MORROWIND PATCH 1.6 FULL

Tribunal affected 'Who's there' insofar as that it was suddenly further down the reply order. Wonky animations that would slowly shift NPCs to the right and into objects didn't help. The problem was so bad, some games suffered from an 'Who's there' epidemic and became unplayable. Objects as innocent as a rug or a table can leave an NPC unable to correctly see the player character, even if they are facing and rubbing against each other. Unfortunately, Morrowind's NPC detection is not good enough to handle this mechanic. Originally placed at the very top of Greeting 1, 'Who's there?' seems to have been an attempt at immersion: if the NPC can't see the player, why would they talk to them? Makes sense, right? People who know about lore will see the PC anyway, probably because this was not meant to happen for quest givers or other important people. Let's take a look at what exactly I'm talking about first. It's a vampire problem that was slain 16 years ago and yet comes back again and again and again to suck the fun out of your game. Bloodmoon did fix it, but it still doesn't matter. Morrowind Patch Project just makes it worse. Nor will Patch for Purists necessarily fix it. Unlike the e-e-e-excuse me problem, it will not and can not be fixed by Tamriel Rebuilt. It pops up every so often in our bugtracker and people get frustrated because we cannot do anything. It's time for a look at another endlessly recurring dialogue problem. So, instead of reading 'Who's there? It's me, you idiot!' (which was going to circle back to ManaUser's aptly named fix), you are going to see some red text in here.

MORROWIND PATCH 1.6 FULL

Some things have changed since then and while I'm currently too busy to write a full part II post, some information is important enough to communicate it anyway. It's been over a month since this blog post was originally posted.

Morrowind patch 1.6