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Also, totally unrelated, but I love the way Caswyn and Kildozery's Disturbing Dreams together add a ton of immersion. Caswyn gave me his sleep potion right after one of those dreams, as you clearly intended, but now the whole thing feels so much more amplified, because they really *were* bad dreams.
Talk to him periodically when your journal tells you do (every few in-game days). His first quest happens 3 in-game days after joining up with you--he'll want to visit a rare book seller, and then go to Dagon Fel. After that, you wait 5 in-game days, and then go to Sadrith Mora. There's a comprehensive walkthrough in the readme if you get stuck and don't mind spoilers.
Overall, pretty solid. Can't say my head got blown off but in general it was a pleasant experience and i'm happy i played the mod. Thanks for making it!
The only real issue i had is with Caswyn as a combat companion. Specifically with his spells both directly and indirectly making my life harder.
- The AOE shock spell. It hurts real bad even with 50% shock resist. Yeah, I admit, I played this time as a flimsy thief khajit. But even at level 17 with stat-based health pool of ~70-ish hp, one cast simply melted half of my health. Annoying, but ok, I can deal with it by using bows. Sure, whatever
- The summon spell. And it's more of a Morrowind's fault rather than a companion. One hit on the summon is enough to aggro Caswyn until cell transition. Morrowind's hitboxes are clunky, enemies tend to maneuver while fighting and I'm trying to shoot them from a distance to not get my face melted
I tried to mitigate it by toggling godmode to pacify Caswyn for some time, but in the end opted to just leave him outside of every dungeon, essentially making him my luggage-carrier (specifically, my skooma and moon sugar man) and simply "a quest guy". Kinda immersion-breaking tbhAs for your points -- you caught me at an excellent time, as I was just finishing up the 1.5 update.
1 -- I've incorporated your feedback, and I've nerfed his spells further. He now has his own nerfed versions of the spells (previously, he just used the vanilla ones that are also accessible to the player). I've cut the damage by at least 1/3rd, the durations by at least half, and the areas are now all 0-2 feet. Hopefully this helps mitigate the friendly fire issues. I typically play mages and liberally use Merlord's Kill Command mod, so I don't think I fully realized how much the friendly fire was. This will likely take further tweaking to get right, of course, but I think it's a step in the right direction.
2 -- I'm not sure what all to do about this one. I'll have to think about it further.
I'm glad that you enjoyed the mod overall, and I appreciate you taking the time to write this comment.
also, the mental image of Caswyn being a Khajiit thief's skooma/moon sugar luggage guy is hilarious to me, so thanks for that too.
- it's a welcome change, since IMO Caswyn was a powerhouse, compared to me. On one hand it makes sense story-wise, but on the other, trivializes some encounters. I might even suggest powering him gradually alongside his questline, since, you know, you can recruit him right at the start of the playthrough (might be completely wrong, but you get the idea). And on the third hand I really appreciated his AOE capabilities, since my character didn't have any of them. If possible, I'd also suggest a dialogue option to switch between less AOE and more AOE spells (if it also fits the balancing criteria)
- tough point indeed. If only Caswyn wasn't so stubborn and started summonning atronachs with ranged attacks!
The reason I'm not using Merlord's Kill Command, since there's no alternative for it for OpenMW. Sound like a great mod to have in the arsenalAlso not sure if it was adressed in the 1.5 release but I also had an issue of Caswyn not equipping his hood after I gave him some other helmet and took it back. I remember someone already reporting it, but I'm not 100% sure
Also, this is probably subjective, but I didn't have fun fighting the final boss at all. The OP clones zooming around, hard to find the real thing, and Caswyn the AI doesn't concentrate on the real one at all (maybe, because they're not technically summons?).
For dealing with final boss i can suggest any way of stopping her from casting absorb spells. Glass jinkblades with paralysis really carried me through last phase. At the end of the day clones die in 2 hits (as i understand it) and are respawned with a conciderable delay, giving you plenty of time to spam the boss with rnadom bullshit you gathered along the way. Also enchanted robes located in the arena might come in handy
him while in the shack, or change that guy's script?
Preventing Caswyn from being dismissed while in the shack should be easy enough to do; I'll add it to the list.
Caswyn *does* have a knockout setting, but it's a bit fickle about firing correctly, but I'll mess with it more and see what I can come up with. Or just let him die permanently if I can't get that working consistently and correctly.
The hood thing is probably an issue with it *technically* having to count as armor; let me also take a look at his light armor stat and see if I can buff that enough (but not too much)