Ordinarily, when you encounter any party on the world map, Bannerlord loads a full 3D scene where you talk to them face to face. In the vast majority of cases, your conversation will last a few seconds at most, then you'll be taken back to the main map. Often, you'll then have to load another 3D scene in order to fight a battle.
These loading screens are slow, irritating, and completely unnecessary.įast Dialogue skips them entirely.
Instead of opening the conversation, it loads the standard blue actions menu on the left of the screen, and adds the option "converse", plus any other relevant actions like attacking or simply leaving. It's a small thing that's already saved Sin a heap of time and actually changed the way we play. I'm not longer avoiding lots of smaller fights simply to get out of having to sit through back to back loading screens. You absolutely should have this mod installed. Warband players can generally be divided into three categories: those who are surprised and disappointed that Bannerlord has removed automated directional blocking, those who either didn't use it or don't mind its removal but are reasonable, mature people about it, and those who are the reason most game forums are a screeching toilet of insecure dullards.Īuto block is the one lower difficulty feature of Warband we've used, and we're glad to see it modded back in. With this mod, that system is ported to Bannerlord. You still need to block, and pay attention to enemy movements, but it's far less fussy. Right clicking with a weapon out will block an incoming attack, automatically choosing the right direction. Unless the enemy changes that direction (or your relative positions shift enough for their weapon to hit anyway), in which case you must block again. The one downside is you can't toggle it on or off without restarting the game, but that's a very minor quibble indeed.īannerlord Tweaks Menus menus gimme some menus unnhhhhĪ wide ranging collection of small tweaks whose cumulative affect is already quite substantial. Renown gains from battle are doubled, tournament rewards are greater, food production is higher to make sieges tougher and AI less likely to domino the whole map overnight. XP gains for troops are higher all round, you can smith more items per day, and the game in general should feel pacier and less grindy, particularly early on.īannerlord Tweaks also comes with an in-game menu with full tooltips that lets you enable or disable specific features, and tweak them to the exact values you want. This is impressive work, especially for a brand new game. Its creator, "mildeww" has also been dutifully updating the mod every day to keep up with Taleworlds's own daily patching. They're also rather transparent, reporting which files are involved with specific tweaks as they go, in the interests of aiding the modding community in general. Exemplary behaviour that deserves recognition. I will most definitely when Bannerlord is out though, maybe I shouldn't bother with Warband (thinking loud).This one is a simple mod, but a very convenient one. The thing that drives me into strategy game is my passion for history, I wonder if I miss something by not playing the original game.
You work your ass hours for free and get messages from the ungrateful crowd like "you ! rebalance those (insert poster's nationnality) units ! There were much more badass in RL I know it for a fact, when I don't spend my time sitting in front of my computer, I travel in time" or comments like "fix those bugs you moron, your mod is shit, I won't waste my time playing it".Īnyway, a comment in the thread made me remember I actually never played the vanilla game and directly jumped into Brytenwalda and then Viking Conquest. The work that has been put in this mod ! In any things, once I start to enjoy something I want to do it myself, but mods, I wouldn't even try. If I play again I'll do as a muslim, their troops and tactics are awesome. Coming from Viking Conquest where formations are everything battles in AD 1257 feels like chaos. First battle where I saw the horse archers in action, I was so amazed. Might have a walk in last days or one of the Westeros mod if I have time.įor now I started a AD1257 campaign and having a blast.