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I believe that was a expansion of the original Mount&Blade, this is an expansion built off Warband, so better interface, textures, etc.Art Axiv said:Funny enough, this game was released in Poland on 4th of December 2009I guess we as Poles were the target audience!
+1 for Hussars!
The mods are where it's at in Mount and Blade. My favorite is the one based off of the Berserk manga.
It even follows the story pretty faithfully. It's got everything in it, the soundtrack from the anime, soldiers of differing heights, 10 foot tall ogres, even the whole eclipse god hand event. Not sure if it works with War Bands yet though.
It even follows the story pretty faithfully. It's got everything in it, the soundtrack from the anime, soldiers of differing heights, 10 foot tall ogres, even the whole eclipse god hand event. Not sure if it works with War Bands yet though.
Your forgetting Warbands also had multiplayer, and dedicated multiplayer servers. It was also the first time it was released on Steam. It wasn't so much an expansion for old players but a new game for new players. And if you bought the game back in beta there's no way you paid more than twenty dollars for it so you can't be that ripped off. If this was a sixty dollar game I'd probably agree with you but it's never been that expensive.Selvec said:
I just can't see the guns striking a balance in gameplay.
For multiplayer, anyway. In singleplayer I can see it working though.
I think I'll just stick with my beloved Warband.
For multiplayer, anyway. In singleplayer I can see it working though.
I think I'll just stick with my beloved Warband.
Anyone else have the bad feeling that those guns are going to be extremely annoying?
*having an epic battle, dodging and blocking blows right and left, killed 15 guys, full healt-BAM! insta-killed*
Cause nothing stops your enemies from reloading their gun and capping you whilst you go around stabbing their friends.
None-the-less I'm still looking forward to it. I just hope that they really did balance the combat right.
*having an epic battle, dodging and blocking blows right and left, killed 15 guys, full healt-BAM! insta-killed*
Cause nothing stops your enemies from reloading their gun and capping you whilst you go around stabbing their friends.
None-the-less I'm still looking forward to it. I just hope that they really did balance the combat right.
You ,my good sir, need to try Prophesy of Pendor. Gives Brytenwalda a run for its money. Although both are excellent mods.Darkside360 said:
Yeah but full price for a mount and blade game is 20$, hardly a hefty sum, and Steam has sales on the games every few months so you can usually get it for 10.OniaPL said:
I prefer to play M&B Warband with Mods that have guns, new troops and a bigger map !
i suggest:
- 1257 AD
- Prophecy of Pendor
- The Hundred Years War
and i think most of them have "Diplomacy" and "Conquest" mini mods
i suggest:
- 1257 AD
- Prophecy of Pendor
- The Hundred Years War
and i think most of them have "Diplomacy" and "Conquest" mini mods
You can already kick in Warband.gostlyfantom said:
Honestly, anyone who frequents the TW forums knows that this has been coming out for a long time; and is also probably pretty cheesed about it. Adding very common place things in many mods a new game does not make. As Orcus said, those mods are great(though none of them offer gunpowder as I recall; although I wholeheartedly recommend PoP with a fervor-- it has to be one of the best _games_ I have ever played).
Addressing the issue of gundpowder balance to people who have never played a Warband mod with guns in it:
It's a different field entirely, and isn't unbalanced assuming the devs didn't screw it up(considering how old Fire and Sword is, I assume it's fairly balanced). Many of the multiplayer mods that have gunpowder in them are simply that, shoot offs with the occasional like one faction with horse archers machine gunning the slower reload rifleman. But you also get horseman running down rifleman as they reload or dodging fire and coming in to kill with a well placed Sabre blow. It's just a different kind of action-- and it's definitely not something to be paid for when community mod developers have been doing it for a long time and have been doing it well for about the same amount of time. Nothing new has been added so far as I know; nothing at all.
I'll pass. I'm not a huge fan of the gunpowder era, plus the fact that the fictitious setting of regular Mount and Blade (original and Warband) was part of the appeal. I'm not against games set in history, but M&B is one of those games which didn't need a historical basis.
I'm going to sound old, but Mount and Blade's mod community was best when the game was at version .808. It was probably the first really stable version of the beta that had most of the games elements in it and it wasn't updated for a very long time, months, possibly a year. The originality of those early was amazing and has yet to be matched.
Stuff like Pirates with it's actually ship to ship combat with cannons and swinging on ropes (shame it was so buggy). Paelolithic mod with it's new map, textures and weapons that made slaughtering neanderthals so darn fun. For guns there was Liberty or Death (American revolution), Brother versus Brother (American Civil War) or Age of Descent (Crude guns and ZOMBIES!). Battle for scilily that was so innovative they hired the guy who did it, it's what first introduced fiefdoms. Then there was The Last Days, that was probably the best mod ever made, it completely changed the setting to Middle earths and implemented incredibly faithful soldiers and equipment from all the sides invovled. Fighting an actuall troll (well Olog Hai) when the scream of Nazgul is heard overhead was amazing. These are just a few of the mods that were out there, sure they were buggy and incomplete, but it felt like every week there was a fresh new idea to try out.
The Warband versus original thing is a conundrum, I certainly feel Warband is obviously deserving of it's price, it's a far superior game (from someone who started playing the original around .6 up to it's current version). But it is pretty much just an updated version of the original.
But I will say that Taleworlds is prety generous with the keys you get (when go from the site directly not steam), I've installed both games on so many different computers over the years.
Stuff like Pirates with it's actually ship to ship combat with cannons and swinging on ropes (shame it was so buggy). Paelolithic mod with it's new map, textures and weapons that made slaughtering neanderthals so darn fun. For guns there was Liberty or Death (American revolution), Brother versus Brother (American Civil War) or Age of Descent (Crude guns and ZOMBIES!). Battle for scilily that was so innovative they hired the guy who did it, it's what first introduced fiefdoms. Then there was The Last Days, that was probably the best mod ever made, it completely changed the setting to Middle earths and implemented incredibly faithful soldiers and equipment from all the sides invovled. Fighting an actuall troll (well Olog Hai) when the scream of Nazgul is heard overhead was amazing. These are just a few of the mods that were out there, sure they were buggy and incomplete, but it felt like every week there was a fresh new idea to try out.
And a diplomacy system that allows you to make yourself a king. Also overalled textures for a lot of thing that's make the game plain, not ugly.OniaPL said:
The Warband versus original thing is a conundrum, I certainly feel Warband is obviously deserving of it's price, it's a far superior game (from someone who started playing the original around .6 up to it's current version). But it is pretty much just an updated version of the original.
But I will say that Taleworlds is prety generous with the keys you get (when go from the site directly not steam), I've installed both games on so many different computers over the years.
