The game comes with numerous bugs, glitches and missing parts. It is in Early Access, meaning that the developers are still developing the game and this is clearly visible. Now getting to the elephant in the room: the game is far from finished. It takes a couple of hours to get used to, but in the end it is worth it. It might scare off newer players, but it is not that unforgiving of a game. You should work for your victories, and making the combat system more complicated is an effective way of doing so. Fighting with a sword (or an axe, a pike or a club for that matter) should not really be done by the click of a button. It is hard getting used to, but it does make some sense. It uses a click & drag system, meaning you have to click and drag your mouse in the way you want your sword to go. The games are also known for their rather unique combat system. The freedom to experience a near-Earth history however you like, in short, is the purpose of Mount & Blade. You can follow the main story line, or you can just roam around a fictional medievalish world.
But you can also relentlessly chase looters and bandits, fight them and take their loot. These are the main way to progress the story, your character and your clan, as well as filling your pockets.
The game is built around quests, some large and some small. You can be a menacing warlord or a peaceful merchant. In this fictional world, you get to create and level up your own character, fight massive battles (in first person if you want) whilst flailing your sword around like an idiot and conquer towns, castles and villages. Bannerlord is set 210 years before its predecessor, after the fall of a large empire (modeled after the fall of the Roman Empire). The game is set in the fictional world of Calradia, which is based upon medieval Europe and the Middle East. You could say it is an Action-RPG-Simulation-Strategy game: it has elements of all, but cannot be described as just one of those. It is hard to describe Mount & Blade as one type of game. This, along with the many hours I played the earlier installments, made me pretty excited for the new gameįor those of you who are unknown with the Mount & Blade series I’ll give a short summary. Next to the cool content, the games have a very active online community, and as exemplified by Viking Conquest, the devs also listen to this community. It is even cooler that Viking Conquest was a mod, which was made into a real DLC by TaleWorlds in cooperation with the developers of the mod. Especially Warband, and the Viking Conquest Reforg ed Edition totally rocked.
I picked up copies of earlier installments Mount & Blade: Warband and With Fire & Sword a few years back, and got hooked on the game. To start off, I’m a big fan of the Mount & Blade series.
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