Feb wandering Skyrim with random musings about what I’d love to see Bethesda implement in Elder Scrolls VI , with examples! ……when it finally launches – hopefully before I’m old and grey:D Sorry I’m a bit stuttery – I’ve never narrated a video in this style before (prolly won’t again either!) and I lost my thread a couple of times (I blame the meds – but it could also just be because I’m a dork, both of those together doesn’t make for elegance, you know?). I’d love to know what you’re hoping for from ES VI.
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I absolutely agree about decorating the player homes (or any other area to be honest). That would be epic.
For the orphans and beggars, Street Kids ~ gives each of the orphans a bedroll
Give Gifts to NPCs ~ allows you to give 10 septims, clothing, weapons, food, etc. to anyone
Outfit NPCs ~ allows you to give armor and weapons to any NPC
I use AFT, make the beggars my follower, take them to a home, then use My Home is Your home and tell them that is their home now. If the home is in the same city they live in, they will go about their daily routines, but dressed in warm clothing, armed so they can defend themselves, and still have a decent place to sleep each night. Best of all, since I use Wet and Cold, they go home when it rains or there is a blizzard. I usually place a small Campfire tent, and then add a lantern, a backpack or chest, some toys, etc., for the children.
I would love to see elements from mods like Campfire and Frostfall as part of the base game ~ being able to set up a tent, fire, etc. and have the weather affect the player character. I can't remember the exact name of the mod, but it allows you to build a shack type home anywhere on the map that keeps the weather out. Something like that, possibly with some variation for better homes (similar to the vanilla player homes … not necessarily as 'big' as the Hearthfire homes would also be great.
The delay in creating the next Elder Scrolls is a big miss imo – so many who enjoyed this game when it came out have left, moved on or 'grown-out' of gaming. The generation gap only grows as time passes until the release …My kids have moved on but maybe I'll have grandkids to play along side with? A modded FO4 engine makes a fine in-game custom builder, so that has been already 90% addressed by the community, Bethesda just needs to LISTEN to the community and expand on options for the player. I like ( not just but especially,) racial diversity but not restrictions. A little consistency in writing would be nice ; Why is a Khajiit player character allowed inside the city gates? ( Never made sense to me that one.) Why are there so many farms when food is useless? Why could I never just knock on a door in the base game?
One needs only to look at what the community has done to improve these games to see what should be implemented … Deeper plot, better character gen with more varied build trees (Insert in game respec character option through NPC quest mechanics here), customization options in game along side the mod option, cities that look and feel like cities and as much diversity as one can fit. 50% of my load order is spent on diversity mods that should/could have been in the base game – The biggest miss in Skyrim for me? It was overly simplified across the board, beautiful but basic and relevant solely because of the modding community today.
Your suggestions mostly seem geared towards maximizing player agency. I couldn't agree more. More options for homes, more ways to express myself in the world and with NPC's. All good. The higher my agency in a game, the more invested in it I'm able to get.
I also hope to see more survival mechanics, such as the exposure system in the Frostfall mod. For me, having to adapt to the world around me and learn about how to thrive gives me a greater sense of connection to that world, and what better world to feel connected to than Nirn?
I agree with everything you said as well. Also, I think that def adding the options to decorate your own home, maybe make things for it that you can add to your home and make you feel like its your own would be awesome. Maybe some kindof achievement system that is collection based and maybe rewards you with a special place to store your in game rare and unusual items. I would like to see the marriage system stay in but get a total rehaul, right now its nice but kindof flat. Part of this games appeal I think is the ability to make the world your own and for it to feel like a "second life" I think if they lose these options the game will suffer. Also to work on the NPC interactions as well, to add things like reputation and consequences for your actions and have that build as you play. Instead of just paying a guard a few gold and they are all like, ok we good… when you might have just murdered someone. I am excited for the new game also and it has a lot of live up to from Skyrim so we will see what the future holds 🙂
I miss Skyrim Feb! I had to get rid of my gpu so I can’t play it until I replace it 😞
Love your list btw😃
I agree with your idea of more player options in decor and dialogue. One pet peeve I have: Once a npc, such as a vendor, has met you, their dialogue toward your character should change. We should NOT have to listen to their introductory dialogue over, and over and over in the same playthrough. Also, I think any character we create could have a option of dialogue based on the build, a Paladine would not react in converse the same as a rogue. It really does break immersion to not have a viable option to speak as the character build. Also, I believe our characters should have the ability to gift anyone, but especially our followers. Plus, helping others, such as beggars and orphans, would be great, too. Many, many great ideas.
First, thank you for a platform to voice my own wishes for TES6. Love your ideas, thank you!
Cannot believe anyone would "dislike" your OPINION!!! Illogical to dislike, even if you don't agree.
Hello Febrith! I don't comment on your channel, excepted for the time you showed Lierin's version of my mod. This time i feel like i had to. It's about the breaking weapons matter. I REALLY don't want that kind of stuff. Way too easy to fall into the excess, just as with The legend of Zelda Breath of the wild. I WAS a huge Zelda fan then they introduced that and it literally kept me away. If they introduce such stuff into ES6, i hope they will add some kind of on/off option for that in the settings, and even better, some kind of adjustable level option for it. Another point i want to add is about Lierin. I,m not sure that you know her more than me, but i'm starting to fear for the worst about her. She didn't respond to my messages on the Nexus since a lot of time and she used to answer in the day or 2 after i sent him one. As i know, she was sick and not that young. Do you know if…something… happened to her?
The gap between Skyrim and TES6 really is massive. Over a decade the time TES6 comes out ppl might can play it who where babies when Skyrim came out. xD my 2011 me was very optimistic that till now we would have TES7 already. But I am a bit scared feb. Some say that Bethesda talked about mobile and I hope this is wrong. I neither want an MMO nor a mobile game out of the TES series. ._. About the decoration (what a cute fairy btw) I wanted to mention Enderal. Bet you heared of it. You can not built your own house there but you can buy an empty house and buy and built decorations etc. it’s a bit clunky but you get used to it and according to the devs from Enderal it was really hard to implement a deco system in Skyrim’s engine. That’s why I so hope they really built all these years on a new engine, cause even you may can make more out of it still, it will still have its old flaws and problems. Keep it up and take care
I'm not at all worried that it won't look absolutely amazing, but I'm worried about most everything else. I really hope the dialogue is not dumbed down like Fallout 4. And it'd be nice if you couldn't become a god of every skill and complete every quest in the game on one character. It just doesn't make sense that you can be the top boss of every guild within Skyrim.
I just hope Mircosoft allows it to run a pc. and not make it a xbox only game, like fable 2.
Basically a minecraft skyrim 🙂 I agree, the early years of skyrim were just dedicated to enhancing the immersion or cool factor of the experience. Today skyrim is now about world building with hundreds of mods for retexture alone skyrim is a different game now then what Bethesda originally just wanted which is an rpg game.
Side question: do you have any home recommendations for stables? I have a alot of horses and I need a nice place to house em XD.
I'll have long since become a draugr before it's released. Lol
Now I feel badly for missing the boat on EQII by a decade and a half! As for ESVI taking so long – it's really worrying, and totally in line with the trend for some other favorite RPGs of mine that largely whiffed a whole console generation. Elder Scrolls? Nothing for a decade. Fable? No mainline game since 2010. Mass Effect? One never-finished spin-off (Andromeda).
Feels like the pace of game development has slowed down dramatically as they get more complex even if (like you pointed out) some older games like EQII and Oblivion could actually be more feature-rich in some ways.
A little historical trivia: In olden times, organized beggars were required (within roguish society) to have spent all their earnings by the end of every Saturday. That was to prevent them from saving and advancing themselves financially. =^[.]^=
'Love you Febrith.
I'm in no hurry. There is so much Beyond Skyrim coming, so many other land quest mods I feel no rush at all.
I played a few hours of Cyberpunk last night. I was really hyped for it and then, well this afternoon and evening I became Thane of Markarth, found Grimsever and became Thane of Riften.
Nine years later, I feel I'm still beginning Skyrim.
Wishlist? Don't release it without ironing out all the bugs this time
I think some of my top requests are 1) native in-game decorating. 2) villages to have a distinctive architecture type and interior feels instead of relying on a “standard” farmhouse, something like Cities of the North and The Great Cities/Towns/Villages introduces 3) full representation of the life course (pregnant women, infants, toddlers, children, teenagers, adults, and elderly people). 4) cooking skill and perk tree or integration into alchemy.
I seriously hope they enlist some prominent modders to work on key elements of the new game. For example, Elianora on player house design, icecreamassassin on a big, sprawling lootfest quest, rkxk22 designing unique characters or Pandorable designing followers. A simple way to add new creature skeletons to the game, as I understand that's next to impossible — most new creature designs have to use existing skeletons. Four or five alternate starts, including one in which you're just an everyday citizen, or an immigrant stepping off the boat. The sprawling, dramatic starts are great, but they do get on your nerves the hundredth time you sit through them.
I really do miss EQII. Spending hours organizing my bookshelves, filling my house with creatures, exploring other peoples homes.
My main desire is for interior decorating, yeah. The fallout 4 settlement system was great, I got 2k+ hours out of the game because of it. I’d kill for a system like that. Maybe not necessarily towns, but interior customization with a similar system would be very welcome, at the least.
I love seeing new building mods but sadly don't have the education to make my own mods, and I fell in love with base building when I played City of Heroes. So I'd love to see some sort of building system that was easy to use for imbeciles like me.
Bethesda already developed a in depth building and decorating system using in game tools with fallout 4 settlement system and you can tell they put quite a bit of effort in it because the rest of the game suffered as a result. it should not be hard to port that tool into the next elder scrolls games. as long as they don't do to ES6 what they did to fallout 4 and replace all of the towns and villages full of quests with places to build
I like a lot of your ideas, especially the decoration ones. But definitely NO MORE giant spiders dropping on your head. I sneak through dungeons all the time and the only things that ever get me are the god dam spiders! 🤣
Enjoy your videos Feb. Elder Scrolls Online (ESO), which if I understand correctly Microsoft also purchased, has a dynamic housing function including decorating, building, and trading. It also has a customizable costumes feature. Both of these aspects IMHO should be included in ES6 and would answer some of your wish list items.
Only got to watch this today. I would like to see plants that look like plants. I have a mod for more (and prettier) insects and plants but the ones in the original are, well, Ugly. I would love to have a type of animal humane society or be able to build small hutches and such for some of the adorable animals out there. Meeko broke my heart and it took a mod for him to stop going back to his dead master's shack. I would also like to be able to bury dead things. I hate that someone attacks my homestead and it seems to take Forever for their body to disappear or someone dies fighting a dragon and I just have to leave them lying there. Most of these things I would probably never see because I am over 60 and at this rate BGS will probably release it after I am gone but it would be nice that there is somewhere for gamers to go that isn't "just another destroyed world". Thanks for all your great content and take care.
Hi Feb, can you please tell me which mod transforms Whiterun to look like that in your video? Thank you.
ES6 is definitely still some years away. I'd put my energies into supporting Beyond Skyrim (it'll probably end up getting lots of house modmods, if nothing else).
I might be biased here, because ES6 coming out will surely draw attention from BS's development! But on the other hand, Bethesda is paying close attention to the project and will probably draw some inspiration from it. So it will positively impact ES6 and by supporting it we support ES6 also… maybe that's just wishful thinking lol
I think people have mentioned this before, but have you tried Jaxonz Positioner? It lets you move, resize, or duplicate objects. I use it for some limited decorating and landscaping. You can also turn any object into a small item in your inventory for transport, and drop it later at which point it's restored to its original form.
There are also mods for giving NPCs clothing. I use Outfit NPCs, and often give beggars warmer clothing to wear. It's a bit glitchy though, sometimes when you give them an item everything else you gave them disappears from their inventory.
As for Silda in Windhelm, I don't know why she's still begging, with the thousands of gold I've given her for pickpocket training. 😂
@9:45 Dragons Keep ❤️ boarding school!
Thanks for this. I hope for those adds too. Have you tried Ana’s Editor? Hours of fun 😀
Feb, I would agree with you on a lot of the things you would love to see and I had a lot of faith that that is what Bethesda would do. However, having said that, I am now just a bit concerned with what I read earlier about Microsoft buying Bethesda for $7.5 billion dollars. I hope what ever happens, Microsoft will just leave them alone and let them continue the path they have soooo successfully been on. What ever happens I hope that Elder Scrolls 6 is just as if not more spectacular then Elder scrolls 5.
Given how this year has gone and having immune issues, I've been on isolation. Febrith, you are so right, the BEAUTY of Skyrim is a welcome friend. I can go where I want and do so many things in the game. I agree with all you said and hope that the next Elder Scrolls keeps the beauty, splendor, and wonder alive. I feel strongly about having mods for the new Elder Scrolls, too. I think that the ability to customize the game to suit you is the reason that Bethesda has been able to continue charging a competitive rate for a game as old as Skyrim. They know it is playable and endlessly fun BECAUSE of the modding community. I hope that Microsoft realizes how important that is. It's a whole new day for Elder Scrolls now. Let's hope for the best with fingers crossed. I, too, will be an old man (already there, really) when it comes out. Maybe it will be all that I hope in my late 60s.
Oh man my fav Skyrim Lady plays EQ2 too? A vet of Unrest which is now Halls of Fate. I'm in Outcast, use to be the main Tank Dirge in Vagabonds (Unrest). Now I just do events because modding takes all my free time LOL
Just discovered your channel a short while ago and I am a fan already! I also try to play Skyrim in different ways but always end up being a sneaky archer who to goes onto one-handed when her stats are high eanough that she doesn't get killed. Happens a lot. Apparently you are not supposed to be gawking at the gorgeous scenery during fights….. I level up my magic skills only when I need perk points! Try to persevere with Oblivion, it's worth it. Just to tempt you into Oblivion, check out my favourite player home mod in Oblivion. https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/37842
When I played it, there was no follower add-on but it looks like it has one now (Vilja) You have to do a cute quest (rather long) to get the house but it is sooooooo beautiful and has so many interactive features. This You Tube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6c1CHeMbPI shows end of quest and getting the house (part 2 from about 12 minutes in). Love to know what you think. If you like Red Rose Manor, I could show you my favourite Morrowind player home (lol!) Happy 2021! and thanks for your videos. I always jump on your new ones but at the moment just love trawling your back catalogue