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The Sturgians look ridiculous
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Yes, the game has a kinda cartoonish silly style. The troops look a little bit funny and stupid.
I feel like some of these bare-chested warriors need to eat more protein and put some muscle on lol
That does not look like the body of a battle-hardened man in his prime, accustomed to cleaving through the skulls of his enemies... or frankly cleaving through anything at all.
Im not asking for 300-levels of sprayed-on-abs, but a bit of bulk would help.
They're also northerners... give em some more chest hair for the cold lol.
I saw on the nexus that the game even tracks muscle mass and fat already, so this would probably just involve editing a single "muscle" value for that unit.
That does not look like the body of a battle-hardened man in his prime, accustomed to cleaving through the skulls of his enemies... or frankly cleaving through anything at all.
Im not asking for 300-levels of sprayed-on-abs, but a bit of bulk would help.
They're also northerners... give em some more chest hair for the cold lol.
I saw on the nexus that the game even tracks muscle mass and fat already, so this would probably just involve editing a single "muscle" value for that unit.
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it’s based off of Kievan Rus not Scandinavia. Nords are Scandinavia we’ll probably see them in later updates. I personally like how unique the Sturgians look but I can understand why you might not like it, I’m just not sure how it’s immersion breaking to the point where you have to make a thread about it. Like that’s pretty damn low on a list of things I consider immersion breaking in this video game.
They look exactly like the Vikings did. stop watching so much TV.
Y'know this has me thinking... the Battanians need more blue and white striped trunks.
Point being that is not climate suitable clothing.
Plate armor didn't exist in the 11th century.
Then let's hurry up with Mount & Blade 3. Cause God this gear/timeperiod is lame.
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Strongly disagree. I don't really care much for the Late Middle Ages/Early Renaissance aesthetic of full plate. I much prefer the Early/High Middle Ages where chain armor ruled. Feels more rugged and personal when the warriors don't have suits of pure steel separating themselves from one another.
Pretty sure the same people worked on both. I disagree with your take on the Sturgians, they look fine to me. I think what the team did do, though, is underestimate how many people are crazy for a certain liberally unhistorical series centered around a certain classification of sea raider. They knew the Nords were popular, sure, but this was before that series. Some people are wilder than ever for the whole Viking Media Myth, and in that regard, it might have served them to make the Nords a separate faction and just... include a portion of their home continent on the map.
(Of course then they'd have to implement sailing and naval battles, which would further delay development...)
It's really not. Not sure where this is coming from but I guess we all have our tastes.
Yeah I'm with you on that
I feel like some of these bare-chested warriors need to eat more protein and put some muscle on lol
That does not look like the body of a battle-hardened man in his prime, accustomed to cleaving through the skulls of his enemies... or frankly cleaving through anything at all.
Im not asking for 300-levels of sprayed-on-abs, but a bit of bulk would help.
They're also northerners... give em some more chest hair for the cold lol.
I saw on the nexus that the game even tracks muscle mass and fat already, so this would probably just involve editing a single "muscle" value for that unit.
If it were me, I'd go a little more for fat than muscle. They have a meat-heavy diet and during peace, they do a lot of heavy lifting work. I'd build the more like a Polish strongman than a TV barbarian. But that's just me.
Cartoonish, eh?
Silly, eh?
Stupid, eh?!
How dare you. How dare you!
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Here is the thing. Not everyone is European. Most of the world has no ****ing idea who half of these factions are supposed to be. This game just feels.... well... super Eastern European in a way the previous titles did not. If I had to guess I'm going to assume it's from the people they hired for this project. I find it pretty damn hard to relate. Also the amount of fur and leather used seems to rather outside anything I've ever seen evidence of.
How so? Sturgia. Big deal. Battania is Celtic, the Empire is Mediterranean (who doesn't know Rome?), Khuzait is Turkic (see: Mongol-adjacent), Vlandia is Western European, and Aserai is Arab. Literally one faction is Eastern European in inspiration.
I disagree entirely with the OP and others.
Every single Bannerlord faction looks better than the Warband factions IMO, Sturgia included. The art direction was spot on for bannerlord and all factions look more unique from each other, but they also all feel believable an as part of one single world.
Battania is, specially, freaking awesome, mixture of rohirrim (anglo-saxons) celts and dacians. Unlike Warband where i always went Nords, in Bannerlord i feel every faction is great and i'll want to play with them.
Taleworlds, dont move a muscle on this!
Every single Bannerlord faction looks better than the Warband factions IMO, Sturgia included. The art direction was spot on for bannerlord and all factions look more unique from each other, but they also all feel believable an as part of one single world.
Battania is, specially, freaking awesome, mixture of rohirrim (anglo-saxons) celts and dacians. Unlike Warband where i always went Nords, in Bannerlord i feel every faction is great and i'll want to play with them.
Taleworlds, dont move a muscle on this!
+100. I always went Rhodoks in Warband. Here, I'm having equal fun with every faction. In this most recent run, I've literally contracted out to every kingdom at some point or another and am simply living the mercenary life so I don't have to commit to one for the rest of the playthrough.
While that might be quite the task to implement in the distant future, I could see them having some sort of nord invasion mechanic.
Have the Nords land and invade the sturgians or whoever is controlling the land they start on. You could have it happen quite late in the game like say at the 100 year mark, that way the player could have a chance to make sturgia strong enough to beat the Nords back.
I don't have a comparison to other units, but I found them quite useful, they can hold a shield wall but also work as shock infantry with their two handed polearms
Sturgians are not nord, they are Kievan Rus based.
They look perfectly fine, and in fact, I applaud the attention to detail that some of them have. Levy troops were not trained armies. Levy troops had some pretty crap armor and in some cases armor and weapons was passed down through the generations. So, yeah.
They look perfectly fine, and in fact, I applaud the attention to detail that some of them have. Levy troops were not trained armies. Levy troops had some pretty crap armor and in some cases armor and weapons was passed down through the generations. So, yeah.
