I have played for 3 weeks now and on the beta. What comes to mind is half baked. constant patches, skills non functional, quests bugged, storyline with no opt out option, complete lack of player control of hired hero skill progression, limited number of investment businesses, restricted items and weapons to bring into cities, gangs in cities not controlled by garrison or effected by garrison size, non completeable storyline still bugged and recieving messages but cannot shut it off, quests failing right after accepting them, quests not able to complete due to fife being raided or city seiged, bandit hideout camps restricted to 8 characters but so strong on easy level that could not be completed with the best gear in the game, crossbow skill could not be used unless you started with 20 skill as no crossbow had a required skill level of less than 20, patches have made it so unstable the game now craches if you try to load a saved game from a reload while in game requiring you to exit the game and reload, have had to restart the campaign 3 times due to patch crashes, blacksmith crafting does not save the items created, skill points should be every level not every three, game bug will randomly declares war on a faction, faction heros randomly escape, faction heros released after battle return to attack but if executed gives the player negitive attributes and no quests will be given or alliances. the number of mods needed to play this game is a stagering 14. This game is reviewed at +4.9? but -4.9 is more like it. these guys did alot of work on this game. All the basics are here, just let us decide what we want to do in game, fix it before releasing it, and actually have a playtest team. I feel like i have been screwed out of $50 and forced to play test the very game purchased!
Mods used.
1. Stable enabler (buy a stable it is midddle ages)
2. Sound the Alarm (visual notifier)
3. Smith forever (smith all you can afford its your time)
4. Slow looters (they cant run forever)
5. Slicer (look it up)
6. Settlement Icons (shows royals, quests etc over location)
7. Attribute per level (one per level heros hired included)
8. Prevent Nobility Escape (no random escapes)
9.Hideout Party Limit Removed (have army use army)
10. Fighting Together Relationship (clan heros relation increase)
11. Deplomacy Reworked
12. Developer Console (do everything else they forgot)
13. Recruitable (upper tier prisoners become recruitable)
14. V's No workshop Limit (buy every business you want)