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[Farce]

So as I understand it, Gekokujo 3.0 replaced all the awesome Touhou music?  Especially the title screen.  I loved that titlescreen music.  What's new in 3.0 that makes it worth downloading now that one of my favorite parts is gone?

Also, I'm sniffing around for new mods, too, but a lot of the ones I grab are buggy and weird, possibly due to version conflicts or something.  That one Indian/West-Asia mod with the long and a-bit-incomprehensible name never works, and Shot and Shell, which I just downloaded, seems to be kinda derpy in that I chargenned in a 100% vanilla-M&B manner, but reload and fired my crossbow with rifle sfx.  It's not the Neo GK Native-edit pack-thing I got, right?

[Mech#4]

The music would be easily changeable. Keep the older version, navigate to the music folder in both version
(mountblade warband\Modules\gekokujo\Music) and copy and paste the music from the old version into the music folder of the new version. The name of the music files will be the same because the game checks the name for the appropriate music to play in specific instances.

As for changes, there are buildable forts for temporary defence, agents/ninja to help open gates during attacks (from that, apparently castles have gates to block your entry now), ranged Ashigaru are now a mix of archers and gunners.

Spoiler: Change list from Taleworlds thread (click to show/hide)

Version 3.0 Changes
General:
- All-new and more immersive music
- Rewrote the opening mission to be more morally ambigious, in order to set the tone (you'll see)
- Ranged ashigaru now spawn a ratio of gunners and archers rather than just one or the other. ranged samurai remain the same
- Your freelancer-assigned weapons are now taken away on defeat (your loot remains)
- Added a quest to return to your lord after freelancer army is defeated
- Added ability to request for promotion from ashigaru to samurai in freelancer with enough renown and relationship
- Added agents/ninja -- crude and limited for now (they only help you open castle walls)
- AI now form basic formations in battle -- not quite like other mods, but should be slightly improved over vanilla
- Added limited seafaring (sea routes are restricted) and new sea battle maps based on relative army sizes
- Added "forts" -- self-contained castles/hideouts with no income but free storage and recruitables

Scripting:
- Added the last of the 1.143 -> 1.153 fixes I missed
- Added the code that turned 1.153 -> 1.158
- Frequent lord_get_home_center errors are now fixed
- Added Zephilinox's mouse-controlled death camera
- Tweaked campaign AI to generate more aggression and war
- In addition to own tweaks, also added a few of motomataru's campaign tweaks
- Increased the reinforcement rate to handle the increased death rate
- Added forage skill (replaced block skill)

Miscellaneous:
- Rebalanced player enterprises
- Fixed typos EVERYWHERE (but they'll never go away)
- Changed text descriptions and word choices in order to sound less medieval European
- Constable is now Army Inspector, Chamberlain is now Treasurer, and Chancellor is Administrator
- Characters that were "(Name)-sensei" are now "Master (Name)"
- Doubled food unit amounts and consequently also the food weights
- Rebalanced lord reinforcements
- Samurai troops now cost 33% more in upkeep than Ashigaru
- Reduced loot spam (clothes, weak weapons)
- Retitled book names to have their in-game affected skill
- Changed the Kanazawa/Ikko start to Hirosaki/Nanbu (makes more sense considering new start quest)
- What were once called ronin troops are now called hirelings
- What were once called metsuke are now called ronin
- "Farmer" is now "Peasant Man" for symmetry with "Peasant Woman"
- Map icons are now slightly smaller to make the map look bigger
- Tournaments are now smaller affairs (2 teams of 4 maximum)
- Replaced Xerina, Dranton, and Kradus with several historical and fictional samurai in tournaments
- All loadouts are now possible in all tournaments
- Horses no longer spawn in practice arenas
- Revised trade goods slightly
- Fixed "vengeful" relationship at 90+
- Allows joining any side of an encountered battle
- Kiso horses are now only available to buy in Takeda lands
- Added placeholder Ainu clothes, armor, and weapons (thanks, Rathmor!)
- Party sizes are now: +30 base, +1 per 10 renown, +5 per Leadership, +1 per Charisma, +20 for faction leaders, +20 for faction strategists, and +10 per walled center (town/castle)
- Prisoner size bonus of +1 per 10 troops in your army (+5 per skill is untouched)
- Monk character background is now male-only (not historically accurate, just for balance)
- New Miko character background for female characters
- Fixed weapon and skill assignments for upper class women
- Character creation now grants firearms skills correctly
- Added ability to enable the cheat menu from the camp menu for laptop users

Factions:
- Imahama is renamed to Nagahama whenever Oda take it. Renamed back if Asakura take it. Everyone else keeps whatever name they took it over with
- Lord and Lady appearances are now defined rather than random
- So many more lords have their historical banners
- So many fief reassignments, holy hell
- Asakura clan now get half of the old Oda territory. Good luck, guys
- Daughters and unmarried sisters are now more common. Good luck, guys
- Changed lady names to either historical or period-appropriate names. I realized I did not want my own characters to marry a goddamn Touhou, I wanted them to marry Lady Kaede from Ran. Good luck, guys.
- Added Lord Kakizaki as a vassal of the Nanbu, who controls the only castle in Ezo (Hokkaido)
- Kaga Ikki are now called Ikko Ikki because they now have territories outside of Kaga
- Ikko Ikki monks are recruited from temple fortresses and Kanazawa, Ikko samurai volunteers from castles, and villagers from villages -- they now have the most varied troop tree
- Village recruits are now named after regions rather than clans, but all other troop names remain the same. This is to emphasize their initial loyalty to the land rather than their lord
- Oda and Tokugawa now start as formal allies. RIP everyone
- What was once the Urakami clan is now the Ukita clan. What the hell was I thinking

Geography:
- Much more detailed map, with so many new rivers, lakes, and islands. Less bland, I hope
- Added a few islands that can be reached via sea travel that have imporatant things on them
- Maybe someday I will add Korea near Tsushima (don't count on it)
- Several towns, castles, and villages have been renamed and moved around for better balance
- Some villages and castles are now also named after famous battle sites
- Added Ishiyama Honganji, Jogu-ji, and Nagashima as buddhist temple fortresses (for the Ikko)
- Added a pass to allow the Hojo and Uesugi to touch each other. Takeda should now die more slowly

Bandits:
- Bandit camps now spawn properly (whoops)
- Woku pirates now have guns rather than bows. RIP
- Greatly increased bandit activity in general. RIP
- Some bandit activity is based around the forts (see above). They will stop temporarily if you burn them down or permanently if you conquer them.
- Most of the bandit types have been renamed and re-equipped
- Bandit locations have changed as well

Companions:
- Adjusted personalities of companions for when they become lords
- Renamed certain companions to be less obnoxious about videogame references
- Changed their backgrounds as well. Sorry, sorry
- New option to remove the *consequences* of companion interactions with each other (Camp -> Gekokujo-Specific Options -> Disable ). They still bicker and whine to you about it, however.
- Changed the name and backstory of some pretenders
- The faction name now changes when certain pretenders win (Tokugawa -> Imagawa for example)

Weapons:
- New swords, spears, blunt weapons, knives, bows, and so on (just look at shop inventories!)
- There are now 6 tiers of bows and 5 tiers of guns
- Gunshot sound variety and improved gunshot sounds
- Better gunsmoke
- Added an anime sword, because I can
- Added shurikens

Armor:
- Improved kasa textures and added faction jingasa
- Jingasa now come in 3 shapes
- Added egawa trim to high class armors
- Changed the strap of the hara-ate armor to be less conspicuous
- Changed the underclothes of the low class armors to be less ugly
- Added a few new chest armor types (including nanban and yukinoshita) and a looot of new helmets
- Tekko now come in multiple colors and the tiers make more sense
- Jinbaori are now separate from armor and can be combined with anything you want (looks weird on clothes)

Clothing:
- Improved hakama models and improved textures overall
- Added proper kimono sleeves to everything
- More pattern variety to women's clothing
- Added tabi-only footwear for indoor use (the NPCs switch to them automatically)
- New monk and agent headwraps

Graphics:
- Changed launcher pic to one created by Rosslington
- Female player characters now have a more appropriate infantry icon on the world map
- Added 3 new Asian faces
- Modified female armor morphs to be more bulky
- Mostly new male and female hairs
- New arena scene!
- New prison scene!
- New mansion raid scene
- New town scenes with new architectural styles
- New temple scenes and props
- Sashimono are now polearms that you can't wield (add them to any armor!)
- Sashimono have 5 different shapes and sizes
- New default crests for heraldic sashimono
- Factions have their own ashigaru and samurai sashimono (officers have heraldic sashimono)
- Loading screens are now minimalist (only one figure rather than three)

Known Bugs
- Heraldic sashimono sometimes do not trigger properly (solid color)
- Certain lords with custom jinbaori do not have indoor clothing (and are thus naked)
- There are still one or two references to medieval europe in the dialogue that were missed
- A couple of the arrow flight meshes are oversized
(These aren't the only known bugs, these are the only known bugs that consistently happen)

[Robsoie]

Gekokujo 3.0 released

Amazing news !
I was waiting eagerly this one, the past versions had some really great time.

edit : after my first contact with the new version (interesting little backstory with the starting "merchant"), i decided to join Lord Daidoji of the Hojo clan as a retainer.
After a while, i had an audience with him while we were patrolling and asked him what the clan was doing.
He replied that they were going to besiege a castle, but we weren't going there.
Then i asked him what his army (from which i was a part of) was doing and he tells me there was this fair lady in whatever town/castle and it was where we were going, as he "didn't knew where was the lords army"
Yeah sure, that made me smile

[Robsoie]

For fantasy, you have Warsword Conquest, it's themed on Warhammer, full of dwarves, goblins, skavens, trolls, orgres, elves, chaos, tomb kings and humans and probably more i'm forgetting.
You don't need to know anything about Warhammer fortunately, and it's rather well done.
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,145937.0.html

The next update of it should be fantastic too, as i have noticed some screenshots about reworked towns:

http://gauntletmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/karaz-exterior-2.jpg
http://gauntletmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Middenheim-WIP3.jpg

[Astral]

If you're looking for a bit of magic in your Warband, Phantasy Calradia adds a bit of high fantasy feel. It recently made the map about twice as large, so it could fit the drow, orcs, mages, elves, undead, dwarves, and religious nutjobs without crowding the native factions.

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/board,333.0.html

Hasn't heard anything from the creator in a week, though that may partially be due to their servers going down for a while.

The Prophecy of Pendor FAQ has me downloading the mod:

Note from the Dev Team:  This guide is by Treebeard, fiendish inventor of Vicky, the new Virtual Intelligence, who has made it necessary for the Dev Team to invest in large quantities of Vaseline before a battle with any group of significant importance, because we knew we'd need it!  She's whipped us like a red-headed stepchild on numerous occasions, and if you skip reading Treebeard's guide, you will shortly find yourselves in BIG trouble.  Luckily, though the game starts with Formations turned on, you can turn off Formations in the camp menu if Vicky proves too much for you, particularly if you are not an experienced player.  We also advise that, since no one but the Dev Team has played with Vicky activated, even quite experienced players reduce difficulty levels in your games initially until you get to know her better.  (We did.)  She's a whole new animal!  Players new to M&B Warband and inexperienced players BEWARE!  Please read Treebeard's guide which follows or you will definitely come to grief when Vicky gets hold of you!

[puke]

wow, that's a really good rendition of the city of the white wolf.  Not picture perfect or anything, but pretty amazing considering the constraints of the game.

And it looks like their world map isnt just the Empire, or even the Old World, but includes Ulthuan for the High Elves, and Naggaroth for the Slann.

It's a little concerning that it might be *too* ambitious, and things are likely to be less complete than if they had focused on a more compact region... but it does look pretty cool.  Will have to check this out.

[EuchreJack]

For fantasy, you have Warsword Conquest, it's themed on Warhammer, full of dwarves, goblins, skavens, trolls, orgres, elves, chaos, tomb kings and humans and probably more i'm forgetting.
You don't need to know anything about Warhammer fortunately, and it's rather well done.

The only real problem is that the vanilla factions tend to get devoured by the large numbers of the Warhammer factions.  Granted, many of the Warhammer factions don't have horses, but the vanilla factions are just overwhelmed in autobattles.

[Robsoie]

vanilla factions ? you mean the ones from Native ?
Last time i played (last week) , Warhammer Conquest didn't featured any of the vanilla faction ?

That said, the mounted (on a squig) night goblins are hilariously fast in battle.
the main weak point of Warhammer Conquest to me is there are really too few bandits or neutral roaming on what is a gigantic map, and in some huge sections of the map there's simply none to fight there.

[BFEL]

I think hes confusing Warhammer and Phantasy Calradia

[Mattk50]

The Prophecy of Pendor FAQ has me downloading the mod:

Note from the Dev Team:  This guide is by Treebeard, fiendish inventor of Vicky, the new Virtual Intelligence, who has made it necessary for the Dev Team to invest in large quantities of Vaseline before a battle with any group of significant importance, because we knew we'd need it!  She's whipped us like a red-headed stepchild on numerous occasions, and if you skip reading Treebeard's guide, you will shortly find yourselves in BIG trouble.  Luckily, though the game starts with Formations turned on, you can turn off Formations in the camp menu if Vicky proves too much for you, particularly if you are not an experienced player.  We also advise that, since no one but the Dev Team has played with Vicky activated, even quite experienced players reduce difficulty levels in your games initially until you get to know her better.  (We did.)  She's a whole new animal!  Players new to M&B Warband and inexperienced players BEWARE!  Please read Treebeard's guide which follows or you will definitely come to grief when Vicky gets hold of you!

read the big faq thing about this ai. it really interests me but the fantasy setting of this mod doesnt, do you happen to know if this ai is shared between any of the other mods?

Also i played gekokujo, good fun but there's sooo many factions.

[SalmonGod]

The Prophecy of Pendor FAQ has me downloading the mod:

Note from the Dev Team:  This guide is by Treebeard, fiendish inventor of Vicky, the new Virtual Intelligence, who has made it necessary for the Dev Team to invest in large quantities of Vaseline before a battle with any group of significant importance, because we knew we'd need it!  She's whipped us like a red-headed stepchild on numerous occasions, and if you skip reading Treebeard's guide, you will shortly find yourselves in BIG trouble.  Luckily, though the game starts with Formations turned on, you can turn off Formations in the camp menu if Vicky proves too much for you, particularly if you are not an experienced player.  We also advise that, since no one but the Dev Team has played with Vicky activated, even quite experienced players reduce difficulty levels in your games initially until you get to know her better.  (We did.)  She's a whole new animal!  Players new to M&B Warband and inexperienced players BEWARE!  Please read Treebeard's guide which follows or you will definitely come to grief when Vicky gets hold of you!

read the big faq thing about this ai. it really interests me but the fantasy setting of this mod doesnt, do you happen to know if this ai is shared between any of the other mods?

Also i played gekokujo, good fun but there's sooo many factions.

I don't know if it has the same thing, but Silverstag definitely has some improved AI that makes use of formations and sometimes tries to flank you.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

So steering the discussion into completely different waters. Has anyone tried Caribbean yet?

It seems to be the same folks that did With Fire and Sword working on making a hybrid of Sid Meier's Pirates! and Mount and Blade. Personally I've been wanting for such a combination since I've played both and find myself rather optimistic.

Sadly it's currently in Early Access on Steam and due to Valve's awful handling of the concept I've been trying to stay away from those games until their true release dates (if that even happens).
Feedback on the Steam forums seems rather mixed but the Steam "community" is one of the worst I've had the displeasure of viewing so it's hard to gauge any real feedback on the quality of the title from there.

[nearlyNonexistent]

Any idea why Floris 255 would result in all the cities and castles disappearing after I finish the tutorial questline?

[SalmonGod]

It's one I'll be watching.  Doesn't look like it's reached a state where I'll be willing to buy it yet.  Consensus I've seen from players is that aside from the ship battles (shooting cannons and stuff, not boarding), it's otherwise just a decent quality mod at the moment.

[Astral]

Any idea why Floris 255 would result in all the cities and castles disappearing after I finish the tutorial questline?

Did you accidentally turn on Fog of War?