OwlFancier posted:

If anything I feel like fallout 4 and its fixed location busted legendaries is more like morrowind than any previous game, in that if you know the game world well you can create an overpowered character very quickly through item collection.

OwlFancier posted:

That is very, very much not so I think. The perk effects in fallout 4 are gigantic and you need to use them to be competitive in the late game, absenting using one of the broken legendary weapons. You have both the crafting perks which allow you to maximise the base effectiveness of any given gun, and you have the ones that I think cap out at double effectiveness for weapons you're using. If you use a base gun with no perks against a high level enemy it would take you minutes of IRL time doing nothing but shooting at it to kill it.

Now some of that is going to be offset by you being able to find upgraded guns as part of the normal progression system, but their improvements are multiplicative with the damage perks so it is still a colossal difference to use guns you have specced into, and it is not very likely that you will find the desired optimal parts for your guns until later in the progression curve if you don't craft them.

You can physically hit enemies in fallout and skyrim no matter what, yes. But practically trying to fight without putting points into some manner of combat upgrade as the game progresses is still extremely difficult, you will expend a lot of resources and/or a lot of time trying to do it.

Fallout 4 does have problems with legendary drops trivializing everything and poor balance in its perk paths, where automatic weapons are severely underpowered compared to semi automatic weapons (again unless it's a legendary) but both it, skyrim, and morrowind have similar levels of "you can't win this fight without cheesing it" if you don't put points into combat skills. Technically you can sujamma or enchant your way through any encounter in morrowind if you want to, exploration and finding valuable items are a form of progression entirely independent of the character building mechanics in that game as much as they are in later games. If there is a difference I think it is that the default form of combat is simply far weaker generally than magic and enchanting, which is less the case for skyrim and fallout doesn't have that distinction.

If anything I feel like fallout 4 and its fixed location busted legendaries is more like morrowind than any previous game, in that if you know the game world well you can create an overpowered character very quickly through item collection.

aniviron posted:

I would feel more this way if it weren't for the fact that you can get Spray & Pray from Cricket without leaving Sanctuary and the instigating laser rifle is in Diamond City. You don't even have to go off the path, this is just normal things that an average character will find early game. Morrowind hides that poo poo like crazy.

OwlFancier posted:

One of the main reasons I don't really enjoy playing morrowind is because everywhere I go I apparently trip over daedric weapons or something similarly top tier which trivializes a bunch of the game. I think morrowind has a lot of specific different things to find but a lot of places seem to have very good equipment just lying around.

If nothing else the first city the game points you to and one of the first guilds you come across has the winged twilight soul just sitting there, and the early quests make the lady go downstairs so you can steal it, and it's worth like 50k gold or something, essentially enough for you to clean out the stock of any given merchant.

OwlFancier posted:

One of the main reasons I don't really enjoy playing morrowind is because everywhere I go I apparently trip over daedric weapons or something similarly top tier which trivializes a bunch of the game. I think morrowind has a lot of specific different things to find but a lot of places seem to have very good equipment just lying around.

If nothing else the first city the game points you to and one of the first guilds you come across has the winged twilight soul just sitting there, and the early quests make the lady go downstairs so you can steal it, and it's worth like 50k gold or something, essentially enough for you to clean out the stock of any given merchant.

Relyssa posted:

Arth and his crew started planning for Starfield's unofficial patch pretty much as soon as the game got announced. He sadly is not going anywhere.

Schubalts posted:

The Nexus started its own Unofficial Patch page for Starfield, and it's going to be an open group effort. Arthmoor can be completely ignored on Starfield.

Commander Keene posted:

Arthmoor sticks random Oblivion Gates in the Starfield Unofficial Patch, insists that Starfield and Elder Scrolls take place in the same universe and that the Oblivion Gates would have been literally everywhere, even deep space.

Commander Keene posted:

Arthmoor sticks random Oblivion Gates in the Starfield Unofficial Patch, insists that Starfield and Elder Scrolls take place in the same universe and that the Oblivion Gates would have been literally everywhere, even deep space.

Lethrom posted:

This is one of my favorite things about Morrowind. Why does this random dude in Dren Plantation have a Daedric Dai-katana? No clue but he dies like a chump and it’s mine now!

Being able to find high tier loot if you know where to look, for me, is preferential to something like level scaling loot where the game decides what tier of weapon I’m ready for.

Nalesh posted:

Wabbajack has a bunch nowadays, I liked this one: https://www.wabbajack.org/modlist/wj-featured/life_in_the_ruins

sebmojo posted:

Thanks that's really helpful! It's weird how mod packs are everywhere now, when I was last modding Skyrim they were verboten by Big Mod

sebmojo posted:

Thanks that's really helpful! It's weird how mod packs are everywhere now, when I was last modding Skyrim they were verboten by Big Mod

Agents are GO! posted:

That is amazing.

Skippy McPants posted:

That's not the cart's fault. The game lets you fast-travel to everywhere a cart can take you, so why ever use one? What made the "fast travel" in Morrowind good was that the Boats, Stilt Striders, Mage Guild Teleports, and Propylon Chambers all offered different ways to move about the world that didn't necessarily overlap.

The fastest route from A to B often involved two or even three different kinds of traversal. It made moving about quickly a reward for learning and understanding the various systems, all of them dietetic. I appreciate something like that a lot more than clicking on the map to teleport wherever, whenever.

The way Morrowind handles travel is one of the best things about the game, and it confounds me why more (any?) open-world games don't follow its example.

Leal posted:

The wild thing I learned in Morrowind after modding it to vastly increase the draw distance was that stuff was actually really close together, its just your character moves so drat slow.

Entropic posted:

Someone made a map that looks like its own Steam workshop page.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2955787917

Kitfox88 posted:

New awful mod using the incredible powers of AI generation.

Tumblr posted:

so i downloaded an oblivion overhaul so i can get more hair options for my character but uninstalled it immediately cause it did this to the emperor

Max Wilco posted:

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

The main point of all those big colossal-weapon ground-slam attacks (there's like 3 or 4 different flavors of the same thing) is that they do a ton of stagger and have a ton of poise, so you can use them to trade hits with smaller enemies before knocking them on their rear end or maybe even stagger big guys for a riposte after a few hits, just like jumping attacks.

Most projectiles only aim at stuff you're locked onto. Camera facing has absolutely no effect, but they normally just go based on your character's facing if you're not locked on.
The golden land ones should work the same way. But those piddly little projectiles are mostly for flavor or to give people something extra to dodge in pvp, don't expect a lotta damage out of them.

Max Wilco posted: