Sweet Realistic Medieval Combat (Mount and Blade)

**johnhughthom** · 03-25-2010, 02:07

If you buy Warband now you can play the beta singleplayer campaign. Steam has it with 10% off. I was going to buy it direct from the Taleworlds website, but they aren't letting you buy now for some reason.

**al Roumi** · 03-25-2010, 15:42

Originally Posted by johnhughthom

If you buy Warband now you can play the beta singleplayer campaign. Steam has it with 10% off. I was going to buy it direct from the Taleworlds website, but they aren't letting you buy now for some reason.

I got on the SP beta last week, think they let in a bunch more testers at once seeing as it's getting near d-day.

Will look to get warband asap but I'm a bit old-fashioned and like to have a hard-copy...

**johnhughthom** · 03-25-2010, 23:32

What do you thinkof it alh_p? Personally I'm slightly disappointed in the single player, not that different from the original and most of the additions are merely cosmetic.

**al Roumi** · 03-26-2010, 15:19

Originally Posted by johnhughthom

What do you thinkof it alh_p? Personally I'm slightly disappointed in the single player, not that different from the original and most of the additions are merely cosmetic.

um, bearing in mind I've only been playing it for 1 week and the core attraction was always the game play and combat that much is still good. I agre that some of what has been added is cosmetic, but that's no bad thing considering where the team were working up from :) the bump-mapped textures look much better (if still a good light year behind any contemporary releases), depth of field & HDR also add to the graphics albeit more subtley than perhaps had they been designed in at an earlier stage.

IMO, most of the work on SP seems to have gone into adding detail: more quests and making the game world more credible and coherent. For my part, I think the efforts made are excellent. Not sure how much of the new stuff I should really mention tbh (status of the beta closed/open is ambiguous at best). You do still have to do a fair bit of reading -although thankfully less than DA:O!

This is most definitley an expansion, but i'm confident in saying that M&B warband will provide a much richer experience that M&B 1.0.

Do I get a badge for that from taleworlds?

**Vuk** · 03-26-2010, 16:29

Now that the Beta is open I think I can say (from playing what is open to the public now) that I am rather disappointed. Let me explain. First of all, the are many great additions to the game. Great options in SP, there is MP, etc, etc. Despite the kewl new changes though (which by themselves would make the game excellent), the game is ruined for me by the horrible new combat animation and system, and by the ridiculous rebalanced (the balance in the first was bad enough).
That said though, while I am very disappointed with Vanilla Warband how it is to this point, I am still going to buy it. I think the fact that it is open to modding makes it definately worth buying for any M&B fans. Gamebalance and (hopefully) combat animations should be easy to fix once the game is released. I can then remake my mod with all the kewl new options. :D

**al Roumi** · 03-26-2010, 16:45

Originally Posted by Just Vuk Again

Now that the Beta is open I think I can say (from playing what is open to the public now) that I am rather disappointed. Let me explain. First of all, the are many great additions to the game. Great options in SP, there is MP, etc, etc. Despite the kewl new changes though (which by themselves would make the game excellent), the game is ruined for me by the horrible new combat animation and system, and by the ridiculous rebalanced (the balance in the first was bad enough).
That said though, while I am very disappointed with Vanilla Warband how it is to this point, I am still going to buy it. I think the fact that it is open to modding makes it definately worth buying for any M&B fans. Gamebalance and (hopefully) combat animations should be easy to fix once the game is released. I can then remake my mod with all the kewl new options. :D

Is that animations and balance then? What's so wrong with the balance? Especially if it wasn't great to start with...

Don't get me wrong, i'm crap at multiplayer but I recognise that it's mostly a question of skill/training, albeit with a significant amount of weird game physics (spin attacks). SP doesn't seem so horrendous so far to me...

I share your hopes for the modding possibilities though, I hope models are a bit easier to change in Warband...

**Vuk** · 03-26-2010, 20:35

Originally Posted by alh_p

Is that animations and balance then? What's so wrong with the balance? Especially if it wasn't great to start with...

Don't get me wrong, i'm crap at multiplayer but I recognise that it's mostly a question of skill/training, albeit with a significant amount of weird game physics (spin attacks). SP doesn't seem so horrendous so far to me...

I share your hopes for the modding possibilities though, I hope models are a bit easier to change in Warband...

It is not just the animations, but the combat that results from them that is just plain silly. Also, the balance (esp concerning horses and archers) is highly unrealistic and also IMHO, very silly. Like I say though, hopefully that can easily be modded. Other than that, I really have no big complaints with the game.