JimW
支那暗杀团
Yeah, I'm on pretty easy-peasy low damage to player and allies while I'm checking it out, we've barely had a casualty so far, so will ramp it up next time.
Mount and Blade
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agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Trade missions are funny. Got offered a mission to deal with overpriced goods in the Western Empire city of Argoron (sp?) by undercutting the local merchants who have formed a cartel. The reward, for delivering six sacks of wool, is 600. The wool was bought in Argoron market for 400, then handed over.
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JimW
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Following the campaign story where you speak to ten nobles about your piece artefact looks like it's going to take forever (finding the buggers added to slow campaign map movement), something to do while you get on with the usual sand-boxing. Just finished the other bit so hope we get some progress on the kidnapped siblings bit of that, seems odd to be tootling about not doing much about them.
Used geForce Experience to optimise my video settings and it seems to think I'm good for a pretty high end experience but that stutters and lags in-game for me. Hope that means once the devs get some optimisation done will see it in all its glory eventually. Also easy to change on the fly so you can put up with a slow schlep round the map to enjoy the lush scenery look then settle for a more cartoony battle.
Used geForce Experience to optimise my video settings and it seems to think I'm good for a pretty high end experience but that stutters and lags in-game for me. Hope that means once the devs get some optimisation done will see it in all its glory eventually. Also easy to change on the fly so you can put up with a slow schlep round the map to enjoy the lush scenery look then settle for a more cartoony battle.
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
Not played tonight and thinking of restarting anyway
Mordi
Amoral adventurist
So apparently if you hit R during character creation you become a toddler.
Here I am dutifully averting my attention for reasons of productivity and economy and stuff like this jumps up.
Here I am dutifully averting my attention for reasons of productivity and economy and stuff like this jumps up.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
those kids scare me
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Fucking download of Bannerlord keeps resetting to 0% if I shutdown half way through so its been downloading for days now.
JimW
支那暗杀团
Turns out the Nvidia 10 series cards like mine are having particular issues with a memory leak, hence poor performance despite adequate and more hardware in theory. Last patch (and they've been daily) helped some which gives hope it'll get sorted eventually. Despite the obvious EA weaknesses and my technical woes am still really excited by this. When its done and once the modders get at it in earnest it'll be another decades worth of fun just like Warband.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
For those on Windows 10 who download Mods for Bannerlord (or indeed work with any .DLL files) apparently Windows 10 autoblocks .dll files from the interwebs so you need to either uncheck these manually or run some powershell.
Open up Powershell as admin, go to the folder location in your Steamapps and run dir -Recurse | Unblock-File
It should look like the below:
I've only spotted one mod that includes this helpful tip so kudos to them.
Open up Powershell as admin, go to the folder location in your Steamapps and run dir -Recurse | Unblock-File
It should look like the below:
I've only spotted one mod that includes this helpful tip so kudos to them.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Will have had it for two weeks tomorrow, so far I think they've done a fantastic job. Everything I loved about Warband is better in this, the world seems a lot busier and I really like how the roaming looters seem to work (ie: most bands are rubbish, but if one wins a couple of AI fights against peasants it starts to be capable of taking on caravans). Not really found any game or even immersion-breaking things either yet, even the trading is fun.
If they continue the development in this fashion then this could be amazing in a few months.
If they continue the development in this fashion then this could be amazing in a few months.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
A month old now, so possibly time for a bit of a review. I haven't mentioned any of the broken / not implemented yet stuff for obvious reasons.
The good: the battles, especially the combat part of the sieges and big fights. AI in fights is much improved, with both sides using tactics that make sense, and people running off based on their experience. Upskilling your army seems a lot better in this than in Warband (where you could just have high training and then they'd be top tier in a few weeks). There is far better balance between cavalry and infantry / ranged (and different tiers) in this than its predecessor too. Best of all is the attention they've paid to fighting itself, which has taken an already great system and made it even more intuitive (and occasionally spectacular) - chasing fleeing enemies through a wood and accidentally hitting a tree whilst you swing at them is oddly brilliant.
The bad: the map is far too busy in terms of terrain features - it looks fantastic, but a little less mountains and more farmlands etc would not go amiss. Caravans take stupid routes during wartime, and need to avoid combat areas entirely after a while. The various mercenary companies are a great idea but they are (at the moment) no better than the regular forces, and often much worse. The "main" storyline is rubbish - they'd be better off ditching it entirely whilst giving you a choice of starting location and race, but with the options available in that land (eg: Battanian starts in the Empire would be people of outcast status, and so on). I'd also like to see the post-battle looting take time rather than just dole out X amount of items straight away - you should be able to spend ages looting the corpses and getting more out of it (whilst risking their mates turn up).
I know its early access but if they'd released the full version in this state, I'd still love it to bits.
The good: the battles, especially the combat part of the sieges and big fights. AI in fights is much improved, with both sides using tactics that make sense, and people running off based on their experience. Upskilling your army seems a lot better in this than in Warband (where you could just have high training and then they'd be top tier in a few weeks). There is far better balance between cavalry and infantry / ranged (and different tiers) in this than its predecessor too. Best of all is the attention they've paid to fighting itself, which has taken an already great system and made it even more intuitive (and occasionally spectacular) - chasing fleeing enemies through a wood and accidentally hitting a tree whilst you swing at them is oddly brilliant.
The bad: the map is far too busy in terms of terrain features - it looks fantastic, but a little less mountains and more farmlands etc would not go amiss. Caravans take stupid routes during wartime, and need to avoid combat areas entirely after a while. The various mercenary companies are a great idea but they are (at the moment) no better than the regular forces, and often much worse. The "main" storyline is rubbish - they'd be better off ditching it entirely whilst giving you a choice of starting location and race, but with the options available in that land (eg: Battanian starts in the Empire would be people of outcast status, and so on). I'd also like to see the post-battle looting take time rather than just dole out X amount of items straight away - you should be able to spend ages looting the corpses and getting more out of it (whilst risking their mates turn up).
I know its early access but if they'd released the full version in this state, I'd still love it to bits.
JimW
支那暗杀团
I'm only dipping in as the latest beta has done for performance for me again. Stable release was a vast improvement but not going to drop back, wait and see where next update gets us. More confident they will get it right eventually.
Gameplay wise it seems like there's a ton of gaps left to fill but again not too bothered, over the long haul this is going to be right up my street.
Gameplay wise it seems like there's a ton of gaps left to fill but again not too bothered, over the long haul this is going to be right up my street.
InfoBurner
Deep fried chip butty.
I've put around 50 hours into the early release so far. Still loving it but the exploits are becoming more obvious and tempting.
I still get frame locks on sieges, especially if I'm in a meat grinder chokepoint.
And I'm starting to long for all that was promised, Where's my criminal gangs? Why does my family seem to age in real time? I've been playing for 2 months and my son and heir is only 5 years old?
Fuck it though! Arranging my horde, ordering a charge and then wading in with 2 quivers and an executioners axe still Rocks my box.
He he!
I still get frame locks on sieges, especially if I'm in a meat grinder chokepoint.
And I'm starting to long for all that was promised, Where's my criminal gangs? Why does my family seem to age in real time? I've been playing for 2 months and my son and heir is only 5 years old?
Fuck it though! Arranging my horde, ordering a charge and then wading in with 2 quivers and an executioners axe still Rocks my box.
He he!
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Had my first real bit of AI idiocy today. Was part of a 1000-strong army from the Southern Empire beseiging the Western Empires last remaining city. The assault was just about to go in (all siege engines built), only to be called off as the AI had made peace. The Northern Empire, who were also at war with them, came in and took it instead.
Steel Icarus
an attempt was made
Just downloading Bannerlord. Bit apprehensive even though I only paid £26 for it the Steam sale. Is there anything I should know/do to begin with that will save me trouble later?
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
InfoBurner
Deep fried chip butty.
Here's a video of lesser known tips. Some are very usefull. From my own experience don't put skill points into your weapons in the early to mid game, tempting though it might be to fight like Ser Jaime Lannister right off the block. It's better to add points to leadership, trade or social skills as these level up more slowly.
Shop around for the best companions, you can peruse their stats in the encyclopedia. Keep a scout, healer and possibly an engineer with you, set the rest to running parties of their own or trading caravans.
Don't assault a forest bandit camp that has more than 15 bandits. Ever.
I'll think of some more if you get into it.
Late reply but are you aware of this site?
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www.google.co.uk
That’s what I always use if I’m unsure if my pc is up to it.
JimW
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I'd heard of that but tbh rarely play anything current so never needed it. Did get m&b in the end but it had a lot of trouble with my particular video card early doors so only checking back occasionally so far.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
No sign of a finished version yet, but what there is so far is great (edit) and there are regular updates with new things.
