Being a Mercenary sucks.

[Qikdraw]

Seriously, don't do it. I've been following this Marshall for a month now, and aside from a few battles thats all I've been doing. Its incredibly boring, specially since his pathfinding is severely borked. I can't leave him or I start getting messages that I have to follow him, even if he is spending days resting up after a battle, all the other counts get to go off, but not me, I have to stay by his side. Plus while the entire army is following him, they'll all ignore a enemy group to keep going to their original destination. I've had one enemy group walk right through the army without getting attacked. Thats messed up. Its like they have tunnel vision and thats it.

Add to that all the irritating bugs I'm wondering if I should just go back to M&B and leave Warband for a few months later when its been cleaned up. I feel stupid cause I broke my own rule of buying a brand new game, I know they always have issues at release. So I'm doubly annoyed, at myself, and at the game.

 

[dizzyflores]

I'm a Merc in my game have been for two months now. I can go where I please and do what I want. I spend most of the time in my own territory attacking people trying to loot villages.

 

[Dragnar]

I feel your pain.
Only days after becoming a vassal, the swadian marshal summoned me to accompany him on his "campaigns", which mostly consist of him sitting next to one of our own castles for days, before wandering to another castle of ours, sitting there for days and returning the whole thing. At first, the other lords came as well, stayed a few days and then went away to do something useful in repeating cycle. Nowadays, they don't even show up anymore.
It's been like this for almost two months now. "Stay until further notice" says the quest. Notice of what, says I.
By now, I spent more than 2 realgame hours just keeping the spacebar pressed and trying not to fall asleep...
HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO WATCH THAT LAZY DWEEB SIT AROUND UNTIL THE QUEST COMPLETES? WHEN WILL IT FINALLY END?

 

[Qikdraw]

I'm a Merc in my game have been for two months now. I can go where I please and do what I want. I spend most of the time in my own territory attacking people trying to loot villages.

If I spend two game days away from him I lose the quest, after the first day it tells me I have to follow the marshall. So you must be going close enough to him during your two days where it resets.

 

[Qikdraw]

I feel your pain.
Only days after becoming a vassal, the swadian marshal summoned me to accompany him on his "campaigns", which mostly consist of him sitting next to one of our own castles for days, before wandering to another castle of ours, sitting there for days and returning the whole thing. At first, the other lords came as well, stayed a few days and then went away to do something useful in repeating cycle. Nowadays, they don't even show up anymore.
It's been like this for almost two months now. "Stay until further notice" says the quest. Notice of what, says I.
By now, I spent more than 2 realgame hours just keeping the spacebar pressed and trying not to fall asleep...
HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO WATCH THAT LAZY DWEEB SIT AROUND UNTIL THE QUEST COMPLETES? WHEN WILL IT FINALLY END?

Apparently in patch 1.104 they've made it so if you fail the quest you don't get any penalty. Thats from an Admin on the Taleworlds forum.

Reverend L. Lamb
The penalties for failing the quest should be removed in 1.104 until they can properly fix it.

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,103741.msg2580166.html#msg2580166

I'm gonna load up the patch and see if it works ok.

*edit* Yeah no loss of rep to the marshall, but if you have a party member that doesn't like failing quests they get annoyed still.

 

[Hardradi]

I agree, this is pretty boring. I think it lasts three months but I broke away after one month. I got two messages saying meet me here, etc but I ignored them.

One thing that did happen in that month, is that all of the Rhodok armies congregated at one of the cities. This was followed by three days of tournaments and feasts. This happened about four times.

I almost won, a tournament, got stabbed by an archers dagger in the last fight.

 

[Qikdraw]

The fix is in the works.

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,103684.msg2579507.html#msg2579507

nijis (Developer)
This quest was broken, and should be overhauled for the next update. Thanks to all for the input.

So thats good news indeed.

 

[Dragnar]

Well, not having to follow that dweeb around is a start, at least...
It's kinda sad how unpolished and unfinished the game is even after years of development. Most of the small nitpicks that originally stopped me from buying the regular M&B are still there, but I guess it at least looks prettier now...

 

[Qikdraw]

Well, not having to follow that dweeb around is a start, at least...

Yet now the 'rescue a relative' quest is bugged. I get attacked BY the guy I'm rescuing when I leave the jail. Yay...

but I guess it at least looks prettier now...

For you maybe, for me, not so much. But then I still have an AGP, single core computer. I'm living in the dark ages. lol

 

[DesertSnow]

I have been playing the latest version (from gamersgate) and i have no problems with how the AI manages kingdom armies. It is now vastly superior to what i had seen in original mount and blade.

I would definitely call the game "polished", although some bugs do exist...

 

[iniudan]

Yet now the 'rescue a relative' quest is bugged. I get attacked BY the guy I'm rescuing when I leave the jail. Yay...



For you maybe, for me, not so much. But then I still have an AGP, single core computer. I'm living in the dark ages. lol

My 5 and half years old agp single core can make the game run on almost maxed graphic. And outside of the graphical glitch (simply speaking to someone or alt+tab correct most) and some random framerate drop (which are memory leak related, since of how they happen) everything work fine. But I admit when I hit 150 unit on screen on those setting the frame rate drop around 24fps =p

 

[Qikdraw]

I have been playing the latest version (from gamersgate) and i have no problems with how the AI manages kingdom armies. It is now vastly superior to what i had seen in original mount and blade.

I got mine from GG as well. In M&B the marshall didn't lead the army around streams for no reason at all, like what he does now. He'll head in one direction, then turn right around and head in another, then back again. Its like he's locked on a moving army, and is trying to get there in the shortest route possible, but not calculating the mountains are in the way.

I would definitely call the game "polished", although some bugs do exist...

I guess our versions of 'polished' are different. lol Its getting there for sure, and to have 3 patches out so quickly shows they are trying hard, but in no way would I consider this game polished yet. Honestly it should have sat for another month in beta to patch up some of this stuff. To have some of the new stuff just being as buggy as they are is not good.

 

[Qikdraw]

My 5 and half years old agp single core can make the game run on almost maxed graphic. And outside of the graphical glitch (simply speaking to someone or alt+tab correct most) and some random framerate drop (which are memory leak related, since of how they happen) everything work fine. But I admit when I hit 150 unit on screen on those setting the frame rate drop around 24fps =p

I've got an Intel 2.6 ghz CPU. Although my video card is about as high up and my AGP mobo can go. ATI x1950 512mb GDDR3, and I have 2 gig ram.

I did punch up the graphics as it had originally set me down a lot lower. It seems to run ok, but even at the lower graphics it slowed to a stop when 'new enemies' appeared. Even in the original M&B I had that problem.

 

[iniudan]

I've got an Intel 2.6 ghz CPU. Although my video card is about as high up and my AGP mobo can go. ATI x1950 512mb GDDR3, and I have 2 gig ram.

I did punch up the graphics as it had originally set me down a lot lower. It seems to run ok, but even at the lower graphics it slowed to a stop when 'new enemies' appeared. Even in the original M&B I had that problem.

AMD64 3500+, ATI 3850 512mb (use to be a GeForce 6800GT 128mb, but needed to change to extant life of the computer of a years or two, since old card had too low Vram.

 

[unmerged(169164)]

I soldiered four months as a mercenary. Did not experience the issues.

I noticed that a patrolling marshall would ignore a besieging army even though when they were on a mission to patrol around the city.