Mount&Blade: Warband-Information Thread

Mabons · Jun 11, 2009

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.

WILL NOT BE A MMO

Mabons · Jun 11, 2009

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

Swadius 2.0 · Jun 11, 2009

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

Mabons · Jun 11, 2009

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

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

Danath · Jun 11, 2009

http://forums.taleworlds.com/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 · Jun 11, 2009

Mabons said:
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.

WILL NOT BE A MMO

Lizard_man · Jun 11, 2009

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 · Jun 11, 2009

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 · Jun 11, 2009

Thanks for this useful list.

Lizard_man said:
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 · Jun 11, 2009

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 · Jun 11, 2009

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 · Jun 11, 2009

Fei Dao said:
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.

Click to expand...

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 · Jun 11, 2009

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 · Jun 11, 2009

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

Lord Shields · Jun 11, 2009

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

High_Inquisitor · Jun 11, 2009

i just wanna find out the dam release date. will it b this year?

Hans Sterhiem Reinboc III · Jun 11, 2009

Q3 09 is the word on the street.

At least it was until the street was looted, and all the cattle were driven off.

Llew2 · Jun 11, 2009

You forgot to mention the implementation of formations.

RalliX · Jun 11, 2009

Dude, when did this news of 64 player ability come about? I thought it was 32, but Taleworlds is really fulfilling expectation.

HOOAH! GO ARMAGAN!

(Edit 13 June)..........I just watched the E3 trailer footage.....
The Nords have Calvary now!

Mabons · Jun 11, 2009

Llew2 said:
You forgot to mention the implementation of formations.

The only thing that I have missed out. Thanks for the heads up. Everything else that people have told me to add is in there. It might be in the paragrah below the list.

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