Mount & Blade - A Clash of Kings 2.0 Releasing March 28th!

It was a new feature in PoP 3.6:
[NEW Version 3.611] -- WARBAND - Prophesy of Pendor V3.611 (RELEASE 5-2-2013)
*Ramun gives locations of random unhired companions if you sell him slaves

I played a bunch yesterday and paid off all the debt I accrued recruiting my companions. I'm noticing the curve for money generation at the early game is real slow. I realized that all the bandit dudes have shit for gear. In PoP and I think vanilla you could kill viking raider types that frequently dropped maille chests and sell them for decent $$$. Maybe I'm just used to having a high trading and looting skill.

Compared to PoP and vanilla warband the ACOK mod is really buggy. I had a lot of crash issues until I checked 'load textures on demand' which I guess helps with memory concerns. I still have crashes though and misc bugs with NPC placement. Nothing game breaking yet. I guess the creator of the mod is a huge dick though and gets mad when people tell him about bugs in his thread on taleworlds.

Also anyone hear anything about this:

I might jump to TLD. Even if I fixed the crashes the game has a lot of bugs that can't be driver issues (they're confirmed bugs on the forums). Maybe in a year or so all the bugs will be cleaned up. In one day of playing I found a dozen or so bugs ranging from broken quests, mispelt words, bad models, error messages etc.

Would you say TLD is pretty playable? I'd definitely recommend you try PoP.

M&B really only excels with horse combat IMO, so a viking theme doesn't make much sense to me.

If you havent installed the prophesy of pendor mod, do it asap. Vastly better than vanilla warband.

A Clash of Kings 2.0 being released this Saturday.

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.p...,194610.0.html

It's out early:
A Clash of Kings 2.0 download - Mod DB

PoP is a great mod, my second favorite of all time. The last version got a little fucky though with giving players the ability to gear out their own knighthood. If you can earn some money, get lucky with the drops off NPC bosses and wait enough you can turn your custom troops into demi-gods.

ACoK is built on the diplomacy mod, which has similar features to PoP. The reasons I like acok are:

1. The large size of the land, the expanse of it all makes it feel like several areas in conflict rather than one area with a few factions fighting.

2. The close tie-in with the asoiaf universe. Each location and most characters are tied in with the universe. You can meet the stars like Tywin Lannister and you can meet much less known lords that might be mentioned once in the book and only show up in the background on the show. You can walk the streets of King's Landing, or enjoy the docks of Pentos.

3.The actual breadth of troop types, companions, weapons, armor, locations, geography etc is quite large.

4.The quests, for M&B, are fairly in depth and interesting. My favorite is helping Jon Snow beat back a wildling horde at the Wall.

The reasons I like PoP are:
1. The top tier troops are like, 2 tiers above what is possible in vanilla. Fighting those demon knights is like a boss compared to the vanilla or acok knights.
2. The troop variation is much higher. The naked berserker doing super high damage in the north aren't in vanilla. The clusters of those mettenheim dudes are monstrous unless you have archery. The elf-bros shoot machine guns etc.
3. The random NPC bosses add a lot of depth to the game. Not only do you have these mushroom cloud laying armies roaming around destroying everyone, but you can drastically improve your character using the gems they drop both by getting epic weaponry and using the stat buffs.

I think the only two things that acok has over PoP objectively is its size and it's a bit more balanced.


If you don't like GoT / asoiaf universe, I don't think acok is that much better. You'll play the game and be like, "wow this is like 4 warband maps stuck together.. ok...". But being in that universe and interacting with them is a lot of fun.