Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Grand Moff Tim]

Originally Posted by SirMyghin

What I do to get around this is I have a sword and dagger, and a bow. I press 4 for the bow. I press 4 again to unequip the bow, and then bam, my sword and dagger are out. So just set up your L and R hand with weapons, then use 1 key to toggle between bow and not bow. I don't use any magic on my theif.

Yeah, when you have a bow hotkeyed, you'll go back to whatever you had equipped before you equipped the bow whenever you unequip it, no matter what combination of spells/weapons and no matter which hands. I use the same tactic. The rhythm is only disrupted when I want to use a healing spell, but I just use the favorites menu to reequip something in my left hand afterwards. It's been a few levels since I've used two of the same named items, though, because I haven't found two of anything good yet . I'm just using a Blade's sword and an Orcish dagger, both improved as high as I can make them so far (Exquisite, I think). I like using a long blade and a short blade. It makes me feel like Musashi .







...if Musashi was a Khajiit .

[Stealth7]

The music in Skyrim sounds amazing! I'm probably picking the game up today along with Uncharted 3.

[-42-]

Skyrim comes out.

Get Oblivion on Steam instead.

[Grand Moff Tim]

Originally Posted by Stealth7

This is the best thing I've seen all week. Rep.

[Grand Moff Tim]

And now I know the chords to that bard's song and the main theme, thanks to that vid. I'm rockin' that shiz on my uke .

[pink freud]

So, doing some Thieves Guild stuff, when I spot a dragon flying around. Amazingly, it lands, and I'm still hidden, so it seems like a perfect time for a WTFPWN dagger strike...



...until a ....ing giant steals my dragon kill.


On the plus side Giant Toenails sell for 20 a pop.

[Sicarius]

I ran across Alduin doin' his thing on a Dragon mound

shot him with an arrow, and interrupted his whole thing.

came up on a named dragon that didn't fight back, and just layed there. never reformed it's skin, just stayed a bag of bones.

It was pretty easy. Also, does Whirlwind Sprint ever get upgraded?

[Sicarius]

I ran across Alduin doin' his thing on a Dragon mound

shot him with an arrow, and interrupted his whole thing.

came up on a named dragon that didn't fight back, and just layed there. never reformed it's skin, just stayed a bag of bones.

It was pretty easy. Also, does Whirlwind Sprint ever get upgraded?

[Grand Moff Tim]

Originally Posted by Sicarius

Also, does Whirlwind Sprint ever get upgraded?

There are three words for every shout, you just have to find them. I don't think I've actually gotten around to getting all three words to any shout that didn't just give me all three at once as part of a quest, but I don't really use shouts all that often, so I'm not exactly in a hurry. The only ones I've gotten real mileage out of are Dragonrend (a melee specialist's delight!) and Call of Valor.

[urklvt]

I'm enjoying my Khajit sneak. He's my third toon after an Imperial and a Nord which I didn't play for very long. I started him out with the DB right from the start. He's finished with the DB, Thieves Guild, and Winterhold College quest lines so far. Having sneak at 100 is a blast. That and high archery makes for a decent sniping style.

I played Morrowind and Oblivion (also FO3 and FONV) for longer than I'd care to admit. I do miss spell crafting, but so many things have been refined that it's really that much better of a game. I keep thanking my wife for it. She got it for me for my B-day, knowing she wouldn't see me much for the next several months! hehe

[Aevolve]

Originally Posted by vampiregenocide

*vid*

The Talos one ....ing got me.

[SirMyghin]

Originally Posted by Grand Moff Tim

There are three words for every shout, you just have to find them. I don't think I've actually gotten around to getting all three words to any shout that didn't just give me all three at once as part of a quest, but I don't really use shouts all that often, so I'm not exactly in a hurry. The only ones I've gotten real mileage out of are Dragonrend (a melee specialist's delight!) and Call of Valor.

My mage dungeon dived and had oodles of words and such, but I never went through that again with my thief.


I finally got around to progressing enough through to main quest to enter the black reach. Black reach was freaking awesome. I wanderred around it for 1.5- 2 hours in awes pretty much.

The whole Dwemer, where the .... did you go? is one of my favourite aspects of the elder scrolls games. Like how in morrowind it is even slightly contradictory

as in the mournhold expansion a dwemer ruin is filled with tones of ash piles, suggesting they went poof to ash, but no other ruins show this

. The contradictory lore in TES games is definitely a huge factor in their awesomeness.


Edit: .... me, I made a set of smithing + gear (neck,ring/bracer) and drank a 50% better potion and re-enhanced all my gear. Archery, skill 80, my bow does 361 base damage in my gear

[Sicarius]

Originally Posted by Grand Moff Tim

There are three words for every shout, you just have to find them. I don't think I've actually gotten around to getting all three words to any shout that didn't just give me all three at once as part of a quest, but I don't really use shouts all that often, so I'm not exactly in a hurry. The only ones I've gotten real mileage out of are Dragonrend (a melee specialist's delight!) and Call of Valor.

I know that much. I just never found the 2nd word.

I'm getting close to the point where I was on my first character. Almost past the Alduin's Wall quest. Got the hand print message.

Thinkin' I'm going to skip the Arcane College this time around.

This guy is a badass archer, Dark Brother hood quests are going to be fuuun

[Rock4ever]

Is there a way for me to make potions that are more powerful than the base version?

I've skilled my alchemy up to like 60 and the potions I make are still the regular variety. Or is this done with perks?

Having a similar issue with enchanting, but my skill is no where near as high.

[SirMyghin]

you need to perks mostly.

[Daiephir]

Somehow, I'm having problem with dragons There's 2 wall with shouts on them near the labyrinthian/Mehrunes Dagon shrine and both of them have blood dragon guarding them and I just die when I used to 3 shot landed dragons before

[Grand Moff Tim]

Were the ones you were three-shotting Blood Dragons, or regular dragons? If so, then there you go. If not, then it's entirely possible the latest patch mucked something up, since it's known to have ....ed up some dragon behavior in other areas.

Speaking of, I really hope a newer patch isn't too long in coming. It ....ed up some shit that wasn't broken to begin with, like backwards dragons and removing resistances.

Yes, removing resistances. That resist fire you had because you're a dunmer? NOPE! Your breton's resist magic? NOPE! I can personally attest to having lost the disease resistance I'm supposed to have because I'm a lycanthrope, and that is weaksauce of the highest order. I'd never even have known if NPCs hadn't started commenting on how sick I looked, so I checked my stats and sure enough, I had contracted something.

Lame, Bethesda. Lame.

[SirMyghin]

Yeah this last patch broke my game more than anything. I crash more, have more texture issues, and a bunch of other shit.

[Stealthdjentstic]

I was planning on starting this weeking after finals but I guess I'll hold off for a bit till they finish patching things.

[AxeHappy]

If you hold off until Beth finishes patching things you'll be waiting a long ass time.


And they you'll be waiting for the modding community to actually finish the job.

[Daiephir]

Originally Posted by Grand Moff Tim

Were the ones you were three-shotting Blood Dragons, or regular dragons? If so, then there you go. If not, then it's entirely possible the latest patch mucked something up, since it's known to have ....ed up some dragon behavior in other areas.

Speaking of, I really hope a newer patch isn't too long in coming. It ....ed up some shit that wasn't broken to begin with, like backwards dragons and removing resistances.

Yes, removing resistances. That resist fire you had because you're a dunmer? NOPE! Your breton's resist magic? NOPE! I can personally attest to having lost the disease resistance I'm supposed to have because I'm a lycanthrope, and that is weaksauce of the highest order. I'd never even have known if NPCs hadn't started commenting on how sick I looked, so I checked my stats and sure enough, I had contracted something.

Lame, Bethesda. Lame.

Blood dragons, mind you I'd use up all of my magicka to begin with, but when they'd land, 3 shots were enough to cmpletely remove their lifes, now I had to get Onsmund to help me kill one of them (andthe other kept lyin backwards, not lnding, having an erratic flight pttern, so we left him alone) Also, skeletal dragons are mean

[ScottyB724]

This is a snippet from the official BethSoft forums about an upcoming patch next week:

Continued Game Updates – This week we released update 1.2 across all platforms, and we’ll be releasing an incremental update next week. We anticipate it will be up on PC first, and then hit PS3 and Xbox 360 later in the week. Among other things, the update will fix issues like magic resistance not calculating properly and the rare, amazing backwards flying dragon. Once the update is released, we’ll share the full release notes.

The rest of the post can be read here: Skyrim -- what we're working on - Bethesda Softworks Forums

[The Reverend]

My unpatched game works great. I've got the PS3 version, and no internet connection. I've never had any game-breaking bugs, although I have had glitches such as armor not showing up when it's equipped, and once I was even suckered out of a dragon soul when some stupid Forsworn distracted and killed it.

[Grand Moff Tim]

Originally Posted by The Reverend

I have had glitches such as armor not showing up when it's equipped

I have that intermittantly right now with the Gauntlets of the Gods

that are a reward for breaking out of Cidhna Mine,

but I don't really care as long as the armor rating and archery fortification are still being applied, which they are.

Incidentally, for all you people out there who either want to start or have recently started a sneaky-sneaky type, I fully recommend joining the Dark Brotherhood, the Thieves Guild, and doing the Talos Shrine/Cidhna Mine quest ASAP, because the armor sets you get from each of those can be mixed and matched for some truely optimal sneaky-stabby-shooty-thievy goodness that will be extremely helpful early on before you've bumped up the helpful skills and can get high-level light armor and enchant it yourself.

EDIT: You don't even have to go through the DB and TG quests or anything, because you get the armor sets early on, pretty much as soon as you do their "initiation" quests.

[Grand Moff Tim]

Why play Skyrim on PC? Because 2500 cheese wheels rolling off a mountain, that's why.