Mount & Blade Dev Returns to the Golden Age of Piracy

[weirdee]

Hopefully this is exciting on the "huge numbers of forces choking the field of battle" level and not "so much realism that it takes several hours to get into a stilted, by the books engagement only to then be treatyblocked before you can regain losses or get revenge"

also I need better ally AI and autoresolution that doesn't suck, because without getting personally involved in every battle, I seem to take massive losses, which does not measure up to the enormous personal risk involved when it is very easy to take down any one person in battle before it even starts

it would also be nice to have a force size limit based on the leader's level, instead of how much cheating the npcs can use in order to amass enormous numbers without any significant downsides to their combat abilities or attrition from lack of supplies required to maintain such an army

 

[DTWolfwood]

Can i assume that pic comes from Pirates of the Burning Sea?

cause its the only game i know of where you get all the above listed content, NOW lol

 

[ScruffyMcBalls]

Fuck yeah! Bout damned time! The Mount and Blade engine sucks the root, but I'll give it a chance. Consider my eyes glue to this for the following months. Oh and as DTWolfwood (love your name man) mentioned; Pirates of the Burning Sea already got here, but still, pirates are awesome regardless of how many times they crop up.

 

[CommanderL]

This sounds very amazin' an' I be lookin' fore t' it
I love me some mount and blade Mount and blade on the with ships will be awsometaciular

 

[Doclector]

Please god, let there be a PC version. I've been waiting for a decent pirate game since...forever. Which is about as long as I've been waiting for a decent, real horror game.

Dammit, PC master race with godly computers I'll never be able to afford, stop keeping the games I've been waiting ages for to yourselves!

 

[ramboondiea]

this, i want this, i bloody loved mount and blade, but every time i played i always thought it was missing something, pirates! now to sit here and wait for release...........................................................................................

 

[Mullahgrrl]

Kind of fun since they say that the original mount and blade was inspired by sid meyer's pirates!

 

[kouriichi]

Celebratory pirate talk anyone? "AAYAAAAARRRR! Put on yer sea legs me heartys! For the feast in our belly will be from our enemies hold! Let loose the cannons of adventure and put your grog swillin hands to work! The navy be givin us criminals no 2nd chance, so lets not give them a 1st! AYAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!"

But i am really pumped about this. More Mount and Blade is a great thing, more pirates is a great thing, and the combo of the two? Well, this might end up being game of the year in my book.

 

[Scars Unseen]

The title is a bit misleading. The dev behind With Fire and Sword is working on this(as is mentioned in the body of the article), not the Mount & Blade dev. Taleworlds is working on M&B 2, IIRC.