Tombot posted:

This seems like the kind of game that can get hilariously broken with exploits, I guess maybe we'll see when we get to the main game what we can do.

YggiDee posted:

Are you planning to tackle the Betony demo? I was, like, eight when that came out and playing that for months has probably irrevocably destroyed something important in my brain.

Woolwich Bagnet posted:

I also did this. I played it more than I did the full game when I got it.

Also getting levels/the best armor/weapons in the game is super easy. Go to a shop that has a wall between the entrance door and the shelves to buy/sell stuff. Attempt to steal everything you can, which will summon hundreds of guards (HALT! HALT! HALT! HALT!). Of course their pathing means they can't actually get to you because there's a wall in the way, but you can still attack them through it for whatever reason. Enjoy your hundreds of corpses filled with loot. As you level up (from doing this) they will eventually be dropping daedra equipment.

I figured this out playing the demo and would spend hours seeing how many guards I could get to spawn then killing them all.

Crazy Achmed posted:

I know that melee weapons in first-person games are usually a bit janky, but drat that's the laziest looking sword swing animation I've ever seen. Come on, player character, that skeleton is trying so hard to shriek and swing at you, at least put some effort in.

PurpleXVI posted:

Man, I would kind of kill for a Daggerfall remake at this point. Just... all the potential this game had, and almost succeeded at delivering on too. Only the bugs and the terrible dungeon design kept it back.

YggiDee posted:

For selling, you want a pawn shop, which will buy the vast majority of your poo poo. Also the little blurb you read when you enter a store determines the store quality and therefore the prices. High-end shops are better hagglers, sell to the guys who have rats in the corner.

Edit: also for the free Inn room thing I think it's not for the inns specifically inside towns but those either those that are individually placed on the map, or maybe the ones you use when fast travelling. (it's been a few years)

MechaCrash posted:

I know that the full game's character creation will be handled by randomly picking skills, but will the advantages and disadvantages then be tailored to that? Like if you roll Long Blade as a major skill, will you take Good At Long Blades as an advantage? As much a pile of broken nonsense as this game can be, in both the "game balance" and "functioning program" senses of the phrase, and you throwing RNG on your build on top of that, I figure giving yourself at least a little leeway will be helpful. This is going to be rough enough without having to risk RNG saying "yes I know you have Archery as a major skill, you're not allowed to use bows anyway."

Arcvasti posted:

A pro char creation tip is that Personality is not a dump stat. If you set it too low then you'll be so annoying that guards will start trying to arrest you on trumped up "criminal conspiracy" charges.

PurpleXVI posted:

If you out-of-bounds again, Alt+F11 should bring you back in-bounds on the latest official patch.

MagusofStars posted:

ulmont posted:

I started up a playthrough (Daggerfall Unity) in solidarity (never played it back in the day, Morrowind was my entry point) and I was feeling pretty bad about how often I was dying in that first dungeon...until I watched your video.

YggiDee posted:

From the inventory screen, if you select USE and click clothes you're wearing, some of them change. IIRC it mostly makes cloaks raise/lower the hood, but it might reverse a reversible shirt.

Foxfire_ posted:

YggiDee posted:

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

I finally started watching these videos and at the beginning of your first one, you state that the 'theme song' wasn't in the game proper. Am I crazy for remembering that it was? I mean.. The only explanation I have is that I've played DF Unity more recently than the original, which likely put it there if it wasn't there originally, but I don't recall having any moments of "uhhhh.... this is new"...

YggiDee posted:

It's interesting watching you actually take a stab at the Main Plot, I was uhhhh eight when Daggerfall came out and never really gave a poo poo about whatever all these Lords were talking about. I'd inevitably get lost in a dungeon for a month and end up missing out on a deadline, assuming some plot flag didn't bug out on me. (Also I was scared of the King's Ghost in Daggerfall) so mostly I noodled around until my save inevitably glitched beyond repair.

That said, horseback is slightly faster than maximum running speed (ie Speed and Running both at 100) but horses have infinite stamina. Carts are slower than horses and can't jump, but still fairly speedy with again, infinite stamina.
I think you can check MP by clicking your INT on the status screen.

Also if you fast travel to your current location and choose "Cautiously", I believe it will fully heal you, and8 advance the clock by one minute (during the day) or to the next morning (at night). So that might save you some rest time.

I Strongly Recommend you purchase/create the Recall spell, putting an anchor right inside a dungeon entrance will absolutely save your bacon

Also when you're selling, don't click the wagon image click the button that says wagon, that's how you sell your wagon poo poo.

(Also I hope I'm not coming across as backseat-y or anything, I like Daggerfall a lot but have nothing to contribute plot-wise so I'm just unearthing long repressed memories of all the absurd mechanics)

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Daggerfall: "Excuse the gloom but none may know of this unmodded LP...."

Edit: just watched the latest episode. The Wrothgarian Mountains are so vast that there are different regions to zoom in on. When you searched, the red lines were pointing to something off-screen, I believe to the east. You can zoom out and click on different areas and search again, and you should see where the lines meet up. There are also arrows on the map HUD that let you quickly jump between zoomed in regions. I believe literally every other province/area just has one section, but them mountains gotta be different.

PurpleXVI posted:

I'm not commenting a lot here because I'm having trouble keeping up with the videos as they come out, but I want to say I'm watching along and still interested!

Also as a late reply: "rounds" in pre-3e D&D are a minute each and turns are ten minutes, since it's assumed each "round," while containing only one opportunity for an attack or spell, contains a lot of parrying, dodging, buying distance, getting in close, etc. before said opportunity pops up.

Edit: On a note about training apparently not improving your skills, it seems the mechanic behind training isn't that it gives a flat boost to your skill, but instead that it's equal to 15 uses of your skill by yourself, and as you get better at a skill it takes more uses for it to actually get improved by use(the breakpoint seems to be every 15 percentage points of skill).

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

You handled finding Nulfaga and the zombies way better than I ever did. I love this LP.

Also, 28 total gold for literally saving someone's life.... You're paid better for ending them, honestly. Though I'm sure your rep in the region increased greatly.

Oh, that's another thing, iirc, your rep is only for whatever region you're in. So, if you leave Daggerfall (the region, not just the city), you can cause a bunch of poo poo in, say, Tulune, and no one in Daggerfall really cares. I could be misremembering that, but I don't think I am.

Generally, for main quest purposes, be good in Daggerfall, Wayrest, and Sentinel.

Crystalgate posted:

If the AC system of this game works like I think it does, then the zombies and especially liches are a ridiculous step up compared to earlier enemies. It feels like the material requirement to hit liches doesn't matter that much, if you don't have progressed your character to the point where you have a sufficiently good weapon, chance is your probability to hit them would have been the minimum 3% anyway. We have an early game dungeon with what should be medium and late game enemies put into it.

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Really? Huh. I thought there was a way to see how it has updated.

Edit: just a heads up, and I sincerely apologize if you already know this, or mentioned it earlier or something (if so, I missed it), but raising your STR will increase your max encumbrance. Watching you try and loot those three thieves in the Mages Guild brought me back to when I was trying to play a ninja wizard with super low strength, and yeesh... It wasn't worth it. I recommend throwing even a couple points to strength each level-up to generally make this part of your virtual life easier, but of course, it is up to you.

ulmont posted:

While not story relevant, I learned recently that if you have a spellcasting skill greater than 100, all spells in that school are free.

Even "Continuous Damage 100 + 100/Level for 60 + 60/Level Rounds in an Area."