Did they make the game easier

[Potato Man]

So I played like 5h of warband a long time ago, when I bought it, but even tho I liked it, I had gotten it on sale and was already preoccupied with other games. Also I wanted to first try original M&B.

So 250h original M&B and some years latter I have finally gotten to warband, but the thing is it feals way to easy. I dont know if all the time playing with underpowered characters (merchant focus and such) is paying off or if something is wrong.

I jumped in the game today and won a tourney on day one and now when I am fighting in arena fights, I take down enemies with 3 short sword blows while I have only like 25 in one handed weapons.

I have difficulty set to 99% I think with damages set to normal, I fell for the default easy setting the first time I played long long time ago, so I knew to change it this time around.

[Tuidjy]

It is relatively easy to create a character who can take down arena fighters with one single blow, let alone three, especially if you know what you are doing. You can start with Power Strike 5, and by turning and walking into the attack, attacking when the enemy is attacking, and hitting the head, you can do 60-80 damage at level 1.

I play at 135% difficulty, and can still win most tournaments at level fivish... I probably could earlier, but I do not enter them until my proficiencies are all at 100.

[Lord Admiral Daniel Phillips]

I mean, a lot of stuff from Original M&B transfers over, mostly an understanding on how to fight. So it's not that surprising, plus vanilla game is easy to most people once they get used to playing.

[Hairboy523]

Play Bytenwalda if you want an easy mod for the game ;)

[Potato Man]

Originally posted by Tuidjy:

It is relatively easy to create a character who can take down arena fighters with one single blow, let alone three, especially if you know what you are doing. You can start with Power Strike 5, and by turning and walking into the attack, attacking when the enemy is attacking, and hitting the head, you can do 60-80 damage at level 1.

I play at 135% difficulty, and can still win most tournaments at level fivish... I probably could earlier, but I do not enter them until my proficiencies are all at 100.

I know all that, the thing is, I dont have epic fighter character, I have 1 in power strike.

Originally posted by Lord Admiral Daniel Phillips:

I mean, a lot of stuff from Original M&B transfers over, mostly an understanding on how to fight. So it's not that surprising, plus vanilla game is easy to most people once they get used to playing.

Yeah, I guess its just me then, I was just worried that I tried out the game of thrones mod and it somehow messed up my game.



anyway thanks for replies

[Hairboy523]

Maybe you've just gotten better. 3 blows with a sword kill most people if they are well placed. I'd recommend trying the other Game Of Thrones mod. A Song Of Ice And Fire. Which has a Bytenwalda base.

Or Bytenwalda repolished if you want a real challeging mod. Succeeding in a game thats so much harder than native grants much more glory.
Also you can be a merchant in the griddy Bytenwalda based Game Of Thrones mod.

There are static wars so Essos is peaceful but full of very active bandits and priates that make being a merchant much cooler, with business AND you can buy acres, take out loans ect.

If you are up for that, I recommend going to saltpans, lots of salt to get you started if you take out a loan. Furs are cheaper in the northern villages from what I've seen.

Then again I've barely ever gone beyond that wall, I am a wildling, with little money, near starvation.

[Potato Man]

Originally posted by Hairboy523:

Maybe you've just gotten better. 3 blows with a sword kill most people if they are well placed. I'd recommend trying the other Game Of Thrones mod. A Song Of Ice And Fire. Which has a Bytenwalda base.

Or Bytenwalda repolished if you want a real challeging mod. Succeeding in a game thats so much harder than native grants much more glory.
Also you can be a merchant in the griddy Bytenwalda based Game Of Thrones mod.

There are static wars so Essos is peaceful but full of very active bandits and priates that make being a merchant much cooler, with business AND you can buy acres, take out loans ect.

If you are up for that, I recommend going to saltpans, lots of salt to get you started if you take out a loan. Furs are cheaper in the northern villages from what I've seen.

Then again I've barely ever gone beyond that wall, I am a wildling, with little money, near starvation.

Sounds cool, I will try it out some time
But before I get into mods, I usualy like to play the vanila, since I have not played vanila, I think I will have a lot of fun with it as well.

[Lord Admiral Daniel Phillips]

Originally posted by Nuts:

Originally posted by Hairboy523:

Maybe you've just gotten better. 3 blows with a sword kill most people if they are well placed. I'd recommend trying the other Game Of Thrones mod. A Song Of Ice And Fire. Which has a Bytenwalda base.

Or Bytenwalda repolished if you want a real challeging mod. Succeeding in a game thats so much harder than native grants much more glory.
Also you can be a merchant in the griddy Bytenwalda based Game Of Thrones mod.

There are static wars so Essos is peaceful but full of very active bandits and priates that make being a merchant much cooler, with business AND you can buy acres, take out loans ect.

If you are up for that, I recommend going to saltpans, lots of salt to get you started if you take out a loan. Furs are cheaper in the northern villages from what I've seen.

Then again I've barely ever gone beyond that wall, I am a wildling, with little money, near starvation.

Sounds cool, I will try it out some time
But before I get into mods, I usualy like to play the vanila, since I have not played vanila, I think I will have a lot of fun with it as well.

Ah, someone forgot to make the "I recommend Prophecy of Pendor" post, and there it is, because I recommend Pendor, it's good.

[Hairboy523]

Mods are better than the regular game because thousands more items, features, bigger maps, better realism and of course settings. And some real quests.

The Native game just feels bland after you play mods and theres so many mods you wont get bored and Im sure you'll find one for your taste.

To download mods from ModsDB all you need is the program WinZip and then you simply drag them over to the Mount and Blade Warband, Module folder. Pretty easy.

To patch a game, you click into a game folder, and then copy the files over the orginals.

OR just download them directly through steam and it does it for you.

[Potato Man]

ok, you convinved me, Ill try A Song Of Ice And Fire

[Hairboy523]

Originally posted by Nuts:

ok, you convinved me, Ill try A Song Of Ice And Fire

You can also hunt animals for the furs. And make sure you download the patch which fixes most of the bugs.

And yes I literally butcher my prisoners for meat in the north and the Nights Watch are brutally tough. Every battle is bloodbath but it was a great trumph when a thousand wildlings I united on an open field, for the first time overcame a Nights Watch commander. I throughout it would beat my shield and scream profanities as I hacked down one after another. Hundreds of wildlings fell and piled but they we surrounded and until they were hacked apart from every angle with arrows, javalins and stone axes.

Afterwords I captured and then questioned him, when he called me a Cur and Brigand and many other insults, saying I should drop to my knees and beg for forgiveness. I choose to silt his throat, which caused a massive honor drop and many lords disliked me after that.

However, now I wear his black scaled armour, with a fur cloak I took from an animal I hunted and killed.

My one advise is to not enslave villages. It causes your relations with all villages to drop. Looting and burning just makes that one village hate you, and its lord, and that faction haha

[Potato Man]

Originally posted by Hairboy523:

Originally posted by Nuts:

ok, you convinved me, Ill try A Song Of Ice And Fire

You can also hunt animals for the furs. And make sure you download the patch which fixes most of the bugs.

And yes I literally butcher my prisoners for meat in the north and the Nights Watch are brutally tough. Every battle is bloodbath but it was a great trumph when a thousand wildlings I united on an open field, for the first time overcame a Nights Watch commander. I throughout it would beat my shield and scream profanities as I hacked down one after another. Hundreds of wildlings fell and piled but they we surrounded and until they were hacked apart from every angle with arrows, javalins and stone axes.

Afterwords I captured and then questioned him, when he called me a Cur and Brigand and many other insults, saying I should drop to my knees and beg for forgiveness. I choose to silt his throat, which caused a massive honor drop and many lords disliked me after that.

However, now I wear his black scaled armour, with a fur cloak I took from an animal I hunted and killed.

My one advise is to not enslave villages. It causes your relations with all villages to drop. Looting and burning just makes that one village hate you, and its lord, and that faction haha

i got the patch, got it first actualy, thought it was all of the mod.

[Hairboy523]

Yeah make sure you down loaded it correctly. You gotta have the game and you might want to redownload the patch for good measure.
Just make sure when you put the patch on that it asks you if you want to overide files and merge folders.

If it doesn't ask you that then you did it wrong.

[Potato Man]

nah, it is all good, it is working now, thanks bro

[Hairboy523]

Awesome if you need any advice I might be making a Poachers guild to the mod haha

[Potato Man]

ok, I usualy like to figure things out for my selff, but i will keep this in mind. also you can play as a bard!!! as a bard!