Some criticisms

[SenorZorros]

eeh, you lost your memories? there was massive outrage.
And I'd say bad graphics are rather relevant...

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Looks fine to me, to be honest. The armour is decent and it doesn't look too out of place for the series, M&B has never been a 'realistic' game, more like very low fantasy but surely not realistic. This is kinda trivial. Running out of stuff to talk about?

Realism isn't the problem. Some real world armour looks ridiculous.

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In fact, bad design can be more easily excused when the game is realistic. But when you have teams of people whose job it is to make things look ergonomic and aesthetically appealing, there's no excuse for it to look like this. It's several layers of fur, randomly interspersed pads of leather and scale, belts galore, and a chestplate. If anybody historically wore this armour I would still not want it in the game.

Here are some armours from warband which look just as bad if not worse from a design standpoint, even though they're based off real world armour.

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[Life_Erikson]

I think the only real problem with it is that it is way too bulky. Those metal and leather pieces look far to thick. Also the thin leather rope that is loosely wrapped around the arm would hold up those armguards for a second. The chestplate is alright I think. The hastati in republican rome had similar chestplates but on top of scalearmor it looks a bit overkill (I just realised he wears a mail shirt underneath that scale armor. I don't want to know how much weight he put on...  ) . Also I have to agree the shoulder pieces look quite heavy, bulky and impractical. Overall the armor looks more like it belongs into skyrim then Mount&Blade.

@ Kentucky James

I think most of them look believable as armor. (Believable as they would protect you and you could wear them comfortably)
The bannerlord one does not.

 

[Gazzz]

Looks fine to me, to be honest. The armour is decent and it doesn't look too out of place for the series, M&B has never been a 'realistic' game, more like very low fantasy but surely not realistic. This is kinda trivial. Running out of stuff to talk about?

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What happened to actual issues we had like Skirmish mode in multiplayer? Where is the outrage for that?

Because a lot of the active people that talk about stuff like this only really care about the  single-player experience of the game and not the multiplayer one which is a shame. 

 

[Caps]

ever come that horse might have been nerfed? instead of doing all that kinda of random ass bs better fix ai

https://youtu.be/5CEVUmkbvW8?t=15m26s

look at the ai horse dude falling from the cliff

 

[Roccoflipside]

I don't know about you guys, but seems very legit to me if a horse dies when hit by a 2handed axe. It's a huge blade, and the horse speed adds to the colision's damage. There's no way for a horse to being able to carry an armoured man in it's back when there's a 8cm deep/ 22cm widht cut in it's chest.

I believe the issue was with that same axe, rather than being embedded in the horse or pulled back out to swing again, then continues through the rider, as well as another horse and rider. As far as I've seen, no one is complaining about the axe killing the horse as much as that it just doesn't stop.

 

[Scarf Ace]

As I said ages ago in this thread, there's no doubt in my mind that the Battanians look, well, frankly, really damn awful.
They're to me just boring Hollywood Barbarians. There's that infamous set of armour that's been posted here a few times. It's shapeless. Impractical. Bulky, and most of all, just plain uncool. It's boring. Other Battanian units appear to be literally dressed in rags that look like they'll disintegrate if you look at them a bit harshly, so no better than the heavy armour.

Imagine if they had instead taken the example of the historical Gauls, and "updated" that general style to a more medieval setting. Fancy patterns on the clothes. Large, elaborately painted oval shields.
Spiked up hair. Romanesque helmets (or rather, Roman helmets were "Gaulesque"). Carnyxes. Wavy spearheads.  MASSIVE MECHANICAL BIRD HELMET CRESTS.
Just a simple look into an Osprey book or so would've given them so many awesome examples. The Battanians should've looked flamboyant (and yet intimidating) as hell, instead what we got is basically humans dressed as warcraft orcs or so.

 

[Enigmaaa]

MASSIVE MECHANICAL BIRD HELMET CRESTS.

YES

 

[Icey]

As I said ages ago in this thread, there's no doubt in my mind that the Battanians look, well, frankly, really damn awful.
They're to me just boring Hollywood Barbarians. There's that infamous set of armour that's been posted here a few times. It's shapeless. Impractical. Bulky, and most of all, just plain uncool. It's boring. Other Battanian units appear to be literally dressed in rags that look like they'll disintegrate if you look at them a bit harshly, so no better than the heavy armour.

Imagine if they had instead taken the example of the historical Gauls, and "updated" that general style to a more medieval setting. Fancy patterns on the clothes. Large, elaborately painted oval shields.
Spiked up hair. Romanesque helmets (or rather, Roman helmets were "Gaulesque"). Carnyxes. Wavy spearheads.  MASSIVE MECHANICAL BIRD HELMET CRESTS.
Just a simple look into an Osprey book or so would've given them so many awesome examples. The Battanians should've looked flamboyant (and yet intimidating) as hell, instead what we got is basically humans dressed as warcraft orcs or so.

The armor which others have already pointed out looks ugly. The rest isn't bad, but  I also think it could be better, and there should be paint and some wild hair besides all the fur and rags. But maybe we just didn't see all of it? Here is one pic of a painted guy: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/mountandblade/images/5/55/Battania_cavalry.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180302193529