable for me with frequent crashes and lots of lag, even when I lower my settings. I was playing Prophecy of Pendor as well and it looked promising, but I'm now just hoping that future versions will allow me to actually run the game. The odd thing is that I didn't have those issues in the beginning.
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I loved the first Mount & Blade to death, but haven't had a chance to play Warband, yet.
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Telrunya, I have the same issues. I would play the original PoP with about 300 people and decent graphics with no issues. Since the Warband version i needed to go down to 100 people and low settings which makes battle less epics and way easier. Though that's not the case with other Warband mods.
If it wasn't for RL time issues, a game that was a hybrid of BM and Mount and Blade would blow my mind away.
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If it wasn't for RL time issues, a game that was a hybrid of BM and Mount and Blade would blow my mind away.
Please! I like to finish my studies ;)
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Mmmm...The PoP mod is amazing, yes. A full cavalry charge of Knights of the Dragon and Mounted Rangers is just sweet to watch.
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M&B warband is quite cool, even if I always have a hard time to commit myself long enough to truly see the long term phase of the game.
Since quite a few of people seem to recommend mods, does anyone mind naming a few of the good ones?
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Prophecy of Pendor is my favorite. You can go to Taleworlds mod section of the forum, and the mod topics that have the most posts are the better ones.
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For anyone playing on steam, I'd recommend downloading the client from the M&B website and inputing your steam key code. Through steam my game was nearly unplayable, and since I haven't had a single problem.
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I love Mount & Blade though I've had it uninstalled for a while. I used to enjoy playing the tournaments for massive gold income since I could usually guarantee a profit off self made betting.
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Problem with that is once you have a good reputation at the tournaments, the amount you can make from betting decreases. In warbands I like to set up industries in every town, that brings in a good steady income for me when I don't want to declare for a faction and get an income from fiefs.
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Warband is good, but if you haven't bought it I would wait for the next expansion "with fire and sword" as it will have more quest types, more intrigue options, more multiplayer options, and most importantly for me is more town development options.
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That all depends, is With Fire and Sword going to be a standalone release, or will it require Warbands in the tradition of most expansions. Remember warbands wasn't an expansion, it was a new game due to the engine changes required, even though the actual game play was very similar.
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In my mind I say unfortunatly. Unfortunatly it will yet again be a stand alone game which means a stand alone price for a game that is really similar to its previous title, so similar it should be an expansion. But at the same time it is a small company that I want to succeed so it doesn't bother me too much to shell them out a few extra bucks. Much like battlemaster ;D
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I played both MaB and MaB:WB but I think WB is better. What a great game. Except sieging is little bit boring b/c of the speed of the siege engine. Bloody slow. I am still bad with using lance lol.
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The one thing I dislike WB from the original is I think they made lances worse. The recharge in WB for couched lance attack is much slower. Maybe this isn't bad at high weapon skill, but I don't use lance anymore to find out.
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I loved the first Mount & Blade to death, but haven't had a chance to play Warband, yet.
Warband is much better. Not only does it look prettier, but the combat animations are more realistic and fluid, the equipment is better befitting of the cultures the different factions represent... You can also start your own Kingdom, but it takes a bit to make the other factions even think that you are /slightly/ worthy of having any right to rule. Typically if you do it too soon, they all declare war on you.
The Sarranid Sultanate is neat, but I think the Swadians are still my favorite. I don't like the Vaegirs as much as I used to. It seems a tidbit more balanced with the factions, too, except that the Kherjits are still kinda annoying.
Though I haven't been back to the game for long, I pondered a Total War or Mount and Blade mod relating to some of my favorite BattleMaster moments for awhile now... I just thought it'd have an epic feel to it... Of course my favorite realms and people were steeped in roleplay, so creating strengths and weaknesses for each of them wouldn't be all that difficult. Plus undead and monster hordes to tear you to pieces. :p
There's one mod for it... I don't remember it precisely, but I wanted to try it out. It basically brings an RPG element to the online play of M&B Warband and I heard it's really good. There's also a realism mod somewhere that turns the factions into a variety of real ones, like Medieval England, France etc. that I wanted to try out.
The one thing I dislike WB from the original is I think they made lances worse. The recharge in WB for couched lance attack is much slower. Maybe this isn't bad at high weapon skill, but I don't use lance anymore to find out.
It was far too OP in the original, that's for sure. I mean, a lance itself is extremely dangerous, but it would be a little unwieldy even in the hands of the finest knight, I'd assume. It needed the nerf for online, but it's a little too nerfed offline. At the very least make it forcibly dismount enemy cavalry if you hit them...
I noticed that I can still do 300+ damage couched to horses; but half the time I don't break 30-40 on a soldier. The long cooldown time is great, honestly. What I don't like is that charging with a spear on a horse is worthless now. I used to play as a mounted sergeant: Spear, Shield, Sword, and sometimes a mace or club, with light armor, or at the heaviest a mail with surcoat.
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I love the Mount&Blade series in general. I truly wish I knew how to mess with the maps... Would love to make a few BattleMaster themed maps...
Could you imagine playing in Beluaterra, EC, Dwilight, etc? Or even in muliplayer,having BM realm-based factions to play with? *drool*
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Battlemaster maps with all her regions and change the names of Lords to the current Nobles. That already would be a lot of fun to play with :)
The Forge Forum on Taleworlds has documentation for Mod Development, including Map Editors, but from what I read after a quick glance it takes a bit of figuring out.
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For those interested, it looks like Steam is having a little sale on Mount & Blade and Warband for the weekend. I might just pick up Warband myself.