Large battles are still a mess. The "walking through jello" effect of troops spawning and trying to transit to a shield wall is insanely bad and the siege behavior isn't much better. The field battle AI is actually somewhat reasonable for a "normal" difficulty, but I think we need at least 1-2 more levels of more challenging ones. Already I'm getting decent enough on fully "realistic" to regularly win heavily outnumbered without a troop quality advantage. I don't flatter myself that this is because I'm top tier for the game. Battles are tactically pretty easy once you get an idea of how to strategically use geography. The AI has a massive advantage in terms of being able to micromanage squads compared to the relatively clunky human commands, but they still use pretty naive and almost entirely consistent(predictable) strategies.
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Large battles are still a mess. The "walking through jello" effect of troops spawning and trying to transit to a shield wall is insanely bad and the siege behavior isn't much better. The field battle AI is actually somewhat reasonable for a "normal" difficulty, but I think we need at least 1-2 more levels of more challenging ones. Already I'm getting decent enough on fully "realistic" to regularly win heavily outnumbered without a troop quality advantage. I don't flatter myself that this is because I'm top tier for the game. Battles are tactically pretty easy once you get an idea of how to strategically use geography. The AI has a massive advantage in terms of being able to micromanage squads compared to the relatively clunky human commands, but they still use pretty naive and almost entirely consistent(predictable) strategies.
I hope they will release a big update to compensate the long wait. Come on Taleworlds i trust in you.
Lesbosisles
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Yea, lets be honest here, we can be glad if they decreased a weapons demage -1 They'd have to release a very big patch to make up for all the eager waiting and all the hopes they destroyed over and over again
Do we have any official word on "very soon" progress?
nope
Reddit thread says maybe next week, no guarantees:
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r/mountandblade - An update on the Code Refractor... Patch maybe next week, no guarantees though!
67 votes and 24 comments so far on Reddit
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Something tells me this isn't the first big refactor they've done... which explains all the delays.
Lesbosisles
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Jesus Christ, at that point I begin to feel like I want a refund.Reddit thread says maybe next week, no guarantees:
r/mountandblade - An update on the Code Refractor... Patch maybe next week, no guarantees though!
67 votes and 24 comments so far on Reddit
Release a game in EA, saying 'there are some minor bugs and the game is almost competed' = tones of bugs and a barebone tech demo. Trying to fix these bugs in 2 months resulted in even more bugs, broken mechanics and almost 0 new content. Now they decided to redevelop the game and have tones of bugs again and I'm pretty sure that when/if this patch will ever be released, the game will be a broken mess Buggerlord. And we have to wait for almost half of the year again to receive a new autosave slot.
So we should expect the next patch, whenever it comes, to be buggy again and without any major or even minor content added?
At least I´m now not anymore exicted about the next update and will just uninstall and maybe check back in 6 months.
aBigHunkOLove
Just release another Beta Version, Players can help to find bugs
Lesbosisles
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If you count bugs as content, than we received tones of new content in three months.
Sidhwen_Khorest
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FYI Mexxico specifically stated to not quote him and that these were his personal views and not those of the company.
He did? They said they omitted the part he asked them not to repeat elsewhere, otherwise the post there reflect the news he wanted people to be aware of.
r/mountandblade - Comment by u/beans_lel on ”An update on the Code Refractor... Patch maybe next week, no guarantees though!”
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Sidhwen_Khorest
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I mean, his english isn't perfect but I read it as please do not quote any of the above comments in the forum.
That's not what he said ever in his message to the player. Not even close. The poster said he omitted the last part where he didn't want his opinions reposted.
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There was more on his personal opinion of the refractor but he did ask us not to share..
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Lesbosisles
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A week sounds way too much optimistic. If mexxico thinks that the patch MAY be released next week, then we should read it as "Maybe next month". Knowing how quick TW works. And the fact that it's going to be a broken mess again frustrates me the most, it means that these 3 months have been wasted all for nothing. Who knows, maybe later they'll decide to make a refactor again and again, and we'll play the same buggy mess over and over with a few quests and 2-3 scenes for each of the town/village and battle scenes.
Let them work. If we want a great game at the end they have to refactor some part of the game. It's early access if you can't wait or understand that the game is not ready don't buy it until it is out of early access. Refactoring means that they understand that they have done some bad things and that they want to repair it. Play another game and come back later if you are not here to support the game. Now it's time to give your opinion about the current state of the game and give advice or suggestion for the future. That's what early access is.
In long term view it's better to refactor than modify a lot of things on a crappy foundation. They need to have a "good" foundation to work properly and quicker.
In long term view it's better to refactor than modify a lot of things on a crappy foundation. They need to have a "good" foundation to work properly and quicker.
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