You’ll be able to adapt your army, choosing between a few pre-determined unit types, and picking perks that improve their weapons and armour, grant you more units, and provide buffs to stats like morale and agility. You’ll enter the battle with your own army, but depending on your role, you’ll only command all of the cavalry, infantry, or archers.ĭevelopers TaleWorlds showed off the new mode in a demo video uploaded today.
Original Story, August 22: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is getting Captain Mode, a tactical multiplayer mode featuring small-scale 5v5 battles. Currently, there’s nothing on that for the immediate future.” Yavuz says “Probably at some point we’ll have something like that. There will also probably be a multiplayer beta at some point. One of these, a siege mode, was touched on last week, but there will also be Duel, and a multiplayer mode “without bots,” and Captain’s Mode. Yavuz also says that Captain’s mode is just one of “at least” four multiplayer modes that are planned for the game.
While directing your AI forces around the battlefield, you’ll also control your own character in an attempt to make the game “teamwork-oriented.” Yavuz says that the aim of Captain’s mode is to attempt to “recreate the atmosphere of medieval battles.” Players will take their own army into battle, but while there, they’ll control one of six classes two infantry, two archer, two cavalry.
