Dev Blog 26/04/18

[parsehtml]<p><img class="frame" src="https://www.taleworlds.com/Images/News/blog_post_37_taleworldswebsite.jpg" alt="" width="575" height="290" /></p> <p>In this week’s blog, we would like to wrap-up our overview of the various weapons which you will have at your disposal in Bannerlord by introducing you to the selection of ranged weapons which the game has to offer.</p></br> [/parsehtml]Read more at: http://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/Bannerlord/Blog/57

 

[Hulagu]

Most of people in this blog are so inpatient as me but this is just for we love this game. It is not right to make pressure to developers and trying to rush them, unfourtunetly only option for us is waiting. However for alleviating our curiosity and excitement you can post some gifs, photos our short videos like others have already mentioned.

 

[Ettenrocal]

Every people waiting for Bannerlord deserve a MEDAL !

 

[xLeSZcZx]

,,(gameplay should always trump realism!)"

And another hit in tha face against some realism-thirsty guys. 

,,...we know that some people would like (or even expect) to see arrows and bolts bouncing off thick armour and helmets (...) However, we think that this simply isn’t fun for anyone playing as a ranged unit..."

That's right, it's not World of Tanks. 

And people, please... stop crying about release date, gap fillers etc, etc...
I remember, when TW didn't gave us even a smelliest info about the game, so appreciate, what you have, because they could simply be quiet.

,,Give them a finger and they'll want whole hand" - perfect words to describe your behavior guys...

 

[Bustah]

Seriously? What a disappointment. Give us real info.

Snipped the flaming.

 

[Intel Guardian]

bit salty

 

[Ki-Ok Khan]

Seriously? What a ****ing disappointment. Give us real info or shut the hell up, for real. "Hey guys we just wanted to let you know through this DEVELOPER's blog (you know, where we're supposed to tell you about how we are DEVELOPING new things) that we actually haven't added anything new. We need more than 6 years to add new weapon types... it just takes so long! So uh, yeah. Stones. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Very funny. One more thing, **** you. See ya next week!"

You guys suck cock honestly. Lazy ****s.

Why do not you calm down and explain yourself in a more humane way , without insulting anybody?

 

[Duchess Skye]

,,...we know that some people would like (or even expect) to see arrows and bolts bouncing off thick armour and helmets (...) However, we think that this simply isn’t fun for anyone playing as a ranged unit..."

Those ****ers deserve no **** satisfaction playing that **** class.

You cannot play something that doesn't involve a shield with them around. Heavy armor? Nope, go eat ****, cause arrows. Good luck playing anything that's not 1h + shield in MP. At least make sure guys with heavy armor have a use of it, and not make them grab a shield all the time

 

[Coltwb]

Disappointing.

Over 6 years development, and we have rocks.

Over 6 years development and we have same weapons as warband.

I don't understand how people still are waiting for this thing. 2 years ago it was announced, and 6 in development and content you give us is about the same weapons as warband. If i remember correctly, we had slings there.

How is it possible? Where is something new that is not repeated over again. In trailer we saw brand new mechanics and graphics and in blog we saw them again. Did interview everyone, discussed almost everything what is in warband.

You are being mocked on reddit, steam, and even here. Do you even read whatever people try to say? I was right when i said that Kingdom come: Deliverance would come out sooner. They even patched the half game and delivered brand new content.

Why would you even make this blog? ' "Our medieval battle game contains various forms of ranged weapons, such as BOWS (WOW!), JAVELINS (OMG REALLY?), CROSSBOWS!! (WHAT!! NO WAY!!!), " etc.' This is what the whole steam is filled with.

I believe that this game won't live to the hype, the hype died with every blog. At least you should have waited for the announcement till the game was at least somehow finished. 6 years scratching balls... 

 

[Coltwb]

,,(gameplay should always trump realism!)"

And another hit in tha face against some realism-thirsty guys. 

,,...we know that some people would like (or even expect) to see arrows and bolts bouncing off thick armour and helmets (...) However, we think that this simply isn’t fun for anyone playing as a ranged unit..."

That's right, it's not World of Tanks. 

And people, please... stop crying about release date, gap fillers etc, etc...
I remember, when TW didn't gave us even a smelliest info about the game, so appreciate, what you have, because they could simply be quiet.

,,Give them a finger and they'll want whole hand" - perfect words to describe your behavior guys...

AHAHAHAHAHA and now they give us stones... and pitch forks... i think it would be better if they just stop. **** it. I already know enough about warband, dont need a repeating lessons.

 

[SenorZorros]

,,...we know that some people would like (or even expect) to see arrows and bolts bouncing off thick armour and helmets (...) However, we think that this simply isn’t fun for anyone playing as a ranged unit..."

Those ****ers deserve no **** satisfaction playing that **** class.

You cannot play something that doesn't involve a shield with them around. Heavy armor? Nope, go eat ****, cause arrows. Good luck playing anything that's not 1h + shield in MP. At least make sure guys with heavy armor have a use of it, and not make them grab a shield all the time

but haven't you heard? mount and blade is not world of tanks. It's call of duty.
...
it is a shame. Now I understand why you might not want to make archers the entirely realistic close-range or great luck affair but it would be sad to see them be op. It also doesn't help archery isn't that fun to fight against.
It would be a lot better if they would do rather little damage and the archers would have to rely on either having a good position, kiting and outmaneuvering the opponent or using the bow so soften up targets and then attack in their realistic and appropriate mail armour with their realistic and appropriate weapons and shields.

 

[zdsdead]

This is beyond pathetic, now TW, i  mean WTF was that supposed to be?

come clean this is vaporware now, Fgs

 

[Bailian]

Look, I love M&B and what you guys are doing, and I hate to be that guy; I feel bad for complaining, but these last 2 blogs were a bit of a joke

Next to 0 effort is going into these blogs - no proper pictures, no GIFs, no videos, just a wall of text telling everybody everything they likely already know or have no interest in (check other comments for reference)

Even if you have ran out of stuff to talk about, why not just give us in game pictures? They don't even need to be relevant to the blogs - just a bit of eye candy to keep us going

Lack of information could easily be remedied by visual pleasures

People are waiting every week for you to release something, only to be, for the most part, utterly disappointed.

I checked all comments on these threads to see if it was just me being petty, turns out maybe it isn't?

A lot of people in your community are laughing at you, literally.

You are not the only one complaining. But you are one of many few. Of all the thousands and thousands waiting for bannerlord, only a hundred are complaining. And I dont see whats there to complain about. And I dont think anyone is laughing either

I'm referring more to the hardcore fans & forum members, the ones who comment on the posts every week giving their feedback, the ones interested enough to be reading and discussing the blogs. Out of the 6 pages of comments for this blog, a lot of them are complaints.

And people are laughing, check the comments, people are making pictures of the predicted future blogs - these are jokes, people are laughing at the jokes made referencing the poor effort going into these blogs, which suggests they have some truth to them.

If you don't see what there is to complain about then I respect that, as it is your opinion. I wish I was as content as you reading such blogs.

 

[Ki-Ok Khan]

,,...we know that some people would like (or even expect) to see arrows and bolts bouncing off thick armour and helmets (...) However, we think that this simply isn’t fun for anyone playing as a ranged unit..."

Those ****ers deserve no **** satisfaction playing that **** class.

You cannot play something that doesn't involve a shield with them around. Heavy armor? Nope, go eat ****, cause arrows. Good luck playing anything that's not 1h + shield in MP. At least make sure guys with heavy armor have a use of it, and not make them grab a shield all the time

It does not mean that while you are wearing heavy armor you will receive the full hit point of the projectile thrown off at you. You will probably still get the animation of being hit(maybe a softened animation depending on if they used IK with this or not , so you wont get stunned) but most likely you will receive either 0 hit point or close to none depending on where you get hit from. That is just my interpretation tho.

 

[Intel Guardian]

,,...we know that some people would like (or even expect) to see arrows and bolts bouncing off thick armour and helmets (...) However, we think that this simply isn’t fun for anyone playing as a ranged unit..."

Those ****ers deserve no **** satisfaction playing that **** class.

You cannot play something that doesn't involve a shield with them around. Heavy armor? Nope, go eat ****, cause arrows. Good luck playing anything that's not 1h + shield in MP. At least make sure guys with heavy armor have a use of it, and not make them grab a shield all the time

It does not mean that while you are wearing heavy armor you will receive the full hit point of the projectile thrown off at you. You will probably still get the animation of being hit(maybe a softened animation depending on if they used IK with this or not , so you wont get stunned) but most likely you will receive either 0 hit point or close to none depending on where you get hit from. That is just my interpretation tho.

It'll probably be like Warband, where you take damage from low tier archers even with full plate, which is a bit pathetic really considering that you can't even use plate in native MP servers and next to nobody in singleplayer uses it. Hopefully armour will be treated more like how it is in 1257 AD, where it actually protects you, and fighting against enemies wearing mail and gambeson is actually a challenge. It can easily be balanced by only top tier soldiers wearing it, and it being considerably expensive in MP.

 

[ShadowOfTheWest]

I was just wondering on whether or not the devs are planning to add mod support for large units (charge/impact bonuses and larger attack/threat area for trolls and giants, for example). I could just imagine the thrill of fielding (or playing as) such creatures on a LoTR and other fantasy mods!

 

[Plebsi]

Taleworlds, when are you going to tell us the price of Bannerlord ? or at least give us a price range ?

 

[kalarhan]

and fighting against enemies wearing mail and gambeson is actually a challenge

well plate will likely be rare (if exists at all) as the game is about 200 years before Warband timeline (and about 6 to 12th century on our timeline). So enemies with mail (also know as chainmail in popular culture) wont have the same level of protection as in Warband. Xbow should be quite lethal as well.

 

[Intel Guardian]

I know that plate didn't exist around the period Bannerlord is set (I would imagine it's about 1066), in fact it's even anachronistic for the original Mount & Blade, which is supposedly set around the mid 1200s. The thing I'm bringing up is that Taleworlds rarely depicts armour realistically, which I hope changes. A few mods for Warband show that a (semi-)realistic approach can still be fun and balanced, at least for singleplayer. They could just leave top tier armour out of MP if they can't balance it properly, which is what they did for plate anyway.

 

[BayBear]

隐藏

and fighting against enemies wearing mail and gambeson is actually a challenge

well plate will likely be rare (if exists at all) as the game is about 200 years before Warband timeline (and about 6 to 12th century on our timeline). So enemies with mail (also know as chainmail in popular culture) wont have the same level of protection as in Warband. Xbow should be quite lethal as well.

I would be surprised if Bannerlord has any plate armour at all due to the time period. We haven’t seen any so far.

 

[Hulagu]

隐藏

and fighting against enemies wearing mail and gambeson is actually a challenge

well plate will likely be rare (if exists at all) as the game is about 200 years before Warband timeline (and about 6 to 12th century on our timeline). So enemies with mail (also know as chainmail in popular culture) wont have the same level of protection as in Warband. Xbow should be quite lethal as well.

I would be surprised if Bannerlord has any plate armour at all due to the time period. We haven’t seen any so far.

Even Vlandians don't have plate armour as I realized and developers are looking more serious about historical consistency.