Old Version - Race Overhaul

The racial overhaul adds strategy to how you race and engage with your enemies.

tl; dr

New pros and cons for each playable race that affect how you race

Special effects are meaningful to NPCs and change how you engage them in combat

Conditioned passivity rather than power

Players can choose the effects they want according to their race

Ridiculously compatible (even with other race overhauls!)

summary

Older versions of the game changed the racial effects of the playable races, taking them from being boring, unbalanced, and forgettable to being diverse, challenging, and meaningful. Here's a high-level summary:

Racial effects also affect NPCs. Vanilla races and most race overhauls focus on the experience of the race, rather than the experience of fighting the race. As a result, races can only gain daily abilities that are used by the player (such as Beserk), passive skills that are meaningless to NPCs (such as Imperial Luck), or effects that only work on the player due to engine limitations (such as Aetherius' talent). In older versions, racial effects affected players and NPCs. This adds a new strategic dimension, as tactics that are good or bad for the Nords may be bad or bad for the Argonians.

Racial impacts have both costs and benefits. The overhaul for all races will bring unique benefits to each race, but past long-form scrolling games have weighed the disadvantages against each other. Tradition revives this tradition. Since these weaknesses are meaningful to NPCs as well, you can also play into your enemy's weaknesses, further improving your strategic abilities.

No power, conditional passivity. There are two problems with daily powers: (1) NPCs don't use them, and (2) players are tempted to save them indefinitely for future battles. As a result, they were eventually forgotten. Traditionally, this problem has been solved by replacing capabilities with conditional passives. They will activate and work with NPCs as well as players as long as the conditions are right. Now you'll face off against raging orcs and dark elves consumed by the wrath of your ancestors. These effects are active whenever the conditions are met, so there is no need to save power at the appropriate time. The old version can keep vanilla's day-to-day features in case players really like them.

Complete freedom for players. All racial effects reward certain playstyles. In extreme cases, this can force races to be played in a certain way, hurting replayability. To avoid this legacy, players can select racial effects via MCM regardless of their actual race, or even select multiple racial effects. So whether you want to be a "pure-blooded" Northerner, an Imperial Emperor with high-level Elf blood, or a Wood Dwarf raised by the Orc Alliance, the choice is yours!

balance. Racial effects can intuitively overwhelm players, but since they also apply to NPCs, they can also unbalance the game. The best example is Vanilla's 50% frost resistance against Nords. Despite being lore-friendly, it's nearly impossible to become a Frost Mage due to the ubiquity of Nords in Skyrim. Older games were designed with a focus on player power and NPC balance.

Race

Note that players can choose racial abilities that are different from their actual race, or even choose multiple racial effects. Effects should be selected using MCM when installing or starting a new game.

Argentine

Poison Affinity: Resist poison, 50%. Poisons are 25% more effective, but potions are half as effective.

Metabolism Changes: All stats regenerate twice as fast and three times faster in water, but also drain quickly. squirt.

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Breton

Focus: Enchantments, transmutation spells, and summoning spells are 25% more effective. All spells are 25% less effective when magicka <25%, and 50% less effective when <10%.

Defense: Resist magic, increased by 25%. The mage's armor spell increases broken armor rating by 25%. Destruction spells cost 40% more

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dark elf

Fire affinity: 50% fire resista …