Mount & Blade: Warband

Never get tired of this game. Play it for a period of time each year. Building up from nobody to somewhere halfway to total dominans is most fun. Then it is time to start over again.

Its an old game and you will feel it sometimes but overall good game the only problem ive run into is that somtimes the missions can become a bit boring like its not bad youll go and do it because you really want to progress it just the raids can become boring go with your troops kill them fight it yataya. it gets a bit worse youve once youve seen everything it wouldnt be so bad if the simulate AI wasnt bad but thats common for a 2000s game

Concept wise this is incredible game, that leaves you wondering, why aren`t there more games in this genre. Gameplay: You are moving as a "figurine" on a global map (with other figurines representing lords, caravans, bandits etc), but whenever you enter a battle (or city\camp\village etc) you start to play from third person\first person perspective. All the action unfolds in the most dynamic way - ride horses, shoot from horseback, or run around as a foot soldier swinging heavy axe or whatever you want to swing, block, dodge etc. There is your typical looting and stat progression. Although skills are mostly "incremental" , like "more hp, more dmg, faster movement, more chance for your soldiers to survive "death" etc. So, don`t expect some sort of flashy combo-mombo strikes etc. Shortly after you start a game you will be able to hire some dudes into your warband, and at one point you gonna lead hundreds of soldiers into battle. When you accumulate enough fame and money and soldiers, you will be able to become mercenary captain for one of the faction, become a vassal, fight for your personal castle\city, eventually becoming a king of your own kingdom with vassals. The main thing, is that world lives regardless of what you do - caravans and villagers travel and trade, robbers rob, lords gather taxes and wage wars. You will not command them in some manual fashion, but depending on your standing you can influence\suggest\order. -- Now, all of this being said, I must warn you, that the original game is rather "samy", grindy and feels a bit too repetitive and lacking in content variety. I am not deducting stars, for one basic reason - there are very popular mods that fix majority of flaws and fix the lack of content. You will not go back to vanilla after playing mods, that is for sure, but since game is very moddable - it is to be expected. So, developers gave people great concept and mechanics and modability - and people polished this game to perfection.

Definitely worth it as this GOG version includes, Graphical overhaul: Support added for HDR, FSAA, depth of field, soft particles, tone mapping, and many other effects, New models with greater detail and high-quality textures. Warband is a master piece by itself, will really take a long time for Banner lord to catch up and there is no guarantee that Banner lord will migrate over some of the Warband mechanics. Run well with MacBook Air M2!

you are on linux and your game won't open. do it! sudo cp "/media/xxx/Mount Blade Warband/game/libfmodex64.so" /usr/lib sudo cp "/media/xxx/Mount Blade Warband/game/libGLEW.so.2.1" /usr/lib copy your libs from the game folder into your directory, to be found