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[Ozyton]

A game formerly titled Melee: Battlegrounds, created by the devs of the Mount & Blade: Warband modification "cRPG".
For old discussion view the topic here.

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Green Man Gaming
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Persistent Medieval War

Of Kings And Men allows you to experience huge, player-driven battles like no other. Engage in massive combat with more than 200 players, capture territories, or practice your fighting skills in competitive matches with intuitive melee combat.

Of Kings And Men (OKAM) is a game created by the dev team behind the cRPG mod for Mount & Blade: Warband. It aims to recreate the same sort of RPG style character progression that made their mod so popular, with a similar directional combat system that made the parent game so popular, but with their own tweaks they could not achieve through modding alone. There are obvious parallels to be made with M&B's combat, but they have not simply copy-pasted it over. Combat in OKAM feels unique and has more depth than Mount & Blade's combat.

The 'grand strategy' portion of the game dubbed "Epic" (or Strategus for cRPG veterans) aims to create an interesting and dynamic setting for players to engage in a more persistent game world, where battles are not something fought between two teams on a server, but by factions created by players with their own goals. Think Eve Online mixed with Crusader Kings 2, where each king, lord, vassal, bandit, and trader is actually another player.

Spoiler: •Bullet points• (click to show/hide)

•Unique combat system
Developed by the creators of the cRPG mod for Mount and Blade: Warband, Of Kings And Men aims to refine the direction-based combat from Warband to be more authentic yet still be easy to use. Mindlessly clicking to attack is the fast road to defeat, while carefully calculated and timed attack, defense, positioning, and movement will be your key to victory on the battlefield.

•Massive battles
Servers can handle 200 players at a time, providing truly epic feeling melee battles.

•Character progression
Begin your career as a lowly peasant, armed only with pitchforks and knives from the kitchen. As you gain experience in battle you'll be able to improve various skills and earn money to purchase better equipment. There are no equipment 'tiers' in this game, each piece of weaponry and armor has its own stats (variable length, attack speed, armor effectiveness, weight, etc.) that allow even 'cheaper' weaponry to be viable. Experiment and choose the equipment to suit your playstyle.

•Partake in "Epic" grand strategy. (Not fully implemented in Alpha)
All factions in the game are controlled by actual players, each taking the role of lords and vassals. Start out as a mercenary, lending your services in battle to the highest bidder, or join friends for their own cause. Or perhaps you wish to lead your own faction and pursue your own goals. Build forts, villages, and cities, or raze those of your enemies. Trade and economy is also vital, as your men need to be well equipped for battle, and you need men to fight with in the first place. This economy is also a prime target, so you must defend your production and trade centers while exploiting those of your enemies.

Spoiler: Dev roadmap (click to show/hide)

Our current Roadmap for development can be found here.

•The combat system will be extended to feature Horses, Squads, Crossbows, Spears and Throwing weapons, as well as Siege Engines
•Players will be able to design their own weapons by combining different parts.
•The game will hold tournaments and competitions with ranking systems
•Players can work together to build castles, establish diplomatic relations to other player factions, implement a feudal hierarchy (with a few players playing as Kings), running large player-built cities, run industries, command an NPC workforce, trade, upgrade production cycles, and fight as mercenaries for the different factions.

The game can now be purchased on Steam
Keep in mind that this is an Early Access title, and all warnings involving EA titles should apply just the same to this one.
As much as I enjoyed the mod these people made for Warband, their competence at developing a full-fledged game solo has yet to be proven. However, from what I have seen so far they are on the right track, but as always things can change further down the road for better or worse.

“At Early Access, the game contains the combat system and various game modes for it, as well as an early implementation of the war system; which will allow players to recruit armies, wage war against other kingdoms, and fight as a soldier or mercenary within those battles.”

[Sensei]

Sadly I missed the 2 hour stress test because I didn't have internet in yet. Did you/anyone try it? How was it?

[nenjin]

Looks more like a military pick.

[WealthyRadish]

The world persistence looks interesting. Very ambitious for a mod team.

[Ozyton]

That Christian knight on the ladder looked like he was holding a large claw hammer backwards at first.

In the mod there were many weapons that had multiple heads on them, so you could use either the axe portion of a halberd or the blunt end, each having different penetration values on armor. I imagine some weapons will have this feature in the new game.

Sadly I missed the 2 hour stress test because I didn't have internet in yet.

There should be one coming up on Wednesday at 7PM GMT, or 2PM Eastern. Unless it goes on for hours I'm probably going to end up missing it.

Apparently they released a trailer which sort of teases the features that will be in Epic, which you can watch here. I wasn't expecting them to have this much to show about Epic when the base game isn't even close to finished yet.

[WealthyRadish]

In the mod there were many weapons that had multiple heads on them, so you could use either the axe portion of a halberd or the blunt end, each having different penetration values on armor. I imagine some weapons will have this feature in the new game.

I won't be impressed unless I can murderstroke some nerds, preferably from horseback.

[Ozyton]

You couldn't merderstroke people, but you could half-sword. There was no purpose though. Being able to swap to the murderstroke grip would be nice when fighting plate guys to get that blunt damage...

[ThtblovesDF]

So basically that presistency map from Mount & blade mods

[Urist McScoopbeard]

So basically that presistency map from Mount & blade mods

Nope, not at all. Look up cRPG, stats, levels, skills, equipment, and gold are all tracked online with a browser-based guild campaign.

[Sensei]

Yeah, the main part of cRPG was character persistency, as well as reworked stats/items/leveling. The persistent maps within cRPG were just building further on top of that.

[Ozyton]

So basically that presistency map from Mount & blade mods

I've never tried any of those, but think of M&B singleplayer overhead map except movement on the map isn't accelerated, battles don't take place immediately, and the lords on the map are actual players.

[Mookzen]

So the question is, this or Bannerlord ? M&B is great and all, but its rather clear there won't be a persistent multiplayer campaign so on that basis alone this looks very promising indeed.

[Ozyton]

Suppose it depends on if you prefer having a game that's both singleplayer and multiplayer and already has a large community ready to mod the hell out of it, or a lesser known title that's focused entirely on multiplayer. I will say the combat in OKAM is looking better than Warband's combat, but if you're fine with Warband's combat then M&B's probably the better bet right now. We'll have to wait and see if Bannerlord has a trick up its sleeve or if one of the games simply doesn't deliver.

[Isdar]

For anyone interested, Green Man Gaming has a 28 % off sale for the game at their site.

https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/of-kings-and-men/#b

[Krewl]

Early Access being released on 25th of August.