Action Based Projectiles - Dodgeable Range Attacks

The enemy projectiles in Skyrim are ridiculously fast. You cannot dodge or block them by reaction time, all you can do is to sidestep and juke the enemies to miss. While in most modern action combat game, enemy range attacks can be dodged, which rewards skillful gameplay instead of stat-check.

Action Based Projectiles (ABP) is inspired by (SGC) Dodgeable Arrows Spells and Shouts. But with tweaked speed to fit my playstyle more. (Distar's setting is too slow for my taste. ) I tested several numbers and the result below are best-fit for me, you can change them if you prefer different speed.

With True Directional Movement's lock-on and predictive projectile aim support, you no longer need to worry about slow projectile speed causing missed attack.

Below you can see some of the speed changes I made.

Fire spell projectiles: 2500-3200 --> 1000

Frost spell projectiles: 2500 --> 1000 (Frost Storm from 512 to 500)

Shock spell projectiles: 1000 (lightning bolt/chain lightning/thunder bolt changed from instant beam attack to missile attack so you can actually dodge those)

Spider split: 2000 --> 1000

Chaurus split: 2000 --> 1000

Dwarven spider shock bolt: 1000 (changed from instant beam attack to missile attack)

Dwarven sphere bolt: 3600 --> 2500

Riekling spear: 2000 --> 1500

Ash Spawn projectiles: 2200 --> 1000

Ash Guardian projectiles: 2500 --> 1000

Seeker projectiles: 1200 --> 1000, 600 --> 500

Dragon shouts/projectiles: 1200-2500 --> 1000

All arrows: 3600 --> 2000, gravity 0. 35 --> 0. 2

All bolts: 5400 --> 2500, gravity 0. 35 --> 0. 2

Compatibility

Any mods that changed the Projectile records are not compatible but can be easily patched. I suggest to check in Xedit to see if there are any conflicts.

If you want to apply the changes to your custom spell or arrow mods, just follow the above reference and tweak them in Xedit. (All spell speed are standardized to 1000. )

Action Based Projectiles Patches for Random Mods by deskydesky.

Action Based Projectiles Patches - RoM and Mysticism by Blackread.

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