BucketOLava: I have really enjoyed playing M+B since the promo giveaway, but I didn't get Warband at the cheap price as I read somewhere that it was not worth it if you did not want to play multi-player.
So would you recommend Warband for the other additions to the game, other than multi-player? Or just as well play the original game?
Thanks :)
I found the Warband multiplayer shit and heres a list of reasons why.
No crouch 'stick out your ass much' as an archer and it's worse for a foot soldier even if your shields facing the right way they can shoot your head or feet (priority feet because of weird amount of arrow drop/ i know i actually do archery).
No stats means targetting reticules are SHIT plus it's in a trine style which is complete CRAP for something that may or may not drop half the trine height as travelled.
King of Ping: i live in Australia; using a long weapon like a spear and getting the shot in first at the correct distance with 200ms ping will equate to YOU being the one that gets murder i mean wtf?!? (makes you rage so bad.
Actually that point is SOOOO bad i will enlighten you further the game is HEAVILY close combat oriented and online it seems you cannot kill someone without getting the complete drop on them with a FAST weapon.
Two handed axe of the highest tier more often than not will glance off their back alerting them and somehow they can swing round and kill you faster then you can get in a second shot.
In fact I'd go so far as to say there's quite a lot of hacking going on because in single player when you block there's a window of opportunity to strike; in the multiplayer experience players recover from being blocked quicker than it takes you to strike after block.
Secondly weapons pen through corners of shields somehow (most likely ping related) i don't mean caught flanked i mean facing them square on.
The i circle you and get 5 shots to your 2 wtf?!? this isn't quake
The you are slower because your backpedalling with a sheild makes shields neigh USELESS... but you have to have one cause... big open field... archers.
Who get run down flipping easily.
If the multiplayer was set up to enable unit'ing combat would be a lot more fun, but no; no in game chat means everyone out for their own personal kill as bad as WAR THUNDER.
The controls are shit floaty and never seeming to do what you want.
The spinning about is making me sea sick :P
Theres no characterization so no way to improve your speed meaning the ever unhelpful cavalry piss off while you leg it to a third of the battlefield out in the open.
Anouther note on customization LIMITTED TO ROLE AND COUNTRY... no you can't own that full size shield you must use a round shit one of your country, no as the archer you may not also equip a shield and sword.
The timer is by far the biggest piece of shit, 5 minute rounds you can get killed in the first 30 seconds of and be like well may as well go read a book.
If you spend too much time considering equipment at the start you don't get to play the first round and have to wait the full 5 minutes to play, that's if you came in at the start of the round.
To my mind multiplayer is the worst part about M&B warband waiting for 10 minutes through a 30 second stint of being a spearman getting hacked by someone with a shortsword.
M&B warband can go die in a house fire.
Singleplayer however is brilliantly fun flanking on horse the line of archers (even though balanced warcleaver may not kill due to needing 2 shots), flanking during a seige and cleaving your way to victory because military tactics seem to be eyes forward towards the nearest enemy boys and try to spread past them.meaning they always face the central mass.
Of course this is marred by the unit count cheating of the AI leaders.
Quite frankly i spent 2 and a half days playing single player to figure out how BROKE it is (no way to improve standing once you have your own fief as the unit count cheating means you never field an army strong enough against the world going to war with you & not being able to oppose, but sit in your castle while they regenerate troops like the borg means negative relations because somehow the saudi's know and care about your local farms being burnt enough to break off ties and declare war even though you have NEVER lost a battle in over 5000 battles [the nail in the grave not being able to do anything about gaining troops as mercenaries are too few and far between and you can't recruit from hostile nations]).
I spent half a day realising how broke multiplayer is.
Fact of the matter is as far as multiplayer goes.... Build & Shoot SHITS ALL OVER THIS PRODUCT even with the amount of griefers and hacks.