Comment on Morrowind is overly Morrowind

• classic@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I'm guessing there's a mod community somewhere to learn what mods to use? Like with Skyrim, I'd probably start with things that improve the overall look but sticks to vanilla for the story

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I think if you go to the tomorrow and community here there’s even a sticky for them.

    But I like to just go to Nexus mods and browse through what I think can add to the game without compromising the story.

    The Morrowind community is very devoted to the world itself and is very good in that respect, so it isn’t a huge concern.

    There are also several YouTube videos that will instruct you exactly how to install every configuration of mods in every way possible, but after you install one, you’ll see how simple it is to install any of the ones you want.

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  • zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I heart vanilla is a good modlist which has some basic bugfixes and minor but faithful graphical improvements. If you wanna make the game look even better, then Volumetric Clouds, Remiros Groundcover (or some other groundcover mod) and Normal Maps for Everything are some of my top recommendations.

    OpenMW (or, alternatively MGE XE if you want to use the original engine for whatever reason) already have some nice graphical improvements baked into them though.

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• metaldream@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The combat kills it for me unfortunately, even with mods. I thought I wouldn’t care but it just feels so bad. I couldn’t stick with it last time I tried.

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve heard that before, but even vanilla combat doesn’t bother me.

    Let’s playthrough. I did unarmed that was fun as hell, especially

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    punching dagoth ur into the volcano.

    I might add some combat mods next time I play, since I play through it every 2 or 3 years, but that world is so big and there’s so many different ways to interact with it that the combat is a non-issue for me.

    Especially with monster mods, I feel like you can definitely set up a situation where you can’t just hack and slash, you actually have to use the game mechanics and Dodge monster attacks while you’re fighting, make sure your fatigue is full.

    If a minivan sized mud crab attacks you moving faster than a cheetah, haha, you have to make sure you know exactly how to fight back.

    I never even realized that people don’t like the combat until stumbling across some reviews years after I played.

    Even if you never fight in the game, it’s worth it just to live inside it. Don’t complete the game but go live in Morrowind for a couple weeks and just ignore the combat.

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