What is the Bannerlord's current development stage?

[supersayen121]

they plan to bring it out at start of new year?

hope that we still get open beta

Who Knows..

I personally think that the game is nearly finished. The Gameplay looks good.. no signs of any serious bugs... If polishing and scenery is mainly what they have left than it should't be years or anything like that until we get the game. I'd say another year at most. In the meantime, we can crush some nubs on native.

They have been polishing the game for years so its bst to keep your expectations low.

 

[Crowcorrector]

they plan to bring it out at start of new year?

hope that we still get open beta

Who Knows..

I personally think that the game is nearly finished. The Gameplay looks good.. no signs of any serious bugs... If polishing and scenery is mainly what they have left than it should't be years or anything like that until we get the game. I'd say another year at most. In the meantime, we can crush some nubs on native.

They have been polishing the game for years so its bst to keep your expectations low.

Game looked ready to me in 2016,  and here we are in 2018.  I believe that development can actually carry on till 2020+  but hopefully that's not the case.
Either way I wouldn't judge the release date window based on how ready the game looks.

World map looked good when they first showed it,  now they've completely redone it (?)  And are still working on it... like wtf?

 

[BayBear]

they plan to bring it out at start of new year?

hope that we still get open beta

Who Knows..

I personally think that the game is nearly finished. The Gameplay looks good.. no signs of any serious bugs... If polishing and scenery is mainly what they have left than it should't be years or anything like that until we get the game. I'd say another year at most. In the meantime, we can crush some nubs on native.

They have been polishing the game for years so its bst to keep your expectations low.

Game looked ready to me in 2016,  and here we are in 2018.  I believe that development can actually carry on till 2020+  but hopefully that's not the case.
Either way I wouldn't judge the release date window based on how ready the game looks.

World map looked good when they first showed it,  now they've completely redone it (?)  And are still working on it... like wtf?

IMO the world map looked way to mountainous and full of choke points. I think they realized that and decided to rework the map. We’ll find out what they did (and hopefully why) in a future blog soon enough.

 

[Crowcorrector]

Yeah that's  a fair point it was too mountianous.  I'd have happily played that map though if it ment the game arrived sooner rather than later 

 

[NPC99]

Good organisation of info though there aren't really dots to join up.  They seem to be working on everything from core features to scenes to optimization and touching stuff up.  How this gives an idea of how complete BL is is beyond my crow brain

Presumed status:

Engine - complete subject to optimisation improvements and performance tweaks on different spec PCs.

Multiplayer - gameplay for captain mode complete, working on anti-cheats, networking and server optimisation (plus restored battle mode?).

Single player - battle gameplay complete, finalising world map, fleshing out quests/dialogue and creating unique scenes for each  location to replace test placeholders.

Play testing & bug hunting - ongoing.

Finishing touches - adding enhanced artwork plus factional visual and AI differentiation.

Modding documentation - probably deferred until after release.

Estimated timescale to a beta release - 2nd half to late 2018???

 

[Roccoflipside]

Good organisation of info though there aren't really dots to join up.  They seem to be working on everything from core features to scenes to optimization and touching stuff up.  How this gives an idea of how complete BL is is beyond my crow brain

Estimated timescale to a beta release - 2nd half to late 2018???

I think part of the reason it seems so jumbled what they're working on is the interviews came from all different departments. It's slightly difficult to paint a coherent picture of what's going on because we really just got a glimpse through the door into one area before they herded us along to the next section. Anyway, when you put it all together like that, you can clearly see that a lot of good work has been done in the last year or so, which is encouraging.

Callum's pushing of Gamescom coupled with blogs geared towards new(er) players has me cautiously optimistic we might get something good this summer, perhaps even a release date or "target goal" of some sort. Either way, I'm thinking another year or so at most hopefully, provided they don't decide to do another engine/graphic overhaul by then lol