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[Durante]

Steam hates me. Whenever I actually care about download speed I get around 500k at most, but now when I have all the time in the world to preload I get 3.6 MB/s.

 

[Gareth Bale]

Does anyone know what graphics enhancements the PC version has? I haven't seen any PC screens of the video options menu yet. The size of the download doesn't suggest we're getting anything major. Is it just going to be higher resolution and more AA?

 

[JumpingTheGun]

It's games like these that make me glad Im single.

Spoiler

It's games like these that keep me single

 

[Seth C]

Steam should just unlock this game. Everyone's playing but the PC-people.

In my dreams, maybe. I'm not convinced anyone in the US has it, aside from pirates.

 

[loganclaws]

I have friday off! Woohoo! Funny thing is I never liked Morrowind or Oblivion, stopped FO3 about a third into it and bought New Vegas but never played it... Why am I even excited? I don't know!

 

[-GOUKI-]

Does anyone know what graphics enhancements the PC version has? I haven't seen any PC screens of the video options menu yet. The size of the download doesn't suggest we're getting anything major. Is it just going to be higher resolution and more AA?

Most likely yes. I think the game will look great once a texture pack comes out.

 

[disappeared]

WHY THE FUCK IS IT ONLY THURSDAY TOMORROW!?

 

[Omegasquash]

It's games like these that make me glad Im single.

Spoiler

It's games like these that keep me single

Try falling in love with them when you're married.

"Honey, can you take the trash out?"

"OH! Look at this sweet enchant I just added to my longsword!"

"..."

 

[cyberheater]

Things are hotting up over here in the UK for the London midnight launch - just saw this dude already sat outside Game, waiting for Skyrim in quite a fancy hat.

er... Doesn't it get released tomorrow night?

 

[bengraven]

I never got bored of the 100th time I heard "They done got my wife strung up over yonder! ya gotta help her!"

It is. I laughed my ass of.

GOTF.

I would say one of the Beth GAFfers let them know, but I've seen it used as a meme phrase on other boards as well.

It's games like these that make me glad Im single.

Spoiler

It's games like these that keep me single

It's games like these that will make me single. My wife hates my PC and has said regularly that's she's sure I love it more than her.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

still not sure if I should buy 360 or PC, lately I only play battlefield on PC and not booting up anything else.

I don't even know how it's a debate if you have a capable system. The only 'benefits' you get with the 360 version are MS point achievements and access to your XBL friends like while you're playing. That's at the cost of graphical fidelity and performance and future mod support.

 

[Durante]

Does anyone know what graphics enhancements the PC version has? I haven't seen any PC screens of the video options menu yet. The size of the download doesn't suggest we're getting anything major. Is it just going to be higher resolution and more AA?

In addition to that, better LoD, better framerates and so on. (Much better controls of course)

But more importantly, TES games have one of the biggest and best mod scenes around. Even if you subtract all the purely visual stuff (which is often pretty nice) and the semi-creepy stuff, mods for Oblivion still have more worthwhile content by far than all the DLC combined. There are few game series I can think of where the advantages of playing on PC are more pronounced.

 

[Derrick01]

WHAT THE? HOW THE?

You will keep getting basic kill quests and steal quests. Things like "break in this shop and steal ____". It's not like it's going to be constant intricate quests like dropping that boar's head on the guy for the dark brotherhood in Oblivion.

I dont' mean to be a hype deflater but it's not going to be anything amazing. The technology for infinite and deep quests isn't there.

 

[JumpingTheGun]

Try falling in love with them when you're married.

"Honey, can you take the trash out?"

"OH! Look at this sweet enchant I just added to my longsword!"

"..."

Clearly gaming for me will have to take a massive backseat if I ever decide to settle down with a future ex wife.

 

[bidaum]

Steam hates me. Whenever I actually care about download speed I get around 500k at most, but now when I have all the time in the world to preload I get 3.6 MB/s.

I bet the Steam Skyrim preload packets are cached at just about every major routing network in the country

 

[Complistic]

How funny is it gonna be when we get the pc version and it's got a fov of 50?

 

[Echoplx]

How funny is it gonna be when we get the pc version and it's got a fov of 50?

It will be funny until we open an ini file and change it in 2 seconds.

 

[indigo-cyclops]

How funny is it gonna be when we get the pc version and it's got a fov of 50?

Hopefuilly the console will still be accessible :/ if thats the case...

It will be funny until we open an ini file and change it in 2 seconds.

:lol

 

[The Elite]

Try falling in love with them when you're married.

"Honey, can you take the trash out?"

"OH! Look at this sweet enchant I just added to my longsword!"

"..."

Your longsword will get no enchanting if you don't take out the trash.

 

[Complistic]

It will be funny until we open an ini file and change it in 2 seconds.

I was assuming you couldn't do that

 

[Wallach]

I was assuming you couldn't do that

Default FOV is almost guaranteed to be 75.

 

[Durante]

I was assuming you couldn't do that

TES games really aren't known for not letting you do stuff. I remember a 5 page ini tweaking guide for Oblivion

But at least this reminds me that I need to set the FoV to 90 before starting the game!

 

[Buttonbasher]

This is really the worst possible timing to be a poor college student. I just spent the money I had set aside for Skyrim on 16mm film processing for my final project in production class. Infinite sadness. It was to be one of two games I bought new this year (Other being Deus Ex). Oh well... *goes to listen to the Oblivion soundtrack in his car and weep silently*

 

[indigo-cyclops]

I like the sound of more assassination and thieving quests though!

So do I, holy shit.

No thanks on fetch quests though.

 

[Echoplx]

I was assuming you couldn't do that

It's pretty much identical to gamebryo

 

[Hex]

Your longsword will get no enchanting if you don't take out the trash.

A truth spoken here.

 

[AllIsOneIsNone]

whats the max fov you can have on one monitor without it lookin all messed up? and at the cost of how much performance?

 

[The Elite]

Not being able to play the boxed version is so cruel

But again I like having my games on steam so... it's a bad for a good I guess...

I want to play so badly :lol

So the boxed versions key won't work on Steam?

 

[Wallach]

So the boxed versions key won't work on Steam?

They do, it's Steamworks. The downside he's referring to is that the game still isn't playable because of said Steamworks.

 

[KKRT00]

It's pretty much identical to gamebryo

Can You post those ini files on pastebin.com?

 

[Complistic]

It's pretty much identical to gamebryo

Which means this won't be a problem. Excellent.

Can You post those ini files on pastebin.com?

They're encrypted.

 

[Echoplx]

Can You post those ini files on pastebin.com?

They're still encrypted by Steam so you can't get any info out of them.

 

[Fitz]

whats the max fov you can have on one without it lookin all messed up? and at the cost of how much performance?

Depends on your monitor, it's not about getting the highest possible but about finding the right FOV for your screen ratio/resolution. Also the performance cost is generally negligible.

 

[kingmozo9]

Is Skyrim 60FPS?

 

[Smash88]

Can You post those ini files on pastebin.com?

Everything is encrypted and looks like this:

"  TÌñ éô®Õ3I@Ü?2Sr­÷h‘Ž‘Gp®>à¨Ý!k‡ÇžíD8œËëçµ(!™¶d‘ÿZÃÏgÁ˜5æ[7Î_S=#cË´°Lkx˜\?rx5–Ú¢´,Âòa“5Â= ïßÍÊMùuRŠw|ò+£¡¬®­â(ú€.Ó$D<ü¼úÓÙS›m{­‚ó_|æ8•\)vw“Yæó~͎ÒÞ%ãTo¿'‡ëø€^¬0É Cú .♳9¯| Ífš#µnE¿¢Q•®Ÿ-­˜Z™À.º´Öûl¨vÐ塚®2ÈޔSæúýÙ3d ¡¥ÕÚ²çF»A¨´°#¹ïæérã@‚–q;MÒ‡®ˆ¹é¼5«ht˜¿¥Àè¶]uUžößKzp!rçí£uó7e npÑnsÐ#“àãÓ<—í)1B»Ÿ,’põ·Án2¼„½B–£¯-PÁ5\}Åô, Þ>dH'´* ¦&žŠ›$ZÃÈÝ"

 

[Echoplx]

Is Skyrim 60FPS?

:lol WTF kind of question is that?

Oh sorry, consoles.

Yes on PC.

 

[British Monsoon]

Huh. That doesn't really look like glass at all.

Yeah, the glass stuff is a lot more understated this time around - I got a glass axe and it didn't really look like it was glass at all until it shined under light.

 

[Woorloog]

Is Skyrim 60FPS?

On PC, maybe if you have good enough machine. On consoles it is 30FPS.
If you're specifically asking about the latter, i have to ask, what were you thinking?

 

[Superimposer]

Having just read the first review from Atomic, I feel I should add that people shouldn't read into the 95%. They give Battlefield 96 and Arkham City 98 in the same issue. Also the content of the review is just awful

 

[AllIsOneIsNone]

Depends on your monitor, it's not about getting the highest possible but about finding the right FOV for your screen ratio/resolution. Also the performance cost is generally negligible.

Yea, I have a widescreen 23 inch at 1080p; Im guessing around 90 degrees would be ideal.

 

[Smash88]

Yea, I have a widescreen 23 inch at 1080p; Im guessing around 90 degrees would be ideal.

85-90 FOV for a 24" or bust.

 

[Fitz]

Yea, I have a widescreen 23 inch at 1080p; Im guessing around 90 degrees would be ideal.

Yeah 90 sounds about right.

 

[Enco]

:O

That may not work as well as they hope but it's still amazing. I know they tried it in Oblivion with the DB but it wasn't that well implemented imho.

To the next 6 years of my life in Skyrim!

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Either way, I spent a looong time in Oblivion and never got close to finishing the side quests or the main missions. By a long time I mean 50+ hours. Bear in mind I got the game fairly late after release and only had it temporarily.

 

[coopolon]

oh, kickass, thanks. but if the files I downloaded from d2d were going to use steam anyway, why did I have to download the whole 5 gb from d2d? why is steam downloading the whole thing again instead of just looking in the folder and getting the data off my hard drive?

edit: I'm using a small ssd and i don't have room to download it twice... if I trash or move the d2d folder, will steam keep going? it kinda seems like I downloaded 5gb from d2d just to get steam to start its own preload...

I think you can install the game from the D2D download after it's been released (ie midnight EST if you're in the US). Or you can add the code D2D gave you to Steam (via the Games menu, then activate a product on Steam). And then preload, but yes, then you will have downloaded it twice.

 

[The Elite]

They do, it's Steamworks. The downside he's referring to is that the game still isn't playable because of said Steamworks.

Ah. Thanks.

 

[Salacious Crumb]

Having just read the first review from Atomic, I feel I should add that people shouldn't read into the 95%. They give Battlefield 96 and Arkham City 98 in the same issue. Also the content of the review is just awful

Yeah, Atomic is a PC Hardware magazine, their reviews of games are always pretty terrible.

 

[Woorloog]

To anyone who has the game: What are starting health, stamina and magicka amounts?

 

[Pie and Beans]

any word on 360 vs PS3 comparisons?

I'm hedging my bets currently on the 360 version getting the best treatment..

 

[KKRT00]

They're encrypted.

Ah that sucks, but thanks for info.

I still dont know if i should buy this on friday ;\ I know that i wont play it too much anyway [still playing BF 3 daily and patch for Path of Exile is being released in Monday], so smart would be to wait and buy it cheaper, but spoilers and hype is killing me.

 

[chubigans]

This is really the worst possible timing to be a poor college student. I just spent the money I had set aside for Skyrim on 16mm film processing for my final project in production class. Infinite sadness. It was to be one of two games I bought new this year (Other being Deus Ex). Oh well... *goes to listen to the Oblivion soundtrack in his car and weep silently*

That sucks. Were you gonna get it via Steam?