it's just a matter of preference, I think. There really isn't much to the game but riding around aimlessly and fighting other people who are riding around aimlessly, at the end of the day.Īs for Warband vs. I can't get too into myself, mainly because all of the interactions with NPCs and settlements become extremely repetitive after a while. it's just different than what you may have been expecting. I'd highly recommend googling for some fan-made game guides before dropping it, because it can be a fun game. It just kinda tosses you into the world, and while it shows you a bunch of numbers, it doesn't really give you an idea of what they mean (there's no way to know what the hell is the difference between 50 and 100 "Right to Rule," for instance). And it doesn't help that the way the game is played is never really explained explicitly or implicitly through "tutorial" game sequences.
is a high fantasy mod for Mount&Blade Warband which entirely revamps the. Mount and Blade is an extremely unstructured game, even when compared to other "open world" games like Skyrim. A mist-cloaked metropolis on the Sword Coast, its a place of history and a. I wish there was a way to zoom out so you could see more of yourself, but I don't think there is. Chapter 2354 - Magic Sword Tyrfing, Chapter 2353 - Please Enlighten Me. Each faction has its own troop tree with different specializations, but you can recruit troops from anyone's villages (as long as the villages don't dislike you, at least).Īs for the bottom part of your character being below the bottom of the screen, that's pretty standard. Chapter 2364 - God of Fire: Rising Phoenix, Chapter 2363 - Unrelenting.
Or later on, as a landed noble.Ĭhoosing a faction at the start pretty much just determines where you start, and to some extent what gear you start with. Various people (nobles, village elders, and town guildmasters) can give you quests to do things, you recruit troops and train them up and go around making your way as a mercenary. The game in general is almost completely emergent - there's no "main quest" or plot or anything, there's just a bunch of factions vying for control of the map. I've put a lot of hours into Warband, which is a more generic middle ages setting, rather than any actual historical location. I haven't tried With Fire and Sword myself, but (as I understand) it's set in or around the 30 years war in Europe?