LE Oh it was just a dream - death and reload alternative

[ProtecterOfValenwood]

Realistic idea for a death alternative:

I always had a problem with vanilla death. First of all, and most obviously, it is unrealistic to die and then come back to life and continue on. Secondly, like other people, I'm sure, I was frustrated by the fact that as long as I had saved recently, dying was no problem. I found myself saving constantly (breaking immersion) and almost not worrying about dying at all. I had to manually ration my saves and quicksaves to keep up the suspense of the game and give myself a reason to stay alive. Other mods, of course, address this, but I thought of a new approach to fixing this problem that is at least interesting.

With this idea, when you die you go back to the last place/time you slept, using some auto-reload mechanism, making it so after you die you wake up, and you dying was just a dream. Like when you wake up from one of those dreams in real life. This would do three things:

1. Increase realism/immersion (yes, that overused word) by giving you an reasonable explanation of your death and resurrection - "it was just a dream."

2. Give player a reason and incentive to sleep regularly, which would also increase realism from vanilla.

3. Increase consequences of dying. This would be a huge boost to suspense and gameplay, and would reward playing smart and being prepared. The player would now have a bigger reason to want to stay alive.

You could still save and load games like always, but dying triggers a special reload maybe? So if you were really stuck and didn't want to keep going back to the beginning of the day you could have that option, but if you wanted the realistic/hardcore reload style then you have that option too.

An idea, I'd love to hear people's thoughts.

A massive thank you, as always, to the fabulous nexus website and community.

[ltknight88]

I think this is a cool idea. I like the immersion.

Only thing is the game already automatically saves when you wake up after sleeping. so if you choose to not save or quick save while you're playing you would have almost the same effect or you could manually reload the save from when you woke up.

[ProtecterOfValenwood]

True, good point..however the game also autosaves at other instances too (fast travel, waiting etc) so I thought it would be cool to have a mod handle it, with maybe some other cool extras