"you could attach particles to weapons. as far as having only particles, im not sure it would work. it would be very tricky. much easier to attach the particle emitters to an actual mesh, keeping the particle life very short so they dont travel far. might be difficult to get any definate form, but they could trail behind a sword, for example. that would look very cool. hmm....... "

"no, but you can set up a script on an object to go off when someone opens a container, comes within a certain radius (i believe) or activates the object. so you can set up a trap, for example, where someone picks up an object and then gets hit with a fireball from across the room. "

"file->export
or
file->export selected

you will get the exporter with the game "

"It looks like there's very little overlap between the manual and the strategy guide. The manual goes into the schools of magic, and the types of spell effects; and it also talks more about the birthsigns. I was surprised that there wasn't more info about the magic system in the strategy guide, myself. "

"The Charioteer thing is my fault. We changed the names of the birthsigns a few times, and I was confused. Anyway, yes, it is the speed increase you get from The Steed.

The Atronach is definitely one of the coolest and most difficult (at the beginning anyway, before many enemies cast spells at you). You can go to the shrines at first, but later on, you'll want to get more mana without the trip. Which is okay, since you can make potions of restore magicka..."

"1. There are different qualities of lockpicks and different levels of magic spells for unlocking things. Some locks will have too high of a rating for lower level unlock spells for example.

2. There is no bite animation for vampires.

3. You can jump pretty high with a maxed out acrobatic score. In fact, if you artificially augment your skill enough you can leap buildings.

4. Yes, there are lots of shipwrecks and underwater caves to explore. Also there are items and things hidden underwater. Oh, and did I mention pearls... "

"As I have said many times before, and probably included in the confirmation email you received with your order, we do not guarantee a ship date for pre-orders. We make every effort to ship them on or before the date it ships to retail, which is what we are currently working on.

As it looks right now, someone who pre-ordered from us with the Next Day shipping option should get it about as fast as it's possible to get it. "

Highly Anticipated RPG Features Groundbreaking Combination
of Incredible Graphics and Non-linear Gameplay

Rockville, MD - April 23, 2002 - Bethesda Softworks™ announced today that
the highly-anticipated role-playing game, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind™
for PC, has gone to gold master and will be in stores the first week of May.
Morrowind also be available will also be available soon for the Xbox™ video
game system from Microsoft.

Morrowind is an epic, open-ended single-player RPG in which a player can
create and play any kind of character imaginable. Players can choose to
follow the main storyline and find the source of the evil blight that
plagues the land, or set off on their own to explore strange locations and
develop their character based on their actions throughout the game.
Featuring stunning 3D graphics, open-ended gameplay, and an incredible level
of detail and interactivity, Morrowind promises to be an experience like no
other.

"We know the gaming community has been anxiously awaiting the arrival of
Morrowind for a long time," said Todd Howard, project leader for Morrowind.
"We were able to remain true to our goal of providing the deepest, most
cutting edge RPG you can buy. We’re sure everyone will enjoy the game as
much as we enjoyed creating it."

Morrowind is the sequel to Bethesda's award-winning titles Arena™ and
Daggerfall®, highly regarded as two of the most intricate and compelling
role-playing games ever released. Following in their footsteps, Morrowind
has already garnered numerous awards from last year’s E3 show and an
impressive collection of accolades. PC Gamer Magazine called it “The
best-looking 3D RPG ever,” and GameSpy included Morrowind on its list of
most wanted games for 2002.

“As has already been mentioned by numerous gaming publications, Morrowind
will change the way we view role-playing games forever,” said Vlatko
Andonov, president of Bethesda Softworks. “We couldn’t be prouder of the
development team for what they’ve accomplished, for taking on a challenge
like Morrowind and implementing it so skillfully.”

About Bethesda Softworks™
Headquartered in Rockville, MD, Bethesda Softworks (http://www.bethsoft.com)
is a developer and publisher of entertainment software. Bethesda a division
of ZeniMax Media Inc., and has published numerous award-winning titles,
including The Elder Scrolls® series, the Terminator series, and Sea Dogs®.
Bethesda Softworks’ full product line spans the sports, racing, RPG,
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products, visit www.bethsoft.com.

"You can edit the rate that each individual skill increases with the editor. I started out with a fairly high skill in Longblade (Redguard + Major Skill). I used a longblade exclusively until it got to 100. Now I am using a bow mostly. It didn't feel too fast for me, but YMMV."

"You can kill Vivec. "

"Actually, that picture IS with the pixel shader water. The ripples are there, they're just harder to see because a) it's raining, and so the reflections of the sky are darker and b) you're looking almost straight down into the water, so you won't see as much sky reflection as if you were looking ACROSS the water, again making ripples harder to see. It's much more apparent in motion than in a screen shot."

"There are no "heat-seeking" spell projectiles. They all go in a straight line. "

"Because we wrote the shadow code before the GeForce3 came out, and it worked well enough that we decided to focus on other things."

"i hardly see this as a big flaw. yes, you will have to flip pages. but there is a listing, in alphabetical order, of all topics that have hyperlinks so you can easily look up comments on a particular dungeons location etc.

you cant edit the journal ingame, but if you are working on a mod you can certainly have it write down any info you want"

"the journal is saved as a .htm file in your morrowind folder "

"No DO NOT ENTER signs. There are sort of chapters when dealing with the main quest (but not really). You better walk around trees, or you'll bump your head."

"Let me see if I can shed some light on this subject.

--Enchant skill can be raised one of three different ways.

1) Creating a magic/enchanted item.
2) Recharging a magic/enchanted item.
3) USING a magic/enchanted item.

Of course, your skill in enchantment goes up MUCH faster when creating or recharging your own item than actually using them, but theoretically, a player could max out their Enchant skill by only using magic items they find in the game.

--Mysticism is useful in creating enchanted items only in that it is the school that determines if you can cast Soul Trap effectively. This is the spell that is needed to fill the soul gems.

--Creating an enchated item or recharging one destroys the soul gem.

--There are TONS of soul gems in the world.

--Enchanting projectiles is a costly affair. You cannot enchant stacks of projectiles. There is a small chance that you can retrieve your ammo from killed nasties though, if that is any consolation."

"And as a final addition to the discussion, no one ever said there were a finite number of soul gems. Filled soul gems, yes - but that's all."

"most items have ownership. if you steal from someone, he will recognize it as his if you try to sell it back to him. you can, however, sell it to someone else. if you get caught, everything you stole will be removed from your inventory and you will be punished according to the crime "

"I think smudge summed it up pretty well; what points do we still need clarification on?

You cannot sell items back to the person you stole them from. He/she will recognize them and report you for it. You can, however, sell the items to other merchants.
If you are caught for any crime and go to jail, you will be stripped of any items in your possession that are stolen. Regular interactions with NPCs, however, will not be affected by whatever items you may have on your person. "

"Hits from hand-to-hand damage fatigue, while hits from weapons damage health. Although there could be damage fatigue effects on enchanted weapons as well."

"Pete said yesterday that there was a slight misunderstanding on their site. Pete has since contacted them and it was clarified."

"you cant do it without making new art. creatures cannot carry things. you can easily have them follow you, though.

you can only give npcs stuff if theyre knocked out. and im afraid they wouldnt like you very much when they came to."

"Actually, gauntlets are separate items, so you can have two different ones, if you like."

"cells have co-ordinates listed in the editor. also objects have x y and z positions and rotations listed if you double click on them "

"There be cobwebs. Most of which can be found in the most likelyhood of all places.... in tombs with the deaders."

"actually there are things that change over time in the game - not seasons, but structures. i dont see why you couldnt look at that script and modify it. again, not for seasons, but there are still alot of possibilities."

"for confirmation...
the XBX and PC versions are the same. the extra disc for the PC is for the editor, if my memory serves.

no worries."

"If you have the PC version, you can use the TES Construction Kit to create custom spells and save them in plug-ins. Then you can trade the plug-ins. But you can't save spells you create in the game - those are embedded in the game save files, and while you can trade those, they have character and other info as well and you can't combine them like you can plug-ins."

"Arrows, crossbow bolts, and all throwing weapons work the same way:

- If you don't hit an NPC or creature, they're gone forever

- If you DO hit an NPC or creature, and the arrow/bolt/throwing weapon is not enchanted, there is a chance that it could be placed in the target's inventory -- this means that an NPC could possibly use the weapon against you, and that if you kill the NPC you can recover it. Enchanted arrows/bolts/throwing weapons are destroyed when the enchantment goes off. The percentage chance is a game setting that can be changed using the TES Construction Kit.

- You can only enchant one at a time. No enchanting piles of arrows/bolts/throwing weapons.

- If you put an area effect enchantment on an arrow/bolt/throwing weapon, it'll go off even if you hit something other than an NPC or creature. So you can create exploding arrows and fire them into a crowd."

"They have to be "Cast When Strikes". "Cast Once" enchantments you pick from your spell menu and "cast". Like scrolls. If you were to put a "Cast Once" enchantment on an arrow/bolt/thrown weapon, the enchantment would not go off if you threw it. It'd only go off if you picked the enchantment from your magic menu, readied magic, and cast it."

"You can't pick up creatures (or their corpses) and use them as weapons. And the only thing you can throw is throwing weapons (knives, darts, stars)."

"You can use the ingame console to do just about anything. You can add items to your player, remove items, add spells, remove spells, change stats, check variables, change variables, start scripts, disable items, unlock doors, change the weather, move NPCs, create monsters, kill monsters....

Lots of things. It even makes French toast."

"waterfalls are separate geometry."

"I'd better answer this quick, or everyone will assume that you CAN'T move while levitating :P

When you levitate, you have full freedom of movement. You can move up, down, and any direction. You can fight (includes archery, thrown weapons and spell projectiles). If you stand still, you hover. The magnitude of the levitate spell dictates how fast you can move.

One fun thing is you can cast Levitate on NPC's. So what you do is you make a 30 second self-target levitate spell and a 15 second range-target levitate spell. You cast the 15 second spell on a bad guy, and the 30 second one on yourself. Run up into the sky for 15 seconds, turn around and watch the bad guy fall to his death "

"The following pieces of armor are in the game, in a wide variety of materials, styles, weights, and armor ratings:

Helmets, full and partial
Pauldrons, left & right
Bracers, left & right
Gauntlets, left & right
Cuirass
Greaves
Boots (pair only)
Shields

You can mix & match these pieces to your heart's content."

"After you join one of the three Great Houses, if you advance far enough a stronghold will be built for you in the architectural style of that House.

You don't get strongholds for any other reason.

And they are difficult and expensive to get!

And yes, as Dalinn pointed out, the content of the game is the same on PC and Xbox, so Xbox owners can have strongholds built for them as well. "

"Kinjo, you can jump whenever you want. How HIGH you can jump depends on your Acrobatics skill. Low skill = low jump. High skill = high jump. And remember, every character has every skill - and that means that every character can jump."

"you can scale down 50% and up to 200%. scaling doesnt work for npcs or creatures."

"Some stay pretty much where they're put, like some shopkeepers (wouldn't do to have the armorer in Sadrith Mora abandon her stall now, would it?) while others wander around. It depends on the NPC. They're all different."

"Same guide for both. It's the same game, content-wise."

"If you buy spellmaking services from an NPC within the game, you're going to be limited to a half a day in game-time, assuming that you can a) afford to buy the spell and b) you have enough magicka to cast it.

You might have better luck making an enchanted that lasts that long, assuming you have a soul gem with a powerful enough soul and a high-quality item to enchant.

In the editor, you can make spells that last much longer than that."

"When you sneak, your character crouches down a little. When you jump your character's knees bend, and they animate realistically when you land."

"while you cant marry, really, you can buy yourself a slave, or slaves. when they get too annoying you can make them wait in one spot for you."

"you can make any object a "load door" which essentially will teleport you to a pre-determined location."

"you cant alter the tattoos in the editor - you would have to get the texture file and do it that way "

"Sneaking depends on a number of factors: your Sneak skill, the NPC's Sneak skill, LOS, distance, Luck, Invisibility spells, Chameleon spells, what kind of boots you're wearing, etc. There are lots of components that go into determining whether or not you'll be detected. And just sneaking around with no one watching won't help your skill; there has to be a chance that you'll be detected for there to be a skill raise."

"Whenever you use a soul gem to create an enchantment or recharge an enchanted item, they are destroyed.

However, there are hundreds of soul gems to be found in the game. I doubt you'll ever run out."

"OK here's how it works. You can set attack options in the Options menu.

One option is to "use best attack". Each weapon has three attack ratings -- how much damage it can do for chop, thrust, and slash attacks. "Use best attack" simply always picks the best attack for that particular weapon, be it chop, thrust, or slash.

If you turn off "use best attack", you can select which attack you use by pressing (or not pressing) a movement key before you press the attack button. This works as follows:

No movement key: chop
Forward/backward: thrust
Strafe left/right: slash

I prefer to play this way. It's a lot more fun.

Also for each weapon, each attack style has a range of possible damage, a minimum and maximum possible value. The longer you hold the attack button, the more damage the attack will do. Hold it for a second, and you'll do up to the full possible damage. Click rapidly, and you'll do the minimum possible damage. Note that in both cases, the damage done may be reduced based on the target's skills, armor rating, etc."

"You don't HAVE to be in the Mage's guild to create new spells. There are plenty of NPC's who provide spellmaking services without requiring any sort of guild membership."

"First of all, remember that in Morrowind, you have ALL of the skills. Just because a skill is a Misc skill doesn't mean you can't use it or even max it out.

Now if you have a high Enchant skill, you won't go through the enchanted item's charge as fast -- each cast uses less magicka. And you'll be more successful at making enchantments, and recharging an enchanted item with a soul gem will work better. That's what the quote means.

Note that you get a small skill use each time you USE an enchanted item, too. So even your warrior can advance his or her enchant skill, simply by using enchanted items."

"Close Tusk, but if you cast soul trap on a creature, kill it, and you don't have a soul gem big enough to hold the creature's soul, the soul trap fails. Also, creatures actually have a Soul value that is set up in the editor, so while higher leveled creatures will have "larger" souls, the two aren't really directly tied to one another.
Finally, there's a formula that determines how much charge you get from a soul & soul gem. It's not limited to just the creature's exact soul value. So a creature with a 30 soul isn't necessarily going to give you 30 spell points to work with in your enchantment."

"----------
1) Can you change your character's handedness? Can I wield my sword in my left hand and my shield in my right hand if I choose? (I'm left handed BTW)

2) Are there musical instruments for bards to play, and do they have spell-type effects?

3) I know the voodoo card is not officially supported, but will the game actually fire up and run on one? (even if you have to turn things off to do it, can it be played on a voodoo3, even if you have to use the funky 3rd party drivers or play it on Win98?)

4) Can you place a container inside another container? What about containers in your inventory (A bag of Holding that has a small wooden box inside that has your rings in it for example)? If so, is there a limit?

5) Can you post a screenshot that shows the cool magic item detection in action?
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1. Nope.
2. There are a few musical instruments. I don't know if any are enchanted, though.
3. Your video card must support DirectX 8.1. That's the limitation.
4. You can't pick up containers, so no.
5. I don't think any screenshots have been taken of that... check some of the previews, there might be one out there."

"Summoned creatures will follow you wherever you go.

If anything attacks you, they'll fight it for you.

They'll stick around as long as the spell is in effect, but once the spell expires they're gone.

If your summoned creature dies before the spell expires, and the summoning spell has no additional effects in progress, the spell is cancelled early.

You can't cast the same summoning spell if it's already in effect, but you can cast multiple different summoning spells.

Summoned creatures will ignore a few accidental hits from you, but if you keep banging on them they'll get mad and attack you back.

You can only summon undead & daedra. No rats, guars, etc.

Yes, NPC's can summon creatures, too. If you kill the NPC before their summoning spell expires, the creature goes away.

Yes, there are scrolls and enchanted items that will allow you to summon creatures even if you aren't skilled in Conjuration.

Yes, you can soul trap summoned creatures. Quite handy, since you get a few free hits before they fight back."

"see a book.
open it.
if it would raise your skill, it will happen upon opening it.
if it would not raise a skill you will just have a regular old book. (but some are worth reading for information, and others are worth reading if you like that kind of fiction.)

simple. ^_^"

"and if you hit F1, it will bring up a mini-menu which gives you the option to assign the numbers across the top to correspond with weapons, inventory items, spells, etc.

comes in very handy!

and jump is E. (but keys can be re-assigned.)"

"----------
First question: In this game, are all "buildings" real? To be more specific, if I see a house, and it clearly is a house, with doors and windows, clearly presenting itself as having an inside, does it? I can't think of a game that was actually devoid of fake doors, opaque windows, and towns constructed of, appearantly, house mountains.

Second question: This one is really the pet peave that made me decide to finally post. It is problem I have found in EVERY game I have ever played on any system. I am refering to "SOLID AIR". You know the stuff I mean. You can see no obstruction barring you from walking down the street, or jumping a 8" railing, or what have you, but are, none-the-less, stopped cold by the Solid Air. With as many innovations and strides toward a new level of plausability as I have read (for years) this piece of work is attempting, I have actually caught my self daring to believe my nemesis, solid air, may have finally been defeated.
----------

yes, you can go into the buildings. they aren't just there for show.

we don't have solid air. the only thing preventing you from going places is yourself. (example: you would not be able to jump a 10 foot wall if your acrobatics skill was really low, but levitate could get you there right away.)"

"when you're doing anything in the game (save a few things in the VERY VERY beginning), you can be at 1st or 3rd person views at any time you like. when i started testing, i initially fought in 3rd person, but after a while i went into 1st person view and stayed that way. "

"I guess I qualify as a beta tester.

My task is working on the main quest and while testing, I get to use minimal cheats like stat increases and the walkthrough. I have been testing it since last Friday and have only goten about 60% the way through it. That's about 10 hours a day playtime for a week. Getting through the main storyline will not be done overnight."

""filling" a soulgem is accomplished with the spell SOUL TRAP. you can learn this as a spell to be added to your repertoire, or find it on a scroll, enchanted item, etc... upon encountering an enemy, you cast the spell on them and finish combat. once they are dead, you will hear a magicka sound, and the lowest quality gem in your inventory which can hold the soul of the newly trapped creature will be filled. BUT be forewarned... the soul trap spell has a time duration on it, like many other spells. if it lasts for only 30 seconds, and the creature you cast the spell upon dies AFTER the spell expires, you will NOT trap their soul. so as a rule, it's a good idea to get to know the general lifespan of your opponents during combat. "

"He's got a shield spell in effect. It's a duration spell with a persistent visual effect. So it could be that he cast it and then drew his weapon, or it could be a constant effect enchantment. "

"You can keep saving games until you fill up the save area on your Xbox hard disk drive. Other than that, there's no limit. "

"1. There are other fast-travel options besides silt striders and boats. We haven't told you EVERYTHING about the game yet

2. Sure you can. You can sleep anywhere in the wilderness you want. There are only restrictions on where you can sleep in populated areas.

3. If you join one of the three Great Houses and advance far enough, they'll build a stronghold for you (completely furnished and stocked, I might add). In addition, since stuff you drop in the world stays there forever, you can "appropriate" someone's house by dispatching the owner and use it for yourself. Or find a niche in the rocks somewhere -- the choice is yours.

4. Not all monsters get more powerful as you do. And it's not like a rat becomes a level 30 rat -- if you're low level, you might find a rat, but later you'd find a kagouti, and later you'd find a Clanfear, etc. The same creature type doesn't suddenly level up with you. And it doesn't happen all the time anyway, only in certain situations. Also, in dungeons with levelled creatures, the loot is levelled with you as well, so you get a greater reward for the hard work. But again, not all dungeons have levelled creatures, and not all creatures are levelled.

5. That's a matter of opinion. You haven't seen all the models yet. Nowhere close, actually.

6. Too much effort for too little reward.

7. Uncool to kill kids.

8. No need for banks. Just hide your stuff somewhere and it'll stay there forever.

But there's nothing stopping you guys from trying to add at least some of these things -- that's what's so cool about the TES Construction Kit "

"The Atronach is my favorite birthsign. As others have said, you get a 2xINT bonus to your spell points, a 50% chance of absorbing spells cast at you, and you cannot regenerate magicka while sleeping.

You do not absorb spells that you cast. You're correct that it wouldn't make sense -- half the time you wouldn't get the benefits from a healing spell, for example, and instead you'd just get back the spell points you used to cast the spell.

One other thing -- when you cast an area effect spell, you are never affected by it even if you are in the "blast" radius.

Personally, I think The Atronach is a better birthsign for magic users, given the high bonus you get to spell points. It's always good to have more magicka! And the absorb effect can help protect you in battle besides just recharging your magicka, because absorbed spells don't affect you. "

"It depends on how fast you're moving. Usually while walking, you won't see any load bars. Even when you do it's very fast, a few seconds. This is because the game is constantly loading cells in the background as you move around outside, but it's possible if you're moving fast enough to outpace the background loads.

The Xbox doesn't have as much RAM in which to cache exterior cells, so you'll see the progress bar a little more often on the Xbox. But even on the Xbox these exterior cell loads are very fast. "

"Nope, you can't change those numbers.

But remember, just because a skill is a miscellaneous skill doesn't mean you can't use it. All it means is that advancing miscellaneous skills doesn't count towards levelling up. But you can have misc skills at high levels just like you can major & minor skills.

Play the game long enough, and it's possible that you could advance ALL of the skills up to the maximum value."

"The TES Construction Kit is being used to create Morrowind. It's incredibly powerful and yet easy to use. There's a lot of information on the the official site, and several faqs/previews on the web such as this one on Morrowind Summit

All of Morrowind's content -- game world, NPC's, creatures, dialogue, scripts, interiors, exteriors, weapons, armor, spells, enchantments, potions, alchemical ingredients, and more. was defined using the TES Construction kit. The only other tool used was 3D Studio Max to create and animate the models."

"trust me, it takes a LONG time to walk from one end to the other. there is one quest i did that requires you to escort someone about 2/3 of the way across the island (the long way). by the time i was through i was loudly cursing the designer who came up with that concept. dont forget, the terrain is EXTREMELY mountainous, and a number of those mountains are too steep to climb, so you have to find a way around. many of these paths will not lead where you think they will, but instead turn a corner and dead-end.
if pete said 10, then its 10, but it certainly seems bigger. "

"there is PLENTY OF BLOOD!!! really, trust me on this. ok, so it doesnt look like soldier of fortune blood, and i wish i could say it could splash on your face and blind you or pool like in gta. it is the way it is for specific reasons. but it is definately there. how do i know? because i made it. so there "

"you can make any object a door, but you would have to click on it to be teleported (boat travel is done a bit differently).
you cant have a "no spell here" zone, sorry "

"The Fast Travel service is actually done through the NPCs, not the silt striders themselves. So yes, if you kill the NPC, you're out of luck. And yes, you can place silt striders anywhere, so long as you include an NPC to offer the service and set the destination locations. "

"Items you store, either on the ground or in containers, will remain there no matter how far away you go.

Items you sell to vendors will remain in their inventory, so you can always buy them back at a later date.

Vendors restocking - varies from vendor to vendor. Some will have a set inventory that's always the same, and some will have random items that will be vary when you visit them. Vendors will never run out of the stuff you'll need a lot of, like arrows, potions, etc.

Hope that helps."