

The improvements were to include better combat, multiplayer, and improvements to sieges and management. However, once a publisher picked up the game, the promised improvements were never made to the original Mount and Blade.

Broken Base: Before Mount & Blade was picked up by a publisher, they were operating on a "buy now, get a fleshed out version later without added cost" deal similar to Minecraft and Terraria (which was after the two, it's an industry standard "Early Access" arrangement).Author's Saving Throw: The much hated cattle jobs from the original Mount & Blade and Warband were finally changed in Fire & Sword by simply having the cattle follow you rather than herding them to the objetive.
