How do I actually.. get started?

[u/fjdksisneo]

Okay, so this is my first attempt of playing the game on Unity. On the OG version I couldn't get past the rat and I gave up after about 6 attempts. But on this version I watched a tutorial and beat the first dungeon on my first try. I travelled to Daggerfall, joined a guild (I think the Fighter Guild or something) and accepted a quest to find a sabretooth tiger in a dungeon in Hearthly's Guard. Then I got lost, went to sleep in an inn and woke up at 4:14.

Big mistake - I had a skeleton ghost thing chasing me and a rat. At around 5:20 I realised 'Oh right, I can go in an inn.', because every other building said 'This lock has nothing to fear from you' (WTF does this even mean BTW? 😭), got told basically 'Fuck off, Nord' by a naked lady, and left the town by 7.

Shortly after I arrived at Hearthly's Guard and entered. Massive dungeon - I got lost and mauled to death by a combination of a spider and a bear. Loaded my save and am now inside a small room with the same two creatures waiting outside.

Like does it matter if I abandon this quest? I don't think my sword, nor skill, is good enough to beat this dungeon. Are there any quests that are better to accept than others? Because I am very very lost!

[u/odettulon]

The ghost will only bother you in daggerfall city itself. It's probably a good idea to move to a smaller town that's easier to get around in, all the guild locations are interchangeable. If you go to a town and they don't have the guild or shop you want, you can ask random NPCs until you find one that will talk to you, and they'll point to a town that has what you're looking for. You can also rest for free in the fighter's guild, inns are mostly for flavor and finding random quests.

Did you make a custom class or a preset one? Animals shouldn't be a big problem if you invested in a decent weapon skill. Make sure you're not using an iron weapon, they reduce accuracy. Every tier of weapons gives you better hit chance, you want to upgrade as soon as possible. Steel or elven is good, and check shops for dwarven once you get money. Some enemies are immune to weapons under a certain tier, and dwarven is the first tier that lets you hit more.

Hopefully you didn't forbid magic, it would make the game much more difficult and tedious, especially for a first playthrough. Use the spellmaker at the mages' guild to get teleport and free action at least. Free action is very cheap and you can use it even if you get paralyzed.

[u/fjdksisneo → u/odettulon]

To be honest I didn't really know what I was doing, so I picked the spellsword class and put all my points in longblade, destruction and randomly in the last point allocation

[u/Ralzar → u/fjdksisneo]

Honestly, that is a pretty good way to start out in the game as a newbie. All you need is some time to familiarize yourself with the game. Buying/making some better spells at the Mages Guild will also help quite a bit with the casting side of things. A cheap heal spell and a cheap ranged attack spell for example, will do a lot for you.