How is gameplay / content compared to battle brothers currently?

[Tibbers]

I know battle brothers has been out a long time with DLC so they have more content but I am wondering how much content does Wartales have currently vs base game of battle brothers?

Is there a lot of repetition in the quests, enemies, items, character skills, etc?

[mortelmans_tom]

I only have 42 hours in so perhaps not the best source of info but no I don't feel there is 2 much repetition. Obv some builds will be better then others but that is the same in every game.

[Macavity]

Combat: slightly weaker then battle brothers
Gameplay outside combat (camping, exploring etc): Way way better then battle brothers

[Tibbers]

引用自 xi the pooh：

Combat: slightly weaker then battle brothers
Gameplay outside combat (camping, exploring etc): Way way better then battle brothers

dang that's conflicting, combat is the meat of the game but the outside combat events are what make the world feel alive and active.

Just more events outside of combat or are there more types of things to do?

[Reddz]

Watching videos will answer your questions much better than any comments could.
But I'll leave one anyway :)

I loved Battle Brothers for years but to me this game renders it completely obsolete. I'll never go back to watching armies of bobbleheads miss 80% of their attacks ever again. Wartales scratches the exact same itch, but does a better job of it.

And Battle Brothers without DLC? Eww. This already has more content than the base game. Even with the DLC I find Battle Brothers very lacking without the added complexity and variety of the legends mod. I don't find Wartales lacking... yet. They keep adding large new regions, more quests, more skills, more gear.

[Flavalicious]

I'd agree with combat being overall weaker then Battle Brothers but also less RNG driven as well. We all know that disgusting moment when your best toon in BB gets head swiped from the luckiest crit of all time and his head goes flying into the sky. lol

War Tales has a different sort of rhythm to it that will pull you out of your comfort zone at times if your used to holding position in BB and forcing them to attack you. The combat tends to be less chaotic and more controlled and mastery comes down to group configuration and understanding skill synergies.

As stated above the overworld stuff is far more fleshed out in War Tales and you'll have a fun little sense of adventure as you map it out for the first time. Lots of neat little suprises and reveals as well, its a more grounded "medieval bands" game then BB's mixed fantasy elements, but theres still a few "unnatural" surprises in War Tales.

In the end, after doing a permadeath BB campaign and clearing it, I have no feelings to return to it, however I am tempted to return to this game for the 3rd time since it launched in EA.

[lotsoffire]

Battle Brothers is significantly more grim and brutal than Wartales. Wartales feels more like an adventure.
But really it's probably best not to compare the two. Their similarity ends at being a band of mercenaries. The more you compare them, the more you'll get disappointed when you feel like something is missing.

[Dan]

Wartales won't make you want to pull your hair out or rage quit because your archer with 95% hit chance missed 2 attacks in a row, which allowed the mob to finish off your front line dude you've had since day one. That and Wartales feels and plays in a world that is way more alive, allowing you to mine, fish, gather, run into or away from encounters, more story driven quest, and has crafting bits like cooking, blacksmithing, etc.

I did enjoy Battle Brothers, but Wartales even with it's flaws least won't make you want to punch the monitor.

[araxdebold]

Comparing apples and oranges, BB has no legs... WT has full bodied weapons swinging arrow shooting full on torso characters.. in Armor.... legs and arms move. But THERE ARE NO HELMETS YET... just getting it out there since no legs is OK in BB but no helmets in WT is a HUGE issue to BB players... BB has an immersive over world map where all players are on the map at once and run or walk with the players commands.... Map has with realistic trees that birds scatter from if someone is walking in them.. and you can see multiple wondering herds of wolves, pigs and Bandits.. Not one chess piece moving over world as in BB.. WT is evolving with Early access playing and seems to be getting better with each update. 1.0 will be the tell if this will be a great game or a good game. have to wait and see..

[ChrisG]

Not a fair comparison tbh. BB has 5+ years of development and 3 expansions.

But if you look at the basics BB is a more open ended, free roam, choose your own adventure type of game with better combat.
Wartales i think, wants to be an rpg but choices don't really matter and the world never changes. Although combat, merc management and exploration is fun . You can get many hours of enjoyment.

[Nasarog]

BB combat is more refined, as is the AI. Wartales has a lot of poetntial..

Also, everyone has legs and there are kill-sync animations... Oh yea, you can save bears from jail and they have some really funny traits. I hope that helped.

[Dumeka]

引用自 ChrisG：

Not a fair comparison tbh. BB has 5+ years of development and 3 expansions.

But if you look at the basics BB is a more open ended, free roam, choose your own adventure type of game with better combat.
Wartales i think, wants to be an rpg but choices don't really matter and the world never changes. Although combat, merc management and exploration is fun . You can get many hours of enjoyment.

I must dissagree on one point: choices in Wartales DO matter in most cases.
There are several quests and things where your decision can change the outcome of a area or even affect two different areas and later quests if the persons are alive to appear there as example, you will meet them again, if you decided to kill them then they wont be there and the quest will change for you as also the way certain parts of a region work.
Same thing with people you can either recruit, execute or leave them find their demise by others.

[Jack Greedy]

I just bought the game, i have Battle Brothers too with all dlc but i feel that world in Wartales is way more alive than in BB.

[gunser]

I would also like to know this, thanks everyone for the replies.

[Nasarog]

引用自 Dumeka：

引用自 ChrisG：

Not a fair comparison tbh. BB has 5+ years of development and 3 expansions.

But if you look at the basics BB is a more open ended, free roam, choose your own adventure type of game with better combat.
Wartales i think, wants to be an rpg but choices don't really matter and the world never changes. Although combat, merc management and exploration is fun . You can get many hours of enjoyment.

I must dissagree on one point: choices in Wartales DO matter in most cases.
There are several quests and things where your decision can change the outcome of a area or even affect two different areas and later quests if the persons are alive to appear there as example, you will meet them again, if you decided to kill them then they wont be there and the quest will change for you as also the way certain parts of a region work.
Same thing with people you can either recruit, execute or leave them find their demise by others.

Yea, I want more of that actually.

[Flavalicious]

I can't imagine a world where someone loves BB but hates War Tales. lol. I got war tales in EARLY development access when it first hit Steam and i was coming right off a BB binge and i still found my moneys worth. Ironically I just replayed WT like 2 months ago and finished a 60 something hour campaign only to find out 1.0 was dropping this month. LOL.

Definitely will revisit later down the road again, making 3 full runs of this game. Just buy it, really cant go wrong. lol