When I'm going for mods in my games, I usually opt for bug fixes, convenience tweaks, and the like, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't love a good old fashioned shitpost. Case in point: this mod that adds futuristic firearms to 1996's The Elder Scrolls Chapter 2: Daggerfall, here aptly demonstrated by Elder Scrolls YouTuber, Micky D.
I got the weapons mod for Daggerfall working pic.twitter.com/zNmC5eJPOqMay 14, 2023
Daggerfall's a game for a grognard's grognard, no two ways about it. It's got the biggest map of any Elder Scrolls by an order of magnitude, but it's largely empty. Daggerfall has the most skills, but if they aren't borked, they're nonfunctional (yeah I'm a Thaumaturgy and Centaurian language main). It's a key part of Bethesda's history, but God damn is it hard to come back to. Thankfully, the Daggerfall Unity source port is here to smooth out running the game on modern hardware, as well as introduce as many (or as few) modern niceties as suit your fancy. The port also inspired an expansive modding scene.
Enter Future Shock Weapons by spamtrooper on NexusMods. Spamtrooper's project not only upholds the sacred tradition of adding incongruous AKs and ACOGs to Bethesda's fantasy and retro-futurist worlds, but also celebrates one of the studio's lesser-known games. In-between Arena and Daggerfall, Bethesda released The Terminator: Future Shock, a Doom clone-era FPS set in the world of James Cameron's post-apocalypse. These days you can't even get Future Shock on GOG, but it does live on as abandonware on sites like Archive.org (and you'll need its assets for spamtrooper's mod to work).
- GOG's bespoke cut of The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall gets delisted tomorrow, so you've got a day to grab it for free as the store works out how 'to publish and maintain such projects better' in future
- Fallout-themed Doom mod Vault 666 has multiple endings, an OP Dogmeat companion, and a Ron Perlman-impersonating narrator so good, I was worried it was AI-generated at first
As for the mod itself, well, it's a bunch of guns in an Elder Scrolls game, so it's funny as hell. "Ten(!) new, very unfitting and un-lore-friendly weapons have been added," spamtrooper boasts in the mod's description.
The guns have infinite ammo but limited durability, and amusingly rely on your archery skill to land hits—Daggerfall was peak "action RPGs should be the worst of both worlds between action and RPGs," so the aiming's handled entirely under the hood with skill checks and dice rolls.
If you want to try Future Shock Weapons (or just play Daggerfall like God intended), you're going to want to download the game for free from Bethesda's website and get the latest version of the Daggerfall Unity source port. Happy adventuring, and try not to get stuck in any world geometry while you're at it.
