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ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

I don't know how you doxxed me like this

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ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Cross-Section posted:

Finally ran up against that classic ender of Morrowind playthroughs, the *checks notes* Tribunal expansion

Even with the sweet rebalance mod, it's all just sewers and hallways and an okay main storyline nestled within a bunch of side quests that feel like they came out of a mod writing-wise

The only good things it gives us are 1) Almalexia/Sotha Sil 2) The Museum of Artifacts 3) The "Castle Xyr" play quest 4) Gaenor actually no Gaenor is bullshit, gently caress that guy

I just played tribunal for the first time, and was thinking the exact same thing.

"What if our whole expansion was a sewer level?" Is much better foreshadowing of oblivion than the guy who's like "there's going to be oblivion gates everywhere"

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Cross-Section posted:

Oh yeah there's all sorts of cool poo poo down there (daedric shrines, random corprus monsters, main quest NPCs) if you look hard enough

But at the same time, they're also just sewers that function as sewers, not dungeons. This game is so good in ways you sound insane if you say out loud.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
You guys are so hopeful it's cute. It will be Hammerfell as seen in Disney's Aladdin.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
I'm roleplaying as someone who spends an unrealistic amount of time jumping up stairs wearing a hundred pounds of poo poo

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
Gonna dump on the wizard staff, though. Who thought 1 pt levitation was a fun mechanic?

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Grevlek posted:

My enchanter/alchemist god playthrough is currently stuck, as I've created potions so powerful that I straight up die when the effect wears off. :(

:qq: I'm going into battle, potionmaker

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
I become patriarch of the temple and then get that guy in aldruhn to donate his home to the temple

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Lawman 0 posted:

It owns how terrible high elves are in morrowind especially coming off Daggerfall where they were basically walking gods who could face tank ancient vampires.

Being the only way to plausibly play a destruction mage without carrying 50 pounds of magicka potions isn't bad.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

GorfZaplen posted:

What do I have to do to get the multiplayer mod working? Assume I haven't modded this game since 2005

It's an openmw fork, not a mod.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
I had an epiphany recently. I was struck by how tamriel rebuilt's quests subconsciously reminded me of Oblivion instead of Morrowind's and I wasn't sure why. Then it hit me.

Almost every quest in Morrowind has a degree of dramatic irony where the quest giver is using you. Not just giving quests that serve their interests, but manipulating and deceiving you.

Ajira and her reports blatantly taking credit for your work are the most obvious example, but ranis' quests all being her running the guild as a back door protection racket is a lot more subtle, having you kill "necromancers" and shake down locals.

So is skink-in-tree's-shade being a vampire in hiding.

And with telvanni, it's pretty clear that aryon is taking over the council using you as a patsy.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

What's this now? I don't remember this at all.

First think about the name. Argonians all seem to have names related to what they do. What does skink do? Stand in the shade?

Second, what are multiple of his quests about? Getting books and secret documents about curing vampirism?

I harbor a theory that both meeting the wise woman and escorting that one lady out of town have ulterior motives too, but can't prove it.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
And that's exactly the brilliance of the quest writing that hit me. There's subtle hints here and there that change how you interpret what you're doing.

You can do everything without questioning anyone's motives, and it works as fantasy schlock, go here, kill this bad guy, persuade this person to do things our way, collect this item. It's all fine like that. But you can realize, for a great many cases, that there's another interpretation.


I haven't figured out sugar lips' deal. I think she just wants money?

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
Has anyone done a mod that just replaces all instances of "corpus" with "COVID" in the game's text?

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

midnight lasagna posted:

Any advice on how to play a sneaky stealy charatcer in Morrowind? This is only my third playthrough and I'm still pretty clueless at this game, and I'm also used to Skyrim where sneaking is the meta and the crouch button makes you invisible. I've got the Morrowind Code Patch with all the bugfixes enabled and the pickpocket overhaul, otherwise everything is vanilla besides a mod for higher draw distance.

Character is going to be a sneaky Nord girl, chosen as Nerevarine by Azura specifically to humiliate the Tribunal as much as possible. The Dark Elves hosed up so now one of their most hated enemies gets to be the hero instead.

1. The early levels of sneak are way too slow to earn, and you basically need to grind by leaving your character stealthed at the edge of an npcs vision and going and doing something else for an hour.

2. It's more fun to get caught than reload. Learn where the evidence chests are.

3. Don't bother trying to pick pocket without mods. Your chances suck even at 100 sneak.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
I just want to join house Indoril and have every single person, except ordinators, hate me with good cause.

When are they gonna get to the Indoril factory?

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

FlocksOfMice posted:

The Old Ebonheart and Akamora Mages Guild quests were very, very fun, some of the better quests I've played through in Morrowind. Old Ebonheart Thieves Guild is toppest tier I've messed with so far though.

Meanwhile, helnim thieves guild feels like it ends with a giant anticlimax where they're constantly talking about a big event coming, describing the details of how it will work, setting up the players in the story, then skips the event itself entirely to end with killing an unrelated sad loser in the back of a shop.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
I love killing goblins with a billion hitpoints and no other features. These expansions are perfect

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
Everything with restore fatigue as a first effect is food :shrug:

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Jay Rust posted:

The ash yam icon looks like a cockroach to me so before I knew what a yam was I always thought I was making potions with bugs

Everyone knows that eating a cockroach makes you better at eating cockroaches 🪳

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Skwirl posted:

Vvardenfell has a huge gently caress off volcano at it's center and a lot of magma pits and tunnels that vent more geothermal energy.

So almost exactly like Iceland?

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
"this one hates mundas" surely

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
Heart of lasagnakhan

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

I don't have the energy to make a silt strider "silence, brand" but gently caress that's a lazy engagement attempt.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Jay Rust posted:

What does Moon-and-Star have to do with the tribunal...

And why do you gather them?

Like the only time they get together in Morrowind is to loving murder each other.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
3 scrolls of bowel flight

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
The tarhiel sound effect, but he's in a toilet stall

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Mendrian posted:

Item scaling ruined a lot about Oblivion for me.

Just one example: I remember how disillusioned I was when I realize robbing people at low level was counter productive because they would never have anything interesting or valuable in their house.

Systems in games can produce novel game experiences and replace carefully arranged and designed experiences, if the system is capable of producing unexpected results.

Oblivion hosed that up, hard.

Sure you can have a spawn point that produces a dynamic monster, but if the result of that dynamism is always some kind of zombie that takes 12 melee attacks to kill and 10 to kill you, that's more tedious than even dying over and over to one that's too hard to beat in one place and one that falls over like twigs in another.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

galenanorth posted:

If you fully tricked out Morrowind with all the best graphics mods, what would be the system requirements for that on max settings?

Very low, but your framerate will chug even with the best hardware and no graphics mods in old ebonheart, because the engine can't handle it

Don't know if that applies to openmw

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

What mods should I run for a first time Oblivion game

It comes with a mod you can run from the start menu called "uninstall" which by far deliverers the best oblivion experience

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

Even in Tamriel there is no escape from the English

What could England possibly have to do with a game about an island filled with insane xenophobes suffering constant waves of plagues and incredibly miserable weather?

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

galagazombie posted:

As much as I love Morrowind that’s generally a sign you should go play a different game.

I'm sorry for the bad not-morrowind games you've deceived yourself into playing

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

SniperWoreConverse posted:



Seen in the gbs ai thread

Morrowind doesn't have any high schoolers for him to date

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
As I understand are all telvanni

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

FactsAreUseless posted:

Speaking of TR, does anyone know what object or objects cause the massive slowdown in the circle around the castle in Old Ebonheart? The engine can handle most of the town (if I switch off Distant Land while I'm there and keep real-time shadows off), but there's something up with that one small area. Is there something I can delete in the construction set to fix it? I never see anyone else mentioning it.

The specific cause is the number of statics in the cell. The town just causes too many render events for the pipeline of a single threaded application to keep up with.

Turning down shaders and texture details and things saves very little time because you're not limited by your gpu to begin with.

Presumably some cleverness with batching might let the openmw team fix it, but the original engine is just hosed.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Jack B Nimble posted:

So here's something I didn't expect: after finally really digging into and finishing Baldurs Gate 1 ... It's quite a bit more similar to Morrowind than I'd have thought. Obviously not in its control scheme or basic mechanics, but in it's exploration, loose structure, and free form.

And sarevok is building a giant mechanical God deep under a volcano.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
Most of the island is dunmer, but the corpus walkers all look like humans.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

FlocksOfMice posted:

Are we ever going to see non-openmw get the ability to use more memory than 4gb? Is that even possible? Lately I've had to save and restart every like, 10 minutes in Old Ebonheart to clear the memory before it crashes and for some reason today (I haven't changed anything today? so no clue lol) I can't even go outside at all without it instantly memory-outing itself. Unchecking a bunch of MWSE mods I guess but that memory limit is really brutal.

e: nah turns out Lua is using up none of the memory compared to textures and stuff, gotta fuss with my replacers rip!

e e e : Seriously I don't understand this game sometimes. I was able to at least go outside in Old Ebonheart yesterday, I've changed nothing today, and now it's just, wet farts all around.

4gb is what is addressable by a 32 bit executable program.

Short of rewriting the engine(i.e. openmw) you cannot realistically achieve that.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Guildenstern Mother posted:

My spouse is trying to convince me that moving the hard drive from one computer to another will carry over all the mods and settings and I don't have a good specific argument that's not "mw modding is haunted"

Spitballing, but there could be bits of metadata stored in the registry. That would break that.

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ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
Mistress dratha is just too loving old

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