If I had 3 genie wishes one of them would be "I wanna experience Morrowind again like the first time I booted it up in 2002" Pretty funny story actually. My parents bought me the English version by mistake and I knew almost no English at this time in my life. Instead of complaining I grabbed myself a dictionary and had a "Fun with English in Morrowind" experience. Worked like a charm for me.
I also remember playing Morrowind before knowing any English, but I didn't have a dictionary so I completely forgot about Elder Scrolls till Oblivion :)
That's the spirit! I personally hate my polish versions of the games. I remember after playing Mass Effect english version on xbox 360 I accidently bought a polish localisation of the second one. It was horrible, the only character I loved was cpt. Bailey by Maciej Maleńczuk, a polish singer, and as far as I hate him as a real person his voice performance was near the original, and I love it to this day. The rest? When I've heard polish Miranda and what's his face in the intro I was: "nope,nope, God,no!", and I was searching for the original version ASAP. I know I'm strange, but on the other hand they always use the famous wooden voice actors that I'm sick of so I will stick to the originals.😆
Something to remember: there are no random encounters in MW. Any NPC you encounter has been placed and tasked. Even bandits have names, unlike Skyrim. So the dead dude you found with the skooma pipe? He'll always be right there. Also, you making the choice to jump off the main quest and wander after meeting Caius is actually the first thing that he tells you to do. The man has a sweet tooth, but he does want you to be ready for the shit he's about to send you to do.
I’m actually as right now playing Morrowind for the first time. I’m level 41 and I can say that the game makes you feel you earned the experience. I can say with confidence this is my favorite TES game.
@@majormarketing6552 I'm honestly a little ashamed that I never thought to get a fortify speed spell specifically for this reason. That should be at the top of all of those 'top 10 tips for playing morrowind' listicles.
the most important thing you need to know is that scribs are adorable, harmless, and only a monster would ever hurt them, so turn yourself in to the ordinators
scribs and kwama critters are very useful for training armor skills. just give em a light tap to get em attacking you and wait for your skills to rise. and you dont get a bunch of diseases from them like you do from rats
A few quick notes for those new to Morrowind: * Magicka doesn’t auto-replenish. You need to either rest or drink a potion to get it back. If you choose the Atronach sign, only potions or absorbing incoming spells will restore it. The chance to absorb spells is never 100% and is controlled by the Mysticism skill. Alchemy, therefore, is an absolutely essential skill to have. * The Fatigue meter affects not only your likelihood to hit the target with a melee weapon but also whether or not a spellcast succeeds or fails. * Trainers are an essential in the early game, especially for melee classes. At the start you spend a lot of time “swinging at air”, but when your skill improves to level 50 or above, you miss far less often. * Weapons and gear can wear out with use. Once their condition reaches zero they are automatically unequipped and must be repaired. This makes the Armorer skill another must. Repair requires an armorer’s hammer, which can be bought in towns or found in loot. They also keep a supply in the chest at the Fighters Guild halls. * All skills have governing attributes (Strength, Agility, Intelligence etc). You cannot improve a skill higher than its governing attribute, so when you are leveling, you need to plan carefully which skills to improve that will let you get the max number of “chits” that you can apply to the attribute you want to increase (which is 5) each time you level up. * Get a good printed map of Vvardenfell somewhere. The original game came with a large detailed map and guides for new players starting out. They were sorely needed. * Enchanting is absurdly, hilariously overpowered, especially at higher skill levels. That is probably why the “master” level Enchanting skill trainer is in a very hard to reach location, and is also hostile to you when you first visit him. You have to sneak up on him and cast a Calm spell just to speak to him. Good luck!
Let me add onto this that fatigue not only affects fighting, but (nearly) everything you do. If youre exhausted and a lock tells you that you need a higher security skill, wait until youre full and try again, you might be able to pick it. The few things that (i think) arent affected by it are alchemy, enchanting, speechcraft and (ironically) your movement. Also, levelling endurance early is a big boon, as the max HP gains on level up (which scale with END) do not apply retroactively.
You dont need to have alchemy as a skill as magicka potions are plentiful, and its probably easier to buy it from a restocking merchant anyway. Neither is armorer, in fact regardless of your level, if you have a number of hammers youll be able to repair it to full regardless of whether its one of your major's/minor's. I say this because alchemy and armorer are my two throw away skills, skills i pick if i cant think of anything else, far from being essential.
Legion, standard guilds (fighter, mages, thieves), noble factions (Redoran, Telvanni, Hlaalu), temple, Imperial church, Morag Tong (pretty much legal assassins guild). So 10 in the base game that dont require main story progression. Gonna be alot of videos. The Imperial Church is probably my favorite because you can pick different quests depending on your character build through which Divine you follow, for instance, Stendarr sect is going to have you fighting alot, Zenithar sect is asking for donations, etcetera.
Side quests can be deceptive in MW since they don't point you to every piece. In the Fargoth ring quest, for example, there is a Nord in the tradehouse who wants you to find Fargoth's stash. You can lie to Fargoth about his ring, and then accept the job to find his stash and steal his money, then just run off with both without ever completing it. If you give Fargoth his ring he'll place it in the stash, giving you an extra chance to swipe it. Then if you really want, you can go back to the Nord and give him the money you found, and he pays you a share, you know, if you really want to clear the quest. Since these are set up as separate mini quests, rather than one long quest that loops you through stages, it's easy to miss pieces if you don't talk to everyone. There are also freeform quests. As an example, there is one where, if you find all the keys to some scattered teleporter chambers, it will initiate a quest to find a master key. Of course, you have no idea this is a thing until you've found them all (also, iirc it was added in a patch or an expansion, but you get the idea).
Came to say this. Morrowind quests are actually very complex compared to Oblivion and Skyrim. Add to that, some are mutually exclusive depending on various attributes or affiliations and you have a ton of options that can affect how you choose to do things down the line.
@@ABardsBallad and some of settlements looks almost the same couse its architectual style of the great house or faction based on location for example Balmora and suran looks a like couse its house hlallu area Seyda neen looks like Caldera couse of imperial influence Southern and Western Morrowind is Hlallu Centre is Redoran Northern and Eastern is Telvanni Every of said area also got Imperial outpost in form od fort House Indorill holds Vivec House Dagoth is 6th of the 7 houses and they are hiding as cultists in caves and old chimer and dunmeri fortresses Other houses are Dres and Sadras operating on the mainland Morrowind Only 5 houses can be at the great councli which runs Morrowind 3rd era are Hlallu, Redoran, Telvanni, Dres, Indorill 4th era are Sadras, Redoran Telvanni, Dres, Indorill Hlallu was kicked out due to Oblivion crisis when they did nothing to protect Morrowind and Sadras took their place but am sure you arleady known if you played Skyrim dragonborn dlc
one thing people tend to mention a lot is the combat system. But it is by no means bad, just different. It's not player skills that matter, but character skills. Much like in other older RPGs. It doesn't matter much if you personally have incredible reflexes, if your character is bad at fighting with a sword, your character will miss a lot. The big disconnect comes from combining those character-based mechanics with a 3D first person view. Oh, and remember that the game back in the day came with an extensive manual and a map. So for the real "like back then" experience, you'll want those at hand, even if its only as a pdf. The manual also explains the menus, controls, fatigue, and major, minor and misc skills. It also has some overview about classes, different weapon types, equipment slots, magic including example spells, spellmaking and enchanting. But hey, you got the authentic Morrowind experience. Including constantly being low on fatigue, making the air your main melee target, and running from cliffracers. Only thing missing is getting lost in Vivec.
I appreciate all of the information! I’m looking forward to getting to experience and learn about all of this! Also very true I did get the authentic Morrowind experience lol
no, its bad, not just different - its just plain bad - the combat in all games after Daggerfall are bad. I mean, DF can be called bad too, but its 2D sprites swinging (etc.) at each other, so that hides a lot of nonsense and lets your brain just get past it. Once they went full 3D, it has been pretty crap, outside of spells of course (because those just act, generally speaking, like a fps of sorts) and none of the fully 3D versions of ES games have good melee without mods - and Skyrim heavily modded gets it the best way. If I am timing swings in real time and connecting the model of me weapon with an enemies body matters - then it's not old school rpg at all - its really time. Perhaps some game do something akin to an old school system, but a cRPG system is about the character and your real-time skill matter not at all. In ALL 'modern' ES games, your skill mater a lot. Sure, its not imaginary version of DS that people have in their heads, or even the reality of those games - but real time at all. Dark Age: Origins is old school combat - ES sort of never was, and really became not at all with Morrowind. However, Morrowind fanboys cannot handle ANY critique of the game, so even its shoddy melee combat (which was massively upgrade with one of the most popular mods for the game) is somehow "good", and people hide behind "old school" and other damage control to... damage control it. If your going to put a person in first person and show 3d models colliding, trying to hide behind stats with tons of wiffs is bad design, I might add. Morrowind is great, but also loaded with plenty of flaws, like literally every single entry in the series - but you fanboys don't care about reality, you care about warped, post-truth dream world - and for the most part, you are the most toxic part of the bethesda fanbase/anti-bethesds fanbase.
Ya know, the fact that you felt so strongly about this that you needed to write an essay shows that you have more issues than the so called "fanboys". Irony is such a delicious dish.@@xBINARYGODx
No, the disconnect comes from the fact that the enemies only show animations for getting hit and none for when you miss. It has nothing to do with the first-person view.
This game has my favourite way to introduce the main quest (slight spoiler for your first meeting with Caius Cosades that I don't think you saw). When he offers you the main quest and you accept (I think this is where you left it by refusing), he gives you an out and a lore friendly way to go off on your own and do your own thing away from the MQ without it being a forced choice. Skyrim kind of does this when you are told "we should probably split up" after escaping the starter dungeon, but you kind of have to ignore the quite obvious peril and Oblivion rams the peril down your throat with the "YOU MUST DO THIS THING!" before you even leave the tutorial. Morrowind and the Caius meeting doesn't even hint that there is a peril in the first place. So when you have this meeting and you accept, he gives you a solid reason for not doing the quest right away and instead to go off and do your own thing so you get a better understanding of what Vvardenfell is all about. He even tells you what all the more obvious options are (info about guilds and stuff). Only by ignoring this advice and demanding that you begin the main quest does he start you off on it, so you'll know at what point you are actually starting (or refusing) the main quest. Note if you back to him at higher levels, he'll deem you strong enough to continue the quest without the second chance refusal as he's not meeting some chump that has literally just got off the boat (and probably is still wearing prison clothes). I know a lot of folks do what you did, but you are not only missing out of some lore and more insight into Caius, but also some extra friends you have around the island that you won't know about until later when you don't need them. If you are still at a low level, go back and ask to start the MQ (save beforehand incase you are too high level) as it will give you at least some direction from where to go and explain so you at least understand why you end up at Imperial prison cells or get killed instantly for theft. Caius is your friend.
I love the pacing of morrowind's main quest that felt way more realistic than skyrim and oblivion which have a "False Urgency" throughout. "You have to do this NOW!" No I don't if I wanted I could just go do some quests and wait the whole game before I do it, this creates a disconnect between the gameplay and story whereas in morrowind they were intertwined. Theres no real "Go do this NOW!" point in Morrowinds MQ, its always caius giving you missions that he literally tells you to do at your own pace, even when the mq has some urgency it does not fake it like the later games.
@@MrRattlebones640 The way the threat shows up is also natural as at first, all the creatures and people around the island are healthy. The threat then begins to reveal itself as you go about playing your own faction quests and eventually the threat becomes impossible to ignore. All of this without narration, quest markers, or prodding like what happened with other games. I understand why they changed things in later games as the devs basically explained as much on the original official forums. So many players got lost, didn't follow clues and instead wanted to be told specifically what they had to do before they'd do it. Very few other games treated the players with that kind of respect to their intelligence and were essentially trained by other games to play without thinking. The follow the quest icon trope has to exist or lots of people get confused. The Dwemer puzzle box was a notorious stumbling block for so many because players were not noticing the room it was in as you had to look up to see the door and that was a completely unknown gameplay "mechanic" for so many in particular console gamers, used to looking at the ground in front of their player characters and not the world around them. It is said that society has to run at the speed of the slowest people and games also too have to follow that rule. just look at all the great games made by studios that went bankrupt years ago. To survive you have to go simple, sadly (Though hopefully BG3's success will convince them that they've gone too far in that direction and we collectively can deal with more complex games now - sorry for the rant).
Something VERY important to keep in mind with melee combat in Morrowind is that melee damage is not random, but rather based on the amount of time you spend winding up the attack. What that means is that if you spam the attack button with something like an iron battle axe, you will be attacking for 1 damage a swing (modified by stats) and burning your fatigue rapidly. This will compound with the slower fatigue regen of the game, the relative defense mechanics, and your chance to miss and cause you to have a horrible time meleeing. If you instead hold down the attack button until your animation has completed its wind up, you’ll be attacking for 28 damage a swing (modified by stats) and can regenerate fatigue between attacks as you are attacking more slowly. That is 28x the damage and it is possible to do less than 1 point of damage, so it could be an even higher effective multiplier. This is also why hit chance is fine at about 50%. You should be able to 1-3 hit KO almost every enemy in the game with standard gear, except boss and miniboss monsters. Almost everyone knows fatigue matters a lot in Morrowind, but fully charging your Melee attacks is a much lesser known and just as critical piece of information you’re expected to know by the game designers. Please make sure to wind up all your attacks to maximum damage and try to maintain a high striking damage with weapons. Morrowind punishes low attack power values heavily.
@@ABardsBallad Great comment. Also (surely mentioned elsewhere) every weapon has an optimum attack-Axes chop, spears and daggers stab and swords slash. Employing the best attack for the weapon you're using hugely increases damage output and player movement decides it: standing still allows a chop, strafing a slash and forwards-backwards a stab. Along with the wind-up time, it does a good job of selling the combat style of each weapon. It's possible to toggle the option to always use the best attack regardless of movement making things easier to the detriment of nuance. I like the fact moving around to get position/avoid your attacker forces you to use sub-optimal attacks sometimes. It makes you more aware of the environment and choosing the best spaces to fight with the weapon you have equipped.
@@ABardsBallad It’s a major issue with Morrowind players ancient, old, and new. A lot of people end up modding the melee combat system because they have the experience you had here with the rat and other mobs in melee. They have no idea just how many things they’re doing to fight the system and making it worse for themselves. Spamming low power attacks is only useful with enchanted weapons, since it lets you apply the effect rapidly over and over, but otherwise its extremely detrimental to combat performance. Try making a generic Redguard, class Warrior, born under the Warrior and grabbing a high damage one or two handed sword in town then walking over to Adamasartus cave near the silt strider and taking some swings at the smugglers there. Keep your fatigue full and wind up the attacks to full power using your best attack style (chop/slash/thrust). It’ll only take a few minutes. Try it again on the exact same character and weapon using nothing but light attacks instead (tap the attack button) while also being empty on fatigue from nonstop running and jumping. The difference in experience will illustrate what I mean more than any text explanation can. Just watch the difference in the amount of swings it takes to kill and the difference in encounter time. There are a lot of systems and features in Morrowind most people are inexperienced with, even long time players. Enchanting is another big one as is spellmaking. For example, it is very easy to craft your own 1mp cast on use trinkets using petty soul gems and cliff racer souls. Enchanted items regenerate one point of their own magicka reserves every 20 seconds of play time. Resting in-game will also refill enchanted items quickly as well as your own magicka reserves. You can make many very useful simple 1mp trinkets in the game to heal you or deal damage for you or for utility effects, effectively giving you access to multiple magicka bars that all regenerate on the fly. Most people never utilize this system, instead prioritizing struggling to make constant effect enchantments or extremely high power enchantments. These usually need quite a bit of exploitation and metagaming along with savescumming to get working. I could go on forever but I’ll stop here, haha. Good luck on your adventure!
Ok so counter point: jinxblade,+short sword, attack speed build. You are spamming out jinxblade until a stun lands, then swap to the normal sword swing for power, when the stun wears off swap back to jinxblade. Also flee builds, cast a jump spell, power up the hit, jump to the opponent, smash him, jump out (my favorite weapon for this is spear). Join the fighters guild and mages guild teleport around and take all the free guild potions, it helps to have health, fatigue, and mana pots that can restore all of said resource.
@@ABardsBallad Potions are the goat in this game, don't hoard them-and if you're a magic user, experiment! :) Almsivi and Divine Intervention (spells/scrolls) are like town portal spells in Diablo-essential for every character (the tutorial trader mentions this-also, consider the disposition upgrade you get with him for Fargoth's ring, it's not bad)
I can see the confusion if you come from Oblivion on the major/minor/misc skills thing. Minor skills still contribute towards leveling, but do not get as high of a starting bonus to said skill. Misc skills do not contribute to your level progress, like minor skills in Oblivion. All-in-all, good to see ya coming around to the best (no bias from me at all lol) TES game. Navigation has a lot of tools to use other than just boats/silt striders, like divine/almsivi intervention scrolls and spells, mark and recall, etc. Though these definitely rely a bit on you memorizing where said temples are for intervention. As far as fatigue, yes in morrowind it has a large impact on chance to hit, and so does your agility stat, luck stat, and skill with said weapon class. If you have 10 in short blade, good luck hitting much of anything with a dagger, etc. There is level scaling, kind of. When you are at higher level you can encounter some higher level enemies out in the world, but other enemies, such as in dungeons, and NPCs, have a fixed level. It's definitely worth the chore of learning the game, hope you continue to enjoy it, and excuse the ramblings of a Morrowboomer.
@@DancesRainyStreets And the Mages Guild porters. Honestly, it's funny seeing people complain about the lack of fast travel in Morrowind. There's like 7 different kinds, they just require a little finesse to use well.
It takes three in-game days for corpses to despawn on their own. With the hardware available at the time of release, leaving the game littered with dead bodies could eventually impact performance and bloat the size of the save files, so the option was given to dispose of the corpses yourself. NPCs are placed with fixed levels, but monsters and animals encountered in dungeons and in the wilderness are usually leveled. However, leveling affects what creature is encountered rather than making specific creatures more powerful. For example, a daedra encountered in a ruin could be anything from a scamp to a golden saint, depending on your level.
In my eyes, Morrowind is the standard for Elder Scrolls. It's unfortunate that the newer TES games lack many of the mechanics and RPG elements that made Morrowind amazing. However, I don't hold that against the newer games. Morrowind saved BGS and the TES series, and because of that, I have a lot of respect for the game and the people who worked on it. I'm very glad to see that you were able to enjoy Morrowind and hope to see more videos on it!!!
Yeah I can only imagine that going from Morrowind to Oblivion is as crazy as a jump as going from Oblivion to Morrowind! I’m really excited to hop into it!
@@HappyBeezerStudios modded morrowing has alot of the features that didn't make the jump from daggerfall. ridable guar/guar taming; guar cart; ashfall; weapon sheathing; mantling (climbing mod that allows you to pull yourself up any ledge no matter how small; i think it scales with agility). idk about banking; but that for daggerfall is just a free 1mil since they disabled the negatives. but hey; free boat.
@@ShishouDzukiZaManako ok, well modded later games crap all over Morrowind vanilla - mods are great, but once we bring them into the equation, the base games almost dont even matter anymore and its really a comparison of mods, more or less.
@@xBINARYGODx are you dumb or something? "And then there is Daggerfall, the fantasy life simulator..." my reply was merely stuff that added features from daggerfall and i said as much with no comparison... so idk what you are on about.
A note for the combat--while the dice rolls might make you think movement isn't important, it's arguably even more broken than in Oblivion or Skyrim. You and the opponent still have to "hit" the enemy model for your attack to roll, and different weapons/spells have different ranges. It feels intuitive to stand still and roll the dice but you can absolutely swing fights in your favor with good movement especially once your speed/athletics are leveled up. As far as navigation, the game originally came with a fold out paper map that had cities and some POIs on it. You would absolutely not be cheating having an image of that up to give you general directions as that is what we all did back in the day. There are a lot of options for travel, especially from places rather than to them, but I won't spoil them! Awesome video and good luck!
A large part of the world navigation in Morrowind, was the physical map, which came with the game, you had of the game world. It's insanely detailed and got all path and caves marked. Almost all individual buildings too. I will recommend you finding it online and have it on hand. It will greatly argument your experience. Also, I don't know if your mana issue comes from the startsign chosen. There is one, which gives like 3x max mana, however, it disable your ability to regen it naturally. So you will require potions and scrolls to regain, which is a huge hurdle and can often become a big issue.
To hit consistently, keep your fatigue near full. Also only use weapons your skilled (30 minimum). Once you begin losing stamina your hit chance starts to go down. Casting is the same. At full stamina your cast chance is the highest.
@@ABardsBalladThis makes so much sense to me as when tired, I can't even talk properly! This and the fact that you have to find out where things are by asking people or reading books are what made me enjoy Morrowind and dislike Oblivion and Skyrim. Remember that opening every book you come across is very beneficial as some can increase one of your skills, others will clarify past history and they will immerse you into this world.
@@ABardsBallad well if you think about it its harder to do most things when you're out of breath. imagine doing an exam right at the end of sprinting when you're out of breath
The only mechanic worth discussing for new players is that the combat skills should be reasonably leveled and your fatigue plays a HUGE role in everything. Persuasion, combat, spellcasting, etc. Everything else I think is worth discovering.
I'd also add that while the game does tell you what your chance to successfully cast a spell is, a similar calculation is run every time you attack and you never know what your chance to hit is. I've seen a lot of people erroneously conclude that they are doing something wrong or that the game is broken because they are attacking something and still missing and either not making the connection that it's essentially a dice-roll or taking forever to understand.
@@Ichthyodactyl 9 times out of ten its probably because most people pick up the iron dagger in the tutorial when they havent put short blade as a major or minor skill and then use it as if its skyrim where you arent punished AT ALL for using weapons you arent skilled in. When i first played, i picked dark elf and put long blade in my major skills and then was confused because i was hitting 75% of the time and wondered what the fuss was about.
I haven't stopped playing morrowind since I first tried it 10 years ago. Love to see someone start their journey. I heavily encourage you to look into tamriel rebuilt!
Taunting is the easiest way to get some of the best armor if you have the tribunal dlc. Simply taunt the ordinators and royal guards. You need to be a high level or boost your charisma or speech skill however to even get a reaction other than their disposition dropping. The royal guards have the best medium armor, the ordinators at Mournhold one of the best heavy armors but don't wear the helmet or breastplate or you're gonna get attacked by every guard in the capital, also in the capital of Vardenfell. The gauntlets are pretty useful for their enchanting value however.
Fast Travel Almsivi Intervention takes you to Tribunal Temples Divine Intervention takes you to Imperial Temples Recall takes you to where you last casted Mark i think you can set the game to autosave on entry too; but can't remember for sure
As someone who finished his first playthrough of Morrowind less than a week ago, it's awesome to see others new to the game getting into it, and enjoying the jank. While I won't spoil anything, I found the comment on all the towns looking the same incredibly funny, and I'm certain you'll learn why sooner rather than later. Beyond that, I would just give the advice of make sure you're getting a full +5 to your Intelligence stat every level up. To my limited knowledge, there is no easy way to quickly regenerate magicka, so it's a useful tool to have a lot of it! With that, all I have left to say is "Welcome, Moon and Star", just as a friend told me when I first started my playthrough.
you can regenerate magicka with enchanting items with restore magicka constant effect. but it takes a serious soul gem with a powerful soul to get it done. so there's no way to do it early that im aware of
I also use OpenMW. I really like some of the options you can toggle on/off in the OpenMW interface. As for your map, you should be able to pin your inventory map so it stays up after you close your inventory. You can also drag the side of it to make it a more manageable size. When you join one of the Great Houses, you can quest to get a stronghold. This is your only official player home. But, if all the occupants of a house are dead, you can sleep in the house with no consequences. And dropping items on the ground will stay there. They won't despawn. I often leave things on the floor of the Balmora mages guild so I don't lose them. Or Caius' house. He doesn't mind. One thing I really like in Morrowind that Oblivion doesn't do is the ability to delete spells from your list. So if you make one, and it doesn't work they way you want, or becomes obsolete for you, you can get rid of it. And if you hear about exploits while researching, OpenMW has gotten rid of the most game breaking ones, like the soul trap glitch.
There are some abandoned houses in Balmora. I don't know if you can enter them (unseen) from the main road, but you certainly can from the roof. Used one close to where Caius Cossades lives. Would roleplay there for a bit sometimes. Taking off armor and just wearing regular clothes. You can make things look nicer by dropping torches and placing bowls, pots and books.
@@Faus4us_Official i always got a levitation staff for my official mages guild staff and used that to fly around. that + boots of blinding speed & a 2 second resist 100% magic spell means you can get most places quite fast. unless you're a beast race then you need some go fast potions. which are fun to stack and make your character so fast it crashes the game
There is a mix of both leveled encounters and static encounters in Morrowind. So like, if you wander around Red Mountain as a level 2 character you're probably not gonna run into hulking corprus beasts or ash slaves often but you will find the lesser corprus stalkers and blighted rats in their place. But if you enter certain caves or ruins there, you'll find enemies meant for at least level 10 characters, as that is a place for end-of-main-quest progression. That is far from the only example but it is the easiest to think of besides Daedric ruins.
Also fatigue is king in this game, keep it close to 100 cause it effects everything, spell chance, hit chance, even to barter power and lockpickig chance. Best word of advice, make/keep restore fatigue potions when you need them in a pinch.
When I was a kid, I lived in the middle of nowhere, had no friends, and was miserable. Morrowind became my best friend. It’s SO good. I wish I could play this again for the first time in that moldy, run down trailer..
I'm so excited to see you play this! I can't wait to see more videos, I've never played Morrowind or had a system to play it on so I'm happy to see this from a creator I enjoy 😊
If you decide to keep playing, and if you really like it, I think it would be really cool if you did a sort of "reaction" or "reflection" to this video where you may explain your own initial thoughts and actions to showcase your knowledge. Like, why you were killed for stealing the helmet vs being arrested in a different area or commenting on your journey throughout the game, reflecting on your initial thoughts/feelings. No pressure if you don't want to or end up not playing more tho! In any case, this video does the 6th house a great honor
What a grand and intoxicating innocence. Morrowind is an amazing game love tye video. You are correct with the skills. For weapons fatigue effects damage and hit chance and make sure you avoid weapons you dont have as majors or minors
Agility will help alot with player speed and better chance of landing hits. For Fast Travel use; Silt Striders, boats, Mark & Recall spells, Mages Guild, and ALMSIVI & Divine Intervention spells. Make sure you use weapons that you chose as Major skills. You can toggle in the options "Use Best Attack" for your weapons. There is alot of good side quest, and alot of bland fetch quest. Same as every other TES game. Have fun you n'wah!!
Very excited for the future video entries from you 😁 Morrowind is an amazing game and there's so much to see and learn. Just gotta be careful because when it clicks it can be very easy to take away all challenge from the game
Morrowind is my all time favorite game so its always great to see other people enjoy it. Im looking towards seeing more Morrowind from you. - Yeah the movement speed at start is slow but it gets better as you level. Many things affect it: your speed stat, athletics skill, how much you are carrying and event the type of armour you are wearing affects it a bit. I think your speed is one of the few things fatigue dosnt affect at all. - Luck stat affects every skill a bit so if you can find enchantments or spells that increase it can be useful. - Spell making is one of the most fun things in Morrowind, but can get expensive if you do it alot. Its fun to experiment with it and unlike in Oblivion you can put same effect multiple times in one spell so you can create some fun combos. - If you ever get too many spells or just spell you dont use any more you can delete them by shift clicking on the spell.
Also once you "learn the game" Morrowind fast travel gets to the point where you can get anywhere in game within 3 minutes. Spoliers You have boats, silt striders, mage guild transportation, scrolls, the spells mark , recall , and two spells that teleport you to the relatively closest imperial temple or dunmer temple. You also have Propylon Indices that take you to 10 different fortresses. And... If you fortify your jump ridiculously high and have a slow fall potion or spell used right before you land, you can jump to anywhere in the map.
Thank you big dawg. I'm hungover and needed this fr. Quite the classic. The older mechanics are a little strange at first, but give it time. The biggest (hardest) part, is the dice-roll combat system. Standing 1 foot from someone and missing every swing can be quite frustrating
Haha I love it! You’re welcome man! Yeah it’s slowly getting better and better that’s for sure! Spoilers for the main playthrough but I’m rolling with a mage, so far so good with it!
@@ABardsBallad looking forward to it 😎. Looking forward to your analysis. Many, myself included, believe Morrowind has the best magic system. I'm looking forward to your thoughts, as a fella coming to it for the first time. No spoilers here bro! Just know you can become real dumb broken. Good fun. Lots of flying. 🤣 Edit; You are correct about Fatigue. It effects your % to land a blow. Also, Magika only regenerates via potion or resting. Good luck man! Just keep chugging, you will certainly get the hang of it.
Mark spell and recall spell will help you mark a location and then return when u want. Scrolls or spell of Almsivi intervention and something else i cant remember will take you to either the nearest Temple or Imperial cult respectively. Always Carry some to use one of these options when you finish a dungeon or quest that takes you far.
the leveling is very similar to oblivion’s! a bit more forgiving maybe. exploration is really rewarded, but since there is no level scaling with enemies you’ll occasionally walk into high level areas
One of the things I really like about MW is that there are powerful weapons and armor laying around even if you are level 1. These can be on people, in shrines or in burial tombs. One of the things that drove me nuts in Oblivion was everyone getting weapons leveled to you, to where everyone has either steel or glass with no mixed equipment. IMO having good stuff ready to go at level 1 really encourages more exploring, because you know there's a chance of getting glass stuff or good enchanted equipment.
Was one of the first computer games I received as a gift from my uncle. I would get home from middle school and play this on my computer in my room at home. My parents thought I begged for that PC for school work, lol. I had never heard of Elder Scrolls though- my uncle just had an idea I would love it. I spend so much time in this world. And even 'cheating' in this game I had fun. I first learned how to modify the stats. So I thought it would be fun to set my acrobatics/jump skill at a HUGE number. I hit space bar and LAUNCHED. But I didn't think about fall damage. You should always consider fall damage. I flew all the way from the opening area to Vivec... and crashed into the ground and died. I don't think I ever laughed so hard. Was the first video game universe I ever experiences that felt "real". Truly was magical.
funny what you said about the controls, I was so used to this setup that when I started playing Skyrim I reset jump to E and interact to the space bar! Kind of forgot about the defaults, actually.
Not sure if it's been mentioned but your fatigue is tied into almost every roll in the game, from hit/dodge/block chance, spell chance, speech checks, lock picking. So you have to be careful with your stamina usage, sometimes that means slow walking between enemies in dungeons or resting for 1 hour if you can get away with it. Also potions and stamina regen spells are helpful.
I'm so stoked about this upcoming adventure! Morrowind has a small learning curve, but once you get over the hurdle it opens up like no other Elder Scrolls game. Oblivion is my comfort, it was my first after all, but Morrowind is a whole other beast
There is a lot you probably don't even realize in a first playthrough or is otherwise hidden. As for the first quest with fargoth, you can hand him the ring for improved reputation with his friend arielle the trader to get cheaper prices. Arielle also improves relation to the slit strider service in that first village, allowing you to travel cheaper from there. Later a different NPC (Hrisskar i think) gives you a quest to steal some tax money from fargoth's hidden stash, which also contains the ring if you gave it back. As for the depth of the sidequests, they are indeed less fleshed out than future games, but there is a lot of non-quest content hidden, (Unique items, unmarked quests, the hunt for daedric armor...)which doesn't get randomly spawned in, so discovering stuff is actually super rewarding and gets you to explore. As for the general tone of the game: morrowind is significantly more hostile than cyrodil, the foreign land itself is hard to traverse and it shows. Makes you think that you actually have to stock up on potions or supplies/repair hammers, which is basically a really soft survival system. You don't have to engage with it from a certain point on, but at the beginning you really need to plan your travels. As for the leveled enemies: there are only a few creatures that level to you, mostly overland creatures that changes what kind of creature is spawned. There is also a certain boss-type monster in the first dlc that can scale health value REALLY hard if you are a somewhat high level character... As for the journal organization, that was a later addon from the dlc i believe, the OG vanilla version did not have that feature iirc. As for the guild/house quest, without spoiling anything keep in mind that some factions actually hate each other and some progress in one guild can have some influence in a different guild... As for the game asthethics, they really start to differ, depending where you are. You see the difference between and imperial fortress and the build style of the local houses, you mostly traveled in hlaalu and redoran control zone so far, which have quite the similar style (hlaalu has a bunch of wooden farm houses on the southeren area of the map) but once you run into telvanni areas you will see how they differ...(just saying lack of stairs...). All those 3 houses are however still dunmer as race, so on the island you won't see that much of a difference( maybe some dwemer and daedra ruins and thombs) but then you move to the northern island solstheim dominated by nords or the capital mournhold and you see significant difference. As for fast travel, there are more or less 5 types you can use: 1.Slit Striders (you have no idea about the nostalgia i had when i saw one in the skyrim dlc) 2. Ships. 3 Mages Guild Teleporter. 4 Spells (Almvisis / divine Intervention, mark and recall get you around quite a lot faster) 5. Propylon Teleport (You can collect items which unlocks the function to teleport between certain fortresses, but collecting the indexes is usually more effort than its worth). You can also use the prision mechanic to get teleported as you showed, but thats not really reliable or practical either. Now for the "how to play the game efficiently" that can mean quite a lot. If i do a casual speedrun, i am done after about 25 minutes. i don't think thats the experience you are looking for. So how about some more practical stuff(This is pure efficiency, you can make everything work, not just what i point out): Don't play beastraces, they can't use most helmets and boots, argonian water breathing is also just a spell and isn't permanent. User friendly races are probably redguard, orc or breton. Breton can make something really cool at the start when combining with the attronach sign making you immune to most magic. There is only 1(2) set daedric armor in game so if you find a piece, keep it (there are some artifacts that are still better). You can stack/loop alchemy quite easily for some crazy effects. There are 2 traders in game that buy items for their actual value(as long as they have the gold for it). Fortifying some skills way beyond 100 is rather easy to do and has some interesting effects. You can make a spell that lowers your own skills for some time for easier training. You can enchant a ring with a 4point permanent healing spell, making you really hard to kill. Knowledge in this game can get you further faster than stats really...
There's an option to find where Fargoth is hiding his gold (and the ring if you give it to him) and you can choose to raid that stash or leave it be. There's a quest in Seyda Neen referencing it, so there's a little bit more to the Fargoth interaction than just choosing whether or not to let him have the ring back.
Basically fatigue level figures in almost all calculations, so best to keep it topped off, especially for use with weapons. So heal, fatigue potions are a must. I also always recommend you buy 2 restore strength potions, as you'll encounter bone walkers in dungeons that will encumber you (removing actual strength levels temporarily), meaning you'll be unable to carry your own weapons and will have to abandon stuff in a pile and walk back naked to buy restore strength potions.
I love how you went in blind and tried to experience as we did back then. The only thing that can't quite be repeated was just how... Insanely original and different it felt back then. A senior in the dorm was the only one who could afford a computer powerful enough for games like Morrowind, so we'd sit in his room and watch him play. He almost never let us play, so we would watch instead. The first time he booted up Morrowind was mind-blowing. I'd never seen an open world game before. Half Life was the most impressive game I'd seen, but it was still totally linear with very limited mechanics. Suddenly, this game offered the player total freedom to go anywhere and do anything. Instead of a maybe a dozen guns to pick from, you had hundreds. You could pick plants, make potions, create your own enchantments--even fly if you wanted. You start out as a nobody in rags that nobody likes, but rise to become a living god. The best part is how "real" it felt and, indeed, feels even now. I've traveled around the world and no other game has captured the "lost in a bizarre place where things clearly have cultural reason, logic, and history, but it's still totally foreign and mysterious. It is a slow burn when you first get started, but it really is worth the effort to get past the beginning. At some point it'll click and you'll suddenly be rocking and rolling and so engrossed and immersed. I still play it on occasion. And still vanilla, but with three quality of life suggestions. 1. Use guides and online help. Even when it came out, most of us had a large map, and later the official physical game guide book, much like online help now. Nothing wrong with that. 2. Get the boots of blinding speed. I think that's what they are called. You have to go through a couple hoops to get them and can't play with certain beast races, i think, but it's so absolutely worth it for impatient people like me that prefer walking, but hate slow walking in Morrowind. 3. Focus the first half hour or so on just leveling up a combat skill so you maximize the points you get (look up how points are distributed in Morrowind), but mainly so your odds of hitting whatever you swing or shoot at actually hits. I'm sure the algorithm is more complex than this, but if you can dump all your maxed out level up points into, say, bow ane arrow, by the time you make it to level 4 or 5 (which is still low), you can have a character with maybe at least a 50/50 chance of hitting enemies. That's sooooooo much less frustrating. Once you get it there, then switch back to other skills. Once you get a fighting skill past a certain point, it feels almost exactly the same as Oblivion or Skyrim. I should note this assumes a fighter or stealth build. I've never done much with magic aside from apocathery and enchanting, both of which are helpful with any build, even at low levels. I also always kept an actual pen and paper handy for taking real notes. It sounds silly now, but was super helpful in those days. And don't be disappointed by how similar stuff feels. It's more diverse than you think. Fin Gleam is also easy to get in the beginning and was always pretty handy.
I've been waiting for your Morrowind content. I've never played it either. If you do what you did with Oblivion I'm pumped. There's a video by Jwlar that I think would explain a lot of the issues and questions you have.
@@ABardsBallad Can't wait! He's only done one Morrowind video but he explained why attacking at the beginning is rough along with the importance of stamina in this game in particular. I watched it last night coincidentally and it seemed like he explained everything you were talking about.
Level one runs are a very similar thing to experiencing it for the first time again but this time your expertise and understanding of the system shapes your experience. It also makes mods that make small changes matter a lot more since you have less tools to work with.
For your skills, only major and minor count towards leveling. But every skill factors into what attributes you can increase.major skills get the largest initial boost and minor skills get a smaller initial boost. For enchanting, theres alot to unpack there. Coffeenut gaming did a great video on it. Its very indepth and theres a bunch of factors that go into enchanting success.
Nice first impressions video! I like how open minded you are about the way Morrowind does things, I find that a lot of people coming from later games don't always take Morrowinds mechanics on their own terms. A couple of quick tips: ° You can pin items in the menu to the screen so that they're visible even when you don't have the menu open - click the box in the top right corner of each menu to toggle this. Very useful for the map in particular ° I see that you're using fire spells a lot. This isn't very effective against Dunmer who have an innate fire resist. Consider diversifying your spells at your local mages guild. ° Most things are based on rng, including speechcraft. The odds of you being successful is usually based on your current fatigue level, including things like bartering and speechcraft as well as how high you jump so make sure to manage your fatigue level! ° A lot of npc:s will give you in character advice about game mechanics if you ask about "little advice", so make sure to do that for some more tips ° Consider reading the games manual. As an old school rpg, Morrowind expects that you might have read the manual first. It's not very long and covers basic game mechanics.
YAAAAAY!!!!!❤ I have waited for this for sooooo long❤ can't wait for this new adventure and of course videos❤ Edit: on the wiki UESP there is a google maps type map to find caves and stuff. It helped me alot during my first playthrough with finding weird buldings. Most NPCS are kinda bad at directions 😅
I hope you enjoy it! Plenty of them to come! I appreciate it yeah I’ve been looking at it after this video and it’s very detailed! Definitely worth using!
pro tip, if you click the little square on the top right of the map in the inventory it stays open when you exit, and you can switch between local/world
I liked the honest impressions by going blind into the best TES game ever made. You had a great attitude compared to most UA-camrs who've done similar videos. Morrowind is the gift that keeps on giving.
You can take ships to various cities and villages around the coast. I recommend to visit the city of Vivec and nearby fortress of Ebonheart for sightseeing. Also, make sure to visit any Telvani town, you'll reconsider your everything looks the same viewpoint.
Concise and consecutive is exactly the way the journal works. Concise information regarding the completed quest stage, and consecutive to the last journal entry. Regardless which quest that one was about. And it is concise, quest stage entries tell you the short of it. You can still click the blue text to get more information on the topic.
Fatigue affects EVERYTHING. It's not just combat and running speed. Low fatigue hurts your chance to cast spells. It hurts NPC reactions. It makes prices higher. It's a crazy useful stat. I can't wait to see you get into custom spells and custom enchanting. This game is difficult to a point for new players, but you can become a literal god level character. Enchanted items make up for low magicka. Also, do a but of everything. Take one melee weapon to offset your spellcasting. Take a skill for every attribute. Diversify for an easier time of being a better overall character.
Watch your fatigue. It determines how successful all rolls are. Rest, not wait, will replenish magicka. As for Fargoth, go upstairs in Arrille’s trade house and talk to Hrisskar. Go search the land around Seyda Neen. Glad you liked it!
My oh my, what would i give to experience Morrowind for the first time again😊did it for Skyrim, im still up for the first step into the story of Dragonborn
I will try to give you some tips to whwre find good stuff to nake your gameing experience a bit more enjoyable: 1. Idk if you found it out yet, but you couldnt hit anything with your dagger cus you had like 5 points in short blade, basicly if you want to hit anything (or cast spells) you need to have high coresponding atribute 2. Complete Edwina Elbert quests(i think she was named like that) in ald'ruhn mages guild to get super op intervention amulets (one with temple one with divine) 3. In caldera there is lombard (i think it was lombard) there is shop owner with recal amulet, with that you could forget about trying to cast recal yourself for like 5 mins (still you would have to mark location but 1 part will be easier) Mark and recal are one of best transportation spells in game which allows you to mark one place and then teleport back to it with nearly no downside 4. In caldera there is scamp who is merchant in building where orks live (forgot name sorry), with 5k gold and 100% sell and buy ratio so if you sell item worth 1k you get 1k 5. in cave (illunibi, this cave you will later know better by doing main quest line, dont want to spoiler anything) there are fists of randengulf behind one of six house containers at wnd of dungeon and they are great + near bells is six house bell hammer worth 5k 6.bound weapons are OP, they are daedric (basicly best ones in game) they weight NOTHING AND they give 10+ atribute (like bound spear gives +10 spear atribute), you can get a lot of these spells in balmoras mages guild 7. Try to complete side quest where you need to find ring in a pond because its one of a kind in whole tes series, also it rewards with very very good amulet of chameleon Next tips will be about hidden armor or weapons so if you dont want to run with like ebony sword at level 1 you can skip it (or just sell it) 1. you can get "free" armor in calderas place where orks live on top floor is crate with orcish amor and if you take it some orks will say something like "THIEF" but wouldnt attack you (idk if openmw fixes that but you can try) 2. on top of one of closets in balmoras towers is ebony sword which is worth like 12k (there is guard near so you need to hide behind pillar) 3. In caldera mages guild there is a door that leads upstairs and there is whole master alchemy equipment to "borrow" because there is no one up here to see your stealing as said idk if you will read this but it would help you a lot
You have a really nice, relaxed attitude towards the jankiness of Morrowind, it's cool to see. I was _not_ this zen when I first played (but then, I didn't read the manual and was playing on og Xbox so there were frustrations!). Stick with it-the nuance and character of the game come out through story and dialogue rather than the limited graphical palette, as with many early 3d games made by small teams. The gameplay loop and design are not actually that different from other Bethesda games, just more granular and D&D influenced. You can totally see the bones of Skyrim (and even the Fallouts) in Morrowind.
I’m so glad you picked up MW. I spent 100’s of hours on it back in the day when it came out. All I’d say is take your time, some of the information you’ll be given is outright wrong (NPC’s giving directions etc). In alchemy, Marshmerrow and Wickwheat are very much your friends and be careful what you pick up and where you sleep. It’s very easy to get those two things wrong and wonder what the hell you did! Also, if you’ve downloaded the Tribunal expansion, the Dark Brotherhood assassin who attacks you fairly early on has useful beginner armour. The assassin attack also repeats and the armour is a great source of coin. Other than that, enjoy what is one of the best games ever created.
I appreciate the information! Funny enough, I’ve already begun making the main quest video and have been attacked so many times by a random assassin, which I’ve just now learned is from the dark brotherhood! 😂 I was so confused lol
In my final ultimate play through of Morrowind (original Xbox) I disposed of all the corpses thinking it may decrease the load on the systems memory. Beautiful game, I explored every tile of the game world, did every quest, drank a potion jumped from Morrowind to Solstheim, then swam back. Made a potion so bonkers my intelligence froze the xbox. I miss the ability to fly in ES games.
Some info about the game: at the start you can also select a menu in which you answer some roleplaying questions instead of just choosing your class or making a new made class. Its quite fun and really satisfies the roleplaying people since this option is not really available in Oblivion or Skyrim. Also another point but about fatigue since you were wondering, in Morrowind you can actually get knocked down by NPCs with a high hand to hand skill and you can't get up unless you get your fatigue bar full again with propably restore fatigue potions. If your knocked down and can't get up its basically like being paralysed and you start taking damage untill you die. I think Oblivion also doesn't have this thing.
Adam Sessler on Xplay gave this a 5/5 and my 13 year old brain had to have it. I spent my paper route money every week renting an original Xbox from Family Video, marveling over other people's save files. Still playing this unmodded to this day. A Game At Dinner with Rett and Lee is a fine podcast for Morrowind fanatics.
The best thing about Morrowind ia the immersion. The world isnt designed for fun or to be a game. Its a real world. Towns and points of interest aren't equally placed everywhere. The game also has systems that can be abused. Its not about balance or being easy. The game is just immersive.
"Heavy" attacks are always better and if you want to do any amount of melee, go into the settings and turn on always best attack to maximise your damage per hit. It's a little goofy the way it works, but when you get the hang of it and you get a character going, it feels better than Oblivion, even if only because you'll be knocking enemies down left and right. As for magic, maybe look up the race bonuses or you might end up wasting a bunch of magicka hitting dark elves with fireballs despite their 75% resistance. Most important tip I can give you though is to have fun!
Tip for first time players - use spears and medium armor to level endurance early on or use trainers. Endurance determines how much health you gain on each level up.
Timeless. The most idiosyncratic art direction, unorthodox atmosphere & immersive experience in The Elder Scrolls. Dagoth Ur memes are eternal. Nostalgia (for simpler times)
You're community seems to have given you most of what you need to know. The only thing I'd put out there is that the big quests that are side content is in the factions. Most independent side content in the base game is like giving Fargoth his ring. You also have some Deadric Quests but not for the whole pantheon. Don't expect a Meridia quest for example. I really don't know your class because I had this as second monitor stuff while I'm at work so I'd suggest going for a faction that's similar to your class. Also I'd suggest looking up the Great Houses to figure out which one you'll play because they are mutually exclusive. You seem to be mage mostly so go House Telvani, or the ANCAP wizards if you're turned into our odd little community.
Magicka and health will not auto-regen, you need to rest to restore both OR use potions (which are fairly easy to craft if you know the vendor to go to for ingredients and have basic alchemy skills). Trying to cast magic or attack while out of stamina is not advised; the game debuffs your chances to hit or succeed casting significantly. Even though it's slow, I'd walk everywhere until in combat, then switch to running so you can use a full stamina bar.
If I had 3 genie wishes one of them would be "I wanna experience Morrowind again like the first time I booted it up in 2002"
Pretty funny story actually. My parents bought me the English version by mistake and I knew almost no English at this time in my life. Instead of complaining I grabbed myself a dictionary and had a "Fun with English in Morrowind" experience. Worked like a charm for me.
That’s really neat actually! A very fun way to learn a second language! 😂
searching for N'wah and Swit must've been an adventure in and of itself
I also remember playing Morrowind before knowing any English, but I didn't have a dictionary so I completely forgot about Elder Scrolls till Oblivion :)
it really was a grand, intoxicating innocence back then.
That's the spirit! I personally hate my polish versions of the games. I remember after playing Mass Effect english version on xbox 360 I accidently bought a polish localisation of the second one. It was horrible, the only character I loved was cpt. Bailey by Maciej Maleńczuk, a polish singer, and as far as I hate him as a real person his voice performance was near the original, and I love it to this day. The rest? When I've heard polish Miranda and what's his face in the intro I was: "nope,nope, God,no!", and I was searching for the original version ASAP. I know I'm strange, but on the other hand they always use the famous wooden voice actors that I'm sick of so I will stick to the originals.😆
i like these 1st playthroughs; no meta-character; just some guy that hasn't seen a bonewalker yet.
im pretty excited for more.
😂😂😂 I’ve heard many people mention bone walkers but have no idea what they are! Idk if I should be excited or nervous 😂
@@ABardsBallad Neither.
You should be afraid.
Only greater variant. Those are nightmare fuel.
@@ABardsBallad oh it definitely will have you standinggg
@@ABardsBallad Those suck really bad, they will debuff you to the point where you'll become overencumbered and can't move.
Something to remember: there are no random encounters in MW. Any NPC you encounter has been placed and tasked. Even bandits have names, unlike Skyrim. So the dead dude you found with the skooma pipe? He'll always be right there.
Also, you making the choice to jump off the main quest and wander after meeting Caius is actually the first thing that he tells you to do. The man has a sweet tooth, but he does want you to be ready for the shit he's about to send you to do.
There are spawns on the overworld which feel like random encounters and they respawn*
FTFY
Monster are random encounters bandits are not.
I’m actually as right now playing Morrowind for the first time. I’m level 41 and I can say that the game makes you feel you earned the experience. I can say with confidence this is my favorite TES game.
That’s awesome to hear! I’m really looking forward to playing more through it!
@@ABardsBallad I hope you do like in Oblivion and show us the different outcomes of the quest. Enjoy
It is the best one. The world is your oyster. (Btw for escort quests, use fortify speed on the slow followers)
@@majormarketing6552 I'm honestly a little ashamed that I never thought to get a fortify speed spell specifically for this reason. That should be at the top of all of those 'top 10 tips for playing morrowind' listicles.
@@OzzyDiazB thank you from all of us who cherish this game with all its shortcomings.
the most important thing you need to know is that scribs are adorable, harmless, and only a monster would ever hurt them, so turn yourself in to the ordinators
Sorry, can’t, killed them all(ordinator) with my custom max fire damage/damage health spell, Merbliterator
absolutely. Don't go killing everything just because you can. They are harmless and useful so why?
scribs and kwama critters are very useful for training armor skills. just give em a light tap to get em attacking you and wait for your skills to rise. and you dont get a bunch of diseases from them like you do from rats
A few quick notes for those new to Morrowind:
* Magicka doesn’t auto-replenish. You need to either rest or drink a potion to get it back. If you choose the Atronach sign, only potions or absorbing incoming spells will restore it. The chance to absorb spells is never 100% and is controlled by the Mysticism skill. Alchemy, therefore, is an absolutely essential skill to have.
* The Fatigue meter affects not only your likelihood to hit the target with a melee weapon but also whether or not a spellcast succeeds or fails.
* Trainers are an essential in the early game, especially for melee classes. At the start you spend a lot of time “swinging at air”, but when your skill improves to level 50 or above, you miss far less often.
* Weapons and gear can wear out with use. Once their condition reaches zero they are automatically unequipped and must be repaired. This makes the Armorer skill another must. Repair requires an armorer’s hammer, which can be bought in towns or found in loot. They also keep a supply in the chest at the Fighters Guild halls.
* All skills have governing attributes (Strength, Agility, Intelligence etc). You cannot improve a skill higher than its governing attribute, so when you are leveling, you need to plan carefully which skills to improve that will let you get the max number of “chits” that you can apply to the attribute you want to increase (which is 5) each time you level up.
* Get a good printed map of Vvardenfell somewhere. The original game came with a large detailed map and guides for new players starting out. They were sorely needed.
* Enchanting is absurdly, hilariously overpowered, especially at higher skill levels. That is probably why the “master” level Enchanting skill trainer is in a very hard to reach location, and is also hostile to you when you first visit him. You have to sneak up on him and cast a Calm spell just to speak to him.
Good luck!
Let me add onto this that fatigue not only affects fighting, but (nearly) everything you do. If youre exhausted and a lock tells you that you need a higher security skill, wait until youre full and try again, you might be able to pick it. The few things that (i think) arent affected by it are alchemy, enchanting, speechcraft and (ironically) your movement.
Also, levelling endurance early is a big boon, as the max HP gains on level up (which scale with END) do not apply retroactively.
You dont need to have alchemy as a skill as magicka potions are plentiful, and its probably easier to buy it from a restocking merchant anyway. Neither is armorer, in fact regardless of your level, if you have a number of hammers youll be able to repair it to full regardless of whether its one of your major's/minor's. I say this because alchemy and armorer are my two throw away skills, skills i pick if i cant think of anything else, far from being essential.
I miss those old maps.
There are SO many factions, i could see SEVERAL videos about each one with the amount of detail
That’s awesome! I’m looking forward to covering all of them then!
@@ABardsBalladcan’t wait to see you cover them bro your the best oblivion channel!
look up PatricianTV. exactly what you requested
Legion, standard guilds (fighter, mages, thieves), noble factions (Redoran, Telvanni, Hlaalu), temple, Imperial church, Morag Tong (pretty much legal assassins guild). So 10 in the base game that dont require main story progression. Gonna be alot of videos.
The Imperial Church is probably my favorite because you can pick different quests depending on your character build through which Divine you follow, for instance, Stendarr sect is going to have you fighting alot, Zenithar sect is asking for donations, etcetera.
Side quests can be deceptive in MW since they don't point you to every piece. In the Fargoth ring quest, for example, there is a Nord in the tradehouse who wants you to find Fargoth's stash. You can lie to Fargoth about his ring, and then accept the job to find his stash and steal his money, then just run off with both without ever completing it. If you give Fargoth his ring he'll place it in the stash, giving you an extra chance to swipe it. Then if you really want, you can go back to the Nord and give him the money you found, and he pays you a share, you know, if you really want to clear the quest.
Since these are set up as separate mini quests, rather than one long quest that loops you through stages, it's easy to miss pieces if you don't talk to everyone.
There are also freeform quests. As an example, there is one where, if you find all the keys to some scattered teleporter chambers, it will initiate a quest to find a master key. Of course, you have no idea this is a thing until you've found them all (also, iirc it was added in a patch or an expansion, but you get the idea).
Came to say this. Morrowind quests are actually very complex compared to Oblivion and Skyrim.
Add to that, some are mutually exclusive depending on various attributes or affiliations and you have a ton of options that can affect how you choose to do things down the line.
Fatigue influences almost every dice roll like your chance to cast spell, make potion or land a hit
That makes a lot of sense! I appreciate it! Even for spells eh? That’s a new one for me!
@@ABardsBallad This includes bartering as well. Generally it is best to wait to get your fatigue up before interacting with a merchant.
@@ABardsBallad Yes every check
You know when you are exhaused in real life your mind also work slower so its kinda realistic
@@wololopurgisnacht sneak checks also falls in this category
@@ABardsBallad and some of settlements looks almost the same couse its architectual style of the great house or faction based on location for example Balmora and suran looks a like couse its house hlallu area
Seyda neen looks like Caldera couse of imperial influence
Southern and Western Morrowind is Hlallu
Centre is Redoran
Northern and Eastern is Telvanni
Every of said area also got Imperial outpost in form od fort
House Indorill holds Vivec
House Dagoth is 6th of the 7 houses and they are hiding as cultists in caves and old chimer and dunmeri fortresses
Other houses are Dres and Sadras operating on the mainland Morrowind
Only 5 houses can be at the great councli which runs Morrowind
3rd era are Hlallu, Redoran, Telvanni, Dres, Indorill
4th era are Sadras, Redoran Telvanni, Dres, Indorill
Hlallu was kicked out due to Oblivion crisis when they did nothing to protect Morrowind and Sadras took their place but am sure you arleady known if you played Skyrim dragonborn dlc
one thing people tend to mention a lot is the combat system. But it is by no means bad, just different. It's not player skills that matter, but character skills. Much like in other older RPGs.
It doesn't matter much if you personally have incredible reflexes, if your character is bad at fighting with a sword, your character will miss a lot.
The big disconnect comes from combining those character-based mechanics with a 3D first person view.
Oh, and remember that the game back in the day came with an extensive manual and a map. So for the real "like back then" experience, you'll want those at hand, even if its only as a pdf. The manual also explains the menus, controls, fatigue, and major, minor and misc skills. It also has some overview about classes, different weapon types, equipment slots, magic including example spells, spellmaking and enchanting.
But hey, you got the authentic Morrowind experience. Including constantly being low on fatigue, making the air your main melee target, and running from cliffracers.
Only thing missing is getting lost in Vivec.
I appreciate all of the information! I’m looking forward to getting to experience and learn about all of this! Also very true I did get the authentic Morrowind experience lol
no, its bad, not just different - its just plain bad - the combat in all games after Daggerfall are bad. I mean, DF can be called bad too, but its 2D sprites swinging (etc.) at each other, so that hides a lot of nonsense and lets your brain just get past it. Once they went full 3D, it has been pretty crap, outside of spells of course (because those just act, generally speaking, like a fps of sorts) and none of the fully 3D versions of ES games have good melee without mods - and Skyrim heavily modded gets it the best way. If I am timing swings in real time and connecting the model of me weapon with an enemies body matters - then it's not old school rpg at all - its really time. Perhaps some game do something akin to an old school system, but a cRPG system is about the character and your real-time skill matter not at all. In ALL 'modern' ES games, your skill mater a lot. Sure, its not imaginary version of DS that people have in their heads, or even the reality of those games - but real time at all.
Dark Age: Origins is old school combat - ES sort of never was, and really became not at all with Morrowind. However, Morrowind fanboys cannot handle ANY critique of the game, so even its shoddy melee combat (which was massively upgrade with one of the most popular mods for the game) is somehow "good", and people hide behind "old school" and other damage control to... damage control it. If your going to put a person in first person and show 3d models colliding, trying to hide behind stats with tons of wiffs is bad design, I might add.
Morrowind is great, but also loaded with plenty of flaws, like literally every single entry in the series - but you fanboys don't care about reality, you care about warped, post-truth dream world - and for the most part, you are the most toxic part of the bethesda fanbase/anti-bethesds fanbase.
Ya know, the fact that you felt so strongly about this that you needed to write an essay shows that you have more issues than the so called "fanboys". Irony is such a delicious dish.@@xBINARYGODx
I typically use BG3 as a good example of what Morrowind does. The only difference is that Morrowind uses the character skill idea more than feats.
No, the disconnect comes from the fact that the enemies only show animations for getting hit and none for when you miss. It has nothing to do with the first-person view.
LETS GO BABY WE ENDING THE BLIGHT WITH THIS ONE!!!!!
I'm so happy to see you playing my favorite TES game.
Let’s gooo! I appreciate you! I hope you enjoy this one! Spoiler alert, I really like the game! 😂 also I believe this time I got your name right! 👀
@@ABardsBallad oh dude im so glad. this game is pretty outdated but its got a ton of charm with how little it holds your hand.
@@ABardsBallad also, if you're ever interested, I'd love to see about making a discord server for this channel.
Many of Oblivion's voice actors also voiced NPC's in Morrowind.
Yes I noticed that! It was super cool to hear all of the OGs (in the og game 😂)!
This game has my favourite way to introduce the main quest (slight spoiler for your first meeting with Caius Cosades that I don't think you saw). When he offers you the main quest and you accept (I think this is where you left it by refusing), he gives you an out and a lore friendly way to go off on your own and do your own thing away from the MQ without it being a forced choice.
Skyrim kind of does this when you are told "we should probably split up" after escaping the starter dungeon, but you kind of have to ignore the quite obvious peril and Oblivion rams the peril down your throat with the "YOU MUST DO THIS THING!" before you even leave the tutorial.
Morrowind and the Caius meeting doesn't even hint that there is a peril in the first place. So when you have this meeting and you accept, he gives you a solid reason for not doing the quest right away and instead to go off and do your own thing so you get a better understanding of what Vvardenfell is all about. He even tells you what all the more obvious options are (info about guilds and stuff). Only by ignoring this advice and demanding that you begin the main quest does he start you off on it, so you'll know at what point you are actually starting (or refusing) the main quest.
Note if you back to him at higher levels, he'll deem you strong enough to continue the quest without the second chance refusal as he's not meeting some chump that has literally just got off the boat (and probably is still wearing prison clothes).
I know a lot of folks do what you did, but you are not only missing out of some lore and more insight into Caius, but also some extra friends you have around the island that you won't know about until later when you don't need them. If you are still at a low level, go back and ask to start the MQ (save beforehand incase you are too high level) as it will give you at least some direction from where to go and explain so you at least understand why you end up at Imperial prison cells or get killed instantly for theft. Caius is your friend.
I love the pacing of morrowind's main quest that felt way more realistic than skyrim and oblivion which have a "False Urgency" throughout. "You have to do this NOW!" No I don't if I wanted I could just go do some quests and wait the whole game before I do it, this creates a disconnect between the gameplay and story whereas in morrowind they were intertwined. Theres no real "Go do this NOW!" point in Morrowinds MQ, its always caius giving you missions that he literally tells you to do at your own pace, even when the mq has some urgency it does not fake it like the later games.
@@MrRattlebones640 The way the threat shows up is also natural as at first, all the creatures and people around the island are healthy. The threat then begins to reveal itself as you go about playing your own faction quests and eventually the threat becomes impossible to ignore. All of this without narration, quest markers, or prodding like what happened with other games.
I understand why they changed things in later games as the devs basically explained as much on the original official forums. So many players got lost, didn't follow clues and instead wanted to be told specifically what they had to do before they'd do it. Very few other games treated the players with that kind of respect to their intelligence and were essentially trained by other games to play without thinking. The follow the quest icon trope has to exist or lots of people get confused.
The Dwemer puzzle box was a notorious stumbling block for so many because players were not noticing the room it was in as you had to look up to see the door and that was a completely unknown gameplay "mechanic" for so many in particular console gamers, used to looking at the ground in front of their player characters and not the world around them.
It is said that society has to run at the speed of the slowest people and games also too have to follow that rule. just look at all the great games made by studios that went bankrupt years ago. To survive you have to go simple, sadly (Though hopefully BG3's success will convince them that they've gone too far in that direction and we collectively can deal with more complex games now - sorry for the rant).
Something VERY important to keep in mind with melee combat in Morrowind is that melee damage is not random, but rather based on the amount of time you spend winding up the attack.
What that means is that if you spam the attack button with something like an iron battle axe, you will be attacking for 1 damage a swing (modified by stats) and burning your fatigue rapidly. This will compound with the slower fatigue regen of the game, the relative defense mechanics, and your chance to miss and cause you to have a horrible time meleeing.
If you instead hold down the attack button until your animation has completed its wind up, you’ll be attacking for 28 damage a swing (modified by stats) and can regenerate fatigue between attacks as you are attacking more slowly. That is 28x the damage and it is possible to do less than 1 point of damage, so it could be an even higher effective multiplier. This is also why hit chance is fine at about 50%. You should be able to 1-3 hit KO almost every enemy in the game with standard gear, except boss and miniboss monsters.
Almost everyone knows fatigue matters a lot in Morrowind, but fully charging your Melee attacks is a much lesser known and just as critical piece of information you’re expected to know by the game designers.
Please make sure to wind up all your attacks to maximum damage and try to maintain a high striking damage with weapons. Morrowind punishes low attack power values heavily.
That is actually incredibly useful to know! I really appreciate it!
@@ABardsBallad Great comment. Also (surely mentioned elsewhere) every weapon has an optimum attack-Axes chop, spears and daggers stab and swords slash. Employing the best attack for the weapon you're using hugely increases damage output and player movement decides it: standing still allows a chop, strafing a slash and forwards-backwards a stab. Along with the wind-up time, it does a good job of selling the combat style of each weapon. It's possible to toggle the option to always use the best attack regardless of movement making things easier to the detriment of nuance. I like the fact moving around to get position/avoid your attacker forces you to use sub-optimal attacks sometimes. It makes you more aware of the environment and choosing the best spaces to fight with the weapon you have equipped.
@@ABardsBallad It’s a major issue with Morrowind players ancient, old, and new. A lot of people end up modding the melee combat system because they have the experience you had here with the rat and other mobs in melee.
They have no idea just how many things they’re doing to fight the system and making it worse for themselves. Spamming low power attacks is only useful with enchanted weapons, since it lets you apply the effect rapidly over and over, but otherwise its extremely detrimental to combat performance.
Try making a generic Redguard, class Warrior, born under the Warrior and grabbing a high damage one or two handed sword in town then walking over to Adamasartus cave near the silt strider and taking some swings at the smugglers there. Keep your fatigue full and wind up the attacks to full power using your best attack style (chop/slash/thrust). It’ll only take a few minutes.
Try it again on the exact same character and weapon using nothing but light attacks instead (tap the attack button) while also being empty on fatigue from nonstop running and jumping. The difference in experience will illustrate what I mean more than any text explanation can. Just watch the difference in the amount of swings it takes to kill and the difference in encounter time.
There are a lot of systems and features in Morrowind most people are inexperienced with, even long time players. Enchanting is another big one as is spellmaking.
For example, it is very easy to craft your own 1mp cast on use trinkets using petty soul gems and cliff racer souls.
Enchanted items regenerate one point of their own magicka reserves every 20 seconds of play time. Resting in-game will also refill enchanted items quickly as well as your own magicka reserves. You can make many very useful simple 1mp trinkets in the game to heal you or deal damage for you or for utility effects, effectively giving you access to multiple magicka bars that all regenerate on the fly. Most people never utilize this system, instead prioritizing struggling to make constant effect enchantments or extremely high power enchantments. These usually need quite a bit of exploitation and metagaming along with savescumming to get working.
I could go on forever but I’ll stop here, haha. Good luck on your adventure!
Ok so counter point: jinxblade,+short sword, attack speed build. You are spamming out jinxblade until a stun lands, then swap to the normal sword swing for power, when the stun wears off swap back to jinxblade. Also flee builds, cast a jump spell, power up the hit, jump to the opponent, smash him, jump out (my favorite weapon for this is spear). Join the fighters guild and mages guild teleport around and take all the free guild potions, it helps to have health, fatigue, and mana pots that can restore all of said resource.
@@ABardsBallad Potions are the goat in this game, don't hoard them-and if you're a magic user, experiment! :) Almsivi and Divine Intervention (spells/scrolls) are like town portal spells in Diablo-essential for every character (the tutorial trader mentions this-also, consider the disposition upgrade you get with him for Fargoth's ring, it's not bad)
I can see the confusion if you come from Oblivion on the major/minor/misc skills thing. Minor skills still contribute towards leveling, but do not get as high of a starting bonus to said skill. Misc skills do not contribute to your level progress, like minor skills in Oblivion. All-in-all, good to see ya coming around to the best (no bias from me at all lol) TES game.
Navigation has a lot of tools to use other than just boats/silt striders, like divine/almsivi intervention scrolls and spells, mark and recall, etc. Though these definitely rely a bit on you memorizing where said temples are for intervention. As far as fatigue, yes in morrowind it has a large impact on chance to hit, and so does your agility stat, luck stat, and skill with said weapon class. If you have 10 in short blade, good luck hitting much of anything with a dagger, etc. There is level scaling, kind of. When you are at higher level you can encounter some higher level enemies out in the world, but other enemies, such as in dungeons, and NPCs, have a fixed level. It's definitely worth the chore of learning the game, hope you continue to enjoy it, and excuse the ramblings of a Morrowboomer.
I appreciate all of the insight! Read it all and noted! I’ll likely be looking further to the Morrowboomers for the best possible directions lol!
Don't forget the Propylon Chambers in the old strongholds.
@@DancesRainyStreets And the Mages Guild porters. Honestly, it's funny seeing people complain about the lack of fast travel in Morrowind. There's like 7 different kinds, they just require a little finesse to use well.
It takes three in-game days for corpses to despawn on their own. With the hardware available at the time of release, leaving the game littered with dead bodies could eventually impact performance and bloat the size of the save files, so the option was given to dispose of the corpses yourself.
NPCs are placed with fixed levels, but monsters and animals encountered in dungeons and in the wilderness are usually leveled. However, leveling affects what creature is encountered rather than making specific creatures more powerful. For example, a daedra encountered in a ruin could be anything from a scamp to a golden saint, depending on your level.
it is very satisfactory for a person little used to combat to manage to improve enough that the sight of a rat doesn't send you in a panic anymore 😊
In my eyes, Morrowind is the standard for Elder Scrolls. It's unfortunate that the newer TES games lack many of the mechanics and RPG elements that made Morrowind amazing. However, I don't hold that against the newer games. Morrowind saved BGS and the TES series, and because of that, I have a lot of respect for the game and the people who worked on it. I'm very glad to see that you were able to enjoy Morrowind and hope to see more videos on it!!!
Yeah I can only imagine that going from Morrowind to Oblivion is as crazy as a jump as going from Oblivion to Morrowind! I’m really excited to hop into it!
And then there is Daggerfall, the fantasy life simulator...
@@HappyBeezerStudios modded morrowing has alot of the features that didn't make the jump from daggerfall.
ridable guar/guar taming; guar cart; ashfall; weapon sheathing; mantling (climbing mod that allows you to pull yourself up any ledge no matter how small; i think it scales with agility).
idk about banking; but that for daggerfall is just a free 1mil since they disabled the negatives. but hey; free boat.
@@ShishouDzukiZaManako ok, well modded later games crap all over Morrowind vanilla - mods are great, but once we bring them into the equation, the base games almost dont even matter anymore and its really a comparison of mods, more or less.
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are you dumb or something?
"And then there is Daggerfall, the fantasy life simulator..."
my reply was merely stuff that added features from daggerfall and i said as much with no comparison... so idk what you are on about.
A note for the combat--while the dice rolls might make you think movement isn't important, it's arguably even more broken than in Oblivion or Skyrim. You and the opponent still have to "hit" the enemy model for your attack to roll, and different weapons/spells have different ranges. It feels intuitive to stand still and roll the dice but you can absolutely swing fights in your favor with good movement especially once your speed/athletics are leveled up.
As far as navigation, the game originally came with a fold out paper map that had cities and some POIs on it. You would absolutely not be cheating having an image of that up to give you general directions as that is what we all did back in the day. There are a lot of options for travel, especially from places rather than to them, but I won't spoil them! Awesome video and good luck!
I am a simple N'Wah. I see Morrowind content, I click, I like, I happy. ❤
A large part of the world navigation in Morrowind, was the physical map, which came with the game, you had of the game world. It's insanely detailed and got all path and caves marked. Almost all individual buildings too. I will recommend you finding it online and have it on hand. It will greatly argument your experience.
Also, I don't know if your mana issue comes from the startsign chosen. There is one, which gives like 3x max mana, however, it disable your ability to regen it naturally. So you will require potions and scrolls to regain, which is a huge hurdle and can often become a big issue.
To hit consistently, keep your fatigue near full. Also only use weapons your skilled (30 minimum). Once you begin losing stamina your hit chance starts to go down.
Casting is the same. At full stamina your cast chance is the highest.
I appreciate it! It’s still crazy to me that stamina affects magicka lands too! A very interesting mechanic!
@@ABardsBalladThis makes so much sense to me as when tired, I can't even talk properly! This and the fact that you have to find out where things are by asking people or reading books are what made me enjoy Morrowind and dislike Oblivion and Skyrim. Remember that opening every book you come across is very beneficial as some can increase one of your skills, others will clarify past history and they will immerse you into this world.
@@ABardsBallad well if you think about it its harder to do most things when you're out of breath. imagine doing an exam right at the end of sprinting when you're out of breath
The only mechanic worth discussing for new players is that the combat skills should be reasonably leveled and your fatigue plays a HUGE role in everything. Persuasion, combat, spellcasting, etc. Everything else I think is worth discovering.
I'd also add that while the game does tell you what your chance to successfully cast a spell is, a similar calculation is run every time you attack and you never know what your chance to hit is. I've seen a lot of people erroneously conclude that they are doing something wrong or that the game is broken because they are attacking something and still missing and either not making the connection that it's essentially a dice-roll or taking forever to understand.
@@Ichthyodactyl 9 times out of ten its probably because most people pick up the iron dagger in the tutorial when they havent put short blade as a major or minor skill and then use it as if its skyrim where you arent punished AT ALL for using weapons you arent skilled in. When i first played, i picked dark elf and put long blade in my major skills and then was confused because i was hitting 75% of the time and wondered what the fuss was about.
I haven't stopped playing morrowind since I first tried it 10 years ago. Love to see someone start their journey. I heavily encourage you to look into tamriel rebuilt!
yes, recently started playing multiplayer on tes3mp with my wife, having TR is so nice, its all new to her and i get something new too
I like using the taunt option, if you successfully taunt 5 times, the npc will attack you, and you can kill them without getting a bounty ^_^
That’s wicked 😂 I’ll have to try that one out!
You can also kill an npc without any bounty if there are no witnesses around
yeah you can just spam taunt on someone you want to get rid of. you'll succeed enough eventually
Taunting is the easiest way to get some of the best armor if you have the tribunal dlc. Simply taunt the ordinators and royal guards. You need to be a high level or boost your charisma or speech skill however to even get a reaction other than their disposition dropping. The royal guards have the best medium armor, the ordinators at Mournhold one of the best heavy armors but don't wear the helmet or breastplate or you're gonna get attacked by every guard in the capital, also in the capital of Vardenfell. The gauntlets are pretty useful for their enchanting value however.
Fast Travel
Almsivi Intervention takes you to Tribunal Temples
Divine Intervention takes you to Imperial Temples
Recall takes you to where you last casted Mark
i think you can set the game to autosave on entry too; but can't remember for sure
Ahh I appreciate it! I’ll have to especially take a look into the autosave!
As someone who finished his first playthrough of Morrowind less than a week ago, it's awesome to see others new to the game getting into it, and enjoying the jank. While I won't spoil anything, I found the comment on all the towns looking the same incredibly funny, and I'm certain you'll learn why sooner rather than later.
Beyond that, I would just give the advice of make sure you're getting a full +5 to your Intelligence stat every level up. To my limited knowledge, there is no easy way to quickly regenerate magicka, so it's a useful tool to have a lot of it! With that, all I have left to say is "Welcome, Moon and Star", just as a friend told me when I first started my playthrough.
you can regenerate magicka with enchanting items with restore magicka constant effect. but it takes a serious soul gem with a powerful soul to get it done. so there's no way to do it early that im aware of
I also use OpenMW. I really like some of the options you can toggle on/off in the OpenMW interface. As for your map, you should be able to pin your inventory map so it stays up after you close your inventory. You can also drag the side of it to make it a more manageable size.
When you join one of the Great Houses, you can quest to get a stronghold. This is your only official player home. But, if all the occupants of a house are dead, you can sleep in the house with no consequences. And dropping items on the ground will stay there. They won't despawn. I often leave things on the floor of the Balmora mages guild so I don't lose them. Or Caius' house. He doesn't mind.
One thing I really like in Morrowind that Oblivion doesn't do is the ability to delete spells from your list. So if you make one, and it doesn't work they way you want, or becomes obsolete for you, you can get rid of it.
And if you hear about exploits while researching, OpenMW has gotten rid of the most game breaking ones, like the soul trap glitch.
I really appreciate all of the information! Good to know with OpenMW as well as that items don’t despawn on the floor!
The soul trap glitch is dark magic not a bug!
There are some abandoned houses in Balmora. I don't know if you can enter them (unseen) from the main road, but you certainly can from the roof. Used one close to where Caius Cossades lives. Would roleplay there for a bit sometimes. Taking off armor and just wearing regular clothes. You can make things look nicer by dropping torches and placing bowls, pots and books.
"Switching to your fists is faster than recasting." - a Spellfist
Honestly this sounds like very useful advice! 😂
@@ABardsBallad Why walk when you can fly? Here is a formula for levitation.
1 magnitude + 11 duration = 1 magicka per cast
@@Faus4us_Official you are a lifesaver. I needed to fly all over Vvardenfell constantly.
@@Faus4us_Official i always got a levitation staff for my official mages guild staff and used that to fly around. that + boots of blinding speed & a 2 second resist 100% magic spell means you can get most places quite fast. unless you're a beast race then you need some go fast potions. which are fun to stack and make your character so fast it crashes the game
I cant express how excited this makes me!
I’m really glad to hear it! I’m super excited to be playing through it!
There is a mix of both leveled encounters and static encounters in Morrowind. So like, if you wander around Red Mountain as a level 2 character you're probably not gonna run into hulking corprus beasts or ash slaves often but you will find the lesser corprus stalkers and blighted rats in their place. But if you enter certain caves or ruins there, you'll find enemies meant for at least level 10 characters, as that is a place for end-of-main-quest progression. That is far from the only example but it is the easiest to think of besides Daedric ruins.
Also fatigue is king in this game, keep it close to 100 cause it effects everything, spell chance, hit chance, even to barter power and lockpickig chance.
Best word of advice, make/keep restore fatigue potions when you need them in a pinch.
Definitely makes sense! Crazy that fatigue affects so much but I kinda like it too! Appreciate the information!
I literally just finished your Oblivion main quest video! Glad to see you experience another dope game and looking forward to future vids
That’s awesome thank you for the support! I’m really excited to be coming out with a new line of TES videos!
I love how thorough they were when writing some of the quests it feels organic
"y'all get mad at how i pronounce elder scrolls names but...
PeLl Ah GhEe AdD"
bro the comedic timing is golden 😂
😂 I know I must’ve butchered it lol, I’ve gotta research names and everything for this game
Think the way you would pronounce the name of emperor Pelagius. It’s the same as that.
@@CorvoFG nah, bards pronunciation is canon now
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@@ABardsBalladpuh-lay-gee-us is how I’ve heard it pronounced mostly. But it’s just a name and as long as we know who you’re talking about nbd
When I was a kid, I lived in the middle of nowhere, had no friends, and was miserable. Morrowind became my best friend. It’s SO good. I wish I could play this again for the first time in that moldy, run down trailer..
I'm so excited to see you play this! I can't wait to see more videos, I've never played Morrowind or had a system to play it on so I'm happy to see this from a creator I enjoy 😊
Visit the east side of the map sometime, and visit a town there. I think you'll enjoy it.
Yeah there’s a lot of the map to discover! I’m excited to go all around the province!
I am looking forward to seeing how you handle the text dialogue! Its probably the most daunting part of tackling Morrowind.
There he is!! 👀 😂 honestly me too brother, it’s going to be quite a switch up but I’ll figure something out!
Architecture is cool in morrowind. Each of the great houses has their own style and imperial towns have their own style.
If you decide to keep playing, and if you really like it, I think it would be really cool if you did a sort of "reaction" or "reflection" to this video where you may explain your own initial thoughts and actions to showcase your knowledge. Like, why you were killed for stealing the helmet vs being arrested in a different area or commenting on your journey throughout the game, reflecting on your initial thoughts/feelings. No pressure if you don't want to or end up not playing more tho!
In any case, this video does the 6th house a great honor
I’m definitely going to continue with it! I’m already working on the main quest! That’s a great video idea too btw!
What a grand and intoxicating innocence. Morrowind is an amazing game love tye video.
You are correct with the skills. For weapons fatigue effects damage and hit chance and make sure you avoid weapons you dont have as majors or minors
Agility will help alot with player speed and better chance of landing hits.
For Fast Travel use; Silt Striders, boats, Mark & Recall spells, Mages Guild, and ALMSIVI & Divine Intervention spells.
Make sure you use weapons that you chose as Major skills.
You can toggle in the options "Use Best Attack" for your weapons.
There is alot of good side quest, and alot of bland fetch quest. Same as every other TES game.
Have fun you n'wah!!
Awesome! Thanks for all the info! I appreciate it!
There's also the Propylon Chambers.
Very excited for the future video entries from you 😁 Morrowind is an amazing game and there's so much to see and learn. Just gotta be careful because when it clicks it can be very easy to take away all challenge from the game
I’m super excited too! I can see it definitely has a lot of potential for everything!
Morrowind is my all time favorite game so its always great to see other people enjoy it. Im looking towards seeing more Morrowind from you.
- Yeah the movement speed at start is slow but it gets better as you level. Many things affect it: your speed stat, athletics skill, how much you are carrying and event the type of armour you are wearing affects it a bit. I think your speed is one of the few things fatigue dosnt affect at all.
- Luck stat affects every skill a bit so if you can find enchantments or spells that increase it can be useful.
- Spell making is one of the most fun things in Morrowind, but can get expensive if you do it alot. Its fun to experiment with it and unlike in Oblivion you can put same effect multiple times in one spell so you can create some fun combos.
- If you ever get too many spells or just spell you dont use any more you can delete them by shift clicking on the spell.
You have such a nice way with words my dude. Can't wait for your next video!
I appreciate it! I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it video! I’m excited for the next one too! :)
Also once you "learn the game" Morrowind fast travel gets to the point where you can get anywhere in game within 3 minutes. Spoliers
You have boats, silt striders, mage guild transportation, scrolls, the spells mark , recall , and two spells that teleport you to the relatively closest imperial temple or dunmer temple. You also have Propylon Indices that take you to 10 different fortresses.
And... If you fortify your jump ridiculously high and have a slow fall potion or spell used right before you land, you can jump to anywhere in the map.
Appreciate the info! Yeah I was looking into the different ways of fast travel and there’s a lot of different ways to get around which is nice!
I been waiting for this for awhile happy you finally got to play it
Me too! Appreciate the continued support and I hope you enjoyed this one!
Thank you big dawg. I'm hungover and needed this fr.
Quite the classic. The older mechanics are a little strange at first, but give it time. The biggest (hardest) part, is the dice-roll combat system. Standing 1 foot from someone and missing every swing can be quite frustrating
Haha I love it! You’re welcome man! Yeah it’s slowly getting better and better that’s for sure! Spoilers for the main playthrough but I’m rolling with a mage, so far so good with it!
@@ABardsBallad looking forward to it 😎. Looking forward to your analysis. Many, myself included, believe Morrowind has the best magic system. I'm looking forward to your thoughts, as a fella coming to it for the first time. No spoilers here bro! Just know you can become real dumb broken. Good fun. Lots of flying. 🤣
Edit; You are correct about Fatigue. It effects your % to land a blow. Also, Magika only regenerates via potion or resting.
Good luck man! Just keep chugging, you will certainly get the hang of it.
its the first person camera.
Look at any isometric top-down RPG and that is pretty much standard.
Mark spell and recall spell will help you mark a location and then return when u want.
Scrolls or spell of Almsivi intervention and something else i cant remember will take you to either the nearest Temple or Imperial cult respectively. Always Carry some to use one of these options when you finish a dungeon or quest that takes you far.
the leveling is very similar to oblivion’s! a bit more forgiving maybe. exploration is really rewarded, but since there is no level scaling with enemies you’ll occasionally walk into high level areas
Okay that makes sense! I appreciate it, also good to know on the high level areas!
I'm so glad you decided to go to Morrow Wind 🥰😉! You will find there is so much to keep you busy. So much lore. Have fun!!!!
One of the things I really like about MW is that there are powerful weapons and armor laying around even if you are level 1. These can be on people, in shrines or in burial tombs.
One of the things that drove me nuts in Oblivion was everyone getting weapons leveled to you, to where everyone has either steel or glass with no mixed equipment. IMO having good stuff ready to go at level 1 really encourages more exploring, because you know there's a chance of getting glass stuff or good enchanted equipment.
Was one of the first computer games I received as a gift from my uncle. I would get home from middle school and play this on my computer in my room at home. My parents thought I begged for that PC for school work, lol. I had never heard of Elder Scrolls though- my uncle just had an idea I would love it. I spend so much time in this world. And even 'cheating' in this game I had fun. I first learned how to modify the stats. So I thought it would be fun to set my acrobatics/jump skill at a HUGE number. I hit space bar and LAUNCHED. But I didn't think about fall damage. You should always consider fall damage. I flew all the way from the opening area to Vivec... and crashed into the ground and died. I don't think I ever laughed so hard. Was the first video game universe I ever experiences that felt "real". Truly was magical.
funny what you said about the controls, I was so used to this setup that when I started playing Skyrim I reset jump to E and interact to the space bar! Kind of forgot about the defaults, actually.
Subscribed looked forward to ur adventures in Morrowind. Love this game one of the All time great rpg’s.
Not sure if it's been mentioned but your fatigue is tied into almost every roll in the game, from hit/dodge/block chance, spell chance, speech checks, lock picking.
So you have to be careful with your stamina usage, sometimes that means slow walking between enemies in dungeons or resting for 1 hour if you can get away with it. Also potions and stamina regen spells are helpful.
I'm so stoked about this upcoming adventure! Morrowind has a small learning curve, but once you get over the hurdle it opens up like no other Elder Scrolls game. Oblivion is my comfort, it was my first after all, but Morrowind is a whole other beast
Believe it or not, I’m actually very excited to learn the learning curve so to speak 😂 it’s very refreshing to have a new experience this way!
You just experienced peak TES my man, hope to see more of Morrowind on this channel!
There is a lot you probably don't even realize in a first playthrough or is otherwise hidden.
As for the first quest with fargoth, you can hand him the ring for improved reputation with his friend arielle the trader to get cheaper prices. Arielle also improves relation to the slit strider service in that first village, allowing you to travel cheaper from there. Later a different NPC (Hrisskar i think) gives you a quest to steal some tax money from fargoth's hidden stash, which also contains the ring if you gave it back.
As for the depth of the sidequests, they are indeed less fleshed out than future games, but there is a lot of non-quest content hidden, (Unique items, unmarked quests, the hunt for daedric armor...)which doesn't get randomly spawned in, so discovering stuff is actually super rewarding and gets you to explore.
As for the general tone of the game: morrowind is significantly more hostile than cyrodil, the foreign land itself is hard to traverse and it shows. Makes you think that you actually have to stock up on potions or supplies/repair hammers, which is basically a really soft survival system. You don't have to engage with it from a certain point on, but at the beginning you really need to plan your travels.
As for the leveled enemies: there are only a few creatures that level to you, mostly overland creatures that changes what kind of creature is spawned. There is also a certain boss-type monster in the first dlc that can scale health value REALLY hard if you are a somewhat high level character...
As for the journal organization, that was a later addon from the dlc i believe, the OG vanilla version did not have that feature iirc.
As for the guild/house quest, without spoiling anything keep in mind that some factions actually hate each other and some progress in one guild can have some influence in a different guild...
As for the game asthethics, they really start to differ, depending where you are. You see the difference between and imperial fortress and the build style of the local houses, you mostly traveled in hlaalu and redoran control zone so far, which have quite the similar style (hlaalu has a bunch of wooden farm houses on the southeren area of the map) but once you run into telvanni areas you will see how they differ...(just saying lack of stairs...). All those 3 houses are however still dunmer as race, so on the island you won't see that much of a difference( maybe some dwemer and daedra ruins and thombs) but then you move to the northern island solstheim dominated by nords or the capital mournhold and you see significant difference.
As for fast travel, there are more or less 5 types you can use: 1.Slit Striders (you have no idea about the nostalgia i had when i saw one in the skyrim dlc) 2. Ships. 3 Mages Guild Teleporter. 4 Spells (Almvisis / divine Intervention, mark and recall get you around quite a lot faster) 5. Propylon Teleport (You can collect items which unlocks the function to teleport between certain fortresses, but collecting the indexes is usually more effort than its worth). You can also use the prision mechanic to get teleported as you showed, but thats not really reliable or practical either.
Now for the "how to play the game efficiently" that can mean quite a lot. If i do a casual speedrun, i am done after about 25 minutes. i don't think thats the experience you are looking for. So how about some more practical stuff(This is pure efficiency, you can make everything work, not just what i point out): Don't play beastraces, they can't use most helmets and boots, argonian water breathing is also just a spell and isn't permanent. User friendly races are probably redguard, orc or breton. Breton can make something really cool at the start when combining with the attronach sign making you immune to most magic. There is only 1(2) set daedric armor in game so if you find a piece, keep it (there are some artifacts that are still better). You can stack/loop alchemy quite easily for some crazy effects. There are 2 traders in game that buy items for their actual value(as long as they have the gold for it). Fortifying some skills way beyond 100 is rather easy to do and has some interesting effects. You can make a spell that lowers your own skills for some time for easier training. You can enchant a ring with a 4point permanent healing spell, making you really hard to kill. Knowledge in this game can get you further faster than stats really...
There's an option to find where Fargoth is hiding his gold (and the ring if you give it to him) and you can choose to raid that stash or leave it be. There's a quest in Seyda Neen referencing it, so there's a little bit more to the Fargoth interaction than just choosing whether or not to let him have the ring back.
You need fatigue to do anything in this game. No fatigue = no damage. No fatigue = no magic. No fatigue = people don't like you hahaha
That makes sense honestly 😂 I feel like fatigue governed so much while I was playing!
Basically fatigue level figures in almost all calculations, so best to keep it topped off, especially for use with weapons. So heal, fatigue potions are a must. I also always recommend you buy 2 restore strength potions, as you'll encounter bone walkers in dungeons that will encumber you (removing actual strength levels temporarily), meaning you'll be unable to carry your own weapons and will have to abandon stuff in a pile and walk back naked to buy restore strength potions.
I love how you went in blind and tried to experience as we did back then. The only thing that can't quite be repeated was just how... Insanely original and different it felt back then. A senior in the dorm was the only one who could afford a computer powerful enough for games like Morrowind, so we'd sit in his room and watch him play. He almost never let us play, so we would watch instead.
The first time he booted up Morrowind was mind-blowing. I'd never seen an open world game before. Half Life was the most impressive game I'd seen, but it was still totally linear with very limited mechanics.
Suddenly, this game offered the player total freedom to go anywhere and do anything. Instead of a maybe a dozen guns to pick from, you had hundreds. You could pick plants, make potions, create your own enchantments--even fly if you wanted. You start out as a nobody in rags that nobody likes, but rise to become a living god.
The best part is how "real" it felt and, indeed, feels even now. I've traveled around the world and no other game has captured the "lost in a bizarre place where things clearly have cultural reason, logic, and history, but it's still totally foreign and mysterious.
It is a slow burn when you first get started, but it really is worth the effort to get past the beginning. At some point it'll click and you'll suddenly be rocking and rolling and so engrossed and immersed.
I still play it on occasion. And still vanilla, but with three quality of life suggestions.
1. Use guides and online help. Even when it came out, most of us had a large map, and later the official physical game guide book, much like online help now. Nothing wrong with that.
2. Get the boots of blinding speed. I think that's what they are called. You have to go through a couple hoops to get them and can't play with certain beast races, i think, but it's so absolutely worth it for impatient people like me that prefer walking, but hate slow walking in Morrowind.
3. Focus the first half hour or so on just leveling up a combat skill so you maximize the points you get (look up how points are distributed in Morrowind), but mainly so your odds of hitting whatever you swing or shoot at actually hits. I'm sure the algorithm is more complex than this, but if you can dump all your maxed out level up points into, say, bow ane arrow, by the time you make it to level 4 or 5 (which is still low), you can have a character with maybe at least a 50/50 chance of hitting enemies. That's sooooooo much less frustrating. Once you get it there, then switch back to other skills. Once you get a fighting skill past a certain point, it feels almost exactly the same as Oblivion or Skyrim.
I should note this assumes a fighter or stealth build. I've never done much with magic aside from apocathery and enchanting, both of which are helpful with any build, even at low levels.
I also always kept an actual pen and paper handy for taking real notes. It sounds silly now, but was super helpful in those days.
And don't be disappointed by how similar stuff feels. It's more diverse than you think.
Fin Gleam is also easy to get in the beginning and was always pretty handy.
Keep the green bar full. Even if you have to nap between every fight, keep the green bar full.
😂 so I’ve been hearing! Noted, appreciate it!
I've been waiting for your Morrowind content. I've never played it either. If you do what you did with Oblivion I'm pumped.
There's a video by Jwlar that I think would explain a lot of the issues and questions you have.
I’m excited to put out a whole bunch of Morrowind videos for you all! And I’ll have to check out their videos! Cheers!
@@ABardsBallad Can't wait! He's only done one Morrowind video but he explained why attacking at the beginning is rough along with the importance of stamina in this game in particular. I watched it last night coincidentally and it seemed like he explained everything you were talking about.
Level one runs are a very similar thing to experiencing it for the first time again but this time your expertise and understanding of the system shapes your experience. It also makes mods that make small changes matter a lot more since you have less tools to work with.
For your skills, only major and minor count towards leveling. But every skill factors into what attributes you can increase.major skills get the largest initial boost and minor skills get a smaller initial boost. For enchanting, theres alot to unpack there. Coffeenut gaming did a great video on it. Its very indepth and theres a bunch of factors that go into enchanting success.
I appreciate the info! I was actually watching some of coffeenut gaming’s videos on builds, great stuff!
One thing that took me forever to realize is your fatigue gives bonus to everything so always keep that topped off!
YESSS!!! Here we goooo!!!!!!!! Gonna love this Watch!!!!
I’m really glad to hear it! Hope you enjoyed it!
Nice first impressions video! I like how open minded you are about the way Morrowind does things, I find that a lot of people coming from later games don't always take Morrowinds mechanics on their own terms.
A couple of quick tips:
° You can pin items in the menu to the screen so that they're visible even when you don't have the menu open - click the box in the top right corner of each menu to toggle this. Very useful for the map in particular
° I see that you're using fire spells a lot. This isn't very effective against Dunmer who have an innate fire resist. Consider diversifying your spells at your local mages guild.
° Most things are based on rng, including speechcraft. The odds of you being successful is usually based on your current fatigue level, including things like bartering and speechcraft as well as how high you jump so make sure to manage your fatigue level!
° A lot of npc:s will give you in character advice about game mechanics if you ask about "little advice", so make sure to do that for some more tips
° Consider reading the games manual. As an old school rpg, Morrowind expects that you might have read the manual first. It's not very long and covers basic game mechanics.
YAAAAAY!!!!!❤ I have waited for this for sooooo long❤ can't wait for this new adventure and of course videos❤
Edit: on the wiki UESP there is a google maps type map to find caves and stuff. It helped me alot during my first playthrough with finding weird buldings. Most NPCS are kinda bad at directions 😅
I hope you enjoy it! Plenty of them to come! I appreciate it yeah I’ve been looking at it after this video and it’s very detailed! Definitely worth using!
pro tip, if you click the little square on the top right of the map in the inventory it stays open when you exit, and you can switch between local/world
I liked the honest impressions by going blind into the best TES game ever made. You had a great attitude compared to most UA-camrs who've done similar videos. Morrowind is the gift that keeps on giving.
You can take ships to various cities and villages around the coast. I recommend to visit the city of Vivec and nearby fortress of Ebonheart for sightseeing. Also, make sure to visit any Telvani town, you'll reconsider your everything looks the same viewpoint.
Concise and consecutive is exactly the way the journal works. Concise information regarding the completed quest stage, and consecutive to the last journal entry. Regardless which quest that one was about. And it is concise, quest stage entries tell you the short of it. You can still click the blue text to get more information on the topic.
I wanted him to experience Vivec city for the first time. Remember it so vividly and being so impressed by its size
Fatigue affects EVERYTHING. It's not just combat and running speed. Low fatigue hurts your chance to cast spells. It hurts NPC reactions. It makes prices higher. It's a crazy useful stat.
I can't wait to see you get into custom spells and custom enchanting. This game is difficult to a point for new players, but you can become a literal god level character. Enchanted items make up for low magicka.
Also, do a but of everything. Take one melee weapon to offset your spellcasting. Take a skill for every attribute. Diversify for an easier time of being a better overall character.
Watch your fatigue. It determines how successful all rolls are. Rest, not wait, will replenish magicka. As for Fargoth, go upstairs in Arrille’s trade house and talk to Hrisskar. Go search the land around Seyda Neen. Glad you liked it!
I loved Morrowind. Biggest pain was hitting one out of ten strikes on cliffracers early in the game.
My oh my, what would i give to experience Morrowind for the first time again😊did it for Skyrim, im still up for the first step into the story of Dragonborn
I will try to give you some tips to whwre find good stuff to nake your gameing experience a bit more enjoyable:
1. Idk if you found it out yet, but you couldnt hit anything with your dagger cus you had like 5 points in short blade, basicly if you want to hit anything (or cast spells) you need to have high coresponding atribute
2. Complete Edwina Elbert quests(i think she was named like that) in ald'ruhn mages guild to get super op intervention amulets (one with temple one with divine)
3. In caldera there is lombard (i think it was lombard) there is shop owner with recal amulet, with that you could forget about trying to cast recal yourself for like 5 mins (still you would have to mark location but 1 part will be easier)
Mark and recal are one of best transportation spells in game which allows you to mark one place and then teleport back to it with nearly no downside
4. In caldera there is scamp who is merchant in building where orks live (forgot name sorry), with 5k gold and 100% sell and buy ratio so if you sell item worth 1k you get 1k
5. in cave (illunibi, this cave you will later know better by doing main quest line, dont want to spoiler anything) there are fists of randengulf behind one of six house containers at wnd of dungeon and they are great + near bells is six house bell hammer worth 5k
6.bound weapons are OP, they are daedric (basicly best ones in game) they weight NOTHING AND they give 10+ atribute (like bound spear gives +10 spear atribute), you can get a lot of these spells in balmoras mages guild
7. Try to complete side quest where you need to find ring in a pond because its one of a kind in whole tes series, also it rewards with very very good amulet of chameleon
Next tips will be about hidden armor or weapons so if you dont want to run with like ebony sword at level 1 you can skip it (or just sell it)
1. you can get "free" armor in calderas place where orks live on top floor is crate with orcish amor and if you take it some orks will say something like "THIEF" but wouldnt attack you (idk if openmw fixes that but you can try)
2. on top of one of closets in balmoras towers is ebony sword which is worth like 12k (there is guard near so you need to hide behind pillar)
3. In caldera mages guild there is a door that leads upstairs and there is whole master alchemy equipment to "borrow" because there is no one up here to see your stealing
as said idk if you will read this but it would help you a lot
A lot of this stuff is very spoilery and I would say let them find this stuff on their own.
I love this game it's beautiful, and the gameplay is perfectly balanced, without a single glitch.
You have a really nice, relaxed attitude towards the jankiness of Morrowind, it's cool to see. I was _not_ this zen when I first played (but then, I didn't read the manual and was playing on og Xbox so there were frustrations!). Stick with it-the nuance and character of the game come out through story and dialogue rather than the limited graphical palette, as with many early 3d games made by small teams. The gameplay loop and design are not actually that different from other Bethesda games, just more granular and D&D influenced. You can totally see the bones of Skyrim (and even the Fallouts) in Morrowind.
You are in for a good time, so much stuff to do and see
I’m really excited for it!
I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS NEW ADVENTURE
I’m really excited too! It was tons of fun to play through this! I really hope you enjoyed it and I’ll catch you in the next one!
I’m so glad you picked up MW. I spent 100’s of hours on it back in the day when it came out. All I’d say is take your time, some of the information you’ll be given is outright wrong (NPC’s giving directions etc). In alchemy, Marshmerrow and Wickwheat are very much your friends and be careful what you pick up and where you sleep. It’s very easy to get those two things wrong and wonder what the hell you did! Also, if you’ve downloaded the Tribunal expansion, the Dark Brotherhood assassin who attacks you fairly early on has useful beginner armour. The assassin attack also repeats and the armour is a great source of coin.
Other than that, enjoy what is one of the best games ever created.
I appreciate the information! Funny enough, I’ve already begun making the main quest video and have been attacked so many times by a random assassin, which I’ve just now learned is from the dark brotherhood! 😂 I was so confused lol
Dude, you totally missed the best bit in the Fargoth quest. Camp out in the light house and keep your eyes peeled. Trust me, it's worth it.
Most efficient way to play is the way that has you not dieing all the time. Discovering which way that is...that's the fun part.
9:34 i love that you can see the instant he goes "oh shit!" When he gets hit by that spell.
In my final ultimate play through of Morrowind (original Xbox) I disposed of all the corpses thinking it may decrease the load on the systems memory. Beautiful game, I explored every tile of the game world, did every quest, drank a potion jumped from Morrowind to Solstheim, then swam back. Made a potion so bonkers my intelligence froze the xbox. I miss the ability to fly in ES games.
Love to see people trying thid for the first time in 2024. If you want to modernize the controls, its pretty easy in settings
Some info about the game: at the start you can also select a menu in which you answer some roleplaying questions instead of just choosing your class or making a new made class. Its quite fun and really satisfies the roleplaying people since this option is not really available in Oblivion or Skyrim. Also another point but about fatigue since you were wondering, in Morrowind you can actually get knocked down by NPCs with a high hand to hand skill and you can't get up unless you get your fatigue bar full again with propably restore fatigue potions. If your knocked down and can't get up its basically like being paralysed and you start taking damage untill you die. I think Oblivion also doesn't have this thing.
Adam Sessler on Xplay gave this a 5/5 and my 13 year old brain had to have it. I spent my paper route money every week renting an original Xbox from Family Video, marveling over other people's save files. Still playing this unmodded to this day.
A Game At Dinner with Rett and Lee is a fine podcast for Morrowind fanatics.
That’s an awesome memory! I’m really excited to get to playthrough this one!
The best thing about Morrowind ia the immersion. The world isnt designed for fun or to be a game. Its a real world. Towns and points of interest aren't equally placed everywhere. The game also has systems that can be abused. Its not about balance or being easy. The game is just immersive.
"Heavy" attacks are always better and if you want to do any amount of melee, go into the settings and turn on always best attack to maximise your damage per hit. It's a little goofy the way it works, but when you get the hang of it and you get a character going, it feels better than Oblivion, even if only because you'll be knocking enemies down left and right. As for magic, maybe look up the race bonuses or you might end up wasting a bunch of magicka hitting dark elves with fireballs despite their 75% resistance. Most important tip I can give you though is to have fun!
Tip for first time players - use spears and medium armor to level endurance early on or use trainers. Endurance determines how much health you gain on each level up.
Timeless. The most idiosyncratic art direction, unorthodox atmosphere & immersive experience in The Elder Scrolls.
Dagoth Ur memes are eternal.
Nostalgia (for simpler times)
I hear that! I’ve only played a couple of hours and already it feels so different from all the others!
It's always nice someone new playing Morrowind, it's such a wonderful, if flawed, game!
You're community seems to have given you most of what you need to know. The only thing I'd put out there is that the big quests that are side content is in the factions. Most independent side content in the base game is like giving Fargoth his ring. You also have some Deadric Quests but not for the whole pantheon. Don't expect a Meridia quest for example. I really don't know your class because I had this as second monitor stuff while I'm at work so I'd suggest going for a faction that's similar to your class. Also I'd suggest looking up the Great Houses to figure out which one you'll play because they are mutually exclusive. You seem to be mage mostly so go House Telvani, or the ANCAP wizards if you're turned into our odd little community.
Magicka and health will not auto-regen, you need to rest to restore both OR use potions (which are fairly easy to craft if you know the vendor to go to for ingredients and have basic alchemy skills). Trying to cast magic or attack while out of stamina is not advised; the game debuffs your chances to hit or succeed casting significantly. Even though it's slow, I'd walk everywhere until in combat, then switch to running so you can use a full stamina bar.