Always have more than one manual save up-to-date, just in case. There have been numerous instances of save games becoming corrupt. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord corrupted saves
We recommend you ensure your GPU drivers are up-to-date as well, to help eliminate any potential problems. Various reports from players seem to point to AI pathfinding, which seems to be causing most of the siege-related issues but you may encounter stuttering and sluggish performance elsewhere. For the majority of your game time you'll enjoy butter-smooth action, but should you get into a hectic siege battle, your game will slow down considerably. Performance in the game can be a hit or a miss. It helps if you could provide a sentence or two about what made the game come to a sudden halt. TaleWorlds Entertainment is working on rolling out fixes in the frequently released patches, but still to this day you may encounter a crash here and there.Ī bug reporter should open up once Bannerlord crashes, allowing you to send a report to the developer for them to look into the problem. Instead, it's about the bonds you form with your unit and the reputation you build amongst your peers.Crashes and overall game stability in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord remains to be one of the more popular issue players continue to experience. It's a decision few shooters are complex enough to pose because there's no way to really quantify bravery in multiplayer. Far better to charge forward into an overwhelming enemy force and die in glory than to be a coward. If we break ranks and scatter to save our lives, we bring shame upon our regiment. But, for me, it's those moments when we are flanked that are the absolute best. You have little agency as a single soldier, instead, relying on your commander's ability to position your unit properly to not get flanked by enemy maneuvers. What I love about playing in a highly coordinated regiment is that Napoleonic Wars becomes more about discipline than accuracy or skill. Raised your rifle or spoken out of turn without the captain's orders? That's a lashin'.
See, while you're free to just hop online and join in chaotic public matches, you're much better served joining one of the many regiments that engage in historically-proper battles with loads of rules for what you can and can't do at any given time.
Yet, Napoleonic Wars is one of my favourite multiplayer shooter mods ever. There's some eras of warfare that seem impossible to recreate in a first-person shooter, and the idea of standing in rows and exchanging volleys with another group of gents also standing in rows seems like one of them. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.