Changes in 0.987
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- Some more Animal Faction interaction tweaks (Bears, Spiders, Wolfs, Sabrecats - they should not get along that well any longer
- Decreased the Health of Alduin greatly
- Reduced the frequency random dragons (re)spawn greatly (WiWaitDragon is 3 by default, I set it to 12. If I am correct, this should mean you should only encounter a random dragon every 12 ingame days or so, though I am not entirely sure if this one global suffices)
- Reduced the amount of armor Dragons and some other creatures get
- Rebalanced the Weight of some items (Especially Glass Equipment)
- Adjusted the Vendor Gunmar of the Dawnguard - he should sell plenty of bolts now
- Removed the penalty for changing armor in combat again until I find a better working solution (But the script might get stuck to your savegame, unfortunately - that's a problem with Skyrim's engine/source code, I am afraid!
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- Decreased the impact of Light on your detection risk again (might need some more tweaking)
- Decreased the amount of certain enemies inside the shrine of Mehrunes Dagon
- Vampires are now subjected to daylight penalties, too
- Tweaked the armor some rare boss vampires wear
- Removed a few speechcraft perks
- Improved the effect of most remaining speechcraft perks
- Improved the shields used by the dawnguard
- Decreased the amount of bandits using crossbows
- You also do not get staggered by common attacks if your total physical damage resistance
is at least 50% (this equals an armor rating of about 300 points)
- Experimental tweak that should in theory prevent chickens from reporting any crime
- A new enchantment which increases your base health, and also renders you immune to most Life drain effects
- Blessing of Stendarr allows you to be protected from most Life Drain effects
- Corrected the armor rating of Dragon and Daedric Armor (halved)
- Experienced Members of the Dawnguard are now stronger
- Tweaked more ingredients so that more common ones will most often yield less potent potions/poisons
- Alchemy skill is now gained twice as fast
- Increased the skill rate for alchemy greatly
- Decreased the impact of alchemy skill on potion strength greatly
- Increased the impact of perks on potion strength greatly
- Renamed all alchemic effects from ingredients according to the names of buyable potions/poisons
- Soldiers have been made somewhat tougher
- Lower level vampires have been made weaker, and vampire spawnlists have now a higher chance of producing lower level vampires
- Training costs have been decreased
- Added some new spells:
°Umbral Sanctuary (Illusion, Expert) - A channeled "shadow form" that irritates opponents and makes them aim so badly that all physical damage is almost negated - magical damage is untouched, though. Costs a great amount of magicka and is currently only available through perks.
°Two more ranks of Healing Aura (Both expert level with a four times stronger healing effect and the ability to block off most draining effects, only obtainable by the Superior Restoration Perk)
- Further increased the bonuses the Perk "Allure" grants
- Corrected the spell cost of certain rune spells
- Tempering items will not give them an additional Suffix like "Epic" or "Legendary" - it's now always "Tempered"
- Fixed a minor issue with the apparel vampires wear
- Fixed some issues with the Vampire Traits not working correctly on the player
- Fixed some spelling mistakes
- Fixed a bug that caused certain scrolls to be absorbable by the Atronach Sign
- Fixed a bug that caused some summoned ghosts to flee in certain situations
- Fixed a vanilla bug giving horkers not the right racial abilities
- Fixed the amount of Health Werewolve NPCs get
Changes in 0.986
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- Tweaked the spells you gain when investing in Spell Mastery Perks
- Swimming:
° Wearing Light Armor drains 0.5 Stamina more per second when swimming for each piece worn
° Wearing Heavy Armor drains 2 Stamina more per second when swimming for each piece worn
° Argonians do not lose any stamina when swimming by default, only when wearing any armor
- Increased the difficulty of Hagravens
- Increased the effect of the Perk "Allure" slightly
- Increased the skill rates of smithing, speechcraft and blocking by 20 to 50%
- Rearranged the Teleport spells: Exchanged their ranks, and the new second rank is now an Expert Spell
- Decreased the duration of Umbral Vision greatly for bugfixing purposes
- Raw Meat can again be cooked without Salt
- Adjusted the damage of Bears and Sabrecats
- All Lockbreaking Values have been increased by 50 points
- Rooms at inns 50 gold
- Cart 100 to 200
- Decreased the damage of the Steam Breath attack of Dwarven Centurions
- Possessing the Ring of Namira will allow you to eat raw food without penalties (you do not need to equip it for this, carrying it around with you in the inventory is enough)
- The effects of Strange Meat and Bestial Stew do not stack anymore
- Removed the spell Fear IV due to it using a faulty mechanism
- Removed most hostile encounters at High Hrothgar
- The slow effect of Frost Spells now only works on things with a magic or frost resistance of 50 or lower
- Doubled the bonus from the Thief Stone
- Doubled the bonus from the Warrior Stone
- Increased the magicka regen bonus of the Elswyr fondue
- changed the effects of Beef Stew so it now does increase Maximum Health and Carry weight instead of granting higher stamina regen
- Nords now receive 10 Health Points as Starting Stats
- Giants and Werewolves will knock you down when they hit you in combat and you do not block
- Giants move 25% faster
- Increased the prices of pickaxes
- Fixed the radius effect of giants' power attacks
- Fixed the visual effects of some spells
- Fixed some spelling mistakes
- Fixed a problem with the loot of Goats
- Fixed an issue that made blacksmiths still offer some things they should not
- Weapon Dropping due to low stamina can now be toggled via the consol:
Set AA000XarrianStaminaWeaponDropSwitch to 0 (1 enables the feature again)
- Added two optional files:
° Restored Rewarding Sounds (Leveling up, Skillgain and Learing a Shout now plays the vanill Sound again)
° No Overencumbered Messages (Your character will not complain about being overencumbered anymore)
Changes in 0.985
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- Doubled the penalty for standing in light when sneaking
- Giant's are now much more dangerous - Their power attack can easily knock down the entire vicinity due to their brute strength
- Increased the loot Giant's yield - they really like to collect sparkling coins and gems now!
- Added a new cookable item: Bestial Stew
- Increased the detection chance penalty for wearing heavy armor greatly
- Again increased the protection of Heavy Armor slightly
- Woodelfs can now cannibalize their slain enemies: In most cases, foes you kill will drop "Strange Meat", which will grant you exceptional bonuses (this is based on lore, look for the "Greenpact") - In some cases, however, they might not, or you might end up being able to pickpocket some. In that case, take it either as they do not taste that good or that they are a little cannibalistic themselves - It's the best results possible to get, I think!
- Woodelfs now also receive the Strong Stomach feature
- Namiras ring is now worthy to be called a Daedric Artifact
- Added more options controllable through consol commands:
° Set AA000XarrianHorseChargeSwitch to 0 will disable the Horse trampling effects
° Set AA000XarrianFearSystemSwitch to 0 will disable the fear/yield system of Requiem
- Speechcraft and Block should now level about half as fast
- Fixed some problems with bandit loot lists
- Made it much more likely to find Iron Equipment than any other
- Added some more locks in Whiterun and made most of them much harder to pick
- Merchants now restock only once every two weeks
- Increased the prices merchants offer their goods for by 33%
- Increased the base training costs by 500 gold
- Improved the magic damage of high quality enchanted arrows
- Fixed the Trainer Bug - Now, they always grant the correct amounts of experience
- Reverted available training units to 3 per level
- Corrected some spelling mistakes
Changes in 0.984
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- Certain passive racial abilities now are depicted in the Magic Effects Window
- Corrected the attack speed bonuses of the Sword Specialization perks
- Fixed a glitch caused from being disarmed of your weapon while riding
- Increased the value of some more items
- Mudcrabs now have a chance based on their size to drop some pearls
- Added a new item: Healing Mush - a traditional yet simple medicine that can be created by about anyone. It consists of ale (1), tundra cutton (3) and blue mountain flowers (3) and can be crafted at the tanning rack - it's so common that every alchemist always has at least a dozen of these in stock.
It works still via magic, as the mixture is based on the healing properties of the flowers.
It's works by applying the mush on the wound, after which the mush will slightly harden, making compresses and bandages somewhat unneccassry under harsher circumstances.
However, physical stress will surpress it from apllying its healing effects: Sprinting, Swimming and Fighting will stop the healing effect temporarily until its over.
Changes in 0.983
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- Corrected some damage formulas of followers
- Decreased the Health of most Dragons by one third, and decreased the damage of their breath attack greatly
- Fixed a faction association bug
- Fixed a bug that caused the alteration skill gain to be much too small
- Decreased the fire rate bonus of the Perk Quick shot by 50%
- Dwemer Misc Items have been increased in value
- Dwemer Pressure Plates now are invisible, too
- The Perk Focused Mind now only consists of one rank and also makes your magicka regenerate while running
- Added one exemplar of the Dragon Smithing Book
- Improved the sword Dragonbane and deleveled it
- Increased the archery thresholds for damage reduction by about 500 units each
- Made very valuable jewelry more rare
- Removed the "Empty" message from containers. However, there still remains a little white diamond that tells you it's empty.
- More tweaks for vampires:
° Increased the maximum magicka/stamina/health malus for being in the sunlight to - 100/200/300/400
° Increased the effect of the Raise Thrall power.
° Increased the effect of Vampiric Drain for the player.
° Increased the effect of most Vampire Lord Abilities.
- Corrected some spelling mistakes
Changes in 0.982
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- Decreased the player's spell damage skill bonus by 33% and that of NPCs by 50%. [This is very experimental, please give me some feedback about overall balance!!!]
- I edited a value (DLC1VQMinLevelVampireAttacks) which I think of that it controls the random vamire attacks so these attacks start only if your character is at least on level 999 - which effectively should disable them completely. I also added a script that continously resets certain EclipseAttack variables that seem to be responsible for the attacks. [If you still encounter vampire attacks, please inform me about it!!!]
- Increased the bonuses the Perk "Fortitude" of the Heavy Armor perk tree grants slighty (+25 Stamina, +15 carry weight)
- Replaced most of the Flame Thrall Scrolls with Conjure Atronach Scrolls at Saarthal
- Swapped Power Shot and Point Blank Shot in position
- Disabled three World Event Locations to prevent too many bad surprises at the very beginning
- Disabled some hostile encounters around Whiterun
- The Ghostly Steed now is unable to trample down any enemies
- Deleveled some still leveled loot lists
- Deleveled some NPCs that still were leveled and gave them some more tweaks
- Increased the damage bonus of the perk Mighty Strike by 50%.
- Added some "Resist" Potions in a certain key location related to an especially hard quest
- Added a potion of Vitality to the Potion Barrel in Helgen
- During the quest dragon rising, Jarl Balgruuf will also hand you certain potions as an aid against the first dragon.
- Adjusted the spawn list for mages: You will more often find somewhat weaker mages (relatively spoken, of course) - Boss Mages remain untouched
- Ice Wraith Essence now grants immunity to frost for 10 seconds
- Edited all the "Resist" and selected "Fortify" Potions you can buy - they now have a longer duration based on their quality of up to 5 minutes
- Some high quality ingredients also grant a higher duration on these mentioned effects by default
- Added some triggerplates to certain dwemer ruins
- Some more locks
- Smaller tweaks to a few merchants
- You can now take the armor from random Dark Brotherhood encounters
- Limited training units to 2 per level (due to a major trainer bug) [if you don't like it, use the options!
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- Corrected the amount of armor frost atronachs possess
- Increased heavy armor ratings by 10%
- Removed the skill requirements of the second ranks of all the first perks in certain trees
- Improved the perks Master Trader and Investment Strategy by 200%
- Removed the Dremora from Azuras Star
- Increased the amount of NPCs using heavy armor (The strongest bandits now always go for iron armor, the strongest afflicted get their hands on Dwarven Armor, and the toughest Vampires can get stuff ranging from steel plate to ebony (though the last one is restricted to the toughest of their leaders)
- Amulets of the nine have been increased in value
- Starting the smithing tutorial quest requires a smithing skill of 15
- Sven also is not available as a follower anymore (option available!!!)
- Further tweaked certain encounters at Riverwood
- Corrected the amount of obtainable spider eggs from sacs: Half of the time, they'll be empty, otherwise, they'll have 3 to 30 eggs for you!
- Corrected some spelling mistakes
- Slightly increased the damage bonus from the first perk in the trees Onehanded, Twohanded and Archery
- Daedric Weapons pierce the damage reduction from ghosts and atronachs by 75%
- Small tweaks to Vampire spawn lists
- Fixed the issue with Draugr not depicting their health bar correctly (this might cause minor balancing issues with draugr already loaded in your savegame, the impact should be minimal, however)
- Tweaks to certain misc items in terms of prices (animal hides and leather)