You are guaranteed a weekly income in the early game and a reasonable set of equipment to see you through. It’s a very simple addition that in all honesty I’m surprised Taleworlds didn’t offer as part of the vanilla game. Sign up for a reasonable wage, and all your decisions are made for you. What it does is simply provide you with the ability to offer your services to any lord as a mercenary soldier. It’s not a huge all-encompassing total conversion. That’s where The Freelancer mod comes in. Whilst some players applaud this freedom, others, myself included, are left at a bit of a loss as to what they should actually be doing. Unceremoniously dumped into a medieval landscape, the player is abandoned with very little advice in what to do and where to go do it. One of the frequent criticisms levelled at the Mount and Blade series is at its lack of direction. Are our actions justified morally? Are we doing this for the greater good? In short, are we the baddies?
There comes a point in every soldier’s life when a question comes to mind.
