LE Skillss: Athletics/Acrobatics (rockclimbing)

[Northener]

I had an interesting conversation with an old friend yesterday about the mod that allows the vampire form to fly (not just levitate). He told me he uses the flying ability only if he has to get over a mountain. This led to us to discuss about what's missing from the current Skyrim gameplay, which happens to be something Oblivion had some focus on. Acrobatics and Athletics. Being able to run faster, jump further/higher, the ability to substain falls, stamina regen etc... What would make these skills different from oblivion would be the addition of rock climbing. Either as an independent skill or perks unlocked through the athletics and acrobatics tree.

 

Skyrim is full of mountains, cliffs, ridges and places you generally shouldn't jump around. Unfortunately the only way to get around most of these mountains is to do exactly that. I, and i'm certain that every single person that's ever played a elderschrolls game has fallen off a cliff to their death. Only to realize that the last saved game was an hour ago...

This skill also recquires the addition of equipment, like a harnass, ropes, shoes, hooks, and whatever other climbing equipment exists.

 

 

My friend and i haven't developed this idea any further and i have absolutely no idea how to mod. If anyone has the skills/abilities to create this mod and wishes to do so with their own time. Feel free to do so.

 

I could go on all day with new ideas but i'd love to hear what the community has to say, opinions and hopefully some constructive additions to this idea. Please, feel free to be as honest as possible.

Edited October 20, 2012 by Northener

[hadoumastery]

Or you can just create a perk that sets all falling damage to 0. Or you can even create an enchant and put it on an item.

 

Or get one of those teleportation spell mods.

Edited October 20, 2012 by hadoumastery

[Cruxmiles]

Or you can just create a perk that sets all falling damage to 0. Or you can even create an enchant and put it on an item.

 

Or get one of those teleportation spell mods.

 

This is suggesting a new mod utilizing potential acrobatics skills, not asking for help on avoiding fall damage.

 

Anyways, the problem with this is that a mountain wall is not technically a mountain wall; it's just a steep slope with a mountain texture applied to it. With that, you'd have to come up with something pretty complicated to get it to work in pure mountain scenarios. It's POSSIBLE to have a new tool detect flat surfaces on angles <90 so that you would climb them via rope, but this would have to work everywhere and could be pretty game-breaking; the same can be said of climbing boots and similar ends.

 

Acrobatics, on the other hand, would be a simple addition of perks. I haven't seen any mods add entire skill trees as of yet, but if adding to the skills menu is possible then by all means it should take a little time. Acrobatics sounds a little too thief-ish though, so it could use counterparts like Focus and Strength if it is ever created.

Edited October 21, 2012 by Cruxmiles

[hadoumastery]

That's a difficult request to fill without editing some hardcode, which I am pretty sure is considered illegal to share if not completely illegal just to edit it. And you'd be hard pressed to find anyone with the scripting and coding skills you need for it.