Lucern

I commented earlier with enthusiasm, and I comment again now with gratitude. This mod has been a great companion to my first character in my return to Oblivion with a proper mod setup. I took a Bosmer sneaky type up to level 20 (and counting), and this mod has made what could be a boring endeavor, sneaking around knocking people off with simple shots, to a harrowing experience of near death, close escapes, and spectacular shots that drop dremora caitiffs so I can save one more part of Tamriel. I have a mod forming the core of play around each of the primary combat types, and this one is the only real option for archery types aside from 'bows do more damage' or the quite limited bow sway mod. Fortunately, it's all we could ask for. My next character might even try this without all the sneaking about. Snippet from my experience: I was in the Colovian hills around midday. Clouds were threatening to ruin the afternoon and send me to the comfort of an inn hearth (from Hypothermia). Six red goblins (from Warcry) were upon me in the high grass, angry that I had sent a beautiful hook-headed arrow into their Shaman's skull. An Imperial ranger came to my rescue, dropping two, but three others were on him. I faced off against one, loosing an arrow as he bore down on me. With a *ping*, the shot fell to the earth off his shiny roundshield. I took a few steps back, firing a flanking shot to hit one of the goblins as he looted the ranger's corpse, and ran for the nearest settlement. Hours later, I returned under cover of darkness to avenge the folly of the daylight, felling all goblins one by one, this time starting with the shield-bearing one. That low level goblin fight would have been simple with godly accuracy, enemies who don't dodge, and shields that are only marginal against bows, but it stands out as a fine culmination of the mods I have going. Even if you have no intention of firing a bow, you should get this mod for all that it adds to archer opponents and allies. You WILL want to pick one up yourself. Oh, and it seems to work well with Crossbows of Cyrodiil after 30 hours of play, though the damage on those beasts I'd like to tone down a bit for balance purposes, as I was able to with this one, since I'm mostly a sneak-attack archer.

Jesper, it really is in the readme file. It's well worth finding! I got a chance to play this for a few hours, and I gotta say, this mod is fun as hell. I made a test character, and I just couldn't stop popping trolls in Veyond. It was so satisfying to actually get arrows on target. It makes archery viable and a really fun way of playing that it just never was before. It just feels right too, coming from someone who's fired thousands of RL arrows. I felt like the damage was too high, but like any Duke Patrick mod, there it was in the .ini for me to change. Fantastic work - I'm so glad it was re-released. I think this should be linked to the nexus like Hypothermia is, not because the Nexus deserves to be graced with a mod like this, but because 117 downloads is about 500,000 short of what this mod deserves.

I had no idea this was released until now. Awesome sauce. I was actually waiting to make another archer until this mod was out. All hail the Duke!