So Scimitars were the first weapons I picked up besides the iron crap you get in the tutorial.
They're legendary right now and only need steel ingots to improve should I choose to do so. I thought to myself, "there is no way that these simple weapons could be end-game viable".
But they are
Looking up the base damage, it looks like only Daedric, Ebony, and Glass will ever outdamage them.
Since I went up the left side of the smith tree, only Glass can actually out damage them.
DAMMIT.
I only grabbed two smithing perks to be able to upgrade enchanted items for my thief. Which means I get the steel upgrades. The akavari style swords you can find are like the scimitars: nice since they do more base damage than normal steel swords but benefit from the same perk. They also actually look like real swords. Most other swords look like fantasy frat paddles with a point end added. The downside is that they still sometimes do the stealth kill animation the double edged swords do: using the backside of the sword to cut the victim's throat even though it's rather blunt on the curved swords.
I seem to have inadvertently descended into demon worship
I feel like there actually aren't many opportunities to be good. A lot of the quests are steered towards evil, especially the thieves guild and the Dark Brotherhood. Why can't we have a paladin guild or something? I don't feel any incentive to not be evil.
The reward for being evil is power and glory. The reward for being good is dick all in terms of material goods but the knowledge that you can sleep at night because you have not been evil.
Sounds pretty true to life to me.
Except this doesn't translate to video games at all. There should be rewards for being either one.
There are. There are plenty of quests that aren't really in line with what an evil character would do. The rewards are not necessarily symmetrical. As an example callous character isn't going to run around helping out the people of a city to earn the right to buy property. It's the totally mercenary character that really gets all the rewards. Which suits the game just fine really since many if not all of the historical heroes of note in the setting were never totally good, just driven.
Pro tip: even if it may seem like a good idea at the time, don't use the Storm Call shout during one of the civil war quests.
I literally wiped out our whole force including Lydia while it didn't seem to affect the enemy much, leading to 10 angry Imperials beating my sorry ass.
In the beginning scene, I like to pretend that it wasn't the Imperials who gagged Ulfric...
Pro tip: even if it may seem like a good idea at the time, don't use the Storm Call shout during one of the civil war quests.
I literally wiped out our whole force including Lydia while it didn't seem to affect the enemy much, leading to 10 angry Imperials beating my sorry ass.
In the beginning scene, I like to pretend that it wasn't the Imperials who gagged Ulfric...
So on that note...
Why doesn't ulfric shout during his battle when you go to take over his town?
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KlykaDO you have anySPARE BATTERIES?Registered Userregular
Pro tip: even if it may seem like a good idea at the time, don't use the Storm Call shout during one of the civil war quests.
I literally wiped out our whole force including Lydia while it didn't seem to affect the enemy much, leading to 10 angry Imperials beating my sorry ass.
In the beginning scene, I like to pretend that it wasn't the Imperials who gagged Ulfric...
So on that note...
Why doesn't ulfric shout during his battle when you go to take over his town?
He does when you are with the Stormcloaks and attack Solitude.
The end of the DB questline was just so good. And yes, i also did the last request
i thought we had a deaaaaal, heh heh.
.
Question though: are the subsequents quest generated automatically ? is there an end to them at some point, or do the rewards at least get bigger ? It's a good way to make money.... but at this point i really don't need gold anymore, so unless it ramps up significantly i'm not sure why i would bother.
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Seguerof the VoidSydney, AustraliaRegistered Userregular
The end of the DB questline was just so good. And yes, i also did the last request
i thought we had a deaaaaal, heh heh.
.
Question though: are the subsequents quest generated automatically ? is there an end to them at some point, or do the rewards at least get bigger ? It's a good way to make money.... but at this point i really don't need gold anymore, so unless it ramps up significantly i'm not sure why i would bother.
The end of the DB questline was just so good. And yes, i also did the last request
i thought we had a deaaaaal, heh heh.
.
Question though: are the subsequents quest generated automatically ? is there an end to them at some point, or do the rewards at least get bigger ? It's a good way to make money.... but at this point i really don't need gold anymore, so unless it ramps up significantly i'm not sure why i would bother.
We did have a deal. To kill the emporer, which i did. Now I am killing you.
Next time be more careful in your wording of the deal, ohoho.
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SarksusATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered Userregular
Man, waiting until level 22 to do Labrynthian might have been a mistake. Kind of anti-climatic.
Man, waiting until level 22 to do Labrynthian might have been a mistake. Kind of anti-climatic.
How so? I wasn't far off from that level, and the final boss was a doozy for me.
Well it helps that by the time I finally did Labrynthian (I heard it was hard so I wanted to wait) I had moved away from magic and used a shield and mace so anything this dude did to my mana I gave no damns about. So I casted a Call to Arms scroll on Lydia, casted Oakflesh on myself, summoned a storm atronach and then whacked at the boss with my health stealing sword until he died. That was it. I am playing on normal, though.
Specific quest spoilers:
Then when the Thalmor arrived I was like you idiot, and then killed him with flame breath and one hit of my sword.
So I just downloaded the game and am looking at the list of mods in the OP.
The Large Address Aware mod is no longer functional it seems as it's author took it down. Does that mean the memory issue it resolves was fixed or did a patch break it and he is removing it until he works on it?
Is that list up to date?
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mojojoeoA block off the park, living the dream.Registered Userregular
Kinda mad you cannot just kill
maven
in riften.
She's essential.
Chief Wiggum: "Ladies, please. All our founding fathers, astronauts, and World Series heroes have been either drunk or on cocaine."
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mojojoeoA block off the park, living the dream.Registered Userregular
So I just downloaded the game and am looking at the list of mods in the OP.
The Large Address Aware mod is no longer functional it seems as it's author took it down. Does that mean the memory issue it resolves was fixed or did a patch break it and he is removing it until he works on it?
Is that list up to date?
Play it raw once dude. Its actually pretty delicious without the extra toppings this time.
Chief Wiggum: "Ladies, please. All our founding fathers, astronauts, and World Series heroes have been either drunk or on cocaine."
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BethrynUnhappiness is MandatoryRegistered Userregular
The Large Address Aware mod is no longer functional it seems as it's author took it down. Does that mean the memory issue it resolves was fixed or did a patch break it and he is removing it until he works on it?
Steam patched the Skyrim exe so it can no longer be made LAA. So you have to grab the older version of the exe if you want to make it LAA. I think there's one on nexus?
So far without the LAA, I have had some texture glitches, and possibly performance hits (hard to tell), but no crashes yet. I hope Bethesda just patches it themselves. I don't see why they wouldn't.
so I haven't played this game yet but it sounds like finding a place to store your goods is hard to find. Are there any well known places to store your goods that won't disappear after placing them in said storage after X hours?
So I just downloaded the game and am looking at the list of mods in the OP.
The Large Address Aware mod is no longer functional it seems as it's author took it down. Does that mean the memory issue it resolves was fixed or did a patch break it and he is removing it until he works on it?
Is that list up to date?
Play it raw once dude. Its actually pretty delicious without the extra toppings this time.
Not planning on changing the gameplay or numbers in anyway on the first run. :^:
so I haven't played this game yet but it sounds like finding a place to store your goods is hard to find. Are there any well known places to store your goods that won't disappear after placing them in said storage after X hours?
When you get your first housecarl (slave) like an hour into the game, you can just use her as a glorified storage chest and not have her come with you if you don't want her to possibly die.
so I haven't played this game yet but it sounds like finding a place to store your goods is hard to find. Are there any well known places to store your goods that won't disappear after placing them in said storage after X hours?
In any of the houses you can purchase, there are multiple safe storage containers.
mojojoeoA block off the park, living the dream.Registered Userregular
Hold up. Main quest discussions.
I have to fight/defeat a dragon who was such a bad ass that the way old people could find no solution to defeat him other than to toss his ass through time and hope he lands someplace not near them?
Boy they really ask a lot of you.
Chief Wiggum: "Ladies, please. All our founding fathers, astronauts, and World Series heroes have been either drunk or on cocaine."
Hilariously, after waiting a bit to speed up my initiation at High Hrothgar, a high-level hired thug came bursting out of the door with the Greybeards, who promptly hit him with level 3 Ice Form. Once it worse off I hit him a couple times and then he got blasted away by an ice breath.
"This'll teach you to take things that don't belong to you!"
GoodKingJayIIIThey wanna get mygold on the ceilingRegistered Userregular
I was running around Blackreach fighting my way through falmer and giants when J'zargo simply vanished. Like, one minute we were fighting stuff, the next he was gone. I felt kinda bad about that, mostly because he was carrying a lot of valuable stuff. Maybe I'll go back down there and look for him.
I have a pretty bad track record with companions. I really don't know why anyone would follow me anywhere.
I did craft a bunch of really nice gear for my Markarth housecarl, though. He looks pretty badass, but I think it's only a matter of time before he bites it.
Battletag: Threeve#1501
PSN: Threeve703
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ArchonexNo hard feelings, right?Registered Userregular
edited November 2011
I just beat the main quest.
Holy shit. That more then made up for Oblivions shitty ending.
Also: (Possible expansion spoilers;)
Parthunax: Savor your triumph, Dovahkiin. This is not the last of which you will write upon the currents of time.
While on a nostalgia trip talk with someone about Morrowind, I remembered the Medium armor set I used on my Argonian spear-user who joined the Legion, which was the only character I've ever taken through all of Morrowind (base game and both expansions) in one go:
I sorely wish there was a Skyrim version.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
So Scimitars were the first weapons I picked up besides the iron crap you get in the tutorial.
They're legendary right now and only need steel ingots to improve should I choose to do so. I thought to myself, "there is no way that these simple weapons could be end-game viable".
But they are
Looking up the base damage, it looks like only Daedric, Ebony, and Glass will ever outdamage them.
Since I went up the left side of the smith tree, only Glass can actually out damage them.
DAMMIT.
I only grabbed two smithing perks to be able to upgrade enchanted items for my thief. Which means I get the steel upgrades. The akavari style swords you can find are like the scimitars: nice since they do more base damage than normal steel swords but benefit from the same perk. They also actually look like real swords. Most other swords look like fantasy frat paddles with a point end added. The downside is that they still sometimes do the stealth kill animation the double edged swords do: using the backside of the sword to cut the victim's throat even though it's rather blunt on the curved swords.
I seem to have inadvertently descended into demon worship
I feel like there actually aren't many opportunities to be good. A lot of the quests are steered towards evil, especially the thieves guild and the Dark Brotherhood. Why can't we have a paladin guild or something? I don't feel any incentive to not be evil.
The reward for being evil is power and glory. The reward for being good is dick all in terms of material goods but the knowledge that you can sleep at night because you have not been evil.
Sounds pretty true to life to me.
Except this doesn't translate to video games at all. There should be rewards for being either one.
There are. There are plenty of quests that aren't really in line with what an evil character would do. The rewards are not necessarily symmetrical. As an example callous character isn't going to run around helping out the people of a city to earn the right to buy property. It's the totally mercenary character that really gets all the rewards. Which suits the game just fine really since many if not all of the historical heroes of note in the setting were never totally good, just driven.
Yeah but there's no incentive to not do them unless you're "roleplaying."
A single character can complete every quest in the game (with the exception of picking sides in the war I suppose) and will come out as a fairly evil sonofabitch. Doing an evil quest does not preclude you from doing a good quest most of the time. Some sort of Templar assassinkiller quest chain would have been cool or something. In Oblivion if you were evil you had to go cleanse yourself to do the "good" quests at least. Even the Companions aren't really a "good" organization.
While on a nostalgia trip talk with someone about Morrowind, I remembered the Medium armor set I used on my Argonian spear-user who joined the Legion, which was the only character I've ever taken through all of Morrowind (base game and both expansions) in one go:
Yeah but there's no incentive to not do them unless you're "roleplaying."
A single character can complete every quest in the game (with the exception of picking sides in the war I suppose) and will come out as a fairly evil sonofabitch. Doing an evil quest does not preclude you from doing a good quest most of the time. Some sort of Templar assassinkiller quest chain would have been cool or something. In Oblivion if you were evil you had to go cleanse yourself to do the "good" quests at least. Even the Companions aren't really a "good" organization.
Wait wait wait. Are you trying to tell me, that the experience you get playing this roleplaying game depends on if and how you roleplay?
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I only grabbed two smithing perks to be able to upgrade enchanted items for my thief. Which means I get the steel upgrades. The akavari style swords you can find are like the scimitars: nice since they do more base damage than normal steel swords but benefit from the same perk. They also actually look like real swords. Most other swords look like fantasy frat paddles with a point end added. The downside is that they still sometimes do the stealth kill animation the double edged swords do: using the backside of the sword to cut the victim's throat even though it's rather blunt on the curved swords.
There are. There are plenty of quests that aren't really in line with what an evil character would do. The rewards are not necessarily symmetrical. As an example callous character isn't going to run around helping out the people of a city to earn the right to buy property. It's the totally mercenary character that really gets all the rewards. Which suits the game just fine really since many if not all of the historical heroes of note in the setting were never totally good, just driven.
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It resulted in a massive battle with all the thieves and about 12 guards. It was a tough fight but in the end we triumphed.
As I result I have an 8000 gold bounty in the Rift.
So on that note...
Question though: are the subsequents quest generated automatically ? is there an end to them at some point, or do the rewards at least get bigger ? It's a good way to make money.... but at this point i really don't need gold anymore, so unless it ramps up significantly i'm not sure why i would bother.
Hahahah I loved his final words too
Next time be more careful in your wording of the deal, ohoho.
How so? I wasn't far off from that level, and the final boss was a doozy for me.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Specific quest spoilers:
The Large Address Aware mod is no longer functional it seems as it's author took it down. Does that mean the memory issue it resolves was fixed or did a patch break it and he is removing it until he works on it?
Is that list up to date?
She's essential.
Play it raw once dude. Its actually pretty delicious without the extra toppings this time.
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Not planning on changing the gameplay or numbers in anyway on the first run. :^:
When you get your first housecarl (slave) like an hour into the game, you can just use her as a glorified storage chest and not have her come with you if you don't want her to possibly die.
In any of the houses you can purchase, there are multiple safe storage containers.
Steam (Ansatz) || GW2 officer (Ansatz.6498)
The possibilities are endless.
Boy they really ask a lot of you.
"This'll teach you to take things that don't belong to you!"
Also this happened.
I love skyrim.
Also what's up with:
Not even sure if it's a spoiler really.
I DRINK
YOUR
MILKSHAKE
I have a pretty bad track record with companions. I really don't know why anyone would follow me anywhere.
I did craft a bunch of really nice gear for my Markarth housecarl, though. He looks pretty badass, but I think it's only a matter of time before he bites it.
PSN: Threeve703
Holy shit. That more then made up for Oblivions shitty ending.
Also: (Possible expansion spoilers;)
That can be fixed by taking off either the Dragon Priest mask you're wearing, or changing robes.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
I wouldn't mind going through the game headless actually.
Also I would like to know if anyone knows anything about my spoiler.
yup f5 f9 fixed!
Youtube video is uploading.
Well, maybe just Throw Voice...and maybe not the whisper one.
I sorely wish there was a Skyrim version.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Yeah but there's no incentive to not do them unless you're "roleplaying."
A single character can complete every quest in the game (with the exception of picking sides in the war I suppose) and will come out as a fairly evil sonofabitch. Doing an evil quest does not preclude you from doing a good quest most of the time. Some sort of Templar assassinkiller quest chain would have been cool or something. In Oblivion if you were evil you had to go cleanse yourself to do the "good" quests at least. Even the Companions aren't really a "good" organization.
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Dragooooooooooooooooooooooooooon
I do not remember the game being that ugly
Wait wait wait. Are you trying to tell me, that the experience you get playing this roleplaying game depends on if and how you roleplay?
Way to fuck up, Bethesda.
But still, it's a nearly ten year old game whose original release date was supposed to be 1997.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Ugly? man that was awesome for the time. Also the locations made up for it. The people did age pretty terribly.