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Congratulations on getting it released on Steam miki.

Quote from: Micro102 on April 02, 2015, 01:43:34 pm

That sounds weird. It's like suddenly random soldiers gain above average intelligence. I feel the point of being a leader is that you are special and having many others be just as special as you sort of dilutes this.

I like it personally. So many games make you a hero. Almost none, if any, RPG let's you be an ordinary person or not a special snowflake. Closest is probably modded skyrim.

A hero isn't quite the right word to describe the character you play in M&B. 

Aren't the Rhodoks supposed to be the guys who can break a Swadian charge or whatever? I'm getting my ass beat by a party half my size of comparable training. Should I not be holding my ground? How do I deal with the invincible cavalry?

They are supposed to stop charges, but in reality Warband spear AI is kind of awful so spearmen without their amazing rhodok board shields can manage to poke the horsies with their spear, then get decapitated by the raging Swadian knight. Although their sergeants reliably have a board shield, one handed weapon, AND polearm which vastly improves their combat ability compared to their lower tier counterparts with just the polearm. Forming a shield wall with them with rhodok crossbows behind will manage to pepper or even shoot off men from their horses, softening them up so they do less damage when smashing into the shield line. Then the infantry will swarm the hapless knights and slaughter them.  This is the same tactic Nords use with their infantry, as having a thick enough line of infantry is enough to absorb the initial charge to then swarm the knights.

No pain alone is enough to make it massively overpowered considering in Bay pain effectively determines fights.

Regarding menus for some reason my computer has horrendous tearing issues with the menus where in I memorized the spot for each option since sometimes the menu screen just goes black and I gotta guess where to click. Oddly this is only in M&B Warband and not in M&B, both of which I have been playing for years.

Uh, it still seems down for me.