Just bought the game, played around 6 hours so far. For me, it's BORING. Armor sucks, You cant do much but chases down looters that are stupidly fast for some reason and you cant do anything but chase down looters to build your renown.
Now instead of recruiting from villages, you have this stupid mechanic of people owning the people you want to recruit into your warband. Meaning that if they don't like you? sorry, bud better drag your sorry butt around the map to a different city or village if you want to have the capability to wage to war.
Wages are paid daily instead of a weekly basis, dont know why they changed that, I prefer having time to procure funds needed to have a warband if I dont have the funds on hand to do so currently.
The market sucks, why cant we just have the same marketplace system like in warband? Armor merchant sells armor, weapons merchant sells merchant, etc so why is it all combined together? I paid 40 dollars for this, I dont want to scroll down everytime to look for something that I want.
The skills are quite confusing, I dont know what to invest in fear of messing up my game so I havent put anything into well, anything. It's not anything at all like warband where we had a straight forward skill system where it just told you everything whenever you hovered your mouse above it.
Your slow if you dont have any horses in your party, which brings me back to the sentence about skills above, where the heck is the pathfinder skill? leadership? It was so straightforward and taleworlds took it out the back and essentially shot it to bits and peices.
Days pass by fast for some absurd reason, why cant the days be slow like in warband?
Because of the daily wage and the absurd cost of mercs I cant hire any of them because I will simply not have enough money to pay them. I cant attack caravans or villages because for some reason, they have millita and cavalry that can kill my troops easily my troops which mind you, take a bit to level up, and I cant level them up because those looters, the only safe bet to level up my troops, always run and are absurdly fast. It's a loop, unless I get lucky, I have trash tier mob troops against enemies that can deal decent damage to me, I cant level them up, I spend way to much time chasing looters who 60 percent of the time manage to escape from me.
The only reason why I currently had any success in my current and first run was simply because I got lucky. After 5 hours of running around and grinding on the map, I finally reached clan level 1 and could then become a merc. I sold my sword to the southern empire and ran into a caravan, a caravan that had a ton of cavalry that would have taken me out in a fair fight, which is pathetic because I had 40 and they had 40. (For some reason the enemy ai, even looters can deal some serious damage to me even when I have armor on,so that's another problem.) The only reason I managed to beat them was because another party that had like 79 guys were nearby and decided to help me out. I managed to beat the caravan took all of their ****, and managed to sell them for a profit. I managed to come out with 10k in my purse that day.
Speaking of mercenary work, Influence points are ****ing stupid. Pay me money, I dont need points, I need money, points are just stupid and pointless, give me cash, Cash gives me the ability to do the one fun thing in this game, to wage war. And even then, Im not having that much fun, Im getting taken out with ease if um not careful, my troops cant level up because looters are stupidly fast, and as a result I cant catch them to both level up my troops and make money, and without money I cant buy horses to move faster, which in turn prevents me from chasing looters, I CANT DO ANYTHING, UNLESS PRAY THAT I GET LUCKY.
This isnt fun, it isnt like warband at all, It has all these stupid mechanics that are useless, and terrible. It feels like a rebellious **** head of a kid that went no! screw you dad! I'm going to do my own thing! It's basically boruto, nobody likes him, he's riding of the coattails of his old man, and is just generally a **** head.
Well at least its like that to me.Warband was so magical because it was so simple, and in that simplicity it did so many things right. I feel like if bannerlord didn't have any new features and was literally warband but better graphics and engine, it would have done a lot better.Now, I know banner lord isn't warband, but thats the PROBLEM. It isnt. For me, warband was a masterpiece, even though the graphics were terrible it was still fun. This game COULD have been a magnum opus of taleworlds, but it wasn't. It isnt. I feel like a disappointed parent, I cant even get angry anymore, I just want to turn off the game and go play warband instead whenever the above mentioned problems hit me once more.
The days are to fast. Enemies to fast, to strong and money is a commodity that is hard to yet so easy and fast to lose. Thats Why it feels so souless, it's not fun. And whats up with you getting a banner straight away? It feels like a cop out. It feels to insincere. Like its playing it safe or something.
Well, at least thats my take. I know very well that people aren't me, and they have different opinions, it's probably just me with these problems, but I generally think this is why bannerlord isnt fun for me. I'll put it like this. I have a sword, it's blunt. I have no money and no whetstone. My profession is war and I kill people for money, I cant kill people with a blunt sword now can I? The mechanics are taxes, I have no money, and whenever I do make money i lose it, limiting my ability to get that damn whetstone and making my life miserable.
Also the 40 dollar price tag is absurd. This is game is simply not worth 40 dollars, Now warband? that was worth 40 dollars.
Thats my take on the matter at least. So I'm probably wrong on a lot of things.