official The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[idioot]

All they need to do to fix NPCs getting in the way, is if it's a friendly NPC, simply have it move away from the player if the player is within a certain distance and moving forward. Like pretty much every other modern game that uses companion-style systems, just make them move away when the player is bumping into them. Not that hard Bethesda.......

they do move away. and you can tell them to go where you want.

[Shaun N.]

LOOK!!

[SSSikora]

+Shaun - that is awesome!

[Nagisan]

He shouldn't have gotten a bounty for that....I mean sure, maybe someone saw him fire the arrow, but he didn't have his weapon drawn when the guy died so technically speaking nobody saw him murder the guy. Other then that, I wonder how many times he had to try to do that to get it right, either way, it was quite funny and looks like something I need to do to that npc, he's so damn annoying.

[shakey]

So last night, with my 0 dual wielding skills, used the Conj summon spell of Summon Blade. I used it in both hands. I started just running around a dungeon killing stuff so quick. It was insane. So now I'm really tempted to start a new game, but with a dual wielding heavy armor orc or nord. So very tempted.

[Twiddle]

About the Shrine of Talos, there's one in Whiterun, so.. yeah, just sayin'. There are others, like the one you found, but they are pretty lame to begin with, so maybe that's why they aren't marked ? lol

Yeah, I just finished my Solitude quest for rights, and had to go to another Shrine of Talos. So I assume the one I found may be for a quest at some point. Still, though, I thought it was fun, and the book is there for anyone that is looking for Alteration books. Cheers!

[Minifig]

Can a thief be skilled with one handed swords and light armor?

Hell.. You can make a heavy armor two handed axe wielding thief, but it may not make your sneaking very effective.

[Twiddle]

So last night, with my 0 dual wielding skills, used the Conj summon spell of Summon Blade. I used it in both hands. I started just running around a dungeon killing stuff so quick. It was insane. So now I'm really tempted to start a new game, but with a dual wielding heavy armor orc or nord. So very tempted.

That is what I do, female Nord dual-wield, but in light armor. I chose light because later in the game the disparity between light and heavy is minute, or so at least that is what I read. And the 50% stamina regen seemed more enticing than the 50% stagger. I guess we will see. But it is very fun, to say the least, and stuff goes down very, very fast.

[Nagisan]

So last night, with my 0 dual wielding skills, used the Conj summon spell of Summon Blade. I used it in both hands. I started just running around a dungeon killing stuff so quick. It was insane. So now I'm really tempted to start a new game, but with a dual wielding heavy armor orc or nord. So very tempted.

Dual wielding is pretty overpowered IMO....power attacks 1-hit kill 90% of your targets, only not 1-hit killing mobs designed to be bosses (though I haven't fought any bears or saber toothed cats yet). But in the dungeons I have done, most things die in 1 power attack, and even without the attack speed increase (60% at max level), you still attack really fast overall. I would like to level my dual wielder up some more, but I just really prefer the stealth aspect. Fighting off a room of guys just has a different appeal than taking them out 1 by 1 without the others seeing you, or passing them all up entirely. Plus I tend to go through dungeons really slowly anyway, I hate missing chests and what not, and it also helps me see tripwires and other traps more easily.

That being said, I did a quest the other day where I had to sneak into this camp (a building in the camp) and steal something. I went to the completely wrong door than what the map showed me, it was locked with an expert level lock, so I went through it, and it led to the item I had to steal with no other enemies in the way. So I killed like 2 guys out in front of the building, and bypassed at least 1 room with 3-4 guys in it (went back and looked after I had the item). I thought it was pretty awesome that if you take your time (or just blatantly miss the area you need to go) you can find alternative ways that, for me, were much quicker and easier.

EDIT: And here's a breakdown of heavy vs light armor:

Light Armor: 50% faster stamina regen, and 10% damage avoid

Heavy Armor: less fall damage, less stagger when hit, and 10% damage reflect

So basically the only thing heavy armor really has is less stagger, and fall damage. Because while 10% dmg reflect is nice, I don't think it stops you from taking that 10% damage, I think it just makes enemies take 10% of the damage they do to you (which is going to be lower with high armor than it would with less armor). Whereas 10% damage avoided is a flat out 10% damage reduction, on top of how ever much the armor itself gives. Stamina regen would definitely come in handy with a dual wielder.

[(Spork)]

LOOK!!

that was GREAT !!!!

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

that was GREAT !!!!

2 great things, the amazing aim, and the stupid guy finally shut up lol.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

The first thing I noticed after playing the game is the performance. Bethesda Game Studios did a great job with the PC version. Compared to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, it runs much better. I remember having to play TES IV at 640x480 on low settings with decent hardware.

[cropcircles]

I'm a bit naive with RPG but giving Elder Scrolls V a go after playing over at a friends. I've tried RPG's before but could never get into this type of genre. So I start out and I was following this guy around taking out some guards and then killed a bear then the guy left and said good luck. So now I'm sort of wandering around aimlessly trying to figure out what I'm suppose to do. Its awesome the terrain it seems massive. Any pointers on strategy I'm lost but intrigued so far.

[shakey]

As for the shrine of Talos, I think it starts a quest, at least I think one of them did for me. I found a shrine by some lake last night and activated it, then I quick traveled to a town. While in the town, a person came up to me, handed me a little note, and said to "not act suspicious." The note said to meet them at a shrine of talos in another location... I think there is a little underground cult up to something lol.

[Nagisan]

The first thing I noticed after playing the game is the performance. Bethesda Game Studios did a great job with the PC version. Compared to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, it runs much better. I remember having to play TES IV at 640x480 on low settings with decent hardware.

Absolutely, my friend plays on a laptop and gets awesome performance for his specs....he actually gets better performance in Skyrim than his laptop doesin Oblivion.

Oddly enough though, it uses the same engine, from what I understand though, Skyrim uses a newer more heavily modified version that was modified enough to actually rename the engine. Same engine Fallout 3 and NV use, same engine Morrowind, and Oblivion uses, same engine Rift uses (I really wish Trion would take a note here and learn the engine better, cause Rift looks really good, but in the big fights that happen quite often, I get like 10 FPS with a pretty good system).

I'm a bit naive with RPG but giving Elder Scrolls V a go after playing over at a friends. I've tried RPG's before but could never get into this type of genre. So I start out and I was following this guy around taking out some guards and then killed a bear then the guy left and said good luck. So now I'm sort of wandering around aimlessly trying to figure out what I'm suppose to do. Its awesome the terrain it seems massive. Any pointers on strategy I'm lost but intrigued so far.

Follow the map marker, if you don't have one, open your quest log ("j" by default on the PC), and select a quest you want to do (it should have an arrow icon next to it when selected).

[McCordRm]

I'm a bit naive with RPG but giving Elder Scrolls V a go after playing over at a friends. I've tried RPG's before but could never get into this type of genre. So I start out and I was following this guy around taking out some guards and then killed a bear then the guy left and said good luck. So now I'm sort of wandering around aimlessly trying to figure out what I'm suppose to do. Its awesome the terrain it seems massive. Any pointers on strategy I'm lost but intrigued so far.

Pointers? Have fun.

Really, that's it. There is absolutely no specific order you have to do the quests in.

If the quests follow a certain path, it's already built in. So feel free to roam the world,

accept every quest you get offered, and start doing them. If you're new to RPGs, that

is EXACTLY what you should do since it will be a lot more fun figuring stuff out

through gameplay instead of reading it here and spoiling it.

I rolled a thief last night, he's now level 20, and man is it fun. I'm trying REALLY hard

not to start boosting the hell out of my Smithing for better gear. My enchanting, on

the other hand, is moving up quite nicely. I plan to grab the archer chick from the

Companions as my main companion. Lydia is too much of a do-gooder, plus she's

a tank. I want stealthy and don't feel like waiting to meet the Dark Brotherhood folks.

[mattmatik]

I need to get my enchanting going. Playing with a dagger early on sucks, at least from my experience. It's either iron or steel and the stats are terrible. I was hoping to see an elven blade or something. But I see some great heavier weapons. I like sneaking through my dungeons and when out in the open land.

Is Oblivion worth going back and playing (on 360)? Never did give it a go as I hated RPGs back then, but love them now. Also, how/what is the way to go about murdering people at night? I want to sneak around towns and into houses and kill whomever but haven't been able to make it work yet.

[HardyRexion]

Playing last night, got into a dragon battle. Was slashing away when I started taking damage from behind. Turned around to see a 2nd dragon :woot: .

Wasn't going to miss this chance so I used my food and potions to make sure I killed them both. Only thing is, I only absorbed the soul of 1 Dragon :cry: . I even ventured away, slept, went back and the dragon is still there but I can't absorb it.

Also went swimming for a giggle and and a fox was running under water :rofl: he he

[sanctified Veteran]

How archers are battling dragons on this games?

[Hardcore Til I Die]

I have something important to say...

LESS POSTING MORE PLAYING!!

[Nagisan]

I need to get my enchanting going. Playing with a dagger early on sucks, at least from my experience. It's either iron or steel and the stats are terrible. I was hoping to see an elven blade or something. But I see some great heavier weapons. I like sneaking through my dungeons and when out in the open land.

Is Oblivion worth going back and playing (on 360)? Never did give it a go as I hated RPGs back then, but love them now. Also, how/what is the way to go about murdering people at night? I want to sneak around towns and into houses and kill whomever but haven't been able to make it work yet.

Stick with swords until you get high enough in sneak to get Assassins blade (15x multiplier on dagger sneak attacks), until then, daggers get the same sneak bonus as swords (at least, I think), but are much less effective in straight combat. There are also gloves which give sneak attacks with daggers double damage, on top of all other multipliers, so if you use those gloves without assassins blade you get a 12x multiplier (assuming you have the 6x multiplier for one-handers), and a whopping 30x with assassin's blade. So unless you either have assassin's blade, or gloves that give double dagger sneak attack damage, swords are always better for sneak attacks due to higher base damage.

That being said, I think I'm going to start leveling blacksmithing again......my best dagger is an enchanted dagger that I'm too lazy to recharge, but its base damage is higher than, and it scales better (with armsman) than all the other daggers I have. Without arcane smithing or w/e its called, I can't upgrade it at all, and because I have 1 perk in blacksmithing, I can't make anything better.....besides, all of my combat skills are at a high enough level now that I can't add any more perks to them without forcibly leveling that skill (one handed is maxed for what I use, light armor needs like 10 more levels before I can spend another perk in it, etc).

How archers are battling dragons on this games?

Archers are actually one of the easiest classes to kill dragons with. In the beginning of the fights, dragons fly around a lot and even attack from the air, making magic and archery the only ways of hitting them for half the battle (they do land even at high health, just not very often). As their health lowers they land and stay on the ground (usually in one spot), but even then, archers can hide behind things and peek out just long enough to shoot an arrow, then duck back behind stuff so they don't take the brunt of the dragons attacks.

As a stealth thief character, I pretty much kill dragons with bows and arrows only.

[threetonesun]

How archers are battling dragons on this games?

With arrows, I imagine.

I think I'm picking this up now... I avoided it because I didn't find Oblivion very interesting, but it sounds like they fixed a lot of the issues I had with it.

[sanctified Veteran]

With arrows, I imagine

My god, what a creative reply.

[Hardcore Til I Die]

With arrows, I imagine.

I think I'm picking this up now... I avoided it because I didn't find Oblivion very interesting, but it sounds like they fixed a lot of the issues I had with it.

If you didn't like Oblivion I doubt you'll like this. They're very similar games. Skyrim is leagues better, but they are very similar.

[alphaomegainfinity]

Never have I played a PC game as passionately as this game. The last time I was as excited was during the release of GTA: San Andreas PC version. The gameplay experience of Skyrim is just orgasmic.

Archery has been improved considerably over Oblivion. Dragons can be killed with 5-6 hits with Superior type Bows. Great Frostbite Spiders can be killed with max 2 hits and that too with only 50 archery skill. :woot: