So Creation Club for Skyrim is out and already false advertiseing

[Radiationbum]

There's a mod on CC called Plague of the Dead that discribes itself as "In Skyrim when the sun falls the dead rise! Beat back the zombie hordes and retrieve valuable Mort Flesh"

As seen in this Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRwjvzC3iQs

The mod is clearly missleading people with its discription "beat back the zombie hordes" and any reasonable person wouldnt call 3 zombies a hord of zombies, a pack of zombie maybe not to mention that they are just draugr reskins costing 400 credits and as the guy in the vid says he cant get a refund for what is clearly a missleading mod discription. Just another reason to hate Creation Club and Bethesda

[ƒaylen §øl]

The mod does as advertised. After the quest you now have a new random encounter at night. A small group of zombies can attack the player (like the Assassin random encounter). I don't own the content so I cannot verify how large said horde is or how frequent.

But the quest is basically an introduction as to why, "SUDDENLY ZOMBIES!!!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnAdc8NjQG8

Here's a much more concise review of the Plague of the Dead CC content that ins't a 12 minute cringe-fest rant.

[chaosbringer42]

His issue was it wasnt a horde. Even 8 zombies attacking random bandits/guards as a radiant event isnt a horde.

[78pac7]

A zombie horde mod actually sounds like an awesome concept, but of course I doubt I'd play it like this.

[ƒaylen §øl]

Originally posted by chaosbringer42:

His issue was it wasnt a horde. Even 8 zombies attacking random bandits/guards as a radiant event isnt a horde.

Of course it couldn't be an actual horde. Bethesda has a minimum requirements mark that they have to make sure every piece of content in the CC doesn't invalidate or raise the bar on. They sold copies of Special Edition stating it would run on machines of said Minimum Requirements.

If they began to release content that could not run on what they advertised they'd be liable.

We would be naive to expect content from CC that only high end computers (or even mid-range computers) could run.

[chaosbringer42]

Originally posted by ƒaylen §øl:

Originally posted by chaosbringer42:

His issue was it wasnt a horde. Even 8 zombies attacking random bandits/guards as a radiant event isnt a horde.

Of course it couldn't be an actual horde. Bethesda has a minimum requirements mark that they have to make sure every piece of content in the CC doesn't invalidate or raise the bar on. They sold copies of Special Edition stating it would run on machines of said Minimum Requirements.

If they began to release content that could not run on what they advertised they'd be liable.

We would be naive to expect content from CC that only high end computers (or even mid-range computers) could run.

The issue on the video still exists though. It literally tells you its horde survival, and its not. There is no beat back the zombie horde, theres beat back the zombie ... pack?.... tea party? When something isnt at all what it is advertised as, its called false advertising and is ILLEGAL.

Is it as bad as something like No Mans Sky? No, but sadly its in the same ballpark.

[ƒaylen §øl]

Originally posted by chaosbringer42:

Originally posted by ƒaylen §øl:

Of course it couldn't be an actual horde. Bethesda has a minimum requirements mark that they have to make sure every piece of content in the CC doesn't invalidate or raise the bar on. They sold copies of Special Edition stating it would run on machines of said Minimum Requirements.

If they began to release content that could not run on what they advertised they'd be liable.

We would be naive to expect content from CC that only high end computers (or even mid-range computers) could run.

The issue on the video still exists though. It literally tells you its horde survival, and its not. There is no beat back the zombie horde, theres beat back the zombie ... pack?.... tea party? When something isnt at all what it is advertised as, its called false advertising and is ILLEGAL.

Is it as bad as something like No Mans Sky? No, but sadly its in the same ballpark.

That's because you're applying a personal definition to the word "Horde" when the definition of "Horde" is:

horde
noun
1.a large group of people.
"he was surrounded by a horde of tormenting relatives"

And the word pairing "Large group" is subjective. And from Screenshots I've seen of the mod in action you get attacked by a group of seven to nine zombies at once. Some would call that a "Large group"

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1157484283

[Thunderchief]

ok. if you think that qualifies as a large group then it is a large group. Personally, and I think I speak for many others, I would expect a "horde" to be 15-30 or more.

Unfortunately that much on screen might crash consoles and so we can't have that.

[Greenegg]

Originally posted by Thunderchief:

Could one of the very talented modders create a better mod and put it on the Nexus overnight?

Would they be requested to take it down because it copies the paid mod?

I was thinking occassionally a horde of 20-30 zombies spawn near certain caves/ barrows and start shufflling down a road towards a city. They have half the health but hit just as hard as a normal enemy. They walk 75% slower than normal enemies.
You can just avoid them but better to kill them to protect other npcs. Think walking dead.
They say eererrrrg, uuuarrrg AND Aaeeeuurrrg.

I believe there's a lot of mods already out that do this, sands of time (or whatever it was called, the nexus title for it always confused me...) had a zombie horde mode I believe, not sure if it's ported to SSE tho.

[ƒaylen §øl]

Originally posted by Thunderchief:

ok. if you think that qualifies as a large group then it is a large group. Personally, and I think I speak for many others, I would expect a "horde" to be 15-30 or more.

Unfortunately that much on screen might crash consoles and so we can't have that.

Not just console, but low-spec computers that meet the minimum requirements.

Bethesda sold the game under the premise that it will run on those specs and sold it under the premise that it will run on console. All CC content must be able to operate on the bare minimum requirements.

These aren't player mods where the player can make their mod as fantastic as possible (so much so that only those on mid-range PCs or higher can even boot their game anymore). To expect otherwise is naive.