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Mods are mostly on Nexus, although you can find a bunch of the old ambitious Warband modders setting up their pages on ModDB.

EDIT: Woo! Finally reach 1k net denars per day w/ various investments--AFTER paying my 400 denar daily salary. Planning some kind of revolt against the Southern Empire, which is DANGEROUSLY CLOSE to steamrolling, but stopped at the edges of the calradian heartland. Vlandia, Sturgia, and Khuzaits are doing pretty good--Aserai and Battanians got gutted, and the Northern Empire was... vassalized after declaring war on us. The Western Empire got sweeped like day one--their Emperor still running around partying tho.

Git gud. Jk,

but I stepped back into Multiplayer now that I could actually play and spent a few minutes on an NA server and...

the "modernization" is both obvious and terrible. I feel like half the fun of Warband's MP was selecting equipment! Sure there was some classes, but it pretty much boiled down do you want to be vaguely ranged, vaguely melee, or vaguely cav? Now it's just... ugh it reminds of FPS classes and I hate it. Everyone looks the same in game and the lack of variety is frustrating.

the combat itself is still pretty good, obviously--again the lack of variety deadens things a bit methinks. Seems a bit laggier than Warband, but I'll give that a pass for now.

I'll need to play a few more matches before I can really give it a thumbs up or down. Although, honestly Mordhau is way better--heck I even considered just booting up Warband to compare.

That's CKII levels of meme right there. I love it.

ALSO, I found out that my game was exploding because apparently Bannerlord stopped recognizing my GPU after a certain period of time for some reason.

Yea different nation's starting regions have different resource availability, there's even a pretty good steam guide on it (one of the trading ones).

And yea... Bannerlord's MP is trash... in my opinion, it's a big step DOWN from warband--I hate the class system and limited options and I hate matchmaking in general.

In terms of trading mostly I just make charcoal and melt down weapons, 2000-3000 denar profits on good days. It was day ~200 before my game pretty much stopped working, and I already had two workshops and just became a Southern Empire vassal.

EDIT: also do yourselves a favor and pick up the Full XP Tournaments mod.

Yea every bandit hideout has a really crazy bandit leader who wants to duel.

EDIT: hopped on MP for 0.5 seconds... I fucking hate it.

On party size:

If you're not planning on acting as a mercenary anything above ~25 is probably going to start being a burden (unless you own an enterprise or two to essentially cover their daily wages). In my latest character, I didn't even hire a companion until I bought an enterprise. With no passive income -100 denars a day is quite prohibitive (which is what I was running as a Empire merc) even if you're raiding like crazy.

Now that I do have a stable base, I might start to look expanding my company again--imo it's all about speed on the campaign map rn--I don't take any sort of bandit quests, I want them to keep spawning so I can get weapons to melt down and make it to the cheapest hardwood selling village ASAP.

TBH, I'm thinking of investing in more companions now though so I can spend less time refining and smelting.

It seems you can now block with the "wrong" stance, but the hitboxes make it difficult? Shields have a bigger hitbox, so it's easier to block with the wrong stance but not guaranteed.

With a shield you can block from the wrong direction, but there'll be a bigger chance you get hit, if you block left and knicked far, far right there's a good chance you'll get a scrape now (I think?)

Also yes, ranged in general is considerably deadlier than in Warband (which makes me concerned about multiplayer [which I haven't tried yet] because archers and throwers were frustrating as they were in vanilla warband)