It's asking me to input the keycode from M&B full version everytime I launch M&BW beta, anyone else get this?

Nope. It only asked me once.

Just a reminder Warband is coming out tomorrow. I am going to buy it from the developer site (so all money go to developer).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2iRIXOOLu4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxPknU_TBBo

We need a SimHQ banner.

Got a preorder from Amazon coming to me. Looking forward to this one.

I bought it from Steam last week which gave me access to both the single & multi-player betas. I have spent a lot of time playing that game since.

Just bought the game from taleworlds. Now I have to wait to finish work, watch the kids, get the kids to sleep, then download the game and install...the wait...

I heard the single player game improved quite a bit, added some very interesting quests (rescue mission?), you can being a king, married? (don't know if this add anything).

you and me both...


I heard that having a spouse will give you someone to help manage the kingdom, which will be nice. And you can even start a new faction, so I've heard. You can grant lands to your named companions and make them vassals, lots more stuff too. But the best part of the game is always gonna be the combat...

After playing alot of multiplayer over the past month, I've become really impressed with the new combat mechanics. Much smoother, the animations look alot better. I really like the fact that if you block a large, heavy weapon with a small sword or something, you get stunned. I mean, how can a small blade stop a great bardiche with no ill effects? And with large blunt weapons, you can even hurt folks hiding behind shields. If you think about it, if you tried to block a 50lb sledge with a shield, you're at very least gonna end up with a broken wrist. And you can kick, which is not overly useful, but it can break a swing/block stalemate once in a while.

Anyways, I'm gonna be up late tonite, hopefully playing and not re-trying to download. :P

It seems like the AI is better at combat now too. In the original M&B I could win those pick up matches in the arenas with a level 3 character pretty easily. I find it much more difficult now and my guy is at level 6. I am actually having to feint my attacks and the AI will still get in chamber blocks occasionally. Kicking is really useful against the AI though.

I have also received couched damage in battle! I do not remember that ever happening in the original M&B.

Multiplayer is a hoot. I saw arthur666 online once in a siege battle but he quit before I had a chance to get his attention in text. We need to get something organized and jump on TS and have some fun playing Team Deathmatch or something.

How big is the steam download? Amazon is showing no sign of shipping my order, I'm thinking about just cancelling and going through steam when I get home.

I don't know about steam but it is a little over 500MB downloading directly from taleworlds.com. I played the single player game a few hrs last night, this game is positively positive!! I have been watching some duel videos on youtube, some players really got skills. It is safe to say this is one of the best game I ever played (and I played since b&w monitor). Simple game mechanics, lots of depth, sign of a good (great) game.