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<p>Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is a bit different from other sandbox games. There are some in which the story isn’t linear, so you can more or less play it in any order while you explore the world. In others, there is no such thing as a broad story that encompasses the whole game, or if there is, it is less important than the world itself and its inhabitants: you are free to roam to discover them. What we intended to do with the original Mount & Blade, and what we are working hard to do even bigger and better in Bannerlord, is to create a game where you get to create your own story from scratch, where you make your own decisions and live through the consequences. In this week’s entry of our dev blog, we talk with one of the people responsible for creating this magic: Campaign AI Programmer, Ozan Gümüs. If we think of Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord as a “box of tools” you can use to create and live your own story, he’s one of the people who help to create and shape those tools.</p></br> [/parsehtml]Read more at: http://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/Bannerlord/Blog/68
Dev Blog 12/07/18
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Great blog and I have to agree that the actual information being provided in great. I am really looking forward to playing this when it is released.
CLANS!!!
So, does this mean the game will approach the political depth of Crusader Kings 2?
Also, What does that number 2 mean above the soldier's head icon in the lower left? Could that be the number of players in campaign? Is that Co-op related? Or is it the number of companions within the troop?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwLtyvGdNbc
So, does this mean the game will approach the political depth of Crusader Kings 2?
Also, What does that number 2 mean above the soldier's head icon in the lower left? Could that be the number of players in campaign? Is that Co-op related? Or is it the number of companions within the troop?
First, what are clans? He mentions a lot of things about clan leaders but I don't think they have ever explained what they are. Is it just another name for a faction?
Also, In the profiles of leader for one of the empires Eren obviously doesn't look Roman/Bysantine. I hope this is a Aserai general who betrayed his country or a mercenary with an interesting backstory. To have a European based faction with black generals is incredibly immersion breaking and i hope taleworlds wouldn't do this just so some SJW WSJ journalist writes a positive review about them. Also it takes away from white peoples history. Why is it racist to not have black people in European history if they historically weren't?
Also, In the profiles of leader for one of the empires Eren obviously doesn't look Roman/Bysantine. I hope this is a Aserai general who betrayed his country or a mercenary with an interesting backstory. To have a European based faction with black generals is incredibly immersion breaking and i hope taleworlds wouldn't do this just so some SJW WSJ journalist writes a positive review about them. Also it takes away from white peoples history. Why is it racist to not have black people in European history if they historically weren't?
Ki-Ok Khan
That is the player..Brendan13 said:
Brendan13 said:
Clan
noun
a group of close-knit and interrelated families (especially associated with families in the Scottish Highlands).
synonyms: group of families, sept; family, house, dynasty, tribe; kinship group
"the Macleod clan" informal a family, especially a large one. "the Kennedy clan gathered for the celebration"
a group of people with a strong common interest.
"New York's garrulous clan of artists"
synonyms: group, set, circle, clique, coterie; crowd, band; informal gang, bunch
"a clan of art collectors"
So, a Clan would be a family within a faction, more than likely, a land owning family headed by a Patron or a Matron. In many cultures, these family groups may have shared the same large dwelling, farm or villa with accompanying serfs, servants and staff.
For instance, my great grandfather, being the head of the family farm in the late 1800's was the head of our family group or clan. The family all shared one large farmhouse, including a few elderly relatives and unmarried siblings. His farmhands, who included milkmaids, wranglers, loggers, drivers etc., lived in smaller outbuildings and paid rent to the clan which in turn, paid for the property tax and mortgage.
The family head was responsible for peacekeeping within the family and all family finance. One time my great grandfather had to appear at the county courthouse to show his books as evidence to prove that the logger he shot in the leg actually was behind on rent and that he had been warned, twice (though, he was actually shot because he was beating his wife while drunk).
Ki-Ok Khan said:
Well, In the last 2 months or so I keep seeing they are fixing bugs, like the developer even said in this devblog, and I saw that in the other devblogs a few times.
They are also doing the minor stuff, such as NPC clothes, decorative elements, for immersion. And they did have a way of saying in a few devblogs in these past 2 months that they are doing stuff "to make Bannerlord complete".
All of this points out quite obviously that they are at the end cycle at the development, since these things are kept last, after the mechanics, gameplay, core elements are ironed out. (I mean, this is a normal development cycle for a game).
So yeah, I am still hoping that they will announce the release date for the game at gamescom, or a release window. Maybe the "minimal chances for a release date at Gamescom" thing is just a very elaborate mindplay on us because they know we are used to feeling "empty inside" when it comes to the release date, just to surprise the living $h1t out of us then, and maybe revive the dead soles that gave up.
At least a man dream.
It's probably the player. And besides, in case they would go full out mindless leftist SJW agenda, mods will purify it all. But I am pretty sure you are safe.Brendan13 said:
Avoid double posting.
I'm not against giving information about the creators of Bannerlord but most of us can tell that yall have barely little to nothing to show us in terms of the development. Instead of doing weekly blogs, what about biweekly or even monthly blogs instead of these bone dry development blogs each week.
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Brendan13 said:
First of all, Bannerlord is a fictional fantasy universe. Not real life. If Taleworlds has decided that in their universe that black people are able to be part of the empire then who are you to complain?
Secone of all, The armies being depicted in the photo are Aserai vs Romans. Not Vlandia. I have a hard time believing major trade hubs of ancient Rome, like Venice, Sicily, Spain, Southern france, and many other Roman cities , whos economy was heavily based on trade, had no important and quite notable foreing , trading population, mainly africans and arabs, with the random asian thrown in as, lets say, artisans and mainly in merchant quarters. The medieval world was way more diverse than the raging Alt Right who blame all their problems on the fault of "THE SJWS REEE".
Yeah, who are you to complain about TW's decision, Brendon13?
Couple of people here already stated that Eren is the player and this is 99% percent true. But Rainbow Dash, you have to butt in and write this nonsense sentence about "who are you to complain?"
Couple of people here already stated that Eren is the player and this is 99% percent true. But Rainbow Dash, you have to butt in and write this nonsense sentence about "who are you to complain?"
Rainbow Dash said:
Yes its a fantasy universe, but they have said many times it was heavily inspired from real life. Im not wasting anybody time by "Complaining" Im just giving my input and objecting to what i see as something which will severely hurt the immersion of the game.
Im not an expert on how many black people were in Europe in the 1000s but I doubt there would be a black high class nobleman. If you can prove me wrong, then this will be an interesting addition to the game as long as they don't overdo it. I didn't say anything about alt right, I just asking tale worlds to respect white history without trying to throw in black people wherever they can. Are you trying to compensate for something? Instead Filling European history with blacks, why don't you try to prove the alt right wrong by showing black history?
I'm not going to say I'm happy with it, but they're trying to keep from "spoiling" too much of the game with the blogs. That's what they say at least. I don't quite understand it because all you have to do is not read the dang blogs if you don't want to know about it. Not like they're spoiling the story anyway, it's a sandbox game.Saris said:
To me it seems they have a lot theyre not showing us but I'm hoping Gamescom can confirm that.
Bjorn The Raider said:
I explained in my last post about the complaining part. If this is the player then good I'm satisfied.
On a side note, the screenshot of the battle looks like it was taken from a spectator with time running. Along with the new time menu, does this mean a possible coop?
JuanNieve said:
This is actually a very neat idea, with lots of gameplay implications. Modders take note.
Brendan13 said:
where does that idea of a new menu comes from? Warband has the exact same feature, the only difference is that Bannerlord now has a button for it (instead or together with keyboard commands).
Stop time, normal passage of time, fast time
(space) (hold ctrl+space)
Brendan13 said:
It is the player. Look at the bottom right of the screenshot. It gives the players party size at 124 troops, which is the same number floating over Eren's head.
Kortze26 said:
That intrigued me too - looks suspiciously like you have 2 unread messages. Maybe orders/requests from the army commander.
Also, is the screen shot a deliberate question? Would you attack or leave? 309 vs 206 look good odds, but what about those two parties of Aserai (108+67=175 unengaged troops)? Both parties look close enough to join in. Are they standing off or waiting for us to commit ourselves? Hopefully the Bannerlord answer is more dangerous that the previous Warband one. It would be great to experience more complicated campaign AI.
