Hey everyone,
this will be the last (and only) post I'm going to make in this forum.
I've had some problems registering (bear with me, I do not speak a single word of deutch), and actually I don't know if by rules I'm forced to speak in Deutch, so if that's so, just make one exception for this post.
I've just registered in this forum to thank you for this mod. I actually played all the overhauls that are out there, and War Cry New dimension is one of them.
It has some issues, certainly, but I think that for what it tries to achieve (Simplicity to install paired with quality) it can be named (almost) the best overhaul out of there.
When you talk about overhauls, there is basically only one overhaul out there that can compare with ND. And you know, that I'm going to name it, Fcom.
Bear with me. I've played Fcom and it is great. But it has issues, and some are really bad for what it tries to achieve. It is often named as the best "mixture" of overhaul mods out there, and I have to admit that I like part of it (namely, COM).
I said part of it. The problem? Francesco is not up to quality. People tend to like it, but from the low-quality textures to the caliper bug (I don't know if you met it, but it is easily the most devastating thing apart from having a non-working oblivion to happen to your game).
So, we got Com left. War cry, Oscuro, Martigen.
These are great, but a mixture of them is not the "vision" the Alpha team (the guys who made Fcom had). Because if you do not install francesco, you are basically having a castrated version of Fcom, because you lack stuff like Fcom_archery and so on.
So... that's when I came across New Dimension. I was just going around tes nexus and I stepped upon New Dimension. I started to appreciate (more to why not "love" it later).
The first dungeon I went in was Vilverin. Seeing the witches, or the boss fight (there is one corridor where, when you walk in, has a big skeleton coming to you - you may wonder the terror you feel at beginning).
The new areas, and in general the feeling of exploring amazed me.
Seriously, do you know what it means to feel fresh air that goes through a game that you've come to play year after year?
And the fact that out there I wasn't safe, and finding all these new weapons, monsters, it just was another world. And with so much ease to install (just three .esp).
BUT...
I stembled upon creatures that shouldn't have been there.
For example, dinos. And so on. Stuff that with the lore had not much to do, and this ruined some of the feeling of immersion. When I play a mod, I'm a purist for stuff that blends perfectly in the game, to the point of making me say "damn, is this vanilla, or did I add a mod?"
And I've now got a .esp with almost all-the-non-lore-friendly-stuff-removed (It would be great if sometimes you could release one for the people out there that are purists like me), that I'll leave for myself and myself only.
After playing with all the non-lore-friendly stuff removed, I came to the point of loving New Dimension.
In the end...
I want to thank everyone involved in this project. You can rest assured that I will keep playing and appreciating oblivion.
I hope someday to see a Gold Version, but if you will never come back, know that you have deserved a rest.
So many thanks to:
Growlf, NNW, Eldarie, Eddy, and all the people inside the credits (I still read the credits to know if you tweaked something I may have found during my playthrough - in this case a compilation is the best way to award a modder for the creativity)
TheNamelessone
p.s: btw, beautiful gold coins