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[LoSboccacc]

you also get free equipment. but I agree it should be less payroll and player provided the equipment. why rent rifles when you can loot them!

[JimboM12]

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freeman got a large patch, includes enhanced ai, better diplomacy and settlement management. if i wasn't already bouncing between assassins creed odyssey, red dead redemption 2, x4 foundations and kingdom come deliverance, id already have jumped on testing this patch.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/773951/announcements/detail/1789523941896285787

[Zangi]

They removed customization of squads and your starter companion.

[George_Chickens]

They removed customization of squads and your starter companion.

But... why?

[JimboM12]

my guess is its part of the overhaul they did and it'll be reintroduced later.

combat feels pretty swanky now. i like the kick and feel of guns but the sounds a bit off.

i should really bump this but its not important; its definitely temporary, i see that the squads still have slots and there's an unused units box in the bottom left.

[EuchreJack]

They removed customization of squads and your starter companion.

But... why?

Well, there goes my interest in buying.  I'll wait and see if it gets put back in.

[JimboM12]

customizing squads (ie combining units of different squads) is back in, customizing individual units (like gear) is not. don't know about companions yet but if i see one ill let ya'll know.

[amjh]

They made a post about the missing features.

[EuchreJack]

customizing squads (ie combining units of different squads) is back in, customizing individual units (like gear) is not. don't know about companions yet but if i see one ill let ya'll know.

I guess I can't complain about a feature that was not in Mount & Blade and other games. But what can I say, I just love playing paper dolls with my virtual characters.

[Broseph Stalin]

I guess I can't complain about a feature that was not in Mount & Blade and other games. But what can I say, I just love playing paper dolls with my virtual characters.

Make. Customizable. Units.

I want to play dress up with dogs of war. I have never wanted anything more than this. I understand that having every individual unit be customizable can cause problems and could even be prohibitively tedious but I cannot understand why players would be unable to edit at least one unit class it always seemed like a huge oversight in Mount and Blade. 

[Lukewarm]

I didn't like customizable units, because by the time it mattered I was spending more time upgrading the units as I got them and replacing individual squad members then I was, you know, fighting or moving around.
If you want full squads you're having to micromanage after every battle and shuffle in replacements until your troops are too tough to die-at which point the game is practically over.

[JimboM12]

it looks like they're going the mount and blade style; no ingame customization but you can create your own unit trees with mods. i think that's a fine compromise. i personally get tired of trying to gear up more than a handful of people, both in this and in mount and blade. i'll just mod my own faction in when they release the mod tools.

[Man of Paper]

I like what they're doing. Let's them work on a solid, cleaner experience. Let modders come in and break everything.

[Astral]

Honestly if all that comes out of the game is "Modern Mount and Blade" as a baseline, with modding support, then I'll be perfectly happy with it. Things change when you're trying to build a game from scratch and something that works initially may not turn out after other features need to be implemented or refined further.

There are a lot of interesting mod ideas that have been done with Warband that still continue to this day despite it being a nearly nine year old game, so I'm sure that they'll return in some fashion, depending on how open their modding support is.

[JimboM12]

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https://steamcommunity.com/games/773951/announcements/detail/1629650588174194215

freeman recently got a big patch, bringing it up to 0.90. includes unit customization, as in gearing up individual soldiers, improved AI including factions needing income from villages/cities, diplomacy, and more.

i was wrong about my earlier hypothesis, but dang, the game got awesome. im only 30 minutes into this new save and its solid.