Two years on and Bannerlord is ready for battle
Horse-rush action RPGMount & Blade 2: Bannerlordlaunches on October 25th following a two-year-long early access period. It’s journeying onto consoles at the same time, too, but its 1.0 release isn’t going to be the end of the road for Bannerlord. Devs TaleWorlds Entertainment say they’ll continue to update it in “the coming months” after launch, although in what capacity they haven’t said yet. In any case, have a watch Bannerlord’s sweeping launch trailer below.
But Bannerlord’s real charm might lay in its mods, many of which we’ve rounded up in our comprehensivebest Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlords modspage. Fromgiant horsesandan MMOtoCrusader Kings 3battlesplayed outin the game, Bannerlord is something of a modder’s muse.
Even without modding it to high heaven, though, Bannerlord continues to be one of thebest RPGson PC today. It’s suffered its fair share of technical problems during early access, no doubt about it, but when werevisited Bannerlord last year, Sin said she still got a kick out of “fecking a javelin at a nobleman’s horse and watching his doomed tumble into your gang of frothing axemen.” However, there were also still parts of the game that left her wanting back then, so we’ll have to wait and see whether its 1.0 release has improved things any further.
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord launches out of early access onSteamon October 25th, and costs £40/$50/€50.
