Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas, boys and girls! The elves have been hard at work to deliver you this gift on time, but unfortunately, they are demanding I pay them 10000 likes. I don't believe they deserve that many, but what do you think? Shall we give the elves what they want?
This has been in my recommended for the last week and I’m glad I was finally able to watch it! This is so incredibly in depth and after my own 160 hours of gameplay everything you say and the criticisms are extremely valid. You’re stronger than me not using mods to fix the late game lmao. Thanks for the content!
I'm a simple man, I see LEVEL magazine mentioned, I thumb up and subscribe. Some of the best reviewers out there, and really funny guys, they were also doing screenshot memes before they were cool haha. Back to watching the video. Bafta, fratioare.
Not sure why you keep referring to the starter player as "peasant". You can start as the son of a noble knight and therefore you're a noble entitled to your family coat of arms (which you create)
The amount of work that went into this video stressed me out lol amazing work! I bet if you did a video like this, but for CoD or Minecraft, you would be at 1M subs in a few months. Keep up the great work and thanks for the shout-out!
CoD and Minecraft are oversaturated markets anyway, I doubt any amount of effort is enough to get you noticed. Besides, I've no passion for any of those games, and that would be reflected in whatever videos I'd put together. Anyway, happy new year and good luck with your video for the X series!
M&B scratches an itch that no other game can. When I first played the original back in 09, it was such a visceral thrill to spear people on horseback. Now, in 2022, it's such a visceral thrill to spear people on horseback in a higher resolution! M&B and Kenshi are the two games that keep calling me back for hundreds of hours at a time Love the review Hal!
I'm really bad at spearing people from horseback in Warband and previous M&Bs, but I'm a natural at it in Bannerlord. IMO, I think combat overall is leagues better in BL than WB, as well as sieges, armies, and well... everything related to battles.
M&B and Kenshi would be my stranded on a desert island games. Those two games have been the most influential games in my dev career! M&B introduced me to sandbox games way back in alpha and that love has yet to dim.
@@Halcylion Alas, Bannerlord's combat is better only superficially. It undoubtedly looks a lot better than Warband's, but it doesn't play nearly as well when coming up against competent opposition (which, regrettably, bots are not) for a number of factors, such as the stance system, which adds a lot of inconsitency to the game, or putting crush through on weapons other than 2h mallets. I understand that most sp players will disagree, but I still wanted to provide a perspective shared by most of the old warband mp players.
Man! I played The OG Mount and Blade as well back when there were only I think like 2 cities and 2 factions! Loved it! By the way, Ive always found Kenshi interesting..whats it like? I probably need to watch a review or something
Yes, the amount of ideas you can come up in this game is fantastic. One year I created a Christmas character by the name of Kristof Kringle, the renowned nord of north that would assist starving villages by gifting them needed grain or supplies and killing bands of looters with his patented "One horse open slay" maneuver (aka, lancing them from horseback) As always, enjoyed your video. May my gift-wrapped thumb bring you the joy you deserve this holiday season
My first 3 hours of the game for me consisted of me being a bandit prisoner and starving off and on and it was still a lot of fun. Unintentionally learned a great way to level combat skills and medicine 😂 just get your ass beat alot
Don't know why I actually watched a review for this game after playing it for hundreds of hours and watching it on UA-cam for even longer but I agree with almost every point you made. And this video was edited fantastically, with nice bits sprinkled in to keep the energy high. This game frustrates me a lot because it's a jack of all trades but master of none. Except maybe the combat, they absolutely nailed that part. But at the end of the day, there is literally no other game like it. So I love it for the unique experience it provides, even if a lot of its features are under baked. And the modding community should keep it fresh for years to come...
I don't think it nails combat. Has the ideas, but I still don't like having to look to the left or walking to the left to attack from the left. Plus, stabs suck at close quarters, which is ironic. Spears being deflected by skin is not quite adequate. I miss being able to have fast bursts of movement to dodge or hit harder too. I believe you get the idea. Still like the game a lot, though.
The modding community really does make this game what it should be, and it's a real shame that Taleworlds still hasn't picked up on some the better mods and made their features baseline.
To review the game without mods then casually mention at the end that you can fix half the (mechanical) negatives by subbing to the appropriate mod seemed kinda odd. I know that in a conventional reviewing sense you wouldn't include mods but this is M&B we're talking about. I sincerely hope that anyone who played pimped-out Warband doesn't actually intend to play a modless vanilla Bannerlord campaign... Steam Workshop support dropping ONE MONTH before the game's 1.0 release says it all. Even TW don't expect you to play this game without mods, and they fully intend on letting "the community" (dev code for unpaid labour) finish the game for them. Honestly the 1.0 release was pretty meaningless in terms of actual development, and Bannerlord is still *at least* a year away from being in a state where we can unequivocally call it superior to Warband (thanks to mods, obviously). For now, it is definitely not a stretch to call something like "Prophecy of Pendor" a considerably more in-depth and feature-complete experience than Bannerlord. Hell, even vanilla Viking Conquest with just the Warband Diplomacy mod is miles ahead in some aspects. While I understand your editorial decision, I don't think it quite makes sense here - reviewing Bannerlord means reviewing Bannerlord _with mods_ and you probably could have waited a while longer before doing that. Perhaps in 2023 you can do an "update" review that includes all the "conventionally accepted" game-improvement mods that will be stable by that time. Look at Warband - even if you wanted the most authentic Calradic experience possible, with 99% real butter, there's still a half-dozen mods or-so that you just _wouldn't play the game without_ and you probably wouldn't even view the game in any way that excluded those mods. Just sayin'. Still a great video when taken as a piece of entertainment aimed at someone who already owns (and has played a few hundred hours of) Bannerlord. Thanks for the chuckles
This is why I haven't made a review of it. Pretty much spot on. I covered only the beta branch and no mods for 18 months and I have to agree with most of what you said. So if someone asked my opinion I'll just send them to the Lion 🦁 Good job my friend
There were some things I wanted to modify in this video, but time constraints made that difficult, so I'll have to release an "update" to this video to revise some of the points I've made here. Once that "update" comes, I believe you'll agree with all I've said. :)
I'd give this game 5/10 maybe 6/10. I've encountered so many bugs that I bought 2 cans of raid spray & the influence system, declaring war and making peace & defending a huge map against pretty much the entire country is outright laughable. Warband beats this game on a couple fronts. I wish I could get a full refund.
You can express your thoughts so clearly. I'm impressed! Your vocabulary is very rich. And your editing skills are also admirable. Real high quality here! 😄
To claim that Bannerlord is "modder friendly" is a slap in the face to the modding community. There has been almost NO support for modding from the devs and EVERY patch they do (and they patch A LOT) destroys 80% of all mods. so MANY mods are dead because the modders could not update them every 2 weeks because another stupid update dropped. So many modders left for that exact reason, their entire work being destroyed by another pointless update that adds almost nothing. The only reason the game still has mods is because the vanilla is bad and boring and because some modders are just stubborn or have developed superior tools to what the devs have. Its mainly people from mount and blade 1 who just are used to modding and love the genre. If bannerlord was their first game, no one would mod it, because of have f**** up it is to do so. The community has to create EVERYTHING themselves, the modding tools, the unpackers, the mod managers, the mods, there is ZERO support from the devs, there isnt even a modding menu in the freaking game, so wtf are you talking about being modding friendly??? Bannerlord is one the most toxic games when it comes to modding, the devs hate modders.
Bannerlord suffers from "Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle". There are a lot of systems in place, however, most of them are either very shallow, very basic, unfinished, unbalanced, repetetive/boring or all of the above. Not pretending warband didnt have this issue too, but warband was in 2010. We obviously expected more depth and complexeity.
Exactly, and what's crazy to me is they already had great features from Viking Conquest which they chose to go backwards on with Bannerlord. The naval battles, raiding and outposts mainly. Also Warband despite being shallow, posed a greater challenge of you chose to be lowborn or female, or a bigger challenge if you chose both. The challenge with Bannerlord is mainly overcoming its lack of balance in areas such as executing enemy lords.
Thanks, but I realize I did not properly represent this game with 100% accuracy. I wanted to modify some things and add some others, but as you've heard at the end, my voice changed a bit in-between recording sessions, and I thought the video would just sound weird if my voice changes every 5 minutes. I did what I could with on-screen text overlays. :)
this whole "the choice is up to you" thing is a fallacy, in the end its a battle simulator and you will be doing battles, there is no other choice, all the rest is just a filler and not real content
It's going to be easy to make. For this video, I spared no expense, but for BB episodes, I will start budgeting my time. 1 day to write, 1 to record and edit the audio, 2-3 to edit the video itself. I need to increase the frequency of those uploads and clear my schedule for upcoming games.
this game has fewer options than warband vanilla, so i really dont understand why its so basic, its more like a modding platform than a proper game, at least i expected more after playing better warband mods than bannerlord, honestly, its 6-7/10 max for the lack of viable gameplay options other than battles, all the quests are just repeatable clones, its really pretty sterile world, painful lack of roleplay options, not even enough things to buy when you are in mid game and basicly already have everything, devs should be ashamed that modders make better games basicly
There is one question I wanted ask you for a long time. Your English is great, accent on point, vocabulary is rich. I checked your ''about'' section and found out that you are from Romania. Assuming you are Romanian, how do you manage to speak like a native English speaker? What can you recommend to improve it and make it like yours? Thank you in advance, big fan of yours
90% of the stuff I'm doing is in English... games, music, movies, books, even my "job". It's inevitable that my English speaking skills are going to be above average.
With the advancements in AI over the last 5 years, I am really excited for Mount and Blade 3. Bannerlord was originally advertised as a deep simulation of lords all with their own motives vying for power that would react to each other and the player's actions in varying ways depending on their personality. In reality, every single lord may as well be the same, they barely even react to anything, obviously this is excusable since the technology just wasn't there, but they really shouldn't have overpromised. But Mount and Blade 3 will have access to all the latest advancements in technology, everything from AI generated dialogue based on the context of your game and your actions, to novel strategies depending on all the variables of each battle, and AI that can actually participate in diplomacy making strategic marriages and making political decisions to gain more influence by setting themselves goals to get certain titles, fiefs or friendships. The only thing that breaks my heart is the fact I'm not healthy enough to see the 2030s, maybe I'll leave £300 to my nephew with explicit instructions to buy Mount and Blade 3 when it releases, he's only just started school, so he should have graduated from university by the time it releases in early access, which will put him right around retirement age by the time it launches out of early access.
Overall I'm just disappointed with how shallow the game is. There isn't really anything here that a team of dedicated Warband modders couldn't achieve. I at the very least expected features from Viking Conquest to be in this game such as naval batals, raiding and building outposts, which modders even managed to add to Warband. Even the immersion of the world feels less fleshed out than its predecessors, in Warband a great challenge was to be a lowborn female and overcome the prejudice that comes with that. As a modding platform its great but unfortunately for the mods every single minor update just breaks their hard work for a while. I'm not buying the rest of the game on DLC packs when even the basegame is so shallow. When the game was announced years ago they promised features around raising a family, running a house that made us think it could rival Crusader Kings. They made the sieges look way better than they have turned out to be. Turns out the sieges are only a minor improvement to Warband. There are positives but the shortcomings are too many.
16:50 damn this game is stupid i need a max level perk in order to trade fiefs? How about hello other party would you be interested in trading fiefs? basic talking and negotiation shouldn't be locked behind a trait or a skill.
This is NOT a sandbox game. You can not create, alter or destroy elements of the game (aside from lives and factions), or creatively manipulate other than the specific way it was meant to be played.
Truth to be told, game is not good. Medicore at best. This is coming from dude who bought it moment it released in early access, who owns previous games, who is Turkish (like talesworld) So many thing that previous incarnations did better than bannerlord, hell even to last patch we didn't have BANNERS in game. Companion system sucks, they are not memorable, use them trash them. Buy and release them to get rid of them from selection pool. Marriage is joke. Progression too fast and quick. Kill couple of parties of bandit now you can marry King's daughter have own castle or town gifted by next conquest. I miss the time when we start as nothing to basic manhunter to village leader to be lord. Game is easy, to counter that AI cheats a lot. Mods keeping me play this game. But I would like Rimworld size mod support from devs.
While I agree with your points, here's the thing: Warband did have all that stuff, but is unfortunately limited by the game engine. Bannerlord doesn't have all that stuff YET, but the foundation the game is built on can definitely support such systems being added to the game in the future. If the devs go in the same direction as Rimworld or X4, they could work on various meaty DLCs that they could sell to greatly expand the game... AND release a free update for each DLC they introduce.
I played the original Mount & blade, if memory serves, before Steam. It was glorious. Played it on and off for many years, modded it to hell and back. Brytenwalda was my favorite. But I've been holding off on buying this new thing . . . there have been quite a few "new things" in the interim if I'm not mistaken, and some of them didn't sound so good. But this review tells me what I need to know: this is, if not a Taleworld's Magnum Opus, at least a Penultimus Opus . . . or some such . . . Thanks! You should check out Terra Invicta bro! It might not be to your liking, but a few videos should clue you in.
All in all. It's a half baked dissapointment. And that's just the truth. Play molded warband instead. This game has nothing to offer but better graphics.
Combat is improved, Battles are greatly improved, and Sieges don't result in losing 90% of your attacking force to night-time raids, cholera and frostbite before the assault even begins. Those 3 things make this game a much more enjoyable experience to me than Warband, but I agree... many little features that bring life to warband are sadly missing from Bannerlord. Here's the thing, though: with enough time and dedication from the devs, BL has the potential to surpass WB in every possible regard, because of its rock solid foundation. Will Taleworlds eventually make this happen? That's up to them.
2:37 Well said and merry Christmas and wish you the very best in the new year. You may or may not be 'the best' Bannerlord youtuber, but you most certainly have the best style of them all imo.
i hate the attribute system so much, they literally just act as 3 extra focus points. they should either get rid of them or remove perks from skills and tie them to attributes
I don't mind the presence of Attributes, as they make it impossible for a character to be maxed out in every regard, but I wish they had more of an impact. I'd personally add some special abilities that activate when an attribute reaches 10. To give just one example, when you max out vigor, you could gain the Berserk ability, which would increase the melee damage you deal by 50% and lower the damage you take by 50% for 2 minutes. Can only use it once per day. This cooldown would be managed by the addition of a new resource like the "Winds of Magic" in The Old Realms mod...
I've been playing Bannerlord since it was available on steam, one of the greatest games i've ever played. Anyhow, what i wanted to comment was that i completely mirror your view on mods towards this game. I've put thousands and thousands of hours into this game, never installed a single mod. STILL! One of the greatest games ever made. Also, you're definitely up there when it comes to Bannerlord youtubers, but you are all so great, i cant choose favourites :(
The game automatically groups troops into archery, infantry, cavalry etc. I don't see why they can't have troop orders to target a specific group first if possible.
considering the easiest achievement has been obtained by a mere 15% of players, I'd say they're not a good indicator for anything. Besides, I had 1500 hours in the game before achievements were added. :)
first of all, I'm a huge fan of M&B series. I'm forced to play Bannerlord on PS4 so for now there's a lot of bugs and no mods I think. i even lost around 10h of gameplay due to the infamous sutosave bug. damn that hurt. since it's PS4 any kind of loading takes alooong time. in the same time the battle simulations seem much more fair/easier than in Warband. and because of that i rarely decide to paritcipate in combat at all. playing on a pad makes battles much harder and i'm not even talking about aiming (although you can kind'a auto aim, but it's no bueno) but about controlling the army and so on. so for me it's more of a strategy game now. i'm filthy rich and have a lot of towns. honestly i think the easiest way to get filth ritch is to agro one of the kingdoms, another kingdom should invite you to join them soon enough. the best source of income is not to waste time on caravans, quests or trading but focus cracking sculls. the game seems pretty easy for a person that played Warband many many times over the last ten years. i do enjoy it and i am rly happy that it finally came out. since i'm not a pc user it is kind'a sweet and sour experience to be honest :D thanks for the cool review. best of luck to you Ukzug
Yeah you should play PS5 if possible, I haven’t had a single bug or save corruption ever, I have 6000 days combined across 3 campaigns, I’ve only ever had like 3-4 crashes. I have no problem with hitting headshots with ranged or melee weapons. Issuing commands for formations is a piece of cake. It’s above average PC standards, unfortunately It’s a different game for last generation consoles and more worse then were.
It's great that you point out issues in game as well. From me - conquering town/castle should take much more time and be something big. You know, it's great to have a war but if every war makes you gain 2/3 cities and wars are constant it makes no sense at all. Some diplomatic actions (alliance, no-agression pacts, anything) would be great. Some war preparation as well. Many things could be changed
@@Centrioless building up armies, recruit clans, being able to fight 1 war at the time, making kids, bringing 200 more soldiers to garrison castle, holding some war council. That's only few of them. For example as empire I couldnt do WC because I was fighting every kingdom at the same time after conquering all empire cities. Fighting every one at once is broken.
@@nottodaymate6607 maybe i should reword it better. Whats the point of diplomacy if you're still just controling one unit? In order for diplomacy to work "properly", the game needs to be built up from the ground up. You will need to have a total control of your economy, your whole armies, etc. Not to mention, theres no end game goal beside map conquest. No economic goal (like x series for example), or building a wonder/science goal (like aoe or civilization). Even games like total war has very limited diplomacy options. It baffles me how ppl want crusader kings diplomacy in m&b. In ck, war (the actual content of m&b) is a highly undesirable outcome. Besides, most things that you mentioned can be alr done in the game. It feelssss like many of the complaints come from the end game scenario (the whole conspiracy thing), which i agree they need to work on that (altho trchnically its no different from end game scenario in other games).
Dude, I have almost 700 hours in the game and saw many vids but this is the first I see one of you and you're a chad. Sharing other channels to help new players into the bannerlord content. Wholesome
I already played it, traded organs and set up an AI powered corporate colony. Until the hegemony rolled in, and I had to bribe them... for a while. But once their bribe reached 1 million credits, I kinda went a little crazy and globally warmed ALL of their planets with orbital bombardments.
Freelancer mod is called "Serve as soldier" now and works with current version of the game. If it isn't in steam workshop you can search for it in nexus mods. Almost every thing you pointed out as flaws is corrected by mods, like diplomacy (allows to make alliances and non attack pacts among other features), improved garrisons, pacemaker (allow to make years and days longer or shorter), RBM (improves AI fighting, tournaments..) and many others including armoury and weaponry addition. It's a bit overwhelming but you can improve the game vastly. Cheers from a new subscriber!
My main gripe with the game is three-pronged; years are too short, leveling is still too slow in the higher levels, and aging should be thing you can toggle on/off. Playing the game feels like I'm on a timer to min-max everything out of my character. I could deal with the first two complaints if there was no timer. If aging is in the game, a year should definitely be 365 days, and you should get an Attribute point for every two or three levels you gain.
I personally don't mind the shorter years, because it allows your children to become useful adults faster, and I don't mind aging or dying as it makes the world more dynamic. However, skill development becomes extremely tedious towards the later levels, and you'll often find yourself actively grinding skillpoints instead of actually enjoying the game and gaining them normally. And that's AFTER the game improved it greatly. It was a lot worse in the Early Access builds. I'd personally add books like in Warband, and when you read a book for a skill, it acts as a sixth focus point, to push the learning limit of a skill even higher. Either that or add a ton of XP for that skill as you read the book.
@@ernestogastelum9123 was gonna say lol if I’m actually trying I can usually become a major vassal or the faction leader if I want with over a million gold and 10k influence within 2 years of the game starting and I think that should take at-least 5 or 8 years to accomplish
your videos are sublime, this was my first video watched from you and i went into your channel to watch a dozen more. absolute quality content my man i wish you the best :D
Ok quick story I was playing the first Mount and Blade WarBand. Its My first ever Playthrough , I had this engineer companion First guy I ever picked up . Had him till late game he was awesome helped me conquer the world with how fast we could build the siege weapons . After I became king I named him His own Noble and freed him from my party to pay him homage. HE THEN WENT ON TO LEAD A REBELLION AGAINST ME with all my Great houses. I lost the war and my capitol . maybe thats why I have trust issues
USE THE MOD SERVE AS A SOLDIER INSTEAD OF FREELANCER. The author of freelancer discontinued upkeep of the mod do to creative differences with the development team at taleworlds. I assume most everyone knows this, but halyclion doesn't see....b
You’re hilarious and a great writer. I just got the game and not only did this explain so many things, but your video was also entertaining on its own. Keep it up man
The combat is fun even though it's buggy and unrealistic but mid-end game it gets too competitive with constant battles. The game just doesn't make any sense, I don't know what the devs were thinking. 1. Diplomacy is so bad it's unbelievable. There is no point in marrying your daughter or sister off as there are no matrilineal marriages, they just leave your clan and you don't even get an alliance or a defensive pact out of it, not even a dowry actually most of the time YOU pay to marry your own daughter off to have her leave your clan. If you marry another King's daughter he will still keep declaring war on you it's ridiculous. You literally have to find a lord in person to do diplomacy with them and even then the only options you have is to recruit the clan or trade a few horses, incredibly limited diplomacy options. 2. You'd think a war would be over after you capture the enemy king and most of their lords but if you want to war to be over even in that situation you would have to pay reparations. 3. Every culture has the clan system, not just the Aserai, but every single one and even with one system it's not designed well. You have vassal clans constantly trying to declare war on other nations even when you already have 3-4 wars ongoing. If they want to constantly go to war they should not try to drag the whole kingdom into it, only their own clan and other clans they have alliance with influence with and it wouldn't even be that bad if the wars were not so long if you don't want to pay reparations. 4. The smithing system feels kind of like a mobile game with the energy system, seriously what were the devs thinking. 5. The skill tree is not designed well and many of the skills are still not working even years later. 6. The game does have a dynasty system which is fine but then the campaign almost forces you to do a world conquest within one lifetime with the conspiracy questline, the game pacing overall is just too long to really play out a dynasty.
I strongly agree with your assessment of diplomacy, especially in regards to truces and tribute. I've had campaigns ruined by every kingdom declaring war on me and demanding tribute, and even if I fight them to the point where I don't pay them anything they immediately redeclare war with their newly freed nobility and demand ridiculous level of tribute. It also wouldn't be so bad if the tribute only applied to the king, but it applies to my vassals as well, so the main way of getting out of the tribute death spiral, making a large army via vassals so they leave you alone, is impossible as the vassals are broke and can't afford armies. You can't even donate money to you vassals to help dig them out of the hole tribute put them in, and like any form of peace outside tribute, or just the presence of truces would eliminate all these issues.
oh maan i love this channel i got my warband from Level magasine when they used to include thos bt how you included Tzeench in the "architect" that really crackled me up edit social hierarchy joke got me blasted im shitting bricks now and looking for more :D :D :D
Currently doing a great unifier play through where I married the queens daughter and are her number one general waiting for her to croak and for me to be elected king and shrewdly making sure only her and my cities are prosperous.fighting the urge to be a chaotic despot and behead every single prisoner. I will say the western empire (the purple guys) really get under my skin, I’ve captured phadon a million times and the amount of restraints it’s taken to not execute him is tremendous. Next play through ima be the executioner lmao
Never has a game review brought me to tears from laughing. ty for that good sir. Legendary rhetoric capability of yours! also: very well explained. What a great game
Well, now with the latest patch the combat is no longer intimidating but easy and instead became frustrating and slow. Seems like the devs decided to cater to insane people who loke being killed over and over no matter their gear or skills.
I guess it's now part of your shtick - and hence impossible to correct - but your attempts at humor in a video like this unnecessarily increases the length of the video and is at best distracting. I wish you could have just gotten to the point. Still, a thumbs up - pretty comprehensive and balanced.
Bannerlord is not a terrieble game, its pretty good, but if you got bored? well few mods will fix it, but big mods as Game of Thrones or whatever those mods needs more time, as those will crash your games & you will get greyhair, higher blood pressure & annoy your neighbors at 2 am screaming over few mods that don t connect with that game as, taleworlds do minor updates but nothing major & modders not always keeps mods up to date with the game so there is that.
you got marriage wrong, you never talk to the women, you never play the charm minigame and never get rejected. YOu just go to her father before ever meeting your future wife and ask him what his price is for her, this always works and you never have to flirt again.
I know this might come off as uninformed, but the fact minor game patches still break every mod completely and without mods there's honestly not enough features to call it a good game you need diplomacy options and thievery you need things to do beyond fight here fight there and trade which is honestly just crunching numbers and isn't fun on its own.
I wanna be able to make a clan army aka like some of the more well known Rouge clans have their own bandit type troop to soldiers, I wanna be able to custom make a infantry soldier with thr armor and weapons I want. Of course if you give then really good stuff thr upkeep should reflect that.
i love you halcylion (in the least homosexual way possible), best bannerlord content out there; i dont normally leave comments on videos, but you are truly the only content creator that i look forward to watching.
I dropped this a while back can't get rid of factions without your own turning on you. Make it an option in the settings for no negative relationship loss for everyone on execution and I'm back not fun having factions with nothing raiding you forever and having no way to get rid of them.
one skin texture so there every char looks the same. no meme worthy soundclips. no one liners. they somehow managed to only improve seigeing. doesnt even seem fun anymore. this game is much worse than warband.
Yeah the Embers of the flame kept following my caravans so they needed to die, still don't get why everyone was so pissed I lifted the weight from their shoulders
as you said, there is endless room of improvement to this game. But 1 thing we desperately need along the diplomacy improvements you mentioned is the option to do an embargo. And pls let me fight with the guards when I fail to sneak in a city, like in the first M&B
Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas, boys and girls! The elves have been hard at work to deliver you this gift on time, but unfortunately, they are demanding I pay them 10000 likes. I don't believe they deserve that many, but what do you think? Shall we give the elves what they want?
Merry Christmas man, I hope you have a great 2023
Bro u made my whole Christmas thank Uuuuu
Merry christmas Halcylion!
@@alexjerrard9066 Same to you, Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
This has been in my recommended for the last week and I’m glad I was finally able to watch it! This is so incredibly in depth and after my own 160 hours of gameplay everything you say and the criticisms are extremely valid. You’re stronger than me not using mods to fix the late game lmao. Thanks for the content!
I'm a simple man, I see LEVEL magazine mentioned, I thumb up and subscribe.
Some of the best reviewers out there, and really funny guys, they were also doing screenshot memes before they were cool haha.
Back to watching the video.
Bafta, fratioare.
+ Jocuri Gratuite! :)
@@Halcylion Exact, ce dor imi e de vremurile alea...
Super video apropos, acum imi downloades Bannerlord din nou.
Mersi!
@@eddiepuffy Distractie placuta, si la multi ani pt 2023!
@@Halcylion Multumesc lafel, succes in continuare!!
I just wish campaign was multiple player 😪
Not sure why you keep referring to the starter player as "peasant". You can start as the son of a noble knight and therefore you're a noble entitled to your family coat of arms (which you create)
Great review about an even greater game !
I liked long intro, our attention spam was tested ... and rewarded.
37:22 What game is that, anybody?
Hide your women! Hide your valuables! Halcylion.. -x---is coming--->.. to Town!
You can Hyde, but you can't run.
It is always a pleasure to watch your content ... after years of reverse engineering the game we've arrived at the actual review. What a journey
The amount of work that went into this video stressed me out lol amazing work! I bet if you did a video like this, but for CoD or Minecraft, you would be at 1M subs in a few months. Keep up the great work and thanks for the shout-out!
CoD and Minecraft are oversaturated markets anyway, I doubt any amount of effort is enough to get you noticed. Besides, I've no passion for any of those games, and that would be reflected in whatever videos I'd put together.
Anyway, happy new year and good luck with your video for the X series!
M&B scratches an itch that no other game can. When I first played the original back in 09, it was such a visceral thrill to spear people on horseback. Now, in 2022, it's such a visceral thrill to spear people on horseback in a higher resolution! M&B and Kenshi are the two games that keep calling me back for hundreds of hours at a time
Love the review Hal!
I'm really bad at spearing people from horseback in Warband and previous M&Bs, but I'm a natural at it in Bannerlord. IMO, I think combat overall is leagues better in BL than WB, as well as sieges, armies, and well... everything related to battles.
Spearing on horseback is good against cavalry. I use javelins for infantry
M&B and Kenshi would be my stranded on a desert island games. Those two games have been the most influential games in my dev career! M&B introduced me to sandbox games way back in alpha and that love has yet to dim.
@@Halcylion Alas, Bannerlord's combat is better only superficially. It undoubtedly looks a lot better than Warband's, but it doesn't play nearly as well when coming up against competent opposition (which, regrettably, bots are not) for a number of factors, such as the stance system, which adds a lot of inconsitency to the game, or putting crush through on weapons other than 2h mallets. I understand that most sp players will disagree, but I still wanted to provide a perspective shared by most of the old warband mp players.
Man! I played The OG Mount and Blade as well back when there were only I think like 2 cities and 2 factions! Loved it!
By the way, Ive always found Kenshi interesting..whats it like? I probably need to watch a review or something
Yes, the amount of ideas you can come up in this game is fantastic. One year I created a Christmas character by the name of Kristof Kringle, the renowned nord of north that would assist starving villages by gifting them needed grain or supplies and killing bands of looters with his patented "One horse open slay" maneuver (aka, lancing them from horseback)
As always, enjoyed your video. May my gift-wrapped thumb bring you the joy you deserve this holiday season
Many thanks to Kristof Kringle for his generous thumb donation! Merry Christmas to you too. :)
I love that.
My first 3 hours of the game for me consisted of me being a bandit prisoner and starving off and on and it was still a lot of fun. Unintentionally learned a great way to level combat skills and medicine 😂 just get your ass beat alot
An experience I am quite familiar with. Not pleasant, for the most part, but when you finally escape, it was all worth it. :)
Lol I learnt that if you surrender to a larger army they will take your army. Restarted after that one😅
If you think that's fun you will love Kenshi
@@TwoHams I can’t wait to get a computer just to play it to be honest
Don't know why I actually watched a review for this game after playing it for hundreds of hours and watching it on UA-cam for even longer but I agree with almost every point you made. And this video was edited fantastically, with nice bits sprinkled in to keep the energy high.
This game frustrates me a lot because it's a jack of all trades but master of none. Except maybe the combat, they absolutely nailed that part. But at the end of the day, there is literally no other game like it. So I love it for the unique experience it provides, even if a lot of its features are under baked. And the modding community should keep it fresh for years to come...
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I don't think it nails combat. Has the ideas, but I still don't like having to look to the left or walking to the left to attack from the left. Plus, stabs suck at close quarters, which is ironic. Spears being deflected by skin is not quite adequate. I miss being able to have fast bursts of movement to dodge or hit harder too. I believe you get the idea.
Still like the game a lot, though.
The modding community really does make this game what it should be, and it's a real shame that Taleworlds still hasn't picked up on some the better mods and made their features baseline.
that would then force modders to remove said features
@@RainOn2SunnyDay so?
@RainOn2SunnyDay it's not like they make any money of off mods
They are, bit by bit.
To review the game without mods then casually mention at the end that you can fix half the (mechanical) negatives by subbing to the appropriate mod seemed kinda odd. I know that in a conventional reviewing sense you wouldn't include mods but this is M&B we're talking about. I sincerely hope that anyone who played pimped-out Warband doesn't actually intend to play a modless vanilla Bannerlord campaign...
Steam Workshop support dropping ONE MONTH before the game's 1.0 release says it all. Even TW don't expect you to play this game without mods, and they fully intend on letting "the community" (dev code for unpaid labour) finish the game for them. Honestly the 1.0 release was pretty meaningless in terms of actual development, and Bannerlord is still *at least* a year away from being in a state where we can unequivocally call it superior to Warband (thanks to mods, obviously).
For now, it is definitely not a stretch to call something like "Prophecy of Pendor" a considerably more in-depth and feature-complete experience than Bannerlord. Hell, even vanilla Viking Conquest with just the Warband Diplomacy mod is miles ahead in some aspects. While I understand your editorial decision, I don't think it quite makes sense here - reviewing Bannerlord means reviewing Bannerlord _with mods_ and you probably could have waited a while longer before doing that. Perhaps in 2023 you can do an "update" review that includes all the "conventionally accepted" game-improvement mods that will be stable by that time. Look at Warband - even if you wanted the most authentic Calradic experience possible, with 99% real butter, there's still a half-dozen mods or-so that you just _wouldn't play the game without_ and you probably wouldn't even view the game in any way that excluded those mods. Just sayin'.
Still a great video when taken as a piece of entertainment aimed at someone who already owns (and has played a few hundred hours of) Bannerlord. Thanks for the chuckles
This is why I haven't made a review of it. Pretty much spot on. I covered only the beta branch and no mods for 18 months and I have to agree with most of what you said. So if someone asked my opinion I'll just send them to the Lion 🦁 Good job my friend
There were some things I wanted to modify in this video, but time constraints made that difficult, so I'll have to release an "update" to this video to revise some of the points I've made here. Once that "update" comes, I believe you'll agree with all I've said. :)
@@Halcylion well done as always, very impressed with it
*You are the best M&B UA-camr because of Your entertaining narration with pleasant to listen to voice and understanding of the game mechanics
Funny you mention the X series, I'm working on a video for those games right now! Such good games
have they finished it yet?
The real Christmas were the villages we raided along the way.
I'd give this game 5/10 maybe 6/10. I've encountered so many bugs that I bought 2 cans of raid spray & the influence system, declaring war and making peace & defending a huge map against pretty much the entire country is outright laughable. Warband beats this game on a couple fronts. I wish I could get a full refund.
You can express your thoughts so clearly. I'm impressed!
Your vocabulary is very rich. And your editing skills are also admirable.
Real high quality here! 😄
To claim that Bannerlord is "modder friendly" is a slap in the face to the modding community.
There has been almost NO support for modding from the devs and EVERY patch they do (and they patch A LOT) destroys 80% of all mods.
so MANY mods are dead because the modders could not update them every 2 weeks because another stupid update dropped.
So many modders left for that exact reason, their entire work being destroyed by another pointless update that adds almost nothing.
The only reason the game still has mods is because the vanilla is bad and boring and because some modders are just stubborn or have developed superior tools to what the devs have.
Its mainly people from mount and blade 1 who just are used to modding and love the genre.
If bannerlord was their first game, no one would mod it, because of have f**** up it is to do so.
The community has to create EVERYTHING themselves, the modding tools, the unpackers, the mod managers, the mods, there is ZERO support from the devs, there isnt even a modding menu in the freaking game, so wtf are you talking about being modding friendly???
Bannerlord is one the most toxic games when it comes to modding, the devs hate modders.
Bannerlord suffers from "Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle". There are a lot of systems in place, however, most of them are either very shallow, very basic, unfinished, unbalanced, repetetive/boring or all of the above. Not pretending warband didnt have this issue too, but warband was in 2010. We obviously expected more depth and complexeity.
Exactly, and what's crazy to me is they already had great features from Viking Conquest which they chose to go backwards on with Bannerlord. The naval battles, raiding and outposts mainly.
Also Warband despite being shallow, posed a greater challenge of you chose to be lowborn or female, or a bigger challenge if you chose both. The challenge with Bannerlord is mainly overcoming its lack of balance in areas such as executing enemy lords.
Good job. Watched the whole thing. You properly represented bannerlord😊
Thanks, but I realize I did not properly represent this game with 100% accuracy. I wanted to modify some things and add some others, but as you've heard at the end, my voice changed a bit in-between recording sessions, and I thought the video would just sound weird if my voice changes every 5 minutes. I did what I could with on-screen text overlays. :)
this whole "the choice is up to you" thing is a fallacy, in the end its a battle simulator and you will be doing battles, there is no other choice, all the rest is just a filler and not real content
Another certified classic, great review! Really looking forward to the next ep of Bandits Ballads!
It's going to be easy to make. For this video, I spared no expense, but for BB episodes, I will start budgeting my time. 1 day to write, 1 to record and edit the audio, 2-3 to edit the video itself. I need to increase the frequency of those uploads and clear my schedule for upcoming games.
this game has fewer options than warband vanilla, so i really dont understand why its so basic, its more like a modding platform than a proper game, at least i expected more after playing better warband mods than bannerlord, honestly, its 6-7/10 max for the lack of viable gameplay options other than battles, all the quests are just repeatable clones, its really pretty sterile world, painful lack of roleplay options, not even enough things to buy when you are in mid game and basicly already have everything, devs should be ashamed that modders make better games basicly
There is one question I wanted ask you for a long time. Your English is great, accent on point, vocabulary is rich. I checked your ''about'' section and found out that you are from Romania. Assuming you are Romanian, how do you manage to speak like a native English speaker? What can you recommend to improve it and make it like yours? Thank you in advance, big fan of yours
90% of the stuff I'm doing is in English... games, music, movies, books, even my "job". It's inevitable that my English speaking skills are going to be above average.
When’s the next bandits ballads
we need more
It's my next video actually. It'll probably come next year, 'cause I need to rest and recover after this one.
why not create your own?
What a joy to find out we share the nationality after watching your videos for a few years. Keep up the good work!
With the advancements in AI over the last 5 years, I am really excited for Mount and Blade 3.
Bannerlord was originally advertised as a deep simulation of lords all with their own motives vying for power that would react to each other and the player's actions in varying ways depending on their personality. In reality, every single lord may as well be the same, they barely even react to anything, obviously this is excusable since the technology just wasn't there, but they really shouldn't have overpromised.
But Mount and Blade 3 will have access to all the latest advancements in technology, everything from AI generated dialogue based on the context of your game and your actions, to novel strategies depending on all the variables of each battle, and AI that can actually participate in diplomacy making strategic marriages and making political decisions to gain more influence by setting themselves goals to get certain titles, fiefs or friendships.
The only thing that breaks my heart is the fact I'm not healthy enough to see the 2030s, maybe I'll leave £300 to my nephew with explicit instructions to buy Mount and Blade 3 when it releases, he's only just started school, so he should have graduated from university by the time it releases in early access, which will put him right around retirement age by the time it launches out of early access.
Overall I'm just disappointed with how shallow the game is. There isn't really anything here that a team of dedicated Warband modders couldn't achieve.
I at the very least expected features from Viking Conquest to be in this game such as naval batals, raiding and building outposts, which modders even managed to add to Warband. Even the immersion of the world feels less fleshed out than its predecessors, in Warband a great challenge was to be a lowborn female and overcome the prejudice that comes with that.
As a modding platform its great but unfortunately for the mods every single minor update just breaks their hard work for a while. I'm not buying the rest of the game on DLC packs when even the basegame is so shallow.
When the game was announced years ago they promised features around raising a family, running a house that made us think it could rival Crusader Kings. They made the sieges look way better than they have turned out to be. Turns out the sieges are only a minor improvement to Warband.
There are positives but the shortcomings are too many.
16:50 damn this game is stupid i need a max level perk in order to trade fiefs? How about hello other party would you be interested in trading fiefs? basic talking and negotiation shouldn't be locked behind a trait or a skill.
This is NOT a sandbox game. You can not create, alter or destroy elements of the game (aside from lives and factions), or creatively manipulate other than the specific way it was meant to be played.
Truth to be told, game is not good. Medicore at best. This is coming from dude who bought it moment it released in early access, who owns previous games, who is Turkish (like talesworld) So many thing that previous incarnations did better than bannerlord, hell even to last patch we didn't have BANNERS in game. Companion system sucks, they are not memorable, use them trash them. Buy and release them to get rid of them from selection pool. Marriage is joke. Progression too fast and quick. Kill couple of parties of bandit now you can marry King's daughter have own castle or town gifted by next conquest. I miss the time when we start as nothing to basic manhunter to village leader to be lord. Game is easy, to counter that AI cheats a lot. Mods keeping me play this game. But I would like Rimworld size mod support from devs.
I can see your point. As an experience, it kinda pales in comparison to Warband.
While I agree with your points, here's the thing: Warband did have all that stuff, but is unfortunately limited by the game engine. Bannerlord doesn't have all that stuff YET, but the foundation the game is built on can definitely support such systems being added to the game in the future.
If the devs go in the same direction as Rimworld or X4, they could work on various meaty DLCs that they could sell to greatly expand the game... AND release a free update for each DLC they introduce.
Great review! It sums up perfectly how I feel about the game too, both in the positive and in the negative. Keep up the amazing work!
When I was in high school, I "asked a friend to borrow" so many games, my ISP sent me a letter.
I played the original Mount & blade, if memory serves, before Steam. It was glorious. Played it on and off for many years, modded it to hell and back. Brytenwalda was my favorite.
But I've been holding off on buying this new thing . . . there have been quite a few "new things" in the interim if I'm not mistaken, and some of them didn't sound so good.
But this review tells me what I need to know: this is, if not a Taleworld's Magnum Opus, at least a Penultimus Opus . . . or some such . . . Thanks!
You should check out Terra Invicta bro! It might not be to your liking, but a few videos should clue you in.
Maybe the most underrated game of all time imo... 300+hours played so far and just scratching the surface of the game.
Finally!
13:52 I've always wondered why only the garrison starve out and the militia don't, you just slowly kill them off via the siege weapons
I just want to give you more engagememt. Great vid tho.
All in all. It's a half baked dissapointment. And that's just the truth. Play molded warband instead. This game has nothing to offer but better graphics.
Combat is improved, Battles are greatly improved, and Sieges don't result in losing 90% of your attacking force to night-time raids, cholera and frostbite before the assault even begins. Those 3 things make this game a much more enjoyable experience to me than Warband, but I agree... many little features that bring life to warband are sadly missing from Bannerlord.
Here's the thing, though: with enough time and dedication from the devs, BL has the potential to surpass WB in every possible regard, because of its rock solid foundation. Will Taleworlds eventually make this happen? That's up to them.
2:37 Well said and merry Christmas and wish you the very best in the new year. You may or may not be 'the best' Bannerlord youtuber, but you most certainly have the best style of them all imo.
i hate the attribute system so much, they literally just act as 3 extra focus points. they should either get rid of them or remove perks from skills and tie them to attributes
I don't mind the presence of Attributes, as they make it impossible for a character to be maxed out in every regard, but I wish they had more of an impact. I'd personally add some special abilities that activate when an attribute reaches 10.
To give just one example, when you max out vigor, you could gain the Berserk ability, which would increase the melee damage you deal by 50% and lower the damage you take by 50% for 2 minutes. Can only use it once per day. This cooldown would be managed by the addition of a new resource like the "Winds of Magic" in The Old Realms mod...
Try 'My Little Warband' mod.
We need asmongold to see this🤣
Does he take recommendations?
I'll always appreciate that they released the game when the quarantines really kicked off. It made a huge difference.
you mean the lock down or as i prefer.. mass house arrest
I've been playing Bannerlord since it was available on steam, one of the greatest games i've ever played.
Anyhow, what i wanted to comment was that i completely mirror your view on mods towards this game.
I've put thousands and thousands of hours into this game, never installed a single mod. STILL! One of the greatest games ever made.
Also, you're definitely up there when it comes to Bannerlord youtubers, but you are all so great, i cant choose favourites :(
The game automatically groups troops into archery, infantry, cavalry etc. I don't see why they can't have troop orders to target a specific group first if possible.
It's almost harvesting season
Wow! You average one achievement every 116 hours. Good video
considering the easiest achievement has been obtained by a mere 15% of players, I'd say they're not a good indicator for anything. Besides, I had 1500 hours in the game before achievements were added. :)
@@Halcylion wow, ok, that makes more sense then. thanks for reply!
first of all, I'm a huge fan of M&B series. I'm forced to play Bannerlord on PS4 so for now there's a lot of bugs and no mods I think. i even lost around 10h of gameplay due to the infamous sutosave bug. damn that hurt. since it's PS4 any kind of loading takes alooong time. in the same time the battle simulations seem much more fair/easier than in Warband. and because of that i rarely decide to paritcipate in combat at all. playing on a pad makes battles much harder and i'm not even talking about aiming (although you can kind'a auto aim, but it's no bueno) but about controlling the army and so on. so for me it's more of a strategy game now. i'm filthy rich and have a lot of towns. honestly i think the easiest way to get filth ritch is to agro one of the kingdoms, another kingdom should invite you to join them soon enough. the best source of income is not to waste time on caravans, quests or trading but focus cracking sculls. the game seems pretty easy for a person that played Warband many many times over the last ten years. i do enjoy it and i am rly happy that it finally came out. since i'm not a pc user it is kind'a sweet and sour experience to be honest :D thanks for the cool review. best of luck to you Ukzug
Yeah you should play PS5 if possible, I haven’t had a single bug or save corruption ever, I have 6000 days combined across 3 campaigns, I’ve only ever had like 3-4 crashes.
I have no problem with hitting headshots with ranged or melee weapons. Issuing commands for formations is a piece of cake.
It’s above average PC standards, unfortunately It’s a different game for last generation consoles and more worse then were.
It's great that you point out issues in game as well. From me - conquering town/castle should take much more time and be something big. You know, it's great to have a war but if every war makes you gain 2/3 cities and wars are constant it makes no sense at all. Some diplomatic actions (alliance, no-agression pacts, anything) would be great. Some war preparation as well. Many things could be changed
Im curious.. whats the point of diplomacy when the game revolves in war and war only
@@Centrioless building up armies, recruit clans, being able to fight 1 war at the time, making kids, bringing 200 more soldiers to garrison castle, holding some war council. That's only few of them. For example as empire I couldnt do WC because I was fighting every kingdom at the same time after conquering all empire cities. Fighting every one at once is broken.
@@nottodaymate6607 maybe i should reword it better. Whats the point of diplomacy if you're still just controling one unit? In order for diplomacy to work "properly", the game needs to be built up from the ground up. You will need to have a total control of your economy, your whole armies, etc.
Not to mention, theres no end game goal beside map conquest. No economic goal (like x series for example), or building a wonder/science goal (like aoe or civilization). Even games like total war has very limited diplomacy options.
It baffles me how ppl want crusader kings diplomacy in m&b. In ck, war (the actual content of m&b) is a highly undesirable outcome.
Besides, most things that you mentioned can be alr done in the game. It feelssss like many of the complaints come from the end game scenario (the whole conspiracy thing), which i agree they need to work on that (altho trchnically its no different from end game scenario in other games).
Dude, I have almost 700 hours in the game and saw many vids but this is the first I see one of you and you're a chad. Sharing other channels to help new players into the bannerlord content. Wholesome
You won't get a better breakdown than that, hopefully taleworlds listens to your input :)
I would love to hear more of your suggestions! "Top 50 ways to improve bannerlord 2" would be a sweet video.
I can totally recommend Starsector too. If you like Bannerlord, Starsector is a go to game too!
I already played it, traded organs and set up an AI powered corporate colony. Until the hegemony rolled in, and I had to bribe them... for a while. But once their bribe reached 1 million credits, I kinda went a little crazy and globally warmed ALL of their planets with orbital bombardments.
Freelancer mod is called "Serve as soldier" now and works with current version of the game. If it isn't in steam workshop you can search for it in nexus mods. Almost every thing you pointed out as flaws is corrected by mods, like diplomacy (allows to make alliances and non attack pacts among other features), improved garrisons, pacemaker (allow to make years and days longer or shorter), RBM (improves AI fighting, tournaments..) and many others including armoury and weaponry addition. It's a bit overwhelming but you can improve the game vastly. Cheers from a new subscriber!
My main gripe with the game is three-pronged; years are too short, leveling is still too slow in the higher levels, and aging should be thing you can toggle on/off. Playing the game feels like I'm on a timer to min-max everything out of my character.
I could deal with the first two complaints if there was no timer. If aging is in the game, a year should definitely be 365 days, and you should get an Attribute point for every two or three levels you gain.
I personally don't mind the shorter years, because it allows your children to become useful adults faster, and I don't mind aging or dying as it makes the world more dynamic. However, skill development becomes extremely tedious towards the later levels, and you'll often find yourself actively grinding skillpoints instead of actually enjoying the game and gaining them normally.
And that's AFTER the game improved it greatly. It was a lot worse in the Early Access builds.
I'd personally add books like in Warband, and when you read a book for a skill, it acts as a sixth focus point, to push the learning limit of a skill even higher. Either that or add a ton of XP for that skill as you read the book.
years too short? i think they are too long because you can conquer half or the entire map before you get to play as your child
@@ernestogastelum9123 was gonna say lol if I’m actually trying I can usually become a major vassal or the faction leader if I want with over a million gold and 10k influence within 2 years of the game starting and I think that should take at-least 5 or 8 years to accomplish
Nice work! Freelancer was abandoned now you should use Serve as Soldier!
your videos are sublime, this was my first video watched from you and i went into your channel to watch a dozen more. absolute quality content my man i wish you the best :D
A like in advance because I know it will be gold... acquired through trade and extortion 🙃
Did it live up to your expectations? :)
@@Halcylion Absolutely :)
you're a pretty brilliant comedian and youtuber, congrats, don't let it go to your head
i love this game, but it crashes too damn much.
Strange... I could not get the Vanilla game to crash at all, (to get the footage at 48:25) so I had to install an out of date mod to make that happen.
Delicious
I love the comment about “my brain developing before all the social media garbage”, I can totally relate!!! That cracked me up!!!😂😂😂😂
Ok quick story I was playing the first Mount and Blade WarBand. Its My first ever Playthrough , I had this engineer companion First guy I ever picked up . Had him till late game he was awesome helped me conquer the world with how fast we could build the siege weapons . After I became king I named him His own Noble and freed him from my party to pay him homage. HE THEN WENT ON TO LEAD A REBELLION AGAINST ME with all my Great houses. I lost the war and my capitol . maybe thats why I have trust issues
USE THE MOD SERVE AS A SOLDIER
INSTEAD OF FREELANCER.
The author of freelancer discontinued upkeep of the mod do to creative differences with the development team at taleworlds.
I assume most everyone knows this, but halyclion doesn't see....b
I'm not up to date on community drama. Too focused on making my videos. :)
You’re hilarious and a great writer. I just got the game and not only did this explain so many things, but your video was also entertaining on its own. Keep it up man
The combat is fun even though it's buggy and unrealistic but mid-end game it gets too competitive with constant battles. The game just doesn't make any sense, I don't know what the devs were thinking.
1. Diplomacy is so bad it's unbelievable. There is no point in marrying your daughter or sister off as there are no matrilineal marriages, they just leave your clan and you don't even get an alliance or a defensive pact out of it, not even a dowry actually most of the time YOU pay to marry your own daughter off to have her leave your clan. If you marry another King's daughter he will still keep declaring war on you it's ridiculous. You literally have to find a lord in person to do diplomacy with them and even then the only options you have is to recruit the clan or trade a few horses, incredibly limited diplomacy options.
2. You'd think a war would be over after you capture the enemy king and most of their lords but if you want to war to be over even in that situation you would have to pay reparations.
3. Every culture has the clan system, not just the Aserai, but every single one and even with one system it's not designed well. You have vassal clans constantly trying to declare war on other nations even when you already have 3-4 wars ongoing. If they want to constantly go to war they should not try to drag the whole kingdom into it, only their own clan and other clans they have alliance with influence with and it wouldn't even be that bad if the wars were not so long if you don't want to pay reparations.
4. The smithing system feels kind of like a mobile game with the energy system, seriously what were the devs thinking.
5. The skill tree is not designed well and many of the skills are still not working even years later.
6. The game does have a dynasty system which is fine but then the campaign almost forces you to do a world conquest within one lifetime with the conspiracy questline, the game pacing overall is just too long to really play out a dynasty.
I strongly agree with your assessment of diplomacy, especially in regards to truces and tribute. I've had campaigns ruined by every kingdom declaring war on me and demanding tribute, and even if I fight them to the point where I don't pay them anything they immediately redeclare war with their newly freed nobility and demand ridiculous level of tribute. It also wouldn't be so bad if the tribute only applied to the king, but it applies to my vassals as well, so the main way of getting out of the tribute death spiral, making a large army via vassals so they leave you alone, is impossible as the vassals are broke and can't afford armies. You can't even donate money to you vassals to help dig them out of the hole tribute put them in, and like any form of peace outside tribute, or just the presence of truces would eliminate all these issues.
THANK YOU SO MUCH BRUH... WILL be a fan again i thank you for your videos more views more prosper to those who keeps it real..
oh maan i love this channel
i got my warband from Level magasine when they used to include thos
bt how you included Tzeench in the "architect" that really crackled me up
edit social hierarchy joke got me blasted im shitting bricks now and looking for more :D :D :D
Currently doing a great unifier play through where I married the queens daughter and are her number one general waiting for her to croak and for me to be elected king and shrewdly making sure only her and my cities are prosperous.fighting the urge to be a chaotic despot and behead every single prisoner. I will say the western empire (the purple guys) really get under my skin, I’ve captured phadon a million times and the amount of restraints it’s taken to not execute him is tremendous. Next play through ima be the executioner lmao
Never has a game review brought me to tears from laughing. ty for that good sir. Legendary rhetoric capability of yours! also: very well explained. What a great game
Well, now with the latest patch the combat is no longer intimidating but easy and instead became frustrating and slow. Seems like the devs decided to cater to insane people who loke being killed over and over no matter their gear or skills.
I guess it's now part of your shtick - and hence impossible to correct - but your attempts at humor in a video like this unnecessarily increases the length of the video and is at best distracting. I wish you could have just gotten to the point. Still, a thumbs up - pretty comprehensive and balanced.
Bannerlord is not a terrieble game, its pretty good, but if you got bored? well few mods will fix it, but big mods as Game of Thrones or whatever those mods needs more time, as those will crash your games & you will get greyhair, higher blood pressure & annoy your neighbors at 2 am screaming over few mods that don t connect with that game as, taleworlds do minor updates but nothing major & modders not always keeps mods up to date with the game so there is that.
you got marriage wrong, you never talk to the women, you never play the charm minigame and never get rejected. YOu just go to her father before ever meeting your future wife and ask him what his price is for her, this always works and you never have to flirt again.
I know this might come off as uninformed, but the fact minor game patches still break every mod completely and without mods there's honestly not enough features to call it a good game you need diplomacy options and thievery you need things to do beyond fight here fight there and trade which is honestly just crunching numbers and isn't fun on its own.
I wanna be able to make a clan army aka like some of the more well known Rouge clans have their own bandit type troop to soldiers, I wanna be able to custom make a infantry soldier with thr armor and weapons I want. Of course if you give then really good stuff thr upkeep should reflect that.
i love you halcylion (in the least homosexual way possible), best bannerlord content out there; i dont normally leave comments on videos, but you are truly the only content creator that i look forward to watching.
Let's hope I'll be able to keep that up.
least homosexual way possible? i dunno about that
I dropped this a while back can't get rid of factions without your own turning on you. Make it an option in the settings for no negative relationship loss for everyone on execution and I'm back not fun having factions with nothing raiding you forever and having no way to get rid of them.
Well it curently unpleyable on console version. Constant game crashes after talking to NPC Lords as well Corrupted save files.
one skin texture so there every char looks the same. no meme worthy soundclips. no one liners. they somehow managed to only improve seigeing. doesnt even seem fun anymore. this game is much worse than warband.
Campaign also hits you with the Arzago conspiracy without almost no warning, which can ruin a play through for new time players.
Sir, you are a Legend. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you too, ser!
Yeah the Embers of the flame kept following my caravans so they needed to die, still don't get why everyone was so pissed I lifted the weight from their shoulders
28:00 meanwhile me doing casual 300 dmg per swing with two handed sword but with speed of a one handed (~100)
You asked for a game that lives on without you... Kenshi is probably the best example of it.
I'm really glad people are still shitting on game of thrones. Thats my take from this not game of thrones video.
That Level magazine brought back some memories, i would ask my dad to buy me the newest one so i had games to play
Amazing video! Thank you. Gonna get my headphones and watch the whole thing in my bathtub now.
I love your video but did you have to open the old got wound again? That shit with Jamie still makes me angry.
The Vision TM will not make any improvment.just wait for total conversion mods
as you said, there is endless room of improvement to this game. But 1 thing we desperately need along the diplomacy improvements you mentioned is the option to do an embargo.
And pls let me fight with the guards when I fail to sneak in a city, like in the first M&B
Finally a new video, welcome back man