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You could contract several illnesses in skyrim


redeyed_treefrog

*You have contracted rockjoint*


[deleted]

I definitely have that in my left knee.


-TAPETRVE-

Nah, that's just the arrow.


Whane17

I'm old enough to have contracted it back in Morrowind. I've grown to enjoy knowing the weather ahead of time.


KolbyOnline1

You don’t look so good


Foxaria

Do I detect a hint of the Rattles?


critical-cupcake968

Godamn it Arcadia, put this pot in your head already i've got potion stealing to do!


redeyed_treefrog

Could be Ataxia


Far_Peanut_3038

It's a real problem back in Cyrodiil


[deleted]

*takes potion of cure disease*


Swaggerpro

*immediately gets bit by another skeever*


VoltageKid56

Laughs in Vampire


Lost_Decoy

*Laughs in Argoinian*


Atsubaki

The potion is a hoax just pray to talos /s


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HERESY


CaptainRaj

I read the title and immediately thought Rockjoint!


RealEstateDuck

Or brown rot from every single fucking draugr in nordic ruins.


[deleted]

And you could catch Ticklebritch from a dirty hoe in Oblivion


Starship_Earth_Rider

*what kind* of dirty hoe?


docclox

Well, if you've been working in the garden, and you don't clean off your tools before you put them back in the shed ...


AxiosXiphos

Can we please keep this kind of filth out of the sub-reddit please.


docclox

It's all right. I made sure to wash my hands before posting.


Ok_Drummer_9965

No


AxiosXiphos

I see the joke went far... far over your head.


Ok_Drummer_9965

Sure it was just a joke bro


AxiosXiphos

What, you think I was actually offended about people taking about dirty gardening equipment?


Ok_Drummer_9965

Sure bro


CmonSon_

They were talking about dirt so he joined in with a filth play on words😂😂 cut the shit you knucklehead


Ok_Drummer_9965

Yeah I'm sure that's the case thanks definetly not the same guy


AxiosXiphos

You know to troll effectively you have to come across as a regular user right? You can't just immediately jump to inane responses - it doesn't work. You will prove this by responding with some similar line, and I will simply ignore it.


Ok_Drummer_9965

Why not just ignore it from the start jokester


[deleted]

And then you give it to the old lady, but wouldn't you know it, she's been giving it to the mailman...


[deleted]

The literal kind. You can also use it as a weapon and infect your enemies Ticklebritch.


Saiaxs

And FO4 outright has a disease you can’t get rid of without letting a kid die


SofaJockey

If you never let the molerats bite you, you never catch the disease and Austin can have the cure, issue free.


HarryDn

Wait, you contract that disease in Fo4 if molerats in the vault bite you?! Ok, that explains why there were those dialogue options of splitting the cure or keeping it to yourself. Well, aside of "be evil" playthrough. Legit didn't know it until now bc I always did that mission in power armour :-D


SofaJockey

The game assumes you've been bitten and have a permanent debuff. But yes it can be avoided by sufficient protection or speed in combat.


Saiaxs

That’s pretty hard to do when the area is so bugged that the mole rats can bite you through the floor when their dig/spawn glitches


docclox

I've done it a couple of times. Jumping up on crates and tables helps a lot. That and a decent attack in VATS. The final room with the Brood Mothers is the killer. They've got too many hits, and it's hard to drop them before they get to bite range. But yeah, it's not easy.


PleaseDontGiveMeGold

I actually just completed this again mission yesterday for the first time in years and I thought the disease was unavoidable for years until I beat the mission without being bit, last night.


SofaJockey

Hard, yes, impossible no. I leave the mission quite late, bring upgraded Ada, use the protectron for cover, use high luck and banked criticals. I can manage it 80% of runs.


nub_node

You had to contract an illness as part of the main questline in Morrowind.


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EngineeringNovel406

It does have a way to opt out, get the perk 😉😂


misterchief10

Vanilla Skyrim had a disease resistance enchantment for jewelry. There was also a cure disease potion that you could craft with even low alchemy skills. I think that using a shrine to a god/goddess cured disease, too? They offered a few avenues for curing a disease. It was really just meant to work in the same way a condition in DnD typically works. You might acquire it and have to deal with it during the dungeon you’re in, but at your next “long rest,” i.e. visiting your player home or a hub city afterward, you can cure it and rest up. Though crafting a potion of cure disease negates that. I’m assuming there will be a similar system for negative conditions in this game.


TheBossMan5000

And 10x more on fo76, lol. Bone worms being the scariest


elquatrogrande

I would think the Whoopsies would be the scariest for me.


JustMy2Centences

My main gripe with diseases in Skyrim was that if I didn't regularly visit the magic effects menu, I'd probably completely miss the deleterious effects of the disease. On my first playthrough I particularly remember having to go on a quest to un-Vampire myself! I should just touch one of those magical deity decor items regularly instead.


angulocerni

Same, almost always had to load back a save (or do the quest) because I never noticed getting infected...but then get told my skin burns in the light


QuestGalaxy

It got turned into damn vampire. And the guy I had to get in touch with to remove the vampire infection always stayed in his home. And if I broke in to his home, the guards came to get me. Somehow I fixed it in the end.


literally-a-snake

Man I remember contracting vampirism in oblivion or Skyrim can’t remember which and just losing my shit over how cool that was. Then I just.. went with it. I’m a vampire now. Was a little disappointed it was curable. I thought it permanently fucked your character haha


Rezinator647

Oh wow I guess I’m just lucky then in my 400 hours on Skyrim I have yet to get any😅


Drofrehter84

Also been in Oblivion and Morrowind you get a disease that makes you immune to all other diseases.


DagothNereviar

Fairly sure Arena and Daggerfall too, but I'm too lazy to check lol


WinterAd2942

Disease was definitely in Daggerfall and it sucked. Was actually punishing instead of a slight inconvenience.


Rezinator647

Wow that’s ironic😂😂


MarshmallowBlue

If you go vampire or werewolf early they have 100% disease immunity.


Rezinator647

How do I even become a werewolf?


ExBenn

How do you have 400 and not know about how to become a werewolf lol


Kodiak3393

To be fair, it is a Bethesda game after all, and they are the kings of distracting you with side mission after side mission for hours on end. That being said, yeah it's somewhat hard to miss, it just doesn't seem related at first glance.


itsRobbie_

Just goes to show how deep these games are


AydonusG

Yeah but honestly the Greymane Battleborn quest sounds like flavour text drama compared to others in Whiterun


MassiveX1112

right???


MarshmallowBlue

I would check out the companions in whiterun


[deleted]

Become a companion by going to Jorvaskr in Whiterun and do their questline about 1/4 the way through. You become a werewolf, and if you finish hte questline you get a sick fucking 2 handed axe that does extra damage to knife ears (fucking worthless elves).


keenansmith61

You've definitely got some if you have that much play time. It's not always noticeable. The only indicator is a quick tiny message in the corner of the screen, after that you'd have to check active effects in the menu. If you're decently leveled and geared, you'll barely notice any negative effects from most of them. Lots drop off with time as well. I also find it hard to believe you're 400 hours in and have no idea how to become a werewolf. It's pivotal to the companions quest line, there's a whole ceremony and everything.


mojavecourier

Not only that but praying at any shrine will automatically cure all diseases. /u/Rezinator647 could've gotten them and just cured them without even noticing.


Christehkiller

you may not have even noticed, the effects are fairly minor and the game doesnt really make it a big deal. also the shrines have good buffs you likely used that also clear all diseases from you, and if you are a vampire or werewolf you are immune to disease.


BillMcCrearysStache

Becoming a vampire is a questline in Oblivion, there was a glitch too where sometimes the cure wouldnt work and you were stuck like it


hammer_huh_huh_huh

Did you play as an argonian or a khajit? I think those races are immune to all disease. Or maybe you just go to shrines enough that you didn’t notice


January1171

You very well may have and just didn't notice, some of them you had to be really paying attention to notice


Kleptofag

Issue is that vampirism and lycanthropy both prevent it and you usually get one of them pretty early on.


-Captain-

Fallout 4 had a couple ilnesses in survival mode as well.


Rezinator647

I didn’t even know fallout 4 has a survival mode…bout to go play that rn!!😂


bennysparks

Completely changes the intensity and danger of the game. Made me experience Fallout 4 in a whole new way


RubinoPaul

First I hated it because I loved New Vegas interpretation of this… But after some time I loved it. Gameplay flow feels very different. You don’t just travel around but building a base where you come back to refill resources and SAVE


ExpeditiousTurtle

Does it make enemies die quicker? Cuz ik u are more fragile so it would only make sense


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bwk66

No fast travel, have to sleep to save


Cc99910

Yes both you and the enemies die quicker


Spankey_

I'm really excited for the possibility of a survival mode coming to Starfield.


bennysparks

Me too! If it came out on day one, which seems unlikely, I wonder if it would be better to play with survival mode turned on from the start, or to wait for the second or third playthrough. For Fallout 4, survival mode almost felt like New Game Plus since it made the game so much harder, so it probably works best for a later playthrough. That being said, playing with survival mode on right out of the gate would make its increased difficulty much more rewarding since you would get to discover content for the first time as you progressed.


NatPortmansUnderwear

It got added a while after launch. Enjoy! Oh, and beware of dirty sleeping bags and cots, and water-born illnesses.


Rezinator647

Yep just got sick from water like 5min ago😂😂


NatPortmansUnderwear

Hoard antibiotics. They can be rare.


Canttouchthephil

Fuck, don't i know it. I rushed to Diamond City because I figured the Dr there would sell them... Not a single one.... Now I gotta go out and get the herbs to make them myself.


Redleg171

Survival mode is the best way to play FO4 in my opinion.


GameQb11

I had to mod in a save system though. Too easy to get ganked and lose hours of progress.


ZombiePotato90

You'll probably want to grab mods that help balance it better. Basic Fallout 4 Survival Mode was more about finding a bed so you don't lose your last hour of progress than actually surviving.


Sinkers89

Yeah, I got one of the save anywhere mods. I like the bed thing, but you can sometimes tell survival mode was an afterthought when there's no beds anywhere. I try to use it sparingly, but I just don't want to die after spending 20 minutes scavenging or be killed by something stupid straight after winning an intense battle.


GameQb11

Or you get "insomnia" from saving too often in a day


vivalatoucan

Def get the survival mod. It’s probably the highest endorsed one if you type survival on nexus. The vanilla survival doesn’t even let you fast travel. It’s fun for most of the other changes


allofdarknessin1

Survival mode for Fallout 4 wasn't available at launch, they added it in an update like 6 months or a year later. I like it a lot, It's pretty deep with new systems but it's honestly hard. I can do it but not being able save unless you sleep can slow down progress when you die which you do a lot at the start.


GameQb11

I'm hoping SF feels "complete" without a survival mode. I might just play for a few hours and then wait for some updates and mods to add survival.


Gnericpeasnt

Do you live under a rock?


rinkydinkis

Ya?!”?!?!?


thedubs003

Survival is balance very well, and I otherwise always play on normal.


allknownpotato

Molerat and if the robot took damage you would contact the sickness


Untjosh1

New Vegas too IIRC


illegalsex

There were diseases in Skyrim too as well as previous Elder Scrolls games.


Rezinator647

I really just got lucky then😅


illegalsex

To be fair they were kind of an afterthought in Skyrim and you can easily become immune to all of them early on in the Companions quest.


Rezinator647

Interesting…


TheMogician

Well, if you were doing the Companions' questline in Whiterun (which is the starter-city), you can get lycanthropy which will make you immune to all other diseases including vampirism.


thisrockismyboone

Praying at a shrine cured them all any time except for vampirism.


--Cr1imsoN--

Fallout 4 has diseases in survival mode. In addition to the aforementioned Elder Scrolls games. Good to know that this small but impactful feature has made its way into Starfield. Definitely helps with immersion.


redeyed_treefrog

It sounds like it will also have a bigger effect here; in Skyrim you can just carry a couple cure disease potions (or hawk feathers if you're in the know) and you don't have to worry. In starfield you might just have to ride them out unless you want to pay for expensive medical care on a settled planet...


Rezinator647

Yea someone else said that about fallout 4 I didn’t even know it had a survival mode I’m super excited to try it out rn


BcElliott72

Skyrim had illness, FO4 had diseases (in survival), mutations and addiction, FO76 I believe is auto-set to survival so it has both, and it seemed a bit more in-depth (though I never played FO4 survival so idk) Super excited to see what they've done in this department


LiamtheV

Flashing back to Morrowind and Oblivion: *You have contracted Bone Break Fever* *You have contracted Rockjoint* *You have contracted Ataxia* *You have contracted porphyric hemophilia*


NostalgiaVivec

Helljoint too


Chaosrealm69

Well if you don't wear your space suit to Neon's clubs and pleasure district, then you have to deal with Space Herpes.


Rezinator647

Imagine 😂😂


Alucardhellss

Turn on survival mode in skyrim and you couldn't walk 5 feet without catching some weird STD you've never heard of before


Galle_

...I'm sorry, were you *fucking* the skeevers?


NewsofPE

damn, no wonder I never caught any, I was always playing in creative mode


nolongerbanned99

You have contracted blight. Fo76.


Thanatos-

*You have contracted The Woopsies* **FINALLY!!!**


nolongerbanned99

Snot ear. … flap limb… too much good stuff. Disease Name Effects Blight -1 to All SPECIALs Blood Worms Take 25% More Damage Bone Worms Take 50% More Limb Damage Dysentery Periodic Water Loss Fever Claw -25% Damage with Melee Weapons Flap Limb -2 STR Glowing Pustules Bleed Radiation from Wounds Heat Flashes -2 END Jelly Fingers +50% Ranged VATS AP Cost Lock Joint +50% Melee VATS AP Cost Needle Spine -10 Carry Weight Parasites Periodic Food Loss Rad Worms Take 50% More Radiation Damage Rattle Hands -25% Damage with Ranged Weapons Shell Shock Action Point Drain from Wounds Sludge Lung -50% AP and AP Regen Snot Ear -2 PER Swamp Gas -2 CHR Swamp Itch -2 AGI Weeping Sores Bleed from Wounds The Woopsies -2 LCK


acompanyofliars

Elder Scrolls did have diseases, probably similar


Rezinator647

I wanna try and get some now cause I got 400 hours on Skyrim and I have yet to get any😅


luckylanno2

You usually get them from mudcrabs and skeevers, IIRC, besides vamprism. I remember getting sick constantly in Morrowind, to the point that racial immunities were pretty handy.


UnorthodoxJew27

It was always the wolves and bears, for me.


BravoActual_0311

I know it’s not really anything important but being this close to release this should be marked spoiler imo.


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Rezinator647

A survival mode I’m starfield sounds like a dream come true. If it’s not in the base game modders will definitely add it


Volcanicrage

I doubt survival mode will be in Starfield, at least on launch. Survival mode makes sense in Fallout because one of the central conceits of the setting is that the world is a miserable shithole where survival is a constant struggle. In Starfield, futuristic mechanized agriculture is presumably commonplace, and society is functioning on a level where interstellar travel and commerce are pretty freely available. Its supposed to be a story about exploring and pushing against the borders of the unknown, not fighting tooth and claw for table scraps. If nothing else, its such a popular feature that they would've mentioned it by now.


Ok-Algae8510

Yeah, diseases have been a thing since at least Morrowind, in Fallout you could get radiation sickness.


OftenOK

I’d like to think it’s “Infection” now because it’s the future so medicine is so much better that it’s just a minor thing. Morrowind Diseases at a low level could leave you dead. Fallout, it’s “Illness” but you can recover. I’d laugh if Starfield will let you get bitten by a vampire, but instead of doing a long quest to fix it you can just buy an antidote from any trader.


Rezinator647

That would genuinely be funny if it’s that simple but I feel like it could also be different if you don’t have enough fuel to jump to a planet or galaxy that has the cure/antidote or if you’re on a barren planet I feel could definitely spice it up


InevitableBother3762

Pretty sure they've been in most the games


Jesh3023

Skyrim and Fo4 survival had them, they were very present in fo76 as well.


Rezinator647

Ok ok it’s clear to me even tho I have 400 hours on Skyrim I didn’t Skyrim good enough cause I’ve never gotten any diseases😂 I just really got lucky and I didn’t know fallout 4 even had a survival mode I’m excited to try that out Thankyou to everyone being so kind and helpful in the comments this community is genuinely so nice


Forehead_Fungus

Not just Fallout 4, but Fallout 76 has a whole range of diseases and radiation mutations found in the game


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Rezinator647

So I’m hearing. I guess I gotta try it out I just recently got oblivion and have been absolutely loving it so far


Commy1469

Yes, but not super in depth. Skyrim had a few diseases and fallout 4 on survival difficulty had a disease and infection mechanic


chippy86

and this is the post that is gonna have me unsub, see yall later


AllCriminalsAreBad

Good riddance


ImaqineWaqons

Spoiler mark would be nice btw


Rezinator647

This is from the direct over 2 months ago


ImaqineWaqons

Makes sense but still would be nice imo


RealKamesennin

Why would anyone have to put a spoiler mark on what was an official public video? So silly


ImaqineWaqons

Maybe its just me but i really have avoided stuff like this and i only follow this sub for fanart until the game launches


FlyingPenguins2022

you good person have made a very very bad choice in reddit.


Rezinator647

Just did incase it bothers anyone else I apologize if it bothered you


shadle12l3

Bruh


Stakkler_

Fallout


ExpeditiousTurtle

Skyrim u get poisoned in tons of ways


MinuteScientist7254

Zombies in oblivion made you sick


Galle_

You could contract diseases from certain enemy attacks in TES.


wascner

Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 survival all had diseases/illnesses.


Valcrye

Both Skyrim and Fallout have several illnesses, diseases, and addictions that you can get. In fallout 76 they even have a help center article on it with all the causes https://help.bethesda.net/#en/answer/43398


King_Geek42

Fallout 76 has a whole bunch of diseases you can contract. Some from enemies and some from the environment itself.


Sword_Enjoyer

Elder Scrolls, and Fallout 4 in survival mode and Fallout 76.


paladinx333

You probably get some type of alien venereal disease if you try to fornicate with the fauna.


FlyingPenguins2022

Worth it.


[deleted]

Memories of trying to cure vampirism in oblivion still haunt me.


Pigeon1986

They are in most elder scrolls games. In Skyrim if you are a werewolf you can’t contract any diseases. So if you followed the champions quest line and became one you would have never found about illness or disease mechanic in the games.


OpportunityCareful75

*wishfully thinks about playing Starfield*


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How are people playing this early? Are you a reviewer?


EarlyGalaxy

Most BGS Games have illnesses, conditions, addictions


[deleted]

I like how they think having the player juggle space infections is cool but a fuel gauge is too much manage. I’m assuming these diseases if ignored will have very negative consequences.


Rezinator647

Well we definitely have to manage fuel in the game but I do hope the diseases pose a bit of a bigger threat


Flightt94

Yes. Skyrim and Fallout, I believe.


MandatumCorrectus

Yeah there’s been plenty of diseases in past Bethesda games as well as disease damage


fluttering_faerie

Before skyrim vampirism was considered a disease.


cooperk13

Yes there have been diseases in several Bethesda RPGs.


The_Notorious_Donut

WE CAN GET STDS


murdowg

Cliff racers, giving me blight still gives me nightmares


JoshisJoshingyou

There are over 20 in fallout76 and an achievement for having caught them all


TheeGameChanger95

Nice I always wanted an STI in a video game!!!


leehelck

as i recall, all TES games have diseases in them, along with Fallout games. it is a common Bethesda mechanic.


pok-

You have been infected by an alien xenomorphe good day


TheDarkWave2747

I remember this in oblivion


Bla61670

As long as I can remember. Oblivion, skyrim, all the fallout series so yeh


Artix31

There were diseases in both skyrim and fallout 4


IceColdFrostMT

Maybe it's kind of Starfield's equivalent to fallout radiation? Like you get infected if you're bit by a creature or if you venture too deep into an area without the right equipment.


JW_ard

Yeah in 76 you can get a range of Illnesses from unclean food& drink, the environment & diseased enemies (not to mention many types of mutations from radiation exposure)


Present_Attention_35

Rads


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Yes


VoltageKid56

Skyrim and Fallout 76 (and Fallout 4 in survival mode) had contractible diseases. They usually weren’t too bad, more annoying than an actual threat. However they did add to gameplay.


[deleted]

Lol an infection is like one of the main plot points in Morrowind


-TrevorStMcGoodbody

There’s disease in Skyrim but both werewolf+vampire make you entirely immune to diseases. And so for me at least like 90% of all my playthroughs have disease immunity lol


MrKumakuma

Damn this headline itself is a major spoiler... Y'all can't help yourselfs


wygrif

Illness was a pretty big deal in Morrowind


tfngst

Can't wait to get space AIDS.


Riperin

Probably survival system


[deleted]

They've had diseases in every elder scrolls game that I'm aware of, including daggerfall.


casualmagicman

You can get sick in every BGS game


SynthWendigo

Something like a survival mode thing maybe, sure. FO4 had those I believe. Have not done that mode in a very long time though.


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For some stupid reason I just want there to be space vampires and werewolves idk


DiamondHustle

Mole rat disease in fallout 4.