I thought it was as simple as changing the startup directory to the OpenMW exe but maybe I'm misremembering. OpenMW not recognizing scripts like base game + MGE still sucks in general. That really needs to be a top priority for the next update.
Nah, it's full of little caveats, but maybe i'm just smoothbrained
It's an entirely different code architeture, but since 0.49 the Lua Scripting is robust and you now see mods you only thought possible in MWSE. 0.50 came with even more goodies and we actually have some MWSE ports now
That all sounds like a huge improvement from the last time I touched the game. I didn't even know OpenMW has poison mods now.
There are still really cool mods like Joy of Painting that only work for MWSE and would need to be completely rewritten for Lua (plus apparently the current scripting framework for OpenMW can’t replicate it at the moment). But I barely know anything about actual coding or how difficult it would be to rewrite, assuming it would eventually be possible.
There are tons of cool stuff
Not nexus, but I did finally try a wabbajack list with NGVO
If I side with the Dawnguard I get annoyed at being unable to kill Serana. If I side with Harkon I get annoyed at being unable to fully side with him at the end. I’ve never seen a DLC make it harder to fully commit to playing a character because it expects you to like Serana.
Honestly, the vampire lord form fucking sucks unless you're using mods to improve the skill tree and usability of the form in general. The vampirism penalties aren't a big deal but it's very much a playstyle and there isn't really a point in becoming one unless you're committing to it. I've never tried a full vampire playthrough and I'd imagine there's probably some fun to be had there.
It is completely overrated, I hate how much more restricted the series became, in Morrowind you could jump really high, fly everywhere, fuck up quests and your character royally.
You can still run insanely fast in Oblivion. While there's functionally a cap to how high you can Jump, you can still jump really far. You can still jump across the map as long as you start high enough and have enough speed.
It was only this week that I realized higher proficiency and/or stats make some spells stronger, because my usual 200 point jump spell, which used to maybe get me across two cities' worth of length, was launching me into the fucking orbit at later levels. I only found out by looking down and seeing I was in the middle of an ocean and everything below me had become a sphere.
Try Winds of the North.
The "jump" spell effect seems to make you go higher than fortifying acrobatics. Also something to consider is fatigue effects everything. Fortify fatigue in Morrowind is insane, and the bonuses you get are based on how high your fortified fatigue is over your base max fatigue. I remember watching a JBN video where he gave himself 1 max fatigue and after fortifying it he became god-like despite having all around low stats, jump height included.
Would've been neat if cleared dungeons had other factions move into them. Like you clear a draugr crypt and then a few weeks later bandits move in and start clearing out the bodies. Then you kill all the bandits and a couple weeks later necromancers have moved in and raised the bandits and the draugr.
