Welcome to Director's Cut mod thread. Work is still in progress.

Director's Cut - Making Morrowind more Morrowindish than Morrowind itself. 101% lore. 101% atmosphere. No horses allowed.

So what is the Director's Cut? It's a:

• bugfixing project
• mod assembly
• balance tweak
• restoration project

I'll try to explain.

Years ago, this project began as a bugfixing project for localized version of Morrowind. I found a lot of bugs, made fixes, then found another load of bugs, then again fixes... It was an endless work but I didn't see any real influence on the game itself. At some point, I've changed my point of view. After all those years in Morrowind, I've found that I'm not satisfied with bugfixes. I do not think anymore that bugfixes can enhance Morrowind experience.
You can install MPP, for example... It's a great bugfix project, yes. But Morrowind can't be fixed by bugfixes, its balance is full of flaws, exploits and errors. Do I need some fixed Iron Tanto if I will never use it? If I will take loads of daedric stuff from nearest dremora? Or take MCP project. It fixes some engine bugs, but do I really need my Unarmored skill working if I'm still being killed by alpha strike? And so on, almost with every aspect of the game.
So, I came to idea of making a bugfix + tweaks project. I started to make some balance fixes, massive tweaks then again fixes, then again tweaks... And at some point, I've changed my point of view again. What should be the main goal of such a complex mod? I realized that I want to make Morrowind more Morrowindish. To enhance its atmosphere, its immersion, make it more seamless, more hard to play (Vanilla Morrowind doesn't have difficulty at all), make it more like its initial concept and design.
When I realized what my target is, I also understood that it will be foolish to try to make all of it myself. Morrowind Modding Community is full of great mods that improve gameplay and immersion and many other things that I like. So, I will try to use all experience of the Community to make DC better.

So, I started all works from scratch again on GOTY Morrowind and took some rules for DC to follow:

• I will fix everything that is fixable, no matter what it costs.
• I will tweak balance step by step starting with a things that are easy to test and things that can't be worse anyway (trap balance, for example).
• I will restore unused and concept stuff as far as it makes Morrowind better (no wooden crossbows, I'm afraid).
• I will add a few fan-made additions if they are 100% making Morrowind better.
• I will not add anything "as is". I will clean any used mods from everything that I will find not suitable.
• If some author will not give me permission to use his excellent work, I will redo all the work from his mod myself.

In overall, DC is a "more-than-just-a-bugfix" project. Hope you'll like it.


Features (aside from fixes):

These are only part of the full lists that are still in discussion. I will add more of them later.

Additions - Visual (not changing your gameplay)

Changelog:

Update 0.2.0

• Voice - Hello dialogues fixes
• Main Quest improvements
• Other quests improvements
• Beds renting

Some rules for you, outlanders:

• You can use any parts of the mod as you like.
• I will take all mod authors permissions as far as it is possible. Even if you see your mod in changelog - don't get angry, I will ask everyone before release.
• My mod contains a lot of fixes that are not mentioned anywhere else, so welcome - go and get them to your bugfixing projects.
• I will update this post with changelog, list of tweaks and additions.
• There is no compatibility guarantees. Sorry, lads, but this is a very large mod, it changes almost every aspect of the game, so it's up to you to make some mod compatible.

This is a very brief description for such a big assembly. I will update it with answers to your questions.

Really looking forward for the additions so much, but I really don't like the Bound Armor spell giving you heavy armor, most Mages use light armor as their major skill not heavy armor, and that's why they bound Light daedric armor instead of heavy, so you can instead make a new Bound Heavy Armor spell instead of changing the original

other than that I love everything, the thievery additions and lockpicking slaves sound really really good and I really want to see the Random Encounters working, it will make the game way more unpredictable and fresh, also can't wait for the lore dialogue, I'm already loving this mod

On traps: I always manage to completely neuter traps with a weak Telekinesis spell. I'm not sure what the best way to go about balancing that would be, but it would be interesting if there were a few traps that could hit someone from a distance. I don't know if you can make traps on target, or if giving them a bigger area-of-effect would work if the target isn't in touch range, though.

I do not think that I really changing anything important. Vanilla Bound Armor has 0 weight and do not increase your Armor rating at all.

In the same time if you bound Axe, it boosts your corresponding skill for the duration of the effect. And it is an axe, not a dagger, just because you're a mage.

So I made Bound Armor to work the same way as Bound weapons - it will boost your Heavy Armor skill for the duration of the effect (every piece has fortify for 10 points, so a full set will make you look like a magical golem ).

And Feather effect will take care of the weight.

I'm aware of this exploit and I already tried to make something like that, but it's not possible due to engine limitations - only Touch spells allowed.

I'll still be trying to find some solution in later versions.

A really nice set of fixes! I wish you the best of luck Laugan!

Also thanks for the research. You caught a few things that I need to adress in Morrowind Rebirth


Edit: I don't know if it's intended by bethesda or not, but should NPCs really have the spell "Ash Feast"?

This does look like an excellent mod, I like a lot of the changes!

Regarding the bound armor changes, I made a similar mod which also made Bound Armor into Heavy Armor and gave it a skill bonus.

During game play I found I would often eschew "better" Heavy Armor (My mod changed AC levels of Bound Armor to Dwemer armor levels ) because the Bound Armor was :

A. Weightless

B. Gave me increased armor even over the improved AC of Daedric

C. Repaired either by removing the constant effect item I ended up making, or just recasting the spell.

Also, Feather is a rather buggy effect and will mess up your encumbrance total; The game will eventually consider you as either carrying a lot more or a lot less than you really are.

What I ended up doing was changing the Feather/Heavy Armor buffs to Fortify Str/Sanctuary for a similar, yet not quite as imbalanced effect.

Watching this topic and looking forward to what you're accomplishing here!

Best,

Oh I get it now!

I love the feather effect too

But also about the bound axe, you can still buy the bound dagger spell, I was giving you an example about the Bound Armor, because mostly mages use it not warriors, because warriors rely on their normal armor not magical bound armor, because they either lack the magic skill or have better armor, anyway I just like the idea of light Bound Armor because it seems more appropriate for a Mage

Thanks for the reports. It will take some additional testing to choose some best implementation.

You're welcome!

Only ash ghouls and dagoths should have it. It is addressed by MPP by the way. Can't find it in their changelogs though.