The Elder Scrolls 6 Needs to Revamp its Difficulty System
With The Elder Scrolls 6 confirmed to be in development, discourse and theories surrounding what kind of experience the game will bring are running wild among the fan base. While the setting of the game is arguably the biggest point of contention, there are a plethora of smaller scale changes that could be just as important.
For example, the different difficulty options within The Elder Scrolls titles have always been regarded as quite simplistic and lackluster, never really offering a complex difference to the core gameplay of franchise installments. The upcoming Elder Scrolls 6 will of course be looking to build upon the experience of past games, providing a perfect opportunity to fully revamp the Elder Scrolls difficulty mechanics.
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Dedicated options to change the difficulty within mainline Elder Scrolls titles first came with 2002's Morrowind. Although not originally included in the title at launch, Morrowind would eventually get a difficulty slider option, allowing the player to directly influence and fine-tune the difficulty of the game.
The slider bar was quite rudimentary in that moving it either way would simply either increase the damage dealt to enemies and increase player damage resistance, or vice versa. The slider would prove to be popular with fans, with 2006's critically acclaimed Oblivionmaintaining the slider difficulty option and including it at launch. Skyrim would change how difficulty mechanics were implemented within The Elder Scrolls, instead moving toward the more commonly used option of having a list of difficulty tiers that players could choose from.
Ranging from novice to legendary, Skyrim's new difficulty options provided a
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