Better Combat and Immersion Compilation mod is sooo amazing!

[BimboGooch]

So I know I posted a bit ago about a different mod HARD LEVEL 1.8;
And I thought that was cool, but with in an hour someone commented and pointed me towards the BCaI mod, and it's so nice! It removes the hud completely which makes it pretty much just like how Morrowind is (Even though in morrowind there is a Compass but it is small and doesnt point you anywhere, just shows you what you can see your self).

Plus the way slower leveling is much needed, and the combat is brutal now! Especially since this is my first playthrough of the game. And it makes the economy a bit harder. Then it makes it so you get hungry and tired a bit faster. Which is nice, because it makes it so you have to spend even more money. I enjoy when a game forces you to spend the money you have, instead of just hording thousands and thousands, even if you do with this mod, each coin weighs .0108 units per piece, making it so it ends up weighing 10.8 units per 1000 stack. Which is just about 8 pounds meaning you cant even horde money on you if you wanted. Plus the carry weight gets reduced by a lot. Making it pretty much realistic. Like you can really only carry your armor and then like a bit more after. Plus what ever you can carry on the horse. Then combat is A LOT harder, especially if you disable the Slow mode and other things the mod recommends you to turn off.

On top of all this, I am going for the "Tiss but a scratch" achievement, aka Turning on all the Debuff perks; making the game That much harder. And leveling MUCH MUCH slower. Which I am glade for, because with out the mod by the time I was 10 hours in, at that pace I would have been op by mid game. So I started a new game and went down this path.
Tiss bot a Poggers gamer moment playing with all this.

It is bringing me back to the good old Morrowind Childhood like days. I have not felt this way about a game in a LONG time.

[Iso Koala]

How do you know how those compare to the vanilla game, if this is your first playthrough?

The money weight sounds a good addition at first, but could also be annoying since the game is not designed around that. There is no trunks in the game where you can store your stuff, so you need to carry everything with you and the horse in the game. If wearing heavy armor you can barely carry 20 units extra besides your equipment, so if 2000 monnies takes all that up. Meaning that you cant even carry enough gold/equipment to go to a store to buy new 3k armor piece without being overloaded. Thus mod makes carry weight perks for you and your horse pretty much mandatory, limiting the way you can play.

[M4rt1n93]

Originally posted by Iso Koala:

How do you know how those compare to the vanilla game, if this is your first playthrough?

The money weight sounds a good addition at first, but could also be annoying since the game is not designed around that. There is no trunks in the game where you can store your stuff, so you need to carry everything with you and the horse in the game. If wearing heavy armor you can barely carry 20 units extra besides your equipment, so if 2000 monnies takes all that up. Meaning that you cant even carry enough gold/equipment to go to a store to buy new 3k armor piece without being overloaded. Thus mod makes carry weight perks for you and your horse pretty much mandatory, limiting the way you can play.

There is many chests where you can store stuff in the game. At the miller in Rattay(Theresa), rooms at inn's if you pay for a room, pribyslavitz(DLC), a house you can get in Talmberg etc etc

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by Iso Koala:

How do you know how those compare to the vanilla game, if this is your first playthrough?

The money weight sounds a good addition at first, but could also be annoying since the game is not designed around that. There is no trunks in the game where you can store your stuff, so you need to carry everything with you and the horse in the game. If wearing heavy armor you can barely carry 20 units extra besides your equipment, so if 2000 monnies takes all that up. Meaning that you cant even carry enough gold/equipment to go to a store to buy new 3k armor piece without being overloaded. Thus mod makes carry weight perks for you and your horse pretty much mandatory, limiting the way you can play.

There are def chest, plus the horse.
Also I played like 10 hours, then restarted cuz I could tell it was going to be to easy, and wanted to get that super rare achievement. So it still pretty much is my first playthrough, plus I literally google so much about the stats and mechanics of this game so I can understand them better. Plus the mod tells you lmao.

[Iso Koala]

Originally posted by M4rt1n93:

Originally posted by Iso Koala:

How do you know how those compare to the vanilla game, if this is your first playthrough?

The money weight sounds a good addition at first, but could also be annoying since the game is not designed around that. There is no trunks in the game where you can store your stuff, so you need to carry everything with you and the horse in the game. If wearing heavy armor you can barely carry 20 units extra besides your equipment, so if 2000 monnies takes all that up. Meaning that you cant even carry enough gold/equipment to go to a store to buy new 3k armor piece without being overloaded. Thus mod makes carry weight perks for you and your horse pretty much mandatory, limiting the way you can play.

There is many chests where you can store stuff in the game. At the miller in Rattay(Theresa), rooms at inn's if you pay for a room, pribyslavitz(DLC), a house you can get in Talmberg etc etc

Oh really? I thought they would reset at some point, so I havent dared to put stuff into them.
Game kinda could have told that they can be used..

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by Iso Koala:

Originally posted by M4rt1n93:

There is many chests where you can store stuff in the game. At the miller in Rattay(Theresa), rooms at inn's if you pay for a room, pribyslavitz(DLC), a house you can get in Talmberg etc etc

Oh really? I thought they would reset at some point, so I havent dared to put stuff into them.
Game kinda could have told that they can be used..

Chest that are in "owned" areas are pretty much like storage banks. So if you're at the millers and store stuff in the chest at that place and room you have, you can go to a hotel and rent a room, and your stuff will transfer to that chest.

[MacSuibhne]

Originally posted by Iso Koala:

Oh really? I thought they would reset at some point, so I havent dared to put stuff into them.
Game kinda could have told that they can be used..

IIRC, the game does tell you that...in the cut scenes that appear as the game is loading and in the tutorials.

Those chests are infinite storage--as large as you want them to be. And everything you put in them is safe and will be in any other chest that is next to your bed--assigned beds or rented rooms (any Inn where you have paid to stay the night).

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by udUbdaWgz:

Sounds good Gizmo but alas Im on x1 lol.

There are chests everywhere for storage.

Using mods on your FIRST playthrough is absolutely the way to go in any game if you do your research correctly.

Those who say, play it vanilla on the first run, MISS the entire point.

Ye, well that and as long as you like your games more challenging. Obviously what I am doing is pretty HaRdCorE and most people wouldnt wanna do this.

[MF]

Originally posted by Gizmo Brooch:

So I know I posted a bit ago about a different mod HARD LEVEL 1.8;
And I thought that was cool, but with in an hour someone commented and pointed me towards the BCaI mod, and it's so nice! It removes the hud completely which makes it pretty much just like how Morrowind is (Even though in morrowind there is a Compass but it is small and doesnt point you anywhere, just shows you what you can see your self).

Plus the way slower leveling is much needed, and the combat is brutal now! Especially since this is my first playthrough of the game. And it makes the economy a bit harder. Then it makes it so you get hungry and tired a bit faster. Which is nice, because it makes it so you have to spend even more money. I enjoy when a game forces you to spend the money you have, instead of just hording thousands and thousands, even if you do with this mod, each coin weighs .0108 units per piece, making it so it ends up weighing 10.8 units per 1000 stack. Which is just about 8 pounds meaning you cant even horde money on you if you wanted. Plus the carry weight gets reduced by a lot. Making it pretty much realistic. Like you can really only carry your armor and then like a bit more after. Plus what ever you can carry on the horse. Then combat is A LOT harder, especially if you disable the Slow mode and other things the mod recommends you to turn off.

On top of all this, I am going for the "Tiss but a scratch" achievement, aka Turning on all the Debuff perks; making the game That much harder. And leveling MUCH MUCH slower. Which I am glade for, because with out the mod by the time I was 10 hours in, at that pace I would have been op by mid game. So I started a new game and went down this path.
Tiss bot a Poggers gamer moment playing with all this.

It is bringing me back to the good old Morrowind Childhood like days. I have not felt this way about a game in a LONG time.

You are a masochist, but I salute you. I took the tapeworm and the debuff that prevents me from wearing visored helms. Sucks when I get hit in the face, but there you go. Some of the other debuffs seemed to be just piling on the pain, so I stopped there. I figure that's hard enough. I love not having access to fast-travel and the combat can be embarrassingly brutal. Also not having a map to tell me where I am made the game, frankly, much more fun.

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by MF:

Originally posted by Gizmo Brooch:

So I know I posted a bit ago about a different mod HARD LEVEL 1.8;
And I thought that was cool, but with in an hour someone commented and pointed me towards the BCaI mod, and it's so nice! It removes the hud completely which makes it pretty much just like how Morrowind is (Even though in morrowind there is a Compass but it is small and doesnt point you anywhere, just shows you what you can see your self).

Plus the way slower leveling is much needed, and the combat is brutal now! Especially since this is my first playthrough of the game. And it makes the economy a bit harder. Then it makes it so you get hungry and tired a bit faster. Which is nice, because it makes it so you have to spend even more money. I enjoy when a game forces you to spend the money you have, instead of just hording thousands and thousands, even if you do with this mod, each coin weighs .0108 units per piece, making it so it ends up weighing 10.8 units per 1000 stack. Which is just about 8 pounds meaning you cant even horde money on you if you wanted. Plus the carry weight gets reduced by a lot. Making it pretty much realistic. Like you can really only carry your armor and then like a bit more after. Plus what ever you can carry on the horse. Then combat is A LOT harder, especially if you disable the Slow mode and other things the mod recommends you to turn off.

On top of all this, I am going for the "Tiss but a scratch" achievement, aka Turning on all the Debuff perks; making the game That much harder. And leveling MUCH MUCH slower. Which I am glade for, because with out the mod by the time I was 10 hours in, at that pace I would have been op by mid game. So I started a new game and went down this path.
Tiss bot a Poggers gamer moment playing with all this.

It is bringing me back to the good old Morrowind Childhood like days. I have not felt this way about a game in a LONG time.

You are a masochist, but I salute you. I took the tapeworm and the debuff that prevents me from wearing visored helms. Sucks when I get hit in the face, but there you go. Some of the other debuffs seemed to be just piling on the pain, so I stopped there. I figure that's hard enough. I love not having access to fast-travel and the combat can be embarrassingly brutal. Also not having a map to tell me where I am made the game, frankly, much more fun.

I know I am o.o
I play Morrowind and start off at like 40% harder, which means enemies have 40% more HP and I think damage, and in that game early game, youre as bad as you are in this game XD

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by MF:

Originally posted by Gizmo Brooch:

You are a masochist, but I salute you. I took the tapeworm and the debuff that prevents me from wearing visored helms. Sucks when I get hit in the face, but there you go. Some of the other debuffs seemed to be just piling on the pain, so I stopped there. I figure that's hard enough. I love not having access to fast-travel and the combat can be embarrassingly brutal. Also not having a map to tell me where I am made the game, frankly, much more fun.

Well actually this game with all these mods I have is much harder than morrowind, and honestly harder than darksouls or souls like in general, at least early game. Like It is pretty much impossible to 1v2 early game, let alone 1v1 a generic bandit with cloth armor. Then again, I am trying to get use to the combat which is much harder with this mod, as the time for anything is much faster, and you cant cheese combat.

[Iso Koala]

For combat though, there is very few mandatory fights in the game, and just avoiding the fights is very easy no matter what handicaps you have on the character.

[Paul]

Originally posted by MF:

Also not having a map to tell me where I am made the game, frankly, much more fun.

This change in particular is my favourite. I had no idea how much fun navigation in a game can be without constant GPS telling me where exactly I am.

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by Paul:

Originally posted by MF:

Also not having a map to tell me where I am made the game, frankly, much more fun.

This change in particular is my favourite. I had no idea how much fun navigation in a game can be without constant GPS telling me where exactly I am.

If you dont mind old games. You should try out morrowind, if you have not. :^) no map markers, you just gotta follow directions. Theres not even quest markers. BUt the combat is like a CRPG game in first person. So its got RNG hits, aka dice rolls.

[Paul]

Originally posted by Gizmo Brooch:

If you dont mind old games. You should try out morrowind, if you have not. :^) no map markers, you just gotta follow directions. Theres not even quest markers. BUt the combat is like a CRPG game in first person. So its got RNG hits, aka dice rolls.

I played Morrowind back in 2002 when it came out. I enjoyed it, although...I actually preferred Gothic 1 and 2 over it. I disliked Morrowind's wikipedia dialogue system as well as its combat. Still a great game though.

Kingdom Come on hardcore to me is like a perfect marriage of Gothic and Elder Scrolls, but better than both in some important ways.

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by Paul:

Originally posted by Gizmo Brooch:

If you dont mind old games. You should try out morrowind, if you have not. :^) no map markers, you just gotta follow directions. Theres not even quest markers. BUt the combat is like a CRPG game in first person. So its got RNG hits, aka dice rolls.

I played Morrowind back in 2002 when it came out. I enjoyed it, although...I actually preferred Gothic 1 and 2 over it. I disliked Morrowind's wikipedia dialogue system as well as its combat. Still a great game though.

Kingdom Come on hardcore to me is like a perfect marriage of Gothic and Elder Scrolls, but better than both in some important ways.

I like cothic as well, I was playing ELEX a bit ago.
But I wanna go back and play gothic 2, I just need to not be lazy and get it to work.