With Fire and Sword has it's issues but after the last patch it was transformed into a decent enough game.
Guns reworked, less oneshot kills from across the map, less bugs with quests, better animations, milita units at villages, crouching, more formations like volly shot and unit line depth, being hit while reloading doesn't make it start again, better mp.
Still has it's problems though.
Troops are still hard to get, the "good pistol" is very easy to get early game and outshines all other firearms, gone back to the typical heavy cal. kills all, weapons are still expensive, bandits can be a pain, no tournys, no arenas, no dualing system, weapons outside the "firearm and polearm" classes will still see little use
I've been playing it the past couple days and been having a lot more fun then when it first came out. Played as a "rieter" or a horsemen with a firearm. Ended up duing the Russian quest and
which was a whole carbine of fun!
I would get the complete pack of mount and blade. First one for those ol' mods that have the most polish, warband for being generally awesome with good mods coming and Fire and Sword for being a decent experience and hopefully an awesome one with more future polish.
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