That might be your problem. For one thing, the tutorial indeed continues after you escape Privateer’s Hold, and among other things, tells you how to fast travel. You are absolutely not intended to walk places on the world map, even though it is technically possible.
“If you play using the “GOG Cut” release of Daggerfall Unity, please consider this version is now almost two years out of date and comes preloaded with dozens of mods. It’s buggy, slow, and completely changes how the game looks and plays. The Daggerfall Unity development team did not assemble the “GOG Cut” release and in no way recommend it to play Daggerfall Unity.”
For reference, the GOG Cut uses version 0.13.5, and you can see on that page that DFU recently released version 1.0.
Playing unmodded DFU, I do agree with many of your criticisms. The game is very punishing, the full tutorial still doesn’t explain many important game mechanics (like the need to rest regularly, or that you really ought to buy a cart asap), character creation is extremely obtuse, and the amount of freedom at the beginning of the game is a bit overwhelming. Still, I found that after I got to a big city, joined a guild, and started doing quests the game starts coming together. I’m still not sure how much I like it, myself, but there’s clearly a ton of depth here, if you’re willing to take the time to learn the systems.
Woooow, thank you! Glad I mentioned I was on the GOG version.
Away from my computer right now but I think it is 0.16.something
I watched a beginner’s guide (well a few, one of which went immediately into story spoilers for some reason) and realized I need to get into a guild. Maybe the tutorial would have mentioned this if it worked? In any case I have a better idea of how the beginning of the game will progress now and that for now I’m meant to just work my way into the world and wait for contact from someone.
I’ll get a better version and give it another shot.
That might be your problem. For one thing, the tutorial indeed continues after you escape Privateer’s Hold, and among other things, tells you how to fast travel. You are absolutely not intended to walk places on the world map, even though it is technically possible.
https://www.dfworkshop.net/migrating-away-from-gog-cut/
“If you play using the “GOG Cut” release of Daggerfall Unity, please consider this version is now almost two years out of date and comes preloaded with dozens of mods. It’s buggy, slow, and completely changes how the game looks and plays. The Daggerfall Unity development team did not assemble the “GOG Cut” release and in no way recommend it to play Daggerfall Unity.”
For reference, the GOG Cut uses version 0.13.5, and you can see on that page that DFU recently released version 1.0.
Playing unmodded DFU, I do agree with many of your criticisms. The game is very punishing, the full tutorial still doesn’t explain many important game mechanics (like the need to rest regularly, or that you really ought to buy a cart asap), character creation is extremely obtuse, and the amount of freedom at the beginning of the game is a bit overwhelming. Still, I found that after I got to a big city, joined a guild, and started doing quests the game starts coming together. I’m still not sure how much I like it, myself, but there’s clearly a ton of depth here, if you’re willing to take the time to learn the systems.
Woooow, thank you! Glad I mentioned I was on the GOG version.
Away from my computer right now but I think it is 0.16.something
I watched a beginner’s guide (well a few, one of which went immediately into story spoilers for some reason) and realized I need to get into a guild. Maybe the tutorial would have mentioned this if it worked? In any case I have a better idea of how the beginning of the game will progress now and that for now I’m meant to just work my way into the world and wait for contact from someone.
I’ll get a better version and give it another shot.