Bannerlord: How do you play?

For me, It's infantry only. I like having a lot of polearms up front and no ranged troops. It's fun to play formations only and see if you can survive strong cavalry. I like having a lot of Battanians and Sturgians. We are defending the native homelands from the invaders.

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How do you deal against lots of ranged units?

Infantry only is fucking horrible. You get raped by arrows if you hold your ground and raped even harder if you charge. Do yourself a favor and get some Sturgian archers.

coof on them

not that far into my playthrough yet, but I send a few disposable troops(usually former low-tier prisoners) ahead to keep the enemies aggrod for a small bit, and by the time they get killed my infantry is pretty close. for some reason all my battles start pretty close to the enemy, something I am not used to as a previous mount&blade player. maybe it's just an early game/low troops thing.

Also just me or is spears not as good anymore? I remember spears was actually pretty fucking GOAT in multiplayer for example because of the insane range, tried it in multiplayer and it seemed to do little to no damage
Haven't played that many big battles out in the open so I don't know. Mostly sieges. But my archers fucking rape anyone. Had like 12 archers and they had tons of melee but no ranged but they ran away so fast from all the arrows

I haven't touched multiplayer yet, but in campaign using spears with my playable character, the hitbox seems pretty bad compared to previous games, particularly not registering distance well, even worse on horseback.

>deal against lots of ranged units?
shields or a cav rush

someone give me a quick rundown of what this game is about. ive never played a mount and blade but im in the market for a new rpg. whats it similar to, hows it mainly played, anything you think would help to know.

>vertical lines tat
>on a man who isn't a maximum height bald muscleman called Lorgar with maxed out charisma
What the fuck are you doing you fucking niggerfaggot?

Basically knight simulator the game. Plus all the great mods that's gonna happen

>200 days in
>spent almost all my money on a brewery that gives me 20 denars
>0 influence from lawspeakers
>lords steal all my food when I'm in an army
>no fiefs

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I'm not making a gay stripper, he's a Celt, specifically a Pict.

How do you even get access to the production places?
Talking to the random mayors only gives me shitty missions.

aiming takes a lot of adjustment if you've played a ton of warband, spears on horseback you need to aim while chambered as you seem to lock into the animation when releasing, unlike warband where you could twist your torso around however you like while your arm stretched out in slo-mo

So he's an autistic savage?

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Think Total War or Age of Empires, but when a battle starts you actually go into it 1st/3rd person and control your character and troops real time. It's kind of a one-off game, or at least was when the series first started. It will be a good buy for you, especially if it's your first venture into the series, it's 10% off right now too, although has some bugs due to being new. There is A LOT or replay value in a game like this.

If you haven't played Warband before, DON'T get Bannerlord. It's pretty un-optimised with lots of bugs and memory leaks out the ass. I can say that it has a lot of potential, but it'll take some time to get there. Playing it now will just turn you off of it.

Or just pirate it and see if you like it

If you walk around town there were random shopworkers outside a brewery I talked to to blow my 13k denars.

walk around town and go to a smithy or a brewery or something and buy it
you can convert it to something else if you want

Medieval/Dark Ages not!Europe simulator. Basically you've got several historical meme factions existing together (you've got your stereotypical western feudal kingdom, stereotypical viking kingdom, etc.). In this case they took a bit of a step back, so now there's also a stereotypical roman empire and a stereotypical celtic people.

You make up a character, give him a background and go do whatever you feel like. You can be a mercenary fighting for whoever will pay you best. You can be a merchant driving caravans from town to town looking to make profit. You can be an adventurer recreating seven samurai in whatever small village you come across. You can ascend the social ranks in a faction, become a noble, gain the trust of your king. Or you can say "Fuck the king" and form your own kingdom. The game has no real resolution, so do whatever.

In battles, imagine a Total War game. If you don't know Total War, just imagine any strategy game with a bit of emphasis on realism. Only in this game you actually are there physically and have to fight too.

Then add a modding scene worthy of a Bethesda game.

Problem is, so far it seems there's very few innovations over Warband, the previous game. In fact, it seems barebones as fuck.

Are there any cheap crossbows? I've been visiting nearly every town and I can't find a tier 1/2 crossbow for the life of me, I can only find the expensive tier 6 ones that I can't even equip anyway.

>Workshops capped at 200 per day
Fuck

this game desperately needs mods

Is there any possibility the southern empire doesn't blob? Also how do I get enough influence to actually vote myself into a fief, plus how do I increase relations with lords?

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>tfw want to play bannerlord but no one in my family sharing has it.
feels bad. Is it good? Is it easier to get into than previous games?

thanks for the replys guys, i gotta keep my distance but i do appreciate it. it sounds really interesting, so im gonna keep an eye on this one for it to bake a little longer but do fucking whatever knight simulator + big battle simulator sounds awesome.

What is even the point anymore? I have infinite money from my merchant empire, all my companions have caravans and are producing hundreds of denars daily, my workshops give me steady streams of income and I'm officially a vassal of Battania, theres no way I can get some Battania culture villages because they're all owned and the game gives you fucking nothing unlike warband. I can only have slight possibilities of capturing Imperial villages or castles constantly being re captured or raided. Not even having the troops that I want.
Sure I can have kids but for what? There's no chance of me starting my own Kingdom since its not in the game yet and Battania is steam rolling anyway. There's literally no point in playing past gaining financial stability.

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Full Mongolian

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Can I manage castles without walking all the way to them?

Game isn't finished yet. They told us this. Exactly what features are in the game and stuff that's missing. Mods will fix everything else. Problem with Warband was always that the missing features couldn't be fixed. Bannerlord added those features like proper sieges etc

All empires disappeared in my last save.

just pirate it and buy the game when you can

How broken is the game?
I don't mind some jank since its fucking mount and blade but I've heard the game likes to corrupt your saves, stuck you on loading screens and basically kill your game whenever it feels like.

It's playable for me in terms of performance but the balance is kinda wonk, I've seen the kingdoms wipe out each other very quickly. There was some bugs that caused your game to CTD at launch if you took on some quests but that got fixed in a hotfix yesterday or something. So far no crashes or gamebreaking bugs in my experience.

It's playable in that all the units and stuff and there and I think the combat is great. If you're expecting a full fledged in-depth campaign, it's not up there yet. Additionally, since it's a EA, don't get attached to your campaign save since this shit tends to change a lot over time.

Give it a pirate, if you enjoy it enough, buy it if you want.

Can you not make your own unit formation? I want to keep non-combat stat companions away from battle and I used to do that by assigning non-combat nerds at the way in the backline so they don't get fucked.

Is that really the only option?

How's the performance on this game? My laptopcould run Warband decently, on low settings.

Don't even dream about it.

>laptop

You ain't running it chief, even if the game gets optimized (which will happen probably towards the end of EA cycle)

There will be a lot of stuttering if your memory or processor isn't up to snuff, if you had trouble on warband you're definitely going to have trouble with this, especially while they iron out the kinks in early access

LET ME THE FUCK OFF OF THIS ISLAND ALREADY

seems so considering no one is family sharing it and, i assume, you can't comfortably buy it yourself.

>If you're expecting a full fledged in-depth campaign, it's not up there yet. Additionally, since it's a EA, don't get attached to your campaign save since this shit tends to change a lot over time.
I'll give it a few months then, thanks kind user

I really can't. Ah well, I hate pirating early access games because of how frequently they tend to be updated. Maybe I'll wait a bit, maybe it'll be in a sale or something or one of my friends gets it.

>My laptop could run Warband decently, on low settings.
>on low settings
Buy a computer at least ten years newer than whatever piece of shit you're using and you'll be fine.

Sell the brewery. Or change its production. Or buy another shop in a prosperous city, making the shop's production correlate with the main export of nearby villages. For example, setting up a woodwork shop near a supply of hardwood is a safe bet. I lost money for a while, but it eventually built up to the max daily.

>barebones as fuck
To be fair, it IS in early access

I had the same problem. I dont understand why they wouldnt include something thats so essential to the late game.

I could have sworn I saw it somewhere.

just limit the framerate lower and corpse limit.

>also, your profits are marked

WHERE

How the fuck do you level up leadership? I can't for the life of me level it yet stewardship and tactics levels fine.

I haven't gotten that far since the poacher quest fucked me pretty good, but I think it's on the Clan page.

>501644517 (can't risk the virus)
Bummer, well thanks anyway. Maybe once it's finished there will be performance mods like for Warband and many other games that drop the settings far below the options available in settings.

skidrow already has an update up for the game. for right now, at least, you can play that to get a feel for the game so you can decide later on whether or not it's something you would even want to buy.

I'd say the real problem is that it's in this state after such a fucking long ass time in development.

Walk around with an army, it eats through food though

Someone give me a quick rundown on the factions. Should I join Aserai, Sturgeons, Vlandians, Battanians, or one of the Empires?

>cant risk the virus
oh no no, bro do you not know? theres an asymptomatic phase. even if they dont look like a coofer your at risk replying. rip my dude.

>random loading screen
>game crashes
t-thanks

I throw money at the leader and I end up getting all the fiefs.

I haven't been able to get sturgia to work well for me, but the AI seems like gods with sturgia in autoresolve.

Anybody else having this issue? I'm trying to negotiate to marry the Empress daughter, but the stupid brother you get shows up on the barter screen and doesn't let me do anything. I pirated the game so I don't have any of the patches.

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Will see.
The one thing that annoyed me about the previous game was trying to finish a quest:
>Go to castle
>Is lord Faggot there?
>No he's visiting Lord Gay
>go to gaylord
>is lord faggot here?
>No he's home at castle Faggot
>go to castle faggot
>is lord faggot here?
>No he's visiting lord Queer
>go to lord queer
>is lord faggot here?
>no he's at lord gay
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

ditch the memeflag, then we can talk

it took forever to figure out how it works for this one though

The banners are all shit, so I chose something relatively inoffensive. Idk why they thought one solid color of 6 fucking choices + 1 solid color emblem would make for good looking banners.

oh fuck don't respond to me, I'm already dead

I hope someone makes a Hyborian Age mod for Bannerlord, somehow with the musics and the visuals it really strikes me as fitting like Warband never did

ride around enemies and shoot arrows until they ded

It's because the setting has gone back several centuries so it fits better the ancient aesthetic of Hyboria, and you also have a stand in for both Cimmeria in the battanians and for Aquilonia in the Calradian Empire.
And the music seems more fitting for Conan, yeah.

The creepy looking bear with the bandage is goat though