Acadian: I think we would need Jerric for a second moon. Assuming he was drunk enough to drop his drawers...

That was not even a bathroom! It is just a utility tunnel. I have no idea how the toilet, bathroom sign, or flag got in there!

I love how the plungers, and bloody hand prints, go all the way up on to the ceiling. It looks like someone used the plungers to climb up.

The last two pics are from the Operation Anchorage DLC. Hecate was in the right area to kick it off, so she decided to help out the Brotherhood Outcasts and give the simulation a try. It is hard to tell the difference between the DLC and my mod, because they both use the same location. My mod is different in the critters you find there, and the lack of simulation elements (like de-rezzing bodies, healing stations, etc...)


mALX: I always have trouble finding the cell that the Burnmaster is in. It is easy to walk right past without noticing it. But it is great for torching ghouls once you get it!

I have never had those Brotherhood guys attack me. I have had the bug where they follow you around though, and you find them in your Megaton house! I always thought that was funny.

Hecate is in the Operation Anchorage DLC, not my mod. She might do the mod after the sim, or I might save the mod for later. The DLC goes really quick, because there isn't any loot you can pick up except more ammo and occasional weapons.



My new team in Pillars of Eternity - Aela's Five

Here is the same pic without the user interface

And finally zoomed in as far as I can go and still get them all in the pic

Countess Bathory's tub?

Slaying a Drake

Aela (she is in the robes on the left, with the glow around her hands), pierces an undead with the Barbs of Condemnation

How fun! Aela and company look great - they even have a pig and wolf to help them out. That Barbs of Condemnation spell looks pretty potent. I'm sure having two mages in the party is fun. I remember (somewhat unhappily) in BG II absolutely requiring almost a full mage simply to strip away the pesky defenses of enemy mages.

GAAAAAAH!!! You made a mod in Anchorage? I want to hear all about it !!!!


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The Village People!

I like the one with the interface better because I can see Aela's face on it!

Ooh, I see a sword and shield on the ground; can you pick up loot in this game?

Drake shot is very cool!

I see a skellie in that last shot, lol.

I know you have shown this game before, but for some reason I can't remember it

Acadian: Thankfully PoE is not as bad as the BG games when it comes to needing a mage with the right 4 or 5 spells cast in succession to bring down an enemy mage's defenses. Mages are support characters, that most of the time plink away with their wands doing ok damage, because you want to conserve their spells for when it really matters. Then when you uncork their abilities they totally outclass all the other characters with pure damage output. They are like artillery or air-strikes. Even though Aela is a Priest, she still has the highest damage ever done in a single attack in the party, something like 74 points.

The Barbs of Condemnation is a 1st level spell. But it has long range and does some pretty solid damage, even now that Aela is 8th level or so. She still uses in on a regular basis.


mALX: I made Anchorage Aftermath back in the winter. It allows you to visit Anchorage in 'modern' time, and fight new enemies. All the Anchorage gear is there to loot, as is power armor training. The best thing is that you don't have to help the Outcasts, or do Operation Anchorage at all to get there. But you do need the dlc installed and active, since Anchorage Aftermath its resources.

Aela's team is the Village People! How appropriate, considering that Ungarion is her right hand man!

The new game is Pillars of Eternity. I started a topic about it here a while ago, and Lopov and Haute have played it as well.

The one thing I like about the interface pics are the character portraits as well. The characters themselves are so small on the screen that they hardly have any real definition to them. But the portraits make them all come to life and seem like people.

You cannot pick up most of the items laying around though. Its like the Mass Effect games, where all the clutter you see is actually built into the background, not actual objects you can interact with. You can only pick up items from the critters you kill, and those are only the ones that the developers decided to make drop from them.

An ancient Engwithan soul anchor machine

Alpha strike with arquebuses

Sounds like good advice!

Ungarion slices and dices with a Ghost Blades spell

Sounds like nice improvements to the excessive need for mages to bust mages in earlier games. Very nostalgic to see your screens - they look great! Guns in D&D?!? Oh I love those mage summon independent blades spells from D&D!

GAAAAAH! I have downloaded this! It must have been right around the time I had that surgery; and I forgot about it, urk. I haven't played FO3 since then, so it hasn't been installed; it is probably in my FO3 mods folder.

Sorry about that, I guess I still have some memory issues,

Oh, it is too bad there is no loot; that table in the first screen looks like it would be fascinating to ransack!

I like the running commentary in the lower right corner of the second screen; kind of keeping you appraised of the kills your team has made and what bootie they took from the enemies,

BWAAHAA! Don't state the obvious, lady Webb!


Boy, I just don't see how you can tell what is going on in that last screen, that is one hot mess!

Great shots!

I have been dealing with the CTDs by quicksaving often!

The feedback box in the corner of the screen is an old holdover from the old days of isometric RPGs like Baldur's Gate. It gives you a full run down of everything happening. Telling you who hit or missed, what damage they did, etc... It also tracks the dialogue, so you can go back to see exactly what someone said. I like it very much. It helps out a great deal.

At times it can be difficult to tell what is going on when the screen gets filled with magic effects, like from fireballs. I find the colored circles under everyone makes things easier, because allies are green, enemies are red. Dead people might still be on the screen, but they won't have a circle, so that tells you what you can ignore.


Aela holds court

The opening salvo in the Battle of Yenwood Field (if you look close, you can see that the lightning bolt actually killed one of the baddies own guys)

Aela and company start in the opposite corner

The lines come together

Without the UI

The aftermath (the glows on the ground are corpses you can loot)

Quicksave vs CTD.

Wow, that is one big battle!

Very cool effects and the aftermath indicates a mountain of loot it appears!

I love the building and textures in the "Court" screen!


But I'm Totally lost on the battlefield screens. I don't know how you can see such tiny little figures in action and think to know how to defend or attack! You are amazing!

Oh wow, do they give you enough time to loot all those bodies? AWESOME !!!

I kind of like the screens with the UI on so I can read what is going on, see Aela, etc - but the battlefield did look a little closer in that screen without the UI. Does it bring it in a bit closer to remove the UI?

Awesome Shots !!!! Sorry it took so long to get here, have had a bad couple weeks here - too much going on.

I was pretty lost in the big battle too. The game actually crashed the first time I tried it! The second time I had a better idea of what to expect, but it was still confusing. I just tried to keep my team together so Aela's buff spells would protect the entire group. Then I just concentrated on wiping out whatever was in front of the team, until finally there was no one left.

I manually zoomed in a little closer in the pic without the UI is all. It looks the same with or without the UI.


I finished part one of The White March, and the Endless Depths of Od Nua. Seridwe has been using Cloudpiercer Stormcaller, which she found atop Durgan's Battery in the March. So far it has been most impressive.

Aela and company square off against an almost dragon

I had a good laugh at this (for those who have not watched The Guild, it is an easter egg of a painting that was in the show

This is a very disturbing place

Battling drakes

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 4 2016, 09:18 PM

Great shots! That first dragon looks pretty impressive. Not familiar with the Easter Egg, but I'm glad you left the UI up in that shot - a nice opportunity to see the portraits you imported for your characters. Oh, and the kitty. Actually, both the kitty in the portraits and the one walking around on the floor.

So what is Cloudpiercer and what does it do?



This post has been edited by Acadian: Jul 4 2016, 01:04 PM

Oops, it was not Cloudpiercer, but Stormcaller. It is a unique enchanted bow added by The White March. It is pretty impressive, especially when its Returning Storm effect goes off in the middle of a group of enemies.


Persephone spends some time moon-bathing in her mountain lair

Red Dead

Magic by moonlight

Ruling from the tomb

Dark spirit

Waterfall

Nice shots of Persephone in Oblivion. Under the light of the moons. Nice shots involving the moon – both the red one and the magic one. She looks relaxed, comfortable and just a bit lonely in her contemplations. Dark spirit - but nice thigh gap. Aww, waterfall.

Holy Cow, that dragon is huge compared to the Player!

OMG, that easter egg is so funny! I haven't seen the show it comes from; but just really love when games do stuff like that! Say, in that shot do I see a housecat? Is that part of your troup or something like a pet?

That contraption looks like something from the old board game "Mouse Trap,"

I think I am beginning to remember when you played this game before and posted screens that so many of the enemies seemed really huge and scary to face (from my perspective) and wondering if they were scaled like the dragons are in Skyrim or if they were like the huge things in ESO = REALLY tough? Those Drakes look Awesome!

Sorry I was late getting here, I somehow lost track of my email notice on this post, urgh!









That bow sounds Awesome !!!!

WOO HOO! Persephone is back! And her tower, too!

Red Dead looks downright eerie, like she is descending from the sky (or ascending to that red moon, like it is calling to her or something); lol.

Magic by Moonlight is just beautiful, Persephone looks spectral here!

Oh wow, I don't recognize that tomb! Didn't think there could be a place in Cyrodiil I hadn't seen!

Dark Spirit - Oh, is she at the Priory of the Nine here? Now THAT makes me want to play Oblivion again!

Waterfall = Gaaaah, another place in Cyrodiil I don't recognize? Urk, where is this place?

AWESOME shots, I love it when you play Oblivion and Fallout 3; you make me feel excited to play them again!

Acadian: The Waterfall is added by Unique Landscapes - Arrius Creek. It adds a long creek that starts in the mountains and winds its way down to Lake Arrius, with plenty of waterfalls along the way.


mALX: That is not even a true dragon in that pic. It is only a drake. Although a big one. The dragons are larger, and tougher.

That is a housecat. It is a black and white cat that is one of the many pet options in Pillars.

I remember Mouse Trap! It was so much fun trying to build Rube Goldbergs with that thing!

The tomb is added by the Iron Maiden Armor mod. You can get some of the armor there.

The Waterfall is from Unique Landscapes - Arrius Creek. The Unique Landscapes mods add a lot of new areas to Cyrodiil. Some are really good. Some are really meh. You have to just try each and see if you like them or not.


This is no way to treat the dead...

Persephone has taken a ship to Morrowind

In the light

BOLD:

On the tomb and waterfall = WHEW! What a relief to know there is a reason I'm not recognizing them! I was kind of worried it was me, (lol, but serious)

"No way to treat the dead" is an Awesome shot! There is a whole story there between her expression looking down and the scattered bones at her feet; long lost scene she may have somehow survived and the others were all people she had known; etc. I mean that is a fantastic shot, you really captured a moment there!

The next two had me jumping up to find Misa in Seyda Neen screens! She has a house there that Persephone is welcome to visit any time; and also one with an indoor pool in Balmora.

LOVE that armor, that is gorgeous; and so is Morrowind Persephone!

Persephone in Cyrodiil. Given how those skeletal remains are just out and unprotected, they are probably Third Era folks instead of any of Persephone’s much more ancient pals. Nevertheless, you can almost see her pondering who they might be. What their stories are. . . .

Wow – your Morrowind looks fabulous. What a beautifully tropical looking sunset. And Persephone looks absolutely great – you've done an amazing job of rendering her so similar to how she looks in both Cyrodiil and Skyrim.

mALX: No way to treat the dead is from a goblin cave. The skeletons are all their victims, apparently tossed together by the goblins. That really got Persephone's dander up.


Acadian: Thankfully the ever popular Rens and Corean Hairs have been ported not only to Skyrim, but also backwards to Morrowind. That helps keeping Persephone looking like Persephone. Like the other games, I modded a new race for her, with her characteristically deathly pale skin.


Persephone's Absorb Health kills an orc boss

Aravi is free!

An underwater Daedric temple

Deuling with a Dreugh

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 10 2016, 10:00 PM

Can't go too far wrong with hair by Ren or Corean. Buffy's hair in my avatar is by Corean.

Gosh, I can't get over how good your game and Persephone look in Morrowind! I mean Persephone's face underwater is just gorgeous.

Free Willy Aravi!