It’s not surprising then that RPGs from the Windows 95 era tend to be bewildering to anyone with modern sensibilities. Those were games for nerds, and specifically the kinds of nerds into tabletop role-playing with complex levelling systems, stat checks, combat multipliers, and all the other poindexter math that CPUs handle for us now. In the mid-1990s, the idea that computer software – of any kind – could be designed with ease of use in mind for mass market adoption was still a fairly new one. Playing shite old RPGs is the closest thing we have to genuine time travel: to set foot in a world that, despite its vague familiarity, is built on a vastly and impenetrably different set of expectations. It would be that, but billions of times worse and applied to every conceivable facet of life. No in reality, it would be scary, confusing, and intimidating – like when you’re in a new city and try to get on a bus, and you realise that you have absolutely no idea what the local bus etiquette is. If time travel were real, it wouldn’t be like it is on telly, where contemporary heroes arrive in a quainter era with an inbuilt advantage over the locals because of their nicer politics and foreknowledge. Their differences reflect a fundamental shift, that’s still ongoing, in what a role-playing video game is: an adaptation of the tabletop experience, or a simulation of life in a fantasy world? It’s a curious juxtaposition – they are both instantly recognisable as Elder Scrolls games, but Morrowind is quite antithetical to Daggerfall in its approach, deliberately so. In the decades since, it’s become something of a legend jostling with its direct sequel, Morrowind, for premium position as the quintessential Elder Scrolls game that none of the others can live up to in the minds of its proponents. Performace with VSync (Real Grass, Enhanced Sky & Handpainted models) on: about 70fps.Ĭan anyone help with identifying tree types? I know they are quite a bit stylized, but I think that they can be recognized (Im sure artist made them based on the real tree species).When Daggerfall first released in 1996, I wasn’t aware of it because I was 12 and therefore incapable of growing a convincing beard.Tested on AMD Ryzen 5 (12 core) 16Gb RAM, NVIDIA GTX 1050TI.Handpainted Models Replacement MOD works good.Use Vibrant Wind MOD (set the values of Speed/Bending/Size/Force between 0.1 and 0.3-0.4) Vibrant Wind settings of more than 0.4 will make leafs vibrate like crazy. Tree Colliders work only in fixed areas (points of interest/towns/cities etc.), not in the wild. *Im releasing the original Speed Tree files for the DFU 3D trees (Its made in Speed Tree 7)

MOD contains only Temperate Woodland set for now. (note that lower terrain distance settings will increase performance even more).ģD trees assets replacement. You can now crank it up all the way to Terrain Distance 4. Thanks to DU code tweaking, it is now possible to do 3D trees and with good performance.

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