A modder has put Center-earth: Shadow of Mordor’s genius Nemesis System into Skyrim, which suggests now you can set your self up for revenge towards dragons (or mudcrabs, or anything) that kill you.
Syclonix’s Shadow of Skyrim: Nemesis and Various Demise System mod turns virtually any enemy that defeats you right into a nemesis. This nemesis positive factors a singular identify, grows in stength, steals your weapons (and should even use them), and inflicts a debuff on you. The one means to take away that debuff and achieve again your tools is to search your nemesis out and kill them. Handily, the mod creates a quest in your log with the intention to simply monitor your revenge.
The mod’s design makes an attempt to thread collectively situational tales together with your nemesis. As an illustration, in case you’re killed by an Argonian Vampire he could turn out to be generally known as “Breaks-Many-Shields” and be given the Protect-Breaker buff as half of his stats improve. The debuff inflicted on you from the encounter could drive you to be unable to use shields, too. After which, as half of your revenge quest, your nemesis could also be present in a vampire lair, since Breaks-Many-Shields is a vampire.
Because the title suggests, the system requires Skyrim to use an alternate method to demise. Somewhat than being killed and forcing you to reload, demise as an alternative respawns you on the earth. This implies the information in your nemesis is not misplaced, and helps maintain the system flowing.
You’ll be able to have up to 5 nemeses at anybody time, though Syclonix has properly restricted them to enemies inside 25 ranges of you to stop you from gaining a nemesis you haven’t any likelihood of defeating. You can also’t flip a quest-associated or important character right into a nemesis.
Syclonix notes that Shadow of Skyrim is a “nod” to Shadow of Mordor, moderately than a duplicate of the precise Nemesis system. Their inspiration additionally contains roguelikes, Crusader Kings, and trait sytems in additional trendy RPGs. They be aware that it doesn’t infringe on Warner Bros.’ patent for the Nemesis system.
For extra cool Elder Scrolls upgrades, try the Skyrim co-op mod, which has been downloaded greater than 80,000 occasions since its latest launch.
Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK Information and Options Editor.