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Finally decided to get around to trying openMW and Tamriel rebuilt. Great stuff but really that goes without saying.

Are there any niche mods that you enjoy that I might not have heard of or seen browsing top files on nexus/planet/etc?

Anything to spice up a monk or a pure mage build would be great. I'm currently in the middle of tribunal temple quests as my monk. Hand to hand is actually pretty ridiculous, I'm surprised I haven't heard more about it. Great for handling large groups of enemies and it levels absurdly fast. Tedious to finish people off though.

Is atronach super reliant on alchemy for magicka potions as I imagine it to be? I've never really done a pure mage and I'm thinking about going hardcore with it.

>>14496789

Just beat the shit out of Alma, if you really want a good time.

Kinda sad how there is no option to rape here while she lying on the floor and screaming like a bitch…

>>14496789

That's a high quality map, OP. Vvardenfell looks a little sparse, but I suppose they're only posting major/notable locations (eg not every fucking tomb in Seyda Neen's swamplands)

That said, I wish there was more mechanical depth to the game. OpenMW is a very good sign, but content gets boring when you can use the same strategies and approaches (but then you might have content that sidesteps your skills/abilities and forces you to do certain things, which then becomes frustrating)

As for mods, I've always liked fair Magicka regen. There's also 3 kinds of casters that I think of. One has a high mana pool but expensive spells and poor regeneration, one another has a small pool and very faster regeneration, and the last one has a small pool, but reduced cost of spells. Usually I put "clerical" stuff into the high regen category, so if I made a monk, I'd probably do that. For a wizard, huge MP, no doubt.

>>14496835

I can't argue with you… she didn't even deserves a good dicking.

>>14496835

>Vehk's sloppy seconds

and Nerevar's sloppy thirds. Ol' Indoril got cucked on a godly level. Don't forget Dunmer bitches are sluts but it's okay since they won't give up the stinkhole

>>14496997

I prefer Daggerfall for gameplay but Morrowind's writing and atmosphere are great.

>>14497640

Morrowind has always been one of my favorite games, so since I was always busy playing it I never really gave Daggerfall a fair shot. Gave it a try last year and I've gotta agree with you, the dungeon crawling in it is great and the fact that you can buy carriages/boats/houses is really cool. There's also some interesting pieces of lore in there too if you actually finish the main quest and pay enough attention. The books are worth reading as well.

>>14497869

What is it about Morrowind threads that attract "stop liking what i dont like" shitposters so quickly?

>>14497869

>They have the entirety of nirn to fuck around with

Sadly no. Even if Bethesda had that same lightning in a bottle they had with Morrowind there's no way they would be able to do the continent of Akavir justice. Hell, they wouldn't be able to make some of provinces on Tamriel up to snuff. There's no conceivable way that Bethesda could possibly make a good game in a place like Black Marsh or Elsweyr. Actually, there's no conceivable way they could ever make a good game in general again. If you want to have an adventure in another province/continent on Nirn that hasn't been depicted yet you'd better start making a total conversion for OpenMW because if you're relying on Bethesda to make a unique and engaging TES game again you'll end up sorely disappointed, anon.

>>14498042

Then just don't post and play other games. Or make your own mod. Lots of ways to be the change you want to see in the world. No reason to shit up a perfectly good thread with furshit and whining.

>>14498042

wew that first image was made by a gay scalie

>>14497945

I'm not saying they could make another morrowind tier game, I'm just saying they need to stop going back to it because it's going to retroactively ruin it and they should instead branch the fuck out and show us something new.

>>14498068

They fucking won't though, retard. They fucked up Cyrodiil's environment by trying to cater to the lowest common denominator, and, after that game raked in the shekels it's going to be that way as long as they continue making cash-cow TES games. You bitch about the fact that /v/ only talks about Morrowind (yet there is always at least a little bit of Daggerfall discussion that happens in these threads as well) but that's because it's the game worth talking about. They won't branch out and try something new with the series because they don't have to. Normalfags will buy Skyrim 2 even if the environments look like an even more boring and empty English countryside than Oblivion did.

>they need to stop going back to it because it's going to retroactively ruin it

What are you even referring to? ESO? Anybody who actually gives a shit about the series doesn't even acknowledge its existence. Either ignore the shit you don't like and enjoy the games in the series you enjoy or just drop the whole series entirely. Nobody's forcing you to play these games or read these threads.

>>14498260

>Antares creatures

I might use this for the giants and the gargoyle but I've always had something against using mods that just put random fantasy creatures in the game with complete disregard for established lore. I mean throwing a beholder into Morrowind just seems silly

>>14498267

>Filename

You have no right to throw stones.

>>14498300

>Is there a mod that puts more ambient creatures into the game (E.G. birds, fish and insects)?

Yes

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/43128/?

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/42417/?

Never tried these so I can't vouch for their quality

>>14498303

I mean it's old as fuck but okay,sure,

>>14498318

I'm kind of split on this. On the one hand it's exactly what I wanted in terms of functionality, on the other it's kind of lame that the creatures are only earth creatures.

>>14498345

That's exactly what I thought when I first saw them, the birds one not so much but the sea creatures one just being sharks and shit is kinda disappointing.

>>14498352

Yeah I'm just going to use the bird one. I don't spend much time in the water anyway.

>>14498361

Does one even raise speechcraft and mercantile without trainers anyway?

>>14498361

Destruction should be a major skill.

>>14498416

He should have acrobatics for all the leaps of logic.

>>14497813

>The books are worth reading as well

this is the best part of daggerfell, i think. cant tell you how many times i would load that game up and just end up reading books and not doing any dungeon crawling at all. in fact i think the dungeon crawling is a little bullshit sometimes. every once in a while (atleast this happened to me, and more than once) you will be strolling around through one of them, and then fall through a hole in the floor and end up somewhere deep in the middle of a labyrinth of secret passages that youre on the wrong end of.

in my opinion save scumming is a good way to alleviate some of the shittier parts of the game. but the combat is better than morrowind for sure

>>14498380

mercantile you basically dont but vanilla morrowind has a compliment-bribe-intimidate combo that works 9 out of 10 times and raises your speech in no time

>>14498657

Does the bribe amount matter?

>>14498685

not for the combo, it does if you just want to bribe

you use different speech options to reset the diminishing returns effect, I cant remember the exact sequence but Im pretty sure its on the interwebs somewhere

>>14498655

>95 speed

not bad, but you do know about the boots of blinding speed right?

>>14498732

>>14498657

>compliment-bribe-intimidate

i think thats the order i used to do it in. its been a long time. it might be time to dust it off and fuck around a little in vvardenfell. my main comp is fucked though and it runs like shit on my laptop.probably gonna go with daggerfall

>>14498741

Of course, I just decided not to use them this time.

>>14497869

>They have the entirety of nirn to fuck around with

It's not a fucking planet you retard.

Dungeon exploring in Daggerfall is buggy shit

>>14498974

That Azura shrine is my favorite location in the game. The cliffside facing toward the sea with the giant statue on top looks really cool to me for some reason.

>>14499099

It's a nice landmark to sail by if you have abbot's boats installed.

>>14499189

I pretty much exclusively use OpenMW these days so sadly I can't use that mod too reliably. I've been thinking of trying to make an .omwaddon attempting to re-create some of Abot's travelling mods, boats/silt striders/guars all that shit.

>>14499207

Honestly, I’ve been suicidal for months now, and the only reason I play video games any more is to keep my mind off the idea for a few hours each day. I finally fucking got so low that I just recently started playing Skyrim, and I have to tell you that I stopped because the experience was worse than thinking about literally killing myself. There is absolutely no enjoyment in that game. The gameplay is so fucking disturbing and pathetic.

On an unrelated note, does anyone have any reason to live, because I’m about to buy some fucking bolt cutters and break into a poorly guarded nearby skyscraper.

>>14499207

>HD graphics with power of modding

yeah, until it crashes every 3 seconds because you have over 200+ mods of 2k graphics textures and meshes and the engine is so bad at relocating memory

>>14499278

>>does anyone have any reason to live

Why do you need a reason?

>>14499278

Don't kill yourself until Tamriel Rebuilt and all the other province mods are done. If you do this you'll end up living to a ripe old age.

>>14497869

>implying Nirn is a planet

>implying Atmora, Akavir, Yokuda, Aldmeris and Lyg exist on the same dimension of spacetime as Tamriel

>implying Lyg exists in the same type of spacetime that Atmora, Akavir, Yokuda, Aldmeris and Tamriel exist in

>>14499319

Kick reason to the curb, tbh, fam. People should live in order to spite death, imo.

>>14499278

Find something to struggle with.

Life isn't about being happy - it's about having a struggle.

>>14499376

You know, I'd appreciate this Kirkbride shit a lot more if it wasn't obscured behind his bullshit out-of-game apocrypha. I mean, I appreciate a lot of the shit he's written outside of actually writing for the games but for fuck's sake, not everything has to be the 36 sermons. I just want to be able to understand this shit.

>>14499376

>>14499803

I should mention, that I mean the idea that the continents are in a different space-time. I understand that Nirn is not actually a "planet" in the conventional sense, like how Masser and Segunda are actually Lorkhan's body and shit like that.

>>14499803

Well it's not like Bethesda/ZeniMax are ever gonna be the ones to actually build on the setting rather than just retconning parts out of it with each new game :^)

>>14499837

To be honest you're completely right. You know I honestly used to hate the idea of "crowd-sourced" lore; just the fact that any faggot redditor could write fanfiction and then feel as though they are legitimately contributing to the setting. But after thinking about what Bethesda did with Skyrim and the shit Zenimax shits into ESO I'm thinking the best thing to do is just have a headcanon where Morrowind was the last game in the series and anything on top of that just comes from whatever mods you like to install. Like, to me the content in Tamriel Rebuilt is more legitimate than anything in Skyrim at this point. TES is an absolutely shit series if you're a lore purist.

>>14499924

I was just explaining what I, personally, do in regards to the series. I can pick and choose specific shit he's written about TES that I think is interesting. That doesn't mean I have to listen to everything he says, the man's a fucking drunkard and most likely a sexual deviant.

>>14499960

>turning every daedra and aedra into robots from the future

Didn't that come about because he was shilling for ESO hard and had to come up with some roundabout way to make the shit in that game lore-friendly somehow? Kinmune or some shit like that, the only reason I remember it is because I remember it being some shit about robots and alluding to Talos being an operating system or some goofy shit.

>>14500034

He is referring to the text KINMUNE, yes, which was a short story involving a far-future artificial intelligence getting sent back in time and assuming several roles throughout history, including that of an Altmer queen. It featured mention of a computer operating system named after Talos, and had the effect of having a character (the Altmer queen) appearing in TESuvius be a robot from the future, and so I imagine that what he did was that he just sort had those ideas smashed together in his mind.

>>14499874

If Chim is a thing and the world is a dream, then why is one canon such a big deal? Can't you just say there are many timelines and parallel universes where everything is correct? That way you have the ability to define the setting and still have valid headcanon without issues

>>14500070

It's not a huge problem or anything, I'm lamenting for the games not the setting. I can stop acknowledging in-game lore whenever I want if I think a specific game is shit and want to ignore it. It's just sad to me that a good setting is going to waste because it's in the hands of a developer that won't try anything unique or interesting. After blue-balling you with the good shit in Morrowind they drop you into the most dull medieval fantasy setting in Oblivion and then twist the knife more with Skyrim's asspulls.

>>14500081

Do you just mod out any book Kikebride wrote when you play Morrowind? I've never seen this big of a hate-boner for an inconsequential drug-addict that happens to have written some stuff for a video game series.

>>14500104

No. In the case of the Sermons it's clearly Vivec lying to try and fool retards. Although it's funny how this would mean that he specifically asked one of his priests to write about that time he sucked off Molag's cock and made a litter of monsters from their union. And I do have a hate-boner for Kikebride because his cultists are everywhere, and I loathe them because they try to POZ up the setting.

>>14500128

On my last playthough with an Atronach birthsign I enchanted a belt that summoned an ancestor ghost and just let it wail on me until it ran out of magicka or despawned. I liked the idea of playing a Dunmer that was being haunted by the ghosts of his ancestors.

>>14496789

Atronach is basically a 50% chance to avoid hostile spells. I strongly recommend against using it for a pure mage build.

Recommended mage build: Lich. Conjuration + Mysticism + Restoration. Summon a ton of weak minions for 11 seconds. Summon a ton of weak minions for 9, 7, 5 and 3 seconds. AoE absorb stats. Cast obnoxiously overpowered buff spells on armies of everlasting Golden Saints. Buff yourself with magic or elemental immunity and nuke everything with max AoE spell spam. Cast self-healing spells so strong nothing can kill you.

>>14500148

I never fucking considered buffing summons, why am I retarded? I always figured those were for companions that followed you more than anything else.

>>14500148

>Atronach is basically a 50% chance to avoid hostile spells. I strongly recommend against using it for a pure mage build.

You cannot be any more wrong. Atronach is the best sign for a pure mage build, perhaps even any build, because even if you're a barbarian negating spells 50% of the time is a big deal considering that a lot of the hardest enemies in Morrowind are spellcasters. The 50% absorb actually has much more uses than just defense as I put forth here >>14500128 and on top of that it TRIPLES your magicka pool. The other signs simply can't compare. Not being able to regenerate magicka by resting sounds bad, but if you really think about it the 50% absorb totally negates this penalty, meaning that the Atronach has no real drawbacks while providing enormous advantages.

>>14499278

>On an unrelated note, does anyone have any reason to live

Revenge.

>>14498267

I look at a lot of porn.

>>14498285

Morrowind's gameplay is hot ass and you will never change my mind about this.

>>14500654

i prefer to think it's gameplay is hot tiddies

>>14500716

>playing morrowind for the gameplay.

I don't

I've come to the realization that my only real issue with Skyrim is the lack of Morrowind's Journal. I never felt Morrowind's had stellar combat or anything and I always enjoyed playing Warrior characters or archer style ones. So most of Skyrim's gameplay never really bothered me. It wasn't the worst thing ever not the best either, just meh, like MW.

I'm bringing this up because why hasn't anyone tried to make a Morrowind's Quest log in Skyrim? Is it not possible?

>>14501088

Somebody would need to do a lot of extra writing to make sure there were directions to every quest location. But this still wouldn't save the game since every quest is

>got to cave

>kill draugr

>>14501088

Because none of the default quest entries give enough information to work on their own, and none of them are very personally written. Plus, Morrowind had you ask topics based on words npcs would mention, which is something you can't do in Skyrim.

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45430

Hey has anyone tried this mod? It's pretty new and it's seems to be a compilation of a bunch of cut content like adding an actual village to Ald Redaynia and putting unused items like the Wings of the Queen of Bats into the world. It also incorporates Vivec's and Yagrum's voice files. I'm gonna try it out and see if how good a job it does.

>>14497869

I would like to see more places of Nirn.

A Daggerfall remake is fine too.

>>14501772

Tried it, it's good.

>>14501626

>>14501666

It would have to be an extensive mod, but I can't deny that the directionless waypoint following seriously hampered my appreciation for the world. I loved following directions and discovering the locations myself using road signs, or wondering if this was the right vampire crypt. Radiant AI would also male this hard, but the quest directions could say X can usually be found at X during the X. It would be a cool mod for sure.

>>14502191

>>14501666

>>14501088

You would literally have to:

>Change the text for every quest.

>Replace all Radiant Quests with normal quests.

>Make every encounter area partially de-leveled (Morrowind).

>Hire new VAs.

>Have them redo to the dialogue of nearly every quest.

>Put some Scout NPCs to point you to shit.

It would make the game significantly better but would also be impossible without either a lot of autism or a lot of budget.

I remember someone pointing out that one reason why morrowind has more named npc than skyrim is that in morrowind even random bandits are named. were respawning bandits/equivelant enemies a mistake in skyrim?

>>14502426

daily reminder that if you use better anything you are a giant pleb and a man of supremely shit taste in ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣＳ　

i'm currently around 10 hours into daggerfall and it's still fucking awful. when is this game supposed to get good?

>>14502984

Never, Oblivion was the only game that got better as you played it.

>>14502984

>playing 10 hours of a game you don't like

You could just stop playing the game

>>14503031

0xZ=0

>>14502604

Got something else in mind? I'm only using it because after looking at the vanilla faces for 15 years I decided to try something different.

>>14503268

Westly's pluginless head replacer is my usual go-to.

http://download.fliggerty.com/download-127-874

>>14496778

I rly hope this succeeds so i can do a on foot Port Telvannis >Almalexia >Tear >Narsis >Kragen Mar> Baan Malur pilgrimage

>>14499278

>jumping off a skyscraper

Asshole, think about the people you leave behind. Not just the people who love you, but the people who find your splattered corpse and the people who scrape you up and the people who have to sit in traffic when they close off the road for your dumb ass. Find a spot deep in the wilderness where you will never be found and suffocate yourself. Either that, or just keep suffering because if you really can't see enough value in your life to want to keep going, then there is no way it is worth the grief you cause when you off yourself.

>>14499278

If you're going to kill yourself, make sure to take as many people as you can with you.

>>14503676

That shot of Markarth looks pretty good. I explored a good bit of SHotN and there was this giant stronghold filled with liches and daedra that was really great. I like all the little miscellaneous items that PT adds in, I autistically collect them to display in my Telvanni wizard tower. Stirk is tiny but has some great locations and the city is pretty huge all things considered. The ayylmao ruins were really cool too, as were the crypts beneath the temple in town. Although I wish the Imperial temples didn't have lorebreaking ancient greek frescoes in them.

>>14503040

i was expecting it to be one of those games that are very rough to get into but are amazing after that, but it just kept getting worse

>get over the initial hurdle of learning to use the controls

>watch a 40 min tutorial on youtube on do and dont's in order to not fuck yourself from the start

>make a mage character with short blades skill as backup

>destruction magic proves to be too unreliable and expensive to be useful, resort to just stabbing everyone with my ebony dagger

>get out of the first dungeon and decide to walk straight south to the nearest town that is only one pixel away on the map

>be impressed by the scale of the world but the wilderness is completely empty

>get to the first town and start asking people about the mages guild

>quickly realise that all commoners only exist as information hubs and it's usually enough to change my tone to "blunt" to get them to actually help me despite setting my reputation to -10

>join mages guild and get my first quest

>get to my first dungeon and kill some evil wizard, this was actually pretty fun

>sounds are awful and a lot of sprites are pretty bad but i can get over it

>get my second quest where i'm supposed to steal holy water from a temple

>quietly break in at night, when i get in it's full of people as it would be during the day

>try to talk to people in the temple but they give me the usual information hub dialogue

>take the holy water in front of them and leave, nobody gives a shit

>sneak up on the attic in some inn and steal something while nobody is looking

>walk out and se a guard running towards me while yelling halthalthalthalthalthalthalt

>get on my horse and run away

>go back into town as soon as they stop chasing me and they have forgotten everything

>get a quest to kill some atronach in a dungeon

>already starting to see rooms from previous dungeon

>get another quest to kill another evil wizard

>see more repeated rooms

>realise that there's very little variety in enemies

>finally find the wizard but hes spawned in a wall where i can't kill him but he can kill me

>stop playing

am i doing something wrong? the general consensus seems to be that daggerfall is the second best elder scrolls but my experience so far has been really bad

>>14503589

>Flat color tits with no nipple texture

>Generic dick asset lazily scaled up and slapped on

Kill yourself

>>14503277

Okay, So do you also have anything to help with the whole "female bretons only have dyke hair" problem?

>>14503751

play a race that doesn't have dyke women you breton half-breed nigger

But seriously just search for hair on the nexus and MW mod history you're bound to find SOMETHING you might like. There are shit tons of graphics mods for Morrowind at this point and everyone has their preferences so just find the ones you like yourself.

>>14503751

>>14503765

http://mw.modhistory.com/download-42-11647

http://mw.modhistory.com/download-42-3212

In fact here, I found these in like 30 seconds. Don't like them? Search the site more.

>>14503765

Dude I just spent 40 minutes looking. All I can find is shitty anime hair or shit that isn't compatible with vanilla heads. towards the end I just started mass DLing random hair mods off MW mod history that don't have pictures in the hopes that ONE of them was just some simple should length hair for breton chicks. Most of them were shit for elves or all sorts of insane hair styles.

>>14503694

I don't even rember those frescoes. I also forgot to mention that a Stro's Mkai mod was also released, but it's all interior and not part of Project Tamriel or Tamriel Rebuilt.

>>14503785

What kind of hair do you want? give us some pictures or something.

>>14503809

http://www.moddb.com/mods/stros-mkai-in-the-third-era

Is this the one you're talking about? We might eventually be able to explore that part of Tamriel without having to play through a shitty Tomb Raider clone to experience it.

>>14503816

>>14503809

>all interior

w h y

>>14503842

Looks to have exterior cells to me.

>>14503859

Oh shit, never mind, it IS all interior-based. What a dumb decision. The guy should hop on the Project Tamriel train so he can take advantage of TR_Data

>>14503676

I forgot to mention that the map I posted is more up to date than OPs, you can see where Solstheim is being move to on the map.

>>14503816

Yeah, I haven't tried it yet myself, hearing that it was all an interior cell really put me off.

>>14503824

All I can think of is Mackoms hair but it contrasts poorly with the vanilla assets.

>>14503868

It's the craziest shit I've ever heard.

>>14503885

>hearing that it was all an interior cell really put me off

It wouldn't matter if it weren't for the MASSIVE performance hit from trying to load a bunch of assets all at once.

>>14503888 (fucking checked)

I'm definitely waiting for OpenCS to be feature complete. I have so many ideas for mods and I want there to be more mods specifically aiming at OpenMW.

>>14503944

Besides minor tweaks to various NPCs no, not really.

>>14498260

those fish are fucking rad

I particularly like that shapeless little idiot in top left that vaguely looks like a gourami

>>14503723

I think it's supposed to be paint on her body including her tits and nipples. It's still shit though.

>>14503676

TR, PT and ShotN are those kind of projects that I'm willing to wait for years until they're fully ready, as long as they don't die.

>>14504066

No I mean they'd have characters and sometimes twists and what not, but they'd be very simple in terms of scope and scale. Maybe make each one of them give a tiny bit of lore. Like one quest refers to a burial rite, another involves propers manners among house dres, etc.

So, there are plenty of big projects to add tons of world and presumably at some point quest content to the game

What about making the base gameplay for all that content better

I know openMW is far enough along for something more than shitty tweaks and hacky addons to be realistically doable

>>14504025

I get that people love Skyrim, but I'm more about how are people incapable of seeing what they have in OpenMW, the community has skilled programmers and skilled artists but they spend their time banging their head against TESV and the Creation Engine instead of jumping in on TESIII and OpenMW, where far greater gains are possible. The engine as it is is currently lacking but it's potential is there, the only thing I think you won't see is smoother fancier interfaces because OpenMW uses Mygui, which doesn't seem anywhere near as powerful as Scaleform, but other than that, everything Skyrim does OpenMW is able to do but it's developers can make the features more accessible and more stable to use for modders and users.

>>14504095

Same, but I'm hoping that OpenMW catches on and starts pulling in modders to these projects, a big part of that is probably getting OpenCS to the point where it has the same functionality to vanilla cs

>>14504130

There are a few issues with just adding in content like that, adding functionality to the engine doesn't work in the same way that mods do, you'd presumably have to compile from source to add in strong custom functionality, or someone would have to create a fork that would need to be maintained additionally on top of the core engine, TES3MP works like that, it adds in multiplayer functionality but is separate from OpenMW but there are plans to eventually merge the two together, this is in general post 1.0 content.

OpenMW 1.0 is the lock for replacing Vanilla morrowind, once OpenMW reaches 1.0 they can basically set the 1.0 release aside and anyone who wants to run a precise replacement for Vanilla Morrowind can just run that and run the game as expected with only bug fixes and quality of life improvements for the engine. OpenMW post 1.0 is where you will start seeing new engine functionality be added, especially in regard to extending the .omwaddon format.

The plans for post 1.0 aren't really outlined, but it's all up to Zini who is a fucking dinosaur.

>>14504139

Maybe. It's mostly born out of my philosophy of quest design after many years of playing RPGs.

I've come to the conclusion that every quest no matter how small should contain a nugget of something that contributes to the world. Whether it be in character, lore, etc.

>>14501088

There is a mod that lets you write your own ingame journal, but that's really only useful if you want to get into the roleplaying part of the game.

>>14501772

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45522

I found this one to be better, and I prefer it because it is modular.

Anyone played The Doors Of Oblivion ?

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/44398

I found it to have really nice assets, but it felt rather unfinished.

It is still great to explore some Daedric realms.

>>14498974

Morrowind is great just to explore and walk around in because the world is meticulously crafted, but Daggerfall offers a pretty damn amazing dungeon generator for those who like the problem solving that hardcore dungeon crawling brings.

>14498829

Nirn proves flat earth

>>14504066

>>14504025

There are more like that already, i've used them on my multiplayer server and they add nice variety.

>>14504297

>The engine as it is is currently lacking but it's potential is there

The engine is only half the equation for the OpenMW project to reach its full potential. Right now there are many open game engines gaining steam or proprietary game development suites that provide ease of use and portability with permissive licenses on top of the newer more popular games that will allow modding that it'll have to compete for attention with.

I also have high hopes but you have to remember that for many people their entry into modding beyond creating simple assets is to have their work known and potentially get a job in the industry or for enjoyment of being part of an active productive community. The dedicated fans who will stick with a 16 year old game are a minority.

>>14505121

I don't doubt that OpenMW and it's surrounding projects will come to fruition, but I've been around long enough to realize that it's not going to get there anytime soon, and as far as competition goes, the strongest is mainly other Elder Scrolls games, while I certainly see that OpenMW can eat up a large portion of those content creators. The way forward is uncertain, and the shadow of TESVI looms on the horizon, but there is a way forward.

The minority of fans have achieved a lot, I can't think of a single other game that has recieved as much love and attention, with the closest being OpenTTD and Doom.

>>14499278

If you want to die then do so.

Announcing it to everyone is just blatant attention seeking.

What you want is attention not death and it seems you got what you wanted.

>does anyone have any reason to live

I live because I'm alive, nothing more and nothing less.

I'm not scared to die but I certainly don't want to die.

You're alive not because of some great purpose or goal but because your parents had sexual intercourse.

There isn't an inherent reason to live because life has no inherent meaning or purpose.

You need to find that yourself and if you can't find one then you're looking in the wrong places.

>>14505317

I'd also add Quake and Half-Life 1, with the latter already having its own "replacement" engine (Xash3D), 1.0 version of which is coming out soon. It has almost full GoldSrc (WON 1.1.1.0) compatibility, with the exception of multiplayer, but that will be fixed with 1.0.

sage for offtopic

>>14505530

>forgot to sage

pls bully

>>14498655

>wearing shoes

And you call yourself faithful.

>>14508691

>no 6th house

If Oblivion came before Morrowind you hipsters would be the other way around.

>>14508691

>selfish assholes

>honorable assholes

>egotistical assholes

>the biggest assholes

>stupid assholes

>>14509208

Is there a mod that you can make to have multiple/permanent summons?

I recently realized you could buff them, but it's dumb to summon a skeleton every 20 seconds

>>14509546

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45448

I came across this recently, it seems cool.

>>14509262

What's wrong, n'wah? Get your ass handed to you by a mudcrab with 5 in your weapon skill and 30 agility? You can tell me, my opinion of you is already as unfavorable as it can get.

>>14509262

>Why did they ruin hand-to-hand

>Literally no one wanted spears

>Everything is brown

>What's with all these reskinned guilds

>Fuck the Moralfag Tong, where's my DB

>>14509555

>Lore friendly

Oh right, they have that retarded tag. That's like playing Pathfinder or D&D and making a character that is "canon"

>>14497640

Modded Oblivion and Skyrim have better combat.

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>>14509574

Yeah, I wouldn't trust every retarded modder to tell me whether they actually made sure their mod stuck to established lore. That's one of those things I'll figure out myself or at least decide whether I actually care or not.

>>14509581

By RPG standards Morrowind's combat is serviceable. By action game standards Oblivion's combat is shit and Skyrim's combat is slightly better than shit.

>>14509587

But Oblivion and Skyrim are much easier to mod to fix the combat than Morrowind. It's the damage sponge ruining the whole combat. Either way, Daggerfall was just a bigger and more primitive Oblivion, complete with the shitty level scaling, I don't understand why so many people love it.

>>14509597

I've never modded Oblivion's combat so you could very well be correct. But Skyrim combat mods I've tried have improved it somewhat but it's still basically the same shit. Most combat mods for Skyrim just amp up damage dealt and make you run out of fatigue after like 3 swings.

>Daggerfall was just a bigger and more primitive Oblivion, complete with the shitty level scaling, I don't understand why so many people love it.

This is pretty accurate for the most part I think, although Daggerfall has a fuck ton more content even with the vast amount of the map being empy polygons.

>>14509208

Sounds great.

>>14509262

I played the Elder Scrolls series in this order, Oblivion, Arena,Fallout 3, Daggerfall, Skyrim Morrowind. Why are you even trying.

>>14509613

You can't fix the combat in these games, you can only make it less worse.

Very nice

>>14503676

How is OpenMW looking for a final release now anyway?

>>14503553

>thanks to /pol/ i live with hope tomorrow

Why don't you go back there, fucking polyp

>>14510327

Go back to >>>/leftypol/ we're trying to discuss vidya here.

>>14497614

Nerevar was too pure for this world

>>14510376

This is why nobody likes you /leftypol/, you come and shit up unrelated threads with your nonsense.

>>14510381

so does /pol/

>>14510396

Pretty clear who started it in this thread lad and it sure as fuck wasn't the anon who mentioned /pol/ in an off-hand remark a hundred posts ago.

>>14498068

>they could make another

>they could

>they

who tf is they fam?

>>14510449

Ashlanders are given the shaft by the Tribunal because they refused to worship them due to how they fucked over Nerevar to gain the power to be gods.

So yeah they're tribals, but that's how they have to be to survive.

>>14510449

Whoever pays the most.

>>14510396

>>14510381

>>14510400

Both /pol/ and /leftypol/ need to leave.

>>14510449

The game doesn't make this come across very well, but ashlanders are nomadic. That's why they all live in tents. It's easy to take them down, carry them around, and set them back up.

>>14497640

Why though? Daggerfall is mostly empty space.

>>14510449

The tribunal's power came from the heart, and vivec only went even further beyond when he realized all his god king friends were dead, left the dunmer to go get a pack of cigarettes and never came back

After that everyone went back to worshiping the dumb cunts who don't really give a shit but like to play games with the mortal realm

>>14510908

Because Daggerfall isn't about walking around and looking at things

>>14503873

You sound like a pussy. I don't know why your previous post got so much attention. If you can't handle the grimdark nature of this world maybe you should off yourself.

>>14510896

All the races are niggers

>>14503873

>For a while I, too, was staying alive only for the promise of the forthcoming race war.

Hi FBI. Looking for another naive kid to entrap?

>>14511022

>All the races are niggers

Except the jews

And ironically the actual niggers

>>14511162

>And ironically the actual niggers

Had to happen sometime.

>>14511170

>>14511174

>(1)s coming in to accuse a reply with a literal quote from the post of starting shit out of nowhere

Epic

>>14511269

/leftypol/ (or somebody else since /leftypol/ is actually dead and only bots) has been baiting all across the board doing their usual /pol/ vs /leftypol/ false-flagging.

>>14511022

How are the bretons, altmer and imperials niggers?

>>14511162

You mean those guys who keep nuking themselves back to the stone age except there's no stone left because they nuked it all back down to sand?

Those guys?

>>14511338

Bretons and Altmer are fucking elves

>>14511348

There was one nuke, and it didn't send them back to the stone age, it just made them move to a better neighborhood

>>14511424

They're the descendants of inter-breeding between elves and humans

>>14511453

Yes, but there's so little elf in them, that it's like calling an entire batch of sugar cookies "chocolate", because a single chip got in the dough.

>>14511453

But since it was male elfs fucking human female slaves they retain 99% of their human features.

>>14511475

>>14511476

>Literal elf halfbreeds created by elf men taking human women and trying to breed them out, making children different enough to be considered a different race entirely

>This is fine

>>14511486

>halfbreeds

That's not how genetics work in TES, numbnuts. Any interbreeding simply results in the offspring being the mother's race. The only reason Bretons even have a little bit of mer blood is because there was just so much elf on human slave rape that the rules got somewhat fudged.

>>14511508

This, although every child that's the result of breeding between races retains some of their father's race's attributes, but aesthetically they will always look like the mother.

>>14511508

Its more like 97% mother 3% father.

>>14509262

Nice try, I played Skyrim and Oblivion first and still prefer Morrowind. The games unironically released in descending order in terms of quality, except maybe Arena Daggerfall.

>>14510655

Nah, /pol/ can stay. They bring fun banter at least, and didn't invite reddit socialist larpers.

>>14511530

It's a much more skewed ratio than that. Otherwise, Bretons would literally be half-elves by this point.

>>14511551

>Nah, /pol/ can stay. They bring fun banter at least, and didn't invite reddit socialist larpers.

The /pol/ack didn't even start that anyway you can see just who was hunting for replies. Mods need to do their damn job and stop this raid already.

>>14511554

It's skewed enough to the point that they're not imperials anymore

>>14511565

They weren't Imperials in the first place. They were Nedic. Imperials are the result of the Nedes interbreeding with other human slave races of the Ayleids.

>>14511559

Yeah, I saw the /leftypol/ shill losing its shit at that guy's post. What do you expect from people who made their own safespace board because they couldn't handle /pol/?

>>14511597

Fair enough

Still filled with elf blood

>>14511597

Imperials are a combination of the Nedes and Colovians, which are are the same race and the separation is regional. Only human slaves the AYYYYleids had were Nedes who came from atmora so long ago that they forgot and think they have always been on Tamriel.

>>14511569

Oblivion at least has some interesting and creative quests. Skyrim is irredeemable.

>>14510655

>>14510327

Cry more, liberal.

>>14505399

>I live because I'm alive, nothing more and nothing less.

>There isn't an inherent reason to live because life has no inherent meaning or purpose.

You sound like you're existentially terrified of confronting your own existence, much less society.

>>14511022

>grimdark

And there's the "edgy" tryhard post I mentioned earlier. So why are YOU alive?

>>14511034

>you're FBI if you know a race war is inevitable

Learn how to read.

>>14511174

>I am too retarded to comprehend how the world works

>waaaaaaa mommy make the bad man who tells truths that hurt my feelings go away

>>14511638

>Skyrim is irredeemable.

What about the porn though?

>>14511715

SFM does that better.

>>14511715

Fair point. Everything EXCEPT the potential for porn mods is irredeemable.

Glad to see 8ch /v/ becoming increasingly similar to 4shit /v/ with “GB2/pol/“ posting. That shit should be a bannable offense.

>>14511569

>Generic boring Tundra

>vs Generic beautiful rolling hills

>Barely existent skill tree, no classes, and useless shout gimmick

>vs downgraded but still substantial class and leveling system

>boring cardboard cutouts

>vs overacted, but interesting characters

Gee, it's almost like Oblivion is a better game in all aspects unless you want porn mods that actually make your dick hard. Toddposting won't help you.

>>14511715

Might save the game honestly. qt 3.14 Argonians tend to do that

>>14511607

Where's that elves of Tamriel image when you need it?

>>14511889

The irony is that the "go back to /pol/" shit ends up derailing the thread even more. At least when someone goes "hey this TES race is similar to niggers irl" their post is at least tangentially related to the games.

>>14512325

>Riften and Falkreath area genuinely look great

Generic brown nature areas

>>14512357

>generic = bad looking

Bite the dust.

>>14512325

What a beautiful cat.

Just looking into its eyes makes me overwhelmed with emotion.

>>14512369

It's in skyrim graphics, so yes, the only thing it could possibly have going for it is unique design

>>14512369

>generic = bad looking

Yes. Character and composition is more important than fidelity. I'd rather look at a low res, beautiful area than a 4k turd.

>>14504317

That's kinda what base Morrowind had, which is precisely why I fucking love it. So yeah, a community project to add like, I dunno, 100 random little quests (Maybe 200 even) all around mainland Morrowind would be fuckin' awesome.

>>14512415

But "generic" has nothing to do with fidelity, though. Temperate countryside can be absolutely beautiful, even if the setting itself is a bit generic. Something can be typical and still be nice to look at. Skyrim doesn't break any boundaries in terms of setting, and it definitely isn't great at what it does, but that doesn't mean autumn forests aren't pretty.

>>14512435

You actually remember the visuals? I just remember a lot of unrewarding combat and no real writing to speak of

>>14512325

>they all looked like ass

Of course the fidelity is ass, but it's amazing what grass density, a good color palette, and landscaping can do for the game. Meanwhile Skyrim has higher res models and textures, yet fails to look nice since it's mostly brown and dead and the snow areas weren't as good or expansive as they could have been. Install a mod like a flora overhaul or the one that makes skyrim 100% snowy and it actually looks decent though.

>defend Oblivion's leveling

Yes, the default level scaling is pretty ass, but the actual classes and skills were more in-depth than Skyrim. Maybe I'm mixing it up with Morrowind, but I'm pretty sure when you leveled you had the ability to give bonus points to certain skills. It's no D&D, given there's no feats and whatnot, but pre-Skyrim TES leveling is superior.

**also Skyrim does level scaling as well, just slightly better*

>who?

Easy.

That paranoid elven fuck, Lucien Lachance and the rest of the dark brotherhood, the Adoring Fan, the Grey Prince, the female rape gang that preys on men, those guys who larp as knights, and the Grey Fox.

I may not remember their names, but I remember the characters themselves quite well.

>>14512427

Those little nuggets of writing need good writers or they'll be shit

There's plenty of info to work with but a lot of stuff would need to be extrapolated or made up entirely, and could easily lead to the world being filled with fanfiction bullshit

I mean, aside from the fact that it's a mod and therefore is 100% fanfiction to begin with

>>14512704

Not my fault you have a shit oversaturated ENB, Todd. Oblivion is actually a bit muted in comparison to an actual grassy field.

>>14510324

OpenMW will probably not reach 1.0 this year, and the OpenCS needs to reach 1.0 for the project to advance, OpenCS is still a fair bit behind OpenMW though.

https://bugs.openmw.org/projects/openmw/roadmap

You can check the roadmap, lots of features and bugfixes are not fully merged, although some are actually complete and just not merged. 1.0 has roughly the same amount of issues it had when .43 was released too, so it's barely moved in that case, even though major fixes and features are coming through. a developer from OpenCK expressed interest in chaging over to OpenCS, big if true.

>>14511891

Oblivion is shit, we've had this argument before and Skyrim won out, for like the third argument as well, but you aren't arguing which of these is better, you are arguing which of these is the least worse.

>>14512830

For the mountain to erupt, it had to be a volcano. As the original design wasn’t a volcano, they had to change it. Also, how is Throat of the World supposed to be the tallest mountain in Tamriel when the Red Mountain is clearly taller when you go to Solstheim?

>>14512876

The original design was a volcano, though. Why do you think there's a big, lava-filled crater in the middle of the peak? Where do you think all the foyadas came from?

>>14512876

Also I think it's taller standing but not highest elevation. It's like Mt. Everest being the highest elevation wise but Mt. McKinley is the tallest from base to peak. It would totally be like Bethesda to fuck that up but in this case they actually didn't, assuming they are saying this based on elevation anyways.

>>14512907

>>14512944

They probably made it larger than it should be, simply because they wanted to make it look imposing, even though it would be pretty far off from Solstheim.

>>14513018

There is no "up to date" alternative to MGSO if that's what you're asking. Once you realize that shitloads of texture mods don't actually add much to the game you'll just end up downloading the HD vanilla texture pack and move on to gameplay/content mods.

>>14513030

I might as well do that.

>>14513018

No. You have to realize that making mod compilations, and keeping them up-to-date, is a pretty time-consuming task, which is why most people just make guides.

>>14496778

Why do the Imperials own so many forts and even cities directly, if the deal was supposed to be that Morrowind was allowed to be autonomous and their vassal, instead of a centrally governed province?

>>14513194

They own Ebonheart, Pelagiad, Caldera, Gnisis + Fort Darius. All in Hlaalu territory, except Gnisis which is nominally Redoran owned but colonized mostly by street shitters from Hlaalu territories. The answer is - Hlaalu are sellouts who desperately want the imperial shekels and big white cock. I don't know about Buckmoth, that one is never explained. Wolverine Hall is theirs only because Telvanni are all beta furfags.

Where will VI be set and why is it Hammerfell

KANGS bitching about the Thalmor, who consider themselves racially superior

Sword-singing is the new Shout

Climate/topography is the most different from every prior mainline TES

Lore sets up Hammerfell as being broiled in internal battles as result of Imperials selling it off to keep Thalmor from going full war again

>>14511889

gb2/pol/

>>14513424

That, and they have most of the background lore for the race and region already sketched out so it's less work for them

And they're humans so it would still have the widespread appeal furfag/elf races don't, and black humans at that, so diversity points

And deserts are super easy to render compared to forests and shit

And the last Tower is right off the coast, giving a clear and easy climactic world-ending goal for the Thalmor plot

On top of that everyone already loves and would be really into it

So of course that probably fake leak from a while back will be true and it's gonna be fucking high rock because bethesda is retarded and too afraid to do anything that isn't generic and safe

>>14513495

Wasn't the leak Valenwood?

>>14513495

>easy climactic world-ending goal for the Thalmor plot

Meh. I don't think they'd wrap up the Thalmor plot in VI. I'd expect them to save it for VII when they go to Alinor.

Valenwood never ever; Bethesda isn't going to make a TES where the cities can move. Think of the glitch potential.

>>14513495

High Rock

That's completely stupid, it's visually way too similar to Skyrim. So it'll totally happen.

>>14513402

>The answer is - Hlaalu are sellouts who desperately want the imperial shekels and big white cock.

So Hlaalu actually aren't at all smart traders and instead traded away long-term profit for short-term profit?

Are they are retarded?

>>14513522

Well, they were controlled by the Cammonna Tong who bargained with a cult of magical cancer cannibals who worshipped a guy who went mad stabbing the heart of a god to get the god-juice out so he could rule the world with a giant fighting robot. That was bound to work out well for everyone.

>>14511690

Weren't you about to go kill yourself? What is up with all this stalling?

>>14513522

During the Red Year they used all their imperial contacts to secure a refugee route into Skyrim and Cyrodiil. They were so much of sellouts that many were executed by Redorans for treason. Yeah, they were a bunch of retarded westaboos. They were just a minor house until the treaty of Armistice. Then they were the only house inviting imperials to be stationed in as many places as possible and allowed humans into their council, that's how easy it was to bribe them. They're the jews of Morrowind, blinded by greed and anything that provides them instant gratification. No wonder they were persecuted across Morrowind in 4th era and the street shitters from Windhelm weren't welcome even on Solstheim.

>>14513424

It would be about perfect & go along with the flavor of the day. Would do terrible as expected and they could blame muh racism. It's like a win win win for them.

>>14513629

Yokuda is basically Wakanda tbh, fam. They should strike while the iron is hot.

>>14512876

Are you an idiot? You do realize that Red Mountain is one of the dungeons in Arena right? It was a volcano all the way back in the original TES.

>>14513663

I am proud of myself for having to look up Wakanda, but yes, this is too perfect.

>>14513522

It's not exactly uncommon, modern politicians do it all the time. See globalisation, outsourcing and importing rapefugees.

>>14513424

Hammerfell is a good bet but I wouldn't put it past them to make some sort of Morrowind nostalgia cashgrab.

>>14513742

>>14513663

You know these kind of fads die in less than a year now?

>>14513424

That and the fact they trademarked Hammerfell shortly after Skyrim release just like they did after Oblivion.

>>14513807

If Dawnguard were a standalone game it would easily be my most hated game of all time.

>>14514156

When they presented Mournhold as the capital of Morrowind, they were all confused when fans asked where was Almalexia City in which Mournhold is located. It is like the Vatican but those retards thought Mournhold was the capital.

>>14514221

You use any interesting mods besides graphics mods that you find to be essential that we may not know about?

(((Hlaalu))) are degenerate scum and a blight on Glorious Resdayn. Crassius Curio is a perfect example. Outlander scum will hang on the Day of the Rope.

>>14514496

I once had an idea of a /pol/-style board, but purely in the TES world.

>>14514518

I had the same idea. (((Thalmor))) and (((Hlaalu))) are the kikes with Impericucks as their Shabbos Goyim.

BY THE NEREVARARINE RESDAYN WILL TRIUMPH IN THE NAME OF OUR ANCESTORS

>>14514518

Make it.

>>14514518

Do it, nigga!

>>14514535

>>14514949

>>14515096

>>14515178

>>>/tespol/

>>14515949

b-but we already have >>>/tes/

>>14515995

Its dead Jim and its also has /leftypol/ vols.

>>14514277

I doubt I can name any mods that this board isn't already aware of.

>>14513194

I think one of the terms was that the Empire will have constant military presence? Even with morrowind being autonomous, it doesn't surprise that empire would want to have the controll of several forts. Wouldn't want the elves get any funny ideas.

>>14517735

I played morrowind for the first time a couple years after skyrim came out, can confirm

>>14513789

If this niggers are great bullshit being pushed on white countries is a fad that ends in less than a year I will personally give you $20,000 dollars. I would make it a stupidly high number but I will give you a number that is actually possible, even if it makes me poor, because of how badly I hope you are right.

>>14517735

I hope you got the mods to fix the expansion starts.

>>14496778

I recently beat this game, and it was so much fun. I'm so happy I went back and gave it a shot. I played a custom Redguard warrior, and actually made a few threads on /v/ about it.

I've recently started Oblivion now. The setting is shit compared to Morrowind, but I appreciate the ton of little quality-of-life adjustments.

>>14513789

The whole "we wuz kangz" historical revisionism thing has lasted way too long to be a fad.