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Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008

Bold Robot posted:

How do I recruit a companion? That's the last item I have to do on the opening quest to rebuild your clan.

Click the tavern in a town (don't go inside though) , and prospective companions will show up in the top bar.

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drkeiscool
Aug 1, 2014
Soiled Meat
i'm poo poo at the melee system in mount and blade, so i'm pretty disappointed that "automatically block in right direction" isn't an option anymore. alas! i'm also confused why people on tales forum are so hostile when people ask about it, but whatever.

also, my eyebrows show up in first person view??

i'm looking forward to seeing how the devs continue to develop this though

vandalism
Aug 4, 2003
The online is a loving blast. Killing and dying left and right, no clue what the hell is happening but slashing and slamming in a bloody pile.

Flavor Truck
Nov 5, 2007

My Love for You is like a Truck
oh poo poo oh poo poo OH poo poo - Where's EyeBeatWomen at? Where you at Lothar? :getin:

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters
How do I level up Leadership and Charm anywho

full sex
Nov 12, 2010
Did they get rid of the option to follow another unit on the campaign map? That feature that took me five years to discover on M&B?

Major Isoor
Mar 23, 2011

Artelier posted:

iirc you could do this in warband too, just gotta press tab or something like that

SeanBeansShako posted:

You will never get those three or four hours of your life back my friend.

:negative:

I was originally planning on getting this sometime later on after getting the X4 expansion, but the discount for having Warband is too tempting...I might have to get both, and hope that we're not 'essential' for much longer, and I can have some more time to play.

Gobblecoque
Sep 6, 2011

full sex posted:

Did they get rid of the option to follow another unit on the campaign map? That feature that took me five years to discover on M&B?

If it's there I haven't been able to find it. Makes those caravan escort missions annoying.

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Diogines posted:

Not my screenshots, but apparently if you hit R during character creation, your character becomes a baby.









They apparently have an appropriately sized, much smaller hitbox, so this looks like it should give a big advantage as you would be harder to hit.

Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

After starting a new character, I don't have the red/green stat comparison anymore:



Did I disable it somehow, or is it enabled by some skill/character background?

JerikTelorian
Jan 19, 2007



Captain Oblivious posted:

How do I level up Leadership and Charm anywho

For Leadership, you want to maintain high morale. For Charm, you want to barter, socialize with people, and do things that increase relationships (like completing missions).

The game actually tells you how to increase skills on that skill's page in the character sheet. It's surprisingly transparent.

Arven
Sep 23, 2007
Is there any way to increase the amount of companions you can have? Or is it just flat capped at 5?

Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

Click the tavern in a town (don't go inside though)

Do go inside, there's stuff you can't get from the menu, like the recruitable mercenaries and a boardgame

Arven posted:

Is there any way to increase the amount of companions you can have? Or is it just flat capped at 5?

I got an extra companion slot for reaching the next clan (renown) rank

pokie
Apr 27, 2008

IT HAPPENED!

How do you train scouting? I read the tooltip but difficult terrain appears to do nothing, and I haven't gotten any quests to interact with tracks yet.

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

Could at least flip one or two, maybe.

pokie posted:

How do you train scouting? I read the tooltip but difficult terrain appears to do nothing, and I haven't gotten any quests to interact with tracks yet.

I've had it level up from finding hideouts

Gyshall
Feb 24, 2009

Had a couple of drinks.
Saw a couple of things.
Mountain Blade 2

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008

Tamba posted:

Do go inside, there's stuff you can't get from the menu, like the recruitable mercenaries and a boardgame


I got an extra companion slot for reaching the next clan (renown) rank

I was referring to the question specifically of recruiting a companion. You don't HAVE to go through the loading screen to search around for someone.

THS
Sep 15, 2017

I crash every time I enter a city. I have a good computer with the latest Nvidia drivers. Woe is me.

Probably the best error is that the error fails to send the crash report to the server.

Captain Beans
Aug 5, 2004

Whar be the beans?
Hair Elf
what the gently caress is the secret to joining games through the matchmaker on North America? It shows hundreds of people in the queue, but yet it farts around for like 5 drat minutes before it puts you in a match

yet if you switch over to Europe it will matchmake you instantly, no big deal

GENUINE CAT HERDER
Jan 2, 2004


Wedge Regret
Checked the system requirements and yeah, probably finally going to break down and buy a new rig for this. The fact that I managed to get 10 years out of the old one and still play a lot of the newer games (albeit at lower settings) with only minor upgrades is nice, but eventually you just have to move on...

pokie
Apr 27, 2008

IT HAPPENED!

Gamerofthegame posted:

I've had it level up from finding hideouts

I will see if I can run into some.

drkeiscool
Aug 1, 2014
Soiled Meat
how come i can't attack bandit hideouts with all of my soldiers??

trapped mouse
May 25, 2008

by Azathoth

drkeiscool posted:

how come i can't attack bandit hideouts with all of my soldiers??

That's Mount and Blade!

OldMold
Jul 29, 2003
old cold gold mold
Stupid question - in battle commands, I see all the formation and movement options, where are the attack options? How do I make the dudes charge or engage

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
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Taco Defender
Is the musket mod out yet? I want to be a drummer on the front lines.

queeb
Jun 10, 2004

m



are there only imperial recruits?

Bold Robot
Jan 6, 2009

Be brave.



What should I be working towards once I have a decent little band of dudes and can comfortably take on the roving bands of random looters/bandits? I never played the first game so I don't really have a good sense of how to get into more interesting fights.

pokie
Apr 27, 2008

IT HAPPENED!

Bold Robot posted:

What should I be working towards once I have a decent little band of dudes and can comfortably take on the roving bands of random looters/bandits? I never played the first game so I don't really have a good sense of how to get into more interesting fights.

You can attempt to get brownie points with a faction and join them as a vassal or you can conquer a castle for yourself if you think you can hold it and start a new faction.

MikeC
Jul 19, 2004
BITCH ASS NARC

Jossar posted:

Yeah, so after trying it out for a few hours I found that i'm getting my rear end kicked in, even on Very Easy. Still hyped, but I really gotta go back and make the best optimized character possible... and make sure to take less nasty fights. Not like the old days where you could just barrel into a Hideout with like 3 dudes with minimal consequences as long as you were well armored.

Is this game significantly harder/grindier than Warband? I am trying to figure out whether to take the dive on this title given that I am on COVID vacation.

esperterra
Mar 24, 2010

SHINee's back




GENUINE CAT HERDER posted:

Checked the system requirements and yeah, probably finally going to break down and buy a new rig for this. The fact that I managed to get 10 years out of the old one and still play a lot of the newer games (albeit at lower settings) with only minor upgrades is nice, but eventually you just have to move on...

Saaame. Going to mess a round with Bannerlord a bit tonight, but it's likely I'll have to wait til I can up my CPU and RAM, sadly!

The good news is I have like 10 years of Warband mods to gently caress with. Been a few years since I played, may as well dive back in now that I've got the itch!

Squiggle
Sep 29, 2002

I don't think she likes the special sauce, Rick.


Liquid Communism posted:

There's a loving 'sharpness' slider in the graphics options. Wonder if he noticed it. :allears:

I know this is a little bit back there but he's not crazy or stupid, I was just able to somehow trigger the same thing on mine as well - I had to re-gently caress with all of my graphics settings, despite them being set to what they SHOULD be. Finally switching to Fullscreen and defining my set resolution instead of using the "Desktop" option cleared it up REAL pretty. I can't make it happen again, but it was very ugly and I very much understand what he's saying. It's not the resolution scale either: when sliding that, the text stays sharp for me. But when this happened, all text was like it was 1280x720. My monitor res didn't change, so I don't know what the gently caress that was.

Gamerofthegame
Oct 28, 2010

Could at least flip one or two, maybe.

Tenzarin posted:

Is the musket mod out yet? I want to be a drummer on the front lines.

there won't be one because they made a game on the unity engine instead

and it sucks cuz they can't get the same stuff they did on warband to work, lmao

Shima Honnou
Dec 1, 2010

The Once And Future King Of Dicetroit

College Slice
I'm not sure what I was more impressed by, horsemen not getting stuck in tournaments, or unhorsed combatants grabbing a fresh horse and continuing to ride.

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

So I didn't get a screenshot of it at the time (and it's crashing too often to be worth trying to replicate it right now) but:

Some things are scaled to your body, and some are scaled to your head. So from what "regular" helmets I've tried, they just squeeze your giant head in and everything looks "normal". The hood I got from a looter, though? Whole rear end head clips through it.

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters
The big thing I'm trying to find out right now is where to find a decent source of combat exp near Battanian lands. I am still WAY too baby to fight, for example, Empire with my lovely t2-3 troop hodge podge.

Also getting Highborn Youths is like pulling teeth. I need my drat sweet longbowmen :argh:

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Shima Honnou posted:

I'm not sure what I was more impressed by, horsemen not getting stuck in tournaments, or unhorsed combatants grabbing a fresh horse and continuing to ride.

Both of those things confirmed my decision to Early Buy this game as the correct one.

Pretty much everything so far is great in my eyes, actually. I'm loving pretty much every single part of this. It's making Mountain Blade look like a big bag of dicks, and I rate Mountain Blade as an all-timer.

pokie
Apr 27, 2008

IT HAPPENED!

Ugh, getting stuck in a crash loop as soon as time passes out of a city. At least I have a save 7 minutes before it happened :/. Still, pretty lovely.

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Also if you fight a battle with a helmet on it'll make your character, uh, "normal"

tildes
Nov 16, 2018

Shima Honnou posted:

I'm not sure what I was more impressed by, horsemen not getting stuck in tournaments, or unhorsed combatants grabbing a fresh horse and continuing to ride.

Well, there goes 90% of my Warband strategy for winning tournaments

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waffleman
Aug 5, 2007

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY
it really ties the nation together

pokie posted:

Ugh, getting stuck in a crash loop as soon as time passes out of a city. At least I have a save 7 minutes before it happened :/. Still, pretty lovely.

I had this issue in 2 saves today. In my case I had picked up one of the quests where you ambush poachers and it was bugged. When it timed out (relatively certain the timeout was way too quick too) , the game crashed. I went to a save before I picked that quest up (and didn't pick it up) and havent had issues since. Dunno if your issue might be similar.

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