Dragons of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist. [Skyrim]

Mysst

man I only played morrowind ages ago and my magic of choice was punching

Cilla Black

Fire Truck wrote: »

Curly_Brace wrote: »

Thanks for the advice re: Morrowind. I will try it with all the expansion packs installed, and I'll probably just add on maybe one "make stuff look better" mod, though I'm not so sure about that magic mod... hmmm...

Don't do the magic mod. Having to manage your magicka is an important part of the game.

Instantly regenerating the blue bar was something I never understood/liked about Oblivion.

Ugh no. Managing your magicka effectively is one thing, running out in the middle of a dungeon because the only spells that do any damage cost a shitload is something else entirely. If I'm playing a caster character I shouldn't suddenly have to become melee 10 minutes after entering a dungeon.

That said, it also felt like you could make magicka regeneration a bit too fast in Oblivion.

Zen Vulgarity

With the double spells in hand thing

I hope you can still make your own spells

Peccavi

Yeah, I'm all for managing magic, but having to rest after casting a few spells meant that, before using a mod, I never could advance far in the magical factions.

Mysst

is morrowind on steam? cause now i wanna punch things again

Peccavi

Yep, it's on Steam.

Druhim

you can punch me

Mysst

cock punch you

Tam

dru don't go in the school thread and don't look at the infuriating facebook post

Fire Truck

I'm not sure what to say if you found not having magicka regeneration too big a hurdle in Morrowind.

Whatevs, not really gonna bother me how people play a single-player game.

Druhim

Tam wrote: »

dru don't go in the school thread and don't look at the infuriating facebook post

haha WOW
I wasn't even paying attention to that thread so I never would have noticed that if you hadn't mentioned it

smof

So with the spell-in-each-hand thing, what happens if you have a fire spell in one hand and a frost spell in the other and you cast them together?

Sara Lynn

Someone should buy Steam Morrowind for me

I've bought too many games recently

I have a problem

Langly

that conversation has really affected me, more than it should.

Langly

smof wrote: »

So with the spell-in-each-hand thing, what happens if you have a fire spell in one hand and a frost spell in the other and you cast them together?

you are teleported to a small room where you are forced to complete an ongoing fantasy narrative.

Peccavi

I'm just saying that it was easier to rise up in non-magic factions, by a considerable amount. If I was working my way up House Redoran, I could just go into a dungeon and kill everything with a sword. If I was working my way up House Hlaalu, I could just go into a dungeon and kill stuff with a bow or a short sword. If I was working my way up House Telvanni, I could go into a dungeon and cast a few spells, then either leave the dungeon to rest or keep killing stuff with other skills, neither of which helped raise my Magic skills to the next rank.

Fire Truck

It's not like Magicka potions were hard to come by, though.

Prohass

So with these new vids im even more excited for the dwarven ruins and steampunk robots. Should look spectacular.

smof

The solution to that problem is to steal loads of shit and sell it to Creeper, then buy lots of training in magic skills until you are the best ever at something you've never done.

That's the way you're supposed to do it, right?

edit: Tribunal was really helpful for this. Every time I got attacked by one of those assassins I thought cha-ching, time to level up. Their armour was worth quite a lot.

Prohass

My name is calum, to this day my friends call me Cal'dera creep. That fuckin guy. So creepy.

Mr Fuzzbutt

Creeper > Talking Mudcrab Merchant

Macro9

Article from RPS about the demo we've seen.

Beasteh

Prohass wrote: »

My name is calum, to this day my friends call me Cal'dera creep. That fuckin guy. So creepy.

my brothers name is callum and he's always been callipygian or cally wal

Dichotomy

gonna do it, gonna try to get the morrowind code patch to work

I want to live in a world where sneak is a toggle

august

The Morrowind Code Patch is pretty easy to install if I remember.

RabidDeathMoose

Why? Why does Oblivion just decide to crash to desktop despite me making no system changes and despite it being a completely fresh as the new fallen snow installation via Steam?

/fights PC

Oh well I suppose I can probably afford a few driver updates seeing as I just realized I haven't updated my video drivers since 2009.

T4CT

what the hell is the morrowind code patch

Dichotomy

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=morrowind+code+patch

Galy

The MCP just fixes some obvious bugs / oversight in the Morrowind code like the Unarmored skill not working unless you're wearing at least 1 piece of armor.

RabidDeathMoose

Galy wrote: »

The MCP just fixes some obvious bugs / oversight in the Morrowind code like the Unarmored skill not working unless you're wearing at least 1 piece of armor.

That is amazing.

Dichotomy

one of my favorites is this

Blind fix. The Blind effect gave an attack bonus to the PC instead of a penalty. This should no longer happen.

oh morrowind, you're so quirky

RabidDeathMoose

Question for clued in people smarter than me. I have both the boxed version of Oblivion and the GOTY edition I picked up through Steam when it was on for super cheap. Why does the GOTY edition not seem to have all the same nested folders within the Oblivion/data/ directory?

It seems a lot of texture and meshes which were there at one point, are now all stuffed into the .bsa files in the Oblivion directory. Does this affect my ability to apply mods? Is this why there needs to be some sort of validation run prior to seeing any change?

Macro9

Do you have mods installed in the old box version? They'll often create the folders if they aren't present.

RabidDeathMoose

Actually Macro I've figured it out. I was assuming that because the folders were not present in the data directory originally, Oblivion would ignore them and go with the ones in the .bsa archives.

Reading this page and the section about Archive Invalidation has been very illuminating.

Sara Lynn

Annie found his copy of Morrowind + Expansions, so I installed that yesterday. Now to troll through the thread so I can find if there's any necessary mods I need.

No idea what character I want to play, kind of tired of playing magic characters so I wanna hit people with stuff I guess.

Fire Truck

I always found sneaky types to be pretty fun in Morrowind.

Cilla Black

Sneaking is fun and all but you can't jump and sneak at the same time. Jumping everywhere with a high acrobatics skill is one of the best things about marrowund.

Beef Avenger

having high acrobatics is fun

getting high acrobatics is not

Cilla Black

pfff just jump literally everywhere for every second of the game you can and you'll be there in...

well, quite a few hours

Macro9

I don't even want to think about all the acrobatics training I did on the hills on the east side of Balmora.

So many hours jumping, jumping, and jumping.