Skyrim Creation Kit available Tuesday, comes with 'surprise'
When is Skyrim's Creation Kit due? "The Creation Kit is on track for release on Tuesday."
The Skyrim Creation Kit was due back in January... but that obviously didn't happen. So when is it due? "The Creation Kit is on track for release on Tuesday," Bethesda's Pete Hines tweeted. And even more tantalizingly, he teased: "We also have a special surprise with it."
"It's horse armour isn't it?" said one fan.
"Official nude patch?" another asked.
"Infos on the first DLC?!" Well, that sounds plausible. It's been about three months since Skyrim's release, and some may be getting humgry for more. "We don't know what we're going to make yet, but we'd like them to be closer to an expansion pack feel," Todd Howard said last year.
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When is Skyrim's Creation Kit due? "The Creation Kit is on track for release on Tuesday."-
I'm going to give making a small adventure mod a shot this time around I think.
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There were combat mods in Oblivion, they'll probably be here too.
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Explain exactly what you mean by that for an accurate answer. TES mods have typically been able to adjust variables and add combat, but not really change the "code" of a game. So if you're talking about a fundamental change to the way melee combat works, then unlikely. But if you're talking about drastically changing the balance, then probably.
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haha you're like a typical client http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
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I hope somebody mods in dark souls.
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I thought about this quite a bit and although I think you were joking, I do think there is merit to the idea of a mod that brings in a lot of Dark Souls game elements in to the game.
The main thing I'm thinking of is making it so healing is finite, dungeons regenerate when you leave them, AND making it so instead of death meaning "game over", they just respawn you at the last bed you slept in, with some chunk of your resources left where you died.
I THINK all of that will be possible in the creation kit-
So.... minecraft?
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Respawning a dungeon when you leave it is just stupid, unless you're just totally giving up on the concept of immersion.
I can get with "oh, some bandits wandered back into that empty fort/cave/etc after a week", but restocking a dungeon full of ancient undead that you've completely cleared makes no sense...and given the way the game encourages exploration and immersion over loot hunting and tight combat, I just don't see why anyone would ever want to go through the same dungeon twice...it's just not that kind of game.-
It's just an idea, and it wouldn't be stupid for everyone. The intention is to make it so that you can't half clear out a dungeon and then return to town, get your limited healing resources back, and then finish cleaning it out. The intention is to make it feel like Dark Souls where you need to learn how to get past lots of bad guys without getting hurt.
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I get that, but that's just not at all how the game is designed. You're talking about a fundamentally *different* game. I think for that kind of thing to work well, it needs to be part of the game design from the ground up.
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You are correct that I'm talking about a different game. That's why I didn't say "Skyrim should have been like this" and am instead talking about what might make an interesting mod for people who are tired of Skyrim and want a different game.
That's often the point of mods!-
Agreed. I just don't think you could mod in the small things you're talking about and have it be good. You'd need a much bigger mod that altered fundamental aspects of the game, including the way leveling/loot work, in order to make the game more balanced against a more challenging approach like that.
For instance, limiting healing, I'm not sure how you could accomplish it in a game where magic is balanced around it being very very plentiful and regenerating quickly. If you change that much, you'd make all magic-based characters completely useless.
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If you can't make serious changes to the dynamics of combat I suspect that will always be stupid in Skyrim. Combat's too flaily and messy for that kind of play - melee really needs to be more tactical for that to work. As it is, pretty much the only way to avoid taking damage is to stealth it up, so this would just lock people into a certain play style.
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Yeah I'm a big fan of the idea of limited healing resources. I feel like the game would be a lot more suspenseful if I knew I could only heal myself up X number of times.
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I like the loot, and respawn, but i was mainly serious about the combat and more interesting monsters.
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"The combat" is not something you will make feel like Dark Souls. There are a million reasons why the combat in Dark Souls feels so good and many of them are fundamental to the engine which are impossible to accomplish in Skyrim or any TES engine so far.
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I know, but we can wish right.
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Why do you keep bringing up Dark Souls?
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Because that's the topic of this subthread. Read the context!
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oh, hah, I thought it was about dead island (I haven't played either game yet)
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How much would I have to bribe persuade you and dahanese to get 2K to make a game with Dark Souls combat? Hypothetically, of course.
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You'd need to disable the save system (not possible) and create some sort of elaborate respawn system (possible, but very glitch prone) to get the full Dark Souls effect.
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Because I asked for specifics, and he said "visceral, weighty and connected"
Yeah okay sure I'll just increase the "visceral, weighty and connected" variables in my code :P-
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Lol you guys
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There are clients who don't know what they're talking about and have bad ideas. These people exist and you should do your best to ignore their actual suggestions while remembering that there might be something important in that they are saying, even if it is expressed poorly.
There are also a lot of people who are poor designers because they don't have the communication skills or vision to take an idea expressed in English and help to turn it into a finished product. They think that their ability to write code makes them better at figuring out what their users want than the users themselves. Every now and then they're right, but most of the time they just sound like idiots because they actually tell you with a straight face that they don't know how words like "visceral", "weighty" and "connected" might apply to first-person brawler gameplay, and they aren't willing to engage in the mental effort to figure it out. These people exist and you should put them in parts of your company where they don't talk to customers, and where all the parameters of their work are defined for them by real designers. Also pay them less, because they are about as replaceable as you can get.-
lol
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Already been done
http://www.gamesradar.com/my-little-pony-skyrim-mod-pours-one-bronys/
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"To upload a mod to Steam Workshop, choose upload to Steam from the File menu"
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It really depends on whether the people making the mods make use of it, or just stick to what they know. I mean, the people that've been modding this engine for a while now have been using the Nexus sites for what, 5+ years?
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The textures are...passable. I long for higher res ones, but so far the user-made packs have all kinda turned me off after a while. I initially think they're great, super high res...but I always "notice" them. The vanilla textures blend in so much better because they are made by a professional team that is experienced and knows what they're doing.
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That explains so much.
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Can you scroll down and take another shot? There are a few settings that aren't shown.
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that would be really cool if it was the whole game. modders did some passable terrain stuff but I don't have time to add a million packs for other things.
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By the way, check out this new mod.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=6770
It gives every guard a randomized appearance/outfit according to the hold they belong to.
These are the kind of mods I like. Moar immersion!-
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