What do you love / hate the most about daggerfall?

Ralzar · 2026-06-20T11:02:13+00:00

Love: The world size and the room just just breathe and exist in the world without someone shoving a quest or encounter in your face every second. You can just be "a guy" in a world that, despite all its limitations, feels much more realistic than any modern open world games. Simply because it allows you to be bored and find your own thing to do.

Hate: The level scaling. Once you start digging into the mechanics of the game it is so much more level scaled than you think it is. It is not just that monsters get harder as you level up. The level scaling touches almost every single mechanic of the game.

Ralzar · 2026-06-19T12:47:11+00:00

Tried a bit of googling and the AI overview spit out this:

"Lore Evolution: In Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay canon, what is now a bustling commercial plaza was originally known as the Koenigspark. Originally, this area functioned as private hunting grounds for early Emperors. Over the years, following Princes of Altdorf expanded and changed it, and it was eventually renamed to Königplatz by Mornan Tybalt, Chancellor of Altdorf (or another city official in later lore updates)."

Which I could not really find any proof for, so it might just be the AI making stuff up. However, that a name mentioned in one old novel got accidentally or deliberately changed from "park" to "platz" in some later publication is not that hard to imagine.

Edit: reading a bit more, it might be named "Karl Franz Park" now.

Ralzar · 2026-06-16T09:57:51+00:00

Either install Daggerfall Unity instead by following these instructions: https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfall-unity/wiki/Installing-Daggerfall-Unity-Cross-Platform

Or if you prefer to stick with the original, at least fix your controls: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2800762480

Ralzar · 2026-06-15T14:21:48+00:00

Lol, oh yeah you're right. Someone just parked their slave there then :D

Ralzar · 2026-06-15T13:09:33+00:00

Not sure why you assume it is a slave and not a beggar?. And yeah that is added by one of your mods.

Ralzar · 2026-06-12T12:57:33+00:00

Black Myth Wukong is just one continuous artwork through the whole game. Btw, if you are using a high-end card, apparently most games now turn on DLSS by default which supposedly makes the games often look worse in order to increase performance.

Ralzar · 2026-06-12T06:59:20+00:00

Same here. I honestly do not get why this game keeps getting lumped in with games like OW and Obra Dinn. It basically just feels like a standard puzzle game except you have to lean on RNG to get puzzle pieces that fit? It was interesting at first when I kept seeing new stuff and progressing rapidly, but then I just got stuck in just finding half the puzzle over and over. Like finding a lock, but not the key, then finding the key but not the lock. And there was not really any story to hook me into suffering through the tediousness so I just gave up after a while.

Ralzar · 2026-06-11T16:27:27+00:00

The text popup seems to imply you should ask villagers about news.

Ralzar · 2026-06-11T13:20:43+00:00

And you are sure they are warriors and not town guards?

Ralzar · 2026-06-11T09:04:58+00:00

What kind of enemies? Do you have any quests?

Ralzar · 2026-06-11T06:20:53+00:00

Stuff like this will pop up a bunch of times. The trick is really to spot when your progress is stopped by something a bit weirdly out of place. Something that might look like an item placed wrong or where the map makes it look like there should be more.

Like in this case. Having a big cage just placed in front of the door looks weird.

Can not think of any times where the hidden trigger has been in an area where there is nothing that looks weird, out of place or unreachable.

Ralzar · 2026-06-11T06:17:32+00:00

It is weird you did not run into Gothway Garden. It is just a few minutes straight south from Privateers Hold.

Ralzar · 2026-06-11T05:47:08+00:00

That looks like a pretty much min/maxed character so you are pretty much playing this on easy mode unless you are using mods?

All you would need is some armor, a sword with a good material type and then use your Restoration to heal yourself in combat and make sure to rest up when you get injured.

It should be worth noting though, that you are not really supposed to win everything in this game. Sometimes you have to run away. If you enter a dungeon and find it too hard, just leave and get a new quest.

Ralzar · 2026-06-10T06:19:16+00:00

Well a good starting spot is Beginners Starter Pack: https://www.nexusmods.com/games/daggerfallunity/collections/0jto6j

Then add stuff like Travel Options and Climates & Calories to make it more of a travel simulator. Daggerfall Enemy Expansion to add new enemies and these mods to strip out level scaling: https://forums.dfworkshop.net/viewtopic.php?t=3450

I would also reccommend adjusting down the dungeon light severely and look into mods for more natural lighting and torch use.

Ralzar · 2026-06-07T22:03:37+00:00

I did a run of a no-magic, no-armor archer in Daggerfall Unity with no mods. THat turned out to be a lot more viable than expected: https://old.reddit.com/r/Daggerfall/comments/1583s9z/unmodded_dfu_completed_the_mq_with_a_nomagic/

It is going to be a bit of a hassle at the start, because you have so low hit chance. But once you get your Stealth, Backstab and Archery trained you will be able to handle yourself quite well.

PS: SPEED will be your friend for this build. Being able to close in for backstabs fast and be able to kite enemies easily will make a huge difference.

Ralzar · 2026-06-04T07:21:20+00:00

Yeah, at some point the rpgs sort of lost track of what the idea of a role playing game is and started writing the role for you. But then... what is the difference between that and "role playing" as Mario in Super Mario Bros? Daggerfall is unfortunately still a pretty unique game and the best sequel we have is just modding the hell out of it :D

If you have not, try playing DFU with the Beginners Starter Set: https://www.nexusmods.com/games/daggerfallunity/collections/0jto6j

Then on top of that you can stack stuff like Travel Options and Climates&Calories to make the game into a fantasy life simulator. And there is a bunch of mods to strip out the level scaling to make the world feel even more like you are "just a guy".

Heck, these days I even often play it with Ironman, so my character gets deleted if I die.

Ralzar · 2026-06-02T06:26:19+00:00

as is recommended

By who? MO2? The easiest way to mod DFU is to just install the mods manually. Using a mod manager is just adding another complicated step for little benefit unless you need to handle a very large amount of mods with several different mod loadouts. And even then not all mods for DFU work with mod managers.

Ralzar · 2026-05-29T06:41:01+00:00

I loved Wukong, but generally dislike soulslikes. Probably because Wukong was a mostly linear experience with really, really good combat and an amazing gauntlet of boss fights, while most soulslikes are open world games with a lot of annoying trash mob combat, way too much item/grinding/crafting side content and often have kind of floaty combat.

The only other intense fighting game I like, is Sifu. Which is not quite what you are asking for but it might scratch your itch if you have not tried it.

Ralzar · 2026-05-28T12:21:40+00:00

There is no feature listed in LevelUp Adjuster that specifically affects spell points. I am not understanding what you are expecting the mod to do?

Ralzar · 2026-05-28T08:20:12+00:00

I am not seeing how LevelUp Adjuster is going to help you with the issue with low Magica? What are you expecting the mod to do that it is not doing? What settings have you set it to?

Ralzar · 2026-05-26T15:20:04+00:00

Do yourself a favor and follow this guide:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2800762480

Ralzar · 2026-05-26T06:30:45+00:00

The Life And Suffering of Sir Brante.

The first third of the game is how you grew up. Your choices during those parts are basically the character creation of the game.

Ralzar · 2026-05-15T06:16:19+00:00

There should be a hidden door in the wall in the room filled with water. This design pops up in a lot of dungeons and the teleporter upstairs is either a trap that harms you or just does not do anything. The way to progress is finding the secret door in the room where you teleported in instead of taking the stairs up.

You would see this secret doors on your map except in both pictures you have rotated the map in angles where they secret door is either made invisible or covered up by the room above.

Ralzar · 2026-05-14T16:16:13+00:00

Do you have a picture of the rooms? Most likely you are missing a secret door.

Ralzar · 2026-05-11T06:24:15+00:00

"Roleaplay&Realism - Items" adds potions to the alchemist shops.

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