Got M & B as part of the paradox pack and have to say, I'm really enjoying it! Does anyone know the best way to go about seizing a castle however? I'm already a vassal so have my own village, it keeps getting looted however and thus I can't raise any taxes. Capturing the enemy castle near by would do much to stop the warbands from looting I imagine..
I bought Warband before the whole pack was available, and I am loving it! I'm level 9 and have around 40 men under my command and I'm still having problems even on easy.
Originally Posted by Beskar: Best way to stop people raiding your village is to defend it. Build a messenger post there, so at least you have some warning.
Also CR, are there any character creator mods yet? One of my issues was the game is how ugly everyone is, especially the females.
Originally Posted by Husar: Mount and Blade: Fire and Sword has been announced!
It's a standalone "addon" set in the 17th century, the rest can be seen in this trailer.
In that trailer, it mentions Gustav Adolph. Gustavus Adolphus? Seems very plausible, what with Stockholm being highlighted, though if it included Germany it would make infinitely more sense.
A video preview of M&B: With Fire & Sword, a spin off game made by some eastern European company set in 1600-1700 (?) Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Will include MP.
Notable: the ability to equip your troops with different arms and armor between battles.
Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit: A video preview of M&B: With Fire & Sword, a spin off game made by some eastern European company set in 1600-1700 (?) Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Will include MP.
Notable: the ability to equip your troops with different arms and armor between battles.
Wow, what a great game. I bought Warband for 7.99€ at Gamersgate. that's even less that what I paid for the beta of M&B.
It seems it's one of the most moddable games and the devs did so many things right.....just great.
After playing in the sand box world a while and leveling up two characters to lvl 30+ I jumped into the Multiplayer mode on the weekend.
Do any of you guys play Multiplayer?
Highly recommended. I'm dying all the time and I really suck at blocking but I'm having such a ball, it's amazing.
MP is totally different from SP, people fight differently and there're a lot of features in sieges that you won't see in SP. (Open the gate, push down ladders, open/smash doors, secret tunnels, etc) On the 22nd siege server up to 222 people can play. Over the weekend some 100 players where online which makes for excellent battles.
That's an amusing preview, Crazed Rabbit, I guess I have played too much Mount and Blade in the past, but it brought it all back. Fire and Sword sounds exactly the same game as the original Mount and Blade, except in a different setting. More like a mod than a commerical product, but then M&B always did seem to be about doing one thing very well rather than trying to do many things.
I doubt it's going to be drastically different in any manner. The core gameplay will always be the same...all they can add is more window dressing, like more dialogue, larger and more detailed troop trees...some sort of story....better castles and stuff.....so yeah, it does sound like a mod. Still if it's a mod developed by the game's developers....
That aside, till about a year ago, I was under the impression that with Fire and and Sword was a mod for M&B being developed by a Polish game developer....how come it suddenly became a standalone game is beyond me.
Before there was an expansion, there was a mod....
I knew I'd seen this somewhere, just couldn't place it.
With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i Mieczem) the mod.
Mount and Blade: With Fire and Sword
You can pre-order it for $13.45. And India is right, I remember seeing this expansion as a mod too, the name is familiar. I'm guessing if your big on Eastern European lore/history, then this expansion is for you.
I haven't played MB in ages, I bought Warband almost a year ago and I've hardly touched it since.
Originally Posted by india: Before there was an expansion, there was a mod....
I knew I'd seen this somewhere, just couldn't place it.
With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i Mieczem) the mod.
Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit: But the expansion was made by a professional studio, whilst the mod was just a couple guys basing something off the same book.