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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Raphael on August 06, 2011, 10:26:27 AM
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH H
i pre purchased! just giving the info the pre purchase is out there in steam now!
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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I hope it's not a buggy and laggy mess Oblivion was but it's from Bethesda and like Obsidian, aren't known for releasing bug free games.
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I hope its really something improved.
All the screenshots ive seen of the game look like Oblivion re-skinned and with a minimal graphic engine upgrade.
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WHERE ARE THE OTHER D&D DWEEBIES!?
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Well I am one. Haven't played in some time though.
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lol skyrim will be epic,i first played oblivion i was like "omg ive walked into a picture :O" my friend:"if you see it you can walk there"
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did you guys buy it?! i did! :D :D :D
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did you guys buy it?! i did! :D :D :D
Not yet but soon.
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ya it looks like its gonna be awesome, I am hoping its moddable :pray
I did some modding for Oblivion, this one looks way better :O
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I hope its really something improved.
All the screenshots ive seen of the game look like Oblivion re-skinned and with a minimal graphic engine upgrade.
Minimul graphic engine upgrade? I don't know what trailers or screenshots you've seen but the graphics are hardly anything more than justa minimal upgrade.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic6dKnv3WdU
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ya I dont know what AKAK is looking at, but that is way beyond oblivion 4.
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Bethesda is my number one gaming company.
They make fantastic games,and always have.
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Bethesda is my number one gaming company.
They make fantastic games,and always have.
+1
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I hope its really something improved.
All the screenshots ive seen of the game look like Oblivion re-skinned and with a minimal graphic engine upgrade.
The quoted text could not be further from the truth. (http://www.destructoid.com/burning-butterflies-and-kicking-wolves-skyrim-squeak--209991.phtml)
The above text is a link.
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Im excited for Skyrim, But im more excited for Bethesda to be done with Skyrim, So they can get to work on Fallout 4 :pray
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fallout 5??
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fallout 5??
New vegas isent fallout 4.
So the next fallout to be made will be Fallout 4, not 5.
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Bethesda is my number one gaming company.
They make fantastic games,and always have.
Ya ain't played Bethesda til you played System Shock 1 on a VFX-1 VR Headset with Stereo 3D and HeadTracking (yes all that stuff in the mid-90's :D ).
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Minimul graphic engine upgrade? I don't know what trailers or screenshots you've seen but the graphics are hardly anything more than justa minimal upgrade.
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Im sorry but:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItQOo28Kd_U
The graphics are upgraded from Oblivion's when it comes to their glossiness and crisp image quality which is completely expected of any game made today. Oblivion is what? 5 or 6 years old now.
Pay attention to the actual graphic objects in the game. The houses are the same, the NPCs use the same models (their skins are updated to new graphics), the voices are the same audio/acting quality as those found in oblivion/fallout2/etc: bland, empty, scripted.
Honestly, I think all they did was recycle the oblivion engine, upped its graphics crispness and 'modded' oblivion into skyrim. Thats how it looks and feels like.
Even the damn gameplay is the same. The same retarded raise-hand, glow-hand, lame spell cast animation.
I expected a new game not a rehash of an old one.
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The background doesn't stop when you talk to NPCs
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Amazon pre-order arrived 1.5 hours ago. Installing it now. But I've never had a Steam-required game before. The installation is currently estimated for 3 hours, thanks to something its slowly downloading. I've done some searching, and it looks like Steam is required to play, outside of downloading a crack. I just hope its easy to completely unload Steam when I'm not playing Skyrim. I'll allow Steam to exist while I'm playing Skyrim, but any other time its not allowed to run, or else I uninstall and look for alternative measures which I assume exist but can't be talked about here.
Also this better get fixed real damn fast, no excuse for such sloppiness: http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1257169-horizontal-vs-vertical-mouse-sensitivity
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Been playing it since last night at midnight. :D
Great so far.
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Runs great on my PC at High settings and max draw distance. Game looks great, game plays great, only 4 hours into the game so far and I've already saw so much. Haven't had any issues except for the age old "moonwalking" NPCs. It's not as bad as in Oblivion or Fallout, but it's still there. A couple of clipping into walls but nothing major. Other than that, the game is a solid 9.5/10.
I can't wait till some of the mods come out. I expect and really want a realism mod like in previous Bethesda games. More damage, food, water, sleep. Worth the $60.
AWESOME game. :aok
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Ya ain't played Bethesda til you played System Shock 1 on a VFX-1 VR Headset with Stereo 3D and HeadTracking (yes all that stuff in the mid-90's :D ).
That game was awesome.. Creepy as hell, but awesome.
**Er NM.. i was thinking about System Shock 2
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System Shock 2 was truly awesome. Btw. the System Shock series was made by Looking Glass Studios, not Bethesda.
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Thank you PR3D4TOR. :aok
But yes, the system shock series are fantastic games.
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My god.. Skyrim's user interface is some of worst I've ever used, even MUDs have a better user interface. To get anywhere on the interface, you have to go through at least one unnecessary menu, like when opening inventory - for some reason you have to choose the category first. The skills screen is... well... massive with very little actual information on the screen, while it could be much more informative. The UI designer sure has gone great lenghts to make it a PROCESS to find what you need to know (or do).
I wonder how the modding community is going to adjust this, because this seems much more difficult than resizing the fonts that were too big in Oblivion.
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CAN'T.... STOPPPP.... TAKIN'... SCREENSHOTS AAAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHHH
my steam is flooded with my screenshots and i just can't stop taking more and more and more! i can't choose my desktop background i keep changing OMGOMGOMGOMG ok 15 minutes break is over time to go back for 12 more hours of SKYRIM cya!
(http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00008.jpg)
(http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00007.jpg)
(http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00006.jpg)
(http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00001.jpg)
these are some i took this morning :) to bad i have to put all on low detail in order to play but I am stunned anyway! wish i had a better pc :/
here are some more for those that could be interested
http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-11_00030.jpg
http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00031.jpg
http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00020.jpg
http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00007.1.jpg
http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-11_00028.jpg
http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00015.jpg
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My god.. Skyrim's user interface is some of worst I've ever used, even MUDs have a better user interface. To get anywhere on the interface, you have to go through at least one unnecessary menu, like when opening inventory - for some reason you have to choose the category first. The skills screen is... well... massive with very little actual information on the screen, while it could be much more informative. The UI designer sure has gone great lenghts to make it a PROCESS to find what you need to know (or do).
I wonder how the modding community is going to adjust this, because this seems much more difficult than resizing the fonts that were too big in Oblivion.
It is because it is intended for a game machine.
I'll wait 6 months or a year before picking up any Bethesda game in order to give the mod community time to fix the game machine BS.
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CAN'T.... STOPPPP.... TAKIN'... SCREENSHOTS AAAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHHH
my steam is flooded with my screenshots and i just can't stop taking more and more and more! i can't choose my desktop background i keep changing OMGOMGOMGOMG ok 15 minutes break is over time to go back for 12 more hours of SKYRIM cya!
(http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00008.jpg)
(http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00007.jpg)
(http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00006.jpg)
(http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00001.jpg)
these are some i took this morning :) to bad i have to put all on low detail in order to play but I am stunned anyway! wish i had a better pc :/
here are some more for those that could be interested
http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-11_00030.jpg
http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00031.jpg
http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00020.jpg
http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00007.1.jpg
http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-11_00028.jpg
http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/301/300594/2011-11-12_00015.jpg
Get some better armor man. Hahaha but yeah the game is great.
I don't think the interface is very difficult to navigate or over tedious. The skills is a cool idea but I think it could be scaled down a bit.
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kilo, I do have access to better armour but it is nothing to do with my character :) its cool fighting trolls and dragons desperatly with that thin stuff and is suitable to my character. ROLE PLAY! :D!
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I Steam required for playing?
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no, you don't need to have steam to play :) my steam bugged on my skyrim as I unlocked it and it keeps giving me "try again later" message, so i just go to the directory and play the game from there, no need for steam at all :) but since sometimes friends talk to me i added it as a "non steam game" hehe people will think i got a pirate copy. darn you Gabe Newell!
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My favorite moment so far would be trying to fight a giant then getting uppercutted to 2x the nearby mountain's height.
Playing as a 2Handed Warrior Nord/Archer and it's loads of fun. Gonna be a battle Mage next or a dual wielding thief.
One complaint is that you can't really play as an "evil" champion without being a psychopath killer either. But it's not just in Skyrim, it's in almost every RPG.
I'll be a maniacal killer on my second play through, hehe.
Once again, amazing job by Bethesda, can't wait for more mods to come out.
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ah I am a nord archer fighting on the side of ulrich to free Skyrim from the empire influence
its fun fighting tons of empirial elfs on a hard AI lvl, really challenging, gotta love when a dragon randomly joins the fight and does the job for ya :D those darn elfs
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I Steam required for playing?
Yes. It is required for installing and authenticating the game and also all patching will be done through Steam.
ack-ack
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Im sorry but:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItQOo28Kd_U
The graphics are upgraded from Oblivion's when it comes to their glossiness and crisp image quality which is completely expected of any game made today. Oblivion is what? 5 or 6 years old now.
Pay attention to the actual graphic objects in the game. The houses are the same, the NPCs use the same models (their skins are updated to new graphics), the voices are the same audio/acting quality as those found in oblivion/fallout2/etc: bland, empty, scripted.
Honestly, I think all they did was recycle the oblivion engine, upped its graphics crispness and 'modded' oblivion into skyrim. Thats how it looks and feels like.
Even the damn gameplay is the same. The same retarded raise-hand, glow-hand, lame spell cast animation.
I expected a new game not a rehash of an old one.
so far I cant see anything that is taken from Oblivion....they did use a similar magic wield animation, but that is it.....
non of the textures are the same, the houses are not the same....
the NPC are NOT the same...not even close.
Skyrim so far is great. :aok
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well I bought a new xbox game for the first time in years.
I did enjoy oblivion and the missus will actually sit and play it for a few hours. With this in mind I will be flying the scenario on saturday night :banana:
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The giant punt hundreds of feet in the air almost had me in tears from laughter. My other favorite moment was killing a bear, hearing footsteps running behind me, drawing my bow to turn and face the new threat, seeing it was someone called 'frightened victim' or somesuch, and holding fire, but when she started talking the game released the arrow and I shot her in the face...
Another good one was I was fighting a dragon in the middle of a forest, the dragon breathed fire at a farm during the course of the battle, out of nowhere this woman runs out of the farm area and starts attacking me. I'm like, 'Lady, do you not see the giant firebreathing lizard over there? Prioritize, dammit!!!'
Truly an excellent game. A little bit of 'more of the same' disease from Oblivion, but it is improved and different. I'm not super thrilled with how they did some of the magic effects and soforth. I really miss 'detect life' being able to go on an item... But I can see why they did it.
Open world games are some of my favorites by far, and the Elder Scrolls are one of the most 'open' out there. It's definitely cut off my AH addiction other than FSO. :)
I specifically got the PC version so when the modders do their thing, I can get more out of it. Can't wait to see what people come up with.
Wiley.
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I have no idea what this game is like but it looks cool. I just wish rather than always starting out with a stick and leather armor, it was more like Hitman where you have all the tools you need, you just have to figure out the best way to do the killing. Thats why I like AH, it gives you everything you need the first day you play. The talent you have to provide.
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I have no idea what this game is like but it looks cool. I just wish rather than always starting out with a stick and leather armor, it was more like Hitman where you have all the tools you need, you just have to figure out the best way to do the killing. Thats why I like AH, it gives you everything you need the first day you play. The talent you have to provide.
It's a RPG that you can play in either 1st or 3rd person. Unlike most RPGs, which have a main storyline that you have to stick to, Skyrim doesn't force you to, meaning you can do whatever quest you want from the beginning. The maps are huge, there's no invisible barrier blocking you from going off the "main path". If you ever played Fallout 3/New Vegas, it's more or less the same thing.
If you want to, there's also a cheat command where you can add every single item you want in the game. There's no level requirements, so you can be totally pimped out at level 1. But I wouldn't do it, because it pretty much ruins the game if you can kill everything with one hit.
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I started to mod Skyrim already :rofl
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I like exploring and finding new settlements. Found this one after I took out a keep full of werewolf hunters, it's someone's nice little homestead.
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm94/Ack-Ack/2011-11-16_00001.jpg)
Surprised that it's less of a tax on my system than Oblivion was when it was released, I'm able to run Skyrim in ultrahigh settings without any issues and FPS stays above 40.
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I'm also surprised how well Skyrim runs on my X4 965 with a Radeon 5770, I was expecting it to be slow until I bought a new videocard.
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tried to fraps some skyrim these days
my fps said "nope."
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Right now I am at riverwood, talking to the people, reading in the tavern as sven plays songs, thinking about wether going back in the aid for the stormcloaks or looking for more words to learn, guess i should be moving soon...
(http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/631857288006078246/0A63BC30565739FA63B74FDA3AB93BF2DAC1A390/)
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I already tried 3 characters, a Redguard Mage, a Khajit sneaking archer, and a Nord Two Handed warrior. Albeit, I've only gotten all 3 to level 10, I manage to explore quite a bit of the map. I'm gonna go back to my Khajit and focus on the rest of the game. Very fun game. :aok
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I'm trying to decide whether or not to lift the 'curse' if the werewolf I've been inflicted with, so far it's been fun transforming in the middle of a fight to and slaughtering multiple enemies in a fight.
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I'm trying to decide whether or not to lift the 'curse' if the werewolf I've been inflicted with, so far it's been fun transforming in the middle of a fight to and slaughtering multiple enemies in a fight.
ack-ack
Been watching a buddy of mine play on his PS3 next to me on my 360.
It gets better the more you use it :aok
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darn glitch! i released a bunch of fellow stormcloak prisioners and they got their weapons alright but in the fight they just leave their wepons and use their fists o_O We lost some of them in this sillyness but we were victorious anyway... I hope no one else has this trouble.
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darn glitch! i released a bunch of fellow stormcloak prisioners and they got their weapons alright but in the fight they just leave their wepons and use their fists o_O We lost some of them in this sillyness but we were victorious anyway... I hope no one else has this trouble.
Now that is bad assness, dropping the swords and going Kung Fu on the bad guys!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverBringAKnifeToAFistfight
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hahaha yes i guess it was kinda badass to kick those imeprials out of the fort with our bare fists
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darn glitch! i released a bunch of fellow stormcloak prisioners and they got their weapons alright but in the fight they just leave their wepons and use their fists o_O We lost some of them in this sillyness but we were victorious anyway... I hope no one else has this trouble.
I had all but one grab their armor and weapons. The one that didn't grab his armor and weapons after I freed him was the bravest of the lot and rushed head long into a group of Imperials while the rest of us decided this was a good time to make our escape. The last thing I saw as I ran out of the door with the other prisoners was Jurgen in the middle of a sea of Imperial soldiers, with just his fists flying furiously. Imagine our collective surprise once we made it outside of the keep to find Jurgen waiting for us near the campfire.
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Morrowind was 10x better than Oblivion....
But I feel like this game is more like Morrowind so I give it a 7 out of 10...now don't get me wrong bethesda games are my favorite but...
I have already beaten the main questline I am the archmage at the college and the leader of the thieves guild. The main quest was was too short and frankly not nearly as interesting as morrowind was.
But most of the side quests have made up for the main.
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My favorite soundtrack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oRXA19hrCM&list=PL0AA3738EF2E18AC1&index=2&feature=plpp_video
Too many epic moments of scenery while listening to this to count. Gosh, I can't imagine the future of gaming. :cheers:
Another video of epicness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU4bSSV4bMM
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I had all but one grab their armor and weapons. The one that didn't grab his armor and weapons after I freed him was the bravest of the lot and rushed head long into a group of Imperials while the rest of us decided this was a good time to make our escape. The last thing I saw as I ran out of the door with the other prisoners was Jurgen in the middle of a sea of Imperial soldiers, with just his fists flying furiously. Imagine our collective surprise once we made it outside of the keep to find Jurgen waiting for us near the campfire.
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:rofl incridible!
Belial, do you know if that famous texture mod for morrowing (better looking graphics and such) is finished? I want to buy morrowind and that would be a nice info. never played morrowind before myself, people say the combat system is worst then ablovion but that the storyline is great and such... and i became a fan of elder scrolls when i played oblivion and started reading all kinds of books about the history, so many things to learn
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I don't know about graphical mods but if you can stomach 1999 graphics Morrowind is a hell of a game, frankly I thought oblivion sucked compared to it.
So if you can handle it your in for a treat.
Morrowind's story was really great and immersive with the dark caves and such, and running into the deadric gods...foolish mortal do you know with whom you speak? :D
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I amde my mind, i will totally but morrowind... today :D
well in other news...
i just had one of those really productive talks with maiq the liar :rofl man! that guy is in every age, i think he is some kind of god or has something really important, he migth just be immortal and the side effect of not beeing able to die is.. well... acting like Maiq the Liar :D
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Don't know if this would interest you Raphael but there is an overhaul mod package available. Here is a video of it http://youtu.be/2r6hilB6Dlc (http://youtu.be/2r6hilB6Dlc) and here is where you can get it and the patches for it http://www.fileplanet.com/116508/0/0/0/1/section/Mod_Files_&_Patches (http://www.fileplanet.com/116508/0/0/0/1/section/Mod_Files_&_Patches) as well as other mods for it.
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allaire, thank you. thank you so much for this information and for the links right here! you are awesome! :D thank you again. Ill buy and start downloading morrowind right now
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Aw man watching the old videos brings back memories I think I lost a solid month of my life to Morrowind, almost wore diapers and didnt eat playing it haha...
Look at the size of Vivec, remember finally getting into vivecs door only to be 1 shotted by him lol?
It's epic Raph trust me.
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Yup, if the elder scrolls was a mountain, morrowind was the peek, everything else has been down hill from there. Well in most ways.
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You cannot not laugh when you see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QUFfYA0wA
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:rofl :rofl :rofl
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You cannot not laugh when you see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QUFfYA0wA
Here's what that horse looks like from the front. :rofl
(http://chopur.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/horse-330x330.png)
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Ooo pretty ;)
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh473/cactuskooler/ScreenShot3.jpg)
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You guys gotta look up sometimes, and just sit and watch those northern lights.
Just as, if not more incredible than seeing them in real life I think.
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You guys gotta look up sometimes, and just sit and watch those northern lights.
Just as, if not more incredible than seeing them in real life I think.
ya the Northern lights are cool.
I thought Morrowwind suked arse :rofl
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Don't know if this would interest you Raphael but there is an overhaul mod package available. Here is a video of it http://youtu.be/2r6hilB6Dlc (http://youtu.be/2r6hilB6Dlc) and here is where you can get it and the patches for it http://www.fileplanet.com/116508/0/0/0/1/section/Mod_Files_&_Patches (http://www.fileplanet.com/116508/0/0/0/1/section/Mod_Files_&_Patches) as well as other mods for it.
HOLYCOW! I am reinstalling Morrowind NOW!
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amde a quick test on recording with fraps... it killed my fps (even with my low settings graphics) and youtube just ruined the quality BADLY, i can't believe I wasted so much time uploading to youtube just to get this horrible quality up there, how do people post those REAL HD videos?
... anyway here it is if anyone feels like watching... keep in mind this was a test video so there is nothing epic there. one question tho... are the dragons weaker when they first rise? it seems that it is way more challenging to battle a dragon that you find randomly in the land then when you get it when it first rises. I'm not sure...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICNyx2jEngo&feature=channel_video_title
btw: watch on 720 if you're going to watch it... and in the expanded screen (not the full screen) looks a bit better
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You guys gotta look up sometimes, and just sit and watch those northern lights.
Just as, if not more incredible than seeing them in real life I think.
+1. The environment is no doubt one of the best I have ever seen in a game.
If Skyrim had "true" first person POV, I would worship Bethesda.
By "true" first person, I mean like Battlefield 3. Where you can see your arms when running and sprinting, or even your feet. Or have your shadows appear when you go into First Person, instead of the generic "camera zooms in, body disappears".
And if the NPCs movement were smoothed out and the AI were like most FPSs, I would dress up as a Nord and walk around in public.
Still a 9.5/10. :aok
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personally i think the AI is incridible.. it has its " :confused: moments" but overall i really think Bethesda does really good job with the AI
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personally i think the AI is incridible.. it has its " :confused: moments" but overall i really think Bethesda does really good job with the AI
Eh, I find that once you get the a sneak level of 40+, you can literally hide 5 steps away from an enemy and not have them see you. I'll kill a bandit in a room and everyone else would rush there, then I would just wait until they aren't "alerted", then kill them one by one.
I got pretty annoyed by it and didn't want to ruin the game for me that now, I just put on heavy armor, took up Two Handed Weapons and just bum rush a room. I actually get killed now if I'm not careful. :D
Blocking and timing power attacks is a lot more fun, hehe.
Still waiting on the realism mod. Increasing difficulty just seems to increase enemies' health, not your damage/their damage.
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Increasing difficulty just seems to increase enemies' health, not your damage/their damage.
If it's anything like Oblivion, the loot you find in dungeons etc. will likely be worth lots more.
Though you don't really need it if you're good. I already have some 40,000 gold and countless
riches more worth in saved loot in my house, not to mention 500+ lockpicks :D
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Actually, it's based of Fallout 3's difficulty settings, not Oblivion's. In Skyrim/FO3, once you enter a dungeon/area, it's locked to whatever level you were at, so if you enter and decide to leave, when you come back (say 5 levels later), everything inside will still be level 1, but you are now stronger.
In Oblivion, everything was locked to whatever level you were. So if you were low level, all the loot was crap, if you were high level, all the loot was god like.
I have no problems with the game right now, but could it be better? Sure.
Thank god for mods, right?
Realism mod
Project Beauty
Realistic lighting
Better UI
Custom Soundtrack
That's all I need for my Skyrim mods, which will be out by the end of the year no doubt.
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The soundtrack now is awesome one of the best I have heard.
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Actually, it's based of Fallout 3's difficulty settings, not Oblivion's. In Skyrim/FO3, once you enter a dungeon/area, it's locked to whatever level you were at, so if you enter and decide to leave, when you come back (say 5 levels later), everything inside will still be level 1, but you are now stronger.
In Oblivion, everything was locked to whatever level you were. So if you were low level, all the loot was crap, if you were high level, all the loot was god like.
I have no problems with the game right now, but could it be better? Sure.
Thank god for mods, right?
Realism mod
Project Beauty
Realistic lighting
Better UI
Custom Soundtrack
That's all I need for my Skyrim mods, which will be out by the end of the year no doubt.
there is already a bunch of mods :aok
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there is already a bunch of mods :aok
Oh yea, I check out Skyrim Nexus everyday, but most of I dont like or they're still pretty buggy. I kinda want to finish my first play through mods free though.
I can't play games knowing already what's going to happen, obviously Skyrim has a lot of choices, but most are minor, I haven't finished the game yet, but the largest decision I found so far is choosing Imperial or Stormcloak. I choose Imperial, so Stormcloak will be next. Mods help me get through some of the receptive stuff like dungeons and what not.
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Imperial cowards!
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I don't like how when I get off my horse it's life goal becomes pissing off every bear/giant/dragon in the area.
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This forum downsizes large pics. You need to right click and show in new tab.
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he died as a hero, I salute him.
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Pfft. Lightweight. He blacked out after only 40 hours. He also obviously didn't know that changing position once in a while is critical to avoid necrosis of the limbs. No mention of a diaper either. I be he wasted several minutes in the bathroom.
Kids? Learn from this guy's mistakes. This is why you don't use those energy drinks and junk food to stay up. If you just keep a nice, steady alcohol buzz going and eat good things instead of junk food, you can game much longer than noobsauce up there...
Still really enjoying this game. Sneak/backstab does appear to be brokenly powerful, just got my smithing up to 100% at the end of last night. I'm making a point of not looking for where anything is on this playthrough, as I ruined Oblivion by reading the wikis online. I think I agree Morrowind is probably the best of the series, Oblivion was a bit of a letdown, but I quite like Skyrim. Some of the systems are a bit too simplistic perhaps, but the world really is well constructed IMO. Haven't seen any noticable dungeon reuse, and in a game this size, that's pretty impressive.
I'm really in no hurry to finish this game. Normally I have an irresistable urge to blow through the main quest, but I really like how natural and logical a lot of the quest setups are.
Wiley.
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Pong pwns all. :D
That is except Asteroids. :neener:
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amde a quick test on recording with fraps... it killed my fps (even with my low settings graphics) and youtube just ruined the quality BADLY, i can't believe I wasted so much time uploading to youtube just to get this horrible quality up there, how do people post those REAL HD videos?
... anyway here it is if anyone feels like watching... keep in mind this was a test video so there is nothing epic there. one question tho... are the dragons weaker when they first rise? it seems that it is way more challenging to battle a dragon that you find randomly in the land then when you get it when it first rises. I'm not sure...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICNyx2jEngo
btw: watch on 720 if you're going to watch it... and in the expanded screen (not the full screen) looks a bit better
You get way better quality by using "Force Lossless RGB capture" and "Full-Size", because those settings barely hurt performance at all compared to using the lower quality settings, so they are very much worth it. Also I like to set a custom FPS of 15-24 if my computer can't keep a steady 30 FPS while capturing. The loss of FPS won't be noticed nearly as much as lower quality capture settings will be noticed.
I'm making a point of not looking for where anything is on this playthrough, as I ruined Oblivion by reading the wikis online.
Doing the same thing here. I want to be surprised and not know all the min/maxing things. And I'm trying to clear towns of quests before I move on, while gradually moving the main quest forwards.
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Is this a MMORG or more of a single player deal?
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Is this a MMORG or more of a single player deal?
Singe player only. If you ever played Fallout 3/New Vegas, it's almost the same thing. Easily modded, giant sand box world, lots of freedom to what choices you can choose. The main quest alone is probably 10 hours, but the massive amounts of side quests (some a repetitive, but almost all is like a mini-RPG in itself), along with the amount of mods that is put out by the community means you can have upwards of 200+ hours of gameplay. I myself spent over 150 hours on Fallout 3.
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Is it way too ugly for my 7 year old to play? Any bad language?
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Hmm... Lots of reanimated dead things, lots of medeival hack/stab bloodshed. Necromancers abound, lots of bloody dungeons with gore covered torture equipment in them. If you so desire, you can wipe out entire villages single handedly. Thievery, assassination, politics...
No bad language that I can think of though. Oh, but there are some drinking and drug references, probably want to pass on it.
:D
Wiley.
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Is it way too ugly for my 7 year old to play? Any bad language?
Might not be a good idea. There's blood (not Left 4 Dead blood, but still blood), and there's some minor cussing ("Hell, damn"). There is one or two "revealing" female NPCs, but at 7 years old, I thought girls had cooties. :P So if your son is anything like me, then probably not a big deal.
Besides that, just your typical dragons, undead, monsters, knights, vampires and werewolves. Nothing I'm sure he can't handle.
EDIT: Almost forgot, you might want to play the intro part for him first, or skip it, because there is decapitation. And don't let him play a 2 Handed Warrior because you can decapitate enemies as well (if you take a perk). :devil
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Is it way too ugly for my 7 year old to play? Any bad language?
No bad language, well, at least no real obscene or vulgar language. Violence though can be somewhat graphic with decapitations and some of the other violent finishing moves. Personally, I think 7 is a little too young for this game but it's perfect for the dad.
ack-ack
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No bad language, well, at least no real obscene or vulgar language. Violence though can be somewhat graphic with decapitations and some of the other violent finishing moves. Personally, I think 7 is a little too young for this game but it's perfect for the dad.
ack-ack
love the slow motion kill moves :rock
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Timelapse of skyrim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CQB4wkmKOv8
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Tough call.... Strangely, he loved the Jurassic Park series and was pretty miffed that Jaws wasn't scary. I doubt he would pick up on nudity as being obscene. He just does not see it as such. Sexual innuendo would go straight over his head. Any bad language is a bit of a no go though.
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Tough call.... Strangely, he loved the Jurassic Park series and was pretty miffed that Jaws wasn't scary. I doubt he would pick up on nudity as being obscene. He just does not see it as such. Sexual innuendo would go straight over his head. Any bad language is a bit of a no go though.
The bad language so far has amounted to "damn!" or similar curses and not vulgar or obscene in anyway. Basically, PG language and there is no nudity unless you download a nude mod.
ack-ack
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Tough call.... Strangely, he loved the Jurassic Park series and was pretty miffed that Jaws wasn't scary. I doubt he would pick up on nudity as being obscene. He just does not see it as such. Sexual innuendo would go straight over his head. Any bad language is a bit of a no go though.
the only thing is the violence like someone said there is a decapitation in the beginning, and lots of killing through out.
I wouldn't let my 7 yr old play....but that's just me.
hell TV shows are way worse now a days.
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Tough call.... Strangely, he loved the Jurassic Park series and was pretty miffed that Jaws wasn't scary. I doubt he would pick up on nudity as being obscene. He just does not see it as such. Sexual innuendo would go straight over his head. Any bad language is a bit of a no go though.
20 Hours in and I haven't seen any sexual things besides the mentioned one or two revealing outfits. I'm sure "Hell" and "Damn" isn't that big of a deal at 7, he's going to hear it sooner or later anyway, you just have to keep constantly remind him that it's wrong and vulgar. Only thing I would worry about is some of the more violent part of the game.
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Tough call.... Strangely, he loved the Jurassic Park series and was pretty miffed that Jaws wasn't scary. I doubt he would pick up on nudity as being obscene. He just does not see it as such. Sexual innuendo would go straight over his head. Any bad language is a bit of a no go though.
I it'd be worth it for you to get it and play with it for several hours before deciding.
I've seen two decapitations; the one at the very beginning and there's also one (spoiler) ------- as soon as you enter Solitude
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I've seen two decapitations; the one at the very beginning and there's also one (spoiler) ------- as soon as you enter Solitude
I'm a battlemage with a war axe, almost 95% of my finishing move are decapitations, nice slow motion ones where you can really see the head fly in the air.
ack-ack
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I'm a battlemage with a war axe, almost 95% of my finishing move are decapitations, nice slow motion ones where you can really see the head fly in the air.
ack-ack
I'll be a warrior my next character. Right now I enjoy launching people across dungeon rooms with slow-motion bow shots.
No decaps with the bow though :(
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I have a barbarian with a giant war hammer. You smack them in the knees as they crouch from that you hit em in the head.
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I like sitting in the dark corner of a room and then shooting one with an arrow, and then another etc etc
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Im finishing up an OWB and LR guide for New Vegas before i start on skyrim.
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steam deleted my .exe and I can't play anymore ._. followed all the steps on the support and now i sent them an email.. (even with integrity stuff it wont re downlaod the .exe) if I don't get an answer by tomorrow... ill have to buy a gun and shoot everyone I see
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steam deleted my .exe and I can't play anymore ._. followed all the steps on the support and now i sent them an email.. (even with integrity stuff it wont re downlaod the .exe) if I don't get an answer by tomorrow... ill have to buy a gun and shoot everyone I see
I'm experiencing something along these lines right now. Found this after a search, I'm trying #2 solution atm: http://qbeukes.blogspot.com/2011/11/skyrim-launcher-doesnt-work-launcher.html
Edit: It worked. It did a small download after checking integrity and once that was done, the game ran. Before my problem was when I clicked "Play" nothing happened except the Skyrim launcher would flicker out and back in. It also reset my graphical settings, which wasn't a problem because I used the auto-suggested settings anyways.
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steam deleted my .exe and I can't play anymore ._. followed all the steps on the support and now i sent them an email.. (even with integrity stuff it wont re downlaod the .exe) if I don't get an answer by tomorrow... ill have to buy a gun and shoot everyone I see
Are you trying to use the 4gig mod by modifying the .exe to use more than 2gigs? If so that is the problem. Yesterday's patch was put out by Steam to stop people from modifying the .exe, don't know why they did but if you try to modify the .exe again so the game will use more than 2gigs it will crash the game. However, there is good news in that someone made another 4gig mod that bypasses the Steam check, just go to Skyrim Nexus and download the new Skyrim 4gig mod.
ack-ack
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Are you trying to use the 4gig mod by modifying the .exe to use more than 2gigs? If so that is the problem.
^^^^^^^^ This
I prefer to play games like this in the vanilla form at least once. By the time I get around to starting it again there's been enough time for nice and stable mods to come out that play nicely with whatever rev the game has been patched to. So for me, that "patch" didn't break anything or affect me whatsoever.
By the way, I'm currently a level 11 sneaky archer mage dude. Headshots from across the cavern... :aok
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Are you trying to use the 4gig mod by modifying the .exe to use more than 2gigs? If so that is the problem. Yesterday's patch was put out by Steam to stop people from modifying the .exe, don't know why they did but if you try to modify the .exe again so the game will use more than 2gigs it will crash the game. However, there is good news in that someone made another 4gig mod that bypasses the Steam check, just go to Skyrim Nexus and download the new Skyrim 4gig mod.
ack-ack
:lol I see their plan worked.
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listen, I'm not using any mods or stuff.. i simply downloaded the game (pre ordered!) and all I wanted to do was to play the game, steam didn't give me this option so far.. so to play i linked the direct .exe as a non steam game and now there is no ".exe" so... what the heck... i payed for this game and I can not play it.. i followed all the steps steam support gave me in the "game not available" tab of the support... nothing worked and well I wasn't really mad until they decided to ruin my day by deleting the exe....
and Boiler, I have done that, is the first thing I do in steam when something seems wrong, verify game cache.. i already did 8 times. no progress. it always says there is 1 or 2 gb of files missing, downlaods it and guess what? the TESV.exe is not there...
I'm hatin Gabe Newell so much right now ):
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seriously, Ill go all the way to the united states to shoot Gaben in the knee if this isn't fixed :furious
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^^^^^^^^ This
I prefer to play games like this in the vanilla form at least once. By the time I get around to starting it again there's been enough time for nice and stable mods to come out that play nicely with whatever rev the game has been patched to. So for me, that "patch" didn't break anything or affect me whatsoever.
By the way, I'm currently a level 11 sneaky archer mage dude. Headshots from across the cavern... :aok
This particular mod doesn't change the game in any fashion, it's actually more of bug fix than anything. This allows the game to use more than 2gigs of RAM which fixes a lot of crashing problems people were having.
The only mods I like to use are teh ones that improve the eye candy with the improved textures and I tend to stay away from game play changing mods.
ack-ack
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listen, I'm not using any mods or stuff.. i simply downloaded the game (pre ordered!) and all I wanted to do was to play the game, steam didn't give me this option so far.. so to play i linked the direct .exe as a non steam game and now there is no ".exe" so... what the heck... i payed for this game and I can not play it.. i followed all the steps steam support gave me in the "game not available" tab of the support... nothing worked and well I wasn't really mad until they decided to ruin my day by deleting the exe....
and Boiler, I have done that, is the first thing I do in steam when something seems wrong, verify game cache.. i already did 8 times. no progress. it always says there is 1 or 2 gb of files missing, downlaods it and guess what? the TESV.exe is not there...
I'm hatin Gabe Newell so much right now ):
Uninstall Skyrim and afterwards in your Steam game library, make sure you are displaying all games and then click on Skyrim to download it again. You should get the .exe file back.
Before though, make sure that it's not already present. Go to your program folder(x86) and then scroll down to the Steam folder, click on the steamapps folder and then on the common folder. Scroll down until you find Skyrim and open it up. The .exe should be in that folder.
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Ok so i deleted some files to force the verify game integrity to redownload those stuff, I was watching the skyrim folder as it was under the download process and I noticed that the TESV.exe appeared on the middle of the download but disapeared when the download ended wich means steam deleted it or something like that.
So I did it again but I grabbed the .exe before it went poof and pasted a copy on the desktop.
All happy I was and then I took the .exe back to the Skyrim folder and launched it... a message popped up saying "this is not a valid Win32 executable"
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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ok can someone upload the .exe in like... megaupload for me? I would apreciate it so much... just the plain normal TESV.exe I would call you lord or god (your choice) before you name (as in god jhon or lord james) for ever here in the bbs when talking to you or about you. I swear. for EVER. only the first guy gets this stupidity, also its optional.
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except of course.. if you send me a virus I will find you.
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Check out this thread (http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/469966-skyrim-patch-downloading-right-now-pc/) in the General Skyrim Discussion forum on The Nexus Forums. They talk about the issue and I think there are some links to the original tesv file.
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ah thank you god ImADot!
well the stuff that worked for some of them did not work for me... its the murphy's law you see...
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Ok so i deleted some files to force the verify game integrity to redownload those stuff, I was watching the skyrim folder as it was under the download process and I noticed that the TESV.exe appeared on the middle of the download but disapeared when the download ended wich means steam deleted it or something like that.
So I did it again but I grabbed the .exe before it went poof and pasted a copy on the desktop.
All happy I was and then I took the .exe back to the Skyrim folder and launched it... a message popped up saying "this is not a valid Win32 executable"
don't just delete some files, completely uninstall the game and have Steam redownload it.
ack-ack
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oh come on! bethesda has the exe copyrighted?! so I buy a game and they say I can not play it?!
ack ack, I will do that once I go to bed... just as a tech support stupidity thing :D maybe i have luck, is just like the lotery... I'm still trying the real solutions many people post on the other forums and that work for some. so far the only people who reinstalled and made it work by ding that are those who uncheck the steam update thing and reinstall from the disk, since i can only reinstall via steam it would not work for me just like it does nnot work for the other guys that are trying just that
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well i quit, you win Lord ack, I uninstalled and now im redownloading it all, its to bad.. my character was almost lvl 15 by now and I were pretty far in the game... well vacations starts in about 2 or 3 weeks so nvm.. ill try not to kill my family and friends but I'm not fully responsible for my actions, if my name comes up in the news just go look for bethesda and valve...
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well i quit, you win Lord ack, I uninstalled and now im redownloading it all, its to bad.. my character was almost lvl 15 by now and I were pretty far in the game... well vacations starts in about 2 or 3 weeks so nvm.. ill try not to kill my family and friends but I'm not fully responsible for my actions, if my name comes up in the news just go look for bethesda and valve...
save your save game file in "my documents/my games/skyrim/
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save your save game file in "my documents/my games/skyrim/
I thought it does that automatically?
Raphael, I got a level 3 Mage save file if you want. Just finished the barrows near Riverwood.
I got two more level 12s, but I might spoil quests you haven't played yet if you're willing to take that risk.
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hey ink! cool! i have those! steam didn't delete those afterall! haha cool! and thank you titanic3, :) but I have my lil nord archer set up on my documents! haha I didnt even know that! wow, they didnt have that in oblivion did they?
EDIT: :o just checked and oblivion has that aswell! wow that is REALLY smart move bethesda! :aok
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wow what a surprise
redownload did not work
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May try Skyrim after I finish Dark Souls. Dark Souls is just so.... epic
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Stopped playing it.
Running for 12 seconds and having the screen lock up for 3-5 seconds is too much. In combat, in areas i just was, inside cells, and whenever it feels like.
Thanks for another port, oh wonderful game makers. (strong sarcasm)
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Sounds like you have a crappy rig BaDkaRmA158Th. Not any game maker's fault.
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I'm hitting level 20 and this game is freaking sweet. Best RPG I've played since Ultima VIII. I'm having a grand time, and there's all sorts of funny little things throughout the world...
For you trekkies out there, there's a character Temba Wide-Arms. I about pissed myself laughing:
(http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/11359926581/1/tumblr_lsxnbnePBI1r4a9wc)
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been duel wielding it up....love the duel sword upward slow motion kill :t
still haven't decapitated anyone yet....in Oblivion their was a mod called "Deadly reflex" that added decapitation and cutting people in half, it was just awesome....add in the more blood mods....... :rock
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been duel wielding it up....love the duel sword upward slow motion kill :t
still haven't decapitated anyone yet....in Oblivion their was a mod called "Deadly reflex" that added decapitation and cutting people in half, it was just awesome....add in the more blood mods....... :rock
This guy has no troubles with decapitations.
Peek inside the home of Skyrim's first serial killer (http://kotaku.com/5863096/a-peek-inside-the-home-of-skyrims-first-serial-killer)
ack-ack
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This guy has no troubles with decapitations.
Peek inside the home of Skyrim's first serial killer (http://kotaku.com/5863096/a-peek-inside-the-home-of-skyrims-first-serial-killer)
ack-ack
LOL. That is sick.
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I have been thinking about renting it for the xbox. Anybody try it on a console?
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No console here. The console patch came out today, and the PC patch is due on Wed. I've spent the last couple of days looking at and trying some of the texture mods. Oh man, and I thought out-of-the-box vanilla was awesome...
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I have been thinking about renting it for the xbox. Anybody try it on a console?
If your PC can run it, definitely get the PC version. The dragline are better and the amount of mods put out (over 1,000 after the first 2 weeks) is so much more worth it. I cannot wait until the Mod Kit comes out.
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I had a kill here last night. Come around the corner and there were two bandits...
The first comes running up and says something to the effect of 'You're in the wrong place bud' and I lop his leg off and slash down his chest... then the girl says, 'Do your worst!' and I come back in the same motion w/ a backhand and her head goes flying into the air and bounces across the groud. It was absolutely hillarious.
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I have been thinking about renting it for the xbox. Anybody try it on a console?
I have it on the 360. It's absolutely fantastic. So much to do, so much everything, it's simply incredible.
Graphics are similar to Oblivion, but far FAR better in my opinion.
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This guy has no troubles with decapitations.
Peek inside the home of Skyrim's first serial killer (http://kotaku.com/5863096/a-peek-inside-the-home-of-skyrims-first-serial-killer)
ack-ack
:rofl
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game is awesome
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenShot2.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenShot74.jpg)
my new desktop
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenShot34.jpg)
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The graphics and animations look outstanding.
Too bad EverQuest and the immersion it brought was developed in a time before the technical capabilities of this game's graphics. That would've been one sick MMORPG. (Saying it in past tense because the cherry of MMORPGs has been broken and it will never be the same...)
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This guy has no troubles with decapitations.
Peek inside the home of Skyrim's first serial killer (http://kotaku.com/5863096/a-peek-inside-the-home-of-skyrims-first-serial-killer)
ack-ack
We can only hope this is an effective outlet for this guy , otherwise I expect we'll find out more about him than we wanted to know in the news .
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I might buy it on computer when the price goes down. But even on the Xbox it is very good looking.
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Sounds like you have a crappy rig BaDkaRmA158Th. Not any game maker's fault.
Geforce 8800 Gtx
Amd athlon 64 dual core 6400+ 3.21Ghz
4 gigs ram
Xp Sp3
Its not a super computer like something could be made rightnow.. today, but it sure isnt a xbox or ps3 in stats either, i can run any game, on full any time i want still. Save skyrim, its not the FPS, its not the loading, it's just strange odd stutters for no reason.
Ill wait till they update it more, maby they can make the port more stable so it can run decently on computers, untill then its going to sit on the shelf along with duke forever, deux ex and a entire slew of other dog crap games made recently and in the past.
:salute
P.S. i have a huge problem with them bragging about a new engine,that honestly..looks just like all the rest. And is dumbed down far greater then even other versions were. Remember walking from a mountian INTO town in morrowind? please tell me how a new engine "hah" running on better systems under performs whatever "enhancements" they made from past engines.
World sizes have plumited ,look it up. Animations have been elimited time and time again "remember when moving forward,backwards,side to side had different effects based on whatever weapons were being used? DUH a long sword is good for slicing and stabbing!"
Game features have been time and time again cute away, leaving a hollow shell of what previous games use to have.
But what bothers me most is how skyrim and fallout3/NV feel dang near exactly the same.
k, i feel better now.
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Geforce 8800 Gtx
Amd athlon 64 dual core 6400+ 3.21Ghz
4 gigs ram
Xp Sp3
Its not a super computer like something could be made rightnow.. today, but it sure isnt a xbox or ps3 in stats either, i can run any game, on full any time i want still. Save skyrim, its not the FPS, its not the loading, it's just strange odd stutters for no reason.
There's a new beta driver out...amongst other things, it turns on ambiant occlusion for Skyrim.
http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/nvidia-geforce-290-36-beta-drivers-released (http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/nvidia-geforce-290-36-beta-drivers-released)
Check out this thread (http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/478826-new-nvidia-geforce-29036-with-changes-for-skyrim/) on Nexus Forums.
It might help...or not. YMMV
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Thanks dot, that might help.
Its also important to note how many lines of code were missing or left out of skyrim, in the .ini's "maby even still"
Entire system specific information doesn't exsist like it did in other elder scroll games, people have already begun "reincorperating" some of these lines of code turning some things on and off with often great effect.
[Launcher]
bEnableFileSelection=1 "congrats now you can play mods again instead of waiting for a now greedy corperation to release crappy content and have you pay for it." :mad:
man oh man i disliking the future of gaming more and more every day.
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Bought it for PC. Very pretty game.
Buggy as hell.
If I had known it was going to be as buggy as it is, I would have waited 6 months and bought it after it got patched half a dozen times and it would have been half the price to boot.
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I haven't experienced any bugs yet, a lot of people say their shadows look weird, mine looks fine unless I turn off AA.
Closest thing to a bug I found was:
You can Shout neutral/friendly NPCs off cliffs or stairs and kill them without consequences. It was funny as hell the first time I realized I could do it.
And the death animation against Giants, where you fly into the air higher than the mountains around you.
All these "bugs" are hilarious to me, and I would hate to see them get "fixed".
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I get a crash to desktop (no error message, I'm playing one second, starting at the desktop the next) if I play for over 6 hours straight or so. I've had it happen 3 times so far I think. Other than that, no bugs except that my re-defined keybinds act... odd. Sometimes I have to use the default keybinds, other times it uses what I re-defined them to.
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I get a crash to desktop (no error message, I'm playing one second, starting at the desktop the next) if I play for over 6 hours straight or so. I've had it happen 3 times so far I think. Other than that, no bugs except that my re-defined keybinds act... odd. Sometimes I have to use the default keybinds, other times it uses what I re-defined them to.
I've had crashes to desktop among other things. But the worst is the Dragons who fly backwards, get stuck in mid air, and actually fly/run away constantly always staying too far away to engage (all while flying backwards).
This video shows some of the latest problems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyg_vKxz1lQ
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I've had crashes to desktop among other things. But the worst is the Dragons who fly backwards, get stuck in mid air, and actually fly/run away constantly always staying too far away to engage (all while flying backwards).
This video shows some of the latest problems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyg_vKxz1lQ
hmmm...I haven't seen any of that.....although I have had the game freeze completely at least twice, and it takes a reboot :mad:
but it still is a blast :rock
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I've seen none of these bugs, but I've got a 4 year old computer running things on medium graphics settings, so the worst I deal with is the changing area lag where the game loads a new area up. Couple seconds of lag and freeze up is OK with me. I understand sometimes you cross on a supercrossrode of zones and it lags constantly for a few minutes... but the rest of the game play is enough that I'm not squeaking. I have had modern xbox games go into the oldschool 'slowdown' mode when too much is going on, so this doesn't really bother me.
Again, all in all a great game.
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I've had crashes to desktop among other things. But the worst is the Dragons who fly backwards, get stuck in mid air, and actually fly/run away constantly always staying too far away to engage (all while flying backwards).
This video shows some of the latest problems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyg_vKxz1lQ
Yeah, the new patch has made some things screwy graphically wise, like the map flashing when you view it amongst other things.
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I got the patch last night. So far I haven't seen the issues that have been making everyone whine and complain. The only oddity was two CTD (which I had experienced before) and a crazy snow texture on trees. The texture was fixed by shutting down the game and starting up again, and I'm using one of the snow texture mods so am not sure if it was patch related or a hiccup with the modded texture. Oh, and I installed the latest GForce beta driver to turn on abient occlusion to see what it was like - have to run it in "performace" mode since "quality" mode put my frame rates in the single digits at times.
In any case, I guess I've been lucky so far...
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I've run into a couple CTD's as well, and I've also had the occasional trouble with a person involved with a quest not being where he should be or whatnot. Restarting the game fixed those ones. The most annoying glitch I had was I was supposed to meet a guy at a ruin, and if I fast traveled to the ruin, he never would show up. I had to walk (not run) with him from where I talked with him to the ruin, which took about 15-20 minutes. I have a sneaking suspicion the bandit I killed walking with him was killing him on the way there, or something along those lines.
Given the size and open-endedness of the game, I have been willing to forgive the few foibles I've seen.
The most annoying thing I've seen though I don't know if it's a glitch or not, is dragons that don't seem to want to fight. They make a pass or two, then run off. Maybe they've been watching how it goes in AH and figure that's what they're supposed to do. :D
Wiley.
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The most annoying thing I've seen though I don't know if it's a glitch or not, is dragons that don't seem to want to fight. They make a pass or two, then run off.
I thought that was one of the things they fixed in the patch? Maybe they fixed it by making them fly backwards. :headscratch:
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The most annoying thing I've seen though I don't know if it's a glitch or not, is dragons that don't seem to want to fight. They make a pass or two, then run off. Maybe they've been watching how it goes in AH and figure that's what they're supposed to do. :D
There are dragons who will not attack unless provoked. Maybe they were attacking nearby monsters? Only had one occasion where a "neutral" dragon flew by me. He didn't like it when I stuck an arrow in his foot. :devil
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There are dragons who will not attack unless provoked. Maybe they were attacking nearby monsters? Only had one occasion where a "neutral" dragon flew by me. He didn't like it when I stuck an arrow in his foot. :devil
Bear in mind, I wasn't patched when I saw this.
The scenario was, I'd gone to talk to a guy on a mountain. I came out the door from inside the mountain, Patrolling random dragon shows up. I would hit him with an arrow or two, he would land and breathe on me a couple times, it was on. Then he'd do one of two things. He'd either go find some other monsters to fight and basically work his way away from me, which I've seen before and think it's working as intended. The other thing he'd do is he would spiral climb over the mountain I was on until he was wee tiny, then eventually he would either vanish going up or come straight down and seemingly vanish behind the mountain. He didn't appear to be landing, just vanishing once he was out of sight, and the combat music would stop.
I probably reloaded from the door 20 times, just trying to figure out what was going on with it.
Not a big deal, just struck me as odd. I love how they fight with everything they can see.
The one thing that really strikes me as awesome with this game is the fact that if you shoot an arrow straight up, it will come back down and land, sticking in the ground. It will also hit stuff on its way down, not just up. That's the kind of projectile modeling that I find lacking in many, many games.
Wiley.
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The Dragons also seem to have a pre-programed area they'll patrol. I've had a few times where the dragon goes over me, and I shoot him a few times... it'll try and pull him into my area, but it's almost like a wall where he'll start to fly back into his area... Once I follow him a second or two, it normally will end up attacking without problem in an area that it was probably designed to be hitting.
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The one thing that really strikes me as awesome with this game is the fact that if you shoot an arrow straight up, it will come back down and land, sticking in the ground. It will also hit stuff on its way down, not just up. That's the kind of projectile modeling that I find lacking in many, many games.
Wiley.
You mean like this epic shot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE4uzGaQDQg&feature=related)?
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I have a bug where the tab key does not work to exit menus anymore meaning whenever I want to forge something I have to exit the game to leave the craft menu :D
also I found a companion dog :)
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Ya gotta love when a video game crosses over into real life. :lol
Fus Ro Dah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip7QZPw04Ks)
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...by the way, the further I get into the story, I've found there are dragons that are part of the story line, so avoid attacking until the correct story line area's been reached.
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Is this where I tell everyone that I'm waiting for Diablo 3 to come out? And that I would play SkyRim but I took an arrow to the knee? ;)
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Is this where I tell everyone that I'm waiting for Diablo 3 to come out? And that I would play SkyRim but I took an arrow to the knee? ;)
Sounds like someone stole your sweet role
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Sounds like someone stole your sweet role
Is this where I tell everyone that I'm waiting for Diablo 3 to come out? And that I would play SkyRim but I took an arrow to the knee? ;)
LOL guys..
I'm ashamed at how much time I've logged to Skyrim since it came out.. but, MAN.. it is cool. Just discovered how to allocate perks after I had accumulated 29 of them..
Instant SUH effect.. Muahahahaaaaaa
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Have you discovered that you can level up in the middle of a fight? When you're out of health potions, etc. and are about to die you can level up (if you've earned it) and all your health, stamina and magicka are replenished. :aok
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I haven't played many single player games since discovering multi-player games over a decade ago, but my brother was raving about Skyrim so I picked it up.
I thought the graphics and the story were intense and I was immediately sucked in. I played about 3 hours doing the first dungeon and whatnot, completely oblivious to the fact that I had to save my progress. Well walking out of the first dungeon I managed to get stuck in a wall and the last auto save point was so far behind me I was super discouraged and didn't play again for a week. Then I repeated my previous footsteps and made it to the second town. I find a giant camp as a lvl 4 and decide after giving this wolf the run around a cliff (without being hit) that I could probably do the same to this near by giant. Immediate fail and of course I hadn't saved again, so I'm working on my courage to redo some things and remember to save :) . I'm a single player noob!
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Immediate fail and of course I hadn't saved again, so I'm working on my courage to redo some things and remember to save :) . I'm a single player noob!
F5 should be everyone's best friend.
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F5 before every encounter, door, new area (even though it auto saves, I still do), buying/selling, or leveling up.
Always save - golden rule of singe player games.
I restarted a character as a High Elf battle Mage because for my first play through, I screwed up so many perks and was a mess of a character totally. Still not repaying because it's too frigging sweet using new types of weapons and spells and watching the different kill animations.
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Also if you're feeling bored, save, and then massacre an entire town :)
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The Dragonborn Comes - Skyrim Bard Song and Main Theme Female Cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9TdDCWN7g
:aok
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The Dragonborn Comes - Skyrim Bard Song and Main Theme Female Cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9TdDCWN7g
:aok
amazing
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I see huge boxes labeled Skyrim in just about every electronics store I walk into. It is obviously a game that seems to be quite popular, but I have never heard of it before a few weeks ago. What's it about? :headscratch:
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It is a stand alone game based on a fictional world where elves, orcs, humans, cat race called Khajiits are all normal populace. Add that to a land where breathtaking terrain filled with walking dead, dragons and others evils is available on your PC with almost a size to rival some MMOs. I put countless hours into this game and I have barely scratched it's surface.
By far, the best game I've seen in a 4+ years for anyone interested in that kind of environment or has an interest in old weapons.
Personally, I like to use the bow; nothing is more pleasing than nailing some moron at an extreme distance, silently and without using any magicka. It is too bad the damage output is so low, even with smithing, crafting and poison.
edit: The one thing I do not like about the game is the leveling system. It should be based on getting things accomplished, not repetition of skills. It reminds me of the macros I made when I used to play MMOs and learned skills (like Everquest); they aren't fun and don't serve any purpose other than being a time sink.
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I'm very successful with my archer only elf. The sneak perks, plus the bow perks and a couple of magicall bow perks items makes it over deadly.
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A pair of daggers is always more effective for sneak damage. Spells also deal more damage than the bow can. The only way you can get the bow damage up to comparable levels if you have alchemy, smithing, and enchanting up to ridiculous levels. Again, to get those skills up to ridiculous levels requires monotonous effort of boring tasks to improve them.
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Yeah but you have to get close. Even in 'dungeons' I get knock out the subbies from far, and get the big dude before he reaches me ... Even when he actually sees me. The ' stagger' perk with the bow stops him enough for me to relaunch an arrow. Rinse repeat. Level 19, not a problem yet, I mean not mich different than my lvl 20 pure mage. My sword guy lvl 15 is struggling more as he has to get close and it gets hairy vs several mages.
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Do console users play on the same servers as PC users?
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Do console users play on the same servers as PC users?
It's not multiplayer - it's a standalone single-player game.
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Khajit master race reporting in.
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Sounds like someone stole your sweet role
What does it matter...
You can't get a good sweet roll in this stinking skeever hole of a city anyway.
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It's not multiplayer - it's a standalone single-player game.
Huh, assumed it was multi-player. How does the leveling system work being single player?
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Also playing a wood elf archer.
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Huh, assumed it was multi-player. How does the leveling system work being single player?
You level up by leveling up your skills, as you don't get XP from kills or quests.
I do like how both sides (Imperial and Rebel) have their dark and dirt side, so there is no real choice of being the good or bad guy as both sides have their good and bad. The Stormcloaks (rebels) are fighting for their own way of life but are racists and only have a "Nord Only" philosophy, while the Imperials are a more open society but fascists at heart.
ack-ack
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You level up by leveling up your skills, as you don't get XP from kills or quests.
ack-ack
Eh? I've been racking up a lot of skill levels while killing things.
Or am I confused?
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Eh? I've been racking up a lot of skill levels while killing things.
Or am I confused?
Yeah since you have to use skills to kill thing. Like archery, one handed, two handed, armor skills, ect...
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Interesting how they can motivate you to level up when there is no Player v Player incentive (e.g. I want to level up to be better than other players). Very interesting indeed. Can you "beat" the game, or is it endless?
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Started a new character, Breton, war hammer, good bow and mage skills. Joined the stormcloaks early, sacked whiterun. We have the imperials on the run now. I'm just over lvl 10 and really starting to crank.
The warhammer is an orc version with a flee enchantment on it, so anything under lvl 7 that takes a hit runs. Lets me shoot a few with the bow, switch to the hammer, lay a few strokes, then switch back to bow or mage skills for cleanup.
3 major points I love about skyrim
A No matter what side you choose (or no side, which is a choice) its not as simple as black/white, good vs evil.
B You can quest, or not quest, your choice, there is so much you "can" do that doing quests is not essential to having a good game.
C There will be a world of mods out for it shortly, I think already over 1k mods out there.
Its the gift that keeps on giving, get tired of it, change it.
I have not modded mine yet, its still fresh, but nice to know I can when I'm ready to.
The map is huge, I've got loads of hours into it and I don't think I've really explored 1/4 of it.
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Interesting how they can motivate you to level up when there is no Player v Player incentive (e.g. I want to level up to be better than other players). Very interesting indeed. Can you "beat" the game, or is it endless?
Of course, there are many quests (at least 500 from what I've seen), with 100+ hours of gameplay. There is the main quest/story line which involves a war against dragons, and you can complete the whole thing in maybe 10-15 hours. But there are tons more quests available. These include small ones, like dungeon clearing, acquiring an item, or killing a certain someone, to big ones, like the civil war between Imperials and Stormcloaks, or joining a secret guild/group.
The game-world itself is massive, even though it only takes 30 minutes to walk from one side to the other, there's over 100+ hours of content packed in between. Not to mention there are multiple ways of playing your character, and different races means there are some race specific quests, which encourages replay with different styles/races. There are 10 races.
Also, there are player made mods. These can range from small graphic improvements to a complete game overhaul. http://skyrimnexus.com/ (http://skyrimnexus.com/)
The amount of gameplay you'll get from these mods are massive, I've already clocked 300+ hours with Fallout 3 (made by the same company, same design, different settings). I expect to hit at least 400 hours at the rate I' going right now with Skyrim.
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Of course, there are many quests (at least 500 from what I've seen), with 100+ hours of gameplay. There is the main quest/story line which involves a war against dragons, and you can complete the whole thing in maybe 10-15 hours. But there are tons more quests available. These include small ones, like dungeon clearing, acquiring an item, or killing a certain someone, to big ones, like the civil war between Imperials and Stormcloaks, or joining a secret guild/group.
The game-world itself is massive, even though it only takes 30 minutes to walk from one side to the other, there's over 100+ hours of content packed in between. Not to mention there are multiple ways of playing your character, and different races means there are some race specific quests, which encourages replay with different styles/races. There are 10 races.
Also, there are player made mods. These can range from small graphic improvements to a complete game overhaul. http://skyrimnexus.com/ (http://skyrimnexus.com/)
The amount of gameplay you'll get from these mods are massive, I've already clocked 300+ hours with Fallout 3 (made by the same company, same design, different settings). I expect to hit at least 400 hours at the rate I' going right now with Skyrim.
It has a system where it will randomly generate side quests. So it will never end.
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More or less endless as kilo2 said, you will eventually cap all your skills and stop advancing your character, but it's just such a large open world, it'll take quite some time to go everywhere and do everything. I've been through the main quest and the civil war on one side once, and have started another character for another playthrough. I'm quite impressed that I'm having quite a different experience because I made a point of not following the same groove I did for the first character, and I'm running into all kinds of different things, even in some of the same areas from the first playthrough.
Between how it's designed and the possibility for player mods, I believe it's going to have a buttload of replay value. I find one of the hardest things to do with the elder scrolls games though, is not to break it. On my first playthrough, I went sneaky assassin type. With the way some parts of the game work, sneak/backstab/daggers/archery is pretty overpowered. I'm playing through as pretty much a pure mage on my second time through, and it feels like, 'oh, now I'm actually playing the game instead of oneshotting everything.'
I've always been a sucker for open world sandbox games, and the elder scrolls/fallout series' are very much to my liking. You can cross the world in about half an hour of walking, but it's just so chock full of stuff, and the larger dungeons don't feel recycled like they do in so many games.
Wiley.
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Out of my normal genre but I may need to check this out.
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Great game....I was heavy into Oblivion, that's one of the very few games that would drag me away from AH....Skyrim is even better....
the mods are touchy some will break your game, so read ALL the comments before picking a mod, in Oblivion I ran around 100 mods...I did mod Skyrim at first but they are unstable...as of yet, or just don't look good.
it seems to me they took all the best mods made for Oblivion and put them into Skyrim.
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I've only done one character so far. I'm a Nord Heavy Ninja... 2 Handed weapons, Heavy Armor, Sneak & lockpicking and mastering blacksmithing... everything a good Ninja should know. :)
I've gotten my heavy armor perked to where it doesn't weigh anything and my sneak perked to where my armor doesn't make noise. My sword perked to where I can basically 1 hit crit nearly anything I've run across in the game. I'm level 31 currently, and have basically followed a linear pattern out of the first area, doing quests as they come along, exploring entire areas.
I've joined a cult of cannibals, become a warewolf, a member of the Thieves Guild and a member of the Dark Brotherhood, I've joined the Storm Cloak rebellion, and been named Thane of three cities with another two titles in close works...
That being said, I've only seen about 1/3rd of the map, and only cleared maybe 1/2 of the dungeons found in that 1/3rd I've cleared.
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If you own a console, I might suggest renting it first to see if you like it, but if you're going to buy and have a computer that runs AH with pretty much full detail, I'd get the PC version simply for the mods.
The modding community hasn't even got the tools released yet to really get going, they can only do basic, basic stuff. I can't wait to see what people come up with.
Just my $0.02.
Wiley.
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Have the game for Xbox and been playing about 2 weeks now. I've got a lvl 27 bowman assassin khat and have only played a couple of segments into the main story line. This is a huge world. Starting with the black hand stuff is great for a stealth character.
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Well I got sucked in. Now at level 52. Think I got most of the quests notched up.
Character is a Wood Elf.
Bow is at 92, but Im only using the crit shots, and maxed out at over draw. Took the zoom in function too, and the hunter perk, when I ran out of arrows at the wrong time.
Went with a partial mager. Like the destruction (fire) thats at like 86 now.
Wanted a character though to forge my own crap. So thats 100, and all perks taking for all armor. Now wandering around in Dragon armor light. Usnig the Rose Staff for my demon. That was a kewl little quest.
Also have Enchantment to 100. Took the right side path and nothing in the left side.
ANyway so far Im the Arch Mage, Leader of the brotherhood, and thieves guild. Just joined ulfric, and am thane of most cities. Have to bump up the AI a bit though or it gets boring at higher ranks. I can take a Dragon out in about 4-5 hits. So unless theres an army against me, getting kinda dull. Still exploring, but am looking to mod this game.
I have several mods in FONV. There host on Nexus if you want to check em out, there under the account Floatsup. The liquor mod was my best creation. So Im definitly gonna mod this.
Anywat kewl game, and thinknig of my next character. Probable gonna do a thief from the start. With duel weilding.
Anyway I'll try to get a shot of my char.
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amazing game. . .
for light armor, the nightingale armor is better if you are 42 or higher (its leveled) and actually hits the armor cap. The big reason to level smithing is for the deadric bow - but you can use the arcane enchanter to get one, even if its not going to be legendary.
As it is now, on my 42 kitty-cat archer - I have the shroudedhood with the krosis helm (they stack), +205 bow damage bracers, and a legendary deadric bow with the soul steal enchant (what better way to fill your soul gems!) and it does 147 base damage, pretty sweet stuff.
But if you want to really go with overpowered, train conjuration up. At 100, you get the twin souls perk, and you drop 2 dremora lords, sit back and drink coffee and watch them destroy everything.
Sorta prefer the sneaky killer for the fun, but running into a room full of enemies and dropping two lords is pretty fun too.
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How many sets of dice am I gonna need for this one?
Bob
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amazing game. . .
for light armor, the nightingale armor is better if you are 42 or higher (its leveled) and actually hits the armor cap. The big reason to level smithing is for the deadric bow - but you can use the arcane enchanter to get one, even if its not going to be legendary.
As it is now, on my 42 kitty-cat archer - I have the shroudedhood with the krosis helm (they stack), +205 bow damage bracers, and a legendary deadric bow with the soul steal enchant (what better way to fill your soul gems!) and it does 147 base damage, pretty sweet stuff.
But if you want to really go with overpowered, train conjuration up. At 100, you get the twin souls perk, and you drop 2 dremora lords, sit back and drink coffee and watch them destroy everything.
Sorta prefer the sneaky killer for the fun, but running into a room full of enemies and dropping two lords is pretty fun too.
Yeah I am leveling a sneaky duel wielding dagger fiend. Basically a rogue. Have you done any of the daderic quests?
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The Dragonborn Comes - Skyrim Bard Song and Main Theme Female Cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9TdDCWN7g
:aok
Incredible. I thought she was pretty until she opened her mouth, then I realized she's gorgeous.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93W6mB0ZqCM&feature=related
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Man those videos are nothing.
This is a true fan. :aok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVnhTO-A-2E
Dolts, is the only word that comes to mind.
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hahahah i remember that twilight girl
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Man those videos are nothing.
This is a true fan. :aok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVnhTO-A-2E
Dolts, is the only word that comes to mind.
:huh
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Incredible. I thought she was pretty until she opened her mouth, then I realized she's gorgeous.
She's got almost three million views right now... How long until she gets slapped w/ a copyright suit? :P
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In Mexico? I think the Federales have more important cases at the moment. ;)
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How long until she gets slapped w/ a copyright suit? :P
If she was making any money on the song, she would be held liable. Fortunately for her, she is just doing it for exposure and offering it entirely for free.
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Under US copyright law she would only be required to pay royalty on any profits from a cover version. The right to record a version of someone else's tune, whether of music alone or of music and lyrics is actually protected by the Copyright Act of 1909.
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Just discovered how to allocate perks after I had accumulated 29 of them..
Instant SUH effect.. Muahahahaaaaaa
Still trying to figure this out, Totally mystified.
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Still trying to figure this out, Totally mystified.
Tab > Skill > Click on a constellation > ??? > profit
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Still trying to figure this out, Totally mystified.
You have to use 'e' key to activate the selection. Not sure if that helps
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Got it, thx fellas. Click on the constellations, then the stupid stars, lol.
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I picked it up about 3 weeks ago. Stunning game.
- Its kind of sad to see how badly he guilds have fallen apart since Oblivion. The mages guild is gone. the fighters guild is almost gone. the theives guild was torn apart by a civil war. and the brotherhood is on its last legs. There really is no signs of the guilds we knew and loved from oblivion except for in books of their past glory.
-The mage college heavely dissapointed me. I went with an imperial (kratos) build like i did in oblivion. I decided i'd give magic a try, and when i heard about the college decided i'd go there. When i had this "college" in mind, i was thinking of some harry potter-hogwarts style of missions. Where you have actual classes that you'd go too(one for each magic class). and that they'd give you assignments and such like gathering incrediants that would help you learn more magic.
But no, INSTEAD. they suck you into this storyline to save the college from destruction, and just pretty much pushes you right into it.
In short, i showed up to learn magic. Im suddenly pushed into this "Save the college!" storyline. then after its done, their suddenly like "your now arch-mage!" and the whole time im wondering whats going on, Because i haven't learned **** from that college, and yet im suddenly arch-mage the top magic caster in the school? Only thing i learned from the college was how to cast a lessar ward LOL.
-Horse physics need fixed. I wish they were more along the lines of RDR's horse controls.
-Im willing to bet that the Next elder scrolls game will be all out war with the empire and the admeri dominion.
-The dragons tend to become very easy to kill once you learn their weakness. For example, a 4 sec burst of magic fire can drop a blood dragons health from 100% to 0%. Dragons just did not feel like much of a challenge. I had more trouble with the giants and mammoths than i did the dragons.
-Also with dragons, their starting to get very annoying with their spawning. it seems everytime i fast travel, they spawn for a fight. Ive had 5 spawn in dawnstar, 2 spawn outside solitude. and even had one spawn IN windhelm. when i fast traveled.
The game is fun and addicting. Ive completed the civil war quest (legion) and the main dragon storyline.Along with the brotherhood and theives guild storylines. and mage. Currently am lvl 32. Still so much more to discover <S>
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finally got my first decapitation :rock
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenShot28.jpg)
fighting this dragon I jumped up on his head and rode it like a bull all the while smashing his head in
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenShot54.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenShot56.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenShot57.jpg)
talking to this dragon was cool....Oblivion was awesome Skyrim is way beyond that
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenShot125.jpg)
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finally got my first decapitation :rock
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenShot28.jpg)
fighting this dragon I jumped up on his head and rode it like a bull all the while smashing his head in
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenShot54.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenShot56.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenShot57.jpg)
talking to this dragon was cool....Oblivion was awesome Skyrim is way beyond that
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenShot125.jpg)
I use the steal plated armor aswell. Along with the dwarvin. The skyforge weapons go great with steal plated.
Try the giant axe finisher on a dragon. pretty cool.
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I use the steal plated armor aswell. Along with the dwarvin. The skyforge weapons go great with steal plated.
Try the giant axe finisher on a dragon. pretty cool.
once I started duel wielding the axes...man I am lovin it.....putting all my perks into the one handed weapons....awesome fun :D
I downloaded a couple mods now, one that makes the dragons different colors, a nude one that actually looks great, the no more blocky faces and hires textures for all races.....
Ill probably end up with over a hundred but I don't even know if the game needs it....its awesome in Vanilla.
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I have a stash of the Blades katanas. I have improved two of them and enchanted them both with Fire and Paralyze enchantments. Duel wielding them is pretty fun, and they seem to be pretty effective too.
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I have a stash of the Blades katanas. I have improved two of them and enchanted them both with Fire and Paralyze enchantments. Duel wielding them is pretty fun, and they seem to be pretty effective too.
strange it wont let me duel wield the Blades Katana :headscratch:
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strange it wont let me duel wield the Blades Katana :headscratch:
Hmmm... Well I don't actually have the duel wield perk. But I am able to equip one in each hand with no problem. The paralyze enchantment on each blade is really effective against most bad guys.
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I have a stash of the Blades katanas. I have improved two of them and enchanted them both with Fire and Paralyze enchantments. Duel wielding them is pretty fun, and they seem to be pretty effective too.
Did you happen to grab dragonbane while you still had the chance before it became a stolen item?
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Hmmm... Well I don't actually have the duel wield perk. But I am able to equip one in each hand with no problem. The paralyze enchantment on each blade is really effective against most bad guys.
thats weird It wouldn't let me duel wield them...maybe im not strong enough....I think I read that if you get strong enough you can duel wield the two handed weapons....
I haven't really up my stamina much at all.
Did you happen to grab dragonbane while you still had the chance before it became a stolen item?
I got it. :aok
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good man.
If you didnt grab it during the temple recovery mission, than it becomes owned by the blades, and the only way to receive it legit without it being considered stolen is by doing the blades mission where you must slaughter paarthunax.
So far, Chillrend and the Ebony blade make their return from oblivion to skyrim. Along with some of the special deadra weapons.
Also, a cool little easter egg:
You can meet your actual character from oblivion, in skyrim. If you guys remember the shivering isles expansion, The oblivion hero from IV becomes sheogorath in the end.
You can meet sheogorath in Skyrim. he's part of the "mind of madness" questline. in which the reward is wabbajack.
Sheogorath gives subtle hints that he is the character from IV.like how he "Inherited" the job, and how he likes "martin septim" the most.
Theres many Real Life lore in skyrim. Like the headless horseman can be seen at dawn riding to a cemetary located outside solitude.
Also theres alot of king arthur references.
Outside whiterun is a pond. which a skeleton hand is holding a sword out the water. this is a reference to how king arthur received xcalibur.
Outside one of the mines, is a sword dug into a pile of rocks, With a skeleton that looks like its trying to pull the sword from the stone.
There is a staff thats named after the king arthurs wizard (Forget his name).
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If you guys haven't seen this, you need to get it. Do a quick search for "TESV Acceleration Layer - SKSE Plugin". It's totall worth it and will boost your FPS. Mine in Markarth went from 14-16 to 25-30. I'm running Ultra everything and also use the ENBSeries mod for better lighting and "mood" effects.
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Did you happen to grab dragonbane while you still had the chance before it became a stolen item?
Got it, but don't use it. My double enchanted Blades swords Fire/Paralyze are more useful. My character is level 43 and primarily a mage, sword fighting is just a hobby I recently started. When I fight a dragon I am usually using magic.
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Did you happen to grab dragonbane while you still had the chance before it became a stolen item?
That is some wicked steel.
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Was wondering why I haven't seen any dragons in a while and then realized I've done hardly anything in the main quest. Been messing around in Riften and am still a werewolf too. Werewolf lot less effective that I would have thought, usually get killed pretty quickly if I transform. It is handy for traveling to new places though, wolfman can run pretty fast. Now I gotta finish the companions thing because I'd like to be cured, and the thieves one also since I'm in pretty deep there too.
And then everytime I go to try and clean up up a quest someone passes me a note or whatever and I've got something else to do. Exhausting.
Fun tho.
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:rofl the werewolf comes in handy...I was trying to fight a fire magician Lydia was with me we couldn't kill this sucker, I died at least 10 times strted getting pissed :rofl
he had viscous fire balls, finally killed all his companions....I went werewolf and rushed his arse and killed him in 4 swipes :rock, Lydia still stayed with me which I thought was wrong....I went werewolf in a town and killed like 7 town folk who instantly produced knifes to try to kill me as soon as I turned.... :rofl :rofl killed a couple guards before they dragged me down... :rofl :rofl :rofl
game is sick :rock
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the 1 time the werewolf transformation has saved my arse, was when i went into this mind looking for bandits, and got bounced by 4 trolls. All i had on me was 2 daggers, so i transformed and fought it out.
Sucks you cant feed off the flesh of EVERYTHING you kill, only humans. Im trying to get hiricines ring tho, so i can transform whenever i want.
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the 1 time the werewolf transformation has saved my arse, was when i went into this mind looking for bandits, and got bounced by 4 trolls. All i had on me was 2 daggers, so i transformed and fought it out.
Sucks you cant feed off the flesh of EVERYTHING you kill, only humans. Im trying to get hiricines ring tho, so i can transform whenever i want.
Trolls are weaksauce... My Epic Elven Greatsword (forged myself) with a Fire Enchantment pwns most badguys in 1 to 2 hits. Trolls go down very quick with fire... (I read it in a book!). I was running along the road and came upon a tower, so I decided to explore it, and was rushed by 4 trolls. I thought to myself, "Oh crap"... then I dragonbreathed them and did a sidestep attack that damages all targets it. Imediately went into crit kills before any of them were able to hit.
I am a bit disappointed in the crit animation for non-human characters. It seems off, and nowhere near as bloody.
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Trolls are weaksauce... My Epic Elven Greatsword (forged myself) with a Fire Enchantment pwns most badguys in 1 to 2 hits. Trolls go down very quick with fire... (I read it in a book!). I was running along the road and came upon a tower, so I decided to explore it, and was rushed by 4 trolls. I thought to myself, "Oh crap"... then I dragonbreathed them and did a sidestep attack that damages all targets it. Imediately went into crit kills before any of them were able to hit.
I am a bit disappointed in the crit animation for non-human characters. It seems off, and nowhere near as bloody.
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Yea i didnt have destruction magic at that point. Only the flames, and my magicka was so low that i could rly only get a 3 sec burst out. wouldnt of saved me from 4 trolls.
I like the bear longsword animation. When your guy spins around, and just slices the bear in the mouth. would of been cooler tho if he had gone on the way through. slicing the bear down the middle.
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the kill animations are pretty damn cool :rock
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Here's a screenshot of my character with two of the Blades katanas.
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Nice, I haven't seen any katanas yet. I went back on the main quest line. Here be dragons.
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I started out just trying to do whatever I came upon, and got sidetracked off the main quest, but stumble on it through sidequests doing other things for other people. So the whole game is kind of unfolding at once... I'm probably only half through everything I've started, but I'm in the middle of absolutely everything. It's going to be an epic climax!
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Nice, I haven't seen any katanas yet. I went back on the main quest line. Here be dragons.
You can get one Katana from a rack in Delphine's secret room. I found 6 more on a rack tucked away in a side room in the old Blades fortress with the big wall mural.
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Nice, I haven't seen any katanas yet. I went back on the main quest line. Here be dragons.
katanas and samurai armor is more of "the blades"style. u can get katanas from blades members, and you get the samurai armor from their temple.
So far i believe their are 2 unique katanas.
DRAGONBANE: a katana that can be found during the main dragon questline.it gains a 10pt damage boost against dragons, and otherwise has a shock damage. You can acheive it by ether.
1. grabbing it as soon as you enter the blades temple. it will be in a room on a table to the left of the entrance. what i did.
2. completeing the optional blades mission of slaying paarthemix.
3. stealing it, if you didnt grab it before.
If you grab it as soon as you enter the temple, its your to own. if not, you have to ether steal it, or slay the greybeards dragon leader, paarthemix. in order to get it legit.
EBONY BLADE: The ebony blade returns once more in a TES game. some may reconize its name and effects from oblivion, or morrorwind. it is a deadric artifact, which this time around takes the form of a giant two-handed katana.
It has a health draining bonus, And also grows stronger from "Deceit". meaning if you slay followers/anyone who trusts you, it strengths the blade.
It can be attained by:
In whiterun, listen around for rumors by asking the woman at the bannered mare. She will mention something about the jarls son being distant. after this, talk to the jarl himself. This will open the questline to retrieve the blade. Its rather easy to do. the hardest thing being pick-pocketing a key off ether the jarl or his steward.
:salute
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Thx fellas. Like the idea, frost or something in one, and a soul capture in the other maybe.
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The dragons are starting to get a bit annoying. They seem to spawn everytime i exit a dungeon/fast travel.
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The dragons are starting to get a bit annoying. They seem to spawn everytime i exit a dungeon/fast travel.
I've been fast traveling between Whiterun and Markarth to swap items between my houses. I've been exploring a lot lately (hardly any fast travel), cleared many dungeons, and haven't seen a dragon except one sleeping in front of a Word Wall. Haven't even seen or heard any flying around in the wild for a very long time.
I have not been doing any main story quests, past becoming Archmage and doing the Greybeards stuff.
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I've been fast traveling between Whiterun and Markarth to swap items between my houses. I've been exploring a lot lately (hardly any fast travel), cleared many dungeons, and haven't seen a dragon except one sleeping in front of a Word Wall. Haven't even seen or heard any flying around in the wild for a very long time.
I have not been doing any main story quests, past becoming Archmage and doing the Greybeards stuff.
Usually they start showing up in force after you meet the greybeards leader (paarthimux). Not every dragon you see will fight you tho. Alduin will show up occasionally and just circle above you to observe. You can also witness him ressurecting dragons at their burial sites from certain view points.
When i was fast traveling between whiterun and windhelm to switch out my stuff, i had like 6 dragons spawn when i went to windhelm. one even spawned IN the city, which caused a giant uproar. :uhoh
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Usually they start showing up in force after you meet the greybeards leader (paarthimux). Not every dragon you see will fight you tho. Alduin will show up occasionally and just circle above you to observe. You can also witness him ressurecting dragons at their burial sites from certain view points.
When i was fast traveling between whiterun and windhelm to switch out my stuff, i had like 6 dragons spawn when i went to windhelm. one even spawned IN the city, which caused a giant uproar. :uhoh
thas awesome
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Usually they start showing up in force after you meet the greybeards leader (paarthimux). Not every dragon you see will fight you tho. Alduin will show up occasionally and just circle above you to observe. You can also witness him ressurecting dragons at their burial sites from certain view points.
Yep, I've seen all that; had dragons everywhere for the longest time (even watched one from the top of a cliff as it attacked bunnies, deer and mudcrabs), had about 15 dragon souls stored up for when I stumbled across another Word Wall. I'm just saying I haven't seen ANY dragons for a very long time.
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Can one of you post a video of your mage character fighting a mob (using magic only)?
Ive seen many videos in youtube of this game and while it is visually improved magic-wise over oblivion I still see the same old bethesda brand copy and paste approach. It seems from the videos that every spell has the same animations and effect but with a different color & damage type. That..is so freakin' lame :(
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It seems from the videos that every spell has the same animations and effect but with a different color & damage type. That..is so freakin' lame :(
That shouldn't be. I know fire and ice spells might look the same with their cone of fire/ice, but lightning is different. As you go higher up in the spell levels, you can either launch fireballs, icicles, or lightning bolts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzYJ1vAxOI8 Lightning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI30YLLwJTY Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX-DaRp0_rA Ice
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The ice spike spell is particularly lethal. Once you land one spike, it tends to slow down the target so he cannot effectively dodge the rest of them. The other nice thing about it is that it doesn't affect a large area, so you don't kill off your minions.
Speaking of minions, nothing is better than using 'Dead Thrall' and bringing vampires back from the dead; instant 'win' button.
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Haven't really used any magic yet except clairvoyance and healing. Swords and arrows seem more effective for now. Easier too. That's one of the fun things in the game, you can go do whatever you like and not bother with the other stuff.
Eventually I'll get to it; the only time I regretted not knowing any is when I accidentally killed Lydia. Would have been nice to bring her back to life. That ice troll was trapped on some rocks though so I had to let her die. I guess I can use Uthgerd for bait now, but I figure I have to do a decent bit of mourning for poor old Lydia first.
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Magic is a bit trickier than melee for the simple fact, you need to get it right the first time or you get overwhelmed and often the casters don't have the armor to deflect or absorb an attack.
I don't like the melee system much in Skyrim, far too often I swing outside the distance of my weapons so I prefer magic and bows.
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thas awesome
The Frost dragon killed 2 guards and that sword-to-the-chest begger guy before i was able to bring him down, everytime i hit him with dragonrend, He'd just land ontop of the meadhall out of reach, So i had to keep switching to bow :furious
Thankfully he eff'ed up and landed infront of it in which me and like half the town pummeled it to death. The skeleton is still pretty much hanging out right infront of the mead hall.
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"Hey batter batter batter hey battter batter batter swing!" ;)
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Here, this thread needs more skyrim pictures.
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After crushing some master Vampire and usurping his throne.
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Background. /drool/
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What do you have to do to take a screen shot. Mine arent working.
Im on my 4th companion/sucker now. Its the EROL chick from the eating people quest. I'm gonna mod her when I get the chance and throw a pirate patch on her. I'm awiting the tools now. I got a small team to build the dwemer salt mine. Quests and all. Should be a 4 month project. If I get sucked into it, will probable take a break from AH for the time.
got my char to level 56, and think I found every area. Character is just to leet to play at normal mode though. Almost sad really, next build though is gonna be a nasty dual weilding dagger weilder. This was my first play through, and definitly enjoyed the eye candy, still wish it was multiplayer though. I mean realistically without multiplayers (people) the game just dies out for me.
Lovin the nice Ebony armor though. That stuff looks great enchanted.
Anyway, Happy New Year.
Cheers
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What do you have to do to take a screen shot. Mine arent working.
Im on my 4th companion/sucker now. Its the EROL chick from the eating people quest. I'm gonna mod her when I get the chance and throw a pirate patch on her. I'm awiting the tools now. I got a small team to build the dwemer salt mine. Quests and all. Should be a 4 month project. If I get sucked into it, will probable take a break from AH for the time.
got my char to level 56, and think I found every area. Character is just to leet to play at normal mode though. Almost sad really, next build though is gonna be a nasty dual weilding dagger weilder. This was my first play through, and definitly enjoyed the eye candy, still wish it was multiplayer though. I mean realistically without multiplayers (people) the game just dies out for me.
Lovin the nice Ebony armor though. That stuff looks great enchanted.
Anyway, Happy New Year.
Cheers
If you have it for PC, there are multiplayer mods out there.
There will be alot more mods popping up once bethesda releases the creation kit in January.
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What do you have to do to take a screen shot. Mine arent working.
If it's on Steam, default is F-12 to take a SS through steam. (My second pic is from Steam)
Print Screen and then copy/paste into MSpaint works for single shots.
I've had FRAPs for years now and my first SS was taken off of a fraps recording I did of a cinematic kill.
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Haven't really used any magic yet except clairvoyance and healing. Swords and arrows seem more effective for now. Easier too. That's one of the fun things in the game, you can go do whatever you like and not bother with the other stuff.
Eventually I'll get to it; the only time I regretted not knowing any is when I accidentally killed Lydia. Would have been nice to bring her back to life. That ice troll was trapped on some rocks though so I had to let her die. I guess I can use Uthgerd for bait now, but I figure I have to do a decent bit of mourning for poor old Lydia first.
:lol Lydia finally bought it the other day for me. I would normally reload and do it again but I thought I told her to wait somewhere when she had been killed previously. Took her stuff dragged her to a fitting resting place. I have Mjoll the Lioness as my wife I could use her but she is too busy making my dinner in her underwear most of the time. I have 3 other spare thanes so they will have to do.
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:lol Lydia finally bought it the other day for me. I would normally reload and do it again but I thought I told her to wait somewhere when she had been killed previously. Took her stuff dragged her to a fitting resting place. I have Mjoll the Lioness as my wife I could use her but she is too busy making my dinner in her underwear most of the time. I have 3 other spare thanes so they will have to do.
LOL.. I married Mjoll too. Interesting thing I didn't know.. when you say 'we can part ways'.. that just sends the housecarl (You're the Thane ) back to whichever house they were aligned with. WARNING.. I think they peddle whatever gear you had them carrying or use, because when you see them back at the house, they're outfitted as when they were assigned to you. I've lost a couple sets of plated steel armor and some killer staffs that way...
I'm into the dark brotherhood string now.. not real comfy with being an assassin, but it only took about 6 missions before it got REAL interesting...
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Best of Skyrim:
Arrows to the knee
Dragons
Fus Ro Dah
Companions = Luggage Holder
Kill moves
No gravity physics
Killing a chicken = 1st degree murder
Spider horse - climbing 90 degrees slopes like cake
Jumping off a mountain into a river and landing a perfect 10
Jumping onto a wheelbarrow and killing yourself
Spawning 10,000 cabbages on the Throat of the World
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...WARNING.. I think they peddle whatever gear you had them carrying or use, because when you see them back at the house, they're outfitted as when they were assigned to you. I've lost a couple sets of plated steel armor and some killer staffs that way...
Found out that if you take your companion back out, they respawn as equipped when you released them last.
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Wish there was animated kills for archerd..... animations are pretty good when you sneak up and get a 15x dagger in someone.
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Sneaking up on someone in a full suit of heavy plate and lopping their head off is even funnier...
Nord Heavy Ninja FTW!!!
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Me in Skyrim. :D
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Oh boy... a new one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNDT7EInclo
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How the heck is she not a paid for artist making millions right now?
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Ok got the game with steam's discount offer (yay!).
Overall I like it but there are two things that really bug me:
1- The magic system is really not well integrated.
The left/right hand thing forcing you to constantly stop the game, swap spells, suffer the 2 or 3 second delay after swap for the game to somehow figure out that you are indeed clicking the mouse to FIRE the new spells... ugh.
Final Fantasy suffered such an interface until their developers came up with a system to replace it..which worked flawlessly in FFXI (MMO). Bethesda should take a look at these things.
2- Game makes me sick. Literally. This is something that is bethesda-specific. Its the way they make the avatar move and the world scroll by in all their games (fallout/elder scrolls). Its like you're floating an inch above the ground slewing around the place not walking/jogging. The sprint animation/movement oth is brilliant. If they would integrate the sprint movement on walk/jog and make distant objects not have such a strong bloom effect (no, graphic settings cant change it) it would be perfect imo. Perhaps someday a mod will make this. Until that happens I'll have to play with some alcohol in me blood to get through it.
The good:
1- Im happy to see archery is actually viable in this game. In Oblivion it was almost useless. At level 6 I slew a mammoth with just bow and arrow XD.
2- zombies! waahahaha...
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Oh boy... a new one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNDT7EInclo
She really needs to do a cover of "tale of the toungues". :pray
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Sneaking up on someone in a full suit of heavy plate and lopping their head off is even funnier...
Nord Heavy Ninja FTW!!!
I have not upgraded the decapitation perk on onehanded . i like the eleven legendary armor i have an archer character do need to get in close and hash it out.... a good bow and a good enchantment and the 3x perk make quick work of most.
the blacksmith keeps saying to get rid of the sisy elven armor and get some real stuff ...too funny
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Fluttershy know's how to get down on some skyrim.
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And, a preview of the next elder scrolls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUHbAYgOOEs
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsqiSknjHK8&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsqiSknjHK8&feature=related
:rofl
:rofl Oh man, with the amount of money they made off of this, I can't wait to see the NEXT Elder Scrolls. :x
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Anyone around or past lvl 50?
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I get a kick out of how you find a barrel of tomatoes, potatoes, or apples in an old sealed off dungeon.
On an xbox I'm up to lvl 40 as an assassin khat with 100 sneak and smithing. I've got the ancient shrouded armor upgraded and a legendary elf helmet. As a bowman it's pretty easy to pick off people. Just now getting into enchanting at level 43 for that skill. You can have a whole enchanting party after collecting stuff for awhile. Can also make a lot of money enchanting stuff you find but it's hard to sell it all.
Have yet to buy a house. Still living in the abandoned shack. Have completed the Dark Brotherhood and Bard quests and a whole bunch of other quests and misc stuff. Still never have gotten but a couple of steps into the main story line where you go to that tower to help defend against a dragon.
Have yet to see a dragon. Going to do the thieves guild stuff next. Not sure yet about the companions or mage school.
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I get a kick out of how you find a barrel of tomatoes, potatoes, or apples in an old sealed off dungeon.
On an xbox I'm up to lvl 40 as an assassin khat with 100 sneak and smithing. I've got the ancient shrouded armor upgraded and a legendary elf helmet. As a bowman it's pretty easy to pick off people. Just now getting into enchanting at level 43 for that skill. You can have a whole enchanting party after collecting stuff for awhile. Can also make a lot of money enchanting stuff you find but it's hard to sell it all.
Have yet to buy a house. Still living in the abandoned shack. Have completed the Dark Brotherhood and Bard quests and a whole bunch of other quests and misc stuff. Still never have gotten but a couple of steps into the main story line where you go to that tower to help defend against a dragon.
Have yet to see a dragon. Going to do the thieves guild stuff next. Not sure yet about the companions or mage school.
Once you beat the brotherhood missions, You can use the sanctuary as a safehouse. All the containers are safe.
The theives guild aswell. they will let you use the nightingale hall. Its a bit warndown tho since its an ancient ruin.
The mages college gives you the best housing if you dont want to BUY a house: The mages dorm. If you want a better place to store your stuff, i'd go there first.
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The mages college gives you the best housing if you dont want to BUY a house: The mages dorm. If you want a better place to store your stuff, i'd go there first.
Just complete the Mage College quest series and you become Arch-Mage and get the Arch-Mage quarters which are equipped with an Alchemy station, Enchanting station and a crap load of Alchemy ingredients (including your very own ingredient garden).
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Just complete the Mage College quest series and you become Arch-Mage and get the Arch-Mage quarters which are equipped with an Alchemy station, Enchanting station and a crap load of Alchemy ingredients (including your very own ingredient garden).
Pretty much.
Personally the mages-college was a dissapointment to me. I came there to learn magic, I get stuck saving the college, then suddenly im arch-mage. and by the time all that was done, i STILL had not learned a single thing from that college except a lesser-ward. :bhead
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Pretty much.
Personally the mages-college was a dissapointment to me. I came there to learn magic, I get stuck saving the college, then suddenly im arch-mage. and by the time all that was done, i STILL had not learned a single thing from that college except a lesser-ward. :bhead
Oh I agree. The Mage College quest line is a serious turd. But the discussion was free housing, of which the Mage College offers a nice option. Better then an abandoned shack.
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Better then an abandoned shack.
The nice thing about my old abandoned shack is that I can warp right there just in front of the door. All I use is the storage stuff. Just have to get used to a couple of dead bodies in the house is all.
The new Dark Brotherhood lair is completely upgraded but I just have gone there for routine contracts. Yeah I know I could sleep or store stuff there. Also with the lover's bonus now there is no real need to sleep or find a mate.
Probably need to work on alchemy sometime. I've got a whole barrel full of ingredients collecting from nearly the start of the game.
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Question? Which is the better platform to get this game on? I have a PS3, but I generally use my PC for gaming. What are the differences between them? Any gameplay diff?
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Question? Which is the better platform to get this game on? I have a PS3, but I generally use my PC for gaming. What are the differences between them? Any gameplay diff?
Well, PC if you think it can run it of course. The graphics and modding give the PC an edge.
Rumor has it tho that SCEA may just let Bethesda release the Creation Kit for skyrim on ps3, as part of playstation+ subscribers.
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Its not a rumor. Bethesda is going to release the creation kit this month. PC only of course.
Gaidin: PC. If your system can run it, get the PC version. Believe it or not, skyrim isnt that demanding. I'm running it at max graphic settings in a quad core amd 2.8ghz with a GT240 vid card and 4 gigs ram. A friend of mine runs it at low settings in a dual core amd 1.8ghz, 2 gigs ram with a GT260.
The difference between high and low graphic settings is hardly noticeable however. Of course there is a difference but its not like dragons look choppy or cartoonish. Its mostly anti-aliasing visual and texture decoration in objects that is lost.
PC version of the game lets you add insane amount of mods and best of all, you can keymap the game to your likings. I havent played skyrim on a console but i have played Fallout 3 on both systems and its just irritating to be locked into a gamepad control set when you have SO many things to do and manage in the game. Heck, inventory management itself is hell using a gamepad.
... and on a PC you can use the multiplayer mod ;)
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Its not a rumor. Bethesda is going to release the creation kit this month. PC only of course.
I know about the kit being released in january. The rumor is SCEA may allow it to be used on PSN. Meaning ps3 users will be able to download mods onto their ps3's.
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Question? Which is the better platform to get this game on? I have a PS3, but I generally use my PC for gaming. What are the differences between them? Any gameplay diff?
Don't get it for the PS3. The PS3's architecture leads to some very significant problems as your save game file expands and gets bigger. It just doesn't have enough virtual memory to handle it. Once you get ~80 hours in to the game the save game bloat will crash your game constantly on a PS3.
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Have not had any problems with it on an xbox but no modding. :(
However, it's nice playing on a 60" Sony flatscreen with stereo surround though :D
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Don't get it for the PS3. The PS3's architecture leads to some very significant problems as your save game file expands and gets bigger. It just doesn't have enough virtual memory to handle it. Once you get ~80 hours in to the game the save game bloat will crash your game constantly on a PS3.
Imn almost 102 hours in on my ps3, Only problem ive had is shadowmere glitching inside a castle. Otherwise nothing.....
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Like others have said, PC is the best option since it has better graphics, mods, and you can adjust a lot more things with it.
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Anyone around or past lvl 50?
First char was level 54 when I created my new bad arse. I just dumped it cause I had to turn up the settings to max difficulty. Then it was hard. So I created a new char that Im leveling now. But playing hard from the start. Sleep, food, bad guys are tough as nails. So more slower play now. Much more challeging though. I made a cat char. And not wasting any perks either.
I'll be modding a huge salt mine/dwemer salt production facilty with the aid of 3 other people when we get the creation kit. I have a 3d modler to boot, so we can make dwemer evaporators.
Keep u posted.
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Oh boy... a new one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNDT7EInclo
Ah, she must be a true Imperial...
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I have to say... I wish I'd stuck to the main story line before getting invovled in the Civil War... Hopefully I have a chance to set things right at the Moot.
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Ah, she must be a true Imperial...
I just finished the markarth forsworn mission.
Did you know a "shiv" is the elder scrolls version of a shank? ;)
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I just finished the markarth forsworn mission.
Did you know a "shiv" is the elder scrolls version of a shank? ;)
I wouldn't give Bethesda/TES so much credit.
A shiv (possibly from the Romani word chivomengro, "knife"[1]) is a slang term for any sharp or pointed implement used as a knife-like weapon. However, the word in practical usage is frequently used when referring to an improvised bladed weapon. Shivs are commonly made by inmates in prisons across the world. A shiv can be anything from a glass shard with fabric wrapped around one end to form a handle, to a razorblade stuck in the end of a toothbrush. Synonyms include shank and chib (from Scottish slang, as exemplified in the novel Trainspotting, "chib" was originally a name for a blunt weapon such as a baseball bat or tree branch). These terms, along with "shiv", can be used either as a noun or a transitive verb, referring to the weapon or the act of attacking with such a weapon respectively.
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I wouldn't give Bethesda/TES so much credit.
A shiv (possibly from the Romani word chivomengro, "knife"[1]) is a slang term for any sharp or pointed implement used as a knife-like weapon. However, the word in practical usage is frequently used when referring to an improvised bladed weapon. Shivs are commonly made by inmates in prisons across the world. A shiv can be anything from a glass shard with fabric wrapped around one end to form a handle, to a razorblade stuck in the end of a toothbrush. Synonyms include shank and chib (from Scottish slang, as exemplified in the novel Trainspotting, "chib" was originally a name for a blunt weapon such as a baseball bat or tree branch). These terms, along with "shiv", can be used either as a noun or a transitive verb, referring to the weapon or the act of attacking with such a weapon respectively.
Indeed, Shiv and Shank are interchangeable, normally it's a gererational thing. I hear more older folks refer to it as a shiv, I hear the younger generation call it a shank. Personally, I thought Shanking was what you did with a shiv...
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Indeed, Shiv and Shank are interchangeable, normally it's a gererational thing. I hear more older folks refer to it as a shiv, I hear the younger generation call it a shank. Personally, I thought Shanking was what you did with a shiv...
I'm with Wilbur on this.
Haven't found the shiv yet, that quest looks like fun.
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I'm with Wilbur on this.
Haven't found the shiv yet, that quest looks like fun.
be arrested after completing the mission in markath that involved the forsworn and you investigating the killing in the market.
At the end, the guards will frame you for murders, When your given the option choose to go quietly. You'll Be locked in the jail Mine. There you can talk to a guy with the nickname "unlucky".Do his little miniquest, and you get one.
Dont get your hopes up tho. nothing special. Just a little hidden blade that does very little damage.
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I thought "shank" was a golf term. Sure is in my lexicon. Along with worm burner........
Bob
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I thought "shank" was a golf term. Sure is in my lexicon. Along with worm burner........
Bob
Ah, the worm burner... I know it well... :bhead
Usually a result of not keeping your head down.
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Ah, the worm burner... I know it well... :bhead
Usually a result of not keeping your head down.
In my case it's from swaying off the ball and lunging back toward it. Still, thin to win, better than a duff.
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My best golf swing was when I hung my clubs on a hook in the garage, where they stayed for 5 years before I sold them. My quality of life skyrocketed after that.
Started another nord warrior. This time leaning towards stormcloak, but really working on smithing to improve the weapons instead of relying on' luck of the loot' for lethal stuff.
I still bring up a round or two of my lvl 47 guy to keep him in the save game rotation. May go see if I can eradicate that thief-backing family in Riften..
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Its not a rumor. Bethesda is going to release the creation kit this month. PC only of course.
Gaidin: PC. If your system can run it, get the PC version. Believe it or not, skyrim isnt that demanding. I'm running it at max graphic settings in a quad core amd 2.8ghz with a GT240 vid card and 4 gigs ram. A friend of mine runs it at low settings in a dual core amd 1.8ghz, 2 gigs ram with a GT260.
The difference between high and low graphic settings is hardly noticeable however. Of course there is a difference but its not like dragons look choppy or cartoonish. Its mostly anti-aliasing visual and texture decoration in objects that is lost.
PC version of the game lets you add insane amount of mods and best of all, you can keymap the game to your likings. I havent played skyrim on a console but i have played Fallout 3 on both systems and its just irritating to be locked into a gamepad control set when you have SO many things to do and manage in the game. Heck, inventory management itself is hell using a gamepad.
... and on a PC you can use the multiplayer mod ;)
The PC version also lets you use more than 2Gigs which fixes a lot of problems with running the game if you have more than 2 gigs of memory and want to use it.
ack-ack
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finished the stealth character - level 50-something, did all the quests. Made a Breton mage and to be frank magic is pretty overpowered. For one thing, you can power-level it, which is massive. then take Conjuration to 100, get the twin-souls, get the dremora-lords, drop 2 of them and assist with your lighting bolts (Destruction) or whatever. I miss the stealth stuff, but if I ever really need to go stealthy, I have muffle and invisibility (illusion) . . .dragonskin armor (alteration) has an 80% reduction in damage which is the max you can get with any armor anyway - so basically, you can do anything the other class' can do.
my build is illution to silent casting (yes, magic does double damage in stealth too), destruction to expert (master level stuff has too much of a ramp-up to be useful imo), conjuration to max, and maxed out alteration. With the 30% reduction from magic from alteration, the 25% you get from the gift of mara, and the 25% from Breton blood - I have an 80% magic damage reduction off the bat - after I get enchanting to 100, I will make me some nice robes and gloves and boots that have magica, magica regen and a little fire and ice damage reduction. . . and you can easily become immune to magic and almost immune to physical damage.
the first 10 levels are tough. . .
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I'm lv 38/39 mage, similar except I haven't got my conjuration up yet. Working on it now. It seems to do very well, but I have a feeling around lv50 magic may run into a bit of trouble as far as the crowd control stuff and damage goes. Maybe I'm wrong though. I just notice my relative power with destruction magic seems to be going down a bit the higher I get.
Wiley.
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wrong thread...
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Slowly but surely im starting to piece the plotline all together concerning the Importance of the Empire, the Threat of the Thalmor, And the Reasoning behind the stormcloaks.
And i must say, Bethesda are masters at creating a deep storyline. Nothing is ever 100% clear. Sometimes, You'll complete an action, and still be left wondering "was that really the best choice..?"
Im started to grow a little bit of sympathy for the stormcloaks after learning about the markath incident. Ulfric is still an ego-tistic arse tho.
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be arrested after completing the mission in markath that involved the forsworn and you investigating the killing in the market.
At the end, the guards will frame you for murders, When your given the option choose to go quietly. You'll Be locked in the jail Mine. There you can talk to a guy with the nickname "unlucky".Do his little miniquest, and you get one.
Dont get your hopes up tho. nothing special. Just a little hidden blade that does very little damage.
Ah, being a Nord, I don't particularly like the Forsworn, especially after they tried to kill me several times just for walking to Markath, and one of their crazy agents almost killed an innocent woman right infront of me. (I saw the knife just in time and was in perfect position and just smashed his face in with my shield and then gutted him. Very lucky I was almost overloaded and she looked like a merchant.)
After going through the quest to find out who was behind that I decided I wasn't going to play the game of prisoners and just beat that orc feller into a pitiful green pulp. Walked in on the King of the Forsworn, decided he was one of the branches of the roots of my problems and promptly beat him to death with my bare Nordic fists while shouting fire at him.
Killed him, stole his key, and walked out a free man with a pardon from the Silver Bloods and a nice little +smithing ring.
(http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/388392_265321933532226_100001632655168_774294_79176934_n.jpg)
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Ah, being a Nord, I don't particularly like the Forsworn, especially after they tried to kill me several times just for walking to Markath, and one of their crazy agents almost killed an innocent woman right infront of me. (I saw the knife just in time and was in perfect position and just smashed his face in with my shield and then gutted him. Very lucky I was almost overloaded and she looked like a merchant.)
After going through the quest to find out who was behind that I decided I wasn't going to play the game of prisoners and just beat that orc feller into a pitiful green pulp. Walked in on the King of the Forsworn, decided he was one of the branches of the roots of my problems and promptly beat him to death with my bare Nordic fists while shouting fire at him.
Killed him, stole his key, and walked out a free man with a pardon from the Silver Bloods and a nice little +smithing ring.
I just got done with that mission. I helped them all escape. Mainly because i was unsure how to get my precious blade's items back. But afterwords, i followed them to the cave they were at, and promply slew them all.
The forsworn are a sensitive topic in Skyrim. In all rights, they ARE the rightful rulers of the Reach. they WERE there first.
BUT, they are mostly deadra worshipers. and despise the Aedra divines, and all those who believe in them. And deadra worshipers cannot be aloud to spread their influence. therefore the Forsworn cannot be aloud to control the reach.
Im finishing up things in markath before i return to windhelm. Its an interesting city and im partly enjoying my stay. But something about it...the location, the atmosphere, just makes me think their's some ancient evil lieing dormant deep under the city.
And knowing the Dwemer, there probably is. :uhoh
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Yes, the Falmer have been trying to destroy Markath for some time. You find this out as you explore the Dwemer ruins for the court mage, and you realize the automated Dwemer defenses have been keeping them out for years.
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Oh man, Everytime I go somewhere I've got people trying to kill me. I got like 4 bounties on my arse. From the thalmor to the Brotherhood. I havent joined that group, and didnt plan on it this run through. Looks like I might not have a choice now though. Still trying to figure out who put the hit on me. Was taking out bandit group when i got backstabbed.
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I cave into peer pressure pretty fast... That's why I'm a Daedra worshiping warewolf cannibal thief assassin... I'm going to Oblivion for this.
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I cave into peer pressure pretty fast... That's why I'm a Daedra worshiping warewolf cannibal thief assassin... I'm going to Oblivion for this.
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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:aok
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Well I have 3 characters all in mid 30's level. I've won both sides of the civil war (things start to go sour if Ulfric wins though) I've had one character play though the throat of the world quests, is trying to hammer out a truce to stop the fighting.
I'm ticked that the Thalmor have zero time or patience for another high elf, or imperial.
In fact I'm about ready to go Rambo on all of the Thalmor period.
Tried bringing 1 character up as pure mage, but it takes a bit more forethought and planning.
Loving working my smith/enchanting skills up till I can make Dragonscale light armor with dual enchantments on each piece.
Fav mods, essential horses, unlimited Amulets, and no perk pereq's.
Yes the horses are a bit overmodded in Skyrim, they will go places that a mountain goat would think twice about. As to the Amulets, in theory, a person should be able to wear 8 rings and hang as many amulets and necklaces around their neck that they are willing to put up with (Mr T style)
But mods imo won't really kick off till they release the creation kit. Then look out.
As for not seeing dragons, look for dragon resting spots on your hud. Normally they are at the top of a mountain, have a resident dragon, and a word wall. Many you'll have to work though another dungeon to reach, or be seriously good at riding in rough terrain.
Once you have cleared them, give them a week and fast travel back, good chance another dragon has taken up residence.
Also you can use console commands in PC version to spawn dragons. PM me if you need help.
I don't even want to think about how many hours I've put into Skyrim in the last 3 weeks.
But its fun :)
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I've always been a bit of an explorer. I'm a great spacebar mountain climber, and have been to the edge of most areas of Skryim where you receive a nice little messgae informing you "You cannot go that way".
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I was hopping up a mountain to try and get a sweet screenshot when a dragon popped up and started harrasing me. I forced it down to a perch on the mountain cliff edge and LOL'd my butt off when, upon a dual cast Ice Storm spell, it pushed the dragon off the cliff. It plunged to the bottom and died. took me 10 minutes to climb down to collect its bones :devil
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I cave into peer pressure pretty fast... That's why I'm a Daedra worshiping warewolf cannibal thief assassin... I'm going to Oblivion for this.
:lol :aok
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I cave into peer pressure pretty fast... That's why I'm a Daedra worshiping warewolf cannibal thief assassin... I'm going to Oblivion for this.
The thing I'm looking forward to is when my character gets to the afterlife, there's going to be a long lineup of daedra who think they have dibs on his soul for eternity. Can't wait to see who gets it.
Hmm... That's kind of an interesting idea for a mod.
Wiley.
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LMAO
Bethesda gave this guy's mod and video a kudos promo on their blog. :devil :aok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Bifmj1O3D24
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LMAO
Bethesda gave this guy's mod and video a kudos promo on their blog. :devil :aok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Bifmj1O3D24
:huh :huh :huh :confused: :huh :huh :huh
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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LMAO
Bethesda gave this guy's mod and video a kudos promo on their blog. :devil :aok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Bifmj1O3D24
:rofl
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I got one of the werewolf mods.....much better...the Vanilla werewolf was way to weak.
saw a new decapitation animation the other day....a spinning back swing.....man do I love cutting suckers heads off :t and with a More Blood mod it is even cooler :rock
cant wait for the Construction set to come out.....should be soon.
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Getting tired of the endless dungeons, went out cliff diving with Farkas for a change:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEUgHXsvf-k&feature=youtu.be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEUgHXsvf-k&feature=youtu.be)
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Getting tired of the endless dungeons, went out cliff diving with Farkas for a change:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEUgHXsvf-k&feature=youtu.be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEUgHXsvf-k&feature=youtu.be)
Baahahaha!
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:rofl
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:rofl
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Getting tired of the endless dungeons, went out cliff diving with Farkas for a change:
Did some extreme waterfall diving myself yesterday. Fun stuff!
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LMAO
Bethesda gave this guy's mod and video a kudos promo on their blog. :devil :aok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Bifmj1O3D24
:rofl :rofl :aok
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If I have any complaints about the game, it would have to be the traps. With the exception of 1 trap type, they are all easily avoided with the big designs and buttons placed on the floor.
The one trap I thought was nice was the floor that raises up to shove you into spikes in the ceiling.
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With the exception of 1 trap type, they are all easily avoided with the big designs and buttons placed on the floor.
Yep, would be nice if they were more subtle until your character gains some experience in stealth and if they had a perk for trap-detection or trap-disarming.
Unrelated... I've got around 200 hours in the game and have yet to travel SE toward Riften. I like walking everywhere and keep getting sidetracked by a new cave or misc quest. I recently installed the iHUD mod which allows you to toggle the compas HUD and the aiming crosshair; makes adventuring more...adventurous. :D
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I've been away from my gaming computer for 3 days... :uhoh
Serious withdrawals here.
Must slay something.....
Maybe if I search the next rest area I can find an Amulet of Radar Avoidance. Wearer gains 20% speed increase.
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Any archery players that have the Base damage on the Bow to higher than 86... I know based on the math i can get it higher I just dont have the perks yet.
Whats your Highest???? Anyone??
Mine is 86..
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Any archery players that have the Base damage on the Bow to higher than 86... I know based on the math i can get it higher I just dont have the perks yet.
Whats your Highest???? Anyone??
Mine is 86..
Just the one perk, Daedric bow around 83 dmg with archery at 71 or so. Pretty effective. With the enchantments boosts I can get a mammoth in 3-4 shots, not that I ever remember to put the stupid jewelry on.
I've been doing sword & shield but the archery stuff is fun once the bow starts hitting hard enough.
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I just got my Archery up to 100 and got the Bullseye perk. I've got an Ebony bow enchanted with fire, but can't remember and haven't looked lately to see the base damage. I've sniped baddies off of towers and bridges who were hit so hard I never found them. Kind of fun watching them falling off and still on fire, kind of reminds me of watching certain players ride their burning planes to the ground in AH. :rock
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(https://jaynaylor.com/originallife/comic/OL275.12-01-16.jpg)
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huhuhuh.... she said 'mundane'
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Here's a vid that just got posted...man, it's awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfzS1iY0KHc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfzS1iY0KHc)
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i am at level 40 character....level 76 with bow. 100 smithing 100 sneak enchanting is only at 80. I rebuilt my deadric bow base damage is 105 with the appearl upgrades its 186
then of course xxx3 times with the sneak perk. I am dropping just about everything with one shot. I think mamoth took two, giants are easy one shot kill now.
dargons suck because i cant stay hidden and they take at least two hits if i could, probably more.
My dumbness finaly figured out why some gems enchant and some wont ... i solved that problem quick when i put soul trap on my bow..... lmao could of had enchanting up to 100 easy already.
soul trap on the bow. and transmute makes getting to 100 on enchantig so easy... wish i had figured it out sooner.
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:rofl
I thought the Dragons were way to weak...so I down loaded the Mod "tougher Dragons" (I think thats the name)
well holy hell now the are real dragons...no more standing toe to toe with them.....now I have to run and hide or they just eat me :rofl
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:rofl
I thought the Dragons were way to weak...so I down loaded the Mod "tougher Dragons" (I think thats the name)
well holy hell now the are real dragons...no more standing toe to toe with them.....now I have to run and hide or they just eat me :rofl
I need to try that mod. I honestly think that the vanilla game dragons are waaaaaay too weak... In fact, there was one occaision where I came across a random dragon, killed it in short order, then went down the path a little farther and ran into a couple of cave bears that surprised me... They were on top of me in a flash and very nearly killed me before I got my wits about me... One dragon should be waaaay more dangerous then a couple of cave bears...
On a side note... I've parked Skyrim for now... Was getting a little burned out on it, so I am flying more AH now and will return to Skyrim at a later date.
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Muhahah!
I had to steal a sweet roll at work....
Kevin
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LOLOLOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&src_vid=0t9IkBy1reY&annotation_id=annotation_701362&v=LH8WlYHhrM8
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LOLOLOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&src_vid=0t9IkBy1reY&annotation_id=annotation_701362&v=LH8WlYHhrM8
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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Seriously considering buying this just need to find my mula...
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Seriously considering buying this just need to find my mula...
Do it!!! Already have 120 hours on it and that's without any gameplay mods.
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Do it!!! Already have 120 hours on it and that's without any gameplay mods.
Would you like to make a donation to the first bank of Sean?
BTW gonna have to get it for Xbox not PC.
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I need to try that mod. I honestly think that the vanilla game dragons are waaaaaay too weak... In fact, there was one occaision where I came across a random dragon, killed it in short order, then went down the path a little farther and ran into a couple of cave bears that surprised me... They were on top of me in a flash and very nearly killed me before I got my wits about me... One dragon should be waaaay more dangerous then a couple of cave bears...
On a side note... I've parked Skyrim for now... Was getting a little burned out on it, so I am flying more AH now and will return to Skyrim at a later date.
ya they really are...that's my biggest complaint about the game.....
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LOLOLOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&src_vid=0t9IkBy1reY&annotation_id=annotation_701362&v=LH8WlYHhrM8
GASSSP! YOUUUU have VIOLATED your NIGHT mother!! EzxxxPLAIN YOURSELF! :rofl
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"Remember always wear your armor."
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"Remember always wear your armor."
Is that the same thing as, "No glove, no love."? :bolt:
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Is that the same thing as, "No glove, no love."? :bolt:
Dont be silly with your willy! :D :aok
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Wrap it before ya tap it...
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I reeeeaaallllyyy wanna be Mr.Obvious. Can I say it? Can I? Can? Can I!?
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There is that one blacksmith that always says that... :D
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There are a couple ladies who make it a big point of saying that "Anything's for Sale" when you walk into their shops. I haven't been able to find a way to take 'em upstairs yet though.
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there is a beta out, I guess is some fixes and such
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I'm waiting for somebody to yell at me for working the forge at 3AM.
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cant friggen wait till the Creation Kit comes out......
I will be making a mod that will put you on an adventure to capture a Dragon egg, raise it up and then be able to ride it :x
been messing with "Skyedit" but it is limited in what can be done,(although some people have made great mods with it) so far I am just working on a mod that gives proper weights to all the weapons.
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cant friggen wait till the Creation Kit comes out......
I will be making a mod that will put you on an adventure to capture a Dragon egg, raise it up and then be able to ride it :x
been messing with "Skyedit" but it is limited in what can be done,(although some people have made great mods with it) so far I am just working on a mod that gives proper weights to all the weapons.
hey! nice!
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I too have been waiting for the creation kit, meantime have been exploring some alternate characters.
Skyrim nexus has some very good alternate start RP save games.
An Orc with reasonable starting skills and perks (hvy armor, 2 handed,)
A couple of different "thief" starts, one where you join the thieves guild right away.
A couple of very hardcore "poor" starts, one where you are shipwrecked.
And an "Imperial" where you start at lvl 2 fighting a dragon at the whiterun guard tower.
Some of these have the main quest disabled, others don't.
I also recently finally worked though the whole "throat of the world/defeat Alduin" quest.
Was bugged (esbern doesn't talk) trying to hammer out a cease fire so I could capture a dragon at Whiterun)
Finally figured out how to find the stages and worked through it. Pretty nicely done in my opinion overall.
The mods I can't wait to see
A: Single combat with Ulfric, winner becomes High King.
B Dragon as mount for fast travel around Skyrim.
C Declare war against the High Elves ie Thalmor
D Option to remove unwanted quests from Journal on a line by line basis.
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Im waiting for it to do a re-worked magic system. I have three different magic systems planned out and just hoping the creation kit is actually user friendly and not some insane excel-based open-100-files-1-at-a-time 'editor' .
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cant friggen wait till the Creation Kit comes out......
I will be making a mod that will put you on an adventure to capture a Dragon egg, raise it up and then be able to ride it :x
OK Ink, I have to ask. Why on earth would you ride an egg? It is slippery and not very comfortable. Why not ride the dragon? :rolleyes: lol
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I too have been waiting for the creation kit, meantime have been exploring some alternate characters.
Skyrim nexus has some very good alternate start RP save games.
An Orc with reasonable starting skills and perks (hvy armor, 2 handed,)
A couple of different "thief" starts, one where you join the thieves guild right away.
A couple of very hardcore "poor" starts, one where you are shipwrecked.
And an "Imperial" where you start at lvl 2 fighting a dragon at the whiterun guard tower.
Some of these have the main quest disabled, others don't.
I also recently finally worked though the whole "throat of the world/defeat Alduin" quest.
Was bugged (esbern doesn't talk) trying to hammer out a cease fire so I could capture a dragon at Whiterun)
Finally figured out how to find the stages and worked through it. Pretty nicely done in my opinion overall.
The mods I can't wait to see
A: Single combat with Ulfric, winner becomes High King.
B Dragon as mount for fast travel around Skyrim.
C Declare war against the High Elves ie Thalmor
D Option to remove unwanted quests from Journal on a line by line basis.
To get this quest to work properly, I had to google this.... but basically, go somewhere NOT on the mountain and use your Elder Scroll. Then wait 24 in game hours, then travel to the top of the mountain and the quest will go through just fine.
I sat there for 30 minutes waiting for the dragon to land as they just kept flying overhead. It was very annoying, but this fixed it.
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OK Ink, I have to ask. Why on earth would you ride an egg? It is slippery and not very comfortable. Why not ride the dragon? :rolleyes: lol
:rofl :rofl
thats funny...I meant the dragon in the egg :neener:
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:rofl :rofl
thats funny...I meant the dragon in the egg :neener:
Love the idea of ridable dragons. Love it.
:headscratch: ...Wonder what a playable dragon would be like. Start as an infant, grow into a wyrm... Possibly have to shapechange to get into buildings when you're too big...
Wiley.
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Love the idea of ridable dragons. Love it.
:headscratch: ...Wonder what a playable dragon would be like. Start as an infant, grow into a wyrm... Possibly have to shapechange to get into buildings when you're too big...
Wiley.
I work with Blender and modeled a dragon I tried to put into Oblivion, it was extremely difficult so I never got it to work properly, I am hoping that I can redo the dragon and get it into Skyrim, but my dragon is more true then skyrim's it has four legs. I want to make it so a player can turn into the dragon at will. it so much work though with all the animations which to me is the hardest part.
I am also creating something that will make the waters much more dangerous :t a quick swim will be very precarious
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I work with Blender and modeled a dragon I tried to put into Oblivion, it was extremely difficult so I never got it to work properly, I am hoping that I can redo the dragon and get it into Skyrim, but my dragon is more true then skyrim's it has four legs. I want to make it so a player can turn into the dragon at will. it so much work though with all the animations which to me is the hardest part.
I am also creating something that will make the waters much more dangerous :t a quick swim will be very precarious
How's that going to work indoors?
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How's that going to work indoors?
not entirely sure....maybe a smaller version....but I would think that it should come with some disadvantages, such as not being able to get into smaller areas, opening locks, doors ECT ECT
you can conjure a small dragon right now that will fight for ya, so even without the CK you can change the size of anything.(if you pull up the command..you click on your character or anything and type setscale 1 I am taller then anyone now with setscale 1.1 anything bigger makes the animation off)
I cant wait for the CK to come out, I will be using that more then playing the game haha
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I also recently finally worked though the whole "throat of the world/defeat Alduin" quest.
Was bugged (esbern doesn't talk) trying to hammer out a cease fire so I could capture a dragon at Whiterun)
Finally figured out how to find the stages and worked through it. Pretty nicely done in my opinion overall.
The mods I can't wait to see
A: Single combat with Ulfric, winner becomes High King.
B Dragon as mount for fast travel around Skyrim.
C Declare war against the High Elves ie Thalmor
D Option to remove unwanted quests from Journal on a line by line basis.
+1 on the Throat of the World quest. Good challenge.
LOL on enhancement C... I snuck back to the Thalmor embassay and slaughtered the guard house with sniper-archer. May go back to finish off the rest of the house later... probably after I get smithing up to 100 and figure out what the dragon armor and stuff is like..
And cleaning up the journal ( D ) would definitely be nice.
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Dragon scale armor is good if you like light. Personally I only have one character that runs heavy, but he's an orc and has the bulk to carry it.
As you said once you get Smithing and enchanting up, things can get interesting.
Start putting double effects on weapons, like Fire damage and soul trap on an ebony bow or daedric bow.
I have a couple of characters that 1 shot Frost trolls and the like. Go into sneak mode and it becomes possible to kill a dragon with 2-3 shots (2-3x damage for undected when arrow hits)
Yes I too have have gone back several times to kill Thalmor, used the console once to get back inside the embassy but the eleven b@#$% is essential, unkillable. Great loot though, and elven armor is light, can carry a load of it.
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On my tank I use the steed stone (doubles what you can carry). From my 3 characters, the sneak/archer is the most enjoyable, the mage has to ride solo but it's kind of satisfying getting carried away setting the jungle on fire, my two handed tank is abit too point and click but has his fun moments.
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On my tank I use the steed stone (doubles what you can carry). From my 3 characters, the sneak/archer is the most enjoyable, the mage has to ride solo but it's kind of satisfying getting carried away setting the jungle on fire, my two handed tank is abit too point and click but has his fun moments.
I agree with the thief Archer...I had a warrior up to level 35 and decided to start a new thief...having much more fun...I added the "wars in skyrim" mod....so now wherever I go a battle is going on... I cant fight dragons the "deadly dragons" mod makes them unbeatable by low level characters I have to hide and sneak around, its pretty insane,
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this was cool stepped into some town and this is what I witnessed....if you interfere they will kill your arse :rofl
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this was cool stepped into some town and this is what I witnessed....if you interfere they will kill your arse :rofl
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Poor ol', Rogvir
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tried to save him during an entire day in different ways when I first saw that. nothing I did would help him and he would have a heart attack anyway
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saw a video on how to save him.. you use the mayhem scroll on crowd of couse they kill themselves IIRC
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tried to save him during an entire day in different ways when I first saw that. nothing I did would help him and he would have a heart attack anyway
I tried once, figured if i did may open up a quest.....big battle ensued that i was eventually dragged to my cartoon death :rofl
quite a fun game, saw a video on the Creation Kit, it is gonna rock cant friggen wait.
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New patch is out for PC and Xbox. Have updated the Xbox but have not played anymore yet
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I literally just saved and quit after killing Ulfric. Lol.
Time to go to bed. :P
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Someone's been having fun :O
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M2DshotexMU
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Someone's been having fun :O
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M2DshotexMU
Oh wow!!! :O :aok
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Oh wow!!! :O :aok
Dang how did somebody put that together?
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The description reads: "Epic machinima battle of 500 Draugr, 200 skeletons, 500 Dwarven Warriors and a dragon using mods and console commands.
In other words a lot of thinkering with the game.
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At first I thought he was gonna redo Army of Darkness. :)
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Holly crap :O epic video.
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Have you seen his other movies? The tales of Throthgar had me ROFLMAO :rofl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=GWm215blpmI&src_vid=BEhVjWd4AcE&annotation_id=annotation_199006 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=GWm215blpmI&src_vid=BEhVjWd4AcE&annotation_id=annotation_199006)
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:rofl
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Watched all 4 episodes. That was some funny stuff! Thanks for sharing.
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Those were pretty good... I <3 Morgasm
This was my fav:
http://youtu.be/1gqbYiUs_fM
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told you guys that I have been workin on something.....here is a sneak peak
working with Blender is interesting to say the least.... :uhoh
imagine swimming along and you see this
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gonna start animating it soon, what sux is Blender has no script that can read Skyrims nif files, it can read Oblivion's, but no Skyrim as of yet, :(
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Looking great! Maybe you'll get lucky and win that skyrim Nexus contest. :aok
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told you guys that I have been workin on something.....here is a sneak peak
working with Blender is interesting to say the least.... :uhoh
imagine swimming along and you see this
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gonna start animating it soon, what sux is Blender has no script that can read Skyrims nif files, it can read Oblivion's, but no Skyrim as of yet, :(
Very cool... So how big is that thing going to be anyway? :O
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egads, Ink..
How would you hope to fight that thing??
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Code it to be able to do the dragon bite you in half instadeath. :aok
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I would think it would come in all sizes, small say 4' being average one would see regularly...bigger ones that are truly dangerous say 9-10 feet not as common, but still very much around.
go out deeper in the sea and 30 footers would be the norm :t
got the armature all rigged up, gonna start animating it soon, should be relatively easy :huh as there is no walking motion or any thing major like that, some good bites, a flicking of the tail, a swim motion, a relaxed motion, the death roll.... :uhoh
Blender is an insane program...I can actually paint right on the model itself like I would in GIMP and it will save it as a texture.... :x
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Really cool Ink :aok
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She's at it again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QzHXt6n1QhM#!
Oh goosebumps
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She's at it again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QzHXt6n1QhM#!
Oh goosebumps
Yeah, I'm subscribed to her YT channel and FB. She's great. :aok
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I used to get goosebumps... then I took an arrow to the knee.
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Malukah rocks, pure and simple. While I prefer the age of aggression, her last offering is awesome.
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I used to get goosebumps... then I took an arrow to the knee.
:lol
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:lol
Not hearing that much after the latest patch.
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Is it me, or are more of the guards now women?
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I used to get goosebumps... then I took an arrow to the knee.
:aok
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Is it me, or are more of the guards now women?
Dunno, I never see lady guards. And I reverse pickpocket ebony/daedric arrows on every guard i see, just in case.
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I just hit 90 in my BSing yesterday. Got my Daedric getup... need to find one more heart though to make my sword.
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I used to get goosebumps... then I took an arrow to the knee.
I used to make arrow to the knee jokes...then I took a \/agina to the |)ick.
:lol
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I just hit 90 in my BSing yesterday. Got my Daedric getup... need to find one more heart though to make my sword.
Just buy daedric heart at some vendors who sell ingredients. Skyrim economics system can be mined so easily. You can also "mine" "}game{ "the ingredients from any vendor ,daedric hearts will appear at random. gaming the ingredients inventory is easy .I will post a quick FAQ if anyone is interested.
I never had a problem getting daeric hearts the proper way. I only use them to build daedric bows tho. I did mine the giants toes tho . Of course you came game your alchemy to 100 really fast this way.
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Sorry, I run vanilla, and don't put in game commands. I was able to find another heart eventually in my questing for my sword. Now I need one for my bow.
I'm a little disappointed that Dragon Bone armor is worse than Daedric, but requires 10 more BSing to make (topped out at 101 BS).
I've been using lots of blacksmithing gloves & potions for upgrading the armor though, it's getting badass.
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Ya its not game commands. Its something your already doing just playing the game. This just speeds it up by playing thru using your perks in speech first and working towards everything with a econmoic mind set... You can play thru the game slugging it out or you can play the econmics and just buy everything in game.
War is a rich mans game and a poor mans fight. :aok
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I have more gold than I know what to do with... it's all about what they have in stock.
Now I am wondering about purchasing businesses. I haven't seemed to have been able to find out how to do so. There are business ledgers, but I can't find anywhere to purchase.
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I have more gold than I know what to do with... it's all about what they have in stock.
Now I am wondering about purchasing businesses. I haven't seemed to have been able to find out how to do so. There are business ledgers, but I can't find anywhere to purchase.
buy all their ingredients each time you play they replenish each time you restart the game . make potions and sell them back to same store owner that you bought from or invest in shop in riverwood , his gold goes to 10,000. and he gets it every time you restart game.
you can save then quit to desktop if your in a hurry.
you have to get married inorder to set up a shop....
the ledgers are for theives guild quests
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I still haven't figured out how to get married. Been too busy slaying dragons and other things. :devil
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You have to buy a necklace at the Temple of Mara and wear it. I've gotten the necklace, haven't gotten married yet.
The women of Skryim are weird... some awkward things they've said to me:
"Anything's for sale... for the right price" Is she a hooker?!
and
"I help my father out in MORE ways than you can POSSIBLY imagine" *shudder*
Seriously... what is going on. :huh
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"I help my father out in MORE ways than you can POSSIBLY imagine" *shudder*
Seriously... what is going on. :huh
Whatever you imagine she is doing to him, she specifically said that it is MORE than you can POSSIBLY imagine. So it is not what you imagine.
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I know... I can imagine quite a bit. I can't even fathom what I can't imagine! *shudder*
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This is why this game is a piece of art.
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Sorry for the bump, but I just had to.
Played Skyrim today for 5+ hours straight, fought my epic battle with Alduin, and took over the Thieves Guild. One word....WOW. This game is simply amazing. The graphics stunned me, especially in Black Reach. I spent literally two minutes just standing there looking at the scenery. Amazing artwork. I never really played Skyrim for more than an hour or so before, but after today, I'm gonna be hooked on it. The beginning starts out real slow (probably because you can't fast travel everywhere yet), but halfway into the main storyline and it is just EPIC. Steam says 90 hours played, well here's hoping for another 90. :cheers:
Pick Skyrim up if you haven't already!!
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agreed 100%
pure art.
epic.
knee.
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Sorry for the bump, but I just had to.
Played Skyrim today for 5+ hours straight, fought my epic battle with Alduin, and took over the Thieves Guild. One word....WOW. This game is simply amazing. The graphics stunned me, especially in Black Reach. I spent literally two minutes just standing there looking at the scenery. Amazing artwork. I never really played Skyrim for more than an hour or so before, but after today, I'm gonna be hooked on it. The beginning starts out real slow (probably because you can't fast travel everywhere yet), but halfway into the main storyline and it is just EPIC. Steam says 90 hours played, well here's hoping for another 90. :cheers:
Pick Skyrim up if you haven't already!!
whats even cooler is running around killing with weapons you created :t
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whats even cooler is running around killing with weapons you created :t
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Someone cheated with their carry weight. :D
Blackreach has to be the most amazing sight in the game. Throat of the World at night with auroras is a close second.
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When I get some money I want to buy a PC that will run Skyrim. Biggest mistake I ever made was buying it for 360.
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When I get some money I want to buy a PC that will run Skyrim. Biggest mistake I ever made was buying it for 360.
I have 26 mods installed altogether and the game looks awesome and plays awesome. My favorite is A Dance of Death. 100% decapitation chance and 100% kill cam chance is just way too fun. I slaughtered an entire bandit camp and threw their heads off the cliff. :devil:
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agreed 100%
pure art.
epic.
knee.
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Someone cheated with their carry weight. :D
Blackreach has to be the most amazing sight in the game. Throat of the World at night with auroras is a close second.
:D
right now I am more getting the weapons working right, then actually playing...so while testing.... I am just running around killing everything in sight no matter what it is.... :rofl
still working on getting the blood to show on the weapons....it is supposed to work the same as getting a weapon in..... but its not for me :bhead
also working on a whole new Island that will be filled with Dinosaurs....and cave men....got a cool quest line idea in mind.... :t
the island will have completely new ground, tree, and plant, meshes/textures.....
a shot of one of the dino's in progress
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:uhoh :uhoh :uhoh MONSTERS! >.> :noid :joystick:
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:D
right now I am more getting the weapons working right, then actually playing...so while testing.... I am just running around killing everything in sight no matter what it is.... :rofl
still working on getting the blood to show on the weapons....it is supposed to work the same as getting a weapon in..... but its not for me :bhead
also working on a whole new Island that will be filled with Dinosaurs....and cave men....got a cool quest line idea in mind.... :t
the island will have completely new ground, tree, and plant, meshes/textures.....
a shot of one of the dino's in progress
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/valo_color.jpg)
Jurassic island! Great work, as much as I'd love to make mods, playing with them is just too much fun! :D
I have no patience for that kind of stuff though, haha. Maybe I can make a poorly drawn stick figure armor and sword. :devil:
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My favorite thing lately with my high level tank is to walk around in dungeons without a weapon and pound stuff with my fists. Some cool ' finishing moves'. :cheers:
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Jurassic island! Great work, as much as I'd love to make mods, playing with them is just too much fun! :D
I have no patience for that kind of stuff though, haha. Maybe I can make a poorly drawn stick figure armor and sword. :devil:
thanx :)
...once my weapons mod is done I am gonna give it to AH players first....it will be a long time before the Island is done, that entails a huge amount of work...doing everything myself.
My favorite thing lately with my high level tank is to walk around in dungeons without a weapon and pound stuff with my fists. Some cool ' finishing moves'. :cheers:
:rofl
haven't gotten into any non weapon fights yet...I think its funny though when an enemy comes running at ya, and tries to fight with no weapons while I am carrying two swords....then you search him to find a great sword on him :rofl
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I think its in the armor tree, Perk where your hand to hand damage is your gantlet armor rating.
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Sorry Skuzzy for the bump. I know. :cheers:
But in preparation for Dawnguard....
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SKYRIM IS AMAZING! :aok :rock
If you haven't played it yet, you have to now!
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Im still waiting to find it on sale somewhere!
I want it, but not bad enough to drop 60 bucks on it with money being as tight as it is.
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Frankly, Skyrim is worth $60 and probably only a handful of games have ever been worth that much imho. The amount of playtime and repeat playtime definitely makes it worth while.
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Im still waiting to find it on sale somewhere!
I want it, but not bad enough to drop 60 bucks on it with money being as tight as it is.
Keep an eye on Steam. I'm 99% sure that when Dawnguard gets released for PC, they'll put up another Skyrim sale.
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I havent been keeping up with it due to being busy, but is Dawnguard and expansion or separate game?
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Expansion.
Vampires vs Dawnguards.
It came out for xbox in June, gonna come out for PC/PS3 end of July.
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<~~~ doesn't really do the whole vampire thing thus making Dawguard obsolete for me. Didn't realize so many people liked it....
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soooooo anybody play dawnguard yet?
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Doesn't come out for PC until 7/26. :cry
On the bright side, Steam is doing a sale right now for $40.
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I really wanted to get Skyrim on PC but mine just cant handle it. I got it on XBOX 360 and just finished playing all the way through for the first time. These style games along with the fallout games are by far the best games for the price.
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Steam has the bethsadia pack right now for 50 bucks. 4 Brink, 7 Fallout, Hunted, and Skyrim.
They actually have a bunch of publisher bundle packs for 50 bucks right now. Looks like they all end in 30hours from now, 6:30am EST.
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I really wanted to get Skyrim on PC but mine just cant handle it. I got it on XBOX 360 and just finished playing all the way through for the first time. These style games along with the fallout games are by far the best games for the price.
:cheers:
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I really wanted to get Skyrim on PC but mine just cant handle it. I got it on XBOX 360 and just finished playing all the way through for the first time. These style games along with the fallout games are by far the best games for the price.
So true.
I wish my PC would stop crashing when I play. Idk why but it's been doing it a lot lately and I can't even reformat to see if it would fix it. -_-
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Hmm, what kind of crashes?
I've luckily never had a crash in the game (even with 30+ mods), but I only have a Radeon 5570, which is mediocre for Skyrim. It runs everything on High at 20-30FPS at 1600x900 resolution (my max is 1920x1080). Doesn't lag a lot but it does in outdoor areas where there is a lot of trees. I can't wait till Xmas season for a new GPU. Radeon 6850 is what I'm looking forward to. :aok
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Screen goes black (like a driver crash) and pretty much turns off at which point the sound will sometimes instantly loop (fast loop) and others I can continue to talk to people on Ventrilo for up to 5 minutes.
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Does it happen at a specific point in the game or randomly?
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random
and from what I've seen it's not a heating issue.
Sometimes I can play for hours and it not crash. Other times it crashes nearly 10 minutes into the game and will crash constantly.
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Hmmm..I'm stumped then. :frown:
Memory problems? Audio problems maybe? If its the latter, disable sounds in the .ini file (quick google search will tell you how), and play for a bit and see if it crashes. If it does, then it's not audio, if it doesn't, then audio is your problem.
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Hmmm..I'm stumped then. :frown:
Memory problems? Audio problems maybe? If its the latter, disable sounds in the .ini file (quick google search will tell you how), and play for a bit and see if it crashes. If it does, then it's not audio, if it doesn't, then audio is your problem.
I'll have to try that.
I did notice that when I overclock it lessens the frequency.
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If you want entertainment, read all the threads out there that appeared today; the assumed release date for Dawnguard for the PC and PS3. Some of the the whines on other forums makes make the community in Aces High look like mature mediocrity.
One of them really cracked me up, "I thought gaming was about fulfilling hope and dreams and not about money!" Are kids really that stupid today they think a gaming company like Bethesda is more akin to 'Make a Wish' foundation and aren't interested in money? :rofl
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I'll have to try that.
I did notice that when I overclock it lessens the frequency.
the skyrim.exe is locked to using only 2gigs of memory and there is a mod out there that allows you to change it to use 4 or more gigs of memory. It helped a lot of people that were suffering crashes like you described.
ack-ack
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the skyrim.exe is locked to using only 2gigs of memory and there is a mod out there that allows you to change it to use 4 or more gigs of memory. It helped a lot of people that were suffering crashes like you described.
ack-ack
They fixed that months ago, unless they broke it again with the last patch or two.
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Well it does it for all my games. Even ones that aren't very intense...like R:TW. :uhoh
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
i pre purchased! just giving the info the pre purchase is out there in steam now!
I DON"T NEED IT... I DON'T NEED IT!!!!!! :bhead :bhead :bhead
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmXq6myv4Dw&feature=youtu.be
ya .. I am way hooked :)
Sorry about the other thread .. I did a search and saw this one was dated a bit ..figure Skuzzy would hate it if I brought this thread back ..
..but since I am not the only one .. if the you tube link works it's a low-res taste of what it's like in Skyrim.
It looks *much* better with a decent video card than it does on you tube :)
-GE aka Frank
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Every time I hear her sing I get chills.
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Cenye, Enchantress, across the valley from Whiterun.
Just hangin out ..chillin.
Frank aka GE
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Welcome to the addiction, GE.
Don't ask me how many hours I've logged.. please..
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Welcome to the addiction, GE.
Don't ask me how many hours I've logged.. please..
122 hours and counting. With only 1 character....so far. :bolt:
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122 hours and counting. With only 1 character....so far. :bolt:
My first character lasted around 300 hours. Now I'm playing a Hunter/Gatherer and am not going to do any quests - just walking around, hunting, trading, and surviving. Using some mods that require eating good food, sleeping and staying warm. I also highly recommend the mod "Project Reality - Climates of Tamriel" (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/17802 (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/17802)) which adds great lighting (ENB-like without the frame rate hit) and tons of weather systems and environmental enhancements.
Shameless plug: try my first-ever mod "NoobEx Constellation Outlines" (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19754 (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19754)). It adds outlines to the constellations in the sky and adds a book to your player's inventory. :D
My current character, looking out in the late afternoon as a thunderstorm gathers
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Sample sunrise with CoT mod mentioned above
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Sample sunset
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My mod
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Yassir .. I started and deleted a dozen or so characters ... one as far up as lvl 20.
Just researchin what does what and finding out that some mods *will* get me the blue screen of death crash no less.
Bag of holding, convenient horses, scenic carriage rides .. seems like anything requiring SKSE
..brings on random crashes 3-4 times in 8hrs play.
Might be a Win XP thing, or might be my video card is gettin dated .. time for upgrade!
Been ogling the GeForce latest toys .. they would fix my wagon :)
Now and then I just get taken away by a moment in game ..
..drawin down on a bull moose Elk with a stunning rack with my bow and arrow,
..perfect shot at what looked like 50yds landed just behind shoulder, right where I was hoping, dropped him like a stone.
I use FOV 55 ..as that is the average eyeball field of view,
..according to Eyeballs, an eye surgeon that I met long ago in AW.
..typed into the command line (tilde key on my keyboard brings it up)
..makes it look very much 'real' :)
None o' this wide angle fish-eye game view for me thx.
And ya .. the climate mod you listed was one of the first, right after Pure Waters and scaleable magic
(my flame and spark spell still do pretty good past lvl 20) ...
..I turned alla dogs into German Shepherds ..cause that's how I roll ..f'rinstance :)
..runnin 37 mods (was up to over 50 mods when game just got too frustrating to play)
.. only one crash to desktop in 12hrs last coupla days :)
Jest too much fun :)
GE aka Frank
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Any of you guys run mods on the PC? I have found a whole new game!
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Yup, lots of great mods out there. Steam's workshop is super convenient.
Dance of Death is a must have, lets you adjust the kill moves settings as much as you want.
Bloodier Combat is as cool, name speaks for itself.
Armored Horses makes you feel that more awesome when you go for a ride.
Skyrim's Weather, name speak for itself.
Those are probably some of the best mods out there. I have tons more, total of 40 so far and they all make the game awesome.
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http://techland.time.com/2012/03/01/the-20-best-skyrim-mods-so-far/#sounds-of-skyrim
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/01/17/the-25-best-skyrim-mods/
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Yup, check out the top rated ones weekly. I usually download at least one every week. So glad I bought it for PC.
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My roommate plays this silly game. He is so addicted. He comes home from work and goes straight to playing. I dont see him until he makes food or uses the restroom. He got all excited the other day because he can "make dragon armor" now. :huh
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(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/games/ScreenShot7.jpg)
The stench of burning Dragon hangs in cool night air, flames crackling nearby from his scorching attacks during the fight.
Looks like the Watchtower fared poorly.
It was a good fight, we lost only two men .. brave or foolhardy,
they stood in the dragon fire and fought face to face with the monster until they died.
I use resilient dragons ..they are tougher and can killyas ..makes winning the fight that much sweeter.
I also use more dragon loot.
Among many other tweaks :)
Up to over 50 mods now ..just steering clear of any that require SKSE, seems my machine does not play well with that.
-GE aka Frank
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I enjoy running around with duel Bearded Damascus axe's I made...or of course the Damascus Batwinged Axe... :t
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'One day in Whiterun ..'
Just a good all around tank in handmade Steel Plate, boosted to Exquisite using blacksmith skills.
Fun to let a dagger wielder just wack on it for awhile boosting heavy armor skill ..then send them to Sovignar in a single blow.
-Frank aka GE
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(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/games/ScreenShot8.jpg)
'One day in Whiterun ..'
Just a good all around tank in handmade Steel Plate, boosted to Exquisite using blacksmith skills.
Fun to let a dagger wielder just wack on it for awhile boosting heavy armor skill ..then send them to Sovignar in a single blow.
-Frank aka GE
I thought that was funny...full Armour and some guy tries to fight ya with his fists...hahahah
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This game is still 60 bucks on Steam. It's 50 at the local Wal-Mart, but they are out of stock. Hopefully it will go on sale again soon.
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Trying to decide between PC and Xbox...
Im not sure how well my PC will handle it, I need to look up the min reqs.
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Trying to decide between PC and Xbox...
Im not sure how well my PC will handle it, I need to look up the min reqs.
PC is great for modding but you need a pretty decent machine from what I hear. Kinda wish I could do the mods.
However, with the Xbox playing it on a nice quality ~60 inch Sony TV with surround sound is quite fun.
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Just got Dawnguard and started it, will finish it by the end of next week most likely. :) Fear me people of Skyrim :devil
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PC is great for modding but you need a pretty decent machine from what I hear. Kinda wish I could do the mods.
However, with the Xbox playing it on a nice quality ~60 inch Sony TV with surround sound is quite fun.
I have a 2.9 GHZ duel core..... a 4830 1 gig....4 gigs of ram on windows 7....game plays great :aok
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I have a 2.9 GHZ duel core..... a 4830 1 gig....4 gigs of ram on windows 7....game plays great :aok
I could probably run it pretty well then...
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I could probably run it pretty well then...
I don't even notice any major stuttering, a slight pause when going into a new area...I think I turn off grass though.
quite a fun game, once you get to behead people hahahaha thats the best :rock
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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1174244
Sometimes .. you just gotta.
-Frank aka GE (man I love some o' these mods)
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(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/games/ScreenShot10.jpg)
'Red sky at Night, Sailor's delight'
Still catches me off guard how many times I just stop and enjoy the moment :)
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So here's an argument for yall. Light armor vs. Heavy armor and why? Personally I prefer light armor mainly for its speed and stealth bonuses. I sneak alot and when I am forced to fight in close quarters, I have good enough weapons to take on almost anybody.
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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1174244
Sometimes .. you just gotta.
-Frank aka GE (man I love some o' these mods)
:rofl :rofl
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Please post or send me a PM if any of you happen to see this on sale, on steam or anywhere!
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Amazon has it for 43.99 + 4.00 in shipping.
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So here's an argument for yall. Light armor vs. Heavy armor and why? Personally I prefer light armor mainly for its speed and stealth bonuses. I sneak alot and when I am forced to fight in close quarters, I have good enough weapons to take on almost anybody.
Really just depends on the character you're playing.
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Really just depends on the character you're playing.
Once you hit level 30+, some of the bigger bosses "bandit chief, etc etc" starts whacking you for 1/4 of your HP every hit. Usually it's not a problem with side stepping, or if you play like me, kill all the minions from faraway with a bow and run in and kill the boss. The again, I haven't invested a single perk in the Light Armor category. :lol I'm a walking glass cannon.
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Been runnin a 2h slasher, plate armor 'tank'
Hit points equal stamina (he has a lot of both) ..tried makin up a batch of Elven armor (man that stuff is LIGHT)
. .. Giants and Dragons took big bites in a fight as I could not dodge every attack.
With Steel Plate (Epic) I can stand toe-to-toe and hack 'em down.
(well ..when the Dragon finally goes to ground.. till then I plink him with a Dwarven bow and Elven arrows, and my Shout)
I mean .. giants are 3 hit kills ..usin an Elven Greatsword with steal life enchant I put on it.
I use resilient Dragons mod so they are a good fight... takes awhile to take a Dragon down as it should.
(fought one near Soitude and it killed *everyone* outside the entry area .. LOL)
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Been runnin a 2h slasher, plate armor 'tank'
Hit points equal stamina (he has a lot of both) ..tried makin up a batch of Elven armor (man that stuff is LIGHT)
. .. Giants and Dragons took big bites in a fight as I could not dodge every attack.
With Steel Plate (Epic) I can stand toe-to-toe and hack 'em down.
(well ..when the Dragon finally goes to ground.. till then I plink him with a Dwarven bow and Elven arrows, and my Shout)
I mean .. giants are 3 hit kills ..usin an Elven Greatsword with steal life enchant I put on it.
I use resilient Dragons mod so they are a good fight... takes awhile to take a Dragon down as it should.
(fought one near Soitude and it killed *everyone* outside the entry area .. LOL)
If you wanna dodge dragons bite attack, keep sidestepping in one direction, then once you reach their wings, sidestep the other way, and repeat. Dragons can't hit you this way (unless you sidestep too far near their wings and they'll use the slam attack). Bash them or FusRoDah them when they begin their breath attack. Almost impossible for a dragon to damage you this way. :aok
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If you up your alchemy, enchanting and blacksmithing to 100, you can craft a pair of leather armor that hits the armor cap around 775. Not to mention the $$$ you make off potions at that level.
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If you up your alchemy, enchanting and blacksmithing to 100, you can craft a pair of leather armor that hits the armor cap around 775. Not to mention the $$$ you make off potions at that level.
I don't think I really cared much for money. My Breezehome has no decorations but who cares? I just use it to hold all my loot in the chest. All my stuff I found, I found it from killing :D. Although I have to say, Nightingale Armor looks frigging sexy and there's no way I'm trading it for leather armor, even if it gives me 775 armor. :)
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I don't think I really cared much for money. My Breezehome has no decorations but who cares? I just use it to hold all my loot in the chest. All my stuff I found, I found it from killing :D. Although I have to say, Nightingale Armor looks frigging sexy and there's no way I'm trading it for leather armor, even if it gives me 775 armor. :)
the nightingale armor is freakin awesome.
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I like the Daedric armor :noid
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I like the Daedric armor :noid
Havent got that far yet :cry
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Minecraft meets Skyrim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4P9njwOLgk&feature=player_embedded
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Guess what I found! lol
http://www.wimp.com/skyrimmodders/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ip7QZPw04Ks
THIS is how you prank folks...SKYRIM style
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Guess what I found! lol
http://www.wimp.com/skyrimmodders/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ip7QZPw04Ks
THIS is how you prank folks...SKYRIM style
:rofl
I just finished playing Dawnguard. Love being a Vampire Lord. :rock
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Guess what I found! lol
http://www.wimp.com/skyrimmodders/
WTF?? :rofl :rofl
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Skyrim never cease to amaze. :) Finally found a perfect ENB setting.
(http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af23/titanic3/ScreenShot2-1.jpg)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smx6CohnZcM&feature=related :rofl
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im sorry but i gotta post this too :rofl just watch the last clip starting at 15:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8_g83BFKgo
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LOL!
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LOL!
my bad i meant to post another video in my second post :lol
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LOL x2 !
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smx6CohnZcM&feature=related :rofl
roflmfao at the end. OMG :rofl
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf7WO37mq7o&feature=relmfu my god.... at 10 minutes :rofl :rofl :rofl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOqPJ0Ht2kc CHEESE!!!!! :rofl :rofl :rofl
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New DLC is coming, "Dragonborn"! One year later and I'm still in love with Skyrim, and never ceases to amaze either!
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Directly from in-game, no editing at all. :rock
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The quoted text could not be further from the truth. (http://www.destructoid.com/burning-butterflies-and-kicking-wolves-skyrim-squeak--209991.phtml)
The above text is a link.
The post I quoted in the post I'm quoting should be nominated for standing the test of time worse than any other post on these forums.
Anyways, Bethesda can still demand $60 for this game, 7 years later:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/611670/The_Elder_Scrolls_V_Skyrim_VR
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Locked for violation of rule #10.