Mount & Blade: Warband - Viking Conquest Reforged Edition

Honestly, I don't know why people feel it necessary to rate it, :1 STAR SO LOW URRGG", some people can be very whiny. I personally have enjoyed the game so far, the bugs do exist, but I haven't come across any horrible ones. And to be honest this is a day one release from a franchise known to have lots of blip bugs. (MOVING ON) The Soundtrack: It;s excellent fit with the setting, really makes me feel like a viking age warrior traversing the land. The beat of the drums, the humming, the pipers piping MMM-MMMMmm good shit! The Crunch: One has to remember, this ISN'T mount and blade Warband, But VIKING CONQUEST. The combat is focused more on historically accurate and Realistic. If you want your swing fest go play War of the Vikings, and we all know how that "game" turned out. -You can do shield walls it works its awesome -Bows are not rocket projectile monsters -The formations are Coo' as the kids say The Multiplayer: AH The big one everyone wants to really know about, YES the multiplayer is good, hell it's great. EXCEPT FROM one flaw, the fucking noise from smashing doors, MAN that noise is loud and annoying but you can fix it but fucking with your audio -You can "Shield Knock" to taunt your enemies -You can berserk but at a huge cost -You can blow HORNS to boost you ally's strength And wave banners to improve morale! -Great voices, and Yells instead of the same URRGUGUGGU The graphics For a game thats as OLD as mount and blade thsi game looks pretty damn good, of course the problem is getting it to run at said setting without the choppiness setting in can be a bit frustrating, UNTIL you change FORCE LOAD TEXTURES, TURN DAT SHIT OFF. It is no BEUNO! (You'll thank me later) -The waves fucking wave(legit) -Character models all look like beefy mcroast beef! -Horses Look 5x better then before, FINALLY Epilogue: In all honesty This Expansion is for the niche, its for those historical nerds who enjoy vikings and that's what they made no excuses barred.

I've played the Mount & Blade franchise from the first game, from a beta release. I feel that this reforged edition is giving me much more push to play it to the end, then every other release+mod. Why? The story. I'm an historical freak, reading books from the age, viking sagas, treatise, fighting in armour myself and, to my opinion, this Viking conquest fill the gap of what I was missing from all other Mount & Blade: history. You can see a portion of Europe, with real regions and cultures. The immersion is quite complete as you can nearly see and feel what the places and stories are all about. Quite early in the game your character will prophetize his coming back... with an army and have revenge: and you told this to some NPC that matter about you. Of which you have interacted and developed a relation. That's the kind of Viking saga that I was looking for! Gaming wide the engine has some more skills and realism built in it. * Bows & arrows are not the weapon of doom and destruction * There are some serious wounds that can cripple you if not healed * The addition of monastery is interesting, like the needs to learn to read * The religious component in faschinating * The locations are much more expansive and detailed * The combat system still make use of hit points (a big let down for me), but is not worse * Equipment has been polished and armours seems a bit more useful ** You can ask to refine you battered/rusty/thick/... equipment that is a very nice thing Overall, I think I'm more than happy for the price I paid.

Just finished the single player story. Took me several weeks. Not sure how many hours but at least 25-30 hours and maybe lots more. But you also have multiplayer and sandbox mode. I was really surprised by all the branching paths in sp and how long it was. Some paths weren't obvious but I really felt like I was making decisions in regards to the story. Mod wouldn't run on day 1 release but as of Jan.5,2015 it runs but is still a bit buggy. I'd get a few ctds...and had one scare that my save was corrupted as every time I loaded I'd move my guy a bit and it would crash. That was near endgame too. I had to lower all my graphics settings (and my computer is only a year old). Some may need to use "large address aware" to prevent crashes so the game will utilize more ram. I wish there was in ingame options to limit parties moving around on the map. That helped a lot with crashes with other mods for me. I loved the unique locations and some of the unique battles. Ship battles were cool although a bit uneven as well as some of the unique battles in general. Some battles and quests (like taking a location a holding it for 30 days in the middle of enemy country) are hard as nails even to a veteran m&b player like myself. The map is the Brytenwalda map but much bigger in scale and forces you to use ships even more. I think this is set 200 or so years after Brytenwalda. I liked the music and some of the village layouts better in Brytenwalda but overall Viking Conquest is a bigger and better experience. especially once they get more patches out (which they will. the talesworld forum is proof of the sincere effort to make this dlc right). To new players try the Brytenwalda mod. If you're a diehard m&b fan try this out for the singleplayer experience alone. It will surprise you. Lots of good ideas from other mods all in one place. I'm glad they put this out although it could've been more polished at release. Definitely recommended!

Very flawed and buggy on release, a year and a half later the game is much more polished and very playable. Good add-on to an already great game :)