It's more than just keeping the targeted enemy dead center in the camera as there's functionality designed to avoid awkward camera angles and motion sickness in the player. Related: NoSkyrim Is A Skyrim Mod For People Who Don't Want To Play SkyrimĪlong with free movement comes a new target lock function that lets you keep an eye on the specific enemy you want dead. The intent of the mod is to make Skyrim’s third-person gameplay feel like Assassin’s Creed, God of War, or Horizon Zero Dawn, allowing the player to move and attack freely in any direction. Introducing the True Directional Movement mod from Ersh, a new mod that “modernizes third-person gameplay” in Skyrim.

Modern action RPGs have a fluidity to both the player and camera movement that makes everything feel like you’re playing an action movie, whereas Skyrim’s turn-and-slash controls don’t have nearly the same sort of impact. Skyrim is still a great game even today, but its movement controls are starting to feel a bit dated-there's no sliding, no vaulting, and no grappling hook to swing through the Nordish mountains like some sort of Viking Spider-Man.īut what really makes Skyrim feel old is how everything moves in third-person mode.

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