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1. MOUNT AND BLADE WARBAND MULTIPLAYER DOESNT WORK PS4
2. MOUNT AND BLADE WARBAND MULTIPLAYER DOESNT WORK PC
3. MOUNT AND BLADE WARBAND MULTIPLAYER DOESNT WORK SERIES

With the open-world scenarios not really holding my attention though, I dove in to the game’s multi-player lobby and was surprised to see only 5 rooms hosting games. However, there’s no other game like it on current-gen consoles and the open-world nature of its sandbox is unrivaled. Granted it released in 2010, but it clearly doesn’t hold up well.īetween the chunky visuals, unenjoyable control scheme, and wall-of-text dialogue trees with NPCs (since there is no voice acting), it does very little to modernize itself in its recent port.

I also found the visuals distracting, since they exist somewhere between Morrowind and Oblivion, yet still somehow ended up worse than I ever imagined a game in 2016 would look. A horse where you have to aim straight down from a dead stop in order to receive its dismount prompt. In a game where one or two missed blocks or attacks can mean death in the early going, even on the poor AI difficulty setting, this became a problem exacerbated by the tank controls of mounting a horse. However, since the right analog stick also controlled the pitch of the camera, trying to swing overhead or commit to a thrust usually sent the camera flailing up and down instead. Likewise, while swinging a melee weapon, you have to use the right analog stick to change the direction of your attacks.īeing new to the game, I turned on the auto-block option which blocks attacks from any direction. On the melee front, you’ll take a tactical approach to trading blows by not only blocking attacks, but choosing which direction to block them from. Maybe I should have opted to roll a trader instead of a hired sword, huh?Ĭombat offers a variety of weapons, like the traditional sword-and-board, two-handed devastators, a bow & arrow, a crossbow, and more.

MOUNT AND BLADE WARBAND MULTIPLAYER DOESNT WORK PC

I’m not sure how the transition from PC is, since, again, I’ve never played it before, but I loathed how sloppy the combat and horseback riding felt using a controller. This all sounded great on paper, but the reality was that I just couldn’t get in to the clunky gameplay. Snubbing your nose at the quest giver, you can instead offer your sword to a Jarl (which is much harder to do as a female character), work as a trader, take prisoners and ransom them off, partake in tournaments, or something as epic as amassing your own army and taking over the land. You don’t have to follow the quest flow at all, and therein lies the beauty of Mount & Blade. Apparently I was more adept at stealing cattle than I was defending myself from bandits. I’m not sure what that even acomplished, but I successfully stole 6 of them. I laughed it off and moved on, of course.įinally I had my men, but I got sidetracked by the criminal act of stealing cows. Here’s 500 denars (money) to go recruit men in order to find my brother! Little did I know that by approaching towns to recruit said men, I’d run in to swarms of angry bandits that had no problem dismantling me in a matter of seconds. There is a quest structure you can follow from the get-go, which is what I did in an attempt to get my feet wet. I actually thought this aspect was great, as a live feed on the bottom-left of the screen kept me up to date on empire battles, which Jarl was in a spat with another, and so on. Instead, it takes a realistic approach with kingdoms, hand-to-hand combat, and a massive world that lives and breathes with or without you.

Mount & Blade: Warband may be an RPG, but there’s no magic or dragons or anything of that nature.

Since I was more interested in defending myself and possibly raising an army, I went with a build that focused on charisma, one-handed weapon damage, shield blocking, and a beefier health pool. You can choose your gender (which, as a sign of the era, actually impacts your standing in the game), tinker with a variety of cosmetic sliders, and fasten a backstory through textual dialogue responses.įrom there, you’re then tasked with allocating points in order to determine your character’s beginning stats. Outside of a brief tutorial that only touches on combat, Warband throws you to the wolves after creating your character. Mount & Blade: Warband is the epitome of the term sandbox RPG, especially on consoles.

MOUNT AND BLADE WARBAND MULTIPLAYER DOESNT WORK SERIES

However, as someone with no attachment to the series on PC in 2010, I found the game extremely overwhelming when giving it a go on the Xbox One in 2016.

MOUNT AND BLADE WARBAND MULTIPLAYER DOESNT WORK PS4

The medieval sandbox RPG recently released on PS4 and Xbox One, and while it’s highly doubtful the PC faithful will migrate to current-gen consoles, it does introduce a new sect of player to the land of Calradia. Available on: Xbox One (2016, reviewed), PS4 (2016), PC (2010)įor being a 6-year old PC game, Mount & Blade: Warband still seems to have quite the following.