While Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord‘s combat will never be mega-realistic, a new mod brings a few animation tweaks to make it look less cartoony. Where blades currently pass clean through a target’s physique, wanting like they need to be cleft in twain, the Realistic Weapon Collision mod will make strikes get caught a bit into their bodymeat or look off their armour. The finish result’s weapons have extra of a bodily presence and fewer like they’re slashing about in Devil May Cry. A small however neat mod.
Weapons will nonetheless have that clear slice-through look with killing blows slicing sure bodyparts, however in any other case it removes that bizarre cartoony feeling off “My blade passed through their ribcage then arm yet they’re still swinging at me?” It additionally stops blood from spraying all over the place if you happen to hit a bodypart armoured with chainmail or plate with slicing or blunt weapons, as an alternative merely bloodying the armour.
Creator creator “WelcomeToHell” shares some demonstration GIFs on the Nexus Mods page. Observe, a sword passing by means of a physique in common Bannerlord:
And with the mod:
Huge? No. Nice? Sure! Bit bouncy, but it surely appears to be like quite a bit higher to me.
“This mod is purely visual and does not change any values for weapons / armor or change how the game calculates damage,” WelcomeToHell says. However, it does apparently futz with combos in case your first blow doesn’t kill.
Some murder-hungry Nexus commenters have requested if it really works with the favored cleaveorama that’s Xorberax’s Cut Through Everyone mod but it surely seems like nah, not likely as a result of most weapons will y’know bounce off the primary goal.
Bannerlord launched into early entry on the finish of March, with the complete and completed game tentatively due round a yr later. Sin was hesitant to suggest it at first in her Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord early access review as a result of there’s nonetheless a good bit of polish, fixing, and straight-up content material to come back. Developers TaleWorlds have definitely been busy with patches since then, however mods are rising in style with individuals hungry for extra newness.
Sin took a take a look at the best Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord mods to this point just a few weeks again. Or if the bottom game causes you sufficient consternation, see our Bannerlord guide.
