Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Anyone know if sword sisters are in the game?
they are in the Encyclopedia. in the troops. level 21 unit, with 300 bow listed.. no upgrade tree.

never seen one. appear in towns somewhere?

there are other non-use npcs there. Champion fighter has similar stats, and outfit...

BrotherWu said:

I'm up to 2 cities plus a castle and making a shitload of money. Second city keeps getting besieged and on the current one I keep convincing the attacker army to stop and game crashes every time. On hold.

I've had up to 700k in cash and it feels like it becomes less useful later on.

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Having the same crashing problem. Hopefully they patch it sometime this weekend while I am busy with FF7.

BrotherWu said:

I'm up to 2 cities plus a castle and making a shitload of money. Second city keeps getting besieged and on the current one I keep convincing the attacker army to stop and game crashes every time. On hold.

I've had up to 700k in cash and it feels like it becomes less useful later on.

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seems that way. till you buy one or two of the 600-800k items.
or, you try to convince a rank 5 noble clan to join you, and the aggree... then ask for 10million+ in worth to join.

Tuco said:

All these hot fixes are wastes of time. The #1 thing this game needs is to pair this mod:

Xorberax's Cut Through Everyone

Allows weapons to cut through multiple units.

www.nexusmods.com

With a lightsaber mod.

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2 hand axes definitely cleave already. Swinging polearms dont?

Caliane said:

seems that way. till you buy one or two of the 600-800k items.
or, you try to convince a rank 5 noble clan to join you, and the aggree... then ask for 10million+ in worth to join.

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What items cost that much?

This game is so fucking buggy, but the potential is there. Also maintaining garrisons is fucking aids and takes forever to do yourself, I tried storing like 200 ranked up units in there (with a huge surplus of food) come back later and half of them have gone, should have governors maintain that shit to get a decent defence. Once you take a city they just ping pong around and you dont even notice they have been retaken.

Also horse archers are fucking obscene, I just killed a 500 person army with 200 of them and took zero losses.

*Sigh*

I really wanted this game to be great. I played Warband a ton and this had so much potential, along with the funding, to flesh out the concept it frustrates the hell out of me when something fails simply due to bad design. It reminds me of how the X-Games keep face planting hard because the programmers that are obviously in charge and refuse to admit that designing a game is equally as difficult and they aren't qualified to do it.

The game lacks the needed structure to hang all the various features on and it shows. There are so many models from existing games they could have drawn from but instead they seem to have the attitude of "if we just code it, it will work". Any strategy game could be adapted to provide that framework but using even something as simple as Might & Magic 3 (a 20 year old game) as a basic campaign model would improve the single player 100-fold. Don't get me wrong, it can't be exactly the same, but there is inspiration to draw from there that would work really well in a M&B game.

Steward/leadership/tactics probably should be reworked.

they way people talk, and mod Leadership to also give +party size. I assume Leadership used to be, what stewardship is now, and stewardship wasnt a stat in warband.

So, Leadership should be +party size.
Stewardship is the "governing stat", and thus make some sense for organizing, and training your militias, recruits, and army. And thats, what it should do. give passive exp gain to your troops, owned fiefs, garrisons/militias.

There shouldnt be any "autobattle" stat. Tactics should be something else entirely. speed at which units get into formations maybe? how many groups you can split formations into?
General bonuses to snow/rain/night, cover/forest or something? not sure how that could play out. higher tactics gives you better terrain spawning locations?

BrotherWu said:

What do you see as fundamentally wrong? The only thing I can think of is the skill system. It's terrible and should be scrapped.

Everything else seems like it just needs to be fleshed out, fixed, and balanced.

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Everything. The lack of structure is what leads too the downstream effects players are complaining about like bad AI, terrible balance, broken features, and a barely functioning skill system. On top of that it lacks any much high level decision-making or resource allocation, doesn't generate the kinds of dilemmas a good strategy game does, and is a barely updated copy of an over ten year old game.

It does have a major advantage over the X games in that its core combat gameplay loop is way more interesting, ES can't even get that right, but it is still way behind where it should be by now.