i don't think it would be remotely fair to rate this before full release. it's an ambitious project, and although it is extremely rough around the edges in its current state, it's got the potential to be everything great about Warband but modernized. people complaining about early access forget how garbage the original M&B was at first compared to how it ended up. this is simply an unfinished game - it's been 10 years and it's gonna be a while longer, and they've communicated that pretty clearly. if they release it full of bugs, missing content, and without proper modding tools, like it is now, then yeah, it'll justifiably get panned.