Combat Redone

General summary:

I always thought the combat in Oblivion was boring, this mod will hopefully make it more intense and strategic.

This is a some what simple mod that changes the combat settings. It increases base damage by 25% and strength and skills also heavily affect damage.

You will deal much more damage and so will your enemies. No longer is everyone Boromir, except heavy armor wearers. Facing a few enemies might be easy, but if you get cornered or are up against a few archers, you're dead. Enemies (and you too) will fall much quicker now is what I'm saying.

I used Urbul as a test dummy at level one to demonstrate the tweaks. His health is 98 points if you like to do math.

Please note:

I've done limited testing with this mod, tested both with low level characters starting from level 1-10

and also tested with higher level characters level 20-28 on 50% difficulty, seems okay to me.

Everybody's game will be different depending on your play style.

-This is centered to melee and ranged combat lovers (like myself)

-Mage characters might find this a nightmare

-Stealth players may benefit from this, sneak attacks will almost always be a one hit (OP I know but its stealth)

Change the difficulty setting to your liking.

Requirements:

I highly recommend these mods:

Better recoil and stagger

NO Recoil OR Stagger

this mod will make you rip your hair out without those...

Compatibility:

Minor tweaks to some creatures and game settings, check for conflicts in TES4Edit.

See the in depth summary to see what has been changed.

In depth summary:

Here's what I've done:

-All weapons in the game now do 25% more damage

-If your strength is 100 it will add a total of 15% more to melee damage

-Your skill level in your preferred combat type (blade, blunt, marksman, hand to hand) is 100 it will add a total of 25% more damage in that skill level

-Backwards power attacks do 15% more damage

-Sideways power attacks to 25% more damage

-Forward power attacks do 40% more damage

-Blocking is 10% more effective

-Armor rating has increased 50%

-Damage to armor has been decreased by 40%

-Standing power attacks are unchanged

-Fatigue values have not been touched

(with everything maxed out weapons can deal 150% more damage and 200% maximum damage over the default values)

-Arrows go 50% faster

-Magic projectiles go 100% faster

-no changes to human AI behavior or stats.

• Monsters have 20% more health to counter higher damage output
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