My problem is lack of coherence, arrows should not be this dangerous, they should not be a bigger threat than a sword bearer right in front of me, only valid reason ive heard so far to buff arrow damage over the rest of the weapons is DraQ being butthurt about balance.
Because an arrow to the face isn't that dangerous, rite.
and even if valid, to me its a shit reason.
lol. Ok?
i still havent installed the stupid mod, i just want to save myself the frustration, not even Dark Souls makes archers a 1-hit wonder, because it understands that it is a stupid notion
So you don't know what you're talking about, but decided that the guy who says it's too hard is saying the truth while the guy who says it isn't that hard is a lying whiteknight. Cool story bro
,and it is kinda disgusting having to read you whiteknighting a mod when it doesnt need it, if its good it will be good by its own merits, if it has flaws then those flaws should be recognized as such and dealt with.
What is disgusting is seeing you people clamoring for an easier time in a mod that makes a stupidly easy game hard enough that it is actually possible to die once in a while (usually your fault for getting too cocky, or not paying attention. You only DIE RANDOMLY ALL THE TIEM!!! if you suck.), or ignoring the readme of a big overhaul to come complaining things aren't working like in the vanilla game. It's also funny that making a big drama over something is just "MY OPINION AND OPINIONS CANT BE WRONG", while saying the drama is unfounded is "whiteknighting". RPG Watch is over there. --->
Yes, it's a huge open world filled with horrible beasts and bandits that will one-shot you if you happen to get too close.
Don't get close to the strong ones, then. Shitty humans and monsters won't one-shot you. Well, two-hander bandits probably will but it's your fault for getting close to the guy swinging a huge warhammer around, and sabercats will eat your face if you take shortcuts through the hills instead of sticking to the road.
The golden claw is the most sensible combat to try first, because it's not like Skyrim was exactly designed for players to actually find different routes of propression? Or has Requiem changed that? What are my alternatives, exactly? Am I to seriously craft for ages, getting gold from robbing people, until I reach level 10 or something? I played Skyrim over a year ago and am not exactly familiar with other areas that offer significant routes of advancement.
Huge open world. There are a million dungeons for you to go other than Bleak Falls Barrow, a million sidequests to take other than recovering the golden claw. If the only alternative you can think of to level up is grinding for materials in Whiterun because "you're supposed to do the golden claw first", it's not the mod's problem.
The archers have pretty good accuracy if you are out in the open for too long, they are pretty difficult to avoid if you get within their aggro radius, which seems to have increased since vanilla. It's not the case of simply "dodging better" when you are on the open road, or trapped in a corridor that literally has no cover. All you can do is keep quickloading and hope they either miss, or you glitche them out in some capacity by running back through the dungeon and losing them. Because you are dying instantly, you really don't have much strategy to employ.
There is cover everywhere, you can summon or hire distractions, you can pick them from afar with your own ranged attacks, you can confuse/scare/put them to sleep with magic, you can hide and force them to walk into a more favorable position for you to attack I think you can even just block the arrows if you're good enough with shields and heavy armor (edit: or wards)
There is plenty of strategy to employ, it's just that the only ones you can think of are "tank arrows with face" or "hope the archers glitch", as if they're some kind of boogeymen instead of scrawny guys with shitty armor that are basically dead if you get close.
