The Official Morrowind Thread

[AaronChance]

I'm on my second character now and its like a totally different game, at least almost. My first was a tough orc fighter, but now I'm playing a lithe wood elf thief, who is easily killed with close quarters fighting, but is deadly with a bow.

Working through the various Magic Guild quests while mostly ignoring the main quest. Some are pretty darn tricky with a character that usually dies from 2-3 hits. Have to keep the enemy at bay as much as possible, though backpeddling in this game is kind of tricky. Too easy to run into obstructions and get smacked.

Already made my first plugin, though it's just a simple ring of speed because I was so tired of taking forever to walk someplace. The speed is so unbalanaced in the game as it is so it's not really a cheat. All the NPCs walk at twice your speed, even if your speed attrib is 50 and you're not carrying anything. That's just silly. And running all the time reduces all your skills and magic to the point they're not even usuable.

Heck, even with the speed ring the monsters and enemies are too fast. They shouldn't be able to keep pace with me anymore, but still do. Makes hit and run tactics really hard, and not really in a fun and challenging way either.

Still, I love the game a lot and will probably play though it to at least near the end before trying any of the other plugins I have planned, mainly because the game might already have it. Surprises around every corner. Game has a couple of minor problems though. Hope all will be fixed in upcoming patch.

Nearly forgot, Morrowind is only $35 at CompUSA this week (where I bought it a little over a week ago -_-), and it's really a steal at that price. Also, people have gotten it to run on 350MHZ machines, so most people will be able to run it.

[AaronChance]

Originally posted by MechDeus
No, I'm talking ALL OVER. I just took on some bandits, and one of guys I fought was only wearing Common Pants, Common Shirt, Two-Handed Axe (1-30 average damage for all swings), Common Boots, and was kicking my ass! Most of the ones I fought weren't armored very well, if at all, and yet I do s*** for damage! This cave in particular was near the first city (north a bit, I believe) and they had a wooden area with about five slaves there (which I ended up freeing).

Hmm, are you remembering to maintain your weapons. One time I was doing terrible damage and the problem was the bow I just bought was in terrible shape and needed to be repaired. Once that was done, I was kicking butt (usually).

I think I know the cave you mean, though I cleaned it out with my Orc without too much trouble. There might have been a wizard who caused me to reload a save once, but otherwise they were easy. Could be a different cave though. There seems to be ones with slave pens scattered all over.

Armor doesn't seem to mean a whole lot in this game. Not as much as your level and stats anyway. Most likely the NPCs were just beefy stat-wise.

[MechDeus]

Nope, I keep all my weapons in top shape, and they get repaired at every single opportunity, no matter how low or high they might be. There was one time where I found a sword and starting using it right away, forgetting to check its condition. A few seconds later, it broke in my hands! D'oh!

I doubt that was the same cave, as there was no wizard in the one I was in. It started off with a male fighter, then female fighter, then another male fighter to the left, behind him was an armored orc (I ended beating him by luring him to falling underneath the platform he was on, and he got stuck trying to walk through the stairs and I just wailed on his back. Great AI there!), and back off to the right was a thief-looking guy armed with a short sword and a female archer. Aside from the archer, it was basically quick save, die, quickload, repeat fifteen times until he's dead, repeat for all of them. Some of the most quickloading I've done in a very long time.

[APC]

Originally posted by Ammadeau


The strip club I found was in Suran. Pretty close to the silt rider port. Funny thing is all they sell there is drugs, but they act all high and mighty if you try and sell them drugs.

The dancing girls are just too funny to watch.

Haven't found actual whores yet. I've found a building that seemed all set up as a whore house, but it lacked the important element of whores. -_-

Give em a 10gp tip and they get so happy.

[Chux]

Originally posted by APC


Give em a 10gp tip and they get so happy.

So true...in fact I got to rest my head upon her bosom!

[station82o]

How do you go about making your own plugins? Such as the increased speed plug in like Ammadeau was talking about creating? Do you have to just go inside some file and modify a line of code or increase a number somewhere? Or do you have to know programing?

[wEEman33]

Just in case you don't already have this game, it's on sale at CompUSA for $34.99

[dyomides]

The PC game comes with the developpers tool kit, go in and create anything you want. No programming skill needed, just logic.

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[APC]

Originally posted by Chux

Ahh, I see you're doin some stripping yourself, but seriously they said I could get a job there if I talked to the lady behind the counter. I didn't bother with this one, but maybe with my next character.

[station82o]

The very fact that you can get a job in the game is just fantastic! You outta take it man...see what you have to do.