Recent reviews by acidballoons

Brilliant Game, looking forward to what Warhose Studios bring out next; this game however it's the playstyle, the story the world and the music even the armours with all the history included it's a great game wouldn't look into it too much as you may spoil some good surprises but worth a buy if you like medieval/possibly rpg kind of games this one is one of the best I'm sure. forgot to mention the voicework also a great part of the game. the missions and different playstyles too,

This game was very much long awaited and when originally it came out, full of bugs but still very much excitingly anticipated by most of the Mount and Blade Warband players alongside the newcomers to the franchise.

Bannerlord so far proves to of come a fair way since release and even currently is still being fixed/updated and upgraded; the multiplayer is a fair bit of fun but not currently enough maps to keep you interested for too long, could do with some more variation; siege, captain mode and skirmish are all decent game modes where you can practice different scenarios of fights. Multiplayer used to have a big impact in Warband especially with Napoleonic Wars and other Mods such as bearforce, Nordinvasion etc.

The most annoying thing is the people who play with the teams where they're actually organised and you're just stuck with the rag n tag team they kind of ruin the game for me so I'm deciding not to play any multiplayer what so ever at the moment as a 1v11 isn't fun.


I mainly got Bannerlord for the Singleplayer and very much looking forward to the mods that are yet to come (checkout the Lord of the Rings one it looks pretty cool) however the base Singleplayer is pretty good the story has been slightly updated since the game was released, the battles and Sieges are pretty fun especially with siege engines. However the 'enable death in battle' option is currently a big downward factor of the game, I wouldn't mind if it were just the odd noble dying in a battle here and there but eventually so many lords die that the map just becomes more and more empty and eventually you lose the stamina for war and get bored because there's no one to fight anymore. Also the main reason why I've had to restart so many campaigns just to go and give up again because there's not enough lords left to hold territories from other factions; and the lords only die in battles that you are actually in.

The trading is pretty good (broken if you go south and abuse aserai /desert horse prices), the prices of some armour in the game are shocking, over 200k for some tier 6 level armours that most nobles just start the game with and then you look at the nobles encyclopedia page (Press N) and they're stated as 'poor'.

Very often I google problems that I'm currently having with the game and there's 1 or 2 year old forums who had the same thing and you just can't add because they've been closed and never actually been solved/helped.

For now I would only recommend getting this game for the mods and singleplayer if you want to get used to it but in terms of actually completing a campaign i'm not sure if you can withstand the boredom after so much war and such little reward for it, in fact the game feels like it's punishing you for playing with how few troops you get. (also make sure you put 1 perk point into the steward skill early on as it can have a 0.00x multiplier and its needed to increase max party troops). I do really like the game just know it could be more and quite brilliant with the mods.

I'm down voting this purely because it requires the both the first and second game in order to play with the base Warhammer factions. it offers little more than the first one without and is basically just an expansion in itself.

A fairly fun game at first but then it drags on you're forced to spend hours going back and forth to make progress and any slight mistake you make will ruin the rest of your game, it's disgustingly unforgiving and boring I'm not sure why I managed the over 2 mark reckon I wanted to know where the game goes, I got to the 5th Island and had to go behind a portal to hire more people (otherwise I would've been overrun as i had just started) and then all my money and gems got taken because my guys decided to attack the portal anyway just by wondering into the woods, it's ridiculous I needed those gems to get better things in the game rather than just grinding on with the crap that I have, thanks for the boring simple over priced side scrolling game. You'll enjoy the art but that's about it it's just a cancerous game.

Unplayable, chemotherapy would kill the game

This game provides about 7-8 hours play time without dying of boredom but when it's eventually finished it'll probably be fun to play either by yourself or a lot better with friends, however due to the slow progress and mass amount of bugs per update it'll take another 1-3 years at a rough estimate.

Don't waste your money, it's another early access game and is terrible... grindy, useless might as well watch paint dry

I've played Warband since roughly 2013, now the game these days is just as good as it was the only reason I've stopped playing is because the community died, there's many mods you can play either multiplayer or singleplayer; I would recommend the Napoleonic Wars DLC as it's community was at its peak a few years ago and there were matches between regiments and teams, the best part about it was probably playing minigames on a private server.