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Mount & Blade on sale at Steam; seriously, get it.
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bonesmccoy
Banned
Agreed with Apostate, if you only buy one make it Warband. People are still playing Napoleonic Wars, though the premier siege server, owned by the 84e regiment, is currently empty while the next patch is being developed alongside new maps. There are other siege servers but their maps aren't as good, nowhere near as well as playtested.
Hopefully the patch will be coming soon - I'm a member of the 84e myself and all we know so far is that it's coming.
Rogue_Ledr
Banned
Is it worth getting this if you own Chivalry: Medieval Warfare?
It anyone is still on the fence, let me just say that this game is, in my opinion, the best game to come out in the last ten years.
Yes. Completely different games.
Rawket Lawnchair
Member
With Chivalry all you do is pick one of 4 classes and fight multiplayer battles.
With this you can start your own mercenary warband and carve your own kingdom. You can also become a horse archer. Do you know many games where you can play as a horse archer?
Edit: There's a demo. Use it.
DangerStepp
Member
What's the learning curve like?
I skimmed your LTTP thread and couldn't get a feel for how long it may take to pick up on the basics.
I skimmed your LTTP thread and couldn't get a feel for how long it may take to pick up on the basics.
Do you mean Sid Meier's?
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
It will definitely take a little time before you get a feel for the combat. The hitboxes are more realistic than many games so you can't expect to swing a sword close to an enemy and hit them. And especially when you're moving fast on a horse it can make it hard to get hits in.
The game starts off easy though, even if you suck at some parts of the tutorial you will probably get by okay. Depending on your choices during character creation you can spend a little money (or a lot, relative to what you have) and get some decent fighters with you early on, and you can take out the small groups of bandits easily and get a better feel for the game. You can just gradually branch out from there. The vanilla game isn't really hard to figure out, it's mostly a matter of getting used to the combat.
Also IIRC picking a female character is sort of like "hard mode" in terms of diplomacy and relationships. The lords and whatnot in the game won't really see you as an equal and it will be harder to get kings to entrust you with villages and stuff.
DaciaJC
Gold Member
Absolutely. Warband and Chivalry are my two favorite games on Steam.
I think this was already mentioned, but it bears repeating: the Floris modpack comes highly recommended. If you're completely new to the game, you'll probably want to start off with native/vanilla, else Floris might feel a touch overwhelming (mostly with the units), but do try it out sometime. It improves upon the vanilla experience in most every way.
Definitely pick this up. As someone who doesn't have a lot of money anymore and is looking for games that provide decades of entertainment for the price, this is the one game that stands out and the mods make it even more addicting. It's a game that will never leave my HDD.
The Game of Thrones mod is actually a lot of fun too. I joined up with the North and enlisted in one of the Karstark's armies and have been ranking up quickly before I do my own thing.
Fire and Sword is good too so don't be discouraged just because people suggest Warband more. The collection is definitely worth it and my F&S campaign is a lot of fun.
M&B2 will be the end of me.
The Game of Thrones mod is actually a lot of fun too. I joined up with the North and enlisted in one of the Karstark's armies and have been ranking up quickly before I do my own thing.
Fire and Sword is good too so don't be discouraged just because people suggest Warband more. The collection is definitely worth it and my F&S campaign is a lot of fun.
M&B2 will be the end of me.
DaciaJC
Gold Member
WotR is only multiplayer, and many would argue that M&B:WB does MP better, anyway. Mechanics-wise, though, they're very similar, so you'd probably enjoy Roses.
Lordwindowlicker
Member
You're not the boss of me.
DangerStepp
Member
You provided me with $5 worth of a sales pitch so I'll go ahead and bite on Warband. It's so easy for anyone who grew up in the age of game rentals to justify getting any game less than ~$6.
I've tried watching videos and it's difficult to get an idea of just what it is... the promise of strategy doesn't excite me a whole lot.
Is it immersive or have any sense of place in the world it crafts?
It's testimonials such as this that squash all scepticism and drive me to at least try it.
Get that post count up!
Lordwindowlicker
Member
I couldn't give less of a shit about my post count. It's just my natural reaction anytime someone tells me to do something, and yes it was a joke. dur
Sidenote away from Mr Danger.. I bought the Mount & Blade collection shortly after my initial post.
DangerStepp
Member
I was teasing... dur!
I also bought M&B. ^___^
I also bought M&B. ^___^
Lordwindowlicker
Member
I WILL NOT BE TEASED!
I've been wanting to play the series for a while now, so this is perfect for me.
I've been wanting to play the series for a while now, so this is perfect for me.
Woo, that sounds fun. I just picked it up because the combat looked good. A bit like Die By The Sword.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
I will tell everyone something very important. Stick with it. I first booted it up and played, I was completely like
Also, the game is NOT a looker at all. To the UNTRAINED EYE! I kept playing and playing, and as where I didn't even know how to talk to a count at first I was holding his family hostage for ransom later. GIMMIE DAT MONAY! As I couldn't appreciate the graphics at first I would marvel at how a man would slowly ragdoll off of his mount after I counter slashed him right in his neck. I kind of want to play again, now
Also, the game is NOT a looker at all. To the UNTRAINED EYE! I kept playing and playing, and as where I didn't even know how to talk to a count at first I was holding his family hostage for ransom later. GIMMIE DAT MONAY! As I couldn't appreciate the graphics at first I would marvel at how a man would slowly ragdoll off of his mount after I counter slashed him right in his neck. I kind of want to play again, now
Absolutely!
More Fun To Compute
Member
Yes the SP game is more like Sid Meier's Pirates than anything.
But people WARBAND my 300h with it don't lie.
Join Army
Start your mercenary band
Protect villagers from bandits
Become Duke, Marshal, King
Date duchess and in case of her father not allowing marriage STEAL HER/HIM
Be an Knight/Archer/Pikeman/Crossbowman
Reqruit NPC and do some quests.
Enjoy the best combat system
Ride a mule, donkey or a horse
Buy products in city A and sell it for profit in city B
Work for duke and collect taxes from villagers
Train your recruits
Improve your character
Buy fancy super costly armor
all of that is in Warband and if you will spend a lot of time with it then you will be amazed by mods like Prophecy of Pendor which is even better than Warband and has more content and better everything
Join Army
Start your mercenary band
Protect villagers from bandits
Become Duke, Marshal, King
Date duchess and in case of her father not allowing marriage STEAL HER/HIM
Be an Knight/Archer/Pikeman/Crossbowman
Reqruit NPC and do some quests.
Enjoy the best combat system
Ride a mule, donkey or a horse
Buy products in city A and sell it for profit in city B
Work for duke and collect taxes from villagers
Train your recruits
Improve your character
Buy fancy super costly armor
all of that is in Warband and if you will spend a lot of time with it then you will be amazed by mods like Prophecy of Pendor which is even better than Warband and has more content and better everything
"few" matches, more like a a few dozen!
Combat is amazing. Be it sword or pike or bow everything is amazing about combat.
Being Heavy Crossbowman and 1 shooting most powerful knights is amazing
A.b.s.o.l.u.t.e.l.y!
DangerStepp
Member
This needs to be stated more. It is pretty hard to get off the ground in Warband, both because the game has quite a bit of a learning curve and because it's designed to be difficult at the start.I will tell everyone something very important. Stick with it. I first booted it up and played, I was completely like
Also, the game is NOT a looker at all. To the UNTRAINED EYE! I kept playing and playing, and as where I didn't even know how to talk to a count at first I was holding his family hostage for ransom later. GIMMIE DAT MONAY! As I couldn't appreciate the graphics at first I would marvel at how a man would slowly ragdoll off of his mount after I counter slashed him right in his neck. I kind of want to play again, now
1. Don't be afraid to turn the difficulty down. In particular, you may want to reduce the damage you take and turn off manual blocking. When you get better at the game you can ease yourself into it (it lets you change difficulty settings on the fly).
2. Don't create a character on realistic mode (no saves mode). You will get taken prisoner likely dozens of times on your first playthrough and it's nice to have a fallback.
3. Get quests. Lots and lots of quests. They are your primary source of income without a base or a large army. There are a few way to do this.
- Go to villages, select "go to the village center" (or whatever it is), and look for the villager that isn't moving; he's the elder. Ask him if he has a job for you. Most won't. These missions are the least valuable but can be done pretty much from the start of the game.
- Talk to lords and ask them if they have a job for you. This depends somewhat on your reputation. Most of these jobs don't pay particularly well but some of them do and all of them affect your reputation somehow. Keep in mind that some of them (such as the ones that call on you to instigate a war in a covert matter) will appropriately lower your reputation. Most of these are pretty easy and don't require too many troops.
- Go to towns and look for the guild master. Guild masters will always have a job available (provided you didn't already take one today from the same town) and these jobs usually pay a lot, unless they're caravan escorts. Some of these require more troops than you're likely to have at the beginning of the game but many of them are very easy and are also the best paying.
4. Recruit troops (you can do this by going to "recruit volunteers" at any town). Don't worry too much about going into debt as you will only incur a small morale penalty. You can't really be a one man army at low levels.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
I remember playing the original and running down so many poor bastards while using a lance. Glorious times to be had.
Nope nope nope.
Chivalry is Q3A disguised in medieval garb. M&B is the best RPG created. They're both awesome, for very different reasons.
Chivalry exist because of M&B. And yes Chivalry is fun but it is way worse than Warband vanilla or even more worse than some amazing mods like PoP which is by far best mod i have ever seen.