Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

i mean obviously i'm never going to play this

Cool! Catch you in the other threads.

had an interesting thing happen last night. so i've made a bunch of insane gear. walking somewhere, i came upon a group of bandits who were traveling. this seemed unique to me; bandits are usually stationed at a location. i just walked up to them, thinking they were one of the stormcloak/imperial random encounters.

i got pretty close before they became hostile. using said insane gear i ripped through three of the four really fast, one-hit killing at least one of them. the last one went into the flee/cowering routine without me hitting him at all! he was saying something like "i cannot best you". never happened before.

That happens if you do a fear spell, sounds like the same effect happens if you terrorize a guy

Can't get past some sort of fireball trap in Labrynthium. This might be when I finally give up on this damn thing and get my life back.

have you tried shout-sprinting past it

I keep shout-sprinting right into the fireball.

Also don't forget to use wards.

I got the steady ward tome right before entering the fireball hall of hell. I tried it and I just died closer to the gem stones that seem to control it. Will pull it out and shout sprint and see what's up.

i don't remember where that is, but if you are running into those pillar things with a soul gem on top that shoots fireballs, you can shoot an arrow at the gem to knock it out, and can usually creep into a spot to do it w/o it going off

I think I ended up using a blizzard scroll or something

slow time shout + fast healing maybe

I don't remember how I got past them actually, I think I was able to sneak past one and then sprint past the next one? I don't remember exactly what I did because I don't remember having a problem getting past them.

^^ yeah this actually - i think i did labyriwhatever really really early on, so maybe it scales up? although i wouldn't think that the traps would

I bet that first shout you get would probably dislodge it too

I know the bit you mean. I did unrelenting force and knocked the gem out of the top.

is this the thread for single guys

No.

soon maybe

pretty sure this is the one you are looking for

skyrim : lj :: dark souls : dj martian

lol so single.

I used the ethereal shout and just casually strolled through.

btw I can play really well for a while and then get completely stuck on some bullshit little thing like this. probably why i never get very far in RPGs.

soon maybe

― goole

Only if you ban girls from thread and if you try that I will dual-wield firebolt you to a crisp, n'wah.

/rpg

not sure if you can you be single and dual wield

when I firebolt wield with my left hand it feels like a stranger is firebolt wielding.

try it with a frost spell and you will never need to leave the house again

Talos wept

i'm a level 19 Nord with a one-armed Orc Axe and I can't make a dent in Morekai or whatever. Frustrating..

glitch! he got stuck on the staircase and didn't do anything so I just pelted him with arrows from above. <3 u Bethesda

I got attacked by a random nord for no reason last night, coming away from the "gate to the rest of tamriel that you can't go through until the DLC comes out". Maybe she thought I was invading skyrim or something?

she didn't have a name or a job like most other denizens, just "Nord"

Ran past Markarth as a werewolf and scared a couple of guards, went back there hours later and I had 1000 bounty. How did they know it was me?? I was incensed.

Just started my first dwemer dungeon and I there's something about it which I'm finding really effectively creepy, in a way no other bits of the game have been.

Yeh, the steampunk Dwemer dungeons are pretty spooky. I'm still confused how my arrows manages to do any damage to a mechanical ball of metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEMD28MMtNg

loooooool at parts of that

The must have Skyrim mods for PC so far, in my opinion. No script extenders required, just drag-n-drop into your Data folder, though some text editing of Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini improves matters as well. I haven't included texture upscales, adult, or comedy mods, though I use some of all. Gameplay reworks and significant expansions are still in their infancy.

Categorized Favorites Menu
Now you can find everything without scrolling endlessly. Improves experience of battles dramatically.

A Quality World Map - With Roads
Pathfinding is much easier when paths are visible. Adding line sMapCloudNIF=0 to your My Documents/My Games/Skyrim/skyrim.ini file also recommended.

Colored Map Markers
Both map and compass are less needlessly monochromatic.

No More Blocky Faces
Fixes the compression artifacts on the normal maps used for all faces.

Believable Hair
Hair to match default face resolution.

Realistic Water Textures
Huge improvement over default, though the dl is a bit heavy on alternate textures for customization.

Realistic Ragdolls and Force
Draugr flying across the room from the final arrow, or the giant's spaceflight program, were not immersive for me. Alternative options for tuning ragdoll weight to your preference.

interesting.

always makes me wonder why stuff is like that in the first place...

XBox360 was the main target device for Skyrim. Given that user demographic, control scheme, and the space limitations of 3.7 GB (compressed) for data to suit a 5 year old console, a lot of compromises were made.

Given how users dramatically improved Oblivion and Fallout 3 in the years after their release, buying this on PC was a no-brainer, though my 3 year old hardware can't cope with some user texture upscales. It will be fun revisiting this (and FO) once I've rebuilt my computer to more modern standards in a year or so.

Do the PC mods work with Steam?

Yes. Skyrim's engine is verified by Steam, but it will simply use any user content in the /Data subfolder rather than default content in the .bsa cabinet files.

super jealous r/n!

FWIW, I haven't owned a dedicated game console in 20 years, so I've missed out on a lot, too. They never catered to proper wargaming and RPG as the PC market did. The surprising issue is how long Microsoft has milked a system with 512 mb system memory (and Sony a system with only 256 mb) now that memory is cheap.

Categorized Favorites Menu

reaaaaally wish they would add this for the consoles in a patch. it just seems so obvious.

You mean like how it seems obvious that your follower shouldn't stand in doorways blocking your exit, or the alchemy shop woman shouldn't still be surprised you're an alchemist after you've been in there 1000 times, or...

yeah, but those things seem like more complicated technical problems (collision detection, NPC routing, NPC AI logic, etc), whereas adding categories to the favorites menu seems like something that should take a professional programmer approximately 4 and a half minutes to implement.

killed a Hargraven... got to a massive tree in the middle of a hippy spa. some spriggans appeared and then I ran for it....

Spriggans are hard as nails right? or is it cause I am a lowly level 9.

Spriggans are a pain at lower levels. I did the same thing and ran like hell.

I tried to get married this evening. The minister at the temple scheduled the ceremony for the following day from dawn till dusk, so I waited in Riften until about 5am. Got togged up and headed to the temple only to find my fiance running out in a state of some distress. I went in and found the corpses of Lydia and another follower sap who I sacrificed to some god lying in the pews. I think I'd be upset too.

How do you meet a potential wife?

iirc You do some stuff at the temple of Mara in Riften which gets you the Amulet of Mara. Ask the male priest in the temple about traditions of marriage, and then if you wear the amulet various NPCs will ask if you're interested in them. It helps if you do a minor task for your intended target.