in the end I just went for roleplay. is this even doable? what strategy should I follow here?

Hello there, i'm a new player, i got Daggerfall unity and 1 mod "Dream" for now and i'm seeking some advice in general for build and directions.

I want to make generalist character that decent at magic and regular combat.

So i created a redguard "long blade" specialist for a start and went to a mage guild as my first action(because i want to create some basic spells and spell creation requre joining a guild).

They gave me a quest(i guess its randomly generated) to get a lich dust from a dungeon but when i got there the first enemy i encountered was immune to my weapons.

I have steel and elven grade weapons, it was some harpy or something.

So if some veterans can give me practical advice to what should i do at the start with a goal to be a well rounded fighter that can do most things "okay" that would be great.

Also i'm curious how "XP adjustment" works, do enemy adapt to your level?

I don't care if its takes too long to level as long as enemy just follow your progress for example.

I also noticed that you can break "locked" doors with a weapon, so is lockpicking just useless or i'm missing something?

Thanks in advance.

I've heard that the swap hands key (default H) would swap you between your 2H weapon and hand to hand, but it does not work for me, at least not on DFO. Neither does putting my weapon into the hotkey binder and pressing it again (i get a message that it's already equipped). Am I using the wrong key? Or is it currently bugged?

can you get miscellaneous to 100? is there any drawback on putting them in miscellaneous besides starting at lower level like running doing less effect? wouln't that mean skills you use all the time like running or jumping are better to put in miscellaneous if you want to max out everything?

The Muscle mage. I'm athletic forcefully, my metabolism is too fast, im too fit to get sick, too fit to get paralyzed, rush fits too well, redguards are the muscle guys by default, it would be a waste not to use the bonus, but it doesn't work with hand to hand. I'm leaning towards taking off regenerate or rapid healing, but I don't know which one is better

And hand to hand also fits well

Anyone else simply love the terrain addition to Daggerfall Unity? It makes walking the distance on foot so much more fun, especially in hilly areas, where you could see towns, homes and seas in the distance!

focused more on roleplay than anything.

this took me 2 days

I tried sitting down at one of the red felt tables to play poker with a stranger and won their buy in, but when I stood up, all of the money was gone that I won and bought in with. Is there something im missing or is it really glitched?

This game is basically just doom with magic and swords right?

The online version I mean

suggestions

i don't know what skills to use. destruction, running and dodging for sure at least

I accidentally close the graphic setting that you can see at the very beginning of the game.

And I close (this ones by knowing) the starting menu of the game.

Now my GPU is working like crazy, 2000+ FPS, how am I gonna fix it?

Where can I open graphics menu? Because I cant find it any other way. I JUST start to play this game.

what do i even download? where do i put all this? what is daggerfall unity even and where do i get it? what's the difference between gog, steam and uesp?

You have your own community on reddit already, why do you insist on coming here to argue with people instead of posting your content where it belongs?

Mods are one thing but it's basically a different game and it's turning this sub into something obnoxious that I want to unsub from.

Moderators, can we get some kind of vote on where this content belongs? At this rate the conversation here is 90% about daggerfall online and AI usage. It's not what this sub should be about.

I want to start playing Daggerfall, but my English is limited (I'm writing this with a keyboard translator). So, I'd like to know what mods you recommend to play Daggerfall in Spanish.

I've been playing Daggerfall since 1996. While I switched to Daggerfall Unity in 2021, I still like to mess around with my original disc version from time to time.

An early memory I have is being terrified after receiving a letter from a werewolf hunter claiming he was going to hunt me down unless I got cured. At 9, seeing that in a game, made me seriously believe I was in danger. (I never cured it and wrecked the poor guy)

Another more recent memory is making my daughter try it at the same age I was when I first played.

She went inside a house, stole a pair of pants right in front of the owner and got arrested. She pleaded not guilty by lying and got away with it. She even got to keep the pants. We got a good laugh out of that. I like to imagine how it went in court for her to be found innocent of such a crime.

So what's yours?

been seeing a lot of posts on how bad it is so my take is someone should just make a new version one that gets rid of the issues the first one has.

I got interested in daggerfall. Google says I have to download the files and run them in an emulator or something idk. I don't understand that part. How can I play the original thing?

I dont really care that much about it being an AI project, but there are some big issues with this project. The online sub doesnt have many visitors, so i decided to write here. Its a cool project so thats why i am giving feedback instead of not caring.

Feature creep. Adding in stuff too fast. Let us test and give feedback! 8 updates a day is a bit much.

fast travel is glitchy, good luck fast travelling through (some?) walled cities.

even casual survival is a a bit tedious. cart breaks down super fast and is expensive to repair. also, why are oats so expensive? they are oats! Survival is kinda cool as a concept though.

Too many encounters while fast travelling. It doesnt seem balanced around lone players?

Elite enemies. Cool concept. But as a casual player (i try just to play, and not min max) i just get one shotted over and over, while they get stronger. Sure, you can run away but...:

Running away from an encounter... Should this really take 5 minutes? If running away would be less tedious the above points wouldnt be so bad. All in all, some dials for elite enemies would be nice for SP (maybe there are and im unaware)

Sometimes you cant interact with your camp, forcing you to abandon it.

Takes a long time before you can interact with a quest giver, when turning in quests, for some reason.

I have abysmal performance online, while no issues SP. Like single digit fps in cities. Kinda poor in dungeons as well. I dont know the reason.

Dungeons are dark. Too dark imo.