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Next up: Dwemer Electrics
🕑 Added 2024-03-15 09:19:50 +0000 UTCSo the poll Is over and the Dwemer Electric charging Device won by a small margin. Not My favorite option, But It will without a doubt be a very unique and exiting addition to the existing Lineup.
Something something about Lore and why its even there:
Deep down in Ruined cities of the Dwemer, there are hidden steam turbines powering an Electric grid. What is it needed For do you ask? Well, as we all know, The Animunculi who Guard the Ruins are powered by soulgems, and those loose power over time. Usually soulgems are recharged by trapping souls of living beings, but this is a fairly inefficient process which cannot be automated, So the Dwemer found a way to Just use Raw electricity Instead.
So, scattered Among the ruins are these charging stations. The larger ones Like the one used for the centurion can sometimes be seen, but there are many smaller ones in the ruins which are used by the ballistas and other human sized Automatons, usually tucked away out of sight. With time passing, many of those have been uncovered by scavengers and bandits, usually dissembled for scrap. But a few of the more creative Vagrants and especially some of the wicked Falmer chiefs have kept some of these Devices around to "test" what happens if you strap any careless spelunkers or wannabe Heroes into them....
Ok, now the more tangible and Interesting Stuff:
Since there isn't really anything in the base game or in Zap which looks like what I need for this, I will For the first time Try to Design something completely from scratch. Some of the Previous Devices were slight modifications or amalgamations of existing parts, but noting fundamentally new. But thanks to those smaller previous steps I already have all the Blender Plugins and tolls installed which are needed for this task. I do even have quite a bit of experience with 3D modelling, albeit it mostly being character modelling. It remains to be seen how well that translates to hard surface modelling.
Anyway, So far I have not yet decided on a final Design, but I have decided to use the Existing Centurion Charger as a veeerryy rough inspiration. There will of course be new character Animations as well, But not the insane amount we had for the Hanger.
Since Its still just a very rough Idea, I don't want to speculate too much about the Final feature set just yet, But I have no doubt you will be very pleased with the final Result.
I´ll post an update and officially open the feature speculation as soon as I have a the first prototype Ready.
Talk to you again soon :)
Comments
Pamatronic
Maybe the Falmers have jury-rigged it so it can do both?
Church
So full disclosure I voted for this (and I think a few others also), because I completely misunderstood it. I didn't think it was "lets strap someone into the charging station and shock them to death", I thought you meant that they would be what produced charged soul gems. Like a fatal version of soul gem oven. The advantage over a soul trap spell being that you don't need an empty one.
