

Played on the recommended difficulty settings, the game truly reflects what it’s like to be a nameless, useless A Song of Ice and Fire character who sucks at everything and gets their ass kicked a bunch. I gave it a bash last week because I had a sick day and had been watching the show and now, a week later, I have played roughly one billion hours of the mod. You are dropped on the map with nothing but a few shitty possessions and a few suggestions for quests that you can start out with - other than that you are left to your own devices. Much like regular Mount and Blade: Warband, it is largely directionless. It’s a bit janky, the graphics aren’t particularly spectacular, and some of the ways in which you interact with the world are sometimes obscure and often tedious, but it is tremendously rewarding to play as the scale of the game increases and the ways in which you can interact with the world around you get more and more impactful.Ī Clash of Kings, now in its sixth version, transplants the original game to Westeros and Essos, allowing you to join in on the endless conflict between the Seven Kingdoms and the Free Cities. You can also find below some screenshots and a gameplay video that showcase this early access version.If you’re not familiar, Mount and Blade: Warband is a 2009 pseudo-medieval roleplaying game in which you start out as some random dude with a shitty sword and gradually (theoretically) work your way up to a position of power through political intrigue and beating people the hell up. And, for early access, it does look pretty cool. So yeah, while it’s not complete yet, it’s definitely in better shape than the World of Warcraft total conversion mod for Mount & Blade 2. However, the modder plans to create a new map when the modding tools are fixed and completely implemented. For instance, the Custom Main Map is an early temporary version with many abnormalities due to leaving native vista texture in place. Thus, you should temper your expectations. It also aims to have over twenty kingdoms from the Free Folk, north of the wall, to the Dothraki of the Great Grass Sea.Īs said, this first release is a very early access version, and is nowhere close to complete.

This total conversion mod changes Calradia into Westeros and Essos from the HBO series.Īccording to the modder, this mod aims to feature hundreds of characters. Carolina Warlord has released the first early version of the Game of Thrones mod for Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlord.
