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A new DLC for Mount and Blade: Warband has been released to mixed reception due to it being rather buggy, but it did come with Linux support as standard.
Reviews have been pretty bad, with many stating that its a blatant copy of the mod Brytenwalda which I cant confirm or deny. Many also state that performance is bad and it "wants you to check out your desktop every five minutes".
Nonetheless, it's exciting to see it with a on-launch Linux support! I also saw one review which said most of the performance issues could be fixed with an open-patch TaleWorlds released a few days after release. Check that out if you experience any problems!
Check out Mount & Blade: Warband - Viking Conquest on Steam.
About the game
From the creators of the popular "Brytenwalda" mod, "Viking Conquest" is a brand new DLC for Mount & Blade Warband! This single and multi player DLC brings Mount & Blade to historical Dark Age Britain, complemented by authentic scenes and cultures. The DLC features a story mode with a complex plot, where choices have real consequences, as well as a standard sandbox mode in an all new setting, with expanded options and controls. Online battling also takes on its own flavour, with special modes like Coastal Assault and Warlord. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
A new DLC for Mount and Blade: Warband has been released to mixed reception due to it being rather buggy, but it did come with Linux support as standard.
Reviews have been pretty bad, with many stating that its a blatant copy of the mod Brytenwalda which I cant confirm or deny. Many also state that performance is bad and it "wants you to check out your desktop every five minutes".
Nonetheless, it's exciting to see it with a on-launch Linux support! I also saw one review which said most of the performance issues could be fixed with an open-patch TaleWorlds released a few days after release. Check that out if you experience any problems!
Check out Mount & Blade: Warband - Viking Conquest on Steam.
About the game
From the creators of the popular "Brytenwalda" mod, "Viking Conquest" is a brand new DLC for Mount & Blade Warband! This single and multi player DLC brings Mount & Blade to historical Dark Age Britain, complemented by authentic scenes and cultures. The DLC features a story mode with a complex plot, where choices have real consequences, as well as a standard sandbox mode in an all new setting, with expanded options and controls. Online battling also takes on its own flavour, with special modes like Coastal Assault and Warlord. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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And the visual bugs, and the atrocious performance. Right now you should not buy this, it's unplayable for me.
The game works great for me :)
Nope. Only on Windows it runs bad, but I dont dual-boot anymore.
Yeah, some people mentioned something about M&B's engine pre-loading *everything*, so mods with high textures tend to crash a lot. FYI, my specs are similar to what you've mentioned of yours (funtoo amd64 current, GTX660Ti, AMD FX8350 OCed to 5.3GHz, 32GB RAM, M&B installed on an SSD) and I can play it for quite a while on low settings. I've found that I either have to have textures set to maximum or minimum - it seems like setting the slider in the middle actually makes my crashes happen *more* frequently (my guess: the process of resizing textures eats up more memory temporarily, causing a quicker crash than just loading the full resolution texture files). I can *almost* play normally on "Very High" settings right now, but it tends to crash toward the end of loading a scene. "High" and "Medium" actually crash *much* earlier than "Very High". "Low" gives me around 2-3 hours between crashes, which can be playable as long as I remember to save frequently.
I love what I've been able to play of Viking Conquest, but I would agree that it's more frustrating right now than it's worth. I'm playing Warsword Conquest until VC is more stable (and then I'm playing VC until the next version of Warsword Conquest is released).
Currently Kubuntu 14.10 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, beta drivers. 8 GB RAM, Intel i5 processor.