I might give it a gander at some point. After I'm done with DLC anyway. Also are we talking Nintendo Hard where the computer is so ridiculously overpowered and cheats or is it just health and damage scaled?

nintendo hard? LOL someone must have been 2 noob for mega man / contra / etc.

I hope this difficulty mode does not include being one shotted by a 2h hammer, in skyrim it's ridiculous.

I wonder how long it'll take someone to start whining/bragging that the mod is too easy because they abused the hell out of Enchanting/Alchemy/Smithing and dual wield swords that do 1,000 damage or whatever the hell.

Skyrim just needs better leveling and it'll be alright IMO. It's hard as hell at very low levels on master difficulty but due to you usually gaining much more from leveling than NPCs/creatures and everyone capping out way earlier than you do it becomes pitifully easy after a bit. By level 81 the only things that could be threats to you are Draugr Deathlord archers and dual wielding Forsworn Briarhearts if you don't keep your distance.

It's silly as hell that, while you can get 80 perks (excluding bonus ones from quests/blessings,) almost nobody besides Bandits and Forsworn gets any perks whatsoever as they level up.

Just get some magic resistance lol. It's extremely important, especially if you play on master difficulty. With zero magic resistance you can get one-shotted by random Bandit Mages, let alone higher level Dragons.

With the maximum 85% magicka resistance you can just stand there and laugh off the attacks of most Dragons and Mages, even on master difficulty. Even moreso if you also have 85% elemental resistance on top of that, or 100% magicka resistance via magicka absorption (which isn't capped.)

^ Agreed on both counts. I used to fast travel back when I first started playing the game but quickly realised how much more fun it is to just walk everywhere. Most of my more memorable experiences in the game have happened while just wandering Skyrim aimlessly, not from the actual quests.

Potions are ridiculously broken. They could have at least made it so that the game doesn't freeze when you're in your inventory, or so that they take time to take effect. I personally only heal via a healing spell, since at least you can't spam that forever, and you can't freeze gameplay while you're doing it.

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^ Agreed on both counts. I used to fast travel back when I first started playing the game but quickly realised how much more fun it is to just walk everywhere. Most of my more memorable experiences in the game have happened while just wandering Skyrim aimlessly, not from the actual quests.

Potions are ridiculously broken. They could have at least made it so that the game doesn't freeze when you're in your inventory, or so that they take time to take effect. I personally only heal via a healing spell, since at least you can't spam that forever, and you can't freeze gameplay while you're doing it.

This is why Morrowind > Oblivion/Skyrim

I do like mods that increase difficulty by non numeric means. It seems boring to simply have more damage, more health, more mooks, etc.

Having Health regen makes potions useless; they were fine when they were used to heal sort of "post dungeon", rather than instant health; so, go through dungeon, try to survive, then if successful, pop a Heal over time potion.

This isn't just a case of say 1 minute to heal 100 hp, but 1-2 hours in game time, to heal the same; the kicker is that natural health regen is slowed to essentially nothing.

To be honest, that does favour Stealth Gameplay though, but I am sure increasing the effectiveness of armour goes a long way towards.