So I moved on to archer. Stay out of the fray yet still help your side. Find a safe place to stand (between big rocks and trees is good as it limits how many random drive by spearings you’ll take without seeing them coming. But those types of spots are few and far between. So find the best spot you can, take aim and let fly.
The hardest thing about the game is not the combat. That’s straightforward and easy to come to grips with. It’s determining who is on your side and who isnt’ You have to actually look at someone to find out if they are friend or foe and even then, from a distance you still can’t tell.
That’s sort of useless for archers but realistic. This was generally armies wore the same color, so that you could tell your guys from the other guys. In Warband you can all wear whatever you want and it turns out at times that people on both sides are wearing the exact same thing.
At times you can tell by what weapons they are using or if they have horses or not. But it’s not always that easy and so at times you might accidentally take out an ally instead of an enemy.
The battles are intense. You have to pay attention and a rider can fly up behind you and drop you with one strike. In fact it seems like a lot of things can drop you with one strike if you’re not careful. The world is a dangerous place and war is hell. This certainly shows you how hard life can be in a warzone but not really at the expense of fun.
The game is fairly polished already as it’s up to version 0.701 and I think that it will certainly be ready soon. The graphics are a little flat and some models are almost completely two-dimensional. And yet I still don’t care and want to stop writing this and go back to it. So I think I shall. Check out the screens and videos I captures while in the game.
I must say, the game is addictive. The different modes include deathmatch, capture the flag and defend territories. Overall it seems like it’s shaping up extremely well and I think it’s going to be what everyone wants it to be.
There are about two dozen screenshots from tonight’s beta and a couple videos. Drop a line if you have any questions and I’ll try to answer as best as I can.
Sorry about the sound. It was difficult to get the screen captures
