This past weekend, NexusMods passed 1,000 total mods created for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, and the mods are offering heaps of content and tweaks for the user that is interested. Thankfully there’s a monumentally robust modding community found on NexusMods, one of the premier modding community websites in the world.

Yet TaleWorlds Entertainment has been pushing patches out far faster than anyone expected, making grandiose changes for balancing and to stymie crashes, from FPS stuttering to kingdom snowballing. While the release of Bannerlord into Steam’s Early Access program has been, for lack of a better term, greatly anticipated, it’s release has also soured more than a few dispositions as the title struggles with Half-Life 3 syndrome.

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord has opted to embrace that community as TaleWorlds Entertainment has in titles past, and it bodes rather well for everyone involved. 'Complete Troop Overhaul' rebalances all troops, increases visual diversity and brings nearly 50 new lore-friendly units! #NexusMods #BannerlordMods #MountAndBlade It’s beloved, held closely by the community, and celebrated for each title that arrives that embraces the possibility of mods. The modding community is, frankly, a very big deal for PC games. Instead, I’d find myself idling the time exploring upgraded forests and smarter enemies, a massive magic system overhaul, or new hoes where my adventurer could rest after a long day of doing very little other than glaring closely at table textures and parallax. I couldn’t fathom attempting to play through Skyrim without dozens of mods although to be fair, I have well over a thousand hours in it and have never touched the main quest beyond the first couple of missions. From greatly expanding mechanics that were already available in the game to bringing massive new worlds for you to explore and conquer, the modding community continues to tweak titles and bring hundreds of additional hours to titles that were already beloved. If you’re a PC gamer, chances are you’ve at least looked in the general direction of the modding community once throughout your time in the hobby.

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