MERP
As most of you will know, MERP is going to port to Skyrim. Mainly because in Oblivion we had a very slow start, and now we are a big team with lots of experience, and Skyrim is just around the corner. We are convinced we can very quickly make up for the time lost due to the port, and we need the refreshed modding community in the long run to be able to recruit new developers. We will be able to port our heightmap and custom models to Skyrim. If you want to know more, check our ModDB page. Skyrim looks very promising and the team is bursting of motivation to start modding it.
The combat overhaul
As for this combat overhaul, it's fate is tied to MERP. This means that I will not continue it for Oblivion, but am eager to develop it for Skyrim as soon as I can. If Skyrim gives me the flexibility that I need, it will be far better than in Oblivion due to the new animation system.
The demo
Since it's kind of a waste if I'm the only one who played the Oblivion version, I decided to make a playable
demo mod of the polearm combat for as far as it's completed. Only download it if you really want to experience the basics of the system for yourself, it's not made to actually play the game with it, since I only have polearm animations and am not going to spend about a hundred hours making the others for a game that I'll leave behind me at 11 November. There can be minor glitches and the most advanced features aren't in, for example the damage calculation is very simple.
Instructions
After installing the plugin, ingame you will get a messagebox with a console command, which will teleport you to an arena. When you get there you immediately get a polearm in your hands and will be attacked by a NPC. The MERP&Blade combat will be used in the fight. When you are dead or killed the NPC, reload your original savegame. Once you are done with it, disable the mod. Don't play a serious game with this demo enabled, as it's not entirely clean and may cause minor bugs in other content. It's really just meant as a demo/preview, nothing more.
This demo requires
OBSE 20
It also requires an
Archive Invalidator (this is highly recommended regardless of using this demo)
It also requires the following plugins, but they are included in the download. You don't need to extract them if you already have them:
NifSE beta 2 or higher
Algohol latest version
Pluggy (HUD version) latest stable build or one of the later betas.
Download the demo here
To install, extract the contents of the ZIP archive into your Oblivion\Data folder. Enable the .esp file in the Oblivion Launcher or your favourite mod manager. Launch the game with OBSE support (obse_loader.exe). Once in the game, wait a moment for a messagebox to appear. Follow the instructions. Don't go into first person during the fight, the anims will glitch if you do, I wasn't at the stage yet to make proper first person anims.
The combat is almost the same as in Mount & Blade. <edit> Here is a video of me playing this demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDwtg58UffI
Let me know how it goes!
