[Wip] Vampire Revolution

[forli]

Vampire Revolution

Do you think oblivion deserve better vampires?

Here's a vampire overhaul

Question: How many times a vampire infected you with Porphyric Hemophilia and think "NO! I don't want to be a vampire! Vampirism is boring in Oblivion! Ok, after this dungeon I'll visit a chapel"?
Response: this happens many times.



Now this is going to change:
Now your vampire experience will be more dynamic.
When infected, and after the famous 3 days, you'll become a vampire. A new born, with no powers and an HUGE blood thirsty. As you get older your thirsty will reduce so you need to feed less often, and you'll receive new powers, which will dynamically strengthen as your vampire level increase.



A blood pool will influences your new life: feed will replenish it; powers will consume it; getting stronger will increase it.

As you get older, your blood pool increase, new powers will be available, falls won't damage you anymore, and while your blood level is high, sun won't hurt you anymore.
As you feed on people, your vampire level will increase, which will increase your blood pool, strengthen your powers and abilities.

You can feed anytime by pointing at an NPC and pressing a button. Your victim will try to resist. A strong victim will be difficult to coerce, but the blood reward will be better.
A tired, staggered or knocked enemy will be an easier victim, so, while you're still a young vampire, wait for the right moment to make breakfast.



All powers are toggleable and can be activated by pressing a key or by casting a toggle spell. All vanilla powers have been enhanced. Powers are so far:
Vamp mask: Every vampire mod should give the ability to mask your face
Hunter's Sight: Like the vanilla power, but stronger and toggleable
Dark speed: Sprint very fast
Embrace of Shadow: Greatly boost your sneak skill and makes you harder to see, but also more vulnerable to sunlight
Obscure Regeneration: Recover from all wounds in few seconds but you're extremely vulnerable during the process
Shadow shield: Increase damage resistances
Blood barrier: Strong reflect damages/spell and absorb spell effects but give you stunted magicka and silence
Sithis Fury: Greatly increase your offensive skill and attribute

Cold seduction: Like the vanilla power but stronger and better. It doesn't consume blood since it's a greater power
Reign of Terror: Like the vanilla power but stronger and better. It doesn't consume blood since it's a greater power
Dead commander: Resurrect a dead actor and let him fight for you

Teleport Cloud: Point your crosshair to an actor and press a key. Bam! Teleport near him!
Teleport Cloud improved: Point your crosshair anywhere (literally: anywhere) and press the key to teleport there
TelekiControl: Immobilize a target with the telekinetic power, then: push them away, pull them, throw them up in the air or crush them on the floor
TelekiBlast: A telekinetic blast will throw away everybody around you

Obviously, powerful powers consume more blood.
Powers can't be used if you're to weak, except for the hunter's sight (see below).



Vampire regeneration:
Even when not using the Obscure Regeneration, vampires are able to slowly regenerate their health.
Regeneration is dynamically calculated based on your vampire age, vampire level and your current/max blood pool.
If Advanced Health Regen is installed (Link for it at the bottom), VR will use AHR's advanced health regeneration system. (When VR will be released, I'll update AHR to version v1.4 to support this). Anyway, AHR is not required.



Vampire hunt:
Well, you're a vampire! Nobody likes an undead monster! Cover your face with the vampire mask, a cape or a full helm to avoid being attacked by guards.
Also, some enemies may have a special weapon crafted by the Fighter Guild and/or a special poison created by the Mage Guild to turn Vampires into dust with very few hits, even the oldest ones, so be careful!
You too can buy the weapon and the poison at the guilds, so you can enter into any vampires lair and kick ass.
Be careful: feeding or using your powers against good people will increase your vampire bounty. Vampire hunter's will start attacking you on sight and can even ambush you! They will have powerful fire and light spells, anti-vampire weapons and poisons and will use garlics against you (and every other vampire)!



Weakness:
Every vampire has weakness.
Sunlight and Fire are the main enemies of vampires. This mod enhance these weakness and add others.

In vanilla vampirism, in the worst conditions you'll suffer 8 pts of sun damage. Dangerous at low levels but simply boring at high levels.
Well... now... sun damage can reach something like 40 pts!! Be careful, cover your entire body with clothes, armor or whatever can cover your skin. Every equipped object will reduce the damage (cuirass, greaves and helm are the most important).
If your entire body is covered, the sun damage is reduced to 1/3.
As you get older you will be able to walk in the sunlight as soon as you have enough blood. Anyway, the sun will makes you weaker, will slow down your fatigue and magicka regeneration and will consume your blood faster. The oldest vampire will be totally immune to any sun effect while their blood is almost full.

Fire weakness too has been greatly increased, and it can reach values like 200-300% more damage!

Garlic and holy places like churches are not recommended!
The Nine Divines won't tolerate a demonic creature in their home!
Standing near a garlic will make you weak. Carry one or more garlic is not a good idea. Eating them is very dangerous!

I won't add weakness to Silver weapons since many mods already cover that (Look at Migck mod)



Starvation:
As a vampire, you need to feed with blood. Everything in Oblivion will consume your blood: time, powers, sun exposition, taking damage...
You can drink blood in many ways to restore your powers: find a sleeping guy and remember what Bethesda teached us, or find a not sleeping guy and assault his neck, drink blood bottles, drink at the blood fountains, hit somebody with the optional sword (next section) and drink the blood from his wounds.
If your blood pool decrease to much, you'll start suffering from many (and very dangerous) negative effects.
At first, your attribute decrease a bit, then they decrease a lot and your (health, Magicka and Fatigue) regeneration is slowed down. If your blood pool drop below 0, your health will start to decrease every second (and at increasing rate), and even if you restore your health, you'll die anyway after 20 real minutes, so find a neck. NOW!
While starving, your hunter's sight will be permanently enabled for free.



An optional plugin will give you a weapon with a vampiric spell:
When you drawn it, the weapon will start to consume your blood over time to recharge his enchantment. If you run out of charge (and ONLY IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH BLOOD) you can equip the weapon and wait while it use your blood to recharge the enchantment.
When you hit someone, the weapon will drain the blood from the victim and share a portion with you. You'll gain less blood since the weapon will drink some, but any enemy killed with this weapon will make it stronger. So, if you sacrifice some blood, you'll receive a weapon as strong as umbra (even a little better) and with a powerful enchantment (with Soul trap and something else...).



In this project, I've taken many ideas (but not a single resource or line of code) from other vampires mods and merged them in this mod. Credits for these ideas to all author of previous vampire mods.



CURRENT STATE:
Collect ideas: 100%
Scripts: 100%
Animations: 100%
Test and find errors: 85%


Post any ideas, if you have.
Thanks in advance
Link to Bethesda Forums thread Edited April 6, 2014 by forli

[HondaTrip]

Sounds like an interesting Mod. I've been using Login To Download's LTDVampire Overhaul and really like it, except he never got around to adding the bite animations. So, I've been playing around with doing it myself and then making an esp to add them in. I also already made my own vampire weapons from the Apachii Goddess Store that heal my character while significantly depleting my opponent (easy drain health enchantment), But yours sound even better. Tricky part about the bite is animating the face and jaw, the body anims are simple to do.

Let me think about it and I'll get back to you soon. HondaTrip

P.S. one thing I like about LTD is the hypnosis and being able to have cattle pre- positioned around almost every city.

[forli]

If you want to share that animation I'll be happy (and so the players who choose to play this mod). I absolutely need the feed animation so I can complete the feed feature. Without it I have to delete that part (one of the most important features) and replace it with a simple "Feed on touch" spell.

Let me know about your decision.

Edited July 20, 2013 by forli

[forli]

Added new ideas for features (some of them already implemented) in the description

[forli]

Little update: I'm working on another power: Teleport cloud.

It will allow to instantly teleport near your target: point at someone (even if he's far from you) and press the teleport key.

If you keep pressed the key, the teleport will be more "aggressive": you'll crush on your enemy and, depending on your strength and your target endurance and fatigue, either one or both will stagger/be pushed away!

If the target has high strength, endurance and fatigue, even you can stagger/be pushed away, and if he's stronger than you he will

And... yes he will react by reducing the disposition (if friendly) http://static.zenimax.com/forums.bethsoft.com/public/style_emoticons/default/nono.gif, call the guards (if not friendly) http://static.zenimax.com/forums.bethsoft.com/public/style_emoticons/default/swear.gif ... or engage in combat (if evil) http://static.zenimax.com/forums.bethsoft.com/public/style_emoticons/default/devil.gif

Also the feed can be aggressive or not: aggressive mean you'll drink more blood but have more chance of killing the victim.

[forli]

I'm still here and the mod is almost complete. I still need the animations, else you'll have to play without it (both you and your victim won't move while feeding...)

[forli]

I have all animations now! This mean I will complete it (and fix the few remaining bugs) in a week!

[ArenDev]

VR don't work properly. I have the weakness to fire 200 but no advantages and the menu doesn't appear with Right-Alt + M and i didn't change it cuz it didn't ask me to do so. Help me please.

PD: BOSS, doesn't find the game.

Edited December 12, 2014 by MELTDOWN13CHAOS

[Noviathan]

What's different about this and Unholy Darkness?

 

(Other than force feeding not working for me in Unholy Darkness OR I can sacrifice half the dialogues for Force Feeding xD)