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- 15 Wrz 2021
Take a cue from the TR people doing the Marukhati ruins for floating heads of a glaring Null.
The Elder Scrolls
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- 25 Maj 2024
Well, that is entirely dependent on whether a contributor wants to make assets, because I sure as hell won't. I have no interest in 3d modeling or texture work. I know how to work the construction kit and use assets that other people make.
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- 20 Sie 2022
If you're serious about this, I'm in. I'd also recommend either creating a separate thread for it now or as soon as for lack of a better term a "design document" is penned, but that goes without saying.
I've got a couple of ideas, one basically being a redux of the Paranoia quest with a Terry-esque npc and "Blades Niggers" that jump you, another being a town full of notorious lolcow domiciles such as the Barbie Dream Mansion, 14 Branchland, the Balldo Bunker, sh0e's cuck shed, etc.
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- 25 Maj 2024
Glow in the Dark Nibenese, making them imperials dressed in black common clothes with a strong permanent light effect should suffice. That said I'll get on it later today, I'll probably make a world pitch to set the stage for the setting itself, thr isle of Qi-ui.
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- 15 Lis 2021
bro you're supposed to learn all that from wikis before you play the game
it's called "learning the system"
it's what good players do
trap options that don't fuck you until 60 hours in are good actually
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- 17 Gru 2019
Atleast in both Oblivion and Morrowind you didn't have the Two/One hand skill split and in Morrowind there is a good benefit to 2 handers since their high damage range means they knockdown lower agility enemies more often than 1 handers, with you only losing out on the shield blocking that depending on character can be pretty negligible, unless you invest a couple levels on a trainer.
I believe Long Blade in Morrowind still wins out on the unique and artifact department but you can still just get Skullcrusher or enchant a deadric mace. Axes also kinda get fucked on the artifact department but again, self enchanted stuff is good enough.
I think Oblivion condensing it into just blade wasn't too bad of a change. There is some nuance to weapons in Morrowind that was tried, the damage range is the main thing that tries to differentiate weapons but it does just boil down to "every weapon besides daggers or clubs (nobody uses clubs) just needs a lil charge up" Oblivion too with weapon speed but I think the worst offender was Skyrim where everything besides swords was slow on an already stiff animation, the specific perks were also pretty awful axes had a bleed, maces ignored some armor and iirc the base crit for the sword was pretty mediocre, but the fact that the swords weren't slow at all (besides greatswords because of a bug ay Lmao) offset the perk difference and you could just not specialize and focus on the generic ones.
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- 20 Gru 2021
The only weapon I learnt about from the wiki was Hatred's heart, played Oblivion long enough to know almost every unique weapon and location and before I even had access to the internet and wikis.
Its not a matter of learning the system or trap option not fucking you up until 60 hours later, its a matter of one category of weapons being noticeably better than the rest, for no reason other than "ooh but long swords are cool", so if you wanna play with a different weapon type for once, you find yourself with worse dps, a lack of decent sidearms and the only 2-3 strong weapons being disgusting to look.
Ah yes, I forgot they gave DOTs on a weapon class with slow speed. Bravo, todd, peak game design!
Do you wanna know how many enemies had armor rating in skyrim?
Here, let me list them all for you:
- NPCs wearng armor.
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If you wanna know dps, i'm gonna list the weapon spd, base damage (dragonbone) and the resulting damage x spd, as well as range.let's see how balanced this shit is.
- Sword: 1 speed | 15 damage | 15 dps | 1 range
- Dagger: 1,3 speed | 13 damage | 15,6 dps | 0,7 range
- Waraxe: 0,9 speed | 16 damage | 14,4 dps | 1 range
- Mace: 0,8 speed | 17 damage | 13,6 dps | 1 range
- Claymore: 0,7 speed | 25 damage | 17,5 dps | 1,3 range *
- Waraxe: 0,7 speed | 26 damage | 18,2 dps | 1,3 range
- Warhammer: 0,6 speed | 28 damage | 16,8 dps | 1,3 range
You may think higher damage on 2-handed swords is worth, but in reality you are sacrifying the utility of a shield, spell or even a second weapon for just a little of extra range and raw damage.
Its a pretty dogshit trade.
The moral is that elder scrolls has a long sword fetish, and it doesn't help that gameplay wise longshowrds are always the best option.
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- 15 Lis 2021
My nigga, that was a joke post.
Bethesda stans love to claim that if you choose a bad option that has no obvious reason to be bad (like there's no obvious reason "mace" should be a crippled melee option compared to "sword"), you're just a bad gamer who should do more research. Because boy oh boy do I love doing homework before playing a game.
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- 26 Gru 2025
I don't even think it's restricted to Bethesda fans. So many games nowadays feels unbearable without having a wiki to explain everything about how they works, it's almost a normal part of a game now.
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- 25 Maj 2024
I think that is more a result of Western society having a particular cultural view of the one-handed sword that is so ingrained that it is difficult to recognize it in action. It is THE archetypal heroic weapon that basically no one would even think twice about it.
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- 20 Gru 2021
Funnily enough, swords were pretty shitty and underused compared to spear and lances, which were the most commonly used weapons by soldiers, epsecially in ancient greece/rome, it makes it quite ironic that was removed from Oblivion, set in the land of the (roman inspired) imperials.
Isn't skyrim inspired by vikings? If I think of a viking warrior, I think of a guy with a big axe, not exactly a sword.
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- 12 Gru 2022
This is why I will always find it weird that there was an Imperial Sword but not a Stormcloak Axe
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- 20 Gru 2021
Or unique armor? Its literally a recoloured city guard set.
And on the topic of axes, can we also talk for a second about how shit the Rueful axe is?
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- 25 Maj 2024
You're misinformed then, because the Norse did not value the axe as a cultural object as much as the sword, and the sword maintained a prominence as a symbol of status and the weapon of a hero, which is what I am talking about. Yeah, no shit, the spear, an exceptionally cheap weapon, was more common. (besides the axes in Skyrim don't resemble dane axes anyway)
Anyway made a thread for the Community Morrowind Mod. @Asian tech support. Anyone interested should post in the thread.
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- 12 Maj 2020
I'm hardly a weapon autist but I think as @LovisXVI says, swords are always going to be overrepresented in fantasy. They're underused irl because they're much more expensive to make and unlike axes, spears, bows, or knives, have no real use outside of killing other humans, but conversely that makes them the symbol of a powerful warrior or noble.
I mean if I was going into a crypt or dungeon of shambling corpses I'd probably take a club or a long stick but for an all-rounder fantasy hero type, fighting enemies at all ranges and getting into frantic brawls, the sword probably does make the most sense.
Not to distract from the original point, though; maces and axes didn't really need to be made slower to account for higher damage when a few points of damage barely factors into a health paddle game. If I had to pick a way, I'd say that weapons could have parity among damage/speed (if anything, an axe could be faster than a sword) and instead have much bigger differences in their special qualities. Basically what mods like Ordinator try to do.
As far as all the best artifacts being swords, artifacts are just weird all round. I remember hearing that Todd expected players to be using custom enchanted gear for their endgame, which I never liked because I don't want to be an enchanter, dammit, I want to be a wandering badass. I don't think crafting skills should be a necessary part of the build in a game where crafting and gathering isn't part of the fantasy.
There's a mod called Honed Metal which adds custom crafting/tempering/enchanting services to weapon and spell vendors across the game, so you can spend gold and wait a few days for a custom-made weapon rather than building it yourself. I think a system like that, where you could potentially trade in quests or favours with a local crafter to get an item of your specifications, would be my ideal as it offers the same reward as being a crafter but is more in line with being a warrior, it gives NPCs more significance and also makes minor quests relevant throughout the game instead of pointless gold rewards.
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- 12 Gru 2022
I want to believe that's the joke, but it probably just sucks
- Dołączono
- 15 Lis 2021
It's not that hard to make sure you make the same number of uniques for each weapon type, let alone to make sure their enchantments actually work. Bethesda just fucks up so many basic things that prevent their games from being truly great. Every game they've ever released feels like the alpha test of a great game where the management quit halfway through. Except Skyrim, that one feels more like a public beta, making it the greatest game they ever did.
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- 12 Gru 2022
I can see the point he's trying to make; that having a skill at 100 should make you basically a demi-god in that area, like how Divath Fyr was with medicine and was several thousand years old and could make a harem of clones to bang. If crafting/enchanting is part of the mechanics, so should the best gear end up being what you make yourself.
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- 15 Lis 2021
Why, because nobody with 100 crafting ever existed before you? Because no god ever blessed a mortal's axe with a greater blessing than any mere mage-smith could create?
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- 11 Lip 2022
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