tried it out while changing my modlist, to test some stuff. The concept is really good, and I love how you can interpret the note you found in two ways: You were a mage trying to become immortal, only to backfire and make you forget everything, or the mage trying to do that failed and you were summoned instead. It's perfect for roleplaying. What I don't like, however, is that you can't get out of the college. You are basically stuck, because nobody opened the gates lol. If that happened to you, here's what you do: jump down from the window from the left of the gate and keep going right in the walls of the college. When you need to go right to keep going, quicksave and jump down. The water is deep enough. This works perfectly if you are going for "the mage was trapped in another dimension/died and I was summoned." If you lost your memory, it's a little immersion breaking to be considered as new in the college, though. More than new, you never actually joined, but some NPCs will talk to you as if you have, probably because Thebesda didn't account for players spawning inside the college instead of going through the gate XD
maybe this is a problem with the Magical College of Winterhold mod, but Idk. I'm don't really want to test it further by removing the mod, but I felt the need to comment about this.
I agree that it does not blend in ideally, but that is a common problem with alternative start mods. You have to either ignore some stuff or edits a lot of things making it a compatibility nightmare.
If I can think of a way to improve it without touching too much, I will do that.
yeah, I imagined that. Is the gate thing in vanilla or is it because of the college mod? The mod barely touches the college externally. Also, a way to maybe fix this would make your start have two options: the current one, with the locked gate where the player doesn't belong to the college faction, and an edit of the Alternate Start college option. That would probably cause less headaches and keep a flavor for every person.
Having one new issue. Upon entering the door after choosing to start I load up on altar but everything that loaded prior such as gold mod items etc are all gone?
As a test I did everything like normal but instead of entering door i ran coc WinterholdCollegeMidden01 and it loaded with all items, its a workaround for now.
+1. For me, Alternate Perspective is bugged and I can't start it properly - the dragon's menu isn't showing up. Having a version for this with Alternate Start: Live Another Life would be better, I think.
36 comments
If that happened to you, here's what you do: jump down from the window from the left of the gate and keep going right in the walls of the college. When you need to go right to keep going, quicksave and jump down. The water is deep enough. This works perfectly if you are going for "the mage was trapped in another dimension/died and I was summoned." If you lost your memory, it's a little immersion breaking to be considered as new in the college, though. More than new, you never actually joined, but some NPCs will talk to you as if you have, probably because Thebesda didn't account for players spawning inside the college instead of going through the gate XD
maybe this is a problem with the Magical College of Winterhold mod, but Idk. I'm don't really want to test it further by removing the mod, but I felt the need to comment about this.
If I can think of a way to improve it without touching too much, I will do that.
but anyway, thanks for listening to my feedback!
test Passed no issues found.
Loaded fine in v4.
As added bonus this Mod is a neat combo, redoes the chest at forge.
And for 4k Forge there's this
As a test I did everything like normal but instead of entering door i ran coc WinterholdCollegeMidden01 and it loaded with all items, its a workaround for now.