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[Mindman]

Looked through the manual, and noticed you can set two Favorites for Quick Select with left & right on the d-pad. Very nice! Quick health and mana potions.

 

[British Monsoon]

Why would I use Light Armor over Heavy Armor? Looking at the skill trees now, and I can make Heavy Armor weigh nothing with a certain perk.

Well, you wouldn't be able to unlock that perk until you were at level 70 in heavy armour, which would take quite a while.

 

[nickbreckon]

Why would I use Light Armor over Heavy Armor? Looking at the skill trees now, and I can make Heavy Armor weigh nothing with a certain perk.

Well, you'd spend a lot of time playing with heavy armor on in order to get that perk, and then you're spending perk points in that rather than other things. It's a trade-off. And if you're going for a stealthy/fast-killing character, the idea isn't to need heavy armor -- better off spending your points in other things.

 

[dewkl]

How do you inspect items more closely? PC

 

[Seanspeed]

The leveling system in this game might be the best leveling system I've ever experienced in an RPG.

The addition of perks alongside your levels that can actually change the gameplay drastically is too addictive, and there's so many it's ridiculous. Instead of just getting "better" at a skill you can actually modify it to behave differently. Love it.

It really is fantastic. Love it. So much.

I'm only 5 hours in and I pretty much just got finished with Bleak Falls Barrow. Which was also fantastic. If all the dungeons are close to the quality of that one, this game is gonna be seriously special. I've got the difficulty set to the 2nd hardest and combined with the atmosphere of the game, it makes encounters pretty scary.

Unless things so seriously downhill, I'm pretty sure I've found my GOTY. Sorry Forza 4....

 

[TheExodu5]

I'm really loving these skill trees. It seems like they're going to affect your character build pretty significantly.

 

[MEATER]

I was really worried that seeing shots from the PC version would make me regret getting it on console just because I wanted to start playing a few days early...

...but it doesn't look that much better and since I know that the sound of my PC on my 5.1 setup is nowhere as good as the sound of my 360 I'm actually ok with playing the console version!

Will consider (re-)playing on the PC when a GotY edition with all DLC.

I just wish I could play over the weekend... Pretty sure that my crazy colleagues will sink 20 to 30 hours into this game over the weekend and I'll have to listen to a lot of spoilers on Monday...

 

[taylor910]

I'm planning on using summoning and a bow for my main attacks.

Breton or Altmer??

 

[Septimius]

I wish I would catch the Elder Scrolls bug. Why can't I catch it??

There's something about first person shield and sword game play that makes me go "eh". Can't get into The Witcher 2, either. Something must be wrong with me.

I'm contemplating buying it, and just force myself to play it.

 

[subversus]

Well, it's a first Elder Scrolls game I'm playing properly and so far it's pretty good. Just cleared out the bandit fort somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Before that I apparently went into wrong direction because I was raped hard by some ice ghost.

 

[vehn]

Does anyone remember where the key is for the last door in Mzuflt? Thats the dwemer / robot place you go into for the Mage guild. I can't find the key at all and it says I cleared the whole place.

 

[Telosfortelos]

Why would I use Light Armor over Heavy Armor? Looking at the skill trees now, and I can make Heavy Armor weigh nothing with a certain perk.

edit: maybe Heavy Armor makes more noise?

It does make more noise I believe, but there's a sneak perk to eliminate that too. I really wish there was a more obvious benefit to light armor. An attack & casting speed perk would have been nice. Maybe it has a better enchant capacity?

 

[Yoshichan]

Yay! start it up first time - black screen abd crash with computer reboot! fuuun!

 

[snoopeasystreet]

There's something about first person shield and sword game play that makes me go "eh". Can't get into The Witcher 2, either. Something must be wrong with me.

I'm in the same position. I'm just not a fantasy guy. But I loved Fallout 3 and NV so I said I bought Skyrim. Going by the Giant Bomb quick look, I think this will be the game that converts me.

 

[styl3s]

installing now.

is dual wielding really viable in this? or should i got 1hand mace/sword + shield and magic? i am leaning towards dual wielding but master bow and pump stuff into destruction.

 

[Yoshichan]

First impressions? Fucking terrible.

One crash and when I get to the menu, I notice the following: I can't Alt TAB and smooth mousing is active and no options in the game to change it. What the fuck?

1: How do I activate Alt TAB
2: How do I increase the volume
3: How do I disable smooth mouse

 

[woober]

Well, mods improving the PC version are already out... which is amazing:

More detailed faces mod:
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=26

Softer shadow/ remove shadow pixelation mod:
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=27

 

[styl3s]

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=28

lol

Would like to see a video of that mod in action.

fuck i wish i had a PC so i can do this, not out of hilarity but out of fear of spiders, they creep me the fuck out.

 

[Interfectum]

First impressions? Fucking terrible.

One crash and when I get to the menu, I notice the following: I can't Alt TAB and smooth mousing is active and no options in the game to change it. What the fuck?

1: How do I activate Alt TAB
2: How do I increase the volume
3: How do I disable smooth mouse

5/10? worse than dark souls?

 

[Yoshichan]

5/10? worse than dark souls?

Please, just help. Don't have time for this...

 

[Mupod]

First impressions? Fucking terrible.

One crash and when I get to the menu, I notice the following: I can't Alt TAB and smooth mousing is active and no options in the game to change it. What the fuck?

You can fix the mouse acceleration nonsense with an INI tweak. Check the performance thread.

Alt tab didn't blow anything up for me, but I only did it once.

 

[Septimius]

I'm in the same position. I'm just not a fantasy guy. But I loved Fallout 3 and NV so I said I bought Skyrim. Going by the Giant Bomb quick look, I think this will be the game that converts me.

Same here, not a fantasy guy. But I completely love Demon's/Dark Souls, but can't get into Fallout, either. I have no idea why. Really liked Fable 3, too. Can't really get into Fable 2. I'm so strange.

 

[Clevinger]

I wish I would catch the Elder Scrolls bug. Why can't I catch it??

There's something about first person shield and sword game play that makes me go "eh". Can't get into The Witcher 2, either. Something must be wrong with me.

I'm contemplating buying it, and just force myself to play it.

You don't have to do first person shield sword. You can do archery, magic, shield and magic etc. Hell, you can even be a necromancer/conjurer and just have summoned things fight for you.

 

[Yoshichan]

Alt tab didn't blow anything up for me, but I only did it once.

I can't even alt tab, nothing happens.

 

[Wazzim]

First impressions? Fucking terrible.

One crash and when I get to the menu, I notice the following: I can't Alt TAB and smooth mousing is active and no options in the game to change it. What the fuck?

1: How do I activate Alt TAB
2: How do I increase the volume
3: How do I disable smooth mouse

1. Alt Tab is broken in this game, no fix thus far
2. Ingame, go to settings and select 'audio'
3. See the performance thread

 

[BlueTsunami]

Is Skyrim on the PC worse than Oblivions initial release? Apart from Oblivion's atrocious UI when used with Mouse and Keyboard it sounds like Bethesda were even more sleepy on the PC "port" of Skryim.

 

[Mupod]

fuck i wish i had a PC so i can do this, not out of hilarity but out of fear of spiders, they creep me the fuck out.

I remember seeing a 'no spiders' mod for Dark Messiah and laughing my ass off. But I guess it's a legitimate thing for some people.

 

[Septimius]

Please, just help. Don't have time for this...

You disable smooth mouse in an INI-file. I have no idea which one, but I read that in one of these threads.

 

[Blue Ninja]

Lol, so now I've got a dragon's skeleton lying in the middle of the streets of Solitude. Amazing.

 

[NIN90]

First impressions? Fucking terrible.

One crash and when I get to the menu, I notice the following: I can't Alt TAB and smooth mousing is active and no options in the game to change it. What the fuck?

1: How do I activate Alt TAB
2: How do I increase the volume
3: How do I disable smooth mouse

Tried CTRL+ALT+DEL?

 

[Yoshichan]

Is it bMouseAcceleration=0? Because it doesn't seem to work...

 

[TheExodu5]

Alt-tab works fine for me.

 

[spirity]

I just got done with Bleak Falls and have to stop for dinner. But I so want to go back as soon as. Game is freakin amazing, its everything that I thought it'd be. Trying hard to think of something I dislike really.

 

[styl3s]

I remember seeing a 'no spiders' mod for Dark Messiah and laughing my ass off. But I guess it's a legitimate thing for some people.

I really really really hate spiders, if i see a big one in my house at night i can't sleep.

and giant ones in RPGs creep me the FUCK out.

 

[pyros]

Played first 5 minutes and stopped, keyboard and mouse controls are bad, going back to my backlog, Skyrim put on hold till Creation Engine toolset is released.

 

[Yoshichan]

And the music? The menu music is quiet as heck (but the Bethesda-logo sound is loud as heck).

 

[Wazzim]

Is Skyrim on the PC worse than Oblivions initial release? Apart from Oblivion's atrocious UI when used with Mouse and Keyboard it sounds like Bethesda were even more sleepy on the PC "port" of Skryim.

It's obvious that this version was an 'afterthought', some of the bugs are just very simple to fix. They just didn't have the time/resources to test the PC version good enough.
Game's still fantastic though.

Alt-tab works fine for me.

Very weird then, my game blacks out after Alt tabbing. Nvidia card too so it isn't that.

 

[Guesong]

PC Version :

Any way to stop the game from scanning to auto-detect (poorly at that) my settings and just go straight in-game? It does that every time I start it. -.-

 

[Tesseract]

riverwood's local bard, sven, becomes your slave after completing his quest for love. so i order him to kill the town dog. as soon as the dog dies, gerdur attacks sven. they duel. she wins but is merciful to sven. as she's walking away, sven pulls out a bow and arrows her face. gerdur is fucking dead. sven puts away his bow, walks inside the inn, and plays his instrument.

 

[Seanspeed]

riverwood sven stuff

Awesome, but spoiler that shit man.

 

[Yoshichan]

Like seriously? EVERY SINGLE SOUND BAR IS ON MAX, and I can BARELY hear the menu music. Is it supposed to be so quiet?

 

[Data West]

What do I do with the

Spoiler

dragonstone?

 

[Norua]

Downloading it on Steam right now. Don't know why, but the download is SLOW. Like 70 KB/S slow. Is it because Steam is overwhelmed by all the downloads or something? Because aside of that my connexion seems fine.
5h30 remaining

 

[Kinky John]

There's currently 177,981 people playing this on Steam. I wonder if it'll break 200,000 at the weekend? :-o

 

[Seanspeed]

Like seriously? EVERY SINGLE SOUND BAR IS ON MAX, and I can BARELY hear the menu music. Is it supposed to be so quiet?

Oh menu music, nevermind

 

[Wazzim]

riverwood's local bard, sven, becomes your slave after completing his quest for love. so i order him to kill the town dog. as soon as the dog dies, gerdur attacks sven. they duel. she wins but is merciful to sven. as she's walking away, sven pulls out a bow and arrows her face. gerdur is fucking dead. sven puts away his bow, walks inside the inn, and plays his instrument.

This game.

What do I do with the

Spoiler

dragonstone?

Go to the town's king/leader guy.

 

[zedge]

Is PS3 version worth getting? Any one here share their thoughts if they have it? I am more interested in the performance than slight graphical differences.

Anyone?

 

[Acidyl]

wow, played it for 7 hours now.

It's really sucks me in.

I already played it more than I ever played Oblivion.

Seriously, if you like rpg but coudn't stand oblivion like me, try Skyrim, they really improved on many different levels.

 

[Yoshichan]

Oh menu music, nevermind

So it's supposed to be so low, the music gets better in-game?

And why does changing stuff in the .ini not affect the game? I changed mouse acceleration but the mouse in the menu is still smooth mouse...

 

[Wazzim]

Anyone?

Many here play the PS3 version just fine, I wouldn't worry about performance that much.