I'm curious if anyone is actively playing this game in 2024. I have no ill will towards the game and was just wondering why someone would still play if there are other options that seem superior. I know nostalgia may be a factor, as I played this game a bit as a kid but never really got very far, but I'm curious what an active player of Battlespire's driving force is. Thanks for the replies if I get any, cheers.

Greetings, I hope there is still someone, who can help or leade where I may look for it

May someone please tell me if this is possible and how:

1. Change text
2. Change/add answers to riddles
3. And more important change or even add fonts symbols

In my own searches, I think I found how to change the text, but I'm not sure about the nuances, and I found almost nothing about the last two points that was really useful. It seems as if any google search with word "mode" leads me to pages on how to make a cheat save

EDIT: I seems find where riddles and how to redo him, but I have no idea where text from menu as well there still porblem with fonts

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Hi,

I've been playing through the Elder Scrolls games, finished Arena & Daggerfall. The next game I'm going to be playing is Battlespire. In addition to playing them for the first time, I've also been recording and uploading my experience in the games. The plan for Battlespire is going to be a little different though, I'm planning on streaming for the first time. I know the BRUTAL difficulty that is associated with this game, and I am wanting to make sure I don't go down a build that can't beat the game, or will have a difficult time doing so. I want to make it an enjoyable experience not only for myself, but anyone who may watch the stream or videos later. So, is there any tips/tricks (no spoilers) or general build advice you would have for someone in regards to Battlespire. I'm not looking for "broken" builds, just something that will be an enjoyable experience. Thank you for any advice you have I appreciate it.

Hello everyone, I recently got Battlespire through steam, and while I never intended to play multiplayer, my friend was curious about it and I told him that there have been reports of multiplayer not being available, but at the very least we could try to make it work, and if it doesn't, he can just refund the game. I figure a vpn like Hamachii could probably let us play together, but I am not sure.

And on that note, if there is a fix to it, or any other ways to fix, or optimize the Steam version of the game, the full screen option? The option is turned on but when I tab out of the game it always minimizes to a windowed screen. Re-applying full screen does not fix it.

Booted up the GOG version and I'm getting like 5 fps. I've spent hours trying out settings on the DOSBOX conf files, patches, edits, etc. Nothing works and all these forum posts from the past 20 years seem to totally contradict one another.

What can I do to get this running at an acceptable framerate on a beefy computer in 2023?

Hi, anyone has the copy of the Battlespire Athenaeum? I know that the book was linked here twice, but both links are inactive. I'd put it on Google Drive and share a stable link (I think) if I get a copy. Or if anyone has a Google Drive link to it already, that would be great.

Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone can help. I've been enjoying battlespire for a few days now but I'm at the end of level 4 atm and I've run into a game breaking glitch where the bridge leading to the end has just straight up vanished and I can't work out anyway across.

I was wondering if someone had a level 5 save I could use to continue the game cause while I am enjoying the game I'm not enjoying it enough to restart from level 2 (my last save as I breezed through level 3).

Or if anyone could let me know how to make the save editor work on window 10 so I can edit my location I'd appreciate it.

I've been on the long quest of playing through all the TES games (excluding all the mobile/card games) and now it's time to play Battlespire. I've been dreading this for a while. The story sounds interesting, but I've heard that it is very difficult.

My question is this: is it at all possible to play through this game with one of the default classes? I tend to prefer using one of those instead of getting all min-maxy with custom classes for roleplay/immersion reasons (powergaming isn't very immersive imo). That being said, if custom classes are absolutely essential, I'm not against using them. I did it with Daggerfall.

hiiiii everybody! I'm about to start playing Battlespire for the first time on my twitch channel -- I just finished Daggerfall yesterday and am so excited to give Battlespire a go :) if you have any tips for a first time player they would be hugely appreciated, and if you're interested in hanging out and watching me inevitably beef it for the first few hours, I'd love to see you there.

thanks for reading and I hope you all have a kickass day!

Main thoughts are that I was surprised how much I enjoyed the game in the end. Engaging in the politics among the daedra was quite a unique experience for TES and level 5 in particular I thought was a very creative idea for a level, with some interesting lore behind it. Anyone else find this level just extremely fun with how intense it was to have the daedra constantly chasing you as you try and figure out how to escape the trap?

Also thought that the way the daedra let off barrages of magic at you made the game more intense and fun, even if it could be exploited in unintended ways and made the end of level 7 particularly chaotic. Overall, thought it was clearly going to be a bit of a buggy mess going in but turns out it’s fun, challenging and at times quite intense in ways I haven’t experienced a lot in games.

So I heard this game was hard as hell. I played Arena before, and I picked the Redguard Ranger race/class as it was the easiest to play as. What is the equivalent here in Battlespire? Preferably I would a build based around combat/magic since you are meant to be a battlemage after all.

Hey all,

Started battlespire several months ago, but took a long break and am now just getting back at it.

I made an altmer battlemage but I can’t remember if I did a custom class or just chose the default “battlemage.”

Just started level 4….up to this point things were challenging but not awful, but now I’m getting rolled by fire/frost daedra and especially seducers.

I have about 118 max health, and enough magicka to cast about 5 or so spells (either destruction or a heal, but I’ve been trying to save for healing).

My attributes are all I believe in the 60s and long blade is my primarily damage dealer.

I’m not sure if I’m wasting my time at this point with this character especially if things are expected to get harder…..should I be getting 2-3 shotted by seducers? If I go ethereal and close the gap I can kill them in 2-3 hits (when I actually hit) but then that relies on having consumables available.

It just feels like I’m relying on consumables a lot and I’m not sure if it’s sustainable or if it’s just how the game is meant to be played.

Any advice would be great!

Update: Re-rolled, way more enjoyable. I had more health at the game’s start than my old character did on level 4, and I took spell absorption so I can actually use destruction magic without feeling like I just screwed my survivability

So I finally got to level 6 and I encountered a bug of sorts that completely broke my game. One of the 2 deadra lords near the start is supposed to drop an entry sigil but none of them are dropping anything. Any ideas?

I'm on a search to get every elder scrolls game i possibly can, and considering bethesda kinda dropped battlespire and redguard, i have no idea where to find these things

I just started Battlespire and it is very confusing even while looking at UESP. Is their more straightforward guide or easier way to play or is it just insanely hard and tedious? Should I just skip this game?

EDIT: I added some more

I've been messing around with Battlespire on and off for weeks but haven't actually completed the game yet because of trying new character builds and experimenting with what works well for me. Currently found something I'm pretty satisfied with and am on level 4 now, so I figured I'd share some of my findings here, especially because finding information about Battlespire outside of UESP feels like looking for a needle in a haystack. Feel free to add any other tips you have in mind!

TL;DR version at the bottom because I type too much.

So without further ado, here's some tips to creating a powerful character in Battlespire, feel free to share your own as well!

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- Set your Wounds (what HP/Health is called in Battlespire) as high as you comfortably can, or to the max (200) if possible, because it seems your health increases by almost 1/5th of your current max from the prior level each time. Endurance doesn't actually seem to do anything for it, despite the description implying otherwise. I had 10 Endurance and 200 "wounds" on level 1, and when moving to level 2 it became 239, then 286 on level 3, and now 342 on level 4. On another character that had 100 Wounds on level 1, with also 10 Endurance, progressing to level 2 it was now 119. From checking other players stats from pictures, people even with high Endurance seem to have (comparably) very low HP, and reverse dividing it based on the level they were on seems to confirm the near 1/5th increase is consistent despite high or low Endurance. So, feel free to drop Endurance to 10 as well unless you want high level Swimming. You can't increase Wounds manually after character creation so this choice can have a massive impact on your survivability. (If you stick with the default 50 Wounds, by the last level you'll only have around 147 Wounds, compared to the maximum of around 590 if you chose 200 Wounds at Character Creation)

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-Choose ALL critical Weaknesses + Spell Absorption. It might seem counterintuitive to choose critical weaknesses as a survivability choice, but it gives you a ton of points to use on other things like more Wounds, and it's not as bad as it sounds. Enemies have limited amounts of spells they can use, they frequently end up missing or hurting themselves when casting them (if you're good at it you can reliably make them do this by standing next to walls or elevated surfaces), you can find items that make you invulnerable to certain elements anyway, and if you chose Spell Absorption, you might end up not taking any damage and getting back Magicka instead! You absorb spells more often the higher your Willpower is as well. I heard a rumor on a forum that higher Mysticism also made it happen more often, but from testing having 10 Willpower with 70 Mysticism vs. having 75 Willpower and 5 Mysticism, the latter I absorbed almost every spell I got hit with, and the former I didn't absorb a single spell out of about 20. Just make sure you don't already have full magicka when getting hit, even if you have to waste a bit of magicka on a spell to make room for it, but if you chose 200 Wounds, it'll just only scratch your health anyway.

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-Hand to Hand is actually really good. It starts off really weak, even killing scamps takes forever, but it levels far faster than any other weapon skill from what I've seen. I started off with 5 HtH in level 1, using it exclusively, and having killed everything in the level, I was at 59 by the end of it. Then 69 at the end of level 2, and 100 by the end of level 3 because I killed every Wrathman with my fists of fury (they're great for training on!) But more importantly, Fists don't degrade, they can't be dropped to the ground (it's annoying trying to pick up weapons when they fall whilst getting pushed back by enemies), and they also don't slow down if an enemy "catches you off guard with their dodge". At level 100 Fists do 16-18 damage, which is around Daedric Longsword/Mace/Spear/Battleaxe level damage as far as I can tell, but below Daedric Claymore, Broadsword and War Axe damage. Damage increases every 7 or so levels, so theoretically it may even increase in damage beyond 100 if you have any Hand to Hand increasing items. You'll also probably reach 100 Hand to Hand well before seeing any Daedric items. Also, it lets you forbid all weapon types, which gives you a lot of points to use in character creation. (don't worry, you can still use the spear of bitter mercy with longswords/spears forbidden)

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-High Restoration + Rapid Healing + Spell Absorption with High Willpower + 3x Magic is great. High Restoration makes the Cure Health spell cost very low (if you choose a Dunmer or Breton and set it to 60 in character creation, it can cost about 11-14 Spell points) Rapid Healing makes your health potions and spells heal more, so you can heal up to 70 health in one spell if you're lucky, but also you can still heal as low as 10 or so, it's quite random. Spell absorption with high Willpower covers magicka costs quite well if you're only using Cure Health, if you use other spells you might need to use health or magicka potion restoring items sometimes.

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-Regenerate Health and Regenerate Magicka aren't worth the cost. Regenerate magicka is a fixed rate and doesn't increase in speed if you have higher magicka, so if you choose 3x Magicka then the rate it restores is extremely slow. Regenerate Health seems a bit better paced even with high health, but there's Guantlets of Profane Vitality in level 1 (guarenteed spawn) which does the same thing, and if you remember to only equip it if you need to restore health passively out of combat, they'll never break.

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-I would be careful with choosing Athleticism too, it's cheap and very useful (it makes you run quicker and jump farther), but it can actually make you too fast or jump too far if you have high speed/jumping. One platforming section I remember, it became very difficult to actually jump on the platforms because I would just jump straight past them. Ended up just jumping to the other side of the room without using them, but I can imagine further down the game it could be a problem - there's also items that grant this effect, so you may still come across it, and have the ability to toggle it off if needed by unequipping them, something you can't do if you have the perk from character creation.

EDIT: Although if you want to save some points, one thing you could do is drop speed down to about 40 or 30, or even 20, and use Athleticism in its place, you'll be faster and jump farther than you would if you had 75 speed/60 jump without it, and it's cheaper than having Speed up that high, so if you aren't using Dodging as your main way of surviving, it could give you some more points to spend.

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-Luck doesn't seem to do much? I don't know, I haven't noticed too many negative side effects of having 10 luck, but I've definitely benefited from having the extra points I got from lowering it as well as Endurance.

-Agility actually doesn't seem to change much either, even at level 10 Agility I still seem to hit about as frequently as I did with 70, with the same weapon skill, same goes for being hit, and whether or not spells successfully hit. So, unless you're using an agility based skill like Missile (which is pretty good, so you might be) you can drop this one down to 10 as well.

-Save some points for when you complete level 1. Unused points from character creation pour over to the points you can use after completing level 1, but only this one time, any points after that don't carry over to level 3 or 4 and so on. What this does mean is that if you don't need several attributes at 75, and don't want 200 Wounds or something, and would prefer to bring the ones that you do want at 75, beyond that, you can keep those points and use them after level 1. It's fairly easy to get 100 Willpower + Destruction at the start of level 2 without much sacrifice in the way of Character creation if you save and spend them right. Without using any exploits either. 100 Destruction means Cause Damage (Centered on Self AoE Explosion) Costs 7 Spell points. For as much power as that brings that's a lot to have access to at level 2! Skill boosting items lower it even further beyond 100.

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TL;DR

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1. Set Wounds (HP) to the highest you can (200 is max character creation value). It increases 1/5th per level.
2. Choose all Crit Weaknesses, it's not as bad as it sounds and gives lots of points.
3. Hand to Hand is great. Levels very quickly, doesn't degrade, doesn't drop on the ground, doesn't get slowed when an "enemy dodge catches you off guard." Still gets pretty powerful by the end.
4. High Restoration (with Cure Health Spell) + Rapid Healing + Spell Absorption with High Willpower + 3x Magicka = You won't need to use health or Magicka potions.
5. Regenerate Magicka and Health sound good but aren't worth the cost.
6. Athleticism is great but risky because it makes you run too fast and jump too far, making some platforming puzzles difficult.
7. Luck doesn't do much, you can drop it, as well as Endurance, to 10.
8. Agility seems to be safe to lower to 10 as well if you aren't using Missile or stealth skills.
9. Save some points from character creation to carry over to the end of level 1 so you can boost your favorite attributes and skills to 100 right off the bat if you want. This is the only time they carry over so make it count.

Hello there, Battlespire community!

I have the goal to play through every Elder Scrolls Game ever released, and after I finished Morrowind a couple weeks ago (and made some more characters because it's a fantastic game) I decided to play Battlespire next, followed by Redguard. The problem ist, that the game settings don't seem to work...

I bought the GOG version, the only version of the game I could find that was legit and not cracked, if that matters. If I change the sound and or music settings by pushing that bar back or forth, it doesn't change anything. The music is very, very loud on default so I pretty much have to play at 25% if I don't want to be deaf by the end of my playthrough but it just doesn't work. Any advice?

And a second thing: the screen is really small, it could be twice as big and wouldn't even get close to the edge of my monitor. I read on uesp that you could add a command into the settings file of dosbox, but the problem is: this file doesn't exist. At least I cannot find it in the folder.

I hope this subreddit isn't as dead as it seems to be (I mean the last post is over a month old and has like 2 comments) and that any of you knows how to help me... I would be extremely grateful for I really want to play this game!

Ok, here's a longshot...

I'm working on a mod to add the island to Skyrim, and I'd like to get a more personal tour of the island than the few videos on Youtube can offer me. I tried to get into Battlespire about a year ago and it took me literal days to beat the first level, so I'm afraid git gud isn't an option for me, but I loved the Daedric politics and lore of the game and thought this would be a fun personal project to become better acquainted with the Creation Kit.

It would be a huge coincidence if anyone who happens upon this can help, but if you can let me know and I'll PM you my email. Thank you.

Um hello?

Ever think to yourself, "man would it be nice if I had a more active and involved community for discussing my favorite Old School TES games?"

Well I'm glad you asked rhetorical person because there is!

The Older Scrolls is a discord server dedicated to the pre-Morrowind games, namely Arena, Daggerfall, Battlespire, Redguard, and the TES Travels games (not pre-Morrowind but they need some love). We're an active community at over 150 members and counting. If this sounds fun to any of you, give us a try! Our door is always open.

Enter the Older Scrolls Discord

A discord for this and other TES games has been made to represent all of the oldest of TES titles on one server. If this is something that anyone would be interested in, be sure to join!

Discord Server link

Happy birthday Battlespire!