Eärendil the Mage #6: Fang Lair | The Elder Scrolls: Arena on Arch Linux
5Let's play The Elder Scrolls: Arena on Arch Linux! Join me and Eärendil, a High Elf mage, as we journey through Tamriel on my first full playthrough of TES Arena, a classic open world fantasy RPG originally released in 1994. Along the way, I'll offer tips, trivia, and game design analysis and I hope you'll share your knowledge and opinions, too! Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ8he4T55R3sAP868mD_1ZhTAPPtDcFbB
In this episode, Eärendil delves deep into the ancient Dwarven (Dwemer) hold known as Fang Lair, solves two riddles, and acquires the first piece of the Staff of Chaos!
0:00:00 Palm tree (graphical bug)
0:00:54 Blacksmiths of Rihad
0:06:17 Palace of Queen Blubamka
0:07:45 Exploring more of Rihad...
0:20:50 Mages Guild
0:24:27 Order of the Golden Tomb
0:25:39 Leaving the city...
0:26:23 Onward to Fang Lair!
0:27:25 Fang Lair
0:40:20 This is no mine...this is a tomb!
0:41:07 Fang Lair, cont.
1:11:28 Temple
1:52:30 Fang Lair, cont.
2:54:16 Delving...too greedily?
2:57:00 Fang Lair, cont.
3:13:07 A maze of twisty little passages, all alike
3:14:48 The hall of spiders
3:16:42 Riddle me this...
3:31:12 The Underdark
3:37:13 Riddle me that...
3:43:28 Piece of the Staff of Chaos!
3:44:30 The Underdark, cont.
3:48:44 Vision from Ria Silmane
3:50:00 Departing Fang Lair...
4:01:00 Returning to Skyrim
4:02:18 Whiterun
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The name Eärendil comes from an extraordinary Half-elf in the works of Tolkien and means "Lover of the Sea" in Quenya. To learn more, watch this video by the Nerd of the Rings: https://youtu.be/BLDWm1eOTL0
PC: MSI GE62MVR 7RG Apache Pro
OS: Golden Drake Linux (Arch Linux customized for gaming and game development) https://github.com/GoldenDrakeStudios/golden-drake-linux
CPU: Intel i7-7700HQ
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
RAM: 32 GB DDR4-2400
This is the CD version of TES Arena (1.07), packaged by GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_elder_scrolls_arena, installed via Lutris https://lutris.net/games/the-elder-scrolls-arena, and played through DOSBox. For details about the game, consult the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP): https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Arena
Mods
• Sound Patch https://www.nexusmods.com/tesarena/mods/15
• Title Screen Fix https://www.nexusmods.com/tesarena/mods/17
• Opening Fix https://www.nexusmods.com/tesarena/mods/13
• Intro Fix https://www.nexusmods.com/tesarena/mods/4
I no longer recommend the Remapped Keys mod https://www.nexusmods.com/tesarena/mods/1 because it doesn't work with recent versions of DOSBox. Besides, the default controls are fine once you get used to them!
As for DOSBox settings, I usually stick with the original, glorious, pixelated look of retro games, but TES Arena is a rare exception: I like smoothing its graphics a bit by using "advmame2x" as my graphic scaler. To try it, set "scaler=advmame2x" (or "glshader=scaler/advmame2x" for DOSBox v0.80 or later) in your game's DOSBox config file.
Speaking of pixels, many of Arena's in-game text boxes have a slow "pixelation" (fade-in, fade-out) effect that, in my opinion, quickly becomes annoying. Press F4 to turn it off.
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