Players were invited to play and this continued until the game entered its closed Beta Branch, which was announced at Gamescom 2019 in August. Multiplayer for Mount&Blade II: Bannerlord started as early as June 2019, in Taleworld's Private Closed Alpha. Newer features include a new party system, a Quick Play function for automatically finding and joining a server, brand new game modes such as Captain and Skirmish, a class system and an armoury which allows the player to see what is each class contains.

The game sees the return of its Custom Server List and classic game modes such as Team Deathmatch and Siege. It involves a plethora of both old and new features, some which have caused controversy. Multiplayer is a feature that returns in Mount&Blade II: Bannerlord.