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• The Restless Dead - Design Choices Explained

  23 Jun 2023

  alanovichromanov

  The Restless Dead – Design Choices Explained
  
  Introduction:
  
  “The Restless Dead” is the bigger, better version of my first major enemy mod, “Draugr Upgrades and Improvements”. A fairly common criticism I encountered for D.U.I. was that it’s not realistic for ancient undead enemies to have “modern” equipment. I agree to a certain extent, but there is a lot more to that argument, and eventually I decided to create an improved version of D.U.I. based on these three premisses:
  
  
  Nordic Tombs were used for centuries after the destruction of the Dragon Cult.
  Many of the draugr encountered in the game were not affiliated with the Dragon Cult in life.
  There are different forms of undeath.
  
  I did a lot of research on UES...

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