

Below you'll find some great options to help you through it. Getting started with modding can be a daunting prospect for new players. My stance is that you should use OpenMW if you're casual enough to not care about accurate game mechanics and want to "just play" without caring about an authentic experience.Welcome to r/Morrowind, a subreddit dedicated to Bethesda's 2002 open world RPG, the third installment in the The Elder Scrolls series. People usually say that if you don't care about MWSE mods you should use OpenMW over Morrowind. OpenMW has some good stuff and potential, and it is not my intention to diss it, but if you want the vanilla experience with authentic gameplay mechanics and behaviour, OpenMW is the furthest thing away from it. Many newcomers also start with OpenMW without ever having played the original, so they don't even know how mechanics are supposed to behave in the first place. I expect that 99,9% of users here aren't as invested in Morrowind as I am, so they don't pay close attention to how basic game mechanics work and don't notice the differences. Everything about the AI is different, many NPCs run around half naked with unequipped armor in their inventory because their unarmored skill is higher, they choose different weapons, different spells and different targets. Constant Effect stats from Abilities, which includes Birthsigns, Vampirism and Almalexia's Blessings, still don't work properly after many years. For example, NPCs falling through the floor was just recently fixed after being an issue for 3 years. :DĪfter playing hundreds of hours in OpenMW and thousands in Morrowind, I can tell you that there are probably thousands of differences, big and small, both bugged and intentional.

I came all that way to solstheim, just to get ganked in a cave by an angry midget. I bet that old barbarian was just laughing his tits off at that! I was in the middle of quietly searching through some crates for some restorative potions, when suddenly I got bumrushed and finished off by some random little dude who came out from the very back of the tunnel and surprised me - I was listening to music while playing, so didn't hear him til I noticed my health was almost gone!! I went to go explore the little ice tunnel behind the ancient barbarian, remembering that it was quite a short tunnel with no threats.

I thought I was safe in that guy's hideout, after all, he's been there for hundreds of years, right? You know, the one by that stone henge (which turns out not to be a henge at all.)

I was in solstheim last night and had to deal with being followed by an army of wolves, bears and those cute little dudes riding those boars or whatever.
