What are you talking about, there's been a post every day except the day you posted...

I found the emperor's letter!!!! WOOOOHOOOO


Next step I will find out who murdered Lysandus, as if I didnt know but eh... it has been so long since I last did the MQ. I do remember Lysandus Tomb is hellish though... but not as bad as Direnni Tower.

You'll find, if you look, that my post says 'yesterday', ie 3rd August, the previous post was 1st August, and because of the time difference it was 4 days when I posted. I also can't prove it, but before I posted I found this thread on the third page. Of course, my post brought it back to the first page. The reason it was on the third page was that adding a post brings a thread to the top of the list, no posts and the thread drops down, four days with no posts and your on the third page. Just look at the threads and look at 'last post', by the time you get to the third page, last post is 3 or more days ago.

I am sorry you aren't aware enough that i have to explain how this forum and the threads within it works....!

Create a stealthy character and join the Thieves Guild. No dungeons. That's what I did, and my character is now the rank of Filcher and I find several of the quests so easy it's almost boring.

Of course you can't prove it, because it never happened. If you take a look on the third page, you'll see that as of now, there are threads with the last post from 31st of July. So, it could have not been on the third page on the 1st of August, the 2nd nor on the 3rd or whenever you found it. Just for your information.

And, to not be off-topic, I finally defated that bugger of a lich and brought his soul to the person who asked for it. Now I'm freelancing again, doing ordinary harpy pest control in Sentinel, because it seems that harpies are the only species capable of invading the private residences of Sentinel's population. I'm patiently waiting for my rank in the FG to go up.

You full well know that the last posted date will change for what is on the first, second or third page, depending how busy the forum is. If the thread is extremely busy the third page may have last posts of yesterday, and if the forum is quiet the thid page could have last posts of a week ago! The fact that toda third page last pots they are 31st July and yesterday they were 1st August is a perfectly acceptable difference!

So I would appreciate you think a little more before calling someone a liar!

Good idea I will use in the future for no dungeon gameplay. I have decided one last try with a character that has 150 spellpoints soI can get recall and levitation,etc. I don't have a character I would prefer to play, but I have a character that can cope with the game design now.

But as it stands, already, at level 3, I have been given a lesser Deadra to deal with, that can only be hurt by mithrel or above and immediately silences me, meaning melee is all I have - so please tell me what level 3 character has mitheral weapons already! He is in a dungeon that I have fully searched except for the room he is in, for a scroll. I am confident therefore that this scroll is ON this Deadra!

Calm there friend, I am not accusing you of lying. I would appreciate if you would cool your temper before starting to type. I'm just pointing out that the threads are sorted from the newest, to the oldest (from the first to the last page) so if the threads on the third page today are from the 31st of July there could have not been the threads from the 1st of August on the 3nd of August because they are more recent, thus, can't be "behind" the threads from the 31st of July, so no, it certainly is not a acceptable difference.

*and by "threads of XY" I mean "threads with last post on XY"*

Just turned level 4 and I have zombies in my latest Dungeon - what do I do? They are attacking in pairs and killing me in two hits!!!! All I am doing is running away, but how do I kill the Necromancer I have to! Does the game automatically go to another difficulty level at level 4?!

Zombies are pretty tough for most levels. Your best bet is to try and kite them with a bow if you don't have magic.

Get the zombies to chase you and lose them somewhere in the dungeon if you cant kill them.

Or guerrila war with them, you can kill them if you have patience. I had ancient vampires chasing me at your level, I had to lose them down elevators.

My argonian wizard raided a power-mad wizard's labyrinth for the Mages Guild. From the entrance, the hall went two ways...I tried one way first. Spent a couple days in game time exploring the dungeon, battling the wizard's undead creations and even hostile burglars intent on stealing the mage's loot before I did, exploring flooded passageways filled with dreugh and slaughterfish. I collected massive amounts of loot, including lots of rare alchemical ingredients. But the wizard was nowhere to be found. Almost frantic, I raced back through the labyrinth, trying to find the way out again. To Oblivion with that wizard and my reward! I just wanted out. But when I found the entrance again, the as-yet unexplored other side of the passage yawned at me black and cold. Cautiously I crept along, bludgeoning lesser creatures with my staff to conserve magicka. It got darker, so I cast a spell of light, which revealed around the next corner three warriors, the wizard's strongest henchmen. I destroyed them all with a few well-placed fireballs and strikes of my staff. Opening the door they guarded, I came face to face with the mad sorceress herself, surrounded by several newly-created skeletal guardians. I quickly cast invisibility on myself and slipped past them to give myself some breathing room. I incinerated her guardians with a powerful fire spell, at which moment she incanted a spell of paralyzation on me; but my natural affinity for absorbing energy in darkness merely added her wasted power to my own. I cast upon her a charm of silence, rendering her arcane skills useless. But she wasted no time--taking up her staff, she lunged at me with the quickness of a striking snake. Before I knew what happened, she had me beaten and bloody with several vicious strikes. I thanked Akatosh for my extra time spent learning the martial arts as a youngster, bringing up my own staff to meet hers. We dueled for a while, each getting in several strikes on the other. As I stood panting and bleeding, a smile crept over her face--this would be over soon. But she forgot that I was not silenced. I muttered an incantation which knit my broken flesh back together and restored vitality to my muscles. Her eyes wide with horror, I used the last of my magic to place on her a paralyzing spell, which worked quite nicely. With her frozen in time for only a moment, I quickly brought up my staff and stoved her head in. I rested there in her study, gathering my strength for the return journey to Daggerfall. After taking her most valuable alchemy ingredients, I left the dungeon and went back to the Guild to report my success. For all my trouble, I received a great reward--a formal cloak imbued with the capability of reflecting spells. For the rest of the night I celebrated at the local tavern, and got a good night's sleep, despite Lysandus' tormented ghost haunting near my window.

Thanks for the zombie help - will try everything mentioned!

Sorry you're having so many problems, but in case you haven't realized, THIS is precisely what the legacy users mean when they say, (Daggerfall does not hold your hand like the more recent games. It is cruel and unforgiving AND there are some glitches.) I suspect your troubles with inaccessible dungeons are indeed that you are (understandably) missing some incredibly subtle triggers (I'm confident I have experienced this often). The remainder of issues can be attributed to the randomly generated portions of the game. There just didn't seem to be a practical way to prevent all manner of bad randomly generated situations (I strongly suspect and theorize).

Patience, grasshopper..

MRNot, I will try to be patience butterfly!

I am in a crazy dungeon! Running around and scared as a rabbit! Zombies?! You have to be kidding! In pairs? Devastating! Add to this strong Mages and Overlords (Stronger Battlemages) zapping and bringing me down so quick you don't have to blink, I feel I have fallen into a game that thinks I am level 8 instead of 4!!! No one warned meof any of this back at the guild - and if I had known what was in store I would have asked for 1,000 gold at least! My only hope is to find the Necromancer I have to kill and hope his 'ordinary' and then recall the hell outa here!!!

If you have Overlords, then you are playing Andyfall.

Man, are you in trouble. Overlords are a seriously nasty piece of work: they're the only reason, in fact, that I've abandoned Andy.

If see you an Overlord at 4th level, well, pal, you take my advice: you run. You run your ass off. (Think Agents in Matrix.) By the way, they are entirely invulnerable to magic, can only be killed by melee weapons, have a whole lotta hitpoints and regenerate health at a prodigious rate.

Use invisibility and sneak if you can. Don't confront an Overlord at 4th level.

Glad to see you haven't given up despite the frustration, Humorguy! Keep it up, you'll get the hang of it, I'm sure!

:)

Deleted daggerfall to make room for Civ 4.

Wow- you must have been desperate for all that 200mb Daggerfall takes up!

Must admit I am still fairly sure i'll be joining you at the rate Daggerfall is treating me!

It's more how Andyfall is treating you. Looks like you have installed this mod.

Indeed.. it's one thing to run into a zombie or daedroth at lower levels.. but an overlord? That's crazy--and not Daggerfall's fault.

mingoran and scampers: I meant the way it's been treating me from the get-go - not just since I installed Andyfall and got his Overlords!

I managed to complete the quest to kill the Necromancer (an Orc Shaman) by just running around like a lunatic and bumping into Zombies and running away with half my strength from one of it's hits, finding somewhere to hole up to rest and then trying another route not yet taken! Came across a couple Warriors and Sorcerers, but was able to deal with them! Then, Recall, which, if I had not had, I would have to have gone through those Zombies again, that were right by the exit; and I doubt I would have been able to get out successfully that way!

Oh,and for everyone's benefit, I didn't come across any other Overlords, and like with any creature, because Daggerfall doesn't tell you how well you're doing, I may have been very close to killing him before he killed me, so who'sto say i couldn;t have beaten him! It was the Mages behind me, followed by the Zombies that meantI didn't want to keep re-loading!

My suggestion is don't play with Andyfall or any other fan made mods. This mod messes up with a lot of things making it much harder than the unmoded game. The best way to play the game is using the 213 patch only.

Part of it was I wasn't playing it a lot.
I could always reinstall later!

It took me a while to get the hang of Daggerfall. I thought because I was dying a lot that I was doing something wrong, but no; it's just a hard game. Once I got the handle on my class' skills and method of playing (mage) it got easier. The hardest part of the game for me is timing...I have to factor the to and from journeys, and how much time I'll spend in the dungeons (I have to rest a lot to heal up...low hp=sudden death)

I went into the king's crypt, rolled up the lich dust and smoked with him, he told me stuff in a cut scene that puts final fantasy to shame.

Then I killed a tiger and became champion of the fighter's guild.