Yet Another Morrowind Thread

[Fargus]

This came out yesterday.
Mercy - Combat AI Overhaul

List of potential behaviors from the description

-- Hitting an npc might pull nearby friends if they are in a line of sight.
-- NPCs might be unwilling to engage, warn player not to come closer (probability based on disposition towards the player)
-- Can chase, fallback, strafe around in combat. Walk menacingly. Rare actors will jump around or run around the player full-speed.
-- Chain attacks together, max amount of attacks depends on a weapon skill
-- Make mistakes in picking best attack types (more mistakes at lower weapon skill)
-- Some might get angry when spammed with quick attacks and respond with a similar quick spam
-- At low hp (<33%) each damage even has a chance of making them scared, which in turn will result in an attempt to run away searching for a friendly npc, or in asking for mercy, giving up all the items they possess (except their clothing/armor) and leaving the combat state.
-- Probably other smaller things that I forgot about.

This got potential. Thanks for the tip.

Hopefully there will be mwse version too.

 

[luj1]

Given that OpenMW is open source, why can't someone mod in a melee combat overhaul that is at least serviceable? Like one that at least puts it on par with Skyrim?

You don't need always hit IMO

I like having some kind of to-hit calculation, makes the game feel like an actual RPG instead of an action adventure game

 

[actor]

If you build your character properly, you can start the game with over 50% hit rate and quickly raise it with some training. It's a non issue, fussed about by idiots

 

[Cryomancer]

The unique thing that Morrowind needs in combat is to have animations if the enemy armor bounces your blow, or you miss. To hit chances are great and prevent the game from becoming full of spongee enemies like oblivion at high level.

 

[Butter]

The unique thing that Morrowind needs in combat is to have animations if the enemy armor bounces your blow, or you miss.

Even just sound effects would go a long way.

 

[BrainMuncher]

It has hit sounds. So if you don't hear the hit sound, you missed.

 

[Butter]

It has hit sounds. So if you don't hear the hit sound, you missed.

It doesn't distinguish between glancing blows, misses that are you character's fault, dodges that are the result of enemy skill, etc. Animations could help with this. More sound effects could help with this.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

It has hit sounds. So if you don't hear the hit sound, you missed.

What if you missed hearing the sound?

 

[BrainMuncher]

It has hit sounds. So if you don't hear the hit sound, you missed.

It doesn't distinguish between glancing blows, misses that are you character's fault, dodges that are the result of enemy skill, etc. Animations could help with this. More sound effects could help with this.

I don't remember any glancing blow or dodge mechanics. Every miss is your fault.

 

[ind33d]

If you build your character properly, you can start the game with over 50% hit rate and quickly raise it with some training. It's a non issue, fussed about by idiots

it is an issue but only because there are people who play morrowind without reading the manual and don't realize that the direction they swing their weapons is actually really important. in daggerfall every single person would do the up-swing for increased % to-hit, right? that's what I did IIRC

 

[luj1]

The unique thing that Morrowind needs in combat is to have animations if the enemy armor bounces your blow, or you miss.

Even just sound effects would go a long way.

You can combine these 2

 

[Dark Souls II]

2. Install Tamriel Rebuilt.

I did that yesterday's afternoon and I completely lost the track of time, it was suddenly 4AM as my budding mage was enchanting his first semi-decent weapon. I almost forgot how amazing Morrowind is, been a while since I last played it. Incredible how nobody ever made anything similar, nothing hits the same spot. Can't wait to explore the new content in Tamriel Rebuilt, but first I've got to get myself a comfy Telvanni stronghold. Shout out to my n'wah Divayth Fyr by the way, the ultimate sigma.

 

[Cryomancer]

Did anyone here played with Hardcore mode? Look how is to fight the archamge in normal morrowind and in hardcore mode >



The archmage now summons powerful daedra, blinds you, has a lot of nasty powerful spells, moves around...

Other question. Anyone here have a good vampire mod? Just allow me to talk with NPCs. I don't need anything else, I tried to find a mod for it but all seems bugged.

 

[luj1]

Literally dozens

 

[None]

Other question. Anyone here have a good vampire mod? Just allow me to talk with NPCs. I don't need anything else, I tried to find a mod for it but all seems bugged.

Here's one. Haven't played it, but it looks fine. Let's you talk to NPCs if you drink blood or are wearing a closed helmet, among other things.

 

[Yosharian]

Other question. Anyone here have a good vampire mod? Just allow me to talk with NPCs. I don't need anything else, I tried to find a mod for it but all seems bugged.

Here's one. Haven't played it, but it looks fine. Let's you talk to NPCs if you drink blood or are wearing a closed helmet, among other things.

Wow that's really cool actually. Not being able to talk to anyone as a vampire really makes it unusable in MW.

 

[Butter]

Did anyone here played with Hardcore mode? Look how is to fight the archamge in normal morrowind and in hardcore mode >



The archmage now summons powerful daedra, blinds you, has a lot of nasty powerful spells, moves around...

Other question. Anyone here have a good vampire mod? Just allow me to talk with NPCs. I don't need anything else, I tried to find a mod for it but all seems bugged.

Looks interesting. I don't have it in me to commit to another Morrowind playthrough right now, but I might give it a try at some point.

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

Did anyone here played with Hardcore mode? Look how is to fight the archamge in normal morrowind and in hardcore mode >



The archmage now summons powerful daedra, blinds you, has a lot of nasty powerful spells, moves around...

Other question. Anyone here have a good vampire mod? Just allow me to talk with NPCs. I don't need anything else, I tried to find a mod for it but all seems bugged.

"Hardcore mode" is just a bunch of editor tweaks that anyone can do packaged as a mod. When I was really into Morrowind, I used some of its values as a reference while doing my own changes to equipment stats. Most of the other stuff is better left unchanged or done better by other mods.

I'd avoid big overhaul mods in general. It's better to install small mods where you agree with every change and learn to use the editor if you can(if you used other Bethesda editors before, it's a piece of cake).

 

[None]

Wow that's really cool actually. Not being able to talk to anyone as a vampire really makes it unusable in MW.

It helps, but the whole vampirism feature seems as if it was an afterthought. Cool to have options, I guess, but it's in dire need of a complete overhaul.

 

[Zanzoken]

I wasted hours trying to install a few mods only to get random bugs that make no goddamn sense.

 

[Yosharian]

Wow that's really cool actually. Not being able to talk to anyone as a vampire really makes it unusable in MW.

It helps, but the whole vampirism feature seems as if it was an afterthought. Cool to have options, I guess, but it's in dire need of a complete overhaul.

Yeah it's not the best, vamp powers are kinda insane though

 

[Yosharian]

I wasted hours trying to install a few mods only to get random bugs that make no goddamn sense.

This is why you get some genius autist like Sigourn to do the work for you

 

[Zanzoken]

I was following all the steps in his guide, though I didn't want to install all of the mods. I got a bug where there was this weird buzzing sound outside of the Census office in Seyda Neen.

 

[Yosharian]

I was following all the steps in his guide, though I didn't want to install all of the mods. I got a bug where there was this weird buzzing sound outside of the Census office in Seyda Neen.

Well user error I guess, I installed it too and didn't get any bugs

One of the drawbacks of manual lists, you have to do every single fucking step with absolute precision or somewhere you'll fuck up and you'll have to restart the entire process

 

[ind33d]

Did anyone here played with Hardcore mode? Look how is to fight the archamge in normal morrowind and in hardcore mode >



The archmage now summons powerful daedra, blinds you, has a lot of nasty powerful spells, moves around...

Other question. Anyone here have a good vampire mod? Just allow me to talk with NPCs. I don't need anything else, I tried to find a mod for it but all seems bugged.

actually mods to turn morrowind into a roguelike would be really interesting, i never used potions or other consumables on my playthroughs because the game is too easy