Once I’m going for mods in my video games, I normally go for bug fixes, comfort tweaks, and the like, however I would be mendacity if I mentioned I did not love quaint shitpost. Living proof: this mod that provides futuristic firearms to 1996’s The Elder Scrolls Chapter 2: Daggerfall, right here aptly demonstrated by Elder Scrolls YouTuber, Micky D (opens in new tab).
I acquired the weapons mod for Daggerfall working pic.twitter.com/zNmC5eJPOqMay 14, 2023
Daggerfall’s a sport for a grognard’s grognard, no two methods about it. It is acquired the largest map of any Elder Scrolls by an order of magnitude, but it surely’s largely empty. Daggerfall has probably the most abilities, but when they don’t seem to be borked, they’re nonfunctional (yeah I am a Thaumaturgy and Centaurian language essential). It is a key a part of Bethesda’s historical past, however God rattling is it laborious to come back again to. Fortunately, the Daggerfall Unity (opens in new tab) supply port is right here to easy out working the sport on fashionable {hardware}, in addition to introduce as many (or as few) fashionable niceties as fit your fancy. The port additionally impressed an expansive modding scene.
Enter Future Shock Weapons (opens in new tab) by spamtrooper on NexusMods. Spamtrooper’s challenge not solely upholds the sacred custom of including incongruous AKs and ACOGs to Bethesda’s fantasy and retro-futurist worlds, but in addition celebrates one of many studio’s lesser-known video games. In-between Area and Daggerfall, Bethesda launched The Terminator: Future Shock, a Doom clone-era FPS set on the earth of James Cameron’s post-apocalypse. As of late you’ll be able to’t even get Future Shock on GOG, but it surely does stay on as abandonware on websites like Archive.org (opens in new tab) (and you will want its property for spamtrooper’s mod to work).
As for the mod itself, effectively, it is a bunch of weapons in an Elder Scrolls sport, so it is humorous as hell. “Ten(!) new, very unfitting and un-lore-friendly weapons have been added,” spamtrooper boasts within the mod’s description.
The weapons have infinite ammo however restricted sturdiness, and amusingly depend on your archery talent to land hits—Daggerfall was peak “motion RPGs ought to be the worst of each worlds between motion and RPGs,” so the aiming’s dealt with solely underneath the hood with talent checks and cube rolls.
If you wish to strive Future Shock Weapons (or simply play Daggerfall like God meant), you are going to wish to obtain the sport free of charge from Bethesda’s web site (opens in new tab) and get the newest model of the Daggerfall Unity supply port (opens in new tab). Blissful adventuring, and check out to not get caught in any world geometry whilst you’re at it.