The Elder Scrolls Megathread XX: Might as well be XXX
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I remembered it did it on purpose like 2 seconds after posting it, me dumbass.
been actually playing through morrowind for the first time unmodded. Oh my fuck Cliff Racers arent a meme they actually never stop coming at you there are no words to describe how obnoxious they are. Also rats keep giving me diseases and these stupid fucking bone walkers keep giving me curses that drain my strength every enemy is the worst enemy but I really love this game for some reason. Like I can't really put into words why I'm enjoying myself so much despite literally every combat encounter being more arduous than the last.
heres a hint: invest in restore stat spells, itll make things much less playthrough ending
ive been in more than one situation with 0 strength where i had to drop everything on the spot and come back to get it later
The crates and barrels in bandit caves have restore stat potions in the loot tables, plus the crates around most towns... Just make sure they aren't owned by anyone first
Swag beyond measure outlander
[QUOTE=27X;52957177][t]https://vangogh.teespring.com/v3/image/bxT8EsZ97BWASLNhbAucTZ2rgdg/480/560.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
silly boys! im a gURL GAMER!!!
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Where can I find this?
[QUOTE=Sleeves;52958431]Where can I find this?[/QUOTE]
It's a secret reward for buying every single edition of Skyrim including platform portsÇ
t. not todd howard
[QUOTE=MrHeadHopper;52954761]AH yeh, at some point in your save you are going to have to setup a save in a small, isolated test cell and load from there into any game.
I like testphil because it's rocky and has a table.[/QUOTE]
I just, instead of clicking continue, use the "load" button on the main menu and load my latest save, and from there it works just fine. For [B]some fucking stupid reason[/B] just changing the bit of UI I load the game from on the main menu keeps my game functioning just fine when I have this issue.
Bethesda game quirks are the absolute worst until you find the tiny small thing you have to use as a workaround
Anyone can recommend me a good mod that replace the armor+weapon textures?
[QUOTE=Zufeng;52961766]Anyone can recommend me a good mod that replace the armor+weapon textures?[/QUOTE]
Going to need you to be a bit more specific there.
What game, what style..
[QUOTE=_Maverick_;52961874]Going to need you to be a bit more specific there.
What game, what style..[/QUOTE]
I was going to make a joke about Morrowind nude mods but it's just occurred to me that I've never seen one to confirm it exists.
A strange thought.
[QUOTE=gk99;52961884]I was going to make a joke about Morrowind nude mods but it's just occurred to me that I've never seen one to confirm it exists.
A strange thought.[/QUOTE]
[URL=https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45180/?] why do you doubt, my child. [/URL]
The day the Elder Scrolls gets proper fluid physics is the day loverslab implodes.
[QUOTE=_Maverick_;52961874]Going to need you to be a bit more specific there.
What game, what style..[/QUOTE]
Ah yes,i forgot.
Its skyrim,and the mod that i looking for is the texture replacement for armor and weapon.
[QUOTE=_Maverick_;52961897][URL=https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45180/?] why do you doubt, my child. [/URL][/QUOTE]
Huh, I thought Better Bodies or whatever it was called was the Morrowind gold standard, being basically it's UNP/CBBE equivalent (in terms of having both nude and non-nude versions, with more, uh... faithful re-meshing of the various armour mods).
[QUOTE=Zufeng;52961919]Ah yes,i forgot.
Its skyrim,and the mod that i looking for is the texture replacement for armor and weapon.[/QUOTE]
There are loads to choose from, do you want complete [I]new[/I] textures or higher quality vanilla textures?
[QUOTE=Craigewan;52961920]Huh, I thought Better Bodies or whatever it was called was the Morrowind gold standard, being basically it's UNP/CBBE equivalent (in terms of having both nude and non-nude versions, with more, uh... faithful re-meshing of the various armour mods).[/QUOTE]
(but that better bodies one doesn't look [I]as[/I] silly.) :v:
[QUOTE=_Maverick_;52961931]There are loads to choose from, do you want complete [I]new[/I] textures or higher quality vanilla textures?
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I think i prefer the higher quality vanilla one.
But,some different textures is okay too
[QUOTE=Zufeng;52961950]I think i prefer the higher quality vanilla one.
But,some different textures is okay too[/QUOTE]
Okay, well first off if your rig can handle it, anything in the [B]aMidianBorn[/B] series by [U]CaBaL120[/U] is a good place to start.
[url]https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/24909/?[/url]
And the [B]Weapon Retexture Project - WRP[/B] by [U]Millenia[/U] also deserves a shout out.
[url]https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1754/?[/url]
While not textures, I can't recommend enough [U]LeanWolf's[/U] [B]Better-Shaped Weapons[/B]
[url]https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/39870/?[/url]
[t]https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/110/images/39870-0-1436703822.jpg[/t]
Because look at that! (just ignore the Memes on his page) the mod is top quality
Back to textures
Because it's the most common sets, I'd recommend [U]aMidianBorn's[/U] [B]steel, iron, and hide[/B] Retextures
[url]https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/18272/?[/url]
[url]https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19340/?[/url]
[url]https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/26770/?[/url]
That seem like your thing?
I don't understand bsw when Skyrim is about the Nords and the Nords are basically humans 1.5, so using 1.5 scale swords makes sense.
[QUOTE=MrHeadHopper;52962398]I don't understand bsw when Skyrim is about the Nords and the Nords are basically humans 1.5, so using 1.5 scale swords makes sense.[/QUOTE]
Problem is 1.5 scale in only one axis. If they swung greatswords around with one hand, sure, but in vanilla it's like they are using metal paddles
[QUOTE=MrHeadHopper;52962398]I don't understand bsw when Skyrim is about the Nords and the Nords are basically humans 1.5, so using 1.5 scale swords makes sense.[/QUOTE]
Large weapons I think are fine, they have their place
What I personally can't abide are stupid looking weapons.
I'm going to use Dragon's dogma as an example here because I feel it highlights my point.
[IMG]http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonsdogma/images/1/1b/Dragon%27s_Dogma_-_Lifetaker.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130629234107[/IMG]
That in my eyes, is fine yes it's overly large but it's simple
Compared with...
[IMG]https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonsdogma/images/5/5b/Triple-Teeth.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20120627095839[/IMG]
Which just looks weird.
They could quite easily have just had one hammer on the end but they stuck on three
Maybe it does all come down to personal taste,. Maybe people like that hammer, but I feel when designing an object it needs to be simple. It needs to be recognisable as something we can draw from memory.
Back in my previous post, the second image is clearly an axe, it has a simple shape that is well recognised even in its demonic state.
Where as the unedited looks to me like some kind of mechanical leaver.
Again, it's personal preference but I prefer his edits.
[QUOTE=_Maverick_;52962031]Okay, well first off if your rig can handle it, anything in the [B]aMidianBorn[/B] series by [U]CaBaL120[/U] is a good place to start.
[url]https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/24909/?[/url]
And the [B]Weapon Retexture Project - WRP[/B] by [U]Millenia[/U] also deserves a shout out.
[url]https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1754/?[/url]
While not textures, I can't recommend enough [U]LeanWolf's[/U] [B]Better-Shaped Weapons[/B]
[url]https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/39870/?[/url]
[t]https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/110/images/39870-0-1436703822.jpg[/t]
Because look at that! (just ignore the Memes on his page) the mod is top quality
Back to textures
Because it's the most common sets, I'd recommend [U]aMidianBorn's[/U] [B]steel, iron, and hide[/B] Retextures
[url]https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/18272/?[/url]
[url]https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19340/?[/url]
[url]https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/26770/?[/url]
That seem like your thing?[/QUOTE]
Coincidentally,i just finished installing aMidianBorn ebony armor.
But since my laptop are crap,i can't install every aMidianBorn texture mod
Thanks dude,these mods is what i exactly looking for.
Just need to wait WRP to be completed now
[QUOTE=_Maverick_;52961897][URL=https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45180/?] why do you doubt, my child. [/URL][/QUOTE]
I'm actually disappointed. I wanted a vanilla friendly one
[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;52962621]I'm actually disappointed. I wanted a vanilla friendly one[/QUOTE]
There is always better bodys [url]https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/3880?[/url] it has a never nude version.
[media]https://youtu.be/uCcRkEGjCjQ[/media]
is this what happened when Tiber septic activated the numidium
[QUOTE=MrHeadHopper;52962398]I don't understand bsw when Skyrim is about the Nords and the Nords are basically humans 1.5, so using 1.5 scale swords makes sense.[/QUOTE]
Thats (sadly) not how weapons work.
|There's the Square root law, where something twice as long and wide is gonna have four times the weight. it's why elephants can't jump and people wank over the supposed strength of ants. Skyrim weapons'd swing like paddles. anyhow, If there was a sword made for a guy who weighed 100kg, and a guy used the same sword but was 130kg (increase in muscle or dimensions, not fat content) assuming every other constant was the same, the 130kg guy'd be better off. Or at least, if he wants a bigger sword, it won't go down how skyrim does it. At the very least, even if nords wanted bigger swords than imperials, skyrim still gives us the wrong sized swords.
Also, skyrim has a bunch of weapons with blunt blades, or blades with the wrong part being hit. that daedric axe lookslike a shit toy, and orcish looks like it was made by a child who didnt know how cutting worked. warhammers are an unfortunate lot.
Honestly, better shaped weapons doesn't go [I]far enough[/I] and it doesn't help that the animations for weapons are shite.
If you're bothered by weapob size, in Skyrim VR, I hold 2-handed sword and hammer with one hand, and swing them like a badminton racket. Everything dies so quickly
What bothers me more about Skyrim's weapons isn't so much how they look, it's how people use them.
I mean, for such a rich, detailed and intricately designed world, you'd think [I]somebody[/I] on the design team would have enough foresight to, I dunno, watch some videos of people using swords...
Or perhaps a movie where people use swords...
Or, like, any number of games where people use swords.
Instead, we have people waddling about holding every weapon like some kind of club. Two handed swords are swung like baseball bats, there are clumsy spin moves and overswings and all sorts of ugly looking weirdness that makes it seem like nobody in this world has the slightest clue what they're doing. I know there are a few mods that do what they can to make the animations look more fluid and less like a bunch of awkward school kids pretending to fight using overly heavy stage weapons, but even with these, the whole combat system feels like utter garbage.
There's a reason I almost always play a magic or stealth character in TES games, and it's not because I'm overly fond of those styles - I [I]love[/I] a good melee system in a game - But in TES games, [I]especially[/I] Skyrim for some reason, melee combat feels so horrible to use that I just can't bring myself to use it unless I have to.
I really, [I]really[/I] hope that the dev team for TES6 - whatever it is they're currently doing - takes some pointers from Arcane Studio's developers. Those guys fucking [I]nailed[/I] first-person melee combat in Dishonored. IIRC, some of the people at Arcane originally worked on Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, right? I think I remember seeing a really old tech-demo thing they made that was essentially a really, really early draft of Dishonored. Come to it, even Dark Messiah - a game that came out two full years before Skyrim - had much better melee combat than TES5.
Of course, none of that will matter if they make the characters and world as lifeless as they did in Skyrim. I still maintain to this day that nothing I ever did in Skyrim felt like it [I]mattered.[/I] I became the head of the Dark Brotherhood, the lead member of the Thieve's Guild, the Archmage at the College of Winterhold, a powerful Dragonborn, and even a vampiric dread lord. But at the end of the game, I still feel like I accomplished nothing.
Something about TES games always makes me feel like I'm wasting my time. And no other game has ever really made me feel that way. I think, personally, it's the way that the worlds they make never really seem "real", ironically enough. Mostly due to how flat and empty all the characters felt. I never felt attached to any of them, never [I]cared[/I] about any of them. And I'm usually a super lame empath that gets sad when my Dragon Age party complains about the weather.
I genuinely enjoyed Dragon Age 2, complete with it's monotonous environments, slipshod story and odd gameplay quirks, more than Skyrim, because I actually [I]cared[/I] about the characters and world in DA2. Hell, I'm more attached to the characters from Dark Souls than I am to the ones in Skyrim, and most Dark Souls characters just stand in one place and laugh at inappropriate times. But I still remember Orbeck of Vinheim's name, I remember his motivations, things he said, things that annoyed him, things that made him happy. He felt more "real" than any character in Skyrim ever did to me, and he's one of the least fleshed-out Dark Souls characters around.
[QUOTE=Ona;52963743]. Hell, I'm more attached to the characters from Dark Souls than I am to the ones in Skyrim, and most Dark Souls characters just stand in one place and laugh at inappropriate times. But I still remember Orbeck of Vinheim's name, I remember his motivations, things he said, things that annoyed him, things that made him happy. He felt more "real" than any character in Skyrim ever did to me, and he's one of the least fleshed-out Dark Souls characters around.[/QUOTE]
Echoing this.
It's amazing how the few people you meet in any DS game you can instantly bond with.
Solaire of Astora, you never see his face, he only says a few lines of dialogue throughout the entire game, And he is top tier bro.
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