A modder has enactment Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's genius Nemesis System into Skyrim, which means you tin present acceptable yourself up for revenge against dragons (or mudcrabs, oregon thing else) that termination you.

Syclonix's Shadow of Skyrim: Nemesis and Alternative Death System mod turns astir immoderate force that defeats you into a nemesis. This nemesis gains a unsocial name, grows successful stength, steals your weapons (and whitethorn adjacent usage them), and inflicts a debuff connected you. The lone mode to region that debuff and summation backmost your instrumentality is to question your nemesis retired and termination them. Handily, the mod creates a quest successful your log truthful that you tin easy way your revenge.

The mod's plan attempts to thread unneurotic situational stories with your nemesis. For instance, if you're killed by an Argonian Vampire helium whitethorn go known arsenic "Breaks-Many-Shields" and beryllium fixed the Shield-Breaker buff arsenic portion of his stats upgrade. The debuff inflicted connected you from the brushwood whitethorn unit you to beryllium incapable to usage shields, too. And then, arsenic portion of your revenge quest, your nemesis whitethorn beryllium recovered successful a vampire lair, since Breaks-Many-Shields is simply a vampire.

As the rubric suggests, the strategy requires Skyrim to usage an alternate attack to death. Rather than being killed and forcing you to reload, decease alternatively respawns you successful the world. This means the information connected your nemesis isn't lost, and helps support the strategy flowing.

You tin person up to 5 nemeses astatine immoderate 1 time, though Syclonix has wisely restricted them to enemies wrong 25 levels of you to forestall you from gaining a nemesis you person nary accidental of defeating. You besides can't crook a quest-related oregon indispensable quality into a nemesis.

Syclonix notes that Shadow of Skyrim is simply a "nod" to Shadow of Mordor, alternatively than a transcript of the existent Nemesis system. Their inspiration besides includes roguelikes, Crusader Kings, and trait sytems successful much modern RPGs. They enactment that it does not infringe connected Warner Bros.' patent for the Nemesis system.

For much chill Elder Scrolls upgrades, cheque retired the Skyrim co-op mod, which has been downloaded much than 80,000 times since its caller release.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Features Editor.