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<p>As Bannerlord’s multiplayer beta draws ever closer, we thought it would be a good time to discuss another of the game’s exciting game modes: Captain Mode.</p></br> [/parsehtml]Read more at: http://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/Bannerlord/Blog/111
Dev Blog 23/05/19
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Chill, people...
If you're saying no blog post is better than one, it's easy really - just don't visit this site and wait for news from the media.
Group of people hate dev for not doing blog, another group of people hate dev for doing blog. I'd say it's better if there's a blog. Even if some blog posts may be a "replay", other ones are valuable ones.
So chill, it's not the end of the world.
If you're saying no blog post is better than one, it's easy really - just don't visit this site and wait for news from the media.
Group of people hate dev for not doing blog, another group of people hate dev for doing blog. I'd say it's better if there's a blog. Even if some blog posts may be a "replay", other ones are valuable ones.
So chill, it's not the end of the world.
Rodrigo Ribaldo said:
Beyond madridista
, believe me if I tell you that I didn't really expect anything and I'm still disappointed. Furthermore, without forgetting that we are talking about a game (leisure/entertainment), I have the feeling of humidity; I say humidity because it seems that they are pissing on us from above and say that it is raining. A nonsense...I know I'm nobody, just an anonymous Spanish guy behind a computer giving his opinion, but I would have liked that all forumite boycott this hoax by silence, against this blog of eschatological proportions overdismensioned. For my part, not even memes deserves this blog...
Ettenrocal said:
I wouldn't have written it better, mate. It is an exquisite clumsiness when Taleworlds tries to communicate...
You see, in Captain Mode, there is actually a lot of cross-over with what you would expect from a single player battle. You have full control over your troops, meaning you can issue commands and change formations at will...Captain Mode aims to strike a balance between the individual skill-level of a player and their tactical prowess. This means that players that perhaps aren’t the best with the combat system in the game can still be highly effective in Captain Mode, purely through using superior strategy and tactics, and by effectively communicating with their teammates
I read this blog as an attempt to motivate single players to consider participating in the multiplayer beta. Clearly, from the negative SP comments already posted, none of them realise moaning is unlikely to earn a closed beta invite.
As a dedicated single player, I understand TW’s dilemma, but I doubt Captain Mode will bridge M&B’s two communities. While it looked great fun in the 2017 Gamescom videos, I still expect it to appeal most to floaters who already play both SP and MP.
As Callum’s workload increases to deliver the beta, new website, new forums etc., it is unrealistic to expect innovative or multi-media dev blogs. I, for one, accept that finishing the game is more important than throwing aspirins to us angry lions - we’ll growl whatever we’re fed.
Question for Ömer Sarı: does the campaign ai ensure we experience an imperial decline to match the main storyline, or are factions balanced?
I read this blog as an attempt to motivate single players to consider participating in the multiplayer beta. Clearly, from the negative SP comments already posted, none of them realise moaning is unlikely to earn a closed beta invite.
As a dedicated single player, I understand TW’s dilemma, but I doubt Captain Mode will bridge M&B’s two communities. While it looked great fun in the 2017 Gamescom videos, I still expect it to appeal most to floaters who already play both SP and MP.
As Callum’s workload increases to deliver the beta, new website, new forums etc., it is unrealistic to expect innovative or multi-media dev blogs. I, for one, accept that finishing the game is more important than throwing aspirins to us angry lions - we’ll growl whatever we’re fed.
Question for Ömer Sarı: does the campaign ai ensure we experience an imperial decline to match the main storyline, or are factions balanced?
Yes yes...a lot of beta blablabla, but every time the GAME gets closer to 2020.
Questions for next blog:
-what opportunities are there for small parties (preferably mobile parties ie. cavalry) to harass larger parties?
In warband if you tried to engage a larger party, they’d often move towards and engage you too, which often meant that you couldn’t leave until they/you are defeated. I know ambushes are no longer a thing, but it would be nice for there to be a hit-and-run mechanism.
-how do the slots in the party/clan (I can’t remember which) screen work? Ie. Engineer etc. (I saw it in one of the campaign videos). I’m assuming you put a companion in it and their perks stack with the players?
-will some small rivers freeze in winter and be crossable?
-leading from the last question, what effects will winter have on parties and AI behaviour?
-what opportunities are there for small parties (preferably mobile parties ie. cavalry) to harass larger parties?
In warband if you tried to engage a larger party, they’d often move towards and engage you too, which often meant that you couldn’t leave until they/you are defeated. I know ambushes are no longer a thing, but it would be nice for there to be a hit-and-run mechanism.
-how do the slots in the party/clan (I can’t remember which) screen work? Ie. Engineer etc. (I saw it in one of the campaign videos). I’m assuming you put a companion in it and their perks stack with the players?
-will some small rivers freeze in winter and be crossable?
-leading from the last question, what effects will winter have on parties and AI behaviour?
Terco_Viejo said:Rodrigo Ribaldo said:
Beyond madridista
I know I'm nobody, just an anonymous Spanish guy behind a computer giving his opinion, but I would have liked that all forumite boycott this hoax by silence, against this blog of eschatological proportions overdismensioned. For my part, not even memes deserves this blog...
Ettenrocal said:
I wouldn't have written it better, mate. It is an exquisite clumsiness when Taleworlds tries to communicate...
Terco_Viejo said:
Yes yes...a lot of beta blablabla, but every time the GAME gets closer to 2020.
lets think about Avatar 2,
copy is easy but stereotypical,
new is easy but lack of soul.
that is too difficult,
Question to ÖmerSarı: have you ever been let your emulator to make a stably and fully supply chain in one faction (without war to other faction), what is the affect of:
1) producer
2) seller
3) buyer
4) employment rate
5) average income of that faction
Yo, I'm not really active on the forums except when reading these kinds of posts, my question, like many others, is a co-op campaign. I'm down with either a "monty python" style co-op, if you can even give an answer on co-op, or a two party system (despite how difficult that would be). Could y'all at Bannerlord give us a harvesting season time and enlighten us vile beggars on this topic?
Ajax said:
Recep Baltas: Are there any features that you'd really like to add but you aren't able to?
Armagan Yavuz: There are features we are planning to add in the future, we'd like to add ship warfare, but we are not sure how to make it work at the moment, same goes for Co-Op, it has been requested a lot but it is really hard infrastructure wise. But we are hoping maybe throughout the time we can add these features with updates and/or DLCs"
https://www.reddit.com/r/mountandblade/comments/9a70v3/interview_with_armagan_yavuz_by_technopat_details/
Older comments:
RPS: A cooperative campaign is a holy grail for a lot of Mount & Blade fans. Is it a possibility?
Yavuz: It’s very difficult to do, not just because of the technical difficulty, but also to make things practically playable when we have two people doing wildly different things in real-time. One player might be trying to have a very exciting battle that is the climax of a very important experience, and one player just beforehand decides to go to town and look at the marketplace. These people have to be in the same gameworld and it’s very difficult to make sure that they’re both enjoying themselves and all having a great campaign experience simultaneously. It’s almost impossible without cutting down on what the game offers.
There may be another way to manage all of those things, by limiting the co-op to one kind of campaign. Let people play together as a party and have them always be together. That might be possible and that may be the the only kind of co-op that we can deliver. It’s something we’re experimenting with and that we have worked on. We’ll only officially announce something if we can make it 100% efficient and fun to play though.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/04/28/mount-and-blade-2-bannerlord-interview/
Yavuz: It’s very difficult to do, not just because of the technical difficulty, but also to make things practically playable when we have two people doing wildly different things in real-time. One player might be trying to have a very exciting battle that is the climax of a very important experience, and one player just beforehand decides to go to town and look at the marketplace. These people have to be in the same gameworld and it’s very difficult to make sure that they’re both enjoying themselves and all having a great campaign experience simultaneously. It’s almost impossible without cutting down on what the game offers.
There may be another way to manage all of those things, by limiting the co-op to one kind of campaign. Let people play together as a party and have them always be together. That might be possible and that may be the the only kind of co-op that we can deliver. It’s something we’re experimenting with and that we have worked on. We’ll only officially announce something if we can make it 100% efficient and fun to play though.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/04/28/mount-and-blade-2-bannerlord-interview/
NPC99 said:Rodrigo Ribaldo said:
Thanks for the nomination, but I'd prefer to live without all the bad karma directed at any TW blogger.
Anyway, Terco_Viejo doesn't need to be coaxed to share his views - they're posted like graffiti.
Don't push me NPC99, I said no memes for this week. 
CKyHC
NPC99 said:
I do not think that writing blogs as it slows down the development process
Dethikus
Banned
NPC99 said:
I don't believe anyone is expecting revolutionary "innovative" blogs. As for "multi-media", surely that can't be too difficult. Would more than one screenshot be considered "multi-media"? Also I thought Callum was just the PR manager? That would be best instead of spreading him too thin. He's also in charge of setting up the new website and the new forums? I figured an IT guy or a team of IT guys would be doing that? He's also in charge of "delivering the beta"? What exacting does this entail? That sounds like a job for TW's as a whole, not just Callums.
DtheHun
Sergeant Knight
I know that a semi-public MP beta needs balancing, it takes time - and that clearly slips out from devs hands more than expected -, but how about announcing releasing a small demo, where player can walk in a city, talk to some NPCs and kick some bandit arse? I mean, anything tangible to chew on. Most of the fans won't go to Gamescom or be invited to closed-beta. So a new wave of resentment is granted anyway, and further floating won't be enough to handle it.
Terco_Viejo said:NPC99 said:Rodrigo Ribaldo said:
Thanks for the nomination, but I'd prefer to live without all the bad karma directed at any TW blogger.
Anyway, Terco_Viejo doesn't need to be coaxed to share his views - they're posted like graffiti.
CKyHC said:NPC99 said:
I do not think that writing blogs as it slows down the development process
Who do you think is going to organise all the beta participants and collate their feedback? If that was left to the programmers etc. it would slow down development.
B1G0T said:
As far as I can see, everyone's facing inwards apart from Callum, Duh & M.Arda:
Callum_TaleWorlds said:
NPC99 said:
Callum_TaleWorlds said:
Is it just me, or is the one thing all big fans of the mount and blade campaign want is co-op campaign?
