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lol i play with 360 controller. this game was designed for that, sadly. i guess when a good UI mod that gets rid of all the consolitis UI in this game, i will switch to my G9 and Black Widow ultimate then. aiming kinda sucks with controller, but i get vibration
Agreed Lex on the UI, switching between weapons and spells, quest log, and inventory. I'm sure they were going for a minimalist streamlined approach, but they took it too far. I am completely disinterested in my character, because there is very little info there. It's just a vehicle to explore the environment and kill things.
Player created mods: www.skyrimnexus.com
These are mods created for improving graphics performance generally:
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=123
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads...hp?id=31&tab=3
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=21
I am looking forward to the UI/character menu mods.
fullack on all your pros and cons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kallenator
the most annoying thing really is the UI - it's cumbersome. i never wasted so much time arranging my inventory in oblivion as i do now with skyrim. the map sux as well :(
apart from that i really like skyrim so far.
Fullack -> Full account?Quote:
Originally Posted by RaZz!
I have played a bit more now, around 20 hours +, currently level 20 if I remember right. Liking it more and more now ;)
Even the menus are easy now, key thing is when you are going to use the menus for a longer period of time, just don't use the mouse.
I am in a bit of a bad circle now though, clearing dungeons for quests. This is a bad habit, traveling, killing, looting, selling, repeat. :p The dungeons are much more interesting, they are so different!
= Addicted :-D
Graphics mods are already coming out, this one looks sweet - FXAA post process injector:
Before:
http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/3...1412385296.jpg
After:
http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/6...1412385449.jpg
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads...id=131#content
... I really have no idea how FXAA does that, but I'll have it :D
There are loads more visual mods on the nexus under visuals and graphics.
The biggest inventory faux pas is that things arent categorized within a list by inventory slot. General "Apparel" is not good enough. There needs to be a distinction within that list of helmets, gloves, etc. If I have Alligator mittens and Zebraskin gloves, it is tough to see/compare/equip between those items.
This is all exacerbated by the strict alphabetization of every list with no way to manually rearrange. Grrr.
Still a fantastic game.
I'd have to agree there. Something WoW-ish for equipment management would be ideal. My only other real complaints with the game so far are:Quote:
Originally Posted by LexDiamonds
1) Inability to certain break things (ie: wooden boxes, barrels, etc).
2) The lack of precise movements when on the Horse mount.
3) Can't say I'm a huge fan of the Constellation skill area...seems too spread out and hard to get a good mental picture.
4) Swapping abilities feels tedious. Some sort of action bar would be better.
Things I love so far:
1) Decent graphics and excellent water
2) The non-linear nature of the game (including the varied responses your character can make). This makes the game feel most interesting and decidedly different from most games.
3) The large and intricate world itself. They obviously spent a great deal of time working on it.
I found a list of tips over at reddit.
Some good ones:
Waiting (Press T) will fill up your Magika/Health/Stamina bar instantly
Every major city stables has a wagon which you can use to fastravel to other cities you've never been to
You can hotkey your favorite items by opening the favorite menu (Q), highlighting the item and click 1-8 buttons on your keyboard (Good to see that!)
When you increase your stamina you also increase your maximum carry capacity by 5
Full list: http://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comme...ps_and_tricks/
Just installed. This mod makes the game look stale without it!Quote:
Originally Posted by bhavv
I'm trying my best to wait for the next patch before I purchase this! I wonder how long it'll take. o_o
Yea. The full saturation mod is over the top though, but the lower saturation is 100% perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by yaddam205
Horses can be used as submarines.
http://youtu.be/zne31CAv244
Lvl 18 now. More gripes -:
- action kills animations are out of sync and suck real bad , they worked so well in FO3 - what happened ?
- environment is mostly non-destructible
- weapon like axes/sword have never really pierce the target, they just strike them like hammers (very evident in action kills). that is some sloppiness .
- magic skills cause just a false 'fire' to burn on the target which goes out - clearly the weapon animations/graphic effects are still in the Oblivion age.
- AI is erratic and stupid - i cannot say this enough. New case - if while fighting a bunch of enemies you hit one of the guards, everyone around you will straight away take an enemy stance - really irritating (happened in the Winterhold magic anomaly fight)
I guess they spent too much time developing the world and everything else is a hastejob or a pastejob from Oblivion. But "the World" is magnificent.
PS: I agree the UI is overly simplified in some cases - like the apparel section. But I think once you get comfortable using the 'Favorites' menu it isnt such a big deal - I keep most of my spells,a bow,a sword,a shield and all health/magicka potions there, and I almost never need to access the main inventory.
Fallout has blood, that is pretty much what happened. I was hoping Bethesda had looked more into this game in terms of combat animation:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tao~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS49Dazin3E
Weapons interact in an awesome way with rag dolls!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsePI...eature=related
I have a feeling their animations department is the one to blame, through out the game it's easily the aspect which has the lowest quality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tao~
Especially the ore mining animation, he sure is careful when he is hitting the rock! ^^
This is what I have started to lean more heavily on, cause the world is pretty damn amazing, it's so detailed and diverse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tao~
Agree with most of your points, other then destruction of environment. They said earlier on that this wouldn't be the case (probably since there old engine can't support something like that). Level 26 myself now, fairly easy to get some levels just doing enchanting and smithing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tao~
Quote:
Originally Posted by nksharp
I have really been enjoying cooking (love how character stirs the pot then taps the side with the spoon- makes me hungry everytime :yepp:), smithing is fun and enjoyable and you can definately improve items slightly beyond what is generally available in the game world for your given level, enchanting is cool too but even at enchanting lvl40 I still dont create very powerful enchantments.
Unfortunately, leveling is a bit TOO easy thru these crafting processes. In addition, I try to keep 2-handed, 1-handed, light and heavy armors all moving up... My character is lvl20 and I have only just talked to the greybeards for the first time (30 some hours of gameplay). The game world scales to your level so even random encounters can be very dangerous and difficult. I feel like I'm a little behind the curve at this point.
One small tip for smithing/enchanting-- be sure to improve whatever item you are wanting to make at the smith bench first THEN enchant it. Going the other direction only works after the smith magical items perk which you need to have 50 skill in. I made this mistake on a couple items and was kicking myself afterwards.
Here is an interesting read on the events in TES universe in the interregnum between Oblivion and Skyrim (which you can also gather by reading all those books :yawn: )
Given such a rich setting I am amazed why the game doesnt reflect this storyline. Lets hope it does before I'm done.
Those screenshots you posted look more like the after has Depth of Field turned off and gamma turned down a couple steps more than anything else.Quote:
Originally Posted by bhavv
Really enjoyed the game so far. Just reached level 31 with shy of 30hours playtime and I only just finished everything in Whiterun ( to my knowledge ) Got smithing to 100 so getting ready to make a fullset of dragonscale light armor:up: Currently using full epic glass with epic elven on my companion.
Some pretty fun quests so far.
Running this atm, the low saturation version. Looks great for the most part, but far from perfect. Shadow detail and darker areas are often completely crushed. And colors are often too strong.Quote:
Originally Posted by bhavv
Haven't messed around with the settings yet. But if anyone have some nice ones that tones things down a notch, please share :)
This is why I am running the game with almost the lowest brightness setting, this solves most of illumination problems, color as well. Did exactly the same in Oblivion.
I have to agree that the switching between weapons and spells really takes away from the immersion. A fight goes like this.
*cast destruction* pause, select shield and mace *chop chop* pause, select healing on both hands *heal* pause, select shield and mace
On the other hand it's nice that they made destruction spells strong from the beginning. It's actually a good alternative to chopping your way through the first 10 or so levels. I understand why they want you to choose between either of the two ways of attacking, but so far I am forced to use both in the more difficult fights.
You haven't understood how to use the quick menu :S
Favorite the weapon and spell. Go out of the item menu and press Q, assign hot key to items you want (1-8). This works decently, so you don't need to pause when you are going to change your weapon.
Yea, I know how to manually configure this thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by wez
You need to open the injFX_Settings file inside the Skyrim folder using notepad. Go under Tonemap and change '#define Saturation 1.00 // use negative values for less saturation. '
On the full saturation mod, it uses 1.50, on the low saturation it uses 0.70. If you find the low saturation to be too much, then try 0.50, it removes the over saturation and keeps the original look of the game, but slightly more vibrant and bold.
I use it without sharpen or AA, and 1.0 saturation, as the saturation works a lot better without the rather horrible sharpen effect, and disabling AA lets you manually use MSAA + Transparency rather than forcing FXAA.
A couple of new gameplay videos I made.
Firstly a Dragon attacks the College of Winterhold:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3YFV2XBeXY
Second is a short clip of my Breton laying out a pure overdose of ownage against a mage boss with his Dragonskin power :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3233mtqHnVo
Hate to say it, but Skyrim is getting boring to me :(.
The missing lv up's for jumping and running takes alot of the fun out of lv'ing up.
Now I just hack and slash, a few days of that has me pooped out.
Deadric weapons are the best it seems yet again, there doesn't seem to be anything new about this game at all other then the graphics mainly.
I've been playing game normally, for the most part, got I think 3 voices so far.
I don't know..., I'll continue to play the game a bit more but I don't think it'll stay around on my pc much longer.
Definitely not worth money to buy to be completely honest.
Morrowind is still king of the western type of rpg's I think.
They all have crappy storys, but at least morrowind is fun to free roam on...
This one is fun for a little while but I'm bored of it already :\.
Btw, anyone noticed the buggy equipping?
Press the left mouse button and it acts as if you pressed the right button and etc.
Makes it difficult to assign a spell to the left hand and a sword to the right.
My copy, every time too...
After a while the sound goes to crap, then the video, then it crashes my pc.
Every single time.
When the sound goes crappy like that I exit the game completely, then restart and it's ok again for another half hour to an hour or so.
I'm addicted to this game, I love it. Critics and users alike also love it. 95% so far on Metacritic. I love being able to hunt around and do all sort of different types of missions at my own leisure. I specifically love aiming toward being as evil as possible. I haven't had this much fun since the original NWN.
If leveling up just by jumping and running is something you think gets you a deserved level up then my opinion differs greatly.
Killing dragon's are a challenge but I love it. Never had any issues with it performance wise and I am now level 20. I have so far played more other quests than the main story, which is my style of choice.
I am a member of the Dark Brotherhood, the Thieves Guild, the Imperial Legion and a member of the Circle of Companions. Just got me new bow, and now I am actually able to kill those giants without too much difficulty :-)
Me and my house mate are playing this on a daily basis, and is awesome to share our experiences of how we went about the ways in which we did things in our own games.
Should use lightning spells against mages . But I like that you have more spells and magicka than me at level 21 - ofcourse I'm playing a Redguard with Sword+Spell and my Destruction skill is around 60, but I quickly run out of magicka even though I have the Destruction perks. Guess I should spend all my points on magicka after level-up now, seems much more fun than hack-n-slash.Quote:
Originally Posted by bhavv
PS: Did you try the Meridian Statue quest ? The boss-mage in that is a real tough one - his fireballs were often having one-hit KO on me (maybe a bug ?) . Had to try thrice , and even then got my companion killed ( can't seem to find her anywhere :( )
Im fire specced though, and I'd rather that mage bosses have enough Magicka left to throw against my Dragonskin so it keeps my blue bar recharged :)
Normal trash mobs of mages burn to death in no time too, I just need to change to use frost against flame atronachs.
If I ever find it I'll try it. Bretons have so much magic defense its almost like fighting caster bosses in god mode, plus I'm adding magic resistance perks from Alteration on top.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tao~
@ Tao~ I got that Meridian Quest. I'm level 22 now (almost 23) I may just have to challenge myself and try it out. I'm Red Guard focused on Hack-n-slash lol that's why I chose the class.
@ bhavv - Dragonskin, is that a shout? Also, that guy you were fighting reminds me of one of the *ghouls* you fight when getting one of the Shouts on top of one of the random Icey mountains I ran into. Warewolf, normal defense, and my NPC follower didn't do much, just a lot of running around and advantageous attacks back and forth were really the only things that worked for me. Is awesome how those Brenton's just suck up all that Magic that would otherwise have my character obliterated.
No Dragonskin is the Breton's racial ability - 60 seconds of 50% spell absorption once per day. Their permanent ability on top of that is 25% magic resistance.
They are both nerfed a little, and buffed a lot from earlier games, as they used to have 50% magic resistance which has now been halved, while Dragonskin was buffed from a 50% shield bonus to 50% spell absorption.
High Elf casters would be completely drained trying to fight that boss as all it does is spam lightning, but Bretons get a minute of soaking it up into magicka.
All characters can also take a permanent 30% magic resistance and 30% spell absorption, but they require heavy speccing into Alteration perks. So far I havnt yet found either of these in a spell or enchantment form, so I cant craft a set of magic resist gear yet.
Loving the gameplay; hating the character menu, skill tree presentation, inventory, & favorites setup. Liking the character development of skill trees/perks over straight stats. Killed my thane companion Lydia by accident. Ooops.
Some of my fav screenshots I've captured so far:
http://i.imgur.com/YWubv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dKLdM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/NMq1V.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/oLQnd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/N1tNH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DBjRo.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3Bua6.jpg
anyone who plays a spell castor type of character? where do u get spells? do u need a lot of money for spells?
spell castor = less stamina = less loots to carry, and i find that really annoying having to back track just to sell some crap i found
Far too much talk... nowhere near enough pics in this thread yet.
You can still put some points into stamina on a caster. I raised my base magicka up to 200, and with two +50 items that gives me 300. After that I raised my health to 150, and then I'm also raising my stamina a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philip_J_Fry
They removed the feather spell from earlier games to increase carrying capacity, which sucks for mages.
OK, but that's still a lot of pressing buttons compared to Oblivion. But I guess I'll manage using keys 1 - 8.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kallenator
ok but what do u use to kill monsters? i only have flares and sparks so far, @ level 5. where do u get those destruction, conjuration spellsQuote:
Originally Posted by bhavv
Flame and Firebolt is working throughout the game so far for me, plus any backup weapon for when my magicka runs out and frost spells for anything immune to fire (but I'm only taking fire damage perks, taking 2 or all 3 costs too many perk points).
The first mage you meet (Faralda or something) at the college of winterhold is the Destruction specialist, she sells loads of destruction spells, along with other specialists for each magic school. There are also a few traders around that sell spell tomes, and you can find them from random loot too.
Also I got my preorder bonus map framed :D
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/4688/dsc00126hn.jpg
http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/5043/dsc00127rh.jpg
You framed a map? :p:
+1 to you sir for framing your map.
Yes. The very first minute that I opened up my Skyrim case and pulled out the map, I thought 'This has got to be framed!'. So I measured it and ordered a frame :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ket
+1 again for map frameage. That, sir, is awesome. Where's your Dragon?
Erm, I have a little yellow dragon on the left hand side of it? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by SabreWulf69
I didnt get the CE if thats what you mean, that was too expensive.
Ah k. My mistake.
I'm running without DOF on in the SkyrimPrefs.ini, with the low saturation setup of the FXAA injector. I actually like the sharpness that the FXAA injector uses as it is far superior to that other sharpness mod that is out there that people seem to love. With the screenshots above of mine, putting them in Photoshop and applying smart sharpen does nothing compared to what it used to be like without the mod. Very happy, and cheers for the FXAA injector information. :-)
I got the CE :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bhavv
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...3/DSCF6417.jpg
I need to take some better pics later.
Good company in this thread. :) I've been finding lots of little bugs but nothing that stops me from playing, I play about 3 hours a day which is ridiculous for me. The thing with TES games is the time between bugs and crashes is my gaming nirvana, heck all of Bethesda spun RPGs.
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/r...naceba/TES.jpg
Arena is in deep dosbox unfortunately.
Skyrim at first made my jaw drop at how console the graphics where, then how primitive previous TES games were in comparison, but as time goes on and I spent some time back in those games it makes you relish how well Bethesda makes a living world. All other RPGs are like hanging around an old movie set corridors in comparison.
Awesome! Hayden at WSGF has completed his injection-hack for Skyrim to fix triple-wide support! http://widescreengamingforum.com/dr/...ls-v-skyrim/en
http://s5.postimage.org/4ky7vr61x/2011_11_19_00003.jpg
http://www.gamershell.com/news_129156.html
console patches have been submitted, "PC patch is coming too." so they just started working on PC patch? nice
It's Bethesda, they treat us as after-thought's always.
I'm sure we'll need to wait for user-made mods to get a proper PC User interface.
The reason why they need to patch console versions faster is because those versions cant be modded. At the same time, they will neglect updates to the PC version as they normally do since modders will sort everything out quicker than Bethesda can anyway, while devoting their time to creating an onslaught of DLCs like horse armor for £3 :rolleyes:
I suppose they can be excused though, since no one else makes games as good as this one anymore.
console patches take 1-2 weeks to get approved and signed, so by the time they are out we will have patches already or at the same time. and moders already fixed esbern (the only game ending glitch.)Quote:
Originally Posted by tet5uo
This UI to me is almost a "game ending Glitch"Quote:
Originally Posted by zanzabar
Whoever designed this UI and thought it would be just fine for Keyboard and mouse deserves a swift punch in his adam's apple.
i got used to it, with quick binds its not so bad even thought the menu system is rather slow and convolutedQuote:
Originally Posted by tet5uo
Yeah I'm sorta getting used to it, but there are so many ways to make a UI that would have been infinitely more intuitive and usable on PC. It's a farce what they gave us.
It's not like there aren't thousands of examples of better UI's to pick from to emulate, it's just so clearly a lack of care and willingness to dedicate extra resources to PC dev of the game. Yet, I'm sure they'll be cranking out the DLC to try and get me to give them even more cash before ever thinking of adding value to the PC version.
I dare say that Darnified with a few simple tweaks would be able to be ported to this engine verrrry easily, if not done so already :-D
[Edit]
Also, I finally agree, it would make it at least look less 'consolised' - I guess the number one codeword of gaming of the year, even though everything else wasn't, if the UI was a lot more intuitive. Very little to really pick on tbh. But Darnified was nice for FO3 and NV :-) Someone from here with more time on their hands and maybe more skill could defo port Darnified (@ you Ket if your a listening???), jump in and be one of the first 'modders' to 'save' another GOTY :-)
I just did Azura's star quest.
I decided to record it expecting a battle as epic as Morokai .... but it was easy peasy :(
*Contains spoilers*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dEPqjg5Im8
/turns difficulty up, Fireball just broke the game and made everything too easy.
Just out of interest how do you fare against more 'mundane' opponents like Giants, Dragons, and Mammoths etcetera?
Dragons are easy, I have two dragon fight videos done too. Giants and Mammoths I dont bother with and ignore them.
bhavv, you are awesome for framing the map! ;D
Skyrim inventory mod!
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads...id=667#content
well i am playing this with 360 controller, and loving it so far. the UI was definitely made for controller. i will probably switch until something like skyrim darnified UI is out
also they need to fix quad core performance ... the game doesnt uses more than 2 cores?
Yeah. And it only uses a fraction of the full processing power of those two cores. (<50%) So what you gotta do is right click on the skyrim.exe shortcut on your desktop and select properties. Then click the shortcut tab and add "+fullproc" without quotes at the end of the executable. For example, mine says "D:\Skyrim\TESV.exe +fullproc" (without quotes once again).Quote:
Originally Posted by Philip_J_Fry
Also, Skyrim doesn't use hardly any RAM. There is a little app out there called Large Address Aware that is used to force an application to utilize more than 2gb RAM. I recall using it on Crysis2.exe earlier this year. It also works on Skyrim.
so by doing that does it uses all 4 cores? or rather more than 50% on quad cores? i am waiting for tweakguides.com to do a full guide. my 920 @ 3.8GHz + 570 SLI is doing ok
he said he is almost done
http://www.tweakguides.com/
yeah thats annoying. also i get mouselag, so i ended up using 360 controller, which was actually more responsive than mouse....Quote:
disabling VSync by setting iPresentInterval=0 in Skyrim.ini. It's not quite that simple. Vertical mouse sensitivity in Skyrim is always linked to FPS; disabling VSync only highlights it, but is not the cause. Any Physics bugs may be caused by either disabling VSync or high FPS - it's unclear.
also lol:
http://www.gamefront.com/skyrim-pc-r...-console-port/
Quote:
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the best console game I’ve ever played on PC.
I'll have to agree that this is the best console game Ive ever played on a PC too :D
Okay, I am Lvl 27 now, starting the Esbern quest - guess I should get the voice fix patch first.
Among other stuff, completed the Gauldur Amulet quest - the final fight was probably the toughest I have faced so far, but the reward is worth it. Also fought with Krosis the dragon priest, and a Blood dragon at once. That was also really tough but Krosis has a glitch and just froze behind a ledge and got pelted by arrows. Also, those wishing to obtain a powerful singlehanded weapon - go to Markarth and complete the Molag Bal quest - its a really simple quest and you get a VERY powerful mace. You can also get a powerful staff (Wabbajack) by completing the madmen quest Solitude. That was a very nice (& different) quest. I am enjoying these Daedraic questsmuch more.
Does anyone notice how the enemies are leveling up ? I ask because I completed a quest received early-on in Whiterun (rescuing the GrayMane) and I decided to fight into the Thalmor fort, and there were like 20 armored guards and 2-3 mages - I mean the fight was much more challenging than I expected at this level - does this mean that quest fights will scale but in general creatures will not ?
Oh, and I did some of the Imperial Legion quests and they are much more exciting compared to the dungeon scrawling quests - simple but engaging. I am just killing Stormcloaks everywhere now :D
I'm a N0rdz, lvl. 34, one handed, archery, blocking, destruction, restoration ... ~46H gaming
This game is simply great, that's what I wanted. Thanks Bethesda :up:
Some funky mob-scaling going on. You can run around owning mobs like its nothing, but all of a sudden there will be one guy in the pack that one shot you. And I agree that the majority of q's and dungeons get old quickly. Thankfully the bigger q lines/main q is pretty cool :) Its a good game, but it gets way more credit than it deserves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tao~
Yeah I noticed this too, sometimes there is one that is MUCH stronger than the rest. I think it might be a bug?Quote:
Originally Posted by wez
Does anyone else get the feeling that their character is rather short in 1st person view?
out door mobs dont scale with your lvl (most are 15-20, and most non dragon or bandit chief cap at 30), quest dungeons cap out at 30, and random dungeons are the level that u are when u 1st enter them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tao~
I'm still modding stalker. Once I'm done, maybe I'll look at Skyrim. Don't intend to get the game though until it has a patch or two.Quote:
Originally Posted by SabreWulf69
Theres a utility I have that will outright convert a .exe file to 64 bit, if anyone wants it I'll upload it when I'm next on my PC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew LB
Beware of what weapons you decide to get early, they might not level as you level. Oblivion suffered with this until somebody made a mod that would level weapons as you gained levels so you weren't stuck with a crappy version of the weapon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tao~
hmm.. so after lvl 30 it should be cakewalk even with the bossesQuote:
Originally Posted by zanzabar
weapons level ? do you mean upgrade via smithing ? or finding better weapons as your character levels up ? in that case what you get in the starting shouldnt matter. btw, i have a glass sword,axe , dawnbreaker and the mace or molag bal as the main single handed weapons i use.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ket
Not quite, I mean stuff like the molag bal mace, those (in oblivion) are "leveled" weapons meaning the higher level your character is when you get it, the better the weapon will be. However oblivion had nothing in place to level these types of weapons as you gained levels so if you got the mace or something at a crappy low level, you would be forever stuck with the low level molag bal mace. Not saying the same problem exists in skyrim, but its a possibility.
Was this posted before?
http://kotaku.com/5861752/skyrim-con...d-and-cyrodiil
This can be a modder's dream if true,
it is still there, but with the enchanting drain with weapons the dedric quest weapons are not hat great as u can make better ones until u hit 40+Quote:
Originally Posted by Ket
Assume a lot of you know of this, but everyone needs to check out www.skyrimnexus.com
Already tons of graphics mods + some quest fixes, small gameplay changes, etc. I got pretty much every gfx update they have and lordy does it look good
how do you get this to work - all I get is a message saying thats a invalid file path.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew LB
"+fullproc"
u need to add a space in between the file path and the +
thats kinda a obvious first thing to try.
does it work with yesterdays DRM patch that was added via steam?
cause that encypts the exe, and has been known to break a ton of game mods, including the LAA patch, and tons of texture packs.
Thanks for that, won't be using that patch then until the patch has been patched haha.
A pic of my character now (lvl 36) -
http://i.imgur.com/Xhbj7.jpg
and appropriately matching, a pic of my ride :-D -
http://i.imgur.com/s9yAY.jpg
Your horse looks stoned :p:
Yeah I go off on a quest come back, and he's looking as ripped as anything, that bastard, even smoked my stash. lol. Is kwl though, needs some sort of spikey armor or something to look more 'evil' I reckon.
o man i started the character with pure mage in mind, got my destruction to 59, and magicka to like 230 before any clothing effect. then i realize mage sux, now i got my one handed attack to ~ 57, health to like 190. still gets owned in 1 breathe attack by dragon, 2 hits by giants, and ~ 2, 3 hits by some heavily leveled boss at the end of dungeon. my light armour is like 48 iirc. my pickpocket is 100 lol, archery ~45. i am doing everything right now, a bit of hack and slash, stealth and mage.
when i replayed it next time i will probably go mainly two handed, heavy armour with minor restoration, and archery.
mage sux period. i went back to do the mage's guild quest. all those mages in the dungeon died in 3 hits, with one handed weapon.
Just some random screens, see the extra links below the pics for how it looked pre-modded. Imo, for the most part the visuals are improved. Sorry for the lame resolution :)
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It seems to me - but I'm only level 10 so far - that there are pretty good destruction spells with two handed effect. Yet you do need to level your health and armor. Having someone following you who takes the beating while you blast away comes in pretty handy too. Using a mace is needed for me as well though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philip_J_Fry
to be a mage u need to get gear that reduces your mana cost in your preferred tree, the tree will knock off 50% then u need to get gear for it and u ill get to 0-10% cost as everything stacks. and u can use enchanting to make heavy magic gear.Quote:
Originally Posted by v0dka
so dual wield magic and one hand until u get your gear if u want to go mage, if u wan to go 100% mage then its hard. u can also wait (hit t) and regen all mana by waiting an hour
yeah alteration is a must for mage. like stone flesh spell, +60 armor for 60 sec for clsoe quarter combat. the best way imo is to play it with either 1/2 handed attack, with light/heavy armor as major, and archery, alteration, restoration as minor. those cost half to cast skill perks are must have if u r a mage.
right now i am owning non boss enemies with one handed (+60%), light armor(+60%), and stone flesh. should have done this earlier.... 3 whack and they are dead.
I always go with a armor as one of my majors when I play a TES game, I usually go with magic stuff as secondary as about the only spells of use to me are light, shield and health. I like to go in full force, whack something with a good weapon and they are dead :p: Suppose I'll have to grab Skyrim soon, though I'm not into the whole needing steam crap.
One thing I dont get is why people complain about CPU usage in this game, at least the game responds to overclocks and more powerful CPUs:
http://1.2.3.12/bmi/img9.imageshack....9856/cpu2k.png
Whereas a game thats reported to utilize more than 90%+ of a hex core still doesnt perform any better than it does on a dual core:
http://1.2.3.13/bmi/1.2.3.10/bmi/img...cpuscaling.png
I'd much rather have a game that performs better and scales with my powerful CPU, than one which runs almost the same as it would on an Athlon X2 on an I7 980 (I'm getting one of these soon :))
I found getting Firebolt made me virtually invincible as a Mage. I haven't even enchanted any items yet and I'm rocking same level Dragons (25) in around 6 two handed fireballs. The only thing I hate is that holding a spell ready to cast means you don't regen mana until you release. 90ish Destruction (with every perk available) and all I have increased is Magicka (~530) with ~250% regen from items/skills and my bar fills in around 25 seconds.
I like the ward spells when fighting dragons. Have a ward in your left hand and a lightning bolt in the right hand works great.
You dont need the frost + shock perks, just fire and blow everything up :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Voodoo Hoodoo
i guess u have boots, gloves, rings, necklaces that boost ur magicka?Quote:
Originally Posted by Voodoo Hoodoo
cuz i just finished college of winterhold quest. got the arch mage robe, which is actually worst than my master destruction robe (+150% regen magicka, and 22% less on destruction) + mage circlet (+70 magicka). i dont have any boots, gloves, rings, necklaces that boost magicka. well at least drastically.
i kinda just migrate to a more even character and more toward smithing and one handed, so i dont get owned in close quarter combat by 5 or more skeleton in some dungeon that decide to gang up on u. my destruction 57, one handed attack 60, archery 50, light armor 50. currently @ level 34. i stole a lot of crap to get my pick pocket to 100 @ level 10.... heh
Try this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kunaak
"D:\Skyrim\TESV.exe" +fullproc
with the quotes around the path but not the +fullproc. That's how the old Quake 3 commands worked.
Did anyone try getting Heavy Armor perks - one that makes it weightless and doesnt slow you down. It's OP combined with one-handed+healing/flesh spells ( or some two handed like the Ebony Blade - I managed to kill all (killable) people in Whiterun without healing once)
yeah there are many ways to make invincible character... like extreme smithing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onOYn6d0Vas
i have my smithing @ 90, been making glass armor and right now only dragon with magic attack can kill me in 2 hits with base 290 hp @ level 40. my enchantement is 50, i havent really enchant anything.
My character went through Solitude without dying and killing everything with my Daedric armor and Daedric boots (- still looking for more Daedra hearts >.<), plus high level of one handed (88) and heavy armor skill (77), a block of 51, a legendary Skysteel Sword and Orcish other bits (all of which is legendary). Health is 250, stamina - 220 and majicka is 190. My lockpick is 60 and archery is 76. Most other stats below 50. I barely use magic and only really use spells like heal, wards and stoneflesh. If a mage I go up against is too powerful, I simply turn into a warewolf and lunge at them knocking them over, run at them again and finish them off usually always before they can touch me. Giants, mammoths and dragons I can all take out *usually* without having to heal and just using my bow, sword and shield combo :-)
what bow do u have? and yeah i need to start the daedra quest so i can make some deadric weapons.
melee characters have trouble against magic range attack. my solution against say, dragon or mage with fireball is alchemy, and ward. make some resist to fire, frost potions along with fast healing, then get close and whack them.works well @ level 43. altho i do have my archery @ 55, destruction @ 60.
my smithing @ 100 now i just made some dragon scale armor. along with stoneflesh. i just killed almost everyone at whiterun. my light armor perk only has like +60%, and one handed perk +60%. i came a long way from being pure mage to smithing and one handed, light armor.