#Mount and blade force single threading plus#

We keep winning our battles, though I'm not really doing much to help besides directing traffic, and each fight costs me a few men (they can be replaced with money) and I need to heal (more money) and buy more ammo and food (money). They can come with me, but can't actually do any fighting until I level myself up or one of my other squads gets wiped out. I hire yet another small group of mercs, bringing my squad count up to four, though I only have enough skill points to command three squads at a time. When the battle is over, I collect a random smattering of loot-food, linen, grenades, ammo, and other odds and ends that can be collected and sold-though unfortunately no guns. I manage to win a couple of early battles against bandit gangs that are about my size. I will have to haul so much garbage before I can afford one.

My main issue currently is I don't have a scoped weapon, and they're very expensive in the shops. The game is also very good at helping you know where your shots are going with little dirt-puffs visible even from quite a long distance. Luckily, my own squads have the same sharp AI vision and I can just sort of look where they're aiming until I spot the enemy. People with better weapons than I have are shooting at me from way across the map and I can barely see them. When it comes to the first-person combat, for me at least, Freeman immediately turns into a game of PUBG. You can issue orders to follow, proceed with caution, charge, and retreat as well. When you close the map you're running around in first-person mode again. You can easily drag waypoints around, add additional ones, and quickly remove them if your plans have changed. It's done very simply, by selecting a squad and setting up a waypoint by double clicking a spot on the map. You begin by deploying your squads on a 2D version of the map, and at any point during the first-person combat you can visit this map to direct your squads in real time. In Freeman's combat, you've got a bit of real-time strategy, too. A quick scan of the map shows no bandit gangs that look small enough for me to tackle with my small band of fighters, so I avoid conflict while shuffling back and forth between towns, having found a merchant that will overpay for tea and another that will pay a lot for 'garbage.' I start by allocating my starting skill points into abilities like leadership, accuracy, weapon expertise, and first aid (this is the RPG part of the game). As in M&B, you can visit towns to trade, recruit, rest (in this case, by visiting a hospital to heal), or to attempt a hostile takeover.

#Mount and blade force single threading plus#

Other factions, plus groups of bandits and looters, stroll around the map too, though not entirely in real time: when I stop moving, they stop as well. When I begin playing, the simple world map shows towns and roads, and I wander around represented by a single soldier with a little number next to me displaying the size of my hired forces (currently 10, made up of two squads). Having played a lot of M&B myself, Freeman feels immediately familiar.