state of the game in 2025

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[Lord Sankari]

I see that nobody here has ever played the very first mount and blade.

Only the true people remember the demo version where you had a lvl 7 limit before you had to purchase the game (and we couldn't because we were kids back then). Even back then we were having a blast playing the game.

Only true people remember those hours we used to play on that LOTR mod in M&B 1. Nobody would complain back then, everyone was happy of what the game had to offer, and oh boy the game was really something.

Mount and Blade is game nobody knew they needed. It has everything someone wants from this genre. Show one single game that does what M&B is doing. None.

People who now complain are just whiners who think they can get what they dream of during the night and make them wet, expecting always more and more. I can hear if you say M&B 2 is a "revamp" of M&B 1 and that you're disappointed.

But saying it's a bad game or that it has been abandonned.... Abandonned of what exactly, it is complete at its current state. You can pretty much do whatever you want.

It is far from perfect, but you still can enjoy the game now. Stop complaining you disgusting forever unsatisfied inbreds. A game can't mimic everything you expect from reality. In the end, it's just algorithms you're playing with. Your archer behaving like a dumb*ss is just an algorithm, not your IRL neighbor.

[carlos_estole]

1000hs here, anything that comes next is a gift, this game is awesome, just wait for mods

[MagicManSlim]

Teralitha a écrit :

But you are correct, there is zero reason to continue supporting multiplayer. Complete waste of their time to have even made MP.

This is harsh, but I agree. I just don't think this game meshes well with people who want to play multiplayer, nor is the game style very conducive to multiplayer.

Multiplayer is good for games where it's okay to be herding cats. Try to coordinate 30 cats into a solid shieldwall and I just don't imagine it going well.

But I have literally never even looked at multiplayer, so maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it was a resounding success.

[Ruffio]

MagicManSlim a écrit :

Teralitha a écrit :

But you are correct, there is zero reason to continue supporting multiplayer. Complete waste of their time to have even made MP.

This is harsh, but I agree. I just don't think this game meshes well with people who want to play multiplayer, nor is the game style very conducive to multiplayer.

Multiplayer is good for games where it's okay to be herding cats. Try to coordinate 30 cats into a solid shieldwall and I just don't imagine it going well.

But I have literally never even looked at multiplayer, so maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it was a resounding success.

Actually, good team work beat random teams of skilled player with no team work just about any day of the week. You have clans playing Bannelord that does drills on team work to get just such shield walls -)

[Aya]

MagicManSlim a écrit :

Teralitha a écrit :

But you are correct, there is zero reason to continue supporting multiplayer. Complete waste of their time to have even made MP.

This is harsh, but I agree. I just don't think this game meshes well with people who want to play multiplayer, nor is the game style very conducive to multiplayer.

Multiplayer is good for games where it's okay to be herding cats. Try to coordinate 30 cats into a solid shieldwall and I just don't imagine it going well.

But I have literally never even looked at multiplayer, so maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it was a resounding success.

Time for me to quote myself

Aya a écrit :

I don't think 12-16 people hopping on just to flex how loyal they are to Steam isn't enough of a playerbase to justify keeping the servers up.

The few people left playing Bannerlord's multiplayer mode don't actually care about Mount&Blade's PVP offerings. Everyone who did had already jumped ship, and the only people left playing it only do so to voice their refusal to use the Epic Games Launcher.

[Ruffio]

Aya's rhetoric about the EGS is weird say the least. I know a lot of people that got EGS just for the freebies they given out over the years. The argument people refuse to use EGS so they still play Bannerlord MP is baffeling,

[Drunio]

Still missing the claimants system.

They communication skills improved a little - after the disaster of adding Bannerlord to steam YEARS before it hit early access with that information never being provided - but those skills (as limited as they were) appear to have been lost.

I think claimants are still supposed to be added, but I'm not expecting much at this point. Enjoy the game as is with mods.

[Aya]

Ruffio a écrit :

Aya's rhetoric about the EGS is weird say the least. I know a lot of people that got EGS just for the freebies they given out over the years. The argument people refuse to use EGS so they still play Bannerlord MP is baffeling,

The leading medieval game was an Epic Games freebie back in June 2024. Players who cared about Mount&Blade's PVP offerings have already redeemed it, and the players that were left behind to play Bannerlord's multiplayer are really just the people who refuse to touch the Epic Games Launcher.

Unless we get a massive balance overhaul that somehow manages to win back lost players, Bannerlord's multiplayer has effectively been replaced for most people

[Clovis Sangrail]

Lord Sankari a écrit :

Stop complaining you disgusting forever unsatisfied inbreds.

Award given solely on the basis of this one sentence.

[Ruffio]

Aya a écrit :

Ruffio a écrit :

Aya's rhetoric about the EGS is weird say the least. I know a lot of people that got EGS just for the freebies they given out over the years. The argument people refuse to use EGS so they still play Bannerlord MP is baffeling,

The leading medieval game was an Epic Games freebie back in June 2024. Players who cared about Mount&Blade's PVP offerings have already redeemed it, and the players that were left behind to play Bannerlord's multiplayer are really just the people who refuse to touch the Epic Games Launcher.

Unless we get a massive balance overhaul that somehow manages to win back lost players, Bannerlord's multiplayer has effectively been replaced for most people

Just because you like one type of multiplayer game doesn't mean you like another. That's like say if I liked Battlefield, then I HAD to like Call of Duty as well. People play the games they do regardless of what platform they on, as long as they like the games.

People doesn't necessary like EA's Origin, or the Ubisoft launcher, or whatever else launchers out there, but that doesn't keep them from play games that use them regardless.
Your obsession about EGS is just.... that...

[hottnova75]

This is one of the best medieval battle games ever made. I blame most video game forum complaining on the quality of humans being produced in the last few generations. I remember life before video games , and can honestly say people are spoiled. I remember when people were excited to play new games when they were dots and stick figures on the screen. Now , its impossible to please the people who insist on not being pleased.

Bannerlord is a nice loop I like repeating with different outcomes over the years. Always ends up with the map being my colors though. I played the earlier versions, and this one is the best. To me the battles seem like your watching a movie, but your in control until you get knocked out of your saddle.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Drunio a écrit :

Still missing the claimants system.

They communication skills improved a little - after the disaster of adding Bannerlord to steam YEARS before it hit early access with that information never being provided - but those skills (as limited as they were) appear to have been lost.

I think claimants are still supposed to be added, but I'm not expecting much at this point. Enjoy the game as is with mods.

Not relevant in a context that includes aging, death, and succession. Every noble thinks their kingdom's throne would look better with them on it, if only they could gather enough support. Then you have the imperial throne, for which three successor factions now vie. You never know when someone's bad luck on the battlefield might create room at the top.

[Benchwarmer]

I’m still waiting the update where I can give a coin to a beggar.

[stmpunk]

Teralitha a écrit :

Garrett a écrit :

Taleworlds have shown themselves to a terrible company who have totally taken advantage of the mount and blade community. They should hang their incompetent and money grabbing heads in shame.

TaleWorlds have shown themselves to be a good company who have produced amazing single player video games that everyone loves and cherish.

But you are correct, there is zero reason to continue supporting multiplayer. Complete waste of their time to have even made MP.

"who have produced amazing single player video games"

They have exactly one game before Bannerlord, which's Mount & Blade. M&B:Warband is simply "extras" & multiplayer update for M&B sold separately... They have made precisely 1 single game ever than used it's success to milk cash with BL without ever finishing it, oh, and it's "initial development" took nothing more than 1 decade to be released unfinished... But they built some fancy-arse noice big headquarters in Turkey

[Action Man]

A 'new announcement' is coming Thursday, 3/20/25, so I guess we can get ready for TW to abandon the game all over again.

Can't wait for the forum topics.