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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT2| Team Edward's Revenge
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Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
True. At level 60, I can kill elders with 3 hits, giants and mammoths with one hit. The only thing that can kill me is the damn ancient dragon.
Really wish this game had some brightness/gamma calibration options. You can adjust them yourself but there's no "adjust brightness until icon becomes barely visible" like most games have so I don't know which is right. Torches and light spells are useless on the default settings. Maybe its just the pc version/my monitor, in Oblivion torches and night eye were great on PS3 but I never needed them on pc.
rohlfinator
Member
toastyToast
Member
Do I ever get a housecarl other than Lydia?
She sounds like a total bitch when I ask her to trade items.
She sounds like a total bitch when I ask her to trade items.
A new one with every house.
I definitely prefer Solitude's housecarl over Lydia. She's so much better all around.
ThaddeusMcGee
Member
In my experience, as long as they're left alone while kneeling/recharging, they'll get up - but if a poison or life-draining attack sent them into the kneel-down state, and they remain affected by the poison while trying to recharge, there's a good chance they're going to die. I've accidentally hit them with the life draining shout in the heat of battle, and that consistently killed my pal (Reload). As far as I know, poison/life draining attacks are the only ones that will consistently kill them.
For the next Elder Scrolls, it would be cool if you could tell your buddy to use ranged attacks vs. charging in with melee weapons, depending on the situation...introduce some tactics. I've accidentally killed Lydia with arrows about 1,452,567 times.
toastyToast
Member
Didn't get one for Riften. Or if I have I don't know where they are.
Most are short, and pretty much all of them are entertaining, so I'm not seeing the problem
I just did the one with the
disease price
You have to be named Thane of the hold before you're given a housecarl.
toastyToast
Member
For all the great achievements of this game (when it works), I have to say that certain UI design choices were very poorly handled.
My personal pet peeves are:
Btw, I had a recurring (twice) problem with Lydia where she decided to REFRAIN from fighting all of a sudden sheathing her weapons despite mine being otherwise, in the middle of a battle.
Anyone else face this glitch?
My personal pet peeves are:
- Storage containers should have had the same sorting mechanic as it is with the player himself/herself or NPCs
- Inability to go from top of a queue directly to bottom or vice versa.
Btw, I had a recurring (twice) problem with Lydia where she decided to REFRAIN from fighting all of a sudden sheathing her weapons despite mine being otherwise, in the middle of a battle.
Anyone else face this glitch?
Damn, the Thalmor are a serious problem.
I'm just getting around to doing the
mission where you have to
. I get there for the first time at level 47 and all the Thalmor are decked out in full sets of Glass armor with Glass Swords, Axes and Shields, they're probably using some crazy magic too. Shit. Fuck the Imperials and Stormcloaks, these guys could storm Skyrim and take it over right now. No wonder everyone is so scared of them.
Just to try and gauge how powerful they were, I did a sneak shot from a distance with my enchanted ebony bow that usually one shots everything but the strongest enemies and it barely took off 1/4th of the guards life bar.
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to legitimately get inside the building without killing anyone, but I'm not seeing any other alternative, so I'm gonna take a break for tonight and just do a full on assault next time I pick up the game, should be fun. These guys seem like the only legit challenge me and my crew of decked out companions will have had in a long time, so it'll be a good test of how strong they really are.
Seeing this makes me wish that you could join the Thalmor instead of the Imperials or Stormcloaks >_>. I'm hoping we get some DLC where they actually do launch an assault or something.
I'm just getting around to doing the
rescue Grey-Mane
free a guy from the Thalmor Prison
Just to try and gauge how powerful they were, I did a sneak shot from a distance with my enchanted ebony bow that usually one shots everything but the strongest enemies and it barely took off 1/4th of the guards life bar.
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to legitimately get inside the building without killing anyone, but I'm not seeing any other alternative, so I'm gonna take a break for tonight and just do a full on assault next time I pick up the game, should be fun. These guys seem like the only legit challenge me and my crew of decked out companions will have had in a long time, so it'll be a good test of how strong they really are.
Seeing this makes me wish that you could join the Thalmor instead of the Imperials or Stormcloaks >_>. I'm hoping we get some DLC where they actually do launch an assault or something.
I just ran in there and destroyed them.
Gamer @ Heart
Member
had this feeling completly. I felt overwhelmed, which in a game like this is extraordinary.
ThaddeusMcGee
Member
I started that by killing everyone, made my way inside, but then stopped and loaded an older save thinking I could somehow befriend the Thalmor several hundred hours down the road.
Ran into another bit to the Night to Remember quest, which I finished several days ago. Running through the woods I ran into someone who told me I
I love how quests can have these little codas to them later on. :lol
owed him 10,000 gold because the other drunk dude and I dared him to run into a bandit camp and steal the bandit chief's hat - and he did. I talked his price down, and he gave me the hat.
It's just a normal hat.
It's just a normal hat.
Heh,
I've *civil war spoiler*
run the Imperials out of Skyrim
Imperial orders
There has to be a way to do it because if you start a fight you fail the first objectibve, I'm thinking stealth infiltration might work, but I kind of want to just go in and kill them all.
whalenapp81
Member
Nope, death is the only solution.
Ah yeah, Peryite's quest is really long. But I find that his quest is the exception, rather than the rule. The only quest who, I think, is comparable in length is
Hermaus Mora
Xilium
Member
The game gives the impression that there is but I have yet to find it. I think you were supposed to go to the Thalmor headquarters in Solitude and probably complete a speech check or something but the building is empty. Unless that building comes into play at some point in the main storyline (I haven't even gone to the Embassy yet but I've done nearly all the side stuff), I think it's safe to assume that it was intended for that quest and is just incomplete.
I have two characters. One for the Stormcloaks, and one for the Legion. Both characters bring swift death upon all Thalmor met on the roads.
That aside, and not that I would want to, but it's a shame there is no option to join the Thalmor. Probably because they'd only accept Bosmer or Altmer races, but if you picked either of those, then it should be an option.
Perhaps there is some plot reasons, current or forthcoming in the series, that you can't.
In any event, hatred of the Thalmor should be unifying Skyrim and the Empire. Now is the time to join forces and crush the Aldmeri Dominion. With the Goddamn Dovahkiin on their side, they couldn't possibly lose.
That aside, and not that I would want to, but it's a shame there is no option to join the Thalmor. Probably because they'd only accept Bosmer or Altmer races, but if you picked either of those, then it should be an option.
Perhaps there is some plot reasons, current or forthcoming in the series, that you can't.
In any event, hatred of the Thalmor should be unifying Skyrim and the Empire. Now is the time to join forces and crush the Aldmeri Dominion. With the Goddamn Dovahkiin on their side, they couldn't possibly lose.
Blue Ninja
Member
Same with Dragon Shouts. I wanted Wulf to have all the dragon shouts, all fully upgraded, but I wasn't about to let Wulf join the Thieves Guild or even the Companions just so he could get them all.
My Thief character's rocking Chillrend now, though. Even its mid-tier form is glorious.
I don't think so, actually. Really feels like an omission. I thought
completing the Imperial questline might give me enough points with Tullius to convince him to boot the Thalmor out of there, but no. And I wasn't about to wipe out an entire camp to rescue an idiotic Stormcloak, either. Though I still might wipe out the camp, just leave him rotting there for a while longer. :lol
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Thalmor are not that hard...all you have to do is draw them one by one, don't let them gang up on you. If you're a nord, use the battle cry to make some run away while you kill the rest. I'm a 2handed nord and i was playing expert, around level 40 when i attempted that quest and with some help from my companion i wiped out their whole force with ease.
If you want to do this without bloodshed,
get an imperial commander's uniform (the works - armor boots helm weapons etc).
DigitalDevil
Member
Were you playing something else? That's probably what they meant, like you were cheating on a girlfriend.
These been posted?
Skyrim vocal cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vZ3UaAytc
Dragonborn Comes ( Bard Song )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9TdDCWN7g
<3
Skyrim vocal cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vZ3UaAytc
Dragonborn Comes ( Bard Song )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9TdDCWN7g
<3
LordPhoque
Banned
Annoying.
get the 4gb fix from the Mods/Performance topic, if you're playing the PC version. 1.3 fucked up my fast travel but it worked after using that.
Anasui Kishibe
Banned
this game needs a Explorer perk a la FO3, where every location shops up on the map
Blue Ninja
Member
Holy mother of awesome, I'll have to try this.
Daedric Quests make you feel like a jerk, especially if you want the item (or more accurately the achievement). Especially Boethiah's and Vaermina's
Yeah, fuck, I specifically saved 'em all for my morally grey/evil character.
Blue Ninja
Member
Shit, I'm not used to the thread moving so slow, it seems. :lol
DigitalDevil
Member
It's not just you, the thread has slowed way down.
I hate the character progression/leveling system. More so than Oblivion's. Actually, Oblivion's system would have been all right if you didn't need perks to BUY/learn higher level spells, if endurance and health had been retroactive, and there hadn't been level scaling or it hadn't been so badly made at very least.
Skyrim is great game, even with the flawed progression system. I don't mind the action RPG nature of it (even though i prefer more RPGey system of Morrowind) but some things aren't fun in it.
This new system makes races way too similar, and since the perks are the true indicator of skill mastery, skills itself are nearly useless. And since you can realistically get only about 50 perks (i'm not grinding skills i don't use/need to 100 to gain 30 additional perks), the game forces you to specialise way too much. Specialisation is good, too limited is bad. You can choose about 4-5 skills whose perks you can max out. More is possible for certain playstyles, if you can afford to spread out perks and don't miss higher perks from some trees.
And magic. Too few spells. No spell-making. Not enough spell effects. For Spellsword (sword in one hand, spell in the other) playstyle, i need debuffs and absorb effects, not (direct) damage (DoTs are fine) spells. I found out that it is easier to kill enemies via magic or weapons alone than trying to combine Frostbite+sword attacks. Utility spells are trash or impossible to get without grinding skills (Detect Life/Death for example).
-My Spellsword would wear armor, which makes Alteration useless and it doesn't offer anything else that might help me in combat.
-Conjuration.. no, doesn't fit the style (Conjuration perks, minus the two top summon and manacost perks are useless btw). Otherwise this school doesn't have issues... if you forget that there are only three bound weapons, no bound armor and a very limited selection of summoned creatures. Necromancy offers more choice but is far weaker otherwise, especially when resurrected NPCs have tendency to ignore their weapons and use their fists.
-Illusion is all right... but in order to keep Illusion working, i need spend perks constantly there due Illusion spells low level caps, leaving my other skills too weak. I know dualcasting boosts the level cap by 100% but in middle of a battle, i cannot afford dualcasting them, so that'd leave them to battle-starter spells and thus the skill would grow slowly. And training costs ridiculously. And it isn't really that fitting for the style anyway, not as i'd play it.
-Restoration is okay vs undead but not what i have in my mind. It's not offensive school. I'd probably have it as secondary skill. EDIT Lack of Fortify effects make this skill weak as well. In MW/OB i could boost my skills/attributes first with Restoration and fare better in combat.
-Destruction as it is doesn't go well with weapons. I end up using one or the other. The only true debuff in this school is the slow and stamina drain effect in frost spells, useless against undead and the damage component... well, i don't want it. Why doesn't the game have proper debuffs?
Morrowind Enchanting was flawed due to low success chance but otherwise it was great as the skill only affected the success chance, not directly affecting how good/complex enchants you could make. In Skyrim, in order to make good and cool enchants you need to have the skill maxed out with all perks. Fuck that, i want complex multi-effect enchants from low levels (even if they're weak, weak enchants for weak weapons is okay). I would gladly take Oblivion's, hell, even Morrowind's system over this.
And since i play on 360, mods cannot fix these. I can play the game and enjoy it, the current system just heavily limits playstyles. Spellsword is out of question. Nightblade doesn't work well either due to lack of debuffs. Many styles work but especially spellcasters are not fun due to ridiculously limited spell/effect selection and lack of custom spells.
EDIT I suppose i could try One-handed, Destruction and Restoration "Spellsword", specialized to killing undead but... it's not really what i want :/
EDIT2 Won't this be moved to Community soon?
Skyrim is great game, even with the flawed progression system. I don't mind the action RPG nature of it (even though i prefer more RPGey system of Morrowind) but some things aren't fun in it.
This new system makes races way too similar, and since the perks are the true indicator of skill mastery, skills itself are nearly useless. And since you can realistically get only about 50 perks (i'm not grinding skills i don't use/need to 100 to gain 30 additional perks), the game forces you to specialise way too much. Specialisation is good, too limited is bad. You can choose about 4-5 skills whose perks you can max out. More is possible for certain playstyles, if you can afford to spread out perks and don't miss higher perks from some trees.
And magic. Too few spells. No spell-making. Not enough spell effects. For Spellsword (sword in one hand, spell in the other) playstyle, i need debuffs and absorb effects, not (direct) damage (DoTs are fine) spells. I found out that it is easier to kill enemies via magic or weapons alone than trying to combine Frostbite+sword attacks. Utility spells are trash or impossible to get without grinding skills (Detect Life/Death for example).
-My Spellsword would wear armor, which makes Alteration useless and it doesn't offer anything else that might help me in combat.
-Conjuration.. no, doesn't fit the style (Conjuration perks, minus the two top summon and manacost perks are useless btw). Otherwise this school doesn't have issues... if you forget that there are only three bound weapons, no bound armor and a very limited selection of summoned creatures. Necromancy offers more choice but is far weaker otherwise, especially when resurrected NPCs have tendency to ignore their weapons and use their fists.
-Illusion is all right... but in order to keep Illusion working, i need spend perks constantly there due Illusion spells low level caps, leaving my other skills too weak. I know dualcasting boosts the level cap by 100% but in middle of a battle, i cannot afford dualcasting them, so that'd leave them to battle-starter spells and thus the skill would grow slowly. And training costs ridiculously. And it isn't really that fitting for the style anyway, not as i'd play it.
-Restoration is okay vs undead but not what i have in my mind. It's not offensive school. I'd probably have it as secondary skill. EDIT Lack of Fortify effects make this skill weak as well. In MW/OB i could boost my skills/attributes first with Restoration and fare better in combat.
-Destruction as it is doesn't go well with weapons. I end up using one or the other. The only true debuff in this school is the slow and stamina drain effect in frost spells, useless against undead and the damage component... well, i don't want it. Why doesn't the game have proper debuffs?
Morrowind Enchanting was flawed due to low success chance but otherwise it was great as the skill only affected the success chance, not directly affecting how good/complex enchants you could make. In Skyrim, in order to make good and cool enchants you need to have the skill maxed out with all perks. Fuck that, i want complex multi-effect enchants from low levels (even if they're weak, weak enchants for weak weapons is okay). I would gladly take Oblivion's, hell, even Morrowind's system over this.
And since i play on 360, mods cannot fix these. I can play the game and enjoy it, the current system just heavily limits playstyles. Spellsword is out of question. Nightblade doesn't work well either due to lack of debuffs. Many styles work but especially spellcasters are not fun due to ridiculously limited spell/effect selection and lack of custom spells.
EDIT I suppose i could try One-handed, Destruction and Restoration "Spellsword", specialized to killing undead but... it's not really what i want :/
EDIT2 Won't this be moved to Community soon?
Ok so I had to choose to start the Dark Brotherhood or Thief guild quest lines(the Companion stuff seems to be caught in a loop of trivial fetch/kill an animal stuff) and I went with the Thieves...I can tell I will have a hard time,took me 15 minutes to find the entrance to the damn hideout lol...
CitizenCope
Member
So my first unscripted dragon encounter was indeed flying backwards and not really doing anything but that so I just moved on. =/
Hyphen
Member
Yep, I got that the other day [PS3]. I thought it would make them easier to kill but it's quite the opposite.
Slackbladder
Member
Yep, same for me. I have at least three quests that can't be finished because they're bugged. Also too many quest items have weight and I'm stuck carrying them. Annoying.
ilikesanta
Member
Almost 100 hours into my first character on 360. Something tells it's time to roll a new one.
