soul_jak
Sergeant at Arms
Okay I’m going to try my best to talk about how frustratingly **** this game is in an organized manner.
To start the idea of playing bannerlord atm always sounds fun (I currently have 1026hr in game) but the unfortunate truth is this game is never fun or enjoyable. It’s always frustrating. I’ll explain why below by starting off with features that should have been in game day one regardless of early access.
1. BETTER SERVERS
2. VOTE TO KICK
3. ROAD MAP
4. BETTER SPAWNS
5. LOADOUT
Number 1. Servers. (I’m NA btw) In the words of chowski “ur severs are dog” the amount of ping spikes, disconnects, ppl needing vpns, ur horrible server location, ur choice in server company every thing about how servers are handled is just plainly bad. I just don’t understand how a game chooses a server company who can’t even provide the basic features of 1 stable connection 2 prime locations. Before this game came out ppl said Chicago, Midwest but what do u do? Let’s split it! Altho I’m glad about west na servers the only problem is I have the choice now of 20 ping or 80 ping, and let me just say both play very differently. Why would u pick 80 ping over 20 ping jak??? Ievents or turns or pickups will always be on the east coast so there really is no point for me to get used to 20 ping. Also u ****ed NA by splitting NA in half when all we want is to play together on a central server.
Number 2. Vote to kick, let the players in each game decide who’s being toxic/trolling. It’s faster, it’s less arguments, it’ll probably free up a devs time to maybe fix the game. U guys are professional developers working for a licensed game company how the **** is this hard to do? Why is this not something in game right now?
Number 3. Roadmap. Would help keep us who bought the game to actuallysee what’s coming like the so called duel mode/battle mode. I guess over all communicate with ur player base instead of not saying anything and then guessing we all want a crossbow buff and then leave the op weapon in the game just long enough to make more players leave. Fr how many forum moderators do u guys have? And most of them I see posts always say “yeah that would be a cool idea idk what the devs are doing.”
Number 4. Better spawns. Tdm the most basic simple mode has never had any effort to fix the spawns would be nice to hop in a game and not get couched right away or have an archer shoot u in the back or spawn looking at 10 enemies. LET SKIRMISH AND SIEGE PICK OUR SPAWN LOCATIONS fr I’m tired of this run run run run oh wait we lost to moral cuz we spawned farthest point away from the flag.
Number 5. The good ol equipment pick. Classes work for captain (later we will talk about balancing these modes separately) but for skirmish siege and tdm and duels plz plz plz let us create our own load outs this is not apex/over watch/ 3 lane map bs u can make esports but stop with this **** plz
Now for balancing and combat, I understands there’s a lot of variables that come into play during combat but fr this shouldn’t be some crazy science stuff to get consistent combat. Relative movement speed? Weapon weight? Swing speed? Stance? What god u worship???? No wonder ppl say combat feels rng cuz it basically is with all this. Right swing with a western sword can do 15-80 dmg (talking about same swing on the same opponent doing different dmg) how is this no different then rolling 80 sided dice. Also balance captain and skirmish differently ur patches that fix skirm breaks captain, ur captain patch brakes skirmish stop thinking that two different modes will work with the same class, it’s like going into a new relationship thinking ur new gf will like all the same **** ur ex liked. IT WONT WORK! Change the class names and looks for the different modes to justify the different weapon stats OR U COULD JUST DO THE FAR BETTER WARBAND EQUIPMENT LOADOUT THAT EVERYONE LOVED TO SKIRMISH AND SIEGE. Just saying.
And to finally end this very well educated informed rant on a somber note... custom servers. To the devs reading this just answer one question why are custom servers not a thing? I want to enjoy this game but it’s just not fun to play anymore, every balance patch that comes out always breaks something else, na wants to do big events like the eu servers have but any effort from our side has always ended up being ghosted yet eu has had 3-4 of these private servers events now? Meanwhile na has be split in two and other places like SA don’t even get a server.
Oh yeah and remember duel mode and battle mode? I do. How hard is it to implement the “press f to duel” in duel server.
I really really want bannerlord to be the best game it can be but atm moment there are too many nails in the coffin so till then I’ll be seeing u all in Valheim
To start the idea of playing bannerlord atm always sounds fun (I currently have 1026hr in game) but the unfortunate truth is this game is never fun or enjoyable. It’s always frustrating. I’ll explain why below by starting off with features that should have been in game day one regardless of early access.
1. BETTER SERVERS
2. VOTE TO KICK
3. ROAD MAP
4. BETTER SPAWNS
5. LOADOUT
Number 1. Servers. (I’m NA btw) In the words of chowski “ur severs are dog” the amount of ping spikes, disconnects, ppl needing vpns, ur horrible server location, ur choice in server company every thing about how servers are handled is just plainly bad. I just don’t understand how a game chooses a server company who can’t even provide the basic features of 1 stable connection 2 prime locations. Before this game came out ppl said Chicago, Midwest but what do u do? Let’s split it! Altho I’m glad about west na servers the only problem is I have the choice now of 20 ping or 80 ping, and let me just say both play very differently. Why would u pick 80 ping over 20 ping jak??? Ievents or turns or pickups will always be on the east coast so there really is no point for me to get used to 20 ping. Also u ****ed NA by splitting NA in half when all we want is to play together on a central server.
Number 2. Vote to kick, let the players in each game decide who’s being toxic/trolling. It’s faster, it’s less arguments, it’ll probably free up a devs time to maybe fix the game. U guys are professional developers working for a licensed game company how the **** is this hard to do? Why is this not something in game right now?
Number 3. Roadmap. Would help keep us who bought the game to actuallysee what’s coming like the so called duel mode/battle mode. I guess over all communicate with ur player base instead of not saying anything and then guessing we all want a crossbow buff and then leave the op weapon in the game just long enough to make more players leave. Fr how many forum moderators do u guys have? And most of them I see posts always say “yeah that would be a cool idea idk what the devs are doing.”
Number 4. Better spawns. Tdm the most basic simple mode has never had any effort to fix the spawns would be nice to hop in a game and not get couched right away or have an archer shoot u in the back or spawn looking at 10 enemies. LET SKIRMISH AND SIEGE PICK OUR SPAWN LOCATIONS fr I’m tired of this run run run run oh wait we lost to moral cuz we spawned farthest point away from the flag.
Number 5. The good ol equipment pick. Classes work for captain (later we will talk about balancing these modes separately) but for skirmish siege and tdm and duels plz plz plz let us create our own load outs this is not apex/over watch/ 3 lane map bs u can make esports but stop with this **** plz
Now for balancing and combat, I understands there’s a lot of variables that come into play during combat but fr this shouldn’t be some crazy science stuff to get consistent combat. Relative movement speed? Weapon weight? Swing speed? Stance? What god u worship???? No wonder ppl say combat feels rng cuz it basically is with all this. Right swing with a western sword can do 15-80 dmg (talking about same swing on the same opponent doing different dmg) how is this no different then rolling 80 sided dice. Also balance captain and skirmish differently ur patches that fix skirm breaks captain, ur captain patch brakes skirmish stop thinking that two different modes will work with the same class, it’s like going into a new relationship thinking ur new gf will like all the same **** ur ex liked. IT WONT WORK! Change the class names and looks for the different modes to justify the different weapon stats OR U COULD JUST DO THE FAR BETTER WARBAND EQUIPMENT LOADOUT THAT EVERYONE LOVED TO SKIRMISH AND SIEGE. Just saying.
And to finally end this very well educated informed rant on a somber note... custom servers. To the devs reading this just answer one question why are custom servers not a thing? I want to enjoy this game but it’s just not fun to play anymore, every balance patch that comes out always breaks something else, na wants to do big events like the eu servers have but any effort from our side has always ended up being ghosted yet eu has had 3-4 of these private servers events now? Meanwhile na has be split in two and other places like SA don’t even get a server.
Oh yeah and remember duel mode and battle mode? I do. How hard is it to implement the “press f to duel” in duel server.
I really really want bannerlord to be the best game it can be but atm moment there are too many nails in the coffin so till then I’ll be seeing u all in Valheim