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Mike Jia
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Location: Canberra Joined: 30 Sep 2013
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Looks good! Mount & Blade is a great game, and I'm always happy to see new mods getting developed. This is the first one I've seen that has tried improving the combat animations, it looks a lot more fluid than native. War of the Roses and Chivalry are also decent medieval combat simulators, but they're not quite as fun as M&B.
There's definitely seems to be a move towards games with medieval combat. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is another game to watch out for, and Mount&Blade 2 is in the middle of development.
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Mikko Kuusirati
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| Mike Jia wrote: | | Looks good! Mount & Blade is a great game, and I'm always happy to see new mods getting developed. |
This is going to be a standalone game of its own, actually, just heavily derivative of the M&B mod.
| Quote: | | This is the first one I've seen that has tried improving the combat animations, it looks a lot more fluid than native. |
There are quite a few mods and mod packs that overhaul the animations. Floris Expanded Mod Pack is probably my favorite; Gekokujo, a pretty neat total conversion mod set in feudal Japan, also has its own set of attack animations.
| Quote: | | There's definitely seems to be a move towards games with medieval combat. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is another game to watch out for, and Mount&Blade 2 is in the middle of development. |
I dunno. M&B combat at least seems no more realistic or historically accurate to me than, say, pretty much any Legend of Zelda...
Still a great game, though! The absence of overt fantasy elements is quite refreshing. 
"And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."
— Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
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Foong Chen Hong
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"I dunno. M&B combat at least seems no more realistic or historically accurate to me than, say, pretty much any Legend of Zelda... "
M&B's combat does feel the most fluid when compare to Chivalry and WOTR.
Descanse En Paz
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Marik C.S.
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| Foong Chen Hong wrote: | "I dunno. M&B combat at least seems no more realistic or historically accurate to me than, say, pretty much any Legend of Zelda... "
M&B's combat does feel the most fluid when compare to Chivalry and WOTR. |
Play well or fluid from a gameplay point of view doesn't make the depiction of combat accurate though.
And I doubt very much that this is going to change any time soon. Clang had a shot at it but that's dead&buried now.
Europe - Where the History comes from. - Eddie Izzard
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Foong Chen Hong
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| Marik C.S. wrote: | | Foong Chen Hong wrote: | "I dunno. M&B combat at least seems no more realistic or historically accurate to me than, say, pretty much any Legend of Zelda... "
M&B's combat does feel the most fluid when compare to Chivalry and WOTR. |
Play well or fluid from a gameplay point of view doesn't make the depiction of combat accurate though.
And I doubt very much that this is going to change any time soon. Clang had a shot at it but that's dead&buried now. |
I never talks about "accurate" though.
Descanse En Paz
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Mikko Kuusirati
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| Foong Chen Hong wrote: | | M&B's combat does feel the most fluid when compare to Chivalry and WOTR. |
Sure, but Ocarina of Time feels more fluid still.
Where the combat in M&B really fails is the near complete lack of interaction between combatants - you can hit them with your stick when they open up their defense to hit you, and that's all there's to it. There's no grappling, wrestling, binds or any other kind of contact. Mounted combat is a bit more dynamic, but the horses feel and act more like bicycles...
Mind you, despite my complaining Steam says I've played 999 hours of it. And that's not counting the copy I have from GOG.com. 
"And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."
— Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
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Raman A
Location: United States Joined: 25 Aug 2011
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I'll keep an eye on this, looks interesting but I'm not sure if I'll have the time to play it.
I played M&B when it first came out and I thought the foot combat was garbage. However, the "mount" part of mount and blade was actually very fun. I don't think any other games at the time had mounted combat like that, where you could do mounted archery or couched lance charges.
WoTR kind of had a similar problem. It was fun... if you had a horse. The foot combat was absolutely terrible.
Chivalry has no mounted combat at all, but the foot combat was actually pretty fun. It's not even a bit realistic though...
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is coming up and looks like it has some great combat.
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Gary John
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Medieval combat game with a serious physics engine -- Personally, this is what I have been waiting for.
I'm jumping on the bandwagon here.
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