without the bugs gettin the mace isn't all that hard, u just have to anticipate the intelligence thresholds, and, avoid the freking bugs, altho after getting it, I don't feel good at all, Kiev, which was my fief under the polish guy we do the quests for, was auto-seized by some random lord under his command, after that I thought "oh no problem I get it back", I've managed to get around 500 great units within Kiev to avoid losing it, after all under the context the city represents the Black Mace, but then, after becoming the ultimate marshall under Cossak leader rule, I've rushed to get my city back, spent tons of resources on it, time to build up the garrisson and upgraded it to the ultimate city, and what did I get? A freaking NO! to having my city back, ok, the main problem was, I had to rebel, and could not turn back into the oath cuz that fagg would not accept it...
Then the fun begun, the game bugged like hell, all Cossak lords would follow me, and for each battle I would take, all other lords around would side of me, imagine that there were around 1500 men to their side and I had 127, even with this favorable exploit, it would take ages to finish them off, and, my intention was always to become the ultimate cossak, not a king, cuz I'm sick of the retarded system for the player when he's a king, the only thing that would possibly allow that is Diplomacy, which does not exist for Fire & Sword...
The meaning of all this babble is: Althought TaleWorlds added actual quest content to the Mount & Blade series, the game is so limited, so bugged and so unbalanced, that the only thing I concluded is that they have one of the worst Leading Designers on the market, either that, or they do not have a Game Designer at all. Main quests are broken, the rewards are laughable and the game became completely pointless once I saw all that "U lost all ur progress and u can't do nothing about it! Now u depend on our precisely calculated dumb AI to aquire your things back, and that mace u had all that trouble to get, well, it does not add **** to you besides a 50 men"
I've felt like being pranked by TW, srsly, the Mace is cool, but far from being a reward for winning a rebellion, losing all ur fiefs, and having gigantic battles of 250 men against you with at most 110 men if u are focusing on Charisma only. "They say that who ever holds the mace is unbeatable", yeah, like having 50 dmg with the range of ur cock and +50 men would make any difference when u have to face whole armies...
Another retarded thing is that auto-resolve system, so, if I stand none of my men die, but if I fall, even not being the surgeon, I get like 15 to 50% of my men killed automatically, even if they are 50 against 3 remaining on the battlefield when I get one shoted. But it doesn't stop there, to avoid one shots one must focus Strenght with Iron Skin, but through the quest I AM FORCED to upgrade only charisma - leadership so I can have even a slight chance of winning battles during the rebellion, I mean, this game is completely broken and can't be called a game at all, TW should've maintained the Sand-Box style, their incompetence to make an actual game goes beyond the most obscure and underground Korean developers.... And the most sad thing is, the game is actually so bad that tis' being out for around a Year and it has no online guides, the most game breaking bugs aren't fixed, and the greatest M&B series modders don't even touch WFaS....
Just to add into my frustration, making the best of thei whinning, the performance issues are still here, the game still can't handle multithreading there are insane FPS drops, etc...
But what to expect from a indie game that went on sell in Steam for like 2 bucks, I mean, I shouldn't be that mad, but I am, because WB is way better, and I mean, by far, from what WFaS is, and WFaS is NEW... Better game they said, their little treasure they said. A ****ing piece of **** mod for the old game I say...
