OpenMW 0.46.0 Release Commentary 

First of all, a big thank-you to our member johnnyhostile who filled in for me (Atahualpa) for this release! It's his first-ever video production, so leave your compliments and constructive feedback below. Special thanks also go to davidcernat for providing the Tamriel Rebuilt and Project Tamriel scenes at the end of this video! Secondly, the OpenMW-CS video of this release isn't finished yet and will be published later. On the upside: Another video to look forward to!

In like five years, I'll be sitting in my room, just finished installing all my immersion mods and (full Tamriel) world mods, with a feature complete release of OpenMW. I will open the mini fridge I bought for that exact purpose (with a tag on it, reading "open in case of OpenMW 1.0.0"), and get myself a beer. I'll ready the piss bottle, and the hot pockets. I will lock every door in my house. And then, finally, I will play Morrowind until I die of natural causes.

OpenMW is certainly one of my favorite game-related open source projects of all time. Every single person who contributed to this in any way, shape or form has my utmost respect.

Morrowind is home.

So, you're finally awake.

Ladies and gentlemen we got it.

finally able to run this maxed out without any stuttering or frame loss, absolutely loving whats been done here!

Not sure if you'll see this Mr OpenMW, but I just wanna say that I'm extremely thankful for the work you put into this project. Playing vanilla Morrowind has never been this fun, and I admire that you are still working on improving this project, even though the game is over 18 years old. I am truly impressed by this project and all the work that has been done on it. Morrowind has the best dev/modding community and none of you can't change my mind.

With the sheathed weapons, shields and quivers and some better third person animations, I think I'm actually going to play Morrowind in third person for the first time!

I look forward to the these update videos for months. I can't wait for the day I see version 1.0 release commentary. My heart and brain will explode.

A larger cliff racer aggression distance... Because some fetchers just want to watch the world burn.

You had me at "custom bone injection into an actor's skeleton" :D

Honestly it's crazy that HALF of the fun in MW is modding the game and getting it to work. Unfortunately broke my last game when some essential character fell through the floor and died. Looks like a good time to give it another go. Thankfully I'm now aware of the compatible mods list on the OpenMW wiki. Thank you team!!!

Thanks OpenMW devs! You guys are the best!

I look forward to when this engine can be used to make new games

This is some serious awesome work guys, I'm most impressed by the improvements on navmesh! Well done, make sure to have some ale in celebration of the release!

Is it Christmas, yet? You guys are Heroes!

I love this! This is the best Monday I have had in a very long while (and will cause me to dive into Morrowind again! )

i like to look up openmw once every year and a half (more or less) and see just how crazy this mod gets, simply amazing

You guys are incredible, and it's so great to see how close you are to the big mod teams! Bring Morrowind into the 2020s for us all please.

I have tears in my eyes. This game... I can never ever stop playing it. It is a must to install it on everything that can run it for me and you guys really do gods work with it. Thank you!

This makes me very happy. Time to download openmw and give her a whirl again, I really hope someday someone can create much less stiff animations for this game. It is really the last thing I want. Been a favorite game of mine since 2005 when I was such a young and impressionable child. These real time shadows look amazing. Also had no clue so much of Tamriel had been rebuilt!!

14:15 AK-74 when you need to kill absolutely everybody in room

Impressive progress on this release, well done guys! Thank you for another update video as well; it's really cool to see the iterations over time in each video.

Thank you for still working on it! I love everything you've done!

Solid, solid update :) Thanks everyone!

I still remember what seems like yesterday, when in OpenMW you couldn't open doors xD The progression has been amazing.

Great work guys! You always seem to have such epic sounding narrators in each video too!

Phenomenal work my friend. Ive been using 4.7s nightly build for awhile now and have only ran into one bug and it was minor.

Excellent work, devs! Thanks for the video commentary, guys. The quality of the videos is always great and must take a huge amount of time. I'm sure some devs have gotten involved after seeing these. Cheers!

hell yeah :) cant wait for tes3mp to be merged in too also forks to make better use of landmass :3

Astounding work! I'm very grateful that you guys put so much effort into this.

Wow! You are real young people! Thank you for improving my favorite game from my youth ... and indeed my favorite game !!! =)

Back to Tamriel, it's been a while I'm excited, oh can't you tell? Back where heroes dwell, they've got every province, how I've missed you Vvardenfell

This team is truly amazing. I feel so blessed to experience a new way to play morrowind.

Thank you for the efforts of all of the people involved!!

Every time I hear the music, it gives me chills and want to go back to Morrowind. Some tunes are implemented in Skyrim but somehow they just butchered it and it has no feel like it has in Morrowind, where every sound is magical and has meaning in the Morrowind word.

Great work! I look forward to replaying morrowind Oh please make OpenNV a reality:) I'd love to see the strip with real time shadows running :)

Honestly I was just trying to play the game with an Xbox controller. I came across this and WOW. This is amazing. I've already told my brother and my friend about it.

To the team that maintains this beautiful program THANNKKK YOU.

Always happy to see these updates from you guys! Great job, keep it up

Cant wait untill we can add the same spell type in the same custom spells in Open Mw I miss my skeletal army or deadra honor guards haha

Remember, with modern BSA stuff, a guy already loaded Skyhrim.BSA in OpenMW

FINALLY! Your're doing great job. Been Following the project since 2012

I randomly checked and updated my Openmw today. I could just feel it needed to be done.

See you in 0.48 when you implement Raytracing! Jesus 5 Years seems pretty fast for what you accomplished.

That's awesome. I follow every video to see when a fully opensource version of morrowind could be delivered. \o/

well done guys! Thanks for the work you put in!

Amazing, thank you for all your work.

I'll admit, one day I'd like to see Bethesda use OpenMW to make TES: 15 :P

Great video! Love the narrator and voice :) Keep up the awesome work you do. And thank you for the video

Morrowind perfected. It's understated how much I appreciate the work you are all doing to keep Morrowind preserved yet adding so many vital quality of life improvements.

0:37 Oh, thanks guys.

Great work guys! I can't wait to visit the city of Anvil.

Amazing work, guys! Thank you very much!

Another stunning release, well done. I am especially excited by the .nif file updates and the navmeshing which will transform Morrowind as an experience!

Amazing update and commentary. Thank you!

No matter the Elder Scrolls game I play, my heart is forever tied to the one that introduced me to the franchise and it's Lore. The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. The music, the scenery, it all strikes nostalgia and makes me want to return to Vvardenfel. ...Except for those accursed Cliff racers. Bless Saint Jiub.

thank you so much for making this openmw team

So much work! I hope people will appreciate it. They're all about graphics now.

This video was released one year ago today, who's excited for the next milestone?

You're doing God's job, thanks for the hard work!

Thank you for this! Great work!

Amazing work!! Morrowind is life!

Długo tego czekałem! Dziękuję bardzo!!!!

Thank you so much for all the effort. God bless, you wonderfull peeps. 💙

You guys are doing Azura's work!

The 3rd person animations overhaul from August is insane!

For a minute there, I thought you were the original MrOpenMW back from 0.34 & 0.35's release commentaries. I always wondered what happened to the guy.

Great job team, thanks for the hard work! The narration made this video a bit hard to watch though. Your voice is nice enough, no need to stress it unnaturally like that!

Funny, just today I thought "hey, I should check how OpenMW is doing"

Love you guys. Absolutely stunning job.

For anyone who has never played this game yet. Tread with caution if you want to try. All other games you like will take hit they won't recover from

Yeay, been waiting for months checking daily! You're doing an amazing job, please don't go hard on the community for delaying the release, PR is important and these videos are gold - and a part of openMW history! feedback: - If you mention people, please display their usernames somewhere, it never hurts to feature awesome contributors more :) - Minor things: please make it a bit more obvious with the jokes @narration - cliffracer range++. The script is a bit less playful, which can be good or bad, I prefer it playful++ - this is amazing work, no one knows how Morrowind deserved such competent developers and community. Really. Maybe it's time to (re-)answer that question with next or 1.0 release?

So OpenMorrowind is slowly becoming OpenSkyrim. Awesome.

Backpacks of Morrowind is gonna be a boss ass openMW mod.

This is huge. 0.45 has already seen huge improvements but 0.46 is a quantum leap. "Cliff Racer Aggression" You N'wah!

this project is so sweet

Wow, this is alot of smoothing and refinement. Nice.

After 20 Years, Elder Scrolls III Morrowind is finally released for Ps5, Xbox, and PC. I cant wait for Elder Scrolls 4 to release.

Thank you for your service

I've heard about this project off and on but am finally starting to pay attention to it. I love what you all are doing with this project! Personally I'm looking forward to mods eventually adding NPC schedules, that's one of my favorite features of Bethesda RPGs. Seems like modders had limited ability to do this in the original game.

Looking good. Morrowind has a special place in my heart.

It feels like forever since the previous video update. It was worth the wait? Short answer: Yes. Long answer: It was worth it.

Cool exciting awesome stuff!!! I can't believe that my favorite game still alive and has a force to moves forward and grows.

It's been a while papa morrowind...

You guys are doing a great job. Thanks.

Congrats, guys!

For those who is getting poor performance issues because having both IGPU (CPU with the GPU) and DGPU (discrete GPU), (for windows 10) you need to go to windows 10 settings, system, click on the graphics settings and click on browse (if app preference is still at desktop app) find the OpenMW.exe and set the GPU to the Discrete GPU. Which this works for those who have been using the IGPU for screen composition and the discrete GPU (or graphics card) and save you from pain staking and hoop jumping to try to get OpenMW to run on the better GPU.

It's going to be interesting when the BSA comparability will eventually allow you to make a Legit Cross game mod, allowing you to go to Skyrim, and ciridel.

It Just Works

WHAT A GREAT NARRATOR

Wow, I need this on Mac! Classic and great job.

thank you for the commentary :) I'm new to OpenMW and this helped me understand better what it's about. Can I just make one suggestion for future videos? I think you can work a bit on the pacing in the video, it's a little bit slow and from time to time I find my self skipping 5 seconds here and there. Nothing too major but I think it'll improve the quality of your videos. :)

Hey thanks for the flashing light warning 😀

To anyone thinking "Why? This game looks so 2002!", keep in mind that they're showing you the default game appearance just with the original Bethesda Studios game assets. Virtually all of these have been replaced with higher resolution versions - from rock textures to human figure models - by modders. So after you install OpenMW with the base "guts" of Morrowind, you can add as many appearance (and gameplay) mods as you want. I was last playing with OpenMW 0.43, I think, and even with the mods it was then compatible with (and there are more now) I was able to make it look about as good as Skyrim looks out the box, and definitely better than Oblivion (or about equal to heavily modded Oblivion). Of course, it can't reach the model complexity of Skyrim with a bunch of high-poly mods. But there are games coming out THIS YEAR that don't look as good as OpenMW + mods. Secondarily, the player and critical consensus is that Morrowind is just a superior open-world RPG to Oblivion (especially) and even Skyrim. If you add Julan: Ashlander Companion (a mod most userse refuse to do without after they've tried it once, due to how much it enriches the main quest) and a few other key mod, you're going to get the best Elder Scrolls gameplay of all time. Oh, and WITH levitation, without having to have mod to force it into the game. LOL. Also, for Skyrim peeps: Solstheim is WAY larger, like at least 3x. And the challenges presented in Bloodmoon and Tribunal (the main DLCs) are quite tough; after you do the main quest, this game still has a lot of life in it. And that's without installing new landmass mods yet. A third point: If you use Windows and can technically run the original Bethesda game, you're still better off with OpenMW, because it's 64-bit, and is much more flexible, and fixes many engine bugs of the original game, and supports modern, advanced texturing and lighting (bump maps, parallax, realtime shadows, etc.). PS: While the OpenMW Mod Compatibility Status page at wiki.openmw.org/index.php?title=Mod_status lists some "hard-core tested" mods, see the orange box top-right on that page for a link to a much longer list of informal mod-testing results, plus a detailed companion (follower) management guide.

Fantastic work.

This looks amazing. It's nice to know that when I finally play through this game it will be so much better than the original.

Awesome work guys ♥

I just got morrowind so I'm excited to dive right in!