How to improve enemies sight in the dark?

[JPTR1]

Hello,

 

is there a way to improve the night sight of enemies?

Much parts of my dungeons are dark, my intention is to make it more difficult and more frightning, but if you play sneaky it becomes to easy sometimes.

Some enemies, bandits too, do not detect you even if you shoot multiple arrows at them, which is of course not good.

 

I have added the werewolf nighteye ability to the most of my created races (draugr, skeletons, trolls etc.. ), but somehow I have the feeling it doesn't work.

Maybe I need to tweak this nighteye spell/ability to make it work for other races?

 

However, it should improve the view only, not the overall detection, due to a lot of narrow areas.

 

greetings JPTR

 

[ghowriter]

i like the darkness idea. Too many of the game's dungeons are better lit than the surface at noon on a clear day. I dont know how to improve the enemies' sight but you may want to check out the detection mod on Nexus. I dont recall the name of it but it improved enemies detection AI so well that my sneaky character has issue sneaking up on anyone. Hope it helps. If I can remember the name I will edit this post.

[InDarkestNight]

NPCs probably won't use nighteye, or be affected by it.

 

If you want to improve NPC vision, my go-to would be some stealth overhaul. Many combat overhauls make npcs better at finding the player. There's also RAID, which comes in several variants that change how hard or easy it is for npcs to find the player. That's what I would be mainly looking for it I wanted to make npcs more alert.

[Sovrath]

Hello,

 

is there a way to improve the night sight of enemies?

Much parts of my dungeons are dark, my intention is to make it more difficult and more frightning, but if you play sneaky it becomes to easy sometimes.

Some enemies, bandits too, do not detect you even if you shoot multiple arrows at them, which is of course not good.

 

I have added the werewolf nighteye ability to the most of my created races (draugr, skeletons, trolls etc.. ), but somehow I have the feeling it doesn't work.

Maybe I need to tweak this nighteye spell/ability to make it work for other races?

 

However, it should improve the view only, not the overall detection, due to a lot of narrow areas.

 

greetings JPTR

 

 

How dark are you talking? Pitch black?

 

My mod has several pitch dark areas and I did find out that npc's just don't see well in it. The only way I could give them better "sight" was to lighten the area to where you can barely see (but still can see) around you. I chose not to do this as I wanted the "pitch dark" areas. The few Draugr I have will eventually notice you as you will have a torch or a light source.

 

I'll also add that some players hate this. I get complaints. So be prepared to add light sources, torches, "whatever" to help them as well as mention it on your mod page. Which some won't read anyway.

[JPTR1]

Much thanks for the answers, realy though there were a more comfortable solution.

 

@Sovrath

Yes in some areas there are absolutly no lights, but ofc in Skyrim without graficmod, I wouldn't call it pitchblack. Basicly it is still very bright, but for the enemies it seems to be pitchblack indeed...

Would be nice to have more possibilities to play with lights and shadows for player and npc behaviors.