Advanced combat mod. Options

[Andyp]

Somone else has probably come up with an idea similar to this but i checked the search and nothing like what i was thinking of seemed to come up.

Anyhow im new here and i was playing oblivion the other day with my lvl 54 assasin dude and i realised that despite the looks and the better moves that you unlock later on, the combat was actually rather shallow.

Now my idea was to make combat context based and more hit location based, also i would love to work on the hand to hand making it a bit more like an assassins should be, i mean im pretty sure that the assassins train in martial combat so imo you should be able to just that, because atm the oblivion character punches like a thug who has just stumbled out of a pub.

Also when i said hit located and context based i meant that say a guard was running at you and was about to strike, well you would click the attack button as normal, but say you aimed at his leg? well that would deliver say a kick or punch that would disable him or knock him to the floor, this way combat would be even more physical than it is now and increadable fun.

On the other hand i must admit that it is very elaborate and probably would require a lot of complex coding shame i have no idea where to start, anyhow tell me what you think of my idea.
Thanx

[Andyp]

yeah that was sadly my fear, i wish i knew a lot more about making mods and stuff, im afraid it would be very difficult to implement as it probably would require an entire rethinking of the engine which wouldent be a mod more of a totally new game.

Its just that i have got many characters and i worked hard with all of them and on some i got their combat skills to 100, now i like the oblivion combat and the way its so realistic and physical, however i found that despite the new skills and moves i got as i advanced in lvl the fact that the other enemys advanced with me meant that i couldent rely on my new skills, because they are based on how high your agility is in relation to theirs, this meant that they usually had an agility lvl nearly equal to me, and basicly the percentage of my attacks having the desired effect ie:
disarm, knockback or paralyse, was very small so therefore there is no fun to be had in progressing and spending time with the game if the rewards are unstable and unreliable.

So i just thought it would be nice to have a cool fun combat system that was location based, and is more importantly, reliable.

This post has been edited by Andyp: Jun 13 2006, 06:35 PM