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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT| Het Kos Dovahhe

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Teknoman

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Woorloog said:
Random? Let's see, found hunters hunting animals, random wanderers, someone i could've robbed through dialogue, random patrols (dead now), random dragon attack, free stuff that i gave away... I think there's a lot of random things in this game. And random of course means you don't encounter them always but that keeps them interesting.

I ran across a stampeding moose, and then some wandering glowing bard that might have killed a wolf before he ripped me off. 25 gold for a song? I want a refund >_<
 

Woorloog

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Teknoman said:
I ran across a stampeding moose, and then some wandering glowing bard that might have killed a wolf before he ripped me off. 25 gold for a song? I want a refund >_<
I liked the song. Well worth 25 gold, considering how quikcly you can get it back.
Of course you can listen to songs for free at inns
 
FlyinJ said:
So, about those "stone circles of power". The one the guy walks you by in the tutorial, and you select mage, thief or warrior. Are there a lot of these around the world? I just walked by one and none of the three stones were active. I activated "warrior" when I walked by the first one, if I activate "thief" on this one, will it change the other one to "thief", or do I get both "warrior" and "thief" bonuses.

Also, does the stone you activate stay active on the initial stone circle, so if you walk by it again you'll see the one you selected glowing?
No you can only activate one at a time, so if you choose thief after warrior you will have the thief bonus only
I believe there are 8 stones scattered around the world? Or I heard something alluding to 8 stones from an NPC
 

Woorloog

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BlazingDarkness said:
No you can only activate one at a time, so if you choose thief after warrior you will have the thief bonus only
I believe there are 8 stones scattered around the world? Or I heard something alluding to 8 stones from an NPC
13 stones AFAIK, one for every Birthsign in previous games.
 

Cutwolf

Member
Well my game is broken.

Inside the morthal guard house and for some reason it's locked from the inside and I'm out of lock picks. Thanks Bethesda!
 
Woorloog said:
13 stones AFAIK, one for every Birthsign in previous games.
Ah okay, must be a different 8 stones I read about then

Cutwolf said:
Well my game is broken.

Inside the morthal guard house and for some reason it's locked from the inside and I'm out of lock picks. Thanks Bethesda!
Will it not unlock if you change the time of day?
 

KingK

Member
I think I might ask for the strategy guide for a Christmas gift. This seems like the kind of game where a quality guide would be very useful.
 

calder

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Dear Bethesda, would it be too much to ask that I can play through the first 10 minutes without a complete lockup? Yes? How about 5 minutes? Not even that huh. &#128078;
 

Woorloog

Banned
calder said:
Dear Bethesda, would it be too much to ask that I can play through the first 10 minutes without a complete lockup? Yes? How about 5 minutes? Not even that huh. &#128078;
What platform? I play on 360, no crashes (or bugs for that matter, outside the texture issue) so far.
 
I posted this in the PC performance forum but would also like to share it here:

MisterAnderson said:
After fast traveling back to town, I was greeted with this amazing sight.

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The music track playing right here was incredible. This game, while rough around some edges, is really something else.
 
So killing the last witness of a crime results in getting away with it. Great idea, the psychic guards in oblivion were a pain. That said it could probably use some tweaking as I had to put down a horse because it saw me attack the imperial noble it was carrying and his escort.
 

Zeliard

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Do they have any other environmental boosts to magic outside of lighting oil spills with fire? Streams of water or puddles with lightning?
 

Sephon

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Been playing like crazy this entire day, and I love the game. I'm just a bit too tired to appreciate it fully now (played over 10 hours).

Had 1 crash and a few minor glitches. Nothing much to wine about.
Connecting my PC to the main tv and plugging in an Xbox-controller is also the best thing I've ever done in my life. Sitting in my comfy chair playing this game, like any other xbox-game but with 60fps and probably a bit better graphics, is complete bliss!
 

Woorloog

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Zeliard said:
Do they have any other environmental boosts to magic outside of lighting oil spills with fire? Streams of water or puddles with lightning?
Are you sure there are any environmental boosts at all? Flames on ground leave a patch of fire but it doens't damage anyone.
 

Jin

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Anyone know where I can sell mammoth tusks? They value at 150g but weight 10lbs and I have 7 of them.
 

Zeliard

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Woorloog said:
Are you sure there are any environmental boosts at all? Flames on ground leave a patch of fire but it doens't damage anyone.

There are oil spills on the ground at times and you can use them to propagate fire with a basic Flames spell or whatever. I remember reading something pre-release about the player being able to knock over oil lamps to cause a spill, but the oil spill I found seemed to have already been there.
 

purg3

slept with Malkin
Loving this game so far. Originally started a Dark Elf to play as a battle mage, but I find myself playing more like a thief/rogue. The way the perks are handled are good too, and are going to allow for some unique builds unlike my character from oblivion that was a master of everything by the end of the game.
 

Aurora

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Aurora said:
Anybody out there playing a Stealth/Thief/Assassin build? I won't have the game for quite a while being abroad and all, but I was hoping to get some feedback from you guys. How has this build changed since Oblivion? What sort of perks have you found successful? Is lockpicking/pickpocketing worth it?

Thanks in advance!
Sorry for bumping my post, but I figured it could be useful for others too.
 

Woorloog

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Zeliard said:
There are oil spills on the ground at times and you can use them to propagate fire with a basic Flames spell or whatever. I remember reading something pre-release about the player being able to knock over oil lamps to cause a spill, but the oil spill I found seemed to have already been there.
Interesting. Gotta try out shock spell on water but i doubt there's any effects.
Can frost spells put out fires?
 
Woorloog said:
Are you sure there are any environmental boosts at all? Flames on ground leave a patch of fire but it doens't damage anyone.
Hmmm? Lighting the oil slicks on fire does do area damage to everyone in the area, or are you talking about something different?
 

Woorloog

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Zeliard said:
I think he was just talking about lightning random stuff in the environment on fire, since you can basically do that.
Didn't know about the oil being flammable in this before your answer, just pointed out that nothing else is flammable, the flames are purely visual effect.
 

cyberheater

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Holy fuck. So I'm wandering through this misty forest at night and a assassin attacks me as I'm crossing a bridge. I kill him. Search him. Find a note that says there's a contract out on my life. Amazing.
 
After precisely 12 hours of gameplay, I encounter my second dragon. I'm outside the dwarf dungeon, the bandits nearby refuse to side with me temporarily to slay it, so I'm altogether fucked.
 
cyberheater said:
Holy fuck. So I'm wandering through this misty forest at night and a assassin attacks me as I'm crossing a bridge. I kill him. Search him. Find a note that says there's a contract out on my life. Amazing.

Same thing happened to me. I'm sensing that, as most of the people I really piss off end up dead, this is related to the main quest (someone is jealous or scared of my power, perhaps?)

It serves as a good way of alerting people who only do the main quest about the Dark Brotherhood as well, although I was already on their trail by that point.
 
Epyon MX said:
Any tips on finding dragons? I can't wait to fight one and don't want to spend 12 hours before I find one.

Don't look for them.

It sounds very dumb, but they have a habit of popping up when you least expect it. You'll see plenty of them...cause there are a shitload.
 

parabolee

Member
This was epic, but sucked...

Last night I was playing (about 10 hours in) and I exit a town and a dragon appears in the sky. It starts swooping down and burning stuff up, then starts attacking the stable horses! LOL

Anyway I whip out my bow and start turning it into a pin cushion until I annoy it enough to concentrate on me. After a little dodging and hiding I get it to land, I run up and use my shout on it, burn it a little and finish it off with a few hack with my sword.

The beast finally falls [HURRUAH]...

However during the battle some guards must have joined in and I must have inadvertently caught one of them with my shout or fire and within seconds of the dragon collapsing I put my sword away and although I only have a little health left I feel safe; guard runs up to me and kills me in one blow!

Forced to reload! My save turns out to be right as I left the town, so I walk out to where the dragon appears hoping he's is there again. Wait a minute and at last he appears overhead, and proceeds to fly right past me and away over the mountains never to be seen again!

DOH!

Tried reloading a few times to see if I could get him with an arrow to make him come back but no avail! Gutted! That was my first Dragon after the first one in the main story.
 

Woorloog

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Epyon MX said:
Any tips on finding dragons? I can't wait to fight one and don't want to spend 12 hours before I find one.
Check out any mountains, Dragon Temples (word walls, you know?), other peaks, don't fast travel as to have higher possibility of a random attack.
Also, following the main quest may help
Ask the Graybeards where you can find Shout words, those may be guarded by dragons
 

DarthWoo

I'm glad Grandpa porked a Chinese Muslim
I'm sure this may have already been answered, but this thread grows too quickly. Are there any good safe storage containers early in the game? I'm hoping that I can dump some of my stuff in
Gerdur's house in Riverwood, now that she's given me the key and told me that I can stay as long as I want.
 

bengraven

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So who can you all marry and when are you allowed to start marrying?

Or can you only marry one person? Because I'm basically planning a Fable style "I'm bored of you, next" style thing.
 

Woorloog

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DarthWoo said:
I'm sure this may have already been answered, but this thread grows too quickly. Are there any good safe storage containers early in the game? I'm hoping that I can dump some of my stuff in
Gerdur's house in Riverwood, now that she's given me the key and told me that I can stay as long as I want.
Buy a house from Whiterun (5k gold) and some upgrades to gain chests. That's the safest way to store loot IMO.
 
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