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Kagrenzel and proof that the laws of gravity are broken


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At least most of you have gone to Kagrenzel and fallen down the great well after activating the yellow orb in the cage. 

 

I don't know how many of you have noticed the laws of physics as you fall. How many of you have noticed that once you start falling, you fall faster than the corpses and jars as you start falling? Furthermore, if you hit any of those jars or bodies, you die on impact unless you've run some exploits and have 100K+ health? 

 

Galileo proved (actually by rolling balls down a ramp rather than dropping objects off the Tower of Piza) that gravity works equally on all objects, and that human bodies and ceramic jars would fall at roughly the same rate. Only wind resistance would slow down objects (like pieces of paper or feathers). And relativity of motion would show that if you somehow tapped a jar or body as you all were falling, you'd touch at maybe 5 kph at most. On the other hand, falling in the pool below, no matter how deep it is, would slam into you like solid concrete if you hit it at terminal velocity. Unless -- as it should be if you were standing at the proper side of that rotating floor -- you hit the water last and those other bodies and objects disturbed the water enough to break the surface tension.

 

I really doubt that mod exists, but is there some Skyrim SE mod that enforces the force of gravity as we understand it? Or would that really bork up physics for the rest of the game? But think of the benefit. You don't have to try 20+ attempts to survive the fall down Kagrenzel to the pool because tapping jars or bodies kills you on impact?

 

Or are the physics and programmer savvy among you interested in making a mod? "The Law of Gravity Must Be Obeyed" Maybe it would be a Pyrrhic victory type of mod, fixing physics in that one spot and borking everything else. Or maybe it might actually fix physics for the entire game and repair things like all ballistic motion and motion of moving and falling objects.

 

Just a thought.

 

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I know there are mods that remove physics damage, like No Silly Physics Damage and No Fall Damage. While useful in their own right, it seems to me an admission that Bethesda didn't consult enough of the right kinds of physics experts when designing the physics of any of their game engines. 

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