LE Snow blinds

[Clawdius69Talonious]

I don't think this would take a whole lot of doing. The NPC enemies are always visible from a great distance, making it somewhat easier than I'd like to shoot them with an arrow or spell, wait until their buddies pop in, and shoot at them while they close the distance. Personally I feel that a logical choice for a bandit raid would involve something similar to the scene in Book of Eli with the old woman and the shopping cart. Of course, the best place for bandits in skyrim to hide would be in a blind. Take a wooden wall, dig a hole, cover it with snow after you put a few bandits inside, voila!

 

I know it seems weird, especially when I found the formula so tired and predictable in Doom 3 (shoot enemy in front of you, turn around, shoot the two coming out of the two hidden compartments. Why would a human company build hidden recesses scattered throughout their base, that only the enemy seems to have access to?). But I feel that snow blinds could offer quite a bit to the game. I'm not entirely sure how they would have to be handled. If perhaps you could just give them to the game as a resource, one melee bandit one ranged bandit and some randomized bait, and allow the game to distribute it throughout the land that would be awesome.

 

If not, perhaps someone developing a mod will see this and like the idea and incorporate it, I just had a dream about playing where this happened and when I got up I thought that was something of a missed opportunity. But it doesn't seem like it would require much to create, a snow covered piece of wood is already in there somewhere, no doubt. I suppose then it would just be a matter of how you could incorporate them, which I suppose comes down to how the Radiant story AI places items in the world.

[Clawdius69Talonious]

I have to bump this, as it only recieved 10 views. I really do think that it wouldn't be difficult to implement and could add quite a bit to encounters in the wilderness.

[OnlyOneWing]

I have to bump this, as it only recieved 10 views. I really do think that it wouldn't be difficult to implement and could add quite a bit to encounters in the wilderness.

I'm not an expert on the subject...but from what I understand Skyrim's encounters in the wilderness are mostly completely random events. So to get this to work you would have to either build designated ambush locations that respawn with a designated frequency.

Then on top of that, you would have to program the enemy AI to make use of the terain...Which we won't know how hard or easy that is until the construction set comes out.

 

If you just build random structures around Skyrim the odds that an enemy would even find it let alone make use of it is pretty slim.

Edited November 23, 2011 by OnlyOneWing