Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword v1.141 Patch Released, Trailer

In the event that you haven’t yet picked up a copy of TaleWorlds’ Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, you might want to consider jumping into the standalone expansion pack now that it’s received a major content update that’s large enough to warrant its own trailer.

The patch notes to follow, too:

General Gameplay:
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– Firearms have been rebalanced.
– Firearms have been given refined melee animations.
– All Melee weapons have been rebalanced.
– Horses have been made faster and rebalanced.
– Characters can now crouch. The default key is ‘z’.
– New troop orders for volley firing and line formations.
– Added new types of ranged ammunition, ex: piercing arrows.
– Pikes have two types of thrusting attacks.
– Reloading interrupted by being hit is now continued where it left off.
– Switching to pistols is now quicker whereas switching to muskets has been made slower.
– New grenade explosion/damage system.
– New tactics introduced via crouching pikemen/marksmen formations.

Audio/Visual:
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– New sounds and particle systems for firearm shots,bullet hits, and ricochets.
– Order menus redesigned.
– Female face textures retouched slightly.
– Motion blur effect has been removed from some weapons.
– All armors have female versions.

Multiplayer:
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– Multiplayer Captain modes have received an overhaul; all new troops and troop purchasing system.
– New stat/behavior balances for musketeers and infantry.
– Network code improved.

Single Player:
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– Added starting option to play the game with a female character.
– Battlefield AI enhanced and can give the new volley fire orders.
– New Village Elder Quests.
– New and more realistic Caravan Trading System.
– Economic balances to production and troops.
– Various balances made in the interest of fairness to starting characters.
– New balances to weapons and redone grenade rules/system.

Bug Fixes:
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– Fixed siege door abuse in some multiplayer maps.
– Fixed ladder placements in many maps.
– Navigation meshes in lots of maps fixed.
– Double barreled pistols’ reload animation bug is fixed
– Grenade splash damage bugs fixed.
– Fixed typo in trade permit cost.
– Lots of fixes to problematic quests and npc behaviors/interactions.
– Various bug fixes.