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About this mod
Gives alduin a new 3D model, makes him a lot larger, gives him new textures, and makes the combat with him more varied and interesting by giving him new abilities, like a red shock shout, or a lifedrain shout, a firey aura, his breath creates a lot of firewalls in the ground,, his melee attacks have more weight, and more!
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THE MOD:
Update 1.4:
-All versions:
Normal maps redone from scratch. Greatly augmented the detail and resolution of all textures.
-Non graphics only versions:
Reduced health from 7000 to 6000. Given more priority to fire and frost breaths.
Update 1.3
Changed and updated the mesh (3D model) (all screenshots updated)
The mod's goal is to make Alduin look even more impressive and the fights versus him more tactical and interesting!
The mod gives Alduin and only alduin all the traits I gave to all dragons in my previous mods. To recapitulate:
1) Proportions: Alduin will be HUGE, just as he is said to be in the game. In reality, he was no larger than the other dragons, other than looking heavier due to all the spikes he has. So now, he will be a lot larger, twice as long as the other dragons from head to the tip of the tail, and will have twice the wingspan, and be almost twice as robust, thanks to a custom skeleton mesh similar to Majestic Dragons Mole.
2) Mesh: Alduin design is alredy quite badass, so I decided to go one step further and also give it some traits from my other mods, like a more dinosaurian head, larger horns, larger wings and tails, a more robust body,... The model is subdivided and smoothed so now it is much higher poly than the one in the original game (About 4x the polygons).I also made him even more spikey, and the spikes he has are larger and more needle like. He also got red, glowing eyes.
3) Textures: In this case I also decided to change it's textures, making him darker and black and red colors more predominant, instead of the flat medium gray color he was in the original game. I also made the eyes, nosetrills, claws and teeth more differenciated. The normals are baked from scratch. The textures are either 4x or 2x the size they were in the original Game.
Combat)
4)Alduin now can make use of 5 different breaths from epic dragon combat rather than two; aside from the fire and frost breath that were available to him in the original game he will now also use a cool red shock attack, a poisonous breath, and a lifedrain breath. This will make the combat more tactical and varied, he might surprise you switching breaths a couple of times before going down.
5) All his breaths are maximum level and they won't level with the player. Now alduin is properly stronger than legendary dragons. Please be careful fighting him and get ready for your final fight!
6) All his breaths will explode in a 20 feet area and generate surfaces in the ground (Be it firewalls, poison walls, shock walls, or frost walls) that will deal damage to those who stand on top of them, forcing you to be in the move and restricting your mobility, in a similar fashion to better dragon breath.
7) He will emanate a fire aura that will deal damage to you just by standing next to him.
8) He will now have about 6000 health instead of the 2500ish he used to have in the vanilla game.
9) All his melee attacks will deal aditional fire damage and also get better and realistic melee effects. This means they will deal area of effect damage, generate a lot of dust and blood splatters, stagger in a large area, the wing attack will knock down NPCs, and the tail stomp will knock down everyone, like in better and realistic dragon melee.
REQUIREMENTS:
The mod has no other requirements other than the base game and it is standalone.
COMPATIBILITY
- The mod is incompatible with mods that alter alduin mesh. You can use a retexture, but only a retexture, if the mod includes a mesh edit, then it will be incompatible.
- The mod is incompatible with mods that alter the fight with alduin until a patch is made.
- I provided a graphics only version for you to be able to use the new model and textures and other dragon combat mods.
INSTALLATION
It is imperative that this mod is installed after any other mod that overhauls dragon combat. To install, you can:
OPTION 1) Extract the content of the zip folder in your game's data folder.
OPTION 2) Use a mod manager (RECOMMENDED) and choose download and install with manager option. I recommend mod organizer 2.
PERMISSION GRANTED TO FM07 FOR THE XBOX PORT!