Wow… I backed this project long in the past when it was like… early alpha, it showed a lot of promise back when and it looks like things are coming along wonderfully. Looking over for a moment the many obvious glitches and some peculiarities in the quest’s that threw me off to a point where all I really wish to do now is free roam, the graphics are beautiful, Henry’s reasonably likable, the controls are manageable for me on PC.
The idea though that a peasant can overnight turn himself into an effective fighting machine in a world brimming with murderers is something of a difficulty to swallow, it took me something in the order of three days to go from peasant to knight in shining armour.
Do you know how long it takes to craft a full suit of wedge riveted maile armour? including a knee length hauberk, a coif with a generous mantle covering the upper chest and chausses? I do… I’ve built three hauberks and coifs in specification that can be described as positively superior and it takes over a year of blood, sweat and tears for one person to pull off such a thing.
Its not… lol… one does not simply go out to the woods one day and find a suit of maile in a chest along with Europes most finest sword. Unless of course one can afford to risk losing something with a price tag as high as about £20,000 which by the way is precisely what I would charge anyone in this day for a perfect fitted suit of wedge riveted maile. So anyway, the point I’m driving at here is to ramp up the expense and difficulty of acquiring such luxuries in a big way as presently its far too easy.
Or make a hardcore mode so that people have to work their arses off to have such things.