Essential Morrowind Mods?

[Occasionally Fatal]

Now, I'll readily admit that the Morrowind today is a hell of a lot better than the Morrowind of a few years ago due to the extremely high quality mods that improve just about everything.

Morrowind was not pefection given form, regular Morrowind had its flaws, to achieve perfection you needed a few mods/plugins.

A shitload of really good mods that improved about everything from the shitty character models over the textures to the combat. Many content-adding mods like Morrowind Advanced and mods like Sea of Destiny which added whole new areas.

Morrowind with Bloodmoon expansion and balance-fixing mods is a modern classic ...

Apparently there a crapload of amazing mods out there for Morrowind. Now, I found the uber grafix one (http://vality7.googlepages.com/mods), and was wondering if y'all would be kind enough to give me the names of some sweet mods that do things to the combat, the dialogue, the quests, ... whatever. Not really looking for mods that add extra items or areas or whatever, just improve on whats already there in the game.

 

[Lumpy]

Tamriel Rebuilt has released the final version of the Telvanni expansion. You might want to look into that, since it's supposedly good.

 

[JarlFrank]

Better Bodies and Better Heads is also obligatory because the character models look shitty.

Sea of Destiny is a rather good content-adding mod. If you want to improve the gameplay itself, try Morrowind Advanced.

 

[Lumpy]

Better Bodies and Better Heads are indeed essential if you are a fucking faggot, because they severely gay up the game.
Models may not look too good in vanilla Morrowind, but at least they have personality. With better heads, they all are generic attractive humans with various skin colours.

 

[Jasede]

We had this thread twenty times.
Bump an existing one, don't clutter the forum with a new one.

http://rpgcodex.net/phpBB/search.php

It's not like the replies will change.

 

[Micmu]

Correct.

Get your Star Trek pijamas and orc rape mod and STFU.

 

[Carrie Underwood]

Better Bodies and Better Heads are indeed essential if you are a fucking faggot, because they severely gay up the game.
Models may not look too good in vanilla Morrowind, but at least they have personality. With better heads, they all are generic attractive humans with various skin colours.

Yep. If you want all the characters to lose all uniqueness and personality, and the general artistic style of Morrowind, download the "Better" mods. They're especially useful if you want to use Morrowind as wanking material.

If, however, you want to play Morrowind...
http://lgnpc.sabregirl.com/
Unfortunately not finished, and probably will never be. However, there is a whole lot of great shit in here, and even though only some areas are done (which are big areas, by the way), it won't clash with the areas that are not yet completed, since the people working on this really went to a lot of trouble to keep the Morrowind style.

http://members.home.nl/tomsnellen/downloads%20page.htm
http://www.themcnews.com/morrowind.htm
These voice addons give voices, obviously, to some important characters. I believe I remember them being really well done.

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/V ... il&id=2083
Unofficial Morrowind patch.

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/V ... il&id=2464
Join the Sixth House. Obviously, only download this if you're going to use it.

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/V ... ail&id=676
Living cities. Good unless you plan on installing a lot of other town and NPC mods. I do not remember if it conflicts with LGNPCs. If it does, never mind.

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/V ... il&id=2777
Alternate character creation.

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/V ... il&id=2328
Disturb the dead. Obviously, only download if you're going for a character that will be raiding crypts and wants the difficulty ramped up.

http://www.mwmythicmods.com/telesphoros.htm#15
Just a list of city and town enhancers you might want to check out. I'm not sure if Silgrad Tower conflicts with the current release of Tamriel Rebuilt (it eventually will).

http://www.mwmythicmods.com/starting.htm
How to use the mods. Extensive.

Now, of course only install the mods you want to install, and after you know you can install them. Also, there are many more great mods than the few I have listed here. Just Google "morrowind mod list". Modding Morrowind will make the game a helluva lot better, but you do need to know what you're doing (that's what the last link is for), or else you can really screw up the game and nothing short of a reinstall will save you (and after you've installed MW, TB, and BM... you don't want to do it all over again).

 

[OccupatedVoid]

Superior Sixth House Mod: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/V ... ail&id=801

 

[Helton]

Less Generic NPC mods (LGNPC) are a must. They add unique dialogue to every NPC except guards in the completed areas. Decent dialogue, too.

Also, if you're at all familiar with the game, decide which Great House you're thinking of joining and download improved house mods and quest expansions if you can find them. The Telvanni, in particular, have a lot of imrpovements out there, a couple still in production.

 

[Carrie Underwood]

This one is pretty good too. Each mod features a temple and a suit of armor, adding to the Imperial influence. I would carefully check compatibilities with some of those environmental mods, though.

http://jw_mcguinn.rethan-manor.net/

 

[ixg]

Look, guys. I spent a lot of time mucking with mods and working them into a single, comprehensive one. it was a really good package since it didnt have any retarded crap in it, but then i realized that it was all totally futile because Morrowind is inherently flawed, as nice as the atmosphere is
mods can't fix a game
mods can't fix a game
quit trying
you're wasting your time

 

[The Vanished One]

Not really looking for mods that add extra items or areas or whatever, just improve on whats already there in the game.

Nevertheless, you should try this after you've finished all three main quests.

 

[Binary]

Better Bodies and Better Heads are indeed essential if you are a fucking faggot, because they severely gay up the game.
Models may not look too good in vanilla Morrowind, but at least they have personality. With better heads, they all are generic attractive humans with various skin colours.

Yep. If you want all the characters to lose all uniqueness and personality, and the general artistic style of Morrowind, download the "Better" mods. They're especially useful if you want to use Morrowind as wanking material.

You mean there's a different reason for playing Morrowind?

But seriously, and now that you guys mention it, I couldn't care less about the bodies and heads of NPCs, but the available faces for PCs are horrible. Surely there are mods to improve that?

 

[Micmu]

Who would do such a thing and not download better bodies? Orc pussy alone is well worth it.

 

[Kavax]

For quest mods, "Myth and Murder" and "The Seekers" are nice detective-type quests.

 

[Xi]

The "Better Uninstall" mod is pretty good.

 

[dragonfk]

But seriously, and now that you guys mention it, I couldn't care less about the bodies and heads of NPCs, but the available faces for PCs are horrible. Surely there are mods to improve that?

Here you go:
http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/V ... 39&id=6173

 

[A user named cat]

Wow, last I remember all they had as far as visuals go were world texture replacers that still left everything looking blah just more sharp and vivid. But that 'ENBSeries' mod is impressive looking, depth of field and ambient occlusion especially. Definitely looks better than Oblivion, now both artistically and graphically.

 

[muds_animal_friend]

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/kids.htm

Scary.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

We had this thread twenty times.
Bump an existing one, don't clutter the forum with a new one.

http://rpgcodex.net/phpBB/search.php

It's not like the replies will change.

Meh, search only reveals 4 pages of results, and of this, only your topic is of any use on the first page, and there are a few new mods mentioned here, anyways. I don't believe the graphics mod compilation is posted in its own thread anywhere, for instance. Anyways, there's worse things cluttering up the boards.

Thanks for the recommendations people.

 

[A user named cat]

Damn, just finished installing all the visual mods and stuff. You need a beast system to run it decently, it chugs worse than Crysis with the view distance not even halfway up so you definitely need FPS optimizer. But it sure as hell looks a ton better. Check out the transformation of Belmora:

 

[Carrie Underwood]

Specs? I'm wondering if I should attempt this now or wait a month until I get my new system put together.

 

[A user named cat]

Medium end basically.

AMD 4000+
Nivida 9600gt
2gb DDR1
Win XP sp3

I pretty much installed everything listed on here and a few more (i.e. removing cliffracers). Immersive Chargen is a great change to the beginning, but it adds so many NPC's and stuff it just bogs down your FPS even more so I'd suggest skipping that one. Better Heads sucks too, get Beryl's Head Replacer as it's much more competent.

With the ENBseries mod, I'd strongly recommend tweaking the bloom effect way down or just disabling it altogether in the included .ini. It's ridiculously... well, bloomy. Ambient Occlusion should also be tweaked to a lower quality, as it'll look just as good and not have as heavy of an FPS hit.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

Yeah I suspect the ENBSeries mod is heavily cpu dependent, as the guy from that link has a nice dual core. And yeah, the default bloom is hilariously bloomy; I wouldve taken a screenshot but I was too busy choking at 7 fps.

I suspect Morrowind in general is not very well optimized; maybe because I was running in an unofficial resolution (1280x1024), I was *only* getting 70-120 fps or so (in vanilla MW), which is perfectly smooth, but I rather thought my specs could squeeze more out of it. Honestly, I think I get better FPS in Oblvion than in MW with that ENBSeries stuff, even tweaked down from max quality.

AMD 64 3800+
x1800xt 256mb
2GB RAM

 

[A user named cat]

The two main factors seem to be Ambient Occlusion and view distance. Try setting the Ambient quality in the .ini to either 1 or 2, that helped me a lot. For view distance, use FPS optimizer and set a minimum frame rate that's reasonable for you. Even with the view distance way down, it still looks good just foggy which is pretty fitting for the visual style anyway.