Viking Conquest in bannerlord

[Scannon]

Is there somebody who wants VC get transport to bannerlord?
I mean it's clearly still getting fixes in warband, so it probably still getting dev support. Why not transport it to bannerlord? I missed that mod so much.

[Philippe_at_bay]

It's been a while, but last time I heard anything the driving force behind Brytenwalda (the modding group ultimately responsible for Viking Conquest) didn't want to continue. So I'm assuming that anything that's been done to Viking Conquest recently is more along the lines of maintenance. Viking Conquest had a few holes in it that probably resulted from the team being contractually constrained with regards to time. My own small mod for Viking Conquest ('Dark Age Village Names') was an attempt to fill one of these gaps with something that had been in Brytenwalda (more or less) but never made it past the cutting room floor.

In theory Bannerlord would be a wonderful platform for a Viking Conquest remake. But not in practice for two reasons. The first I have already discussed, but the second is that the current state of Bannerlord will probably not allow most mods to survive more than six weeks without an overhaul, and Taleworlds won't want to compensate a team brought in from the outside for such a long haul. The base game is much prettier and potentially more interesting than Warband, but just isn't stable: there are far too many crashes happening to too many people, some of whom (like myself) have never used mods in Bannerlord. If Taleworlds ever gets their act together, come back in a year or so and with the right team and a well-defined project I might even be willing to come out of retirement.

[Ardariel]

no, not really.

[Scannon]

Originally posted by Philippe_at_bay:

Thanks for the heads up. The stability of bannerlord is definitely a huge issue when it comes to modding. I've been noticing various mods facing issues after TW update the game. I'd still want something new (or old depends on how you look at it) for the game tho, considering I'm a little bit tired of the plain vanilla experience.

[HercDaMerc]

Taleworlds is in managerial and organizational chaos, so don't expect much from them until (and even then, who knows) they sell to a big studio. It is very unlikely they will get there act together because members of management aren't speaking to each other and Erdogan (oops...I mean Armagan) isn't really speaking to anyone.