https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBp1EtBtG8g&t=1450s
Like most of you, I was really excited to see all the new gameplay footage to come out of Gamescom. While seeing the campaign in action was great, through all the videos I saw on YouTube I found one that caught my attention for all the wrong reasons.
Near the end of this interview with Rocket Beans, they start to talk about the map editor, and how you can build your own castles. This wasn't new info, they've talked about this before in dev blogs, but when one of the interviewers starts to get giddy with the thought of building your own castle on the map (something they've said you can do all the way back in 2015), Armagan and Paul drop a bomb when they say that you can't actually do that.
When did they cut this? Did they say this was being cut? Honestly, I knew everything about this game was too good to be true, and at some point along the development process something was gonna get dropped. It's pretty disappointing, cause this is something I was looking forward to, as making physical changes to the map and impacting it in a tangible way seemed really cool. The sad part is that the guy who asked about it even said something along the lines of "Wow, imagine if you could do that? That would be a great feature!"
This also opens up a whole new can of worms. Is settlement and castle wall upgrading cut too? Is everything regarding settlement upgrading reverting back to how it is in Warband? It's a pretty big letdown for me, hopefully they're not hiding any other cut features, and as much as I want to be optimistic I doubt this'll be making a return in some sort of update or DLC. I'm no modder, so I have no idea how much time, effort, and skill it would take to mod something that game-changing in either.
Like most of you, I was really excited to see all the new gameplay footage to come out of Gamescom. While seeing the campaign in action was great, through all the videos I saw on YouTube I found one that caught my attention for all the wrong reasons.
Near the end of this interview with Rocket Beans, they start to talk about the map editor, and how you can build your own castles. This wasn't new info, they've talked about this before in dev blogs, but when one of the interviewers starts to get giddy with the thought of building your own castle on the map (something they've said you can do all the way back in 2015), Armagan and Paul drop a bomb when they say that you can't actually do that.
When did they cut this? Did they say this was being cut? Honestly, I knew everything about this game was too good to be true, and at some point along the development process something was gonna get dropped. It's pretty disappointing, cause this is something I was looking forward to, as making physical changes to the map and impacting it in a tangible way seemed really cool. The sad part is that the guy who asked about it even said something along the lines of "Wow, imagine if you could do that? That would be a great feature!"
This also opens up a whole new can of worms. Is settlement and castle wall upgrading cut too? Is everything regarding settlement upgrading reverting back to how it is in Warband? It's a pretty big letdown for me, hopefully they're not hiding any other cut features, and as much as I want to be optimistic I doubt this'll be making a return in some sort of update or DLC. I'm no modder, so I have no idea how much time, effort, and skill it would take to mod something that game-changing in either.