Anyone can understand the point you're making. Will it help anyone? No. That's why, for the sake of the casual players without massive ego's, TW should do something about it. The enormously talented and mechanically skilled skirmish players can keep playing skirmish and nobody loses anything. Whats the problem?
Here is who it will help: the developers. The developers are reading the complaints of the Captain's mode players who are phrasing and presenting their arguments in a manner that paints the game of Captain's mode as a mode that is intrinsically flawed due to the intrinsically unbalanced mechanics and parameters of the game.
This is not true.
The mechanics of Captain's mode are more or less balanced aside from a few quirks of the AI. The
skill differential between Captain's mode players and Skirmish mode players is what lends the
false assumption that there is an imbalance with the game mechanics.
And here is the problem with the argument that I have seen parroted here many times by several different people of
"this is a casual gamemode, please save us from the big mean skirmish players!".
If this is indeed a casual game mode, then
why does there exist entire clans and teams which play this game mode exclusively?
If this is indeed a casual game mode, then
why does there exist several tournaments which have cash prize pools which are actually greater in value than any skirmish league tournaments?
If this is indeed nothing but a casual game mode, then why does there exist among many members of your community a sense of pride in which they brag about the tournament exploits of their Captain's clan, and a type of
braggadocious swagger as they describe themselves as a "competitive Captain's mode player" ?
Are these factors not the
antithesis of what you would expect from a "casual" game mode?
Here is the truth of the matter. You Captain's mode players who are so eager to denigrate competitive Skirmish mode players by tossing out the cheap accusation that we have oversized ego's are truly, and ironically the ones with the massive egotistical complex. You want to call yourselves good at something, competitive players in this Captain's game mode, and you succeeded in your endeavor up until the point that you faced true skill.
Skill is not something that can be accumulated from mindless mosh-pits of inf fights, or learning how to time your swing on horseback to kill brainless AI. It's something that is garnered over months and years of grinding. When I am an archer, in an average "casual" RaT party pickup (which people play non-seriously for fun), I am facing a team of six other thinking, strategizing, human beings who are giving me #1 prioritization trying to kill me. Between them, on average, exists 6000-7000 skirmish games where they have likely outplayed tens of thousands of archers over tens of thousands of situations, these archers also being thinking, strategizing, human beings trying to kill their opponent and not die. In addition to this, a facet widespread in the actual competitive Bannerlord community, exists the fact that the six people I am facing likely have between them, on average, 10-15 thousand hours in Warband, often competitive Warband, where they faced an
even higher level of competition and strategy than Bannerlord has ever offered during its existence (and probably ever will). During this period of competitive play, they killed
tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of archers between them, meaning they outplayed archers over
hundreds of thousands of potential situations, and here I am, with a bow, and I have to avoid these six players and outplay the multitude of strategies they can bring against me with this experience, and I certainly do not have a squad of bots to save me. You Captain's mode players, in your facile complacency, expected to be able to go toe to toe with these individuals who have spent veritable years sharpening their skills off of each other, more akin and less than kind to a flintknapper, breaking off pieces of their soul, struggling through the cognitive dissonance of loss, and having the courage -- or the plain stubbornness, to face the same situations over and over again until they become less of a man and more of an edge fit to cut through any competition that faces them.
And you all have proven that you will never be as effective competitors as they are. Do you want to know why? Because you have MASSIVE egos. When a true competitive skirmish player takes a loss,
they swallow their pride, admit their defeat, and then have the courage to face their vanquisher again and again until they have improved enough to claim victory. You on the other hand, as a community, have
taken the coward's route, the route of women, and instead of admitting you were bested and taking a deep look at the problems you have as players, you instead blame the game and make forum threads like petulant children demanding that the game be fixed.
You don't even know what you want. There is no manner that you can patch this mode and still have it be a skill-based mode that is not entirely dependent on faction matchup and luck, that you will
ever be able to best the superior competitors that will come from
actual multiplayer modes. You are glorified singleplayer players and
I petition that your entire game mode should be moved to the singleplayer menu, so people
do not confuse it with an actual multiplayer PVP experience.
Sad!
