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Ahh low fantasy ok. That may still be the one I had heard about, I didn't do a lot of looking. Game usually keeps me busy for a good while even w/o mods.
GrimDork wrote: Ahh low fantasy ok. That may still be the one I had heard about, I didn't do a lot of looking. Game usually keeps me busy for a good while even w/o mods.
Prophecy is my personal favourite mod.
It rebuilds the game entirely. New troops, new factions, new map, random events, new castle/keep upgrades and stuff like that.
GrimDork wrote: Huh cool, sounds good for when I want to play MnB but not *quite* MnB. Thanks for that.
The core gameplay is still the same. It just changes the entire setting.
I have to be honest the setting is probably the least appealing part of mount and blade to me. Its not that the setting is bad its just that it doesn't really interest me all that much.
^Yep! And that's why changing the setting may be all it takes to get many many more hours of enjoyment out of it. I should have taken the blue pill.. or was it the red pill? This Agarest game is gonna take *forever* and I'll be doubting/regretting my choices all the while lol.
I've really been enjoying Alien: Isolation recently, although I can only play it in bursts. It's such a tense game, that it gets too stressful to play for extremely long periods of time.
GrimDork wrote: Huh cool, sounds good for when I want to play MnB but not *quite* MnB. Thanks for that.
The core gameplay is still the same. It just changes the entire setting.
I have to be honest the setting is probably the least appealing part of mount and blade to me. Its not that the setting is bad its just that it doesn't really interest me all that much.
The only thing that annoys me about Pendor is the voice acting they did. I'm far too lazy to turn it off though.
In other news, Thief is a bad, baaad game, and I feel dirty for having spent money on it, lord almigthy whom knew it was possible to make the fourth instalment in a such beloved series, this bad! It boggels the mind
GrimDork wrote: Ahh low fantasy ok. That may still be the one I had heard about, I didn't do a lot of looking. Game usually keeps me busy for a good while even w/o mods.
Get it, I played half a game of native and this mod enriches game play a lot. Villages and castles now pose difficulties to you that you can answer incorrectly which is awesome, Also there are BIG bad nasties wandering around the map that you HAVE to be scared of. I mean really scared.
Manchu - "But so what? The Bible also says the flood destroyed the world. You only need an allegorical boat to tackle an allegorical flood."
Shespits "Anything i see with YOLO has half naked eleventeen year olds Girls. And of course booze and drugs and more half naked elventeen yearolds Girls. O how i wish to YOLO again!"
Rubiksnoob "Next you'll say driving a stick with a Scandinavian supermodel on your lap while ripping a bong impairs your driving. And you know what, I'M NOT GOING TO STOP, YOU FILTHY COMMUNIST"
Like 500 man armies? Cause I could usually punk those 200 man army faction leader forces with an elite cavalry swarm.
The change to villages and castles sounds cool though Do you still have to work for a faction or pretend to be your own faction while simultaneously drawing the wrath of all six other factions, or has that dynamic changed any?
GrimDork wrote: Like 500 man armies? Cause I could usually punk those 200 man army faction leader forces with an elite cavalry swarm.
The change to villages and castles sounds cool though Do you still have to work for a faction or pretend to be your own faction while simultaneously drawing the wrath of all six other factions, or has that dynamic changed any?
GrimDork wrote: Like 500 man armies? Cause I could usually punk those 200 man army faction leader forces with an elite cavalry swarm.
The change to villages and castles sounds cool though Do you still have to work for a faction or pretend to be your own faction while simultaneously drawing the wrath of all six other factions, or has that dynamic changed any?
ABout 1000 mans , and you don't get through to the trash troops as fast as you'd think (in my game anyway). The only time I haven't run away squealing like a girl is when my king happened to be nearby with his retinue of BIG bad nasty, who piled in to the BIG bad nasty. I once tried to take on a BIG bad nasty myself, it didn't go so well as the first fight was ALL elite troops with about half of them being mounted.
Big bad nasties don't take over settlements they just kind of run around, and my kings one occasionally follows him around looking threatening.
Cavalry swarms also aren't quite as powerful as in native, the reason i stopped playing native was my all horse army was just blitzing everything. Horse is still powerful just not as powerful as in native.
I have a force that's about 150 strong but is mostly infantry, with about 1/4 being horse, my advice when you start playing ( coz you really should) is to get surgery asap. I work for the king, I think going rogue would be hard ( i haven't tried it yet). Also stay a merc for a while if you want to roam around as your settlements will get attacked fairly regularly. I have 2 villages and 2 castles, and one village gets continuously mauled as it is not right next to each other like the rest - my kingdom is at war with at least 2 factions generally.
Btw anyone have any tips on getting honour? I was all set to get my order when i discovered i need something like 70 honour, I checked it and had 3, 3! I'm now up to around 10 >< .
Manchu - "But so what? The Bible also says the flood destroyed the world. You only need an allegorical boat to tackle an allegorical flood."
Shespits "Anything i see with YOLO has half naked eleventeen year olds Girls. And of course booze and drugs and more half naked elventeen yearolds Girls. O how i wish to YOLO again!"
Rubiksnoob "Next you'll say driving a stick with a Scandinavian supermodel on your lap while ripping a bong impairs your driving. And you know what, I'M NOT GOING TO STOP, YOU FILTHY COMMUNIST"
Oh ok, 1000 men, that's pretty much not doable even by being cheeky.
Ahh honor is something I'm fairly good at getting, actually Does pendor (or whatever it is) have tournaments still? Winning those gets you points of honor I believe, and you can also get honor by releasing ladies from captured castles and maybe by being merciful to dudes you've beaten. I think, it's been a little while.
I usually get maybe just a few guys or stick to soloing, and kill small groups of 5-15 bandits (but not the horse kind!) solo to gain extra XP and roam around looking for tournaments and such. Gain a bunch of levels that way so I can have a better party and all of that when I finally start building one.
GrimDork wrote: Oh ok, 1000 men, that's pretty much not doable even by being cheeky.
Ahh honor is something I'm fairly good at getting, actually Does pendor (or whatever it is) have tournaments still? Winning those gets you points of honor I believe, and you can also get honor by releasing ladies from captured castles and maybe by being merciful to dudes you've beaten. I think, it's been a little while.
I usually get maybe just a few guys or stick to soloing, and kill small groups of 5-15 bandits (but not the horse kind!) solo to gain extra XP and roam around looking for tournaments and such. Gain a bunch of levels that way so I can have a better party and all of that when I finally start building one.
I used to love tournaments in native, however in pendor they have lance tourneys, which i consider a chance to bash my head into the desk 80 times. They frustrate the hell out of me. I never use a lance in the game, and the way the ai works its very hard especially when you get low on combatants to get a charge off. It is one thing i am considering trynig to take out of the game
Manchu - "But so what? The Bible also says the flood destroyed the world. You only need an allegorical boat to tackle an allegorical flood."
Shespits "Anything i see with YOLO has half naked eleventeen year olds Girls. And of course booze and drugs and more half naked elventeen yearolds Girls. O how i wish to YOLO again!"
Rubiksnoob "Next you'll say driving a stick with a Scandinavian supermodel on your lap while ripping a bong impairs your driving. And you know what, I'M NOT GOING TO STOP, YOU FILTHY COMMUNIST"
n0t_u wrote: Been doing a fun 100+ mod run through of Skyrim. Just abandoned the main quest to do all of the Dawnguard one.
Lol, sounds similar to the hundred plus mods you run on space engineers XD
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Lances are a win button. I'm not sure if Pendor changes how they work, but in native, as soon as you hit a certain speed on horseback you automatically 'couch' the lance, at which point you simply aim at the nearest person and ride at them. Using mouse-button attacks is only useful if you're 1v1 against another lancer, and if you can run rings around them, waiting until they're missed their own lunge to ride close, poke them (or the horse, preferably), and jog out of range again. Mouse-button attacks with lances do pathetic damage, but if you can unhorse the opponent, you can simply ride away and keep couching; a couched tournament lance will usually strike before a thrust attack from an unhorsed lancer will.
If there are at least two enemies left, then keep riding around until nobody is attacking you, and just pick them off with couched attacks.
Lance tournies are one of the few that I almost consider an auto-win, unless one of the opponents gets a jammy hit (at which point I have no guilt in reloading the save I made directly before entering the tourney, and trying again).
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
In a tournament setting though when it's 1v1 or close, it's ridiculously difficult to get far enough away for the lance to reach couching speed. But what you say about out-poking them is the way of it. Definitely save before tournies sometimes bad stuff happens and it's a lot on the line.
I just hate it when you get a bow (and have no bow skill) and dagger and have to try to find a horse and weapon of choice before you get steamrolled
Heroes of Might and Magic VI. Another game from a "Steam Sales" legacy of a long time ago, pretty fun so far.
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"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill
Finishing up 'shogun 2: fall of the samurai'. I have the enemy on their dying breaths or i will very soon. Me and my even more powerful or seemingly powerful ally (with more provinces than me) has managed to be the most steadfast and loyal even if the integrity was supposedly questionable. Choshu and Satsuma best bros for life. Represent.
Speaking of 'Shogun 2' this archery video of more epic non-hollywood archery that used to be more common is totally a thing. I can imagine some of the samurai heroes in 'shogun 2' were like this. It sounds like they'd run out of ammo fairly fast though.
The amount of skill people had back then was just astounding. It looks like a freaking art. Well i suppose we are much smarter than our ancestors even if they had all the brawn and massive dexterity skills.
Seriously though it makes you wonder what the real '300' story was like. That must have been freaking awesome to see.
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It boggels the mind
Do you still have to work for a faction or pretend to be your own faction while simultaneously drawing the wrath of all six other factions, or has that dynamic changed any?
