I hope they're not having major issues with the game, I do wish they remained with price-increasing Paradox though. They could've handled this much better, but I'm going to act like this was a minor if significant footnote in the annals when Bannerlord is released.
I hope they re-consider or some modification implements the necessity of having to listen to commander orders. I can sympathize with players not wanting to be forced into AI-orders, but people were ecstatic playing the Freelancer mod and aren't they bringing that into Bannerlords? You're forced to be with your Lord, so if you're willing to be granted autonomy in your Lord's army, you should at least be forced to listen to battlefield orders in exchange for better loot and relations, or be booted/arrested.
And I hope spears are more useful. Since you need space to swing your weapons for significant effect, I hope spears in formation are more capable than swords in that regard. Some form of pushback and forced reliance on shields and flanking.
I was even hoping you can have soldiers/players that can use spears/pikes in the underhand form so we can stab overhead the first line in combat. That'd be amazing and realistic. The Medieval Era's never really had that form of Classical warfare present from my knowledge which Mount & Blade espouses, but I don't see why it shouldn't be included. Some way of clipping through friendlies with an overhead attack if that's how it needs to be done? I think it would really breathe more life, more tactics into the game. It might actually make Full Invasion or any wave-mod successor more melee-friendly.
