New diseases : V

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:30 am

Ash hopper gave me droops!

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:14 pm

Me, too. I didn't even know it until someone said I looked ill.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:26 am

Seems that ash hoppers are among the foulest of creatures in solstheim. Just a mere brush up the legs by one of these will give you droops. This appears to be a terminal condition from which no recovery is possible! I have tried everything, from sleeping 3 days straight to eating stew made by my wife in our residence in whiterun. Nothing works so be sure to steer clear from these vermin.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:42 am

Good thing i'm a werewolf.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:10 am

I don't know why they bother. Chew a hawk feather and you are all good. Diseases are a joke in this game.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:29 pm

I don't know why they bother. Chew a hawk feather and you are all good. Diseases are a joke in this game.

for the role-players.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:31 pm

for the role-players.

I am a role-player, but the diseases in Skryim don't even really do anything. Get a disease in Morrowind, now that was something and believe me you wanted to find a cure as soon as possible.

How can you role-play the diseases in Skyrim? You want to 'pretend' it's actually affecting you some way and that curing it isn't so incredibally simple? Dealing with a real disease would be something more than a twelve year old would want to bother with so like everything else it was dumbed down to the point that any role-player has to pretend it's there.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:00 am

Oh no not the droops the wife wont be happy.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:51 pm

I am a role-player, but the diseases in Skryim don't even really do anything. Get a disease in Morrowind, now that was something and believe me you wanted to find a cure as soon as possible.

How can you role-play the diseases in Skyrim? You want to 'pretend' it's actually affecting you some way and that curing it isn't so incredibally simple? Dealing with a real disease would be something more than a twelve year old would want to bother with so like everything else it was dumbed down to the point that any role-player has to pretend it's there.

follow a specific set of guidelines for the diseases and curing them. such as dont carry any ingredients or potions that can cure you, only cure them via a shrine or something like that. but yeah the diseases arent potent by themselves, but when you gather several it makes it rather annoying.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:48 am

I am a role-player, but the diseases in Skryim don't even really do anything. Get a disease in Morrowind, now that was something and believe me you wanted to find a cure as soon as possible.

How can you role-play the diseases in Skyrim? You want to 'pretend' it's actually affecting you some way and that curing it isn't so incredibally simple? Dealing with a real disease would be something more than a twelve year old would want to bother with so like everything else it was dumbed down to the point that any role-player has to pretend it's there.

...youre overplaying morrowind diseases a bit
besides blights, they were just as simple and easy to cure as any other tes game
i could have 3 or 4 diseases in morro before i even bothered going to buy a cure scroll or potion, which were EVERYWHERE
and dont bash 'pretending' in an rp game
you have to 'pretend' just as much with diseases in morrowind as you do in later tes games

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:33 pm

Cure disease potion worked for me when I got the droops.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:50 am

I wonder what someone who has the Droops looks like...

The image I'm seeing in my mind is extremely funny. :rofl:

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:34 pm

I gotta agree that the only disease in Skyrim that actually packs a wallop is the one that kills you... and turns you into a bloody Batman.
I haven't had any issues with Disease in any TES game. The only one that bugs me, is in Skyrim I keep contracting the Vampire disease. I think Serana is infecting me, because I get it CONSTANTLY. The constant vampire attacks on my Dawnguard Khajiit don't f*ckig help either. Kinda annoying to have to keep twenty Cure Disease potions on me at all times.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:14 pm

I should run my normal PCs through Solstheim; I did not know a new disease was added.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:14 am

Lmao droops..

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:53 pm

I wonder what someone who has the Droops looks like...

The image I'm seeing in my mind is extremely funny. :rofl:

who was that sad cartoon dog usually in loony toons cartoons(i think)? wasnt it droopy? probably something like him

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:47 am

I always thought diseases should have an actual impact, such as having your current level in certain skills decline (comparable with being imprisoned) over time, rendering certain perks unusable, or actually killing you if left untreated.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:51 am

I really don't see the point of diseases. You barely notice them and you can cure them instantly with a single potion. I think they should either have much more serious consequences and have more impact on gameplay or they should just scrap them.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:55 pm

I recall being scared to death of Greater Bonewalkers in Morrowind because of that Brown Rot and Dread Curse. I actually avoided all tombs while I was between the levels of 5 and 10 (when they spawned). I had to restart many games because of that disease. That was a doosey there.

Maybe if diseases took some big hits from your three attributes. But yeah the ease of finding a potion (or chewing a hawk feather) makes them kind of useless still.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:20 pm

I recall being scared to death of Greater Bonewalkers in Morrowind because of that Brown Rot and Dread Curse. I actually avoided all tombs while I was between the levels of 5 and 10 (when they spawned). I had to restart many games because of that disease. That was a doosey there.

Maybe if diseases took some big hits from your three attributes. But yeah the ease of finding a potion (or chewing a hawk feather) makes them kind of useless still.

You had to restart games because you got a disease? That doesn't sound right at all. Its obviously a balancing act and Bethesda did a pretty good job I think.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:12 pm

You had to restart games because you got a disease? That doesn't sound right at all. Its obviously a balancing act and Bethesda did a pretty good job I think.

Well it was that or walk all the way back to the nearest town completely naked and unarmed. Hard to do much when your STR is zero and it doesn't recover over time.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:31 pm

Well it was that or walk all the way back to the nearest town completely naked and unarmed. Hard to do much when your STR is zero and it doesn't recover over time.

I seem to recall problems in Oblivion when I had to dump stuff fairly precious to me because you stop dead when you're overburdened - unlike in Skyrim where you can stubbornly waddle for hours all the way back home or to a vendor if you so choose. Believe me, I've learned all the tricks now - whirlwind sprint, summon Arvak, werewolf form and my new personal favourite - vegetable soup plus iron dagger forward power attacks - that will get you home in no time at all! :bunny:

Despite the risk of nasty diseases I'm a bit sad that Morrowind (the game) isn't readily available anymore. Trekking around Solstheim makes me very curious about it.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:50 am

Good thing i'm a werewolf.

This^

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:00 pm

Despite the risk of nasty diseases I'm a bit sad that Morrowind (the game) isn't readily available anymore. Trekking around Solstheim makes me very curious about it.

FWIW I highly recommend MW for PC, as I found it could run even on a 2007 laptop. (And for the next couple days it happens to be $12 instead of $20 on Steam). Yes, after Skyrim I was pretty surprised at the diseases. It has given new resonance when I listen to Arcadia's litany of woes.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:23 am

I personally feel that "greater" diseases should be introduced. Diseases you can't cure via the normal means. Diseases gave certain enemies much greater threat than what they have now. Like the Astral Zombies in Oblivion. Ugh, stunted magicka was the worst.