I would also love to see some differences between the cultures. Something for example what would make you feel like you are actually playing some kind of a nomad styled facton. At Warband, especially viking conquest I loved all the small talks and different portraits and pictures while some important events were happening.
Bannerlord needs some features which will literally throw you in a world and culture you picked up,you want to feel that "Your parents were nobles who sat at one table with the Khan". Maybe different customs or maybe different content for Khanate and different for a Kingdom. You want to feel that you are leader of a tribe, leader of people and not just gathering influence to own as many settlements as you are able to. When they announced that, they will add tribes to bannerlord, I was hoping for some minor differences like:
- (mostly) Northern Sturgians would be more Norwegian and Swedish oriented with all the Ironage Vendel helmets or later Gjermundbu helmet
- (mostly) Eastern Sturgians would be more Slavic influenced as for example Kievan Rus, wearing mostly svitas, caftans, Chernaya mogila helmets and lamellar armor
And same things goes with other factions. I know its fantasy game with some history influences, but I expected bigger variety of armors (some craftable variants of helmets would be amazing), weapons (variety of decorations for carolingians swords and nomad sabres), more casual clothes and expensive materials like brocade (or maybe craftable belt garniture with different decorations and applications). Maybe all of this would be great for some upcoming DLCs.
It also needs as most of you said; more immersion and depth, because connecting small things together makes large and difficult content to shine. This is what I expected from a game of this caliber.
On the other hand I truly understand that this is early access and priority number one is to hunt all the bugs,crashes and balance the game correctly, but yet, this is not a beta version or early release. This is a game we all paid for. I wish only the best to TaleWorlds team and I hope they are reading the forum from time to time.