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Yeah iirc the main forum community basically died with the first forums, only a handful of people bothered to move to the new ones with the crappier interface. The thing about modding knowledge is true, though, so many questions I've had have been solved by Google leading me to old-rear end archived forum posts. Searching Discord logs sucks in comparison.
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The old Bethesda forums were basically my 'internet home' for most of my teenage life. Played on their Minecraft servers, made some good internet friends, the whole shebang. I bumped over here to SA at some point and fell out of contact, but yeah, the historical Bethesda forums died and what is there now is not much.
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May 26, 2021 15:37
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I have a sneaking suspicion that the next es game will put mods exclusively in the creation club, in which case skyrim will be the only es game I play ever again so here's to the next 3.4k days
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Rainbow Knight posted:I have a sneaking suspicion that the next es game will put mods exclusively in the creation club, in which case skyrim will be the only es game I play ever again so here's to the next 3.4k days There's starting to be some leaks coming out around Starfield and if some of them are accurate it sounds like Microsoft is actually doubling down HARD on mods. Todd has always said that TES and Fallout games sell really well for a really long time and they know full well it's because of mods. More to the point modding actually makes people buy the DLCs- even Hearthfire is required by a large portion of housing mods. It's self-perpetuating monetization. For free.
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May 26, 2021 17:35
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Sky Shadowing posted:The old Bethesda forums were basically my 'internet home' for most of my teenage life. Played on their Minecraft servers, made some good internet friends, the whole shebang. Yeah, I moved over to SA from the old Bethesda forums a long time ago too. It was a pretty chill place, except for the occasional crazy modder drama. Some of those folks were/are weeeeiiiird. Sky Shadowing posted:There's starting to be some leaks coming out around Starfield and if some of them are accurate it sounds like Microsoft is actually doubling down HARD on mods. Well that sounds encouraging, its one of the things that really distinguishes ES games from everything else. That said, it would be kinda funny if they overcompensate and make a Roblox style *user generated content* platform 
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May 26, 2021 17:36
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Sky Shadowing posted:There's starting to be some leaks coming out around Starfield and if some of them are accurate it sounds like Microsoft is actually doubling down HARD on mods.
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May 26, 2021 17:53
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TheLoneStar posted:An overreliance on mods makes me wary. It's already bad enough that people will wave away problems with a game because "I can just install mods!" so that might make them gut the game of content because they know mods will just fill in the blanks. And Bethesda fans are made up of enough sheep that they'll eat it right up. I have the same worry. Then again, the QOL improvements from Skyrim to FO4 have me very cautiously optimistic for the future. Then again, the most important elements for me are building stuff like settlements, decorating and fashion. Going out killing dudes is a diiiiiistant second. If the next ES game gives you one huge plot of land with a heavily refined settlement mechanic (that actually, you know, does something) then I will be happy.
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May 26, 2021 18:08
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TheLoneStar posted:An overreliance on mods makes me wary. It's already bad enough that people will wave away problems with a game because "I can just install mods!" so that might make them gut the game of content because they know mods will just fill in the blanks. And Bethesda fans are made up of enough sheep that they'll eat it right up. it's a videogame, not youtube. most people don't even play these games with mods.
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May 26, 2021 18:11
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Doc Hawkins posted:it's a videogame, not youtube. And considering some mods will have millions of downloads by themselves, I'm not sure how accurate that statement is. And not really the point either.
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May 26, 2021 18:53
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I ditched all my regular mods and got some creation club mods, they're pretty sweet
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May 26, 2021 19:29
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hawowanlawow posted:I ditched all my regular mods and got some creation club mods, they're pretty sweet 
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May 26, 2021 19:40
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TheLoneStar posted:I don't know what that even means. is your point that some people wave off your criticism of games by saying "you can just fix it with mods"? if so, good point, i also hate when people do that. is your point that people making a game will wave off work by saying "they can just fix it with mods"? if so, i don't think that's real. i didn't enjoy oblivion or skyrim but people worked hard on them. just, you know, wrongly.
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May 26, 2021 19:45
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Before caring about the modability of Starfield, I'd like to know what the game even is.
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Doc Hawkins posted:is your point that some people wave off your criticism of games by saying "you can just fix it with mods"? But maybe I'm just jaded, but I can kind of see it happening with game developers taking shortcuts because mods will fix the problems, especially with how much mods for Bethesda games boomed with Skyrim and Fallout 4. I feel like they already do that with bugs and glitches.
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I definitely think the prevalence of mods has a huge impact on the priorities of the developers, though it's hard to pinpoint that to a direct consequences It's similar to devs being able to pump out day 1 or big post-launch patches. The ability to fix your game after launch doesn't by itself cause developers to become lazy or incompetent, but the goal of "this game absolutely has to be finished by launch" isn't quite as important as it once was, and that leads to more rough and underbaked games being released
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Most of the time people talk about "fixing" the game with mods, they're not actually fixing anything, rather they're tailoring the game to their preferences. There's nothing wrong with that as long as you recognize that your preferences are not absolute. A good example of this is for Fallout 3 a lot of mods will up the base damage of weapons, decrease the damage scaling from skill, and increase the amount that skills affect accuracy. This is actually how Bethesda originally had set up the game, before playtesting revealed that most people didn't like it! People would rather hit 4/5 times for 20 damage than 1/5 for for 80. Making a game mod friendly is a hell of a lot of work just by itself. Don't poo poo on devs that do it by claiming they're doing it to be lazy. 7c Nickel fucked around with this message at 20:56 on May 26, 2021 |
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WarpDogs posted:I definitely think the prevalence of mods has a huge impact on the priorities of the developers, though it's hard to pinpoint that to a direct consequences I suspect games back before patching was a thing were still buggy and partly finished, they just never got fixed. Or are we gonna pretend Daggerfall was from some bygone age when games were shipped in a finished state?
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i'm excited for starfield and elder scrolls the more games released the most things i have to play, and as a gamer this is what i'm into
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Thats hosed up, but I wish you well
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TheLoneStar posted:An overreliance on mods makes me wary. It's already bad enough that people will wave away problems with a game because "I can just install mods!" so that might make them gut the game of content because they know mods will just fill in the blanks. And Bethesda fans are made up of enough sheep that they'll eat it right up. Some people secretly lust after Roblox but will never admit it. It's okay to build and modify things! Most people just want to play the drat game, though.
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alright i'm just gonna run through the parts of the lore i'm confused about. spoil away ftr this game is 100 years old So the Tribunal used to be homies with this dude Neverar and the Ashlanders want Neverar reincarnated to drive all non-Dunmer out of Morrowind. Great. So why don't the Tribunal, who I think also enjoy the tall glass of racial prejudice or whatever that everyone else in this game does, want that to happen? I guess when they say the Neverarine is gonna get rid of false gods they mean getting rid of the Tribunal and going back to worshipping the Daedra?
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Doc Fission posted:alright i'm just gonna run through the parts of the lore i'm confused about. spoil away ftr this game is 100 years old
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However at this point vivec is aware his power is waning and would rather see dagoth ur defeated even if he dies too
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vivec specifically is also "godly" from another source of power, i.e. CHIM. he may have gotten there through the power he shares with almalexia and sotha sil, but as vivec possessed a half of himself "outside of time" while alive, he was able to touch any part of the timeline achronologically and thus can't be said to ever be "dead" in the same sense you would use for a mortal. you could be walking around 4000 years later and bam, there's vivec just chilling. this is basically similar to talos's ascension; tiber septim died, but not all of him.
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While Lorkhan just sometimes forgets he is dead, and this turns out poorly for his enemies.
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Doc Fission posted:alright i'm just gonna run through the parts of the lore i'm confused about. spoil away ftr this game is 100 years old There's also the part of the story where the Tribunal betrayed and brutally killed Nerevar as part of a ritual to attain their divinity. There's a hint of revenge in the prophecy that the Nerevarine will cast down the Tribunal while kicking out all the other races.
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I just got Skyrim for PS4 and I’ve never played it before. Are there any mods I should download that will improve the game considerably but won’t change the gameplay experience too much?
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MeinPanzer posted:I just got Skyrim for PS4 and I’ve never played it before. Are there any mods I should download that will improve the game considerably but won’t change the gameplay experience too much?
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MeinPanzer posted:I just got Skyrim for PS4 and I’ve never played it before. Are there any mods I should download that will improve the game considerably but won’t change the gameplay experience too much? I played a billion hours on 360 without mods, so you really don't need them at all. After having access to mods on Xbone, I can say the only mod truly required to enjoy the game at its fullest is Khajiit Child Maisha
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TresTristesTigres posted:I played a billion hours on 360 without mods, so you really don't need them at all. After having access to mods on Xbone, I can say the only mod truly required to enjoy the game at its fullest is Khajiit Child Maisha
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TheLoneStar posted:I think you accidentally linked the wrong child mod. The Fat Idiot Son Mod is much better. I looked this up on youtube, and lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPjE75WMAWI
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Is it possible to have a 100 percent freeing slaves completion rate in Morrowind. Please remember I am new to this game and a dumbass
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No, some slaves dont have keys
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:No, some slaves dont have keys What about that farmhouse that the slaves ask you to take them to that also has a slave of its own? Also, is that the entirety of the Twin Lamps? Or is there more? I don't want to look this one up. panic state fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Jun 8, 2021 |
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Inzombiac posted:I wonder if they're going to do anything for the 10 year anniversary of Skyrim. One more remaster.
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The Washington Post did an oopsie and released the Starfield Trailer too soon. 11-11-22. Also "Creation Engine 2", so it's a good guess we're going to get the same level of being able to mod the game. It'll likely have the same jankyness too of course, but that's because it's Bethesda.
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Raygereio posted:The Washington Post did an oopsie and released the Starfield Trailer too soon. I wonder what clipping out of space looks like
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It'll be like those memes where someone falls through a dimensional portal and ends up in the Skyrim intro.
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