Mount & Blade: Warband

Good game!

nice

The graphic is super awful, the ui design, the pics, the low resolution bitmap words. the models are transparently, and you can see through all elements makes game not playable. Not that fun as the video or screenshot.

I really wanted to like this game, the theme is amazing the graphics are great. Despite requiring a GeForce-card the game ran very smoothly with the integrated graphics cirquit on my Macbook Pro. I had expected some problems but experienced none whatsoever. The cities look pretty realistic and the dialogue is interesting. Here are my main two problems: - Combat is super messy. The ranged combat is fun and I wish there was more of it, but when I played I was stuck with a crossbow (which has a really long reload time and being attacked cancels the reload) and a sword. The sword fighting system is pretty sophisticated, similar to the new game For Honor where you have to attack and parry from different sides depending on where the attacker is coming from (parry is automatic by default though, thank god). The way you direct your attack is to pull the mouse up/down/left/right when attacking - but apart from attacking it also moves your screen and this is what makes it messy. Basically to fight well you need to constantly be moving your view around which also makes it much harder to follow your opponent and know where to attack. It's also pretty difficult to actually pull off in practice. For this reason I really wish the view would stay still while you were attacking. - No scaling of difficulty. My first mission in the game was to hunt down a number of bandits, I was given 100 monetary units (dinars I think?) to hire five men. Apart from that I had like 200 in starting cash. To hire ONE man cost 200, another one 100, another two 1000+. Where on earth do I find these stacks of cash? OK, so I failed that mission but still had a party. We engaged a small group of bandits and lost. From what I can tell there's no difference between early game and late game combat, in either case you'll be mercilessly thrown into battle on horse back trying to do the weird combat maneuvers at lighting speed.

This is an amazing game, it truly is. The problem is the recent port to MAC (OS X) literally makes it unplayable. Below I'll list out bugs I've run into. Ultimately, I lost out on money because of this and that's why I've given this rating. 1. Any time I collect items and get near a village or castle all the items disappear. This makes the game impossibly hard to play as units will leave if they are not fed (food disappears making buying food worthless). You can't make decent money leading you to always be stuck with poor items. Any items you do get, will be gone in seconds so make sure you wear whatever you buy. 2. Stats reset. Any time you level up you can set upgrade your stats. Well for some reason the STR state resets to 0 all the time. As you see there's a reoccurring theme of character properties that reset 3. Going to the training fields gets you stuck in the "enter a castle" menu. It happens every time I go to the training fields and leave. You can't quit the menu and it's annoying because there's no relation to the training fields and the castle it randomly selects. That also means if this happens to your character it's literally unplayable. You can quit the game but the menu will automatically show up on the next load. Now you have to create a new character again, fun. 4. If you get the Stats reset bug, the game no longer lets you fight any units you come across in the over world. What happens is you can run up to them and say your life is over. but then you get to the option to fight, it only gives you the option to "LEAVE". So great. I don't know if there's more bugs then this but with these 4 alone and trying to get around them for 3 days straight (I was on thanksgiving break and I really wanted to play this). I'm kind of bummed I spent the money on this game. I just hope they come out with a new patch.. Also if you check the forums other OS X users have the same issues.