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It has been a rocky start, with several fast and furious patches up to 1.3.8. But the modding community has been racing to keep up, and I can be glad to say that 99% of my subscribed mods has been up to the challenge.

In short: It is what they promised and it works well.
I had some major issues that I first thought was from the engine, because I heard that console users had similar issues. Freezing and audio stuttering in huge naval battles where I had 3 high tier ships and 300+ soldiers. Running 1k battle size. I was surprised to find out that it actually was my GPU driver that was playing a funny joke on me. After a clean install for my 3070TI I was out on the seas again. And now with a pretty modded game I have had no crashes or issues for a while.

I see great potential for this DLC when it comes to the modding community. I first thought it would have the same naval capabilities as the Shoku but this blows it out of the water. (As it should since, Shoku IS a mod but very well made.)

The "main" quest has been updated and integrated into the naval tutorial in a very nice way.
(There is a reason sandbox is a thing if you dont want the story quests.)

The Nord faction is all about longboats and axes. Perfect! The settlements are detailed and very well made, the units are great but most of us will make our own with the Retainer or My little warband mod. Retainers are up to date as of now.

The possibilities of this DLC makes me scream: " AC BLACK FLAG MOD NOW! "
The naval combat is fun, as you can divide your ships into skirmishing fire arrow kiters and heavy infantry boarding slayers.

Ships are expensive and you have to basically get your economy going a tad before you can become a pirate viking raider corsair. But not too expensive. Still if you have the cheapest of rafts: You will be running from Sea-raiders screaming they want to drink from your skull or steal your butter.

The thing that worried me the most in before this DLC was: How will they change the map? And: How much will it cost?

And I'm glad to say the map is good, they didnt move that much, but also cut off several points making it more interesting and forcing you and the npc's to use your fleet to optimize your route.

The price? For me I am happy for it. I would gladly pay 40€ for this to support the devs. But I am a crazy M&B Stan that plays this game too much. 25€ is a good price if you look at the content you get, the devs continuing help to the mod community (Yes even if they break the mods with updates you have to consider the time they take to make the game mod friendly) and the inflated prices of games due to the global economical situation. I just hope the devs get what they are due.


Summary Should I buy? Yes and No:
If you like Bannerlord, and know the time it takes to start a new save and always wanted more out of the game then yes it is absolutly worth it. If you are more of the player that likes total conversion mods like TOR, ROT etc. And naval battles in vanilla do not sound that appetizing to you then hold off untill its on a sale or the mods you like are up to date.

If you are a brand new player to Bannerlord or M&B entirely: Play regular Bannerlord first before buying this DLC. (Unless they are bundled or something like that). The M&B games are not for all and if you think you can jump into the game and start out as a Side Meiers Pirate then hold your butter.

With the rocky start I see why they postponed the DLC as they did and it was worth it, but remember that I might be a lucky one. I might have missed all the game breaking bug landmines, so read up on the other reviews and look at some vids of the naval battles if you still are unsure.

Now I'm going back into the Imperial / Aserai sea to plunder and get chased by Rhagaea's Simps.
Have a good one!

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It seems like most people have forgotten what Dragon's Dogma was before the Dark Arisen release.

Edits marked with **

First of all I got to say: I'm not defending Micro transaction or the Devs choice to add them. If you want to give this game a bad review because of that then its totally understandable. But some reviews are very misleading and paints the Devs as more of evil mustachio twirling villains than they are. This is by no way close to Blizzard or other companies in level of disgusting.

1: Fast travel with portcrystals are locked behind a MT paywall:
This is false. In my playthrough i gained 4-5 portcrystals just from exploring and doing quests. It was enough to space them out for easy travel. Most of the times I actually used the oxen service because I was out of ferry stones.

2: Character edit is locked behind a MT paywall.
This is also false. Right now you only have 2 FULL recreation "tickets" per playthrough. The **Devs have now uped it to 99. These cost 500 RC which is really easy to get and you will have enough of them by mid game to basically never worry about them.

3: No multiple characters, option to start over:
Some has stated that this is a "Lack of freedom" to try out different vocations: This is just wrong, since you can change vocations when ever you want and you no longer have to level different vocations for your end build like in the previous games.

**They have now added a "Start a New game" that overwrites your current file.

4: Performance issues.
Yes, this game has some horrendous performance in major cities. The devs are aware of this as well and are working on a solution. But I have seen people with hardware waaaay below the recommended specs complain about this: No ♥♥♥♥ it will stutter if you have a i5 gen 8 when the game is depending so much on a strong CPU.
I had a constant of 70-60 fps whilst outside of towns, inside the towns i had 30-50 with major drops when a town was attacked. Every thing on max, dlls on quality. 2560x1440. (Specs at bottom)

** Performance is better but still wobbly in Cities.

5: Final
Ok so everyone please lay down your torches and pick-forks for a second and look at the MT content they offer. It's all in the game already. You don't have to pay anything extra to enjoy the game as the game was intended: Exploration, time consuming as it is but none the less.

"If you ""ONLY"" have ""10 HOURS"" in the game you haven't even played it!"
Even if the above statement is ridiculous its true. This game will take time.
A review talking about ingame content or lacking of content that is under 10 hours has not even left the first area of the map. and have not explored that area to 100%.

THE BIG BUT:
Every fix is still just a promise. "They will add", "They will fix", "In coming patches", "Don't worry the dragons are coming".

** Right now its only performance that is still an issue.

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OK NOW TO THE GAME!
** After almost doing a 100% on this game: Story is decent but:
I just finished the main story and I have to say... It felt short.

Now I see you looking at my almost 100 hours at the time of this review and hold up, wait a minute!
I did a lot of stuff side quests, almost all vocations and their ultimate skills, romances: you name it.
But I didn't do it all. And that says a lot about the content that's in the game. But the main quest felt like you where following a breadcrumb trail while enjoying the scenery -which can be really nice specially when the areas looks great and have a lot of details.

This game is a ADHD nightmare, I'm not diagnosed but every chance I got: I said "♥♥♥♥ you" to the pawn Guiding me to a quest to see what this other path lead. And oh boy there are some awesome areas you miss out on if you just blaze through the game.

Some argue it's the same game again... Well yes, like the darksouls game are technically the same game again.

BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE!
The modding community has already been working like crazy, and you can already find mods like "Unlimited Stamina outside of battle" And "Real FOV slider". And surly more is to come.

The World and Its Inhabitants:
I would summarize the game to be on the level of Dragons Dogma 1 when it comes to variations of enemies. You have your standards of Goblins, skeletons, lizardos, bandidos, draginos, ogrerrendae. cyclopos DAdeiahfgeslf.
The list goes on. But they also have dark variants for the bigger monsters and a couple of new ones.
These enemies walk around their respective areas but can be seen fighting from time to time.
I have seen some reviews saying there's a lack of variations but there are like 4-5 different variations of Saurians that is not just a dark variant. They are made from different elements and live in different climates and look pretty cool.

That's basically the feeling of the world, everything is pretty cool. Untill a Gryphin wrecks my desert crank lift and wipes my whole party.

There are random quests that pop up here and there, with people to save, monsters to cull, or escort missions. They are ok but it would be nice if the Escort person would actually say WHERE THEY WANT TO GO before you accept it. I might be wanting to hunt down a dragon in the area, walked from the capital and camped to get here and they just want to be escorted to the capital... No way peasant you are now on the dragon hunter squad.

Vocations:
I was really sad to see that the assasain was removed as it was my go to vocation in DD1. So we got Theif and Archer.. No daggers AND bow. Just daggers OR bow.
I felt my breathing going faster and my typing fingers loading up to rant about why I hated this but I calmed down and gave the Theif and Archer a chance. And now.. I like it.

With all the Vocations and special Vocations from DD1, and specially with the new Spear Hand (Which is totally op and broken af but more of that later.) most of the "Regular" vocations would be, well obsolete. They would only be an annoying hurdle to pass to get to the vocation you wanted. With this new system, all Vocations are unique and dare I say fun. (Buff Archer ult pls its so baby tier rn m reowshrsji brdb)

OK.
Imagine being a Jedi that can tank any attack in the game. Even the dragoins meteor showers and Lightning attacks.
Imagine being FUS RO DA YEETED off High Hrhorghharhhf, just to stand up and dust yourself off.
Imagine being able to teleport around the fight like Narutos Daddy throwing ♥♥♥♥ on the enemy and just appearing on them.
NOW IMAGINE BEING ABLE TO SPEAR THE HEART OF A DRAGON WITH A POWERFUL MAGIC PROJECTILE THAT WILL MAKE THE DRAGON BACKFLIP INTO THE SKY RIGHT THROUGH THE MOON.
This is the Spear Hand vocation.

Ok that might be too much but you get my meaning.
The vocation actually have a bubble spell. It makes you immune to ALL DMG for a short while. Ok how short? Are we talking like .5 secs so you have to time it perfectly?
No its like 4 seconds. It outlasts most channel attacks.... And it costs so little stamina so you can keep it up an entire boss fight. And it bubbles your pawns as well..

I no joke, didn't take a single point of dmg from the end boss when I challanged him with this class. And none of my pawns died. There was "Tools" in the boss arena that could be used on the boss. But I didnt even have to use them. Just Bubble away.

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It takes a lot of time to get any where and it can be confusing to figure out what the game wants from you. Or what you can expect from the game. But then the areas are so nice so some people wont mind the time taken, some people like to figure everything out even if it might be cryptic and non nonsensical at times.

Its not a game where you can get a feel of it within the refund time.
This is not Dark Arisen: its going to lack some quality of life things.
Only buy at full price if you are sure you are going to enjoy it.
Im off to NG+
Have a nice one.

Specs:
Win: 10 x64
CPU: Gen 11, i9-11900f
GPU: 3070 TI RTX
RAM: 32 gig.

Rockstar is leaving pc players by the roadside.
Until career tab and cut content (Like the outfit and clothes from the Bottom Dollar update) are introduced to PC; Settings and effects that are now console exclusive: make their way to PC this review will be negative.

I call this; Breath of Muricahs Pokemon: Red White and Blue.

This E-A game feels like the end product of most craft/survive games that flooded the market before.

Remember its just in Early Access.
For the price its really reasonable.

Are there bugs? Yes. plenty. But none that are totally game breaking. (F in comments for those who get/got their save file removed, yes that can happen)

So what do you get from Breath of Muricah Pokemon Red White and Blue? (E-A Edition)
A little bit of Breath of the Wild Zelda game in form of the open world and stamina bar. Even the glider appears in this one *Shocked*.

You get your daily dose of America in the Guns, everything from a Musket and rust-bucket pistol, to a Missile launcher. Assault rifles, shotguns and powerful single shot rifles. No 50 cal snipe tho, but let them cook.

Right now you can catch Pals and build your base, you can also challenge some faction bosses. This will reward you with some extra skill points. You can also do dungeons. They are very meek atm, with all of them in the same biome being almost identical. You can tell which corridor will lead to the boss if you pay attention in all of them.

Ok so bases can get invaded, but depending on where you placed your base the invaders can get stuck in a wall, never getting to your base before they leave.

There is breeding in the game, there is also butchering in the game. You can craft a Meat cleaver and just remove your undesired Pals for mats. Also there is crafting.

Soooo the skill system and crafting. Would be a total nightmare if they didnt let you change so many variables and parameters in the world option when creating your world. More XP is almost a must if you wanna get to the endgame this year. But as I said, 10/10 they included the options to change the world.

You go up to level 50, and after that i dont really know. Since the skill-tree ends right now. There is a lot of stuff to unlock with several things per level. Mostly its things for your base, to go forward in crafting. Or cosmetic things. OR AN AK 74 FOR YOUR MONKEY PAL!

You can also fly with your pal (or swim.. i like both) to the Nature Reserve Island where all the best Pals get together to escape the horrible gun filled, PETP ridden (PETP = People for ethic treatment of Pals) crazy world. And just start your Poaching. If you want i mean. There is a wanted system. So security will appear and try to stop you. But you can just fly away. And then they spawn and fall over and over again around you. Until the game gets bored and you are free from the consequences of your actions.

The dark humor and lore about Pals eating people and ♥♥♥♥ is great, it really crash with the cute aspect of the game.

Would I recommend it? For 20-30 euro you get a many great things. But its still E-A and it feels like it. (Tho one of the better Early Access games I've played for in a while).

There is not much to do except exploring and building right now. Which by it self is fun Imo. But if you play solo it can get kinda drawn out, not really boring but you know.

If you have many friends that wants to play with you and you are successful with great charisma and everything we all want a... Then there is going to be many hilarious moments believe me.

It's not a going between towns like Pokemon battling people and shooting up the place like GTA crashed into Game Freak Nintendo house. This is more like a: Can i climb to that ledge before my stamina gives out and I will rag-doll down the mountain full speed.

They know what this game is, We know what this game is. As an Early Access I'm excited for what the future hold for this game.

Yes I have the " A sisters Sacrifice " achievement, you are allowed to hate me now.

Two things. Murica... Flyfishing.

WE NEED MORE PLAYERS! GET IN HERE!
No but seriously this game is amazing.

All I feel is angst. And I love it.

Common, there are like a million reviews by now. Its basically a Cult classic!