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Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord players have made Harry Potter, Gandalf and lots of glitchy gifsPhysics bugs, AI bugs, and more
Physics bugs, AI bugs, and more
It’s inevitable at this point. Where there are games, there are antics, and a game as big and complicated, and as work-in-progress asMount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, there will be slapstick. There will be creativity. There will be gifs. The game’s various subreddits have been buzzing constantly for over two weeks. Let’s have a look at some of the highlights.
A major part of Bannerlord is training up your lackeys. Whatever path you take in its open world of commerce and violence, you’re gonna do some fighting, and for most people that means an army. But what if you don’t want an army? What if you want a diverse handful of experts? A party. A fellowship, if you will. Reddier user “Okoii” has an answer.
Bonus points for Sean Boromean going for almost several seconds before getting repeatedly shot. And Legolas expressing an emotion. Wait, these are clearly impostors.
The same player also made another group of diminutive do-gooders, presumably using a mod like Detailed Character Creator to make the Harry Potter team.
Other players have been sharing wacky bugs and chance events. Everyone loves a little physics bug, and Bannerlord’s heaps of clashing bodies makes some wacky slapstick moments inevitable (I myself witnessed a man in the “non-lethal” arena getting roasted on a fire). But I wasn’t expecting the proof of divine retribution that Reddit user “Tiny_Noodle” posted. What did that horse do to offend the heavens? I fear to learn.
Looters are essentially Bannerlord’s equivalent of RPG rats. They sometimes accumulate in large enough numbers to threaten a small, weak party, but they’re mostly fodder. Unless you fight them alone on foot, when they can easily overwhelm you. But one player found a viable strategy for fighting an army of looters solo, up close, while half naked.
But my favourite siege moment is courtesy of “Embers144”, who captured the most intense one-on-one action I’ve seen since that video of the two silent guys giving each other the middle finger in the street.
Some oddities like this are probably inevitable, since 99% of the time everyone’s fighting in a group, so the AI doesn’t really have a clue what to do when asked to besiege a castle with one man. But maybe I’m just making excuses because it’s shown me how much the world needs Mount & Buster.
