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Morrowind modders continue to astound, add object physics with 'pure lua' to a 23-year old game (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's just how low levels work in Morrowind, unfortunately. The first few Elder Scrolls took heavy inspiration from tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons, including making you roll for everything. Internally the game rolls after each swing to see if your attack hits, so you need to both hit an enemy physically and win a dice roll based on your skills.

You'll want to make sure your character starts with at least one weapon skill at as high a level as your class and race allow. At 40+ skill you'll hit most of the time rather than whiffing 90% of your attacks. There is also a massive penalty to hit chance when your fatigue is low, so spamming attacks will get you nowhere.

(I believe there are mods to make it work more like Oblivion and Skyrim where you only need to hit them physically and skills only affect damage, but I don't know the names of those mods off the top of my head.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Thank you for your answer, I'll give it another go then :D