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[dennislp3]

FCOM is total shit, don't bother with it. It's anything but converged, the instructions are outdated and you have to download and install about 20 things separately to get it to work, and even then marts monster mod causes it to crash every five minutes.

Figured as much hence not having it yet.

In Nehrim I adjusted the difficulty slider to 100% the first time i turned it on. Prolly shouldn't do that since I read that they suggest you dont cause its altered compared to vanilla.

Its only more difficult cause more damage is dealt by everyone. So yeah if you are not the most skilled and you catch a few blows it could be your undoing. Ultimately though its not a biggy.

Bout to throw on the beta of MERP right now...its empty with no quests and all but I want to see what they have done so far (heightmap of middle earth that is 7x vanilla map with many locations done....including minas tirith)

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

MERP's existence is humorously ironic, but if it ever gets finished I might consider reinstalling the game to try it.

[Cthulhu]

MERP looks pretty cool, although the terrain's hella ugly from a distance.  I do like that there are more wide-open areas.  For being a game where you can see practically forever, they sure did like rough, craggy terrain.

[Deon]

I still prefer OOO in terms of combat balance, but Neherim is really atmospheric.

Ioric Kittencuddler, I understand you don't like this game, but you are catching complaints.  Please stop.

So sayeth the ThreeToed groundchuck, so shall it be.  But what exactly are the complaints about?

Don't do it, man. Use personal messages for such stuff. Do not flame the thread.

[dennislp3]

MERP's existence is humorously ironic, but if it ever gets finished I might consider reinstalling the game to try it.

I don't see why they wouldn't finish it. They have a dedicated team on it and they have done a great deal of work so far....doubt it will just fizzle away. Most total conversions that fizzle do so in the planning/team building phase...they are WAY past that.

As for the terrain. The engine only allows for a world 7x the original which is way to small for middle earth. They have apparently just done there best trying to fit it all in. As far as how it looks at a distance....I am sure that will be remedied in time. Oblivion vanilla looks like shit at a distance but many steps have been taken to overcome that.

[Deon]

By the way, thanks for the link to Arktwend. It looks sweet and I didn't hear anything about that before.

[dennislp3]

Yeah no prob! I never did either. I assume its because when I put morrowind down it was before any total conversions made it anywhere past the forum hype stage so I never even looked into em. I had equated total conversion with total fail and wrote them all off.

[Deon]

I put it down when Tamriel Rebuilt already had quite a big chunk of landmass (no quests though). It reminds me, I'm going to check if they have anything else done.

P.S. I see... http://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/?p=status

They still work on it, but I guess it will never be fully released.

[Akura]

Sooo, torrenting Nehrim. 1.6GB, average speed ~40kbs, going around 60kbs when nothing else is taking bandwidth.

This is gonna take awhile...

What do you have for internet? hope you aren't paying much...when I torrented it I was going at 1300 Kb/s for a good portion of it.

Slow wireless adapter connected to what I'm pretty sure is a neighbor's router. 50-60kbs is normal speed for it most of the time.

[The13thRonin]

I am a bit irritated though because as of right now I cant kill anything...hard to kill even rats. I am guessing the damage model is exponential (eg at the start you cant do shit for damage then you hit a point where you do tons all of sudden).

Enemies don't scale in Nehrim... At the start you are a pretty average and weak wanna-be adventurer... Which makes it all the sweeter when eventually you are shooting lightning from one hand and beating an ogre to death with a big-ass maul in the other...

Also I'm sorry but atmospheric doesn't even begin to describe some of the areas you encounter like 10-20 hours in... They are BREATH-TAKING... I actually paused and just stood there and looked at how beautiful the world was... That's the difference between Nehrim and Oblivion... Oblivion is a game... Go here... Fetch this... Find that... Nehrim has the same basic formula but there's a WORLD there to explore... A lovingly handcrafted world.

[userpay]

*Debates whether he should reinstall Oblivion or not*

[Antioch]

Well, as long as there are no leveled lists I'm going to reinstall oblivion

[Thexor]

FCOM is total shit, don't bother with it. It's anything but converged, the instructions are outdated and you have to download and install about 20 things separately to get it to work, and even then marts monster mod causes it to crash every five minutes.

It's not that bad, but holy heck is it a challenge to install - I tried to get it to work as part of the TCOM set mentioned in the last Oblivion thread, but after downloading and installing, adding together a half-dozen mods, I ended up with weapons with missing meshes. Deleted, reinstalled from a different website, and ended up with half-German text and some different weapons with missing meshes. ARGHGHGHGH. 

[dennislp3]

I figure its not that bad either...but I definitely see how messy it can be to install...even from a clean oblivion install

[3]

I've never had any serious issues with installing FCOM. Got it first time in two previous times I've installed, and only suffered issues when I reinstalled recently due to the game wanting a dummy MMM.esp in order to load the MMM BSA (the FCOM installation instructions helpfully fail to mention this, although with a little understanding of how the game's engine works, one would already know that it had to be done).

I get occasional crashes but the frequency of such scale with the number of significant mods I have loaded, and they don't have anything to do with FCOM whatsoever.