Game News Mount & Blade goes multiplayer + HDR

[DarkUnderlord]

Tags: Mount & Blade

<a href="http://www.gamersdailynews.com/story-8154-Paradox-Interactive-New-Titles-Announcement.html">According to GDN, Mount & Blade is getting an Expansion</a>:
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<blockquote>Mount & Blade Multiplayer Expansion Announced
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The first expansion pack for the critically acclaimed Mount & Blade was demo’ed publically for the first time by developer Taleworlds and introduced a number of features that players have requested and which will vastly improve their enjoyment of the game;
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* Improved strategic AI
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* Extended diplomatic options allowing the player to wield more power
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* State-of the-Art rendering technologies introduced for the first time, including the addition of High Dynamic Range (HDR)
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* Brand new multiplayer feature including the ability for 32 players (possibly more – TBC) to play on a single map in team death-match style battles</blockquote>
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For the bloom joke, <a href="http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=29434">go here</a>.
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Thanks <b>Spectacle</b>!

 

[Jeff Graw]

I'm regretting giving money to these fuckers more and more every week. When I bought M&B there was supposed to be a main quest in the final shipping product. When the shipping product finally came out it wasn't really different than the beta -- slightly more polished but still very unpolished. Now instead of finishing the fucking game they are making a multiplayer expansion. I don't care if it doesn't work all the servers, I am *so* pirating this, and I urge every other M&B player on the Codex (there are a whole bunch of you, right?) to do the same.

 

[MetalCraze]

Except the battles become boring on the 3rd day of playing. Which means that this sandbox failed and I even won't try to get me a people's version.

 

[Balor]

Well, AI and diplomatic options sure sounds good enough - it will make the game much more interesting in the long run. Hopefully, at least.
As for multiplayer and HDR... who cares? I don't.

 

[udm]

Taleworlds is starting to look like the EA of the indie community

 

[Kraszu]

Fighting would be more interesting if you have a real goal for it. There main quest should be about rivaling factions, something that make world not static, and force you to make game changing decisions.

 

[Brother None]

Taleworlds is starting to look like the EA of the indie community

What? How does that even make sense?

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

I think multiplayer M&B could work pretty well really

 

[sheek]

Multiplayer is exactly what this game needs.

The computer AI sucks, and the engine is not really designed for RPG or strategy or a long story which you should froget about.

Multiplayer definitely will play to its strengths.

I will definitely buy it as long as the HDR doesn't reduce performance too much

 

[Jeff Graw]

Multiplayer is exactly what this game needs.

Multiplayer definitely will play to its strengths.

I bet the multi player will just be a deathmatch style battle simulator (sucky), and not the actual game with overland map with everyone playing at the same time (fucking awesome).

 

[sheek]

Multiplayer is exactly what this game needs.

Multiplayer definitely will play to its strengths.

I bet the multi player will just be a deathmatch style battle simulator (sucky), and not the actual game with overland map with everyone playing at the same time (fucking awesome).

Of course that's what it'll be. What's wrong with that?

The only problem is your deluded expectations... which seems to be a new full length, full feature RPG. Get rid of your expectations and accept it for what it is.

 

[Shannow]

AFAIK, there already is a HDR mod for it *shrug*
I must say, I'd rather see improvements to the than multiplayer...
Before I get any expantion, I'd like the finish the game first. I spent 2 weeks modding and 5 days playing the game. Ah well, maybe when I have more time.

 

[somnium]

A little warning to all: the above link gives me a virus warning (Infected.WebPage.Gen). I use antivir if you need to know.

edit: Ignore the above post as it probably was a false positive.

 

[Nedrah]

I got the same warning, but Antivir tends to be a little paranoid, as usually evidenced by checking stuff via totalvirus. Anyways, I'm quite looking forward to the expansion, although not exactly for the Multiplayer or HDR part. Instead I hope it will bring M&B a little closer to what I expected it to be at 1.0 - because, so far, this has been rather disapointing.

 

[MetalCraze]

im assuming it's just an overland map without any castles and you just provoke other players war parties

I've read on another source that there will be 3 types of multi-player - deathmatch, team deathmatch and siege. I presume you will generate an army before fight or something.
Either way I can't see how it will be fun - with sieges at least - sieges and how AI acts on them are downright terrible.

 

[sheek]

im assuming it's just an overland map without any castles and you just provoke other players war parties

I've read on another source that there will be 3 types of multi-player - deathmatch, team deathmatch and siege. I presume you will generate an army before fight or something.
Either way I can't see how it will be fun - with sieges at least - sieges and how AI acts on them are downright terrible.

Um... that's why they're bringing in Multiplayer?

The point of multiplayer is that you don't need AI, and multiplayer will always be better than any AI you could program... for variety definitely if not strategic quality, and almost always humans' strategic qualities will be better.

 

[Jeff Graw]

Multiplayer is exactly what this game needs.

Multiplayer definitely will play to its strengths.

I bet the multi player will just be a deathmatch style battle simulator (sucky), and not the actual game with overland map with everyone playing at the same time (fucking awesome).

Of course that's what it'll be. What's wrong with that?

The only problem is your deluded expectations... which seems to be a new full length, full feature RPG. Get rid of your expectations and accept it for what it is.

I want the fucking main quest I was promised when I bought the game.

 

[Monocause]

M&B multiplayer sounds quite cool. Guess I'll have to take the dust off the CD again.

Jeff Graw, I followed M&B development and it wasn't a surprise to me that the native module's story was left in such a sorry state. From the update logs and developer posts it was quite clear that making this game a full RPG was never their aim, they intended to create a fun and realistic battle simulator with a setting that would somehow legitimise these battles, and more importantly, a simulator that would be an engine available to modding so that the players could multiply the fun themselves by throwing in elves, dwarves, Spaniards and lithuanian hitmen. I think they succeeded.

I lost interest in M&B some time ago but IIRC there were some story mods in production or already released. Maybe you should go to the file repository, look what's available and give some mods a try. Almost all of the mods I played had a better setting and were more fun to play than Calradia ;P

 

[Jabbapop]

So this is just a patch they're going to be selling for about as much as you can buy the original game these days, right?

 

[Dire Roach]

My guess is that the multiplayer mode will consist of simple tournament battles and sieges where each player controls no more than one character. I could see the game undergoing some sort of Eve Online-ish MMOification where the overland map is expanded and clans/guilds would be fighting for control over the territories, but that's probably nowhere near what the developers intend to do.

 

[Shoelip]

This seems like a joke.

Throughout development they said multiplayer was not going to happen unless Mount and Blade 2 got released. The game itself is just far too incomplete to warrant an expansion pack that you have to pay for. The full version feels like I got exactly what I paid for when I got the beta back at version .6 something.

The features of this sound like a large patch rather than an expansion. I'm just glad I didn't waste my money on a boxed copy.

 

[MetalCraze]

im assuming it's just an overland map without any castles and you just provoke other players war parties

I've read on another source that there will be 3 types of multi-player - deathmatch, team deathmatch and siege. I presume you will generate an army before fight or something.
Either way I can't see how it will be fun - with sieges at least - sieges and how AI acts on them are downright terrible.

Um... that's why they're bringing in Multiplayer?

The point of multiplayer is that you don't need AI, and multiplayer will always be better than any AI you could program... for variety definitely if not strategic quality, and almost always humans' strategic qualities will be better.

Well I believe you will just command AI units. Knowing M&B's tactical possibilities (or lack of them) and dumb AI - the fights will be boring.

 

[LazyD]

MP for M&B?

Why am I still waiting for Darkfall then?

.....fuck darkfall.....

 

[denizsi]

Unless they develop proper development tools and release full SDK to lure people into modding for the tech-demo, instead of the shitty scripting abilities, I don't see any long-term potential for the game other than going multiplayer. However, given the lack of creative vision of developers, I don't think they'll pull that off right either.