This is Morrowind, not Skyrim. Stealth archers are not a thing here. In fact I'd say magic-based characters are much, much better than combat or stealth-based ones.
Morrowind is sufficiently broken, in the best possible and most fun way, that any character can become a god. Abusing alchemy, 1pt levitate spears, doors, the teleportation shrine in Vivec, or infinite potions can be done by any class.
It's incredibly impressive that a game can have hundreds of hours of content, yet be speedran in 7 minutes.
I remember crafting something that allowed me to jump a long way on I think a Daedric mask in the game. I could literally jump across half the map when it was activated.
From memory it might have been similar to that spell you find at the early part of the game on the way to Balmora.
Morrowind was IMHO the perfect game. The fact that if you were lucky and skillful you could get the best weapons and spells early in the game, or be gutted in 3 seconds made it far more risky to pay but way more fun when you figured out how to overcome it.
I would dearly love to play it but with some decent physics to make the bows fun and with slightly upgraded graphics.
I wouldn't call it broken. It's by design. Proof is that most of the "exploits" were carried over Oblivion and then Skyrim. For example, creating very very overpowered potions is possible in all games. It's your choice if you want to spoil the fun or not.
I wouldn't call it "spoiling the fun", half the fun of Elder Scrolls games is that you can become transcendent.
In Arena, you start humbly, but rise high enough that you destroy Jagar Tharn, one of the most powerful mages in the whole of the history of the Elder Scrolls games.
In Daggerfall, you're the right-hand man of the Emperor, and seek out a world-ending superweapon, and may just take it for yourself.
In Morrowind, you are a god, or very close to. The reincarnation of the Nevarine. That you can become overpowered makes sense. Bandits should fear you. Ordinary people should.
In Oblivion, you're the right-hand man of someone who ascends. You walk into literal Hell and fight demons. The bare mysteries of the world are laid clear by you. You steal the book of spells of immortal characters.
In Skyrim, you're descendant from a man who became a god. You have a gift that can shatter the heavens, and break open portals between worlds. You kill the son of Akatosh.
You're right, it is design, because it makes sense.
If anyone else here on HN is a fan of talking about what "makes sense" in the context of elder scrolls, I'm a big fan of /r/TESlore on reddit. Everything from explanations like the above, to how specific enemy groups became the way they were (e.g. the falmer in Skyrim), to theories of the economics underlying the games.
I think you might be confused with something like 'mysteries laid bare'. Bare doesn't mean foundational and if mysteries were already bare, what kind of mysteries would they be?
Unfortunately, one of the things from Morrowind which did not make it to Oblivion was the ability to make damage spells which target self. And in Skyrim they had removed the ability to make your own spells entirely.
In Morrowind I used this to create an extremely long-lasting fire spell dealing 0 damage to self. The result was a spell which cost barely any mana and resulted in you walking around engulfed in harmless flames. A really cool visual touch.
Are you sure? I have memories of making a spell that targetted myself and gave me 1pt of fire damage that I could spam to train my evocation skill (or whatever it was called).
This was 12 years ago, so it's possible that I don't remember the details correctly. I thought that "self" could not be selected for fire damage, but looking up videos of spellmaking in Oblivion this seems to be possible.
I do distinctly remember being unable to recreate that one fire spell, though. Perhaps it was not possible to set damage to 0 in Oblivion? That was part of why the spell became so cheap and allowed for extreme duration.
This is morrowind, where there is not just invisibility but also chameleon. If you boosted it high enough you essentially were undetectable while stabbing someone in the face under the watch of an ordinator. (Invisibility wears off on actions; Chameleon is more expensive, but does not)
Not that you actually need it, since you can also be invulnerable, perma-healing, damage-to-health converting, flying, damage-reflecting one-hit-killing at the same time. But yes, stealth is an option.
I wouldn't fly on anything other than Ryanair because every other airline is mad expensive. Yes, some things about it suck, but at least I can afford to fly, thanks to them.
Trolling right? If my phone can, and 86% of other smart phone users can then I'd say it doesn't really matter if iphone users can as well. They could buy a smart phone, too.
Not really trolling, think about it. Here in Europe we all have whatsapp that works right. Why would we switch to RCS, which is an inferior replacement (no E2E for example), and that does not even support all major platforms?
Back when RCS (under the name of Joyn) was about to be released everybody dreamt of switching to it, thinking that maybe, just maybe, telcos would make RCS free, so you wouldn't have to buy data to chat, like you have to do with whatsapp (back then many people didn't have data). That never happened evidently, and now most people have data because it's gotten much cheaper. So there's no way we will leave whatsapp, and yes RCS is dead.
I don't know a single person that uses WhatsApp, and I live in Europe. We have a tendency to think that everyone adopts the same things, especially when it comes to technology. This has been demonstrated to not be true multiple times.
It'd be cool if we had a standard that everyone could use, like SMS, just that supported larger messages. Oh wait...
Kind of besides the point, but Facebook Messenger, Snapchat and iMessage has very good penetration, people usually have two of the three. And everyone just fall back on SMS when if they need to.
Do they really use Snapchat for writing? I've tried to use it besides picture sharing and it's really cumbersome...
It's really slow to startup (compared to other apps), the UI is confusing, and old messages get deleted...
