Greetings Warsword Conquest fans
First of all I would like to apologise for the delayed release since the summer and also for the vagueness on the message board in recent months about what is happening and when the release will be. A special mention to Polloio for the help and dedication he gives here and on the forums, especially during the times we were both away and there was a lot of uncertainty surrounding the mod.
Del and I have been creating warsword since 2010 with the first M & B edition and our development cycle has always been in bursts, usually 3 - 6 months of intense work followed by 6 months+ of not working on it at all. In the earlier years we could get an incredible amount of work done in a short period of time but in recent years family and work commitments have made it difficult to find the time to put in the usual levels of productivity and the long breaks were getting more frequent.
Del in particular has found it hard to find the time to mod and has been out of contact for large periods of the last 2 years. As a consequence he has decided to step down as mod leader although he will remain on the team to help whenever he can find the time. As someone who has enjoyed working with him immensely for the last 6 years, it is a shame that his time will be so limited and it will be a big loss to the mod and team in general. Hopefully he will be able to find some time in the coming year and we will be able to add some more of his great content in coming updates.
Also in recent weeks Gsanders has joined the team. He has experience in modding for perisno, phosphor and rigale mods for warband and he has has greatly increased the feature side of warsword both for this release and for the future. He has, for example, completely reworked the trading and economic system from top to bottom and has been adding a lot of other features in including some which players have really wanted like an in game troop tree viewer.
Where we are now
We have managed to achieve everything we aimed for in the summer update ( bar chaos dwarf and skink as playable race and a tweaked diplomacy is planned for the next update) and thankfully a lot more as well including many more new scenes than we thought we would get in thanks to the sterling work by JargonDarot and Captain Melon.
We have done a lot we never planned in the last 6 weeks and every week new plans are made and I realised that at this rate we will end up continually developing and never releasing so I have decided that we will release an update now and another one in probably Q2. This will give us the opportunity to enhance certain features and complete new features we have been working on without the need for speed and it will allow us to fix any issues which may arise with the first update.
I have been sent all the content which is going into this version and I am currently merging it together and then the team will do some testing and then I will release. I have not been willing to give a release date as I am wary after what happened before and I don't want to let players down again. I will wait until I am 100% sure but I can say it really is soon, I hope to have final testing taking place next weekend and if all goes well it will be a matter of days.
So watch this space and I will post up a changelog either just before or as we release.
Thanks for your patience everyone and we hope to be able to give you the news you have been waiting for soon.
Nameless Warrior
Your hard work and dedication is greatly appreciated guys. Shame about Del, I hope everything works out for him.
Thank you all, and we will wait patiently for as long as necessary!
Yeah, we all miss him a bit as he was the proper creator of this project.
We still hope to have him in our ranks if things would settle and permit it :)
Glad to hear the mod is continuing well! :D
yaaaaaaaasss
It is of monstruous beauty!
Good news!
"HERE COMES THE (HEAVY) CAVALRY!!"
I hope so!
When to release a newer version?
Great :D
Thank you guys for your hard work, this was actually my introduction to warhammer... actually f### you guys because i have spent so much time on warhammer stuff, i havent seen my family in years.:)
TFW you realize you still need to wait another week MINIMUM because he said he hopes final testing will be done NEXT weekend. :( Oh well it cant be helped and the longer the wait the better the release.
I can't wait for the release and so far the work I've seen from you guys is amazing, but let's go over to the important questions...
Is Countess Emanuelle getting a gunpowder weapon!?
Very happy to see an update ! Del is the best ! (Yall are very cool too NW and Polo and the fans)
Awesome news there is just so many new features, models, scenes going into the next release, its going to feel like a completely new experience that I'll be able to relax and sink many hours of game time into.
I can't wait for a new update! This game+mod combo is one of the most enjoyable things out there!
What will happen after the Q2 release? Will you guys keep adding more stuff or will you consider it done
This. Mod. Will. Be. My. Game. Of. The. *******. Year.
This mod keeps me in suspense. I give you til next week, then I don't think I can take it any more. If it takes til next week, I swear I will march myself to wherever you live and be your motivational coach until this thing is released. And I'm not talking some "JUST DO IT" kind of motivation. I mean I will tell you that you are dirt, then I will tell you that you need to work to become something better than dirt. You'll cry at least three times, but in the end, it'll be done, and I'll take us all out to get some doughnuts. You'll only get a boring glazed doughnut though and I will be the one eating the chocolate icing-covered custard filled doughnut. You'll be jealous, and then there's gonna be some weird fiasco about the doughnuts and who really deserves them, and it'll become a whole dramatic thing, and everything is going to go sour.
We don't want that to happen, now do we? ;D
So is there an eta for this yet? Super keen.
I hope this comes out before april so that I could play. I have been waiting for this since undergrad. I'm in medicine now and I hope this comes out in summer so I can check it out. I'm so hyped!!
Noone finds this comment tree because the other one is easier to add to. Thus its huge and this one is two pages deep, at best
So, to able to play this modification my M&B Warband needs to be version 1.153 and not any newer than that?
yes
This is one of the greatest Warband mod, thank you so much for the time and dedication that you and your team put into this project :')
You guys are great, can't wait to see what you having coming to us. Also I would die a happy man if we could have.... Demi-Gryph Knights!
can't wait for news or screenshots
I'm waiting for the release, it's taking too long. I guess you ran into some problems?
I am putting my guess on around march 20th, more or less around that time. Probably towards the end of march.
I hope so brother... I hope so... :P
Yeah honestly it's looking like things are coming together. Probably will be coming up pretty soon man.
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thx youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu so much
when is the next release?
With the easter bank holidays coming up what better way to celebrate than eating chocolate eggs and playing this game for 4 days. Make my dream come true.
Okay mate.....it's been like 3 months,I know testing and all them things. But mate,for the name of all Europe and America and all of the rest of them continents,WHEN IS THE RELEASE. You posted this on 17th of January. It's 30th of March,my God. Polloio please answer,we have been waiting too much,I think the team got "New Ideas" disease. New ideas infinite working never release. Lol.
HOW DO I GET THE EXPANSIAN PACK FOR THE UNITS ?
I'm so excited to test it out D: its been 3 months and no updates... Please post something im solonely Dx
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Can you put this on the workshop? (Im nowhere near computer smart, and i cant figure out how to use the Winzip thing.....) and i cant buy it.
no they cant. as far as i know workshop has a limited filesize and this mod is just to big. what xactly is your problem with winzip?
Please oh great pollio creater of this great mod please bless your'e humble skaven servants with your'e words and creation to let us no you are still there
as well as nameless warrior and any one on the mod team for it feels that we are alone here please help
Thank you so much for your effort in Mount and Blade Warband modding community.
Really looking forward for the release :)
Did you guys change the sieges? The vanilla style is too boring (1 ladder only) and I usually shut the whole game down after I see this single ladder