Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

👎 After this tutorial, I have no desire to play this game anymore. I spent more than an hour trying to complete the tutorial at the very beginning of the game. The objective was to recruit soldiers from a village, but the village had zero recruits available. Because of that, the tutorial became completely stuck. I couldn’t continue the quest, couldn’t buy supplies, and couldn’t properly interact with other settlements because the game kept forcing me to complete an objective that was literally impossible. I wasted over an hour trying to figure out whether I was doing something wrong. I reloaded saves, traveled around the map, and searched for solutions, but nothing worked. To make this even more frustrating, I didn’t just buy the base game. I bought the complete edition with every available add-on and content pack, paying around $60 in total, and I still can’t properly play this supposedly amazing game because the opening tutorial is broken. This is one of the worst first impressions I’ve ever had in a game. If a new player can get completely soft-locked by a bug within the first few minutes, that is a serious failure in both game design and quality assurance. As a result, I have completely lost the desire to play. I’m uninstalling the game. My sincere congratulations to the developers and everyone responsible for allowing this bug to remain in the very beginning of the game. Truly an excellent introduction. Bannerlord looked like a game I could have spent hundreds of hours playing, but my experience ended before it even properly began. We will never meet again.