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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT| Het Kos Dovahhe
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odin toelust said:
not according to official Skyrim sales even without digital distribution.
The game broke records on Steam which means it's up to 1.5 (or even 2) million copies sold. With 3.5 million copies sold in first 48 hours it's not 10% lol.
Melhisedek
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Is it safe to drop stuff in your house? And also are there any mods that reduce weight for books and such?
styl3s
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So whats going on with the whole PS3 framerate problem? i read it can get unplayable and starts when your game save is around 4-6mb.
Do they plan on fixing it? or is it just going to end up another ps3 bethesda game that stays shitty in the long run, just wondering if i should just cut my losses and trade it in and get the 360 version.
Do they plan on fixing it? or is it just going to end up another ps3 bethesda game that stays shitty in the long run, just wondering if i should just cut my losses and trade it in and get the 360 version.
Interfectum
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I'm really enjoying going pure destruction / conjurer. Will I be running into trouble later on? I keep hearing mixed messages about magic in the late game.
Interfectum said:
The problem is that they don't have late game tradeskill options like the other venues. Spells aren't bad by default, they just lack the cool end-game tradeskill toys besides making spells free. Assuming DLC or a mod comes along to fix it, Spells will be fine.
As it stands right now, they're serviceable for the normal late game stuff, they just don't have broken tradeskill combinations.
Extra Sauce
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scy said:
Pardon my ignorance but I'm not sure I understand what you mean. What is an example of a tradeskill, and a tradeskill toy/option?
Interfectum said:
No trouble actually completing things. Conjuration especially doesn't suffer from the master spells being two handed with long cast times since you want to pre-cast them anyhow. The issue isn't whether you can use it to complete the game it's just really jerky 'stair-like' progression and a sudden wall where you can't improve any more and even if the enemies get stronger you will not.
Ferrio said:
Bethesda has gone on record saying they leave in bugs that are funny.
Anyway, is it true one handed does nothing for daggers? If that's the case could I use a sword in one hand and a dagger in the offhand and get the 15x bonus if I use the offhand to stab fools? Also is smithing still helpful if I don't spec into it? I don't want any of the speced armors.
The thief character I want to make is so hard right now, so many perks I want to get.
John Rabbit
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what this post poorly relates is that magic does not scale at higher levels. whereas weapons start to benefit from high-level alchemy/smithing/enchanting perks that send their damage output into the stratosphere, magic-users basically benefit from being able to spam spells with little to no actual magicka use because of crazy high regen rates and magicka cost reduction.scy said:
Critical hits, does anyone know the effect of these? Are they the reason why enemies can sometimes do very little damage and suddenly kill me in one hit with a nice little closeup animation?
Also, I'm not getting the Rested effect anymore, presumably due to picking up the Lover's Stone buff.
Also, I'm not getting the Rested effect anymore, presumably due to picking up the Lover's Stone buff.
xtrasauce said:
Smithing, Enchanting, and Alchemy are the three tradeskills. The fun things you can do with them for, say, Melee Weapons or Bows is you can directly influence the amount of damage you'll be dealing. For spells, you'll reduce their spell cost. Which, while nice, just doesn't have quite the same impact as stupid amounts of damage.
Rabbitwork said:
Isn't that what I said? Weapons get things from the tradeskills that Spells just do not. It isn't that spells themselves are bad or anything of the sort (they're for the most part better than weapons), they just lack any form of tangible upgrading. Which, ideally, we'll see in a mod or DLC or patch or something.
Or nothing, and then we can rage together at it being completely stupid :/
Damn this is so hard not to do. When Im travelling and a it shows a new place on my compass I have to check it out just to atleast add it to my map so i can come back to it later. But this results in me taking 2 hours just to get to the place I actually needed to go to!Blue Ninja said:
Haha, as I entered Red Eagle Ascent, one of the bandits noticed my AI companion and was making her way over to our location to investigate. As she neared, just before I killed her, she triggered one of their traps and inadvertently killed a fellow bandit who happened to be following close behind. Awesome.
Dakota47
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Uno Venova
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Oh so that's why it took forever just to get Sven to talk to me, Christ Bethesda, at least a patch should be coming, I'll try turning off autosave, even though it saved my ass a few times.subversus said:
Hm, I'm in the mid-30s with my Thief and have 11 perks to spend. Pickpocket, Lockpick and Speech are pretty pointless to invest in, as money isn't an issue. Probably going to go all out on Enchantment and Smithing to get a Legendary Glass Bow and Dagger.Khezu said:
And yes, one-handed enchantments don't affect daggers, AFAIK. Sucks, but then even 15x is overpowered, let alone 30x.
John Rabbit
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it is, you just worded it awkwardly. no problems.scy said:
and yes, the spell-scaling (or lack thereof) is silly.
Lydia fucking sucks, i just wasted a lot of my time reloading an old save because she fucking died... there needs to be a point when no damage is done to her when she yields...
Other than that, random dragon appears out of nowhere while i was taking screenshots outside of Solitude!
Other than that, random dragon appears out of nowhere while i was taking screenshots outside of Solitude!
GhostRidah
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50 hours in and only completed 4 main quests, near the end of dark brotherhood quests and haven't started any of the other guilds yet... fuck.
Blue Ninja
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Level 41 and things are really starting to slow down. Then again, I do have a lot of quests left... But all my main skills have almost peaked.
John Rabbit
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beron from morthal was pretty good for the short time i used him. was taking out fools left and right with his bow.Kyaw said:
Amibguous Cad
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Game's running like crap on my machine despite my having specs that well clear the recommended system requirements (2GB quad core processor, 8 GB ram, 2 GB graphics card). I'm up to date on drivers. Anyone know what I can do to boost performance?
Last night during a Thieves Guild quest, my companion (who comes along no matter what, it's part of the story) noted that the person we're looking for re-set all the traps on her way through. He told me to pull a chain to open a door, but "watch out for the spikes".JaseC said:
I pulled the chain, backed up, and a spike wall sprung, swung around and nailed him in the face, knocking him across the room. I giggled.
Thieves Guild has some nice story developing in it, I really didn't expect what happened at the end of the cave.
Amibguous Cad said:
There's a thread for that.
GhaleonEB said:
Haha. AI companions are handy if not entertaining in their own useless sort of way.
Lydia is starting to get on my nerves.
We exited a cave, and she says 'oh look, a cave! wonder what's inside?' -- we just went in there dummy.
Then there's walking with her outside, she gets lost so easily. If I'm navigating mountains or taking shortcuts, she's nowhere to be found so I have to end up reloading.
We exited a cave, and she says 'oh look, a cave! wonder what's inside?' -- we just went in there dummy.
Then there's walking with her outside, she gets lost so easily. If I'm navigating mountains or taking shortcuts, she's nowhere to be found so I have to end up reloading.
Philthy
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Kyaw said:
I don't bother, they are more of a headache than helpful. I left her corpse at the bottom of a dungeon. Between the poor pathing, using bows at close range instead of a sword, standing behind pillars, having to kite enemies over to them for them to basically do anything..
One of the few terrible things about Skyrim. Pets and helpers just blow ass unless you're willing to deal with the quirks.
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