I don’t want a medieval shooting game. I don’t want a medieval arcade game pretending to be competitive either.
The only time it would create big balance issues is if you’re only allowed a certain number of class types in your team composition. That in itself is a poor restriction to place on teams. Otherwise it literally doesn’t matter if I pick something off the ground or spawn in with it.
No, it creates balance issues because it allows people with different classes to become tanky cavs or tanky archers by just picking up a weapon or getting on a horse. It does matter if you spawn with it, because you are limited by gold. Peasant also isn't the only class that has 3 spawns, you could easily spawn as a pretty tanky infantry and find a free horse or a bow and basically eliminate any class definition, becoming another class with better gear than you can get as the said class.
Leaving in the option to use equipment on the ground is the least of bannerlord’s concerns tbh and changing that will only make it a worse game with absolutely zero positive impact. What you see as my fixation on cs is your failure of imagination on how to play team based competitive bannerlord.
Your assumption, I disagree.
The role I fill in a team is way less informed by my equipment or class selection and far more related to the actions I make in game. Stopping someone from getting on a horse or picking up a bow or twohander by hardcoding restrictions is nothing compared to coordinated teamwork. If you’ve ever played cs or arma or any competitive game you would know that and focus way less on what’s on the ground and what people can pick up.
6 peasants with nothing but rocks working together will absolutely demolish 6 cav or archers who aren’t.
The role you fill in a team and actions you do are shaped by your class and equipment and are strongly supplemented by your knowledge and "skill" so again, I disagree.
Believe it or not, but I have played close to 3000 hours in competitive setting in Warband, pretty sure Calamity and Eb had played just as much time, I even played my deal of competitive games (in a team) in different games like Overwatch and CS:GO so I'd say I've had my competitive experience. You act like you know better than the people who argue with you, but you honestly have no idea how exactly these things affect the gameplay because you probably haven't played against people who abuse that to their advantage and are actually somewhat good.
The fact that I even need to explain that shows so much pvp scrubbiness. Individual skill/equipment/class/team comp is actually nothing in the face of a team who knows how to work together. That is the relevance of cs, arma, football, soccer, and any other team game. Get rekt
The fact that I even need to explain that shows how little you actually know about this franchise or even Bannerlord. Teamwork is for sure important, however, as I said before, your skill, equipment and team-comp shape your in-game actions and "strategies".
EDIT: Not to mention that experience and skill directly influence your capabilities of teamwork.
I honestly don't mind you thinking something else, just don't go and argue with people who have spent close to a decade playing games competitively and tell them how wrong they are and how entitled you are to prove all of us wrong. Have fun voicing your opinion, you have a right to do so.
