Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord Will Finally Leave Early Access on October 25 (opens in new tab), but before that, developer TaleWorlds Entertainment has released a few patches and hotfixes to prepare for the big day. The latest additions Steam Workshop Support (opens in new tab) for the sometimes buggy, always brilliant medieval mercenary simulator.
Until now, the best place to find Mount & Blade 2 mods was the Nexus Mods Website (opens in new tab), which you’ll almost certainly be familiar with if you’ve modded pretty much any game in the last ten years. For now – it’s been about two hours since Bannerlord received Workshop support at the time of writing – that’s still the case, but you can bet that many of the game’s big mods will migrate from Nexus to Steam in no time. It’s much more convenient to subscribe to a mod on Steam than to fiddle around with mod managers, even if the Workshop may be a little more limited.
Workshop support has been a regular request from the Bannerlord community since the game launched on Steam Early Access in 2020 (opens in new tab), and it's one of several bells and whistles TaleWorlds is adding ahead of the game's launch in just under two weeks. In addition to Workshop support, the game will also be getting voiceovers for story dialogue and greetings, AI updates to stop your men from getting stuck on each other during sieges, and various Steam trinkets like trading cards, emoticons, and so on.
Oh, Bannerlord will also be receiving banners (opens in new tab) before October 25th. You would think they would have been there from the beginning.
We like Mount & Blade 2 (opens in new tab)jank and all when it comes to early access, and it's only gotten better since then, the occasional bout of existential horror (opens in new tab) aside. It's a unique thing: a big box of weird and wonderful systems that can't help but produce incredible stories as you play. It's the kind of PC game that was born for a vast library of mods. (opens in new tab)and with the support of the Workshop this library became even more accessible.
