While paying attention to the pools I stop paying attention to anything else and get jumped by wolves. The water may be hot but getting wet in Frostfall is a bad idea, because as soon as the temperature drops that water becomes ice and you transform into a popsicle in no time. Outside this settlement are steaming hot springs, which I work my way around to avoid getting wet. I’m on holiday, just a tourist right now. One of them offers me a quest, which I politely turn down. At Darkwater Crossing I warm my hands near a fire, just like the non-player characters do. I consider kicking a cart all the way across the country, but then I run into it from the wrong angle and take damage so scrap that idea.Īs soon as I leave the temperate Rift my exposure level drops. Run into one and it’ll bounce off down the road. These pointless bits of world furniture are a riot to kick around because the physics on them is nuts. Setting off again, I discover a two-wheeled cart abandoned by the side of the road. I almost die to two of them immediately, but bolt back towards the shadows of Riften’s walls until some guards come out to save me.
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The weathersense ability Frostfall gives me says it’s “temperate” this afternoon and would be safe if it wasn’t full of bloody spiders because you can’t have a fantasy game without giant frigging spiders. This is the part of Skyrim that’s perpetually autumn, with tall deciduous trees and leaves on the ground around purple mountain flowers. From here I’m heading north to Windhelm, through The Rift.
Riften is the easternmost city in Skyrim, your standard wretched hive of etcetera. That’s what it’s like playing moddable open-world games, but I get it working in the end and remember that it looks like this.
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I fire up Skyrim through the Nexus mod manager, then spend the next 15 minutes googling “skyrim frozen in place bug” and “skyrim double mouse cursor bug”. I’ll visit all the capital cities of the various Holds and see if I can do it without freezing to death. To that end I’m going to spend an afternoon travelling across the country, and I’ve banned myself from fast travel while I’m doing it. But to get the most out of Frostfall you need to see it on foot and you need to see it continuously. Memories of slogging through the ash wasteland in Morrowind, or being funnelled by those tedious mountain passes while Cliff Racers swooped down like broken pterodactyls, have made me rely on the fast-travel in more recent Elder Scrolls games (and ride horses a lot too). The main supernatural occurrence in Hunter’s Skyrim is fast-travel. Sometimes he gets attacked by bandits, but since I didn’t initiate the main questline, Hunter lives in a Skyrim that doesn’t even have dragons in it. He’s just an ordinary catman with a bow and a cloak who has been tooling around for nine levels shooting wildlife, skinning them, and selling the bits. Tomcatson isn’t the Dragonborn, hero of prophecy. Thanks to another mod called Live Another Life, Hunter S. I’ve been messing about with Frostfall on a savegame where I’m playing a Khajiit – one of the catfolk – named Hunter. To prepare you for that, Frostfall also lets you craft cloaks and sleeping tents, makes eating soup and standing near fires grant warmth and dryness, and also lets you take that wood you chopped just to watch the animation and light an actual fire with it. Frostfall, on the other hand, models temperature and exposure and dampness, and will slowly freeze you to the bone if you wander off without adequate protection. Somebody at Bethesda put a lot of effort into modelling the climate of Skyrim in the regular game, but apart from that one area near the top of The Throat Of The World that can chill you to death, it normally doesn’t affect you.
You know that expression “a little rain never hurt no one”? Yeah, forget that. It achieves this by letting them kill you. It takes all those background weather effects, the snow and rain and fog, and pushes them into the foreground where you can’t help but notice them. There’s a popular Skyrim mod called Frostfall I’ve had installed for a while.