Steve Meister has been helpful as always by revealing some tidbits of information. For those of us who believed the trainers in Morrowind were horribly unbalancing, good news! "No, you won't be able to train your way up. The training system has been completely revised" says Steve. Sounds like those of us who were too impatient for normal leveling will have to suck it up this time around... though he does say "revised" so hopefully something will still remain of it.
There are also some limitations to the Block skill and shields which have not been previously divulged:
QUOTE("Steve Meister")
Some enemies are less likely to attack when you block, and more likely to dodge around to look for an opening. In addition, you can only move very slowly when blocking -- and you can only block blows coming from in front of you, so if you have multiple opponents it's probably not a good idea as they tend to surround you.
And of course as others have said, your shield will take damage from each blow, and some will "get through" to you as well, the amounts depending on your block skill and the quality of the shield (as the shield gets more & more damage, more & more of each blow's damage gets through to you). Standing there holding block is not "completely safe."
And of course as others have said, your shield will take damage from each blow, and some will "get through" to you as well, the amounts depending on your block skill and the quality of the shield (as the shield gets more & more damage, more & more of each blow's damage gets through to you). Standing there holding block is not "completely safe."
So the armoured tanks among us won't be entirely safe behind their sheets of metal.
He also seems to confirm that Bethesda will be making us pay for the official mods this time - presumably on PC as well. Especially since he states the legal issues involved:
QUOTE("Steve Meister")
As long as mod makers don't include copyrighted assets (artwork, text, music) within the mod packages themselves. The main thing you have to avoid is re-distributing copyrighted material. So for example if you can buy horse armor from Bethesda, a mod maker cannot include that horse armor in the distribution files of their own mod. The mod can REQUIRE the horse armor, but the actual artwork itself cannot be re-distributed.
So the whole re-releasing pay content as free mods idea sounds like it has legal risks attached. He's also posted about an experiment he did with Script Effect, but this news post is already long enough I think!
Finally, Gary Noonan has made a rather obtuse comment about dragons in Oblivion. He doesn't say no, he doesn't say yes. I'll let you decide on that one!
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Me need gaming now. *Slithers off*
. I wouldn't pay for the Entertainers mod for MW, not by a long shot. Maybe if they raise the bar for their own mods hugely, and keep the price down to a couple of quid (less than a fiver else people are just going to walk away IMO).
Glad you like it.
). And as you say, if they do put them in and they turn out to be cliff racer replacements I shall cry. They should do them properly, enormous bloody things that require a proper dragon-slayer hero to kill them. Also, the hoard they are suppsoed to sleep on would make for some mighty fine loot... Guess we'll just have to wait and see.