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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT2| Team Edward's Revenge
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Question about companions: are they supposed to die really easily?
Lydia lasted for a while, but she eventually died. Every other companion I've had since her has died within minutes of tagging along with me. I bring them to a dungeon and before I leave the first area, they've been killed by a swarm of enemies that I have no trouble killing on my own. Is this a bug, or are they just really, really weak?
Lydia lasted for a while, but she eventually died. Every other companion I've had since her has died within minutes of tagging along with me. I bring them to a dungeon and before I leave the first area, they've been killed by a swarm of enemies that I have no trouble killing on my own. Is this a bug, or are they just really, really weak?
Stop killing them. They only die to friendly fire and damage over time effects.
shrapnelmagnet
Member
Can anyone confirm if they fix any quest completion bugs?
For example:
Missing in Action:
Internet rumour has it that if you speak to the Elves with Imperial Legionnaire Armor, you can do it without bloodshed, but there is no realistic way to receive the armour.
Misc Quest regarding Greta in Solitude:
You need to get an Amulet of Talos for her, but I already had it and the quest won't complete properly, so I'm waiting to continue on it. Reading online, others are having the same issue.
Give them good armor and weapons and they're quite valuable. But friendly fire is the only way to finish them off. If you're a magic user, having a companion means you're going to struggle with accidental kills a lot.
Blue Ninja
Member
That place is amazing. I was level 15 or so when I reached that, and had to face a Draugr Death Overlord in addition to two dragons.
Shit was intense.
I've only just realized how awesome the Throw Voice shout is. I've changed to daggers for dungeon clearing from bows. I hardly use Aura Whisper even. I just have to go slow and steady to suss everyone's locations then get my stab on. If anyone's even remotely looking near me I just use Throw Voice and bam, one dead fool. I'm finding it much more fun than sniping.
Has anyone else realized how slutty Skyrim girls are? Do them a favour, wear some bling and you're in.
Has anyone else realized how slutty Skyrim girls are? Do them a favour, wear some bling and you're in.
James Woods
Banned
Vampire question:
Are there actually vampires that live under the ice in east Skyrim? I read about it in a book and looked at the map. It looks like there is actually icebergs there.
I encountered some, yes. The northeastern cost is really beautiful at night.
Arjen
Member
I just had to clear a whole dungeon full of them, it was damn tough. On a positive note, they did all have ebony greatswords so I now have 220,000 goldalthough nothing to spend it on :/
haha, yeah i walked away from a dungeon with 5 ebony warhammers worth about 2000 a piece. I'm on 670k right now, saving up for the 100k achievement and then to buy my last house.
James Woods
Banned
FUccccccccccccck might have to rerent this tonight.
What style are you playing? I've found with just about every class you should invest some perks and time into Restoration.
You rented it? Oh man, there is so much content in this game, I don't think I could just rent it.
Though I did get it for only $35.
rohlfinator
Member
Welp, ran into my first game-breaking bug last night. I guess the main quest can bug out if you're doing some Stormcloak quests at the same time. It looks like I can console my way through it, but it's still disappointing.
I don't think that's completely true. Enemies will stop focusing on them when they kneel down to heal, but I think they can still get killed by AOE or other attacks that hit them while they're down.
I don't think that's completely true. Enemies will stop focusing on them when they kneel down to heal, but I think they can still get killed by AOE or other attacks that hit them while they're down.
Getting my ass kicked starting out at winterhold, stupid tigers, had to cheese some of them with terrains, I kind of hate that your armor never go up if you don't get hit, but things kills you in 2 hits :lol
Do the Atronach gets stronger as you level? It dies in 2 hits and they use like 75% of my mana, there's a perk to make them stronger but it seems to be at lvl80.
Do the Atronach gets stronger as you level? It dies in 2 hits and they use like 75% of my mana, there's a perk to make them stronger but it seems to be at lvl80.
I was dual wielding axes in fur armor. Upgraded to Leather everything and switched to an Imperial Bow (Fine) and have been doing a lot better with stealth kills.
ShinNL
Member
I spend 140 hours and my follower never died in any of my saves. Melee user. I'm confident that they never die. I've seen them do the immortal kneel in front of dragon breaths (while I stand behind them). They can't die unless you kill them yourself.
By the way, any way to reduce more direct damage? I have max capped armor but bandits kinda do more damage to me than I want. If I don't actually kill them, they can finish me in a 5-8 hits, including arrows. I wanna stand around like a god, I'm level 66 after all
I do have the best alteration spell
dragonhide
Omotesando
Member
I am scared to play this game more, 4 hours in and 2 crashes, PC is only 0.5 years old. Not much has impressed me beyond the beautifully crafted environments and hugely improved dungeon design so far. Is there any way to decrease crash chances? I would like to see more before I permanently ditch this.
You have a crash phobia?
Omotesando
Member
I have a game kills my PC phobia, as it happened before. Bethesda game.
Whenever I try to free an NPC prisoner from his guard escorts, he ends up getting mauled by a bear after running no more than 100 meters. It happens EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.
Part of me wants to laugh my ass off and the other part of me wonders if I just missed some sort of sidequest or reward. -_-
Part of me wants to laugh my ass off and the other part of me wonders if I just missed some sort of sidequest or reward. -_-
I wish I could arm them. I did the item swap with one, giving him one of the guard's swords. He ran into a bear and tried to punch it to death.
Really, unarmed NPC's should pick up dropped weapons in situations like that.
iSurvivedTheOutage
Member
hmm didnt know followers would equip armor as well...looks like I will be crafting Marcurio some nice armour...
Extra Sauce
Member
The place where you go transcribe a lexicon:
WTF kind of dungeon is this? I've been in there for countless hours now.
I was sent there by a mad man, but I must be careful not to be driven off the edge myself by these seemingly infinite ruins of secrets and mysteries. I could see myself building a new life here... protecting the treasures and wonders of this sacred place against vulgar robbers passing off as "adventurers".
Damn. It's starting to get to me.
I was sent there by a mad man, but I must be careful not to be driven off the edge myself by these seemingly infinite ruins of secrets and mysteries. I could see myself building a new life here... protecting the treasures and wonders of this sacred place against vulgar robbers passing off as "adventurers".
Damn. It's starting to get to me.
It's well worth it. Keep at it.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
I was luring the blood dragon from the dragon lair nearby, when shit went bad.
Blood Dragon
Elder Dragon
6 Dragur Deathlords
2 Frost Trolls
Half a dozen Skeletons
The most epic fight ever.
toastyToast
Member
Master difficulty is fucking dumb. Fair enough I can get killed in one or two hits but at least let it be same for those half naked fucking bandits.
Worst of all, on a few occasions I've snuck up on run of the mill bandit leaders and hit them with my Blade of Woe that has 57 base damage and absorbs 10 HP WITH A 30x FUCKING MULTIPLIER AND THEY'RE STILL ALIVE.
I'm the leader of the Thieves Guild, The Dark Brotherhood and a god damn Nightingale. I should be able to eviscerate a silly bum hiding out in a cave before he even catches a whiff of my scent.
No human should have more than 500 health.
Worst of all, on a few occasions I've snuck up on run of the mill bandit leaders and hit them with my Blade of Woe that has 57 base damage and absorbs 10 HP WITH A 30x FUCKING MULTIPLIER AND THEY'RE STILL ALIVE.
I'm the leader of the Thieves Guild, The Dark Brotherhood and a god damn Nightingale. I should be able to eviscerate a silly bum hiding out in a cave before he even catches a whiff of my scent.
No human should have more than 500 health.
The I'd imagine the data structure the ui control is using probably doesn't have a sorting feature because of resource constraints... I guess? :/ I mean... that would be the only reason why I think one wouldn't do that... also, feature creep?
I've tried really hard to get them killed from all sorts of area of effect attacks. If this was the case, any high level Fire Mage (i.e., Fire Cloak, Fireballs everywhere) would dominate a companion quickly. I've trailed dragon breaths onto them and forced basically every attack I can think of onto them (either by taking the blow alongside them or using them as a bottleneck where enemies keep attacking). Hell, I've had a Giant launch them skyhigh and they still landed, got back up, and continued trucking. The only direct attacks that I have seen kill them were Falmer ... who inflict Lingering damage with Poisons. Oddly, I don't think I've seen Fire Lingering Damage kill them yet though.
However, I can kill them when they're kneeling just by breathing hard in their general vicinity :/
Not to say I didn't overlook something since it's entirely possible but, damn, I've tried just about everything for it.
BigJonsson
Member
Uhhhh
Castle Dour
Is the name of the castle Dour or did they mean door?
Castle Dour
Is the name of the castle Dour or did they mean door?
iSurvivedTheOutage
Member
lol...
RebornYeti
Member
It's pronounced like hour, and yes that is the name. I have no clue what a dour is specifically though. Perhaps just a different name for Barracks?
The dragon lair right by that place had ANOTHER elder dragon for me, glad I didn't do that! Haha.
It sucks, and is kinda silly, that there aren't smelters in every capital city. I mean Solitude is one of the biggest cities in the entire game, home of the great and (assumably) rich Empire. Yet their blacksmith doesn't have a place to smelt my ore?
I can't find one, and assume there isn't one in Solitude, but if there is I wouldn't mind someone telling me I'm wrong.
I can't find one, and assume there isn't one in Solitude, but if there is I wouldn't mind someone telling me I'm wrong.
Ancient Dragons>>>> everything.
toastyToast
Member
Shadowmere will tank just about every dragon it comes across, it's ridiculous lol
Although, I've yet to come across an ancient dragon (level 48)
toastyToast
Member
Nah, it can die from falling from a great height.
Although according to this it respawns after 20 or so days.
It's bogus I can't get to Chillrend without being in the thieves guild.
I know where it is, I know how to get into the house, but apparently shooting that mechanism doesn't do anything without Vex telling you about it in the quest. So it looks like I can forget about that sword, because my current character is a knight, and I like to RP my characters.