Mount&Blade: Warband-Information Thread

[Mabons]

Mount & Blade Warband

Warband Early Trailer
Warband E3 Trailer
ModDB
Warband Screenshots

Mount&Blade: Warband. introduces a number of features that players have specifically requested and which will vastly improve the overall gameplay experience of this revolutionary title.

Key features revealed for the first time at E3:
- Overhauled graphics; HDR, FSAA, Depth of Field, Soft particles, Tone Mapping and many other effects are all now implemented.
- Majority of Models are being redone.
- Multiplayer battles can now handle up to 64 players with Mods including Team Death Match and Search & Destroy.
- Ability to become the ruler of a faction and convince lords to become your vassals in the Single Player Campaign.
- Ability to upgrade your companions to vassalage by granting them land.
- Improved Mechanics for Soldier Morale: Soldiers will break and run away if their morale gets too low.
- Formations
- Completely new faction (Possibly Asian Influenced according to Screenshots)
- Customizable quick battles
- New weapons, armour, etc. to add with the new faction.
- Diplomacy options
- Improved stragetic AI
- More options in sieges
- Improved horse archery
- It'll be more difficult to keep soldiers from an enemy faction. For example, if you are a Vaegir and you keep raiding Swadian villages, swadian troops in your party will be more likely to desert and your party morale will be reduced.

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WILL NOT BE A MMO

[Mabons]

Wow, when you summarise it all, it looks very small

[Swadius]

Did you say how it will definitely not be an MMO?

[Mabons]

Did you say how it will definitely not be an MMO?

I'll put it in a spoiler at the bottom...

[Danath]

http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.php/topic,66160.msg1715953.html#msg1715953
"Multiplayer battles can now handle up to 64 players with Mods including Team Death Match and Search & Destroy."

[Mabons]

Mount & Blade Warband

Warband E3 Trailer

Mount&Blade: Warband. introduces a number of features that players have specifically requested and which will vastly improve the overall gameplay experience of this revolutionary title.

Key features revealed for the first time at E3:
- Overhauled graphics; HDR, FSAA, Depth of Field, Soft particles, Tone Mapping and many other effects are all now implemented.
- Majority of Models are being redone.
- Multiplayer battles can now handle up to 64 players with Mods including Team Death Match and Search & Destroy.- Ability to become the ruler of a faction and convince lords to become your vassals in the Single Player Campaign.
- Ability to upgrade your companions to vassalage by granting them land.
- Improved Mechanics for Soldier Morale: Soldiers will break and run away if their morale gets too low.

A summary of additional features previously revealed at GDC are Multiplayer for up to 32 players, improved strategic AI, improved graphics and optimization including customizable quick battles, extended diplomatic options and new weapons, armor and animations, a new faction with unique troops and equipment.
Other aspects introduced in Mount&Blade: Warband are improvements to the combat system with more physically accurate horse archery, a variation in horse sizes, and more options when embarking on sieges.

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WILL NOT BE A MMO

[Lizard_man]

sounds good, anyone know if you'll need the origanal to play this as you would with any other expansion, i know some people that would probably play this game online, but won't play the game itself

[Mabons]

Well, no, but I will update this thread as we get more information. This is just a list of everything we know so far.

[Vortex]

Thanks for this useful list.

sounds good, anyone know if you'll need the origanal to play this...

You will probably need the original game,it's an AddOn,not a standalone game.

[dryhte]

I really can't wait.

M&B has been the only (non-nintendo-DS) game I've played since it was officially release. However, I don't have much time for gaming anyway, so take this for what it's worth

[Shik]

Don't forget to add this game presentation from earlier this year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16bIpGnd1o

There's also an entry here:
http://www.moddb.com/games/mount-blade/news/mountblade-multiplayer-expansion
Specifically:

1) Formations: you'll be able to form lines deeper than two.
2) Morale will affect battles more and your soldiers and enemies will run away when broken.
3) It'll be more difficult to keep soldiers from an enemy faction. For example, if you are a Vaegir and you keep raiding Swadian villages, swadian troops in your party will be more likely to desert and your party morale will be reduced.

And of course, here's the link containing all of the newest screenshots.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/47709/Mount-Blade-Warband-Screenshots-Trailer

[Mabons]

Don't forget to add this game presentation from earlier this year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16bIpGnd1o

There's also an entry here:
http://www.moddb.com/games/mount-blade/news/mountblade-multiplayer-expansion
Specifically:

1) Formations: you'll be able to form lines deeper than two.
2) Morale will affect battles more and your soldiers and enemies will run away when broken.
3) It'll be more difficult to keep soldiers from an enemy faction. For example, if you are a Vaegir and you keep raiding Swadian villages, swadian troops in your party will be more likely to desert and your party morale will be reduced.

And of course, here's the link containing all of the newest screenshots.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/47709/Mount-Blade-Warband-Screenshots-Trailer

Will add

On a side note: Everyone is telling Clayton to shut up in the comments on that video

[captain lust]

here's a good source:http://translate.google.com.au/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jeuxvideo.com%2Fnews%2F2009%2F00034553-e3-2009-images-de-mount-blade-warband.htm&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Things I think you missed:

-completely new faction
-possibility of marriage to a lady
-new units for existing factions (swadian mounted crossbowman, vaegir spearman)
-ability to pick up thrown weapons and re-use them.

You could also mention the Q3 2009 release and include some quotes and comments from armagan on the forums.

[Vortex]

-Newbie friendly
-More difficulty options
-Increased accuracy for archers

[Lord Shields]

I keep saying we should have a new sub-forum specifically for Warband discussions, and I'd say this should be stickied there.