Morrowind in 2023: Why You Should Play & How (to use openMW & Install Mods)
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TOC:
0:00 intro
0:38 - Skyrim VS Oblicion VS Morrowind
2:50 - The problem with modern open world games
5:25 - A note about modding Morrowind's combat
6:40 - Installing openMW
14:55 - How to MOD with OpenMW
31:16 - How to use OMWADDON files
34:00 - Grass, groundcover, and foliage
38:10 - My OpenMW config files (as a guide)
39:19 - A note on Skies.IV and rain
Get Morrowind:
www.gog.com/game/the_elder_sc...
www.fanatical.com/en/game/the...
store.steampowered.com/app/22...
Best to install everything outside of your Program Files folder.
Install Python: (you'll never need to mess with this once it's installed): www.python.org/downloads/
Install openMW: openmw.org/downloads/ (click GitHub and scroll to the bottom)
If you want Mods:
Install Mod Organizer 2 (can install anywhere, but not in Program Files): github.com/ModOrganizer2/modo...
Install Mod Organizer to OpenMW into the Mod Organizer /plugins folder: www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/m...
Get a Nexus account and connect it to Mod Organizer 2
Use this website and these lists to help with mods:
modding-openmw.com/
modding-openmw.com/lists/
Here is my OpenMW settings.cfg file for reference:
[Shaders]
view over shoulder = true
preview if stand still = true
antialias alpha test = true
apply lighting to environment maps = true
auto use object normal maps = true
auto use object specular maps = true
auto use terrain normal maps = true
auto use terrain specular maps = true
clamp lighting = false
force shaders = true
force per pixel lighting = true
lighting method = shaders
max lights = 64
maximum light distance = 6359
radial fog = true
light bounds multiplier = 3.35463
minimum interior brightness = 0.124512
light fade start = 0.753975
[Sound]
device =
hrtf = Built-In HRTF
hrtf enable = 1
[Camera]
head bobbing = true
preview if stand still = true
view over shoulder = true
head bobbing step = 120.0
head bobbing height = 6.0
head bobbing roll = 0.5
[GUI]
menu transparency = 0.562256
stretch menu background = true
color topic enable = true
scaling factor = 1.7
[General]
anisotropy = 16
texture mipmap = linear
[HUD]
crosshair = true
[Input]
always run = true
camera sensitivity = 0.613801
toggle sneak = true
[Map]
global = true
[Video]
window border = false
antialiasing = 2
gamma = 1.09132
[Water]
refraction = true
rtt size = 2048
shader = true
reflection detail = 5
[Windows]
inventory h = 0.377804
inventory w = 0.448505
inventory x = 0.0106312
inventory y = 0.55608
map h = 0.877214
map w = 0.418605
map x = 0.502326
map y = 0.0507674
stats h = 0.498229
stats w = 0.446512
stats x = 0.0212625
stats y = 0.0413223
spells h = 0.514758
spells w = 0.360133
spells x = 0.590033
spells y = 0.247934
barter h = 0.62928
barter w = 0.247426
barter x = 0.599801
barter y = 0.269185
dialogue h = 0.448642
dialogue w = 0.339535
dialogue x = 0.29701
dialogue y = 0.488784
inventory barter h = 0.378985
inventory barter w = 0.497674
inventory barter x = 0.0524917
inventory barter y = 0.382527
spells hidden = true
inventory hidden = false
map hidden = false
spells pin = false
stats hidden = false
container h = 0.381346
container w = 0.389369
container x = 0.489701
container y = 0.53719
[Game]
turn to movement direction = true
use additional anim sources = true
weapon sheathing = true
shield sheathing = true
swim upward correction = true
smooth movement = true
NPCs avoid collisions = true
use magic item animations = true
barter disposition change is permanent = true
followers attack on sight = true
prevent merchant equipping = true
rebalance soul gem values = true
show enchant chance = true
show melee info = true
show projectile damage = true
trainers training skills based on base skill = true
show owned = 1
[Shadows]
enable shadows = true
actor shadows = true
player shadows = true
terrain shadows = true
object shadows = true
enable indoor shadows = true
shadow map resolution = 4096
number of shadow maps = 3
compute tight scene bounds = true
split point uniform logarithmic ratio = 1.0
use front face culling = false
[Terrain]
distant terrain = true
object paging active grid = true
object paging min size = 0.025
groundcover = Cyrodiil_Grass.ESP
[Groundcover]
enabled = true
density = 1
min chunk size = 0.7
stomp mode = 2
stomp intensity = 2
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I actually put about 200 hours into Morrowind last year. It was such a breath of fresh air. The state of gaming is awful, I needed to be reminded why I ever loved it in the first place.
did you find any loot boxes or xp boosts?
@@jazzochannel It would be kind of funny if someone made a lootbox mod for morrowind as a joke just to mock bethesda
I’m currently playing old games realizing that everything new is trash
@@tak2ulata Same, man.
You should try Kindgom Come Deliverance
Morrowind is the only RPG I have played where the different cultures and towns really felt different. Shoot, every major town was almost a full game in of itself.
I know right, I recently started playing and knew that this would be a different experience when I spoke to a random npc who had a tie with the silk strider lady of the town which got me a small discount. Little details like that make this low poly game feel like its full of real people who have their own relationships within their communities.
@@Spectrik I just found that same NPC today and turns out he has a whole quest associated with him as well!
silt strider*@@Spectrik
Oblivion being compared to power metal is so absurdly fitting and I will never describe it any other way again.
This game blew my mind back in 02, I just couldn't believe the size and the depth of the world they created. It was the first and only time I ever truly lost myself in a video game world.
to this day no other game has ever managed to blow me away like that, I just don't get why there aren't ANY other games that hit the feelz like this fkr does
@@DistrictWitch try "outward". It's not going to give you the complete experience but it doesn't hold your hand and expects you to go out into the world and make whatever you want of your character.
Same here. From the first time I walked off the ship at the beginning. I still remember the first time I played it. It was insanely massive to me. I was overwhelmed with the freedom I had to do anything. I remember the first time I got caught underwater by the draugh
The reason most people miss in this game is because if your fatigue (i.e. stamina) is low, it significantly affects your chances to land a hit. When in combat, ensure you have that precious green bar filled up and your combat will magically become enjoyable.
For real 😂 i remember getting the ring for killing dagoth ur that regens stamina on constant effect. Literally never miss a hit with it.
The fatigue system is morrowind's greatest mistake. It makes your already snail like movement speed even worse by forcing you to either walk, or bypass it entirely using a constant enchant
The real reason is because people don't choose short blade as a major or minor skill and use the iron dagger from the start of the game.
@@user-bn3yy8qf5g it is a fun mechanic once you know the game
@@eskikanal6325 I literally just explained how it absolutely isnt. You act as if I havent played the entire game and both dlcs with multiple characters.
OpenMW is an unbelievable achievement. An incredible piece of Free (as in Freedom) software. The first release was all the way back in 2008! 13 friggin YEARS it's been in development and it's not only achieved compatibility with the original engine but it's exceeded it in every way possible. The developers are also working on an easy to use map maker for Morrowind so that it's easier for the community to make more environments and tell more stories in new places. Every single person who has been involved in making OpenMW deserved an standing applause. Thank you you beautiful bastards for your insane dedication and work!
P.S. I have no doubt that those fancy graphics mods will finally become compatible eventually one way or another.
a standing applause*
Your metal analogy is hilariously accurate, as my favourite Elder Scrolls is and always has been Morrowind since the day it released, and Prog Metal and Prog Rock are my favourite musical genres.
I was waiting for him to say "morrowind=tool/fans" lol. Which, if TES6 ends up being fear inoculum, I'll be into it. But the band isn't the same at Bethesda so who knows.. Hopefully they're at least some O'Keefe institute kids.
Weird too, as I quite enjoy power metal and Oblivion got me into the TES series (although I have more hours on Skyrim and even more on ESO).
Same haha. I have dream theaters majesty symbol tattooed on my left hand and coheeds keyword on my right. When I was a wee lad I learned to read so I could play this game lmao
Same here I'm a musician those analogies were spot on as a fan of all of those genres and games
Haven’t finished the video yet, but can I just say you’re so down-to-earth with how you explain things. You don’t say things just to say them, you explain why you feel the way you do. You don’t want to turn up the distance viewing because seeing too much inadvertently makes Morrowind feel small to you: I totally get that ! I love the great content, keep it up
I couldn't agree more
These games will live on forever
I put 300 hours into morrowind back in 2001, explored every nook and cranny of the workd and I feel little reason to go back now.. But that game will go down as one of the greatest rpg experiences I've ever had. Nothing since has topped it. Skyrim was okay, but not even close to the depth and sophistication that morrowind had. Morrowind is literally the greatest western rpg ever made imo.
In my ignorance at the time, I assumed that this was the future of gaming. I mean, how could it not be? It's so good. But unfortunately, devs decided that these games are just too expensive to make. It's astonishing how few titles we've gotten in the past 20 years that are even remotely reminiscent of such a grand rpg...
I haven't put half the time you have into Morrowind, but I feel like the current version of Tamriel Rebuilt might be a good reason to come back, ton of content.
Je suis totalement d'accords avec vous !
nah, they figured out how to manipulate idiots into thinking that buyable content is good.
Completely agree, companies nowadays do not sell enjoyable experiences anymore, all that's cared about is the title and graphics. It's honestly pathetic.
you should, if you havent, play gothic 1 and 2 and notr, they are the BEST games I have ever played
The only 'combat' mods I might install are ones that add more variety to the combat without destroying the balance of combat. Things like additional weapons/armor, more spell effects, stuff like that.
And less dated looking animations.
@@caseyhall2320 Those wouldn't be combat mods, those would be beautification mods.
@@shadowtheimpure Fair. I called it a combat mod because that's where you'd also find new animations for games. Modders can sometimes miscategorize their mods for ease of searching.
@@caseyhall2320 Very true! I'll definitely let you have that one.
I like the patches for weapon speeds and reach mainly cause longswords are a favorite of mine but base game mw they're trash compared to spear, blunt, or axe I also like better hand to hand combat cause i want to play wood elf Bruce lee without having to down 20 things of sujamma
I love all three games(Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim) but Morrowind is undeniably the most unique setting and atmosphere of the three.
i've been going back and forth with the idea of getting into morrowind for awhile, and i think this is the push i needed to actually hit play. thanks
Welcome, outlander.
same
Lovely. In that case, it's time for you to 'Wake up, we're here. Wake up... Stand up. There you go. You were dreaming.' Time to start living, outlander.
its so immersive, i love it
This is the best and most accurate description of the Elder Scrolls games I've seen 👌
Not even a metal fan, and his analogies just clicked.
I was nodding the whole time hahaha
Really shows how much personality the creaters put in each game.
I thought the metal analogy was pretty terrible since he just abandoned it halfway through
I been getting into vintage gaming here recently (mostly 90s console games) and those games dont hold your hand......no waypoints no gps not even a log....and you have discover everything yourself which is more rewarding I think
Love how informative you are, whereas many others I see just say do this with this outcome. Very in-depth and concise. I am doing all this with my first official Morrowind playthrough. I have dabbled into the game a bit over the years, but I want to really get into it this time around.
Also, I saw the cover for Drakkhen in the background. That was the very first RPG I ever played, and I owe it for getting me into the genre. Nice taste!
I was on the fence if I should play this game.
Your description was very accurate and your tips about how to install the mods etc. were very helpful.
Thank you for this great video :)
This is what I needed to finally get into the game properly (I think). Played it a long time ago and remember being blown away by the world and immersion. Having a decent guide on what options to tick/untick on OpenMW is very helpful.
Can't believe it's been 20 years..
This was my first Elder Scrolls game on Xbox and still is my favorite. I have so many fond memories of playing and exploring. But I've been ruined by modern gaming and can't play it anymore. But I'll always have the memories of how great it was. Using Mark and recall to fast travel, making completing quests a breeze. Cast mark at quest giver, upon completion Recall back to the quest giver. Hours of traveling saved.
This video is incredible. I walked through and followed you every step and you helped me do this. I tried several times to mod MW and to get into it...but it crashed constantly. Your layout and pacing is perfect, and I wish every game had a passionate fan like you to patiently do this lol. Thank you!!
A really impressive mod would be one with a hitstop animation if the attack missed. Like it's getting blocked. Looks ultra silly seeing your weapon pass through them unphased.
Yeah, that's a good idea 👉🏾
Any idea if this is a mod now?
Sir, I thank you from the bottom of my heart! I've scoured the internet for too long for a way to make Tamriel Rebuild run and you, sir, have my thanks for this conclusive and detailed walkthrough! Morrowind is the game that I have completely run through and finished (vanilla version) more times than I have years (34) and I cannot wait to delve into mainland Morrowind
this was an excellent tutorial for installing the tools and the mods. I tried doing this on my own and got hung up. Even after finding your video I ran into trouble from my previous 'all thumbs' approach. I re-installed and started over following your guidance and now can't wait to get started on my Morrowind world!
This is a fantastic tutorial video--I had such trouble with OpenMW before I watched your video, and this was a huge help. Morrowind looks great on my PC now! Thanks for the time and effort
I looked at a couple of tutorials on youtube on how to do this, and all of them left me very confused and feeling much too complicated- but I came across your video and I am so happy now- perfect in-depth tutorial of how to install mods and you furthermore explain what each things means as well. 10/10 thank you so much for this! I never played Morrowind before, but am a huge Oblivion and Skyrim fan- and honestly the layout and old school graphics deterred me a bit from playing morrowind, I was honestly waiting for a remaster of Morrowind- but it never came :( but when I found out about OpenMw and vanilla mods for the game, I knew I had to absolutely learn how to get it working. I am happy to say now I can finally play Morrowind, same game- just looking a little better and up-to date 😊
It's so incredible to me to see Morrowind so stable. Can't believe I didn't try OpenMW sooner, amazing what the creators can do..
I'm just getting back into Morrowind after many, many years. Makes me feel old just thinking about it. Anyway, this vid is gold, man. Super helpful and I love your descriptions of the series using the metal analogy; I agree with everything you said! The modding sections are really easy to follow too, and I really appreciate you taking the time to run through most of the settings. Thanks a bunch for making this. Easy subbed :D
Apparently I picked a damn good time to try to play Morrowind again, it's been my favorite game from the first time I played it well into today but just thought to look up how to play it nowadays while being beautiful
I finished Elden Ring (my first From game) a few weeks ago and have been looking for a new game to play. I've never played an Elder Scrolls game, so I decided to try Morrowind since I heard it was similar to ER in the sense that there's very little hand holding in a world thats rewarding to explore. I'm about 5 hours in and the learning curve has been steep, but I can tell that I'm going to be enjoying this game very, very, very much.
It's probably the most rewarding game I've ever played, ive learned something new each playthrough (even with wikis), and I've played the game for almost my entire life.
Also, if you're curious, a channel called PatricianTV put out a video titled "How to Make a Good Morrowind Character"
It's a great resource if you're curious about certain game mechanics related to leveling. However, if you enjoy going in blind, just ignore me
Enjoy the game!
@@istivanp8747 Thanks man - I'm a little over 30 hours in now. Its been an incredibly immersive/fun experience (no guides for me!). Just found the Boots of the Apostle which have made exploration a breeze
Mod it first. Learn how to from CZcams tutorials, you won't regret it. There are some fantastic mods.
I really appreciate this video. I've been coming home from work for the past couple days trying to mod morrowind following other videos and I just couldn't get a thing done. This works seemlessly.
I also really like how simply you explain everything. This is an amazing video and I'll be sure to come back to it every time I need to reinstall morrowind and a couple hundred mods.
So i used another video to install openMW, but yours for settings out of game and in game.
Great video. Really helpful for a startup
thanks for the upload man i'm actually gonna install this and try it out never played it back then but i did play oblivion
Really solid tutorial, it's made playing Morrowind not a crash-ridden chore! While I miss the beloved Lua and MWSE based upgrades for the main-game, I have put 50 hours into a new playthrough thanks to your clear and distinct explanation on modding OpenMW. You have actively made me re-fall in love with my favourite game again. 10/10.
Modern problems require modern solutions 😂
@@htspencer9084 Wish Bethesda of today would realise that!
Thank you hugely for this video. I had a nostalgia itch recently and have been reinstalling my old gog games, and I was figuring out how to go about playing morrowind, the very first elder scrolls game I played, when I saw on the gog forums about openMW. Really appreciate the guide and preview of openMW.
Thanks a ton. I am by no means proficient with computers but youve got me playing morrowind like never before with very little issue.
Morrowind was my first and favorite ES game and I can't wait to play it again with these mods!
It would be cool to see what your modding setup is like for Skyrim these days, too!
Thank you so much for this video tutorial. I'm very new to modding, so this was extremely helpful in getting openmw working with a few mods here and there. I'll keep experimenting!
CZcams recommended me this video since I was looking so many Skyrim videos and man, you sure made me get interested in Morrowind. I havd had it in my Steam library for years and bought it along with Oblivion but never got to dive much into it. I might do it now like this.
Morrowind has always been an anomaly for me, always been the elder scrolls game I never got into. The first I played, but not the first I loved. That was Oblivion. But man after all these years your video is the video that had finally made me enjoy the game.
Your point about the combat completely switched my brain. Saying that you shouldn't change it and to respect the balance of it it suddenly made, make sense to me. Once you respect the combat the game becomes infinitely more enjoyable. Forcing me to not be a jack of all trades, but to dedicate to an actual role, y'know like Role Playing Games should be.
It's soo fucking good, so happy I'm finally enjoying this fucking game.
What should i do about the fact that missing 90% of the time is extremely tedious, frustrating and makes the game unnecessarily difficult? Just say fuck it and mod it to where the hits connect? Any suggestions?
You are right bro. I hope you enjoy it. My first love as far as es games. I'm doing a plsythrough now and I'm jazzed to relive it.
@@MitchWarren Bro, turn on use best move in in game settings. See if that makes a difference. Increase your agility stat too BTW
Focus short blade too BTW. It'll give you speed bonus on level up. If you start a new game, pick the steed as your sign.
Note about the hit mechanic, you can get very high accuracy at the beginning by choosing agility as primary skill and the weapon type you want as a main skill. No mod necessary and you hit a lot of the time. Boosting your agility with potions or enchanted items/spells makes this even easier.
I mean as long as you choose at least one combat skill as a major skill you'll be fine
very helpful. lot of questions i had were answered. thx so much. played it 2002 @ 14 years old and loved it .
Thank you for your guide here - I just picked up the game because of it. Looking forward to getting set up and playing!
Played Morrowind... MANY YEARS AGO... loved it. Played it on PC, so I absolutely... used mods.
By the way, I did indeed....leave combat unmodded.
I’ve been into pc gaming since my early teens and building own pc’s since the mid-late 90’s and loving it. I never got into the game modding scene until I think now after watching this video. I always thought you needed a degree in coding & some experience to do this 😢. I guess I’m used to, for example, software packages to do all my installs and thought this was outta my league. I guess I was wrong. Time to buy up some of these older titles as they’re cheap on Steam / GOG / cheap CD key sites. Thank you Tek Syndicate for doing this video. Love the work 🥰🥰👍🎄🎄 cheers 🍻
It’s usually copy/pasting which overwrites some files in the game folder which you should backup before apply the mods.
You only need to change parameters of some cfg/ini files if you want configure them, which can be done in notepad.
This intro somehow completely captures the nostalgia and joy of playing these games on a rainy holiday. Thank you Sir. Excellent video.
Great tutorial! Thank you for making a comprehensive and beginner friendly walkthrough.
Morrowind NEVER gets old. Its community is vibrant like no other 🙏
u trolling that game is trash
@@penguiin12 This is the end of you s'wit!
I can not wait until Skywind is released, hopefully a VR wrapper will allow me to play in a VR headset!
Morrowind has a GOOD VR mod. It’s called TES3VR
The first time I ever really got into Morrowind believe it or not wasn’t until around 2020. (Yes I was one of those people who started out played Skyrim) as such, I was already familiar with the modding scene- However I opted for the Vanilla experience the first time around playing Morrowind. I can honestly say the feeling when you walk off that boat in the beginning gave me a sort nostalgia that seemed immediately familiar even though I had never played before and really made me feel emerged in the game. Since I was a noob, I headed straight for Balmora and after some antics searching for the puzzle cube I opted to go back to Caius Cosades to see if I had missed some dialogue or *leads* and then slept in his bed to level up. Immediately I was attacked by the Dark Brotherhood which I managed to kill, and receive a note. I remembered how great the story line was for them in Oblivion and Skyrim so naturally I diverted into that quest line, and somehow, managed to finish the Tribunal (not knowing it was late game content) fairly early on, then the rest of Morrowind became relatively easy. Such good memories! It’s never too late to get into this game!
Thank you so much for this video!!!
A friend bought me Morrowind the other day and I wanted to mod it to improve textures and models so it feels more modern, and your video helps me a lot to make that possible.
Okay, so I have tried for hours to get this to work, I think I'm having an issue with python, but I'm completely lost when it comes to programming language and whatnot. When I open modorganizer I get the error: failed to initialize plugin C:[...]/plugins/OpenMWExport.py: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5'.
So I try going into the python console after some googling to try to somehow get PyQt5 which seems to be some GUI extension for Python (idk), but to do that I think i need pip (installing extension for python i think) and I can't get that to work either, i'm completely stumped so help wold be appreciated
did you fix the issue? I'm having the same problem :(
Nah, never got it to work, opted for a different mod in the end I think@@LeTakizawa
use 2.44 version of the mod organizer
About modding - years ago, I came across a big mod package made by someone else. It was done via an .exe file, so when I installed it, it just automatically added around 70 mods to the game, I could add and remove some of these, but it was so easy. If anything like that still exists, that would be a real treasure - instead of installing mods separately, you could just run one .exe file and be set to play a modded Morrowind.
I believe there was Morrowind Overhaul and Tamriel Rebuilt. I haven't played them in years, but I do remember them being the big two to have.
Great content my guy, Clear and concise, exactly what i needed, very informative adn easy to understand. Love you Morrowind Dad
Thank you, very helpful explanation on the omwaddon file.
morrowind is sooooo good. I had to buy a gpu way back in the day for it. Favorite game by far been modding it since before 2007
Amazing guide, went trough Enderal recently and kinda thought about Morrowind a lot. Used to play it when I was younger but it was too complicated for me back then. Gotta give this a try, just wondering before starting all of this, do you have a list of mods you usually run with?
THANK YOU! This is an awesome tutorial! I was just looking around to try playing again and this made it quick to setup a decent install. ^_^
Those lists are great. I love mods, but end up spending a ton of time trying to mod it all without ever getting to playing. I've tried playing skyrim 3 times in the past year and never actually played. I need those lists for all TES games so I can get a decent setup and start playing then add new mods if I feel like it.
loved this guide ty man. Wondering if and when you will make the vid with all your mods. have a great day
I love the metal analogies lol. I'm 27 and grew up with nu metal as a kid and got into metalcore as a teen. I like how you had respect for all the genres since we all know metal has a lot of elitest. I have more hours in skyrim than other tes games but morrowind is my favorite. I love the world building and the way you have to be a bit more immersed with your navigation alone. Morrowind is that game that you cant pick up and play on a whim or jump back into after a long break like you can skyrim. you have to dedicate a bit of time to your playthrough or you will be utterly lost and i think that is a bigger barrier to your hours played than skyrim. I enjoyed it more but that was because of the dedication, which is completely at odds how often i am in the mood to play it.
This is 💯. Hand holding ruins so many open world RPGs. It's not about" look at my gear guys aren't I cewl?" It's about walking away with something like when you read a book or listening to a album front to back.
This was incredibly helpful, thank you so much! Subscribed
The GOATTT you have been so helpful! first time doing mods open mw style and you're making this shit easy
“Morrowind doesn't hold your hand. It may hold your hair, while it takes you from behind“ 💪😅😅😅
i havent had much fun with gaming for a long while, and i gotta say morrowind is making me like gaming again, i guess my other games just feel stale ATM : P
Hey man thanks for this vid, I've played MW before but not very far in, I got the game again recently through Amazon Prime and GOG. This guide helped get me going on all things mods. You explained everything in the most simple step by steps and gave plenty of relevant examples. I don't even know how you know a lot of this stuff haha but I'm grateful that you do. I haven't been able to get every single mod on a mod list working yet but many many of them do which is still a blessing. I'm sure I'm just doing something technically wrong on a few of them. It's always some type of error where the game crashes while loading in and says it's looking for some file that hasn't loaded yet . It's happened multiple times with different mods, each time I just remove the mod or reassess what I might have done wrong. Wish i was more well versed but I just follow the mod notes and instructions the best I can. Anyways thanks for real though, great video
very nice analogies, currently playing morrowind now, it's refreshing to go back to a game where none of the open world is wasted.
Morrowind fans are kind of like TOOL fans
Full form of Tool?
I remember finding Morrowind in a pack of free software my Dad got when he bought a new PC. It was just sitting there in a box of stuff with all the instillation disks for all the programs (back when optical drives were a thing). It probably sat there for a few years before I found it and put it on my computer. I was young and hadn't had much experience with massively expansive games like that. I got through the first couple of towns and realized I was waaaay over my head. When I got older I played Oblivion and Skyrim. I always wondered what Morrowind would be like now that I am better able to understand everything about it.
On a side note but sort of related, I just got into Lord Of The Rings Online and I am really enjoying the old school feel. The world is huge, the game is a little overwhelming at first, but there's plenty of resources to figure things out if the game didn't do a good enough job of teaching you itself. You can even play a ton of it for free, and you will earn rewards while playing that you can actually buy the expansion packs that you don't already have.
I beat this game on xbox when i was a kid and it took me like a full year. Thank you so much for this tutorial because I have so many issues just trying to play the game comfortably and at an aspect ratio I enjoy :D
Hey, man, thanks for this. It's a huge help. I got into Elder Scrolls backwards, Skyrim, then Oblivion, and this will be my first true dive into Morrowind.
Great video, I’m a huge Fallout fan and enjoy rpg’s so now I want to play the elder scrolls games. This is a great guide on how to get started, thank you!
You should create a modpack of all the mods you run and upload it somewhere for easy installation for new modders of the game :)
I would totally do that... it's really easy because you only have to open Mod Organizer and tell it where your openMW is located.... but some modders are very uncool with their mods being shared this way because it keeps people from going to their site or profile pages. I'd probably need to ask each modder if they were cool with it... otherwise I'd have a righteous mob on my hands that I don't entirely disagree with.
@@teksyndicate If you make a wabbajack installer it should be okay. It auto endorses any mod it downloads. And configures everything for the end user automatically.
Thank you so very much for this video. I'm again inspired to play my all time favorite game - without the crashing!
Excellent walk through. Got me up an running on modded openmw. I played this game back on the original Xbox, but was too young to understand the depth of the game. Looking forward to exploring with new eyes and more content.
Saw this video a few days ago and decided to give it a try. I went through one of the mod lists, and it ends with the Delta Plugin. They seem to emphasize how important it is, although it doesn't have the direct interaction with Mod Organizer and it's a little confusing. If you happen to see this comment, would you consider adding a note on what you've done? I'm curious if you skipped this mod entirely or if you could show or explain how you installed it in your folders. Regardless, you've made a great video and thanks for your help!
Same here. I'm just gonna go with OpenMW and no mods, I guess.
Mod list video:
czcams.com/video/oG40-n0QU2M/video.html
Mod list and info on the website:
teksyndicate.com/morrowind-in-2022-why-you-should-play-how-to-use-openmw-install-mods/
Probably a dumb ass statement and I'm probably not the first to say this but you sound just like a voice actor from Skyrim lol idk the exact character but you sound just like him
The Meteorite Ministry Palace - Higher.ESP and Meteorite Ministry Temple - Higher.ESP plugins need to be cleaned, the rest do not.
lol, the metal analogies... I don't listen to metal so that was pretty funny to me, seeing your face and all. Good video tho.
Great help to get me modding this game! I used your purchase link for GOTY Morrowind. Thank you for the tutorial.
@@adam-xi2nc Stephen Russell? He is the fellow who gave voice to Belethor, Mercer Frey & dozens of other characters in Skyrim, Nick Valentine in Fallout4, Harold (the ghoul/tree dude) in Fallout 3, Garrett in Thief. The list of characters with his voice is probably second only to Wes Johnson.
Really helpful walkthrough of openMW setup, thank you!
Yo thanks so much for this. Was trying to get Morrowind set up on my own and it was just not happening. This was much easier than what i was trying and has a much better result. So easy to add new mods now.
I want to try Morrowind and it's going to be my first time playing this game, should i download mods or should i just play it as it is to get the "authentic" experience?
You can play as is, but some things i found frustrating and fixed:
* no magicka regen without using the wait button for in-game hours. Maybe i was hasty in doing that, because you can actually use enchanted items to cast spells for you.
* leveling. I hate Oblivion for its leveling system, and i found myself grinding for efficient attribute gains. Get CCCP for a better leveling system.
On first playing, i also started with a graphics extender and a bug fixer. I don't think I'm missing anything from vanilla by doing so.
Can you do one for Oblivion?
It's a similar story really.
It's actually different because it doesn't use OpenMW or similar... Modding is similar. Might be worth a video.
All the metal analogies made total sense
Great video! The original water looked way better than the Water shader turned off version. It was using a nice pixel shader on my GeForce 3. It looked amazing and it was interactible with ripples forming as you were moving.
From my experience, Arena was very much informed by first-person dungeon crawlers games like Wizardry or Eye of the Beholder etc. Tough, obscure and more than a little hostile to newbies. Daggerfall was an attempt to remake Arena bigger and better but it still felt a little shallow and repetitive despite the monstrous efforts of its devs. Morrowind was everything Daggerfall wanted to be but with a smaller, more focused scope that allowed for more depth.
I always thought that despite its production values and epic story, Oblivion suffered from a sort of "Tolkien envy", but then again, look at the time when it was developed and published... everyone was competing to be the next LOtR. Skyrim moved past that, but I thought it was a little to console-oriented for my tastes. I'll have to try it someday.
daggerfall is the LEAST shallow elder scrolls lmao
I'm just here to remind you that Morrowind is superior :P
I loved this tutorial man! helped me out so much! You just gained +1 sub!
you legitimately have no idea how happy I am to see a mod guide for a game OTHER than Skyrim and the Fallouts that uses MO2.... all the oblivion guides all recommend NOT using MO2 so I'm so happy to see MO2 here
Thanks for this video. You did a great job explaining how to do this and even though in hindsight its pretty simple, without said hindsight it seemed to complicated to bother with. Now my game looks better and even handles alt-tabbing much better than it did before lol. Thanks again.
Great Vid Man! Best explaination of how to play morrowind, i tried years ago and was confused that i was missing, it was fun, glad to see the community still has love for this game and i want to experience my first true playthrough, to the max with my "beefy computer" :D and all the hardwork the Morrowind community has put into the game to make it more enjoyable!
i am in a similar boat as you, have recently got a modern gaming PC and have spent the last couple of months building my ultimate OpenMW Morrowind Playlist. Have finally started playing it and am having a blast. Played it back in the day on the Xbox and loved it but it runs like a dream on a modern system, so fast even with hundreds of mods
This is the best guide for how to use Mod Organizer. Excellent video man, and still very useful!
that curated mod list is so much updated it is 267 mods in the expanded vanilla... this is crazy thank you very much.
I bought this on a whim from an extravison store for the og xbox, going home and reading the instructions book, one of the last times that I probably did. I never got to finish it but now that I have a pc I'm here watching this hoping to return, thanks for this.
Awesome and super helpful guide. Thank you very much!
This is _exactly_ the guide I needed. Thank you!
"But it also has the most insufferable audience that are always going to remind you that it is superior."
You just described me in the best sense. I try so hard to get my friends to play Morrowind because it's so damn good and still holds up 20 years later. It's literally the BEST Elder Scrolls game but the accessibility compared to most modern games leaves a lot to be desired for most people. If you can get past the caveats of the game and LEARN it, you will fall in-love.
Excellent video and informative guide. Thanks!
I send many thanks for the help, and saving me from a lot of pain!
OpenMW alone is going to fox almost ALL of my gripes that I was having with Morrowind while trying to get into it. Thanks a lot!
I started playing first time with openMW, those 3 optimization mods and the shader pack. Main thing is keeping interior mist for cloud shader at 0 or else some areas will be 100% black. Pretty good i just spent bit of time grinding so i dont miss hits everytime.
I had played this game YEARS ago when it was initially released, but just bought it recently on Steam to re-live that wonderful experience once again - only to have my fun stopped by none-stop bugs and crashes. I remembered installing the original Thief 1 game and modding that to get it to look unbelievably good and running wonderfully, so figured I would try my luck with TES 3 as well. Started modding using Nexus' Mod Manager and SKSE and continued to run into glitches and crashes, now after watching this video I understand why. I am going to re-watch this video and try to install a few mods using your guidance and see if it works any better. Thanks a bunch!