Is It worth playing now?

[N*rd]

I am part of this since EA (~2020?)
Last played at release 2023 and was disapointed.
Has it gotten any betteror is it still a bugsimulator?

greetings

[Ruffio]

Haven't had bugs or crashes in ages, but then again I don't stuff the game full of mods.

[Clovis Sangrail]

Originally posted by Ruffio:

Haven't had bugs or crashes in ages, but then again I don't stuff the game full of mods.

Same here, but that's not what you wanted to hear, was it?

[SpiffyGonzales]

Not worth buying if you already own warband.
its def better than warband, just not a good enough improvement to justify spending $ on it.
If you already own it, def worth coming back to

[Zorlond]

Originally posted by Ruffio:

Haven't had bugs or crashes in ages, but then again I don't stuff the game full of mods.

As one who Does 'stuff the game full of mods', I rarely if ever get even a single crash, and those I do I can fix in less than ten minutes by tweaking load order or ditching an out-of-date mod.

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by Zorlond:

Originally posted by Ruffio:

Haven't had bugs or crashes in ages, but then again I don't stuff the game full of mods.

As one who Does 'stuff the game full of mods', I rarely if ever get even a single crash, and those I do I can fix in less than ten minutes by tweaking load order or ditching an out-of-date mod.

Then kudos to you for know what you are doing -) To many just crap on the game when mod doesn't work out for them.

[N*rd]

alright thx folks - I think I will come back and try it out again

[Kameraden]

Honestly it hasn't really been worth playing since they updated the combat AI. To where soldiers spend 80-90% of their time just blocking. Combat isn't fun anymore as a result. It also sadly makes numbers, factor more than ever because the only time AI doesn't block is when they're not being targeted it seems. So If you're outnumbered your troops perform even worse than ever before. Because they do nothing but block meaning they don't kill enough enemies to even out a fight fast enough.

Also seen AI do some jedi reflex stuff with blocking as a result as well. Like doing a 180 and blocking with an anime DBZ style teleport sound effect in your head when they do it.

Honestly, makes me want to downgrade the game. xD

[EfBee]

Originally posted by N*rd:

I am part of this since EA (~2020?)
Last played at release 2023 and was disapointed.
Has it gotten any betteror is it still a bugsimulator?

greetings

Depends on what you want.
If you want a dumb battle sim then it's worth it.

[MrMinMax]

I stuff the game full of mods because they make game better. I tried some of total conversions working with 1.2.9 and so far BannerKings is the best.

RoT and Old Realms are good but not even close to BK in terms of expanding on vanilla in complexity of existing systems. They bring new things, a lot of them, but if you want to play game which is like vanilla, just immensely better, BK is the mod.

Like AI lords can hire wanderers and actually running parties with steward, scout, doctor and engineer if lord doesn't have the skillset.

You can develop villages, which can have militias and that stops never-ending village raids by those small pissant mercenary clans.

You have peerage system, better diplomacy and better war AI. You can knight your companions, marry them out and give them castles which creates clans. AI can marry their clan members to wanderers.

Castles have economy and production, militias are expanded, so to take something AI needs to organize a proper army and it does.

Negative. BK has a dependency on Realistic Battle Mod, but RBM can be disabled. Also have a dependency on a nuked mod, but that can be pulled from archive or disabled in xml.

P.S. i like how RBM makes sense from physics point of view, and i starting to suspect that 90% of medieval war history as taught to us is BS, but I want to relive our "fantasy war fiction" history so I disable RBM.

[N*rd]

Originally posted by EfBee:

Originally posted by N*rd:

I am part of this since EA (~2020?)
Last played at release 2023 and was disapointed.
Has it gotten any better or is it still a bugsimulator?

greetings

Depends on what you want.
If you want a dumb battle sim then it's worth it.

Well, I tested it since the early access stages—and updated my review for every time I came back.
Last time (the release update), I was disappointed, since the game still had bugs that were known from the very early stages of the Early Access Phase.
If you're interested, you can read my thoughts on that in my review.

Originally posted by Kameraden:

Honestly it hasn't really been worth playing since they updated the combat AI. To where soldiers spend 80-90% of their time just blocking. Combat isn't fun anymore as a result. It also sadly makes numbers, factor more than ever because the only time AI doesn't block is when they're not being targeted it seems. So If you're outnumbered your troops perform even worse than ever before. Because they do nothing but block meaning they don't kill enough enemies to even out a fight fast enough.

Also seen AI do some jedi reflex stuff with blocking as a result as well. Like doing a 180 and blocking with an anime DBZ style teleport sound effect in your head when they do it.

Honestly, makes me want to downgrade the game. xD

Hmm, I mean, I didn't like the fact of previous battles where agents ran into each other without utilizing their skills and equipment.
So I think agents doing more blocking is a good thing—maybe the battles last now for longer than 5 minutes?
What's the real issue? The battle capability of agents in EA to release was horrible.

[Polarbark]

The game is basically the same as it was last year, and the year before, in terms of features and functionality of Singleplayer.

[Frosted Flakes Ph.D]

Originally posted by N*rd:

I am part of this since EA (~2020?)
Last played at release 2023 and was disapointed.
Has it gotten any betteror is it still a bugsimulator?

greetings

There's no bugs, but there's also no content. The biggest update this game has received in almost 2 years was a weather system. That's it. Warband is still so much better in almost every way

[bongfest]

Game is unfinished and the Devs took the money and ran away. They just pay for Ruffio to troll all threads for them to promote the game or ridicule anyone that speaks against the lazy Devs

[Lathanx]

Game is the exact same it was in 2020.

[Urmel]

Originally posted by Lathanx:

Game is the exact same it was in 2020.

then dont play a old early access game version ?!?

update NOW !