Ruthless_Barbarian
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT2| Team Edward's Revenge
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Blue Ninja
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Yeah, I think you may have to. I usually attack any Stormcloaks I find, too, (except the overabundance of farmers that want to join 'em), but in cases like that I tend to leave 'em be.
A game this size, that would take years. There's always stuff the developers can't test or reproduce when they're playing the game, because everyone plays it differently. Skyrim on the whole has been a lot less buggy than previous Bethesda titles, at least for me. If you're on the PC, just use the console to progress the quest if you're really stuck.
Raijin_Cain
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Hello, guys!
Just got my NeoGAF account activated! Happy to finally stop lurking!
Anyways, I got Skyrim on Steam back in November.
Played for like a 100hours just doing sidequests. Barely got into the mainquest.
At that point, it got so overwhelming that I became afraid to talk to people and get even more quests!
Another thing, I was playing as a mage and it fely kinda of underpowered compared to guys with their 100 Smithing and enchanting getting awesome weapons and gear!
Also, I got a bug on the mainquest and that drove me to stop playing it for awhile!
Now, question time:
1) has there been more patches to fix the game?
2) Any great mods for mages out there (I had a destruction/conjuration mage)?
Thanks for the help. Finally being able to be part of the discussion is good.
Just got my NeoGAF account activated! Happy to finally stop lurking!
Anyways, I got Skyrim on Steam back in November.
Played for like a 100hours just doing sidequests. Barely got into the mainquest.
At that point, it got so overwhelming that I became afraid to talk to people and get even more quests!
Another thing, I was playing as a mage and it fely kinda of underpowered compared to guys with their 100 Smithing and enchanting getting awesome weapons and gear!
Also, I got a bug on the mainquest and that drove me to stop playing it for awhile!
Now, question time:
1) has there been more patches to fix the game?
2) Any great mods for mages out there (I had a destruction/conjuration mage)?
Thanks for the help. Finally being able to be part of the discussion is good.
Blue Ninja
Member
Hello, guys!
Just got my NeoGAF account activated! Happy to finally stop lurking!
Anyways, I got Skyrim on Steam back in November.
Played for like a 100hours just doing sidequests. Barely got into the mainquest.
At that point, it got so overwhelming that I became afraid to talk to people and get even more quests!
Another thing, I was playing as a mage and it fely kinda of underpowered compared to guys with their 100 Smithing and enchanting getting awesome weapons and gear!
Also, I got a bug on the mainquest and that drove me to stop playing it for awhile!
Now, question time:
1) has there been more patches to fix the game?
2) Any great mods for mages out there (I had a destruction/conjuration mage)?
Thanks for the help. Finally being able to be part of the discussion is good.
For the first question, check the OP. I have links to all the patch notes in there.
For the second, you may want to check out TES Nexus.
Thanks, BlueNinja!
I had been lurking GAF for awhile and your posts really hyped Skyrim for me!
So really, this is your fault!
I plead guilty.
Raijin_Cain
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Thanks, BlueNinja!
I had been lurking GAF for awhile and your posts really hyped Skyrim for me!
So really, this is your fault!
i see what you trynna say, you trynna say fuck em console gamers, that's not cool.
Blue Ninja
Member
I'm a console gamer.
Zoso
It's been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time.
Yes! The 1.4 patch will fix several broken quests that I've encountered. Are we to assume that our current saves will be fixed with the patch? I'm guessing I'll need to start a new character.
I'm up to 10.5 clones of Louis Letrush. I wonder what the record is.
I'm up to 10.5 clones of Louis Letrush. I wonder what the record is.
Yeah, I think you may have to. I usually attack any Stormcloaks I find, too, (except the overabundance of farmers that want to join 'em), but in cases like that I tend to leave 'em be.
I un-broke it.
I decided to try removing the two things that might have been causing her to be hostile toward me: Barbas, and my bounty (2,040 gold). Since she was serving as a witness, and had turned hostile toward me, I was hoping that meant removing it would neuter her. I just found that it did.
I'm glad, because I had to pay off the bounty in Whiterun, and that meant moving the Civil War story through the battle that took place there. That battle was a lot of fun; the mix of playing a totally different character (melee brawler rather than archer) and being on the other side of the fight made it feel very fresh. I also killed two more dragons going from and then to where Delphine is. Woulda sucked to have lost it.
After getting bitten by many quests and tasks that became glitched out (I currently have a stuck misc. task telling me to visit my new home in Solitude, the one I've been in a dozen times), this feels like a victory. I outsmarted the system. w00t
Blue Ninja
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It should be, yeah. It's up to Microsoft and Sony, though.
Re-finished the main quest today. Heck, I kinda ruined the final battle for myself by replaying it about four times
because I wanted to find out if you could loot Alduin when the "Search Alduin"-text appeared on-screen. You can't.
Playing on Master, I'm level 50 now, clad in Dragonplate armor named after the dragons of whose bones it was wrought. My smithed-up and enchanted Akaviri katana can destroy most things in just a couple of hits. Spellbreaker keeps pesky mages at bay, and serves as an excellent battering ram when charging head-first into combat. I slew seven Draugr Deathlords, an Elder Dragon and a Frost Dragon in a matter of minutes during the final dungeon, I'm just that badass. Right now, I'm trying to find the last few shouts that are out there in the wild (without having to do any of the guild questlines). Then I'm finishing up the Imperial questline and retiring in Windhelm. I had planned on doing the Companions questline with this character, as I still haven't touched that one yet, but I ultimately decided to create a new one for that purpose. Maybe an Imperial or a Redguard. Not sure if I'll do that before or after I start my final runthrough of Mass Effect 1/2 though...
Also, I don't suppose anyone has high-res cover art of Morrowind/Oblivion and Skyrim? I'm looking for the cover art, so no logo's (except perhaps the game logo, but no console/pc logo's, no developer logo's, nothing. I want my boxes to have a bit of a 'book' feel to them.
Wait 8-10 hours then a third guard should spawn and trigger the next quest. Alternatively wait outside or try and catch the guard running out of the room and talk to him.
The Wise Old Man
Member
Fuck and yes. You honor me sir.
PalaceBrother
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Quoting myself, but for what it's worth it looks like this is working. I've gone from Destruction level 65 - 76 and the character still talks to me with no problem. It's definitely not a whole lot of fun though, so if anybody has a better place to grind destruction please let me know!
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Shadowmere?
Shadowmere aggros after a while, which leaves you an invincible angry horse following you.
PalaceBrother
Member
If the steps are the same then I'll just keep at it with this character. The trick here is:
- Down the character with a low-level destruction spell
- Keep casting while the character is on a bended knee
- Down the character again when they rise with full health
- "Sheath" your hands before they rise again
The character will go back to the original position and you can start over. If you don't sheath your hands then the character will incessantly attack you and the loop appears to be broken.
I'm just wondering if there is a way to do it faster than this. It takes a few minutes to raise a single level.
SafeinSound
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holy fuck is this quest Waking The Nightmare buggy as shit. I give up for now.
Blue Ninja
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I think I just finished that one. What's buggy about it? I finished it three times with no trouble, I think.
On an unrelated note, just came upon a location I hadn't found yet: The Chill. It's unmarked, and apparently it serves as Winterhold's prison. I stumbled in there and the Frost Atronarch warden didn't mind me... And suddenly goes berserk on me when my back is turned. :lol
And you can see Red Mountain really well way north from Winterhold. Better than you can see it closerby.
Randy Lanzarote
Member
186hrs and I think I might be done with skyrim. Quest done, took skyrim for the imperils, completed college and companion quests, got all the dragon priest masks, got married and generally kicked ass.
Think it time to quit whilst I still enjoy it, mass effect 2 run through, mass effect 3, then hopefully dlc will be out. I'll be gutted if it doesn't involve
Think it time to quit whilst I still enjoy it, mass effect 2 run through, mass effect 3, then hopefully dlc will be out. I'll be gutted if it doesn't involve
chasing the Thalmor out of skyrim, with an army of dragons behind you. I also want a rideable dragon. Oh, and for the love of God, arrange stuff in my personal chests into categories would you?
I figured I should ask this before I pump tons of time/points into the destruction route.
Does dual wielding destruction magic ever pay off? It seems, 10 hours in, that magic is kind of underpowered compared to a sneak/bow combo or straight up melee. Just making sure so I don't feel like I have to re-roll 50 hours in.
Does dual wielding destruction magic ever pay off? It seems, 10 hours in, that magic is kind of underpowered compared to a sneak/bow combo or straight up melee. Just making sure so I don't feel like I have to re-roll 50 hours in.
Kung Fu Jedi
Member
Just one more Dragon Priest Mask to go. I'm in the dungeon that contains it. With any luck I'll claim the final one tonight and had back to Labyrinthian to claim the
.
bonus mask
Might wanna tag that last bit of the post, Jedi. I had no idea what the bonus was - I was actually expecting
Not sure how twitchy anyone else is about it, but I enjoyed the surprise.
I loved the Dragon Priest informal quest. It was nice to have it not be a formal quest or even a task - just something out there in the world for us to stumble upon and then chase down on our own. I'd welcome more things like that (the jewels of Barenziah should have been also).
It was so fun I've actually started my own little collection quests, this time around the books. I realized I hadn't read any of the long series of books because I didn't want to read them until I had'em all. So for this character, I picked a list of five series I'm collecting, tracking which ones I have in a spreadsheet. Each series has its own shelf at my house, correctly organized. My reward for finding the complete set of a each series will be to read them in order.
the door inside the room to open and lead to some kind of treasure. The bonus mask was a total surprise.
I loved the Dragon Priest informal quest. It was nice to have it not be a formal quest or even a task - just something out there in the world for us to stumble upon and then chase down on our own. I'd welcome more things like that (the jewels of Barenziah should have been also).
It was so fun I've actually started my own little collection quests, this time around the books. I realized I hadn't read any of the long series of books because I didn't want to read them until I had'em all. So for this character, I picked a list of five series I'm collecting, tracking which ones I have in a spreadsheet. Each series has its own shelf at my house, correctly organized. My reward for finding the complete set of a each series will be to read them in order.
Blue Ninja
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I'm collecting books like there's no tomorrow. If I don't remember owning it already, it's coming with me. Certain books in the "Last Year of the First Era"-series are still evading me, and I only just found the last book in the "Argonian Account" today, too.
Finally got the Muffle and Water Breath enchantments, too. Going to enchant my previously-smithed up set of Imperial armor to do the final few Legion quests. Currently on my way towards my final Shout location, the rest are quest-related.
My first character collected books like no tomorrow, but I didn't really get organized about chasing down specific sets until now. In hindsight it would have been neat to pick a few series to have each character collect.
Did you try killing it?
When I did, I walked out to find three more Atronochs waiting for me. It took forever to kill the first one so I just ran away. I nealry jumped out of my seat when I saw them there.
SafeinSound
Member
The NPC will just stop pathing for no reason. It's apparently a common issue.
HadesGigas
Member
In my game I had the opposite problems. When you first enter the place, he teleported to the end and left
that statue he is supposed to magic away there
Also after I finished
the dream part
SafeinSound
Member
Blue Ninja
Member
Hehe, awesome. Just claimed the last shout I could grab in the wild: the final word of Storm Call. As I stepped outside of
, I snuck to eavesdrop on the conversation the 'Captain' was having with a Stormcloak soldier... Right as a Blood Dragon swooped down and burned them alive. I really kicked things off by unleashing the fully-leveled Storm Call shout on them. The lightning made short work of the fleeing Stormcloak, while the captain quickly met his end at the hands of my blade. The dragon, which had been dive-bombing us the entire time, eventually landed right-smack in the middle of the courtyard, where I proceeded to kick its ass straight to the end times.
SKYRIM
Forelhost
SKYRIM
Lagspike_exe
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Main quest and Imperial Legion questlines done, after about 30 hours pf play. I must say, the main quest was quite epic, more so than either Oblivion or Morrowind and I enjoyed it a lot. On the other hand, the rewards were pretty bad compared to Oblivion and especially Morrowind (Sunder, anyone), but still, from a purely gameplay perspective, it was better designed and more enjoyable.
On the other hand, the Imperial Legion quests were boring. Clearing out 7 or 8 forts is tedious. It had a lot of potential, but they decided to simply recycle content and create a quest line with strong idea and weak execution.
After 30 hours, I still have to startnplaying the Thieves' Guild, Dark Brotherhood and College of Winterhold, since the starting quest for Bard's College glitched (do NOT use Dawnbreaker in the dungeon, it moves the book to an uncreachable position),which is incredible considering that I beat Fallout 3 completely with most side quests done in the same time frame. Comparing Skyrim to Morrowind is like comparing a dessert to a huge capital city. Skyrim is so filled with content it's ridicoulos. Not for a one single momment did I wonder through the world doing nothing. And even after 35 hours I have 3 entire questlines to complete, which I haven't even touched. And then there are the expansions that wll come in the near future. Bethesda nailed this so hard. Best TES by far.
On the other hand, the Imperial Legion quests were boring. Clearing out 7 or 8 forts is tedious. It had a lot of potential, but they decided to simply recycle content and create a quest line with strong idea and weak execution.
After 30 hours, I still have to startnplaying the Thieves' Guild, Dark Brotherhood and College of Winterhold, since the starting quest for Bard's College glitched (do NOT use Dawnbreaker in the dungeon, it moves the book to an uncreachable position),which is incredible considering that I beat Fallout 3 completely with most side quests done in the same time frame. Comparing Skyrim to Morrowind is like comparing a dessert to a huge capital city. Skyrim is so filled with content it's ridicoulos. Not for a one single momment did I wonder through the world doing nothing. And even after 35 hours I have 3 entire questlines to complete, which I haven't even touched. And then there are the expansions that wll come in the near future. Bethesda nailed this so hard. Best TES by far.
StopMakingSense
Member
So, I maxed out my smithing and nearly maxed out my enchanting at level 33, I could basically just hack away at a dragon priest till he died with my armor and ax setup. Only needing one potion due to his chain lightning staff. Did I just break the game? Will the difficulty scale up to reach where I am at?
Nope, you're pretty much a god now. Suggest master difficulty.
StopMakingSense
Member
Oh shit forgot this game has difficulty levels lol. Thanks.
PoweredBySoy
Banned
Does the Shield Wall perk pertain to blocking with a 2H weapon as well? The name wouldn't suggest so, but the description just says "blocking", which you can do with a weapon too.
Some some of the Blocking perks do apply to blocking with a weapon, so long as they don't specify blocking with a shield. Shield Wall seems to meet that criteria.
The blocking tree looks pretty fun, I might alter my playstyle and go for more blocks with my 2H Khajiit, and bump the difficulty up a bit. I'm trying to create obstacles for myself so I don't end up with an immortal character that can easy bypass or barge through most encounters like my 360 Argonian.
Sneaking hampered by Heavy Armor.
No Destruction, Restoration, Conjuration or Illusion spells (I won't be able to resist Alteration for Transmuting and Detect).
I'm also hoping for a mod that severely slows down skill progression gains after level 25.
Sneaking hampered by Heavy Armor.
No Destruction, Restoration, Conjuration or Illusion spells (I won't be able to resist Alteration for Transmuting and Detect).
I'm also hoping for a mod that severely slows down skill progression gains after level 25.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Oh for fuck sake.
How come I just discover the save ---> smack the vendor ----> reload thing only after innumerable amount of hours already spent boringly hopping from one shop to another?
When you do it vendor will re-roll his/her inventory and his/her money will be reset. Very useful so you don't have to hop around or waiting for 48 hours game-time to look for things that you want.
Gah, so much time wasted.
How come I just discover the save ---> smack the vendor ----> reload thing only after innumerable amount of hours already spent boringly hopping from one shop to another?
When you do it vendor will re-roll his/her inventory and his/her money will be reset. Very useful so you don't have to hop around or waiting for 48 hours game-time to look for things that you want.
Gah, so much time wasted.
Can anyone tell me if clearing my cache on my xbox360 will delete my saves ? I have manual saves not auto saves.I have the game installed to the hard drive and I'm experiencing loads of freezing issues.The main story quest diplomatic immunity has frozen and I cannot progress in the game.I appreciate any help.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
As far as I know clearing caches affects game updates and such, but not DLC or hard saves.
HadesGigas
Member
Is the
supposed to be able to fly?
It looks really weird cause it's not animating when he does, and it's in random directions.
He kept flying away when I'd get close, ended up over the wall and landing inside Whiterun.
headless horseman
It looks really weird cause it's not animating when he does, and it's in random directions.
He kept flying away when I'd get close, ended up over the wall and landing inside Whiterun.
No lol
He's supposed to be on a ghost horse using the roads, travelling to a ruin in Whiterun.
HadesGigas
Member
Well he was on a horse. They'd just float up into the air and dart off in a random direction if I approached.
I think horses are fucked up in my game. I've had horses teleport away from me when I dismount them a bunch of times. They wouldn't fly though...
Lagspike_exe
Member
I killed the Dragon Priest in the main quest in around 1 second with Elemental Fury + Dual Wield and can kill virtually anything in a few seconds with this setup (the last boss was a joke) at level 23, so I think this shout breaks the game completely at Adept difficulty as the DPS becomes insane.
It is useful, but I hate using it. It kind of feels like cheating when I'm really into RPing a character. I really wish the console versions could get realism mods that make you rest when tired, eat when hungry, etc.
Blue Ninja
Member
I think I may have delayed "The Curse Tribe" a bit too long. I just arrived there with the ingredients needed, and discovered everyone except the Chief and the wise woman were already dead. When the quest ended, and Malacath appointed a new Chief, he appointed a dead body lying on the ramparts.
So now, Largashbur's the home of just one weak old wise woman. :lol
So now, Largashbur's the home of just one weak old wise woman. :lol
PalaceBrother
Member
I didn't know about this. So if you save, smack a vendor, then reload they will have their money again?
I found that saving, damaging, and reloading changed their inventory but didn't restock their gold. Killing them and reloading did though, so try that if the first method doesn't work.
Skyrim gets high-res PC texture pack
UPDATE: Bethesda has confirmed that a Skyrim PC high-res texture pack is now available for free download from Steam, alongside the Creation Kit.
To run it, you'll need Windows Vista or Windows 7, a minimum of 4GB of system RAM and a DirectX 9.0c compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with at least 1 GB of RAM and the latest drivers.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...n-kit-update-to-include-high-res-texture-pack
UPDATE: Bethesda has confirmed that a Skyrim PC high-res texture pack is now available for free download from Steam, alongside the Creation Kit.
To run it, you'll need Windows Vista or Windows 7, a minimum of 4GB of system RAM and a DirectX 9.0c compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with at least 1 GB of RAM and the latest drivers.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...n-kit-update-to-include-high-res-texture-pack