Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall | 2024 New Player Guide

[@Zhakaron]

Download Links: www.zhakaron.com/2024/10/elder-scrolls-2-daggerfall-new-players.html TES3: Morrowind New Player Guide - kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGGXhaqgod9riJo

[@JohnSmith-pj6wb]

very well done great job :)

[@zaemont3034]

What a surprise glad to see you still trying to encourage new players!

[@BazookaTooth707]

That's how I found his channel in the first place

[@donoteatmikezila]

No idea why youtube recommended this to me, but I'm here for it. Feel like I just took a whole class on this game. I'm going to give it a try. Edit: Yo this game is dope.

[@geoffreyaughtman6917]

ive been on and off on this game for a few months again, i remember it when i was a kid and now as an adult, its crack and i would love some extra guidance on why the game is easy and i just get crapped on or the complete damn opposite lol

[@Tenfey]

I've been rewatching PatricianTV's Elder Scrolls Analysis videos, so I assume that's why it popped up in my feed.

[@bushspring]

​​@@geoffreyaughtman6917 You must be really good!. To me, this game is brutal. I loved it though. The bugs, quest items not spawning in accessible areas, getting lost in dungeons, fair but at times cruel rolls. Again, I love the game but I'm genuinely surprised to hear someone describe it as "easy".

[@geoffreyaughtman6917]

@@bushspring I'm not good at this game at all, I usually can't get past the first rat with most of my custom builds lol

[@LtCommanderTato]

@@bushspring This game and arena are like a timemachine. They are so special.

[@sifayun6336]

I really like how you gave a solid, objective view on so many different aspects, such as "getting to pick from a menu of quests means you might not leave your comfort zone" all the way to stuff like "forbidding leather might mean you can't use leather to cast magic."

[@Tomattoism]

New guys, please, excuse the gloom

[@whoeverofhowevermany]

@@Tomattoism excuse? gonna have to embrace it for this

[@kennethwoody5897]

For none may know of these exploits.

[@you_tube6733]

@@Tomattoism and dispare... lol

[@joelfisk]

He should've worn his headset to lighten the mood.

[@blackshadowxv15]

I've played Sevagoth before so I'm used to it.

[@Roger-r6v]

I was just going to watch one of your old videos as a refresher on how to make a proper class and discover you just posted a guide 7 hours ago! WE SAIL FOR THE KINGDOM OF DAGGERFALL!!!

[@subarashiiashi3894]

Todd's lawyer never misses.

[@Keitosha]

Thank you for this guide. I've seen some growing interest in Daggerfall lately and I love it. DF is one of my fav games of all time since 1996. The atmosphere, music and the mechanics in the game are soothing. I've been watching your DF content since the beginning (original Dosbox version with the lovely sound FX bugs and 12+ hours videos) . Planning to rewatch your Whispers in Shadow, Sas-i runs. Continue whatever you are doing and never change (love the occasional salt mining).

[@SuperGabrielcrazy]

the old one got me into Daggerfall, happy to watch a updated version

[@Ergo319]

oh, i saw a live a few days ago regarding daggerfall with no mods, you are incredible!

[@HansWurst1569]

its funny how nowadays we have the abitlity to play games that are near life like in graphics but honestly I couldnt care less. I would rather play daggerfall with Morrowind graphics, hell just how it is vanilla is fine to me. The game just has a lot of content to it. I mean yeah you need to use your imagination quite a bit but thanks to the unity version a lot of variation and graphical enhanced sprites make the game up to modern standards. Top tier game in my book.

[@chilbiyito]

I'd like games to be more complex instead of pretty

[@dennismokry258]

I so miss the size of cities, regions, and countries. Love Skyrim, but by god Whiterun should be SO much bigger with hundreds of people, houses, and businesses. Riverwood wouldn’t even be a town in Daggerfall, might qualify as a “house” on the overland map. Lol

[@HansWurst1569]

@@dennismokry258 You should have seen my face when I first saw Winterhold in Skyrim. For years the games (more the lore but yeah) hyped up how it was a Nord city of legend. With a magical college, a place of advanced magical learning in SKyrim. And then in the game its sunk into the sea. Not even a ruin to be found. and 4 buildings one of which is an inn... Skyrims cities were pathetic. Hands down the best city in a game ever: Novigrad from the Witcher. I think only Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 will come close or even top it.

[@112moch]

We will never see something like daggerfall in modern gaming. Bethesda is unable to produce gems anymore. Our last hope is wayward souls.

[@rdrrr]

Whoever did Daggerfall's character portraits was talented, they look great. Much better than the rough 3D face models in Morrowind (and, Talos preserve us, Oblivion) Although I suspect there was some miscommunication with the artist because Barenziah and Morgiah are drawn as Bretons, not Dark Elves as they should be.

[@BillyfighterMods]

Maybe now I can finally get past the first dungeon. 🙏

[@comicsans1689]

1st dungeon is EZ

[@thelaughingmanofficial]

What's funny is the game came with a guide on how to take the shortest path to the exit in the first dungeon.

[@Th0rn5555]

I had a really hard time too until I figured things out. Just remember to rest after most battles, and if you're using that one mod that adds temperature, you can rest in the campfire at the start.

[@ag8912]

Babe wake up, Zaric posted a new video

[@Aut-O-Mizer]

Very much enjoy watching your guides, would love to see a "first 5 hours" guide for Elden Ring from you.

[@GnollFool]

Fantastic video, friend. Thank you very much for this. I adore Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. I've tried so hard to break into Arena and Daggerfall. This will help immensely with the latter. Really hoping the open source project for Arena gets finished someday.

[@TheRPGChick]

Even though I know (almost) all the things you've spoken of here... for some reason, I loved hearing you gab it about it anyway! Great video, and you gave some great recommendations. Cheers!

[@stardust_2339]

"The assuuuumption" That was gold and so smooth Zaric.

[@Icantdothatrightnow]

sick video dude yet again you prove yourself to be the definitive source for getting into these games as a new player. i still remember finally breaking through on daggerfall because of the old video you made before DFU existed.

[@bobert2999]

Zaric... love your stuff. Recently got into DF in large part to your older start guide and - I love this game... thank you for helping get my foot in the door! I've listened to most of your other stuff at this point too. All hail the GOAT. Lol also - Climbin that big ass mountain and X WING guy - "Allllmooosttt, there..... Allmosssst There...."

[@whitemojowolf]

Thanks for all the work you put into this one! I was able to get Daggerfall Unity set up and running well!

[@lucasriddle5538]

Ha, Ironic Zharic. I was just watching your older Daggerfall Videos a week or so ago and decided to give it a try again and now you go and upload this. Much appreciated. -

[@iambetterthanHLG]

Very nice Zaric, really appreciate your effort put into the guide and taking the time to organize it. Updated new player guides for older games are low in supply

[@silverdust4197]

I am a big fan of the first one . I got me into Daggerfall . Looking forward to the new version

[@dcconstruction676]

Dude you are the Daggerfall godfather. I always come to your channel for daggerfall advice. Thank you for your awesome tutorials and videos.

[@OldSchoolSoundscape]

Thank you for this!!!! I've started playing Morrowind because of you, and always love catching a stream of yours! You're a great person and I love your vids! Thanks for your commitment to helping people get into these great games; you're 1 of 1!!

[@RancorSnp]

Let's go! The previous Daggerfall video was great, looking forward to seeing this

[@simplycheezy187]

Daggerfall seems to be making a comeback, I keep seeing and watching new videos on the game

[@rdrrr]

Daggerfall is an old-school, heavily DnD influenced cRPG. They don't really make 'em like this any more. (I guess BG3 is as close as you get?) Check out Amulets and Armor, totally different game but has a similar "Playing DnD at your friend's house with pizza and a few beers" feel. There's a great Let's Play of it made with a ton of love. It was obscure before that LP brought it some attention

[@thelemonofgaming6303]

Bro I was just thinking about playing this game again, I type Daggerfall into the KZbin search bar, and the first thing that pops up is a 9 hour old video from Zaric? Based.

[@7rigger]

Excellent timing! I just set mine up the other day, was waiting for some free-time to mod.

[@Timcoolish]

What an amazing guide. Thank you so so much for working on this guide. I am enjoying this video very much :)

[@onriica]

This video came at the perfect time for me, I am in the preparation phase for my Daggerfall Unity play-through. Can’t wait for your mod list video!

[@joshuafannin6356]

Thanks Zaric this is great! Appreciate it!

[@SonySteals]

Great video! Thanks for the effort, man. I wasn’t expecting to find such an amazingly detailed guide. I have recently started a Unity Daggerfall play through and this is invaluable video to have prepared. ❤

[@justsomedude5727]

Been playing for 10 years but still gonna watch

[@CalvinRRC]

I've played Daggerfall enough to know much of this but it's cool to see someone go through it and I definitely picked up a few new tips. What a game.

[@AkariC]

I have been an subscriber for years! I love your daggerfall videos and your "never gonna happen" analytics for the other games!

[@HeyHiHowdy6969]

I was just watching your one from almost a decade ago. Im so glad you made a new one!

[@TheLispMonkey]

I'd advise any Elder Scrolls fan to give this a go. Daggerfall is actually easy to get into with the fixes. You can download beautiful textures too if that is your thing.

[@rdrrr]

​@@TheLispMonkey I found the dungeons difficult to navigate even with the Unity setting toggled. Hopefully this guide helps me out with that!

[@Fr.O.G.]

It's cool of you to make this. I'm sure it'll help people.

[@kintarooe8839]

See that mountain, there’s a self contained ecosystem up there! Brought me here, now I want Daggerfall. Thanks man

[@Trenchv1]

Holy crap, you are so well spoken and organized with your speech. Thank you for this!

[@Gameprojordan]

We got Zaric's 2024 Daggerfall guide before GTA 6

[@HybOj]

Glad to see vids like this, thank you. -KoW

[@Lennox032]

I can't wait to start a playthrough of this. Thanks for the tips!

[@KRAHSx]

I started with Morriy-wind in this series as a random of the shelf renta in the early 2000's on the OG XBOXl, then got into daggerfall last years thanks to your videos. INSTANT FAVORUTIE!

[@Francox7]

I have no idea how the algorithm knew I was thinking about this game; but dang, now I'll finally be able to complete more than 2 quests and my dude won't be hitting people with a wet noodle

[@grimnir7749]

This is awesome!!!! Good going!

[@l1z4rdon7]

I just got a new pc and the first thing I did was redownload Daggerfall Unity. Thank you for the refresher course lol I haven’t played it in a month and I already forgot how complex the character creator is let alone the rest of the game. Daggerfall is definitely one of the best video games ever made.

[@DBeskar6605]

This is the stuff, at this point i am just here to help spread the wonders of daggerfall to new players.

[@FirstMetalHamster]

Good heavens, a 73 minutes Daggerfall starting guide? Yes, please.

[@gerarderloper]

Added this to my Watch Later list. I promise!

[@doctorpebba]

Been playing it for the past couple days and I've been having a blast

[@Merknilash]

Got this game in 96 as a teenager It was mind blowing for it’s time. This was before MMOs and sandbox games . It was incredible.

[@PapaBattles]

I could watch your videos all day. Oh wait I've have haha! Another great video man! Enjoyed it alot!

[@OfficialXdaC]

LOOK at this guy... taking the time to teach me something grand here in 2024

[@qualityqueen3622]

well guess its time to beat Daggerfall now, thank you for the guide.

[@Outside998]

What you said about talking to everyone in the main quest reminded me of my recent playthrough: I was already level17, so way higher level than I needed, and I thought I did everything, but the second to last quest didn't unlock. What happened was that I forgot to talk to the maid in Castle Daggerfall and do her quest chain. That chain unlocks at level 5. Whoops.

[@JohnDoe-oc4rk]

What a treat! I put Daggerfall down a few months ago, this is a nice refresher

[@canuckcrusader5037]

If you can use restoration, get the critical weakness to paralysis, then get the free action spell. It’s the cheapest spell to cast and it completely neglects paralysis.

[@realkarfixer8208]

Very Cool, Thanks Z

[@toto3777]

Love the in depth video

[@praski149]

thanks for the video!

[@Randleray]

I am subscribed to this channel since about 5 years now... and I still think, the absolute best thing about it is the fact you wear a tie just like you wear glasses.

[@HS-hx8ti]

Looking forward to the modding vid

[@TanToRza]

Insane how I watch a video about a game that came out more than 25 years ago and it makes me contemplate playing it. Guess I’m jamming some daggerfall. May use that smaller dungeons setting though, I remember getting lost CONSTANTLY playing this as a kid.

[@stevenhopkins4118]

As someone with an ungodly amount of hours in this series, mostly in Morrowind, this video finally convinced me to take the plunge on Daggerfall. Wish me and my dark elf named Neravar luck!

[@tizza963]

One of my favourite comfort videos is before Skyrim chapter 2 daggerfall. So excited I get another version :)

[@marvelightv]

I never watch your streams, but I love your videos lol Thanks man!

[@simba9655]

thank you for this video, i'm planning on playing Daggerfall after iam finished with Morrowind

[@holemas]

I love the fact that you’re still making these guides. Daggerfall, along with Morrowind, are the TES games that have captured me the most in recent years, each for completely different reasons. Hopefully guides like yours will help get more people into it.

[@fretzil]

love the advantage/disadvantage system, since I never bother with magic, I disable generation of it in light and dark, and get immunity to paralysis and disease, two of the most annoying afflictions

[@sixmillionaccountssilenced6721]

spell absorption is OP haha

[@onriica]

:D, I was hoping you’d do something like this!

[@JadedWarlock]

Considering I want to play Daggerfall, this is gonna be a fun watch.

[@0Akeldama0]

Dooo eeeet

[@QubeZ-one]

I had way more problems getting into Daggerfall than getting into Arena. Thank you for helping us new players get into the game. My question would be, what's the worst, hardest and most difficult class in the game?

[@Zhakaron]

Rogue and Burglar both have major problems. But if you want to make it even harder, try making a custom Linguist class.

[@mathboss2292]

Love ypur content like this i can only guess how much work it is to produce these, thanks a million

[@cfdcfd15]

I came here mainly for mod recommendation, but stayed for the whole video.

[@ZoeyKilian]

Yeaay, I was waiting for this❤

[@violetbliss4399]

I remember thinking what amazingly large games we'd have one day when playing this, with more unique places. Still waiting. D: There are excellent more modest attempts, but for single player rpgs I don't know if anything since made the true attempt of full interconnectivity + size. Also climbing, still so rare and ever since this game I've always wanted it just for rp feels. I never came close to finishing this game - an orc warlord got stuck in a wall, and then my save got corrupted. I should probably give the modern way a go. :)

[@wailfulcrab]

For people allergic to pixels there is also DREAM mod that replaces the textures but its not for everyone's taste, some enemies look blurred with the upscaled textures but the environments are beautiful.

[@samplexample]

I totally forgot this guy existed. Haven’t seen a vid of his since 2012.

[@ShFTt]

Awesome, thank you!

[@RichardEKranz]

Been a long time since I've seen you Z. Hope to see more DF vids.

[@cademorris9]

About a year ago I first tried daggerfall (DOSbox version) and had no idea what I was doing. Predictably my time with the game was equal parts short and frustrating. After an hour I made it out of the first dungeon (losing my first character because I didn't realize you need to make a save, lol) and immediately quit because I was having no fun in the slightest. Using the games manual and this guide as a reference, though, I picked up the game again recently(Unity version) and played a mostly vanilla (with bug fix mods) run. If your goal was to help new players who bounced off the game the first time get enjoyment out of the game you knocked it out of the park! I finished my first playthrough a few days ago and am now starting a second with a smattering of about two dozen mods to expand the gameplay. Without this video I doubt I ever would've found my new obsession in this game like I did.

[@no.no.4680]

I just decided to drop back in and watch and old video but you released a wonderful guide.

[@Chocoboboy7]

Can't wait to get back into daggerfall.I played the heck out of it back in 2020 and quickly became my favorite TES game.

[@The_real_Marcoman]

Thanks for the tips. 👍

[@XavierGoncalves89]

1:00:05 damm, shots fired

[@hisdudeness4925]

fantastic guide. thank you very much.

[@BasDirks]

Thanks for the video :)

[@Sugleknug]

Absolutely world class

[@BarilaPaul]

Best ES game for me 😊

[@Caucasian60]

This is the #1 most comprehensive, detailed, thorough, and extremely autistic breakdown of how to start playing Daggerfall. I tip my fedora to you, sir!

[@skillywilly187]

I'm on an old school game kick right now.I'm playing summoner from 2000 volition. So fun.

[@skyrt7426]

Please, make a guide like this for Arena

[@Encolas]

Then there’s also the linguist bard. Run around charming enemies into fighting each-other for your friendship. Very difficult early game, but ends up being a blast

[@Xegethra]

I played the vanilla Daggerfall some years ago, before Daggerfall Unity was a thing, It was Hell, but fun. Now Daggerfall Unity exists, I think it's an improvement. As many or as little mods or none as you like.

[@Scout1942]

Glad this got a new update since I had a hard drive failure on the disc I store all my games.

[@rhythmmandal3377]

Starfield step aside the better Procedural BGS game has arrived.

[@timthetoolpool]

What the hell is Starfeld?

[@rhythmmandal3377]

@@timthetoolpool My point exactly.

[@miroslavzima8856]

Just a virus. It will go away

[@Dakkalazy]

I'm glad youtube randomly recommended me bootleg Senator Armstrong doing a Daggerfall guide

[@wile123456]

Every type of guy i see with drip like his i know they are an old school RPG nerd instantly