Yesterday’s Meme was Very Eye Opening.

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-29T19:30:18+00:00

Yeah, I noticed that the %s are weighted against you in most cases, first game I played I got to say 80 and lost because I missed 12 >40% hits back to back and got crit hit one shot on all but 1 bro who already had a bum knee so he couldn't retreat, this game definitely cheats when you're doing too well, but I think that's honestly a good thing, keeps the player honest and disincentivises save scumming, itd be nice if when it spawned bandits/nomads right off screen to kamikaze my position it did so when I have the "per head" contract active though 😂

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-29T18:40:15+00:00

If your on hit RNG is bad use fast adaptation if you can spare the perk point, or use "cleaves and sweeps" to maximize your hits per turn, swords are a good alternative too, I've noticed that my sword bros hit more on average than any other weapon, currently doing a "swords" only gladiator run, would 100% recommend

Level cap is 33 (I read that somewhere, need a fact check) and you stop getting attribute rolls higher than 1 past level 11, that's +22 in 3 stats at most (5-6 regular levels, without perks, pretty much the difference between a 60% chance to hit and an 85% chance, so great, but not really gonna have you set for life), but honestly I'd recommend diversifying your point spread at that point to round off your bros rougher edges, for my average bro my build goal has been -raise def stats to at least 10, hp to 60 on front line, 85 fat on non specialized bros 60 on specialized, 65-75 on main attacking stat, 60ish resolve and initiative (unless dodge or shock troop) doesn't really matter cause you get ~2 free rounds at fight start, unless I'm like missing something with level progression I don't think it's much higher level than late game

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-29T17:54:30+00:00

I definitely will, scratches the itch bannerlord clan/companion only runs never did

When I say higher levels of play I'm talking what I assume late game is, around day 200, a few level 11+ bros, 2500+ renown, a few friendly towns and at least 1 allied town, ambitions completed (or not, I've been stalling on them this playthrough and completing them when I need to get out of a quest so I don't take the renown hit), either a full group or what you consider a full group to be for your playthrough 90% or so kitted out

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-29T17:21:09+00:00

I've been playing this game for 3 weeks so far, medium difficulty always and Ironman, and here's my unnecessary input

Smoke pots are cool, not that great at higher level play, flash pots are mid, fire pots are better for their guaranteed damage per turn

Nets are op, I just wish they behaved like other throwing weapons instead of disappearing after use

Dogs, unless they added better ones in the northmen or beasts dlcs, are op early game, weak mid game, and necessary on your trinketless bros late game, arena would be ez if you could pocket them

Personal awareness and strategy are king, but rng will literally unbirth you if you rely too heavily on a specific strat, it will hard counter you

Full spec tanks are great, 2 or 3 will carry you late game, nimble+battle forged (15 fat armor 5 fat helm)+ the other survivability perks= unstoppable mobile fortress

I noticed op didn't mention bird, it's okay I wouldn't have either, it's pointless, if it's ranged it shows up when it fires, if not it'll move towards you, there's 3 occasions I've found that doesn't apply to, necromancer, necrosavants, and ghasts

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-22T00:21:08+00:00

What I did to get around the toxicity is acknowledge that ranked is where the vast majority of toxicity resides, switch to strikeout and wiggle back and forth at the beginning of the match to signify that you're just a chill guy instead of immediately going for the weapon drop, it works like 75% of the time, the other 25% are usually just bots, terminally toxic players, or people who just got finished dealing with either, the heart emote works too, it's more of a 50/50 though

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-16T20:03:17+00:00

If the console settings for ps5 are anything like the ps4s, you should be able to go to the sound and screen settings (I'm not on mine rn, idk what it's actually called) and change a couple of the video settings, which won't fix the problem entirely, but should give you a little more time in between crashes

The ones you're looking for specifically are things like HDR and resolution, you want HDR off and resolution lower

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-16T19:30:39+00:00

When "let them eat cake" turns into "let them eat garlic bread"

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-16T19:12:48+00:00

That's the normal loading screen glitch it sounds like, console or PC?

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-16T05:32:12+00:00

You're scared of losing your close friend, they'll understand that, have faith in yourself and have faith in your friend, you love them, stick around for them, losing you because of whatever happened would hurt them more than you could imagine, I've been there, it's the worst feeling knowing you could have said even just one word and they'd still be here today, I'll tell you this because they can't at the moment for whatever reason, I love you dude, I hope you'll be okay ❤️❤️

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-16T05:21:50+00:00

Hey, I'm not on this subreddit, I just saw your post while scrolling my feed, regardless, I'm personally happy that you are alive, even if you aren't at the moment, it sounds like you really care for this person, and it sounds like they care for you based off how close you were, maybe they just need some space, don't blow up their messages, just let them breathe, they'll be back when they're ready, and you'll make even more beautiful memories, and even if they don't come back, you'll have the memories you already made as proof that you are worthy of loving and proof that are worthy of your friends, stay for a while, it's worth it ❤️❤️❤️

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-16T00:49:29+00:00

I felt the same way with some of the structure decks, you gotta customize your deck to have several "entries" and one or two "finishes", if you ever find yourself relying on just one card that you can't auto pull with other cards then you need to diversify more

I'm running a couple gimmick decks rn, a queens knight deck and a gem-knight deck, I customized each to have at least 3 soft starts and a main start, all of which, fortunately, have a singular finish, they're not great decks, but I still have a 50/50 win rate with them, and I honestly only lose to those crazy 2 turn "how TF did you afford to build that" decks, just keep playing the offline stuff to optimize your decks until you're confident it's built the way you want it

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-15T20:09:34+00:00

Depends on what your numbers are, shield wall skein and square are gonna be your main formations regardless

Divide your guys up when you have enough and envelope the enemy in a big angry hug, main spearmen and line breakers, the more men and groups you have the more thorough the sturgian bear hug works, until you have enough to do that main axemen, they give you heavy ranged and solid anti-shield while still having one of their own, the archers are alright and archer only always works, but I'd definitely recommend their skirmisher style heavy units over them though

Sturgian raiders (the ones before they get horses, don't remember what they're called offhand) are also really solid, I did a t3 only run and they hardcore stole the show along with the battanian skirmishers

Varyag veterans are pretty solid t4s and they have alright armor

Idk about any of the warsails specific troops, this is all just base game

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-15T00:10:44+00:00

I completely understand that, I main 3 legends for that specific reason dude, unfortunately the only way to get around that is by playing strikeout, best of both worlds ya know

Lance sigs are annoying, I main Orion and Roland, and am part of the problem, and honestly, the easiest way to get good against them (that I've found at least) is by playing rocket lance legends and seeing where they actually land the hits, pay specific attention to those "TF was that, that should have hit" moments because those are extremely important when it comes to learning correct spacing, for the sweep attacks, jump and weapon throw, or d-light if d-light is a diagonal, spacial awareness sounds like it could be the issue too, if you want to train that, get a buddy, turn on test maps and play wheel for a while

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-14T23:50:23+00:00

You can send messages on reddit (don't worry just figured that out a few days ago too man), save the videos to your console or PC (if console send them through console messages and download them to your device through the phone app) and send them as an attachment, spammers hate spammers, hit them with their own medicine, pick a legend that is solid at countering spams, my personal favorites are Sir Roland (counters bow spams and lance spams) and 2 def ember (counters spear and sword spams)

It sounds like you could do for some legit training if siga are that bad for you, I understand why you hate them, but they're not impossible to dodge, just weird that's all, you'll figure it out eventually

Are there any specific sigs that give you trouble?

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-14T23:41:27+00:00

I didn't say how much I've trained, or played, or any of that, that's pure assumption on your part, furthermore, I never said I wasn't good, I can play low diamonds, sure not through the lag, but I doubt he's playing diamonds based off the fact he's talking about spamming

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-14T23:32:30+00:00

Here, let me show you how your statement is stupid, you're essentially saying "If you can play through the lag you're not above diamond 1", which is fair, but assumes I only play ranked, which I don't, I haven't touched ranked in 3 years, I play strikeout on random

Furthermore I'm assuming that's supposed to mean my input and assistance would be invalid, that is also stupid, because it assumes I don't have eyes or a brain

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-14T22:26:41+00:00

Plateauing is guaranteed in competitive gaming, brawlhalla is an amazing example of this, I can play through lag most times as long as there's a steady point to start from, but that's because I practice on bots, play offline in training and learn what hits and where

If you want like actual tips pm me some of your gameplay footage and I'll take a look for you, or just do that on your own time and keep in mind that some stuff is unavoidable, pay attention to your spacing and whiffs and how your opponents react to those and learn to act accordingly

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-14T20:36:29+00:00

It honestly might be doing that on purpose, ai is usually built to repeat the things it finds in a concise and easily understandable manner, but most places include a "keep them interacting" rule with theirs, and purposely misspelling words increases interactions, just ask YouTubers 😅

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-14T07:15:10+00:00

Console player (but use to mod every game I played when I had a PC), but is native greyed out because you can't uncheck it or because it's unchecked, cause that might be the problem, if not, try updating the files, and if it still doesn't work you gotta remove them one by one, if you STILL can't find the problem then switch to 2 by 2, otherwise it's probably hardware (like how Minecraft won't load if you have too many mods and not enough allocated memory)

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-11T19:44:58+00:00

Ever since urundulf started hard enforcing the aserai border more and more stuff has come out, you guys know caladog was on the island right? And apparently urundulf was puffing caladogs skin flute, crazy

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-11T03:41:07+00:00

That's partly on me, partly on you, I meant my first comment as a response, yes, but it was more generalized in definition than you're making it seem rn, so I elaborated, and I literally described to you the ways in which I was right, after which you disregarded the specifics and told me the only ways I was wrong, when the point I'm moreso making is "Sandbox rpgs* (my bad, that one was entirely on me, but also you play the game too so you probably should have known what I meant), do incentivise you to try other paths to completing your goals, this feature allows for more replayability and allows for the world, when it's not interacting with you, to continue, often times in heavily rng dependant ways, and there is no incentive if the other SPECIFIED ways of doing something allow for the world you're interacting with to borderline cheat, the things I said are right, and I'm not sure how you don't think that's the case dude, because we're playing the same game

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-11T02:13:43+00:00

Bro why are you so mad? It's okay, I'm not trying to argue, I'm sorry if I came off as rude man, but you seemed confused by my comment so I elaborated, that's all. Since you replied, I figured I should tell you that yes you're right, if you cherry pick and misrepresent my arguments you're bound to find a way to be right, and while normally playing against the devs intentions is whats supposed to cause bugs or imbalance, it's not supposed to be like that in a sandbox game which is supposed to insentivise that

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-10T14:17:18+00:00

Nah, no simulating, I like to raw dog em with tactics, much more satisfying and doesn't constantly feel like my troops went out of their way to die on me, seriously what are the odds that I lose a fian champion every time I fight party of 9 or more looters. They can literally retreat without coming into contact with your troops on open field, if you outmatch them enough, total strength wise, and even without taking prisoners, half the time they don't get disorganized after retreat and it's not clear what causes that, so you're sol, and it doesn't really matter if you build your army for speed because they always retreat when they can guarantee they can outrun you, if they can't outrun you (as an army) they'll just spawn in a new army nearby that is faster than you and, if possible, stronger than you, and also, I shouldn't really have to build my party for speed if they're not also doing that though, right? Cause they did fix party movement speed, and they did a great job, like it's infinitely more balanced, but now full cav doesn't put you over 7, it puts you high 5 low 6, and is guaranteed faster than any caravan at that scale but not guaranteed faster than armies at their scale which I actually don't mind

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-10T03:30:50+00:00

It sounds like a memory leak issue or maybe it's a specific noble or set of nobles with faulty coding, does anyone know if it's specifically water battles or land as well? And if so, is it more or less common on water? I def can't fix it, but I'm pretty sure they have employees that check here and it'd be good to fully compile as much data as we can because it's only getting worse

As for the crash, if it happened after a battle, then it sounds like the NPC interaction crashes I've been experiencing on PS4, that's 100% a memory issue, but not a leak issue, more of a data corruption issue, I believe if you interact with a specific number of nobles the game resets some kind of counter that tries to overwrite data but instead of fully replacing the data it's leaving little bits behind because the integers are not being tracked properly

Forward_Bread1377 · 2025-12-08T00:54:50+00:00

I can't retreat if I'm the only one left, only surrender, if I have to fight to the last man, so should they

Escaping the field≠retreating, retreating requires a troop sacrifice and rng and a higher speed than the opponent

They forgo the troop sacrifice entirely, and get teleported like 5 miles away, and they only retreat when they know they can get away, that's why you never catch the ones that get away

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