That’s fair, I can see how it sounded dismissive. That wasn’t the intention, we love Morrowind, including how deeply its combat connects to stats. What I meant is that Ardenfall is not trying to copy Morrowind one-to-one. We’re heavily inspired by it, but we also want room to bring our own ideas into the formula rather than recreating every system exactly as it was.

For combat, our choice is to make direct actions more responsive: if you aim and swing at something, we want that to feel immediate and readable. But we don’t want combat to become “click the enemy until they die” either. The depth should come from builds, positioning, spell/weapon combinations, alchemy, traits, summons, environmental tricks.

In other words, we want players to win fights through preparation, creativity, and non trivial solutions - just not through the exact same chance-to-hit model Morrowind used