Dear TaleWorlds,
It wasn't lost on me that with your "Development Update #1" where you play-tested MP with "people from the community" you probably meant people who played Warband as literal children and now having just become adults are still children and therefore like playing hours on end with a pulse at ~>150 and are getting quickly bored with realistic fighting animation-delays and cooldowns. I just wanna say I don't need Bannerlord in my life, I don't need it to survive NOR having fun. I have around 300 games on steam alone and there are other medieval sandboxes.
If you're planning on bringing back the feint-spam from Warband to MP I'm gone. Even if you're doing it "only" to MP. I play SP to be immersed yes, but also to practice for MP. I noticed that combat AI has made a good leap in 1.4.3 as opposed to 1-2 months ago. I like that, but if SP and MP diverge too much I'm gone, too as it's useless to only keep fighting bots forever. You started out great, now don't **** it up. Pondering to kids with high pulse addiction will make you lose the rest of us. Give them custom dedicated servers and let them mod their hardcore mode, everything else, and people like me - and I'm going to argue most of the 10s of 1000s of new buyers you reached with BL - will leave for good.
Don't make MP into something only <22y.o. can enjoy and don't make SP and MP diverge too much from each other. Thank you. Up until I see this go wrong I will trust you have the best interest of the game at heart and that I only heard fake news.
EDIT:
My arguments and opinions about version 1.5 in this thread in summary:
It wasn't lost on me that with your "Development Update #1" where you play-tested MP with "people from the community" you probably meant people who played Warband as literal children and now having just become adults are still children and therefore like playing hours on end with a pulse at ~>150 and are getting quickly bored with realistic fighting animation-delays and cooldowns. I just wanna say I don't need Bannerlord in my life, I don't need it to survive NOR having fun. I have around 300 games on steam alone and there are other medieval sandboxes.
If you're planning on bringing back the feint-spam from Warband to MP I'm gone. Even if you're doing it "only" to MP. I play SP to be immersed yes, but also to practice for MP. I noticed that combat AI has made a good leap in 1.4.3 as opposed to 1-2 months ago. I like that, but if SP and MP diverge too much I'm gone, too as it's useless to only keep fighting bots forever. You started out great, now don't **** it up. Pondering to kids with high pulse addiction will make you lose the rest of us. Give them custom dedicated servers and let them mod their hardcore mode, everything else, and people like me - and I'm going to argue most of the 10s of 1000s of new buyers you reached with BL - will leave for good.
Don't make MP into something only <22y.o. can enjoy and don't make SP and MP diverge too much from each other. Thank you. Up until I see this go wrong I will trust you have the best interest of the game at heart and that I only heard fake news.
EDIT:
My arguments and opinions about version 1.5 in this thread in summary:
Same here. As 1.5 is now I don't like it, as you need hyper awareness for every tiny moment in the fight. I can manage 2-4 fights winning around 50% but it's just less enjoyable if you rely on these even if short moments where you catch your breath in the fight and the heart rate relaxes a little because you just blocked your opponent and he needs to wait for his cooldown to expire to start the next attack or he just feinted and needs to restart the next attack with more delay. It's absolutely just more stressful. Older players especially will not like this change, as in general they recover slower from physical and mental stress, and to be completely honest, this is both. I'm not saying BL before 1.5 is stressless, because it isn't, but there is a better balance, and these "moments" I mentioned help with the recovery a lot and contribute to me having more relaxed and dominant situations. And yea yea, I get it, ha-ha, I'm old I'm 36, not that old. But please everyone dive into the schadenfreude, I know what I get myself into when I post stuff. I could proabably get used to it if I really wanted, I'm a gamer for around 25-30 years, I can adjust to some extent. But this will not contribute to me playing MP more often probably. And I very much doubt it's healthier. But if you're younger you certainly notice the difference to a much lower extent.
You need to pay more attention. You don't know where the next hit lands. The less reaction time you have the more stressful it will be. Not saying that it can't be satisfying but it needs balance and in my opinion in this patch it's out of that balance.
Yea, concentration, I like concentration. Overboard concentration borders into stress. Pretty seemless even. I'm not saying I don't like some stressful moments, but there are certainly more in 1.5 than before. It's not a it-has or it-hasn't situation, it's a spectrum, fine-grained. And I think it's too much in this update. That's what I will say.
Last edited: