Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord known bugs and early access issues
Check out all the reported issues early access testers have reported so far.
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TaleWorlds Entertainment’s sequel-prequel to the popular Mount & Blade game is currently in early access on Steam and as such, it has a few issues that need ironing out. Since the game was released on March 30, the development team has worked hard to roll out a patch almost daily to fix reported problems.
With Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord here, there are a few issues you may encounter as you traverse the continent of Calradia. We’ve rounded up known bugs, early access issues, and glitches impacting the game right now.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord bugs, issues, and glitches
Hundreds of thousands of players have already bought the game and loaded up Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, but the successful early access launch hasn’t gone without issues. Some players report frequent crashes, performance issues during specific parts of the game, as well as a whole host of imbalance and glitches.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord crashes
Crashes and overall game stability in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord remains to be one of the more popular issue players continue to experience. TaleWorlds Entertainment is working on rolling out fixes in the frequently released patches, but still to this day you may encounter a crash here and there.
A bug reportershouldopen up once Bannerlord crashes, allowing you to send a report to the developer for them to look into the problem. It helps if you could provide a sentence or two about what made the game come to a sudden halt.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord performance
Performance in the game can be a hit or a miss. For the majority of your game time you’ll enjoy butter-smooth action, but should you get into a hectic siege battle, your game will slow down considerably. Various reports from players seem to point to AI pathfinding, which seems to be causing most of the siege-related issues but you may encounter stuttering and sluggish performance elsewhere.
We recommend you ensure your GPU drivers are up-to-date as well, to help eliminate any potential problems.
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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord corrupted saves
There have been numerous instances of save games becoming corrupt. Always have more than one manual save up-to-date, just in case. If you’re on the newer alpha or beta branches, this should be carried out to prevent progress loss. Some have found disabling Steam cloud synchronization to help, but your mileage may vary.
Other Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord bugs and issues
Last updated: 10/28/2020 — Patch: e1.5.4
We’re not trackingeverybug here, omitting minor fixes and improvements. Be sure to keep an eye out forpatch notes.
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Kingdom & Diplomacy
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The successor to the popular Mount & Blade: Warband strategy game, Bannerlord adds plenty of improvements to make this an even more immersive medieval experience.
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