Austupaio said:
Arvenski said:
Give us decent ******** screenshots, and then we'll be able to find those details.
If they did that, then everything that looks just like Warband would be more obvious. Sieges still being based on ladders is a deal breaker for me.
I think the key difference between Warband sieges and Bannerlord sieges as we see them now is that you can have both ladders
and towers at the same time, and not just either/or and only one at that. Having multiple points of entry is actually a significant improvement over Warband's single route, which inevitably led to a hilarious cluster**** at the top that any player with a two-handed weapon could win.
While I would like to see siege artillery, I'm not too sure that it's viable. That's asking for a lot of new features to be added just so you can avoid M&B's main selling point, which is its melee combat. To do it properly, you'd need some approximation of physics, because people would undoubtedly want partial or complete destruction of walls, towers, and gates, which means you'd need some kind of logistics meta in the SP campaign so you can't tear down a castle on Tuesday and then defend it in pristine condition on Wednesday. You'd also need to balance it, especially if they could be player-operated, because a player on any kind of siege artillery is going to be even more unbalanced than a player with a bow in Warband. It would require severely limited ammunition or poor accuracy, an incredible cost in time to assemble, and it would have to be a tedious bastard to operate so you couldn't blast the garrison to bits before they can effectively engage your forces. Speaking of which, how do you keep a player from standing their army beyond the range of archers and blasting fortifications to bits? Do you give the defenders some kind of defensive artillery, like catapults or ballistae on turrets? That'll be great fun in a siege, when you get impaled by a ballistae at the very beginning of the fight.
All of this, just so you can look at walls fall down instead of fighting on top of them face to face.