Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
Malix@sopuli.xyz 12 hours agooh for sure (near vanilla) experience for first time. Gameplay changing mods etc are for playthroughs after the first one.
I take the Tamrield Rebuilt mods are mostly quality-of-life -stuff?
Zahille7@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Very little QoL, but an absolutely fucking massive map expansion and all the quests that comes with it. They just released the latest bit they finished last spring. It greatly expands all the major questlines and guilds and adds a couple more, introduces new ways of fast travel like water striders, new enemies and creatures, so many new towns with NPCs and their own dialog. It’s a lot. But I highly recommend it to anyone who is a fan of Elder Scrolls regardless.
It’s a project that’s been in production since a few weeks before Morrowind even released (but that’s more just a fun fact). It’s been worked on off-and-on over time, but really picked up speed a few years ago when Morrowind started becoming popular again.
Malix@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
ah, in that case I’m gonna venture forth without it. Expansions are cool, but I kinda want to get my feet wet with the base game first. QoL mods which make the experience have “less friction” I’m entirely fine with
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Having been playing it off and on since release, you can honestly get away with just playing the base game in OpenMW and using Console command to fortify your weapon skills. With those at 100, you don’t wiff 9/10 swings but combat is still mechanically unpredictable enough to feel like you’re not over powered. Back on original Xbox you could even do it by constantly reequipping a bound weapon. If you’re a hoarder like me you don’t even need a house mod to display all your stuff, you can get one for free by picking the tower sign and breaking into a quest house. Even comes with a dead guy to use as a crate.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Or you could do “soul trap on self” combined with a “fortify skill” effect.
SteveNashFan@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Just make sure to buy a weapon that matches your skills. If you put your preferred weapon/armor in Major Skills and keep your Stamina over half, the otherwise clunky combat feels much better. Have fun!