I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but there are several Daedra Hearts that you can get besides the ones you get for killing demons. There's one in the leader of the companions' room, in a basket. It respawns on the same timer as other stolen items. I haven't found others myself, but there's a list on the wiki. Way faster than killing for them. http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Daedra_Heart_(Skyrim)
alchemy vendors usualy have 1-2 each for sale in my game, way easier than waiting around for items to regen.
Even better!
There's an infinite supply of daedra hearts at
mehrunes dagon's shrine, though you might have to do his quest (the guy with the museuem in dawnstar). 4 dremora respawn every few days at the shrine, 2 outside, 2 inside.
What's the easiest way to get to the Skyborn Altar? Do I go through Labyrinthinian, or what?
That fuckng dragon has been up there too long.
iirc you come at it from the south and can avoid going through labyrintihian. If you're coming at lab from the south there will be a "path" into the mountains before you make it into the main area. And by "path" i mean "a snowbank you can climb up on"
Be warned, this can break the game. I did this exact thing and couldn't go into the dungeon at all after. Had to load a previous save.
So my thief/assassin is pretty amazing now. I haven't touched blacksmithing or enchanting yet. But I have 30x backstab crits which are oh so awesome. In one dungeon, I pickpocketed the final bosses weapons first then annihilated him. I probably could have punched him to death, it was great.
The break combat sneak perk turned me into the harbinger of death. I'll drop down mid-fight become a shadow, then reappear behind the target and slit their throat. It doesn't work on dragons though, I haven't gotten a sneak crit on a single one yet. For regular enemies it works wonders though, It is especially nice against the forsworn, they seem to have incredibly high perception.
I have to say overall I am loving the thief/assassin way more than my mage. I still haven't gone up to the greybeards yet and I'm almost level 40, I should probably get up there just to unlock some shouts, but there are too many side quests to distract me.
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One thing I noticed last night was that I pretty much can't tell the different races apart without taking a good long look at them, unless they have a tail.
I was talking with one guy and he started talking about Morrowind, so I assumed he was a Dunmer. Upon further inspection, he was a Redguard. WTF. I don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing. I mean, in Morrowind and Oblivion, the races were cartoonishly easy to distinguish. In this game, I really can't tell.
Be warned, this can break the game. I did this exact thing and couldn't go into the dungeon at all after. Had to load a previous save.
What are you talking about Skyborn Alter is entirely outside, avoiding labyrithian is just a way to get there without going through the outdoor areas of the labyrinth.
So my thief/assassin is pretty amazing now. I haven't touched blacksmithing or enchanting yet. But I have 30x backstab crits which are oh so awesome. In one dungeon, I pickpocketed the final bosses weapons first then annihilated him. I probably could have punched him to death, it was great.
The break combat sneak perk turned me into the harbinger of death. I'll drop down mid-fight become a shadow, then reappear behind the target and slit their throat. It doesn't work on dragons though, I haven't gotten a sneak crit on a single one yet. For regular enemies it works wonders though, It is especially nice against the forsworn, they seem to have incredibly high perception.
I have to say overall I am loving the thief/assassin way more than my mage. I still haven't gone up to the greybeards yet and I'm almost level 40, I should probably get up there just to unlock some shouts, but there are too many side quests to distract me.
This is what my dual dagger thief/assassin ended up looking like by 40. The Lockpicking perks actually came really late in life because my level has eclipsed my skill gain rate, for the most part. Light Armor is completely stalled for me, and I doubt I'll ever see the higher-tier perks in it unless I grind it out. The Critical Charge attack in 1h is absolutely fantastic, since it can be used while sneak-rolling.
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I have recently discovered that Skyrim actually uses the CPU for shadows instead of the GPU, so this is responsible for most of the performance issues people are having
Oh fuck me, that explains so goddamn much about how this game runs.
Can you post your reference on that one (curious where you found that)? If it's true I think I'm just gonna disable shadows entirely, see if it smooths things out. That explains why it chugs so bad in towns. While there have always been performance drops in towns in elder scrolls games due to the increased scripting of the ai associated with towns, the extra overhead of shadowing rendering would make it even worse in skyrim. For example, on my rig, vanilla oblivion gets 80+ fps in wilderness and 60+ fps in towns. In skyrim, it's about 60-70+ fps in wilderness and 30 fps in towns. That really sucks for modding, since you have less overhead to add extra scripts, if you are already barely getting 30 fps in towns.
Why in the bloody hell, though, would you do shadowing rendering with the CPU?
Same reason you would do almost all the graphical stuff on the CPU in Morrowind.
...because Bethesda isn't the brightest, I suppose.
And people flipped their shit when I called their engine a gilded turd before the game launched. Who's laughing now?
Not me.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
When you're right about that stuff, everyone loses
To be fair, anyone who didn't realize that this was going to be the same old warmed-over Fallout version of their Gamebryo stuff from the minute actual game footage came out was either ignorant of Bethsoft's previous games or grossly delusional (or drank Todd Howard's bullshit kool-aid about it being a whole new engine).
korodullin on
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One day they will stop using Gamebryo.
I mean, I'll probably be long dead and my great grandchildren will be playing Fallout 25.
But it's bound to happen. Right?
has anyone figured out what ingredients affect carry weight? i like to have a few potions of strength around in case i am too bogged down in loot so i can fast travel home
has anyone figured out what ingredients affect carry weight? i like to have a few potions of strength around in case i am too bogged down in loot so i can fast travel home
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
I'll be honest, I played the game on my first runthrough as a generic heavy armor warrior, only focusing on one handed weapons, block, and heavy armor skills, and just basically rushed through the main quest and was honestly a little disappointed.
Now I'm rocking a high elf with over 80 one handed and archery at lvl 26 and I've explored maybe 25% of the quests in this game and still have to visit 4 of the capital cities, like just walk into them.
The quests so far have been incredible. This game seriously didn't even need a main quest. I could have fun without even knowing what a dragonborn is.
What are you talking about Skyborn Alter is entirely outside, avoiding labyrithian is just a way to get there without going through the outdoor areas of the labyrinth.
Is there supposed to be a dragon priest at the skyborn altar? I came down onto the back side of it from the mountain, fought a dragon, got to the word wall expecting a priest to immolate my ass... and nothing.
I didn't kill Parthanalox (or whatever that dragon's name is) because it was bugged and then I finished the main quest. I think that means I cannot continue talking with the Blades right? What am I going to miss?
amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
Also my quest to play a righteous character lasted all of five minutes. The more evil Daedric/Dark Brotherhood quests are so much more fun.
I don't like just randomly killing people in the wild, but I LOVE assassination missions.
Anyone else have the problem where you're a stealth archer and you come across a camp and just assume it's bandits because it's ALWAYS bandits, so you get off a shot and realize it was just the one dude and he's just a hunter trying to make a few bucks... ?
I didn't kill Parthanalox (or whatever that dragon's name is) because it was bugged and then I finished the main quest. I think that means I cannot continue talking with the Blades right? What am I going to miss?
The ability to
sell dragon scales and bones directly to Esbern, and maybe a free un-stolen set of Blades gear.
So not much.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
I didn't kill Parthanalox (or whatever that dragon's name is) because it was bugged and then I finished the main quest. I think that means I cannot continue talking with the Blades right? What am I going to miss?
The ability to
sell dragon scales and bones directly to Esbern, and maybe a free un-stolen set of Blades gear.
So not much.
I also hear you can go around recruiting new Blades and such, but whatever, fuck them, Parthanaax is my bro
I didn't kill Parthanalox (or whatever that dragon's name is) because it was bugged and then I finished the main quest. I think that means I cannot continue talking with the Blades right? What am I going to miss?
The ability to
sell dragon scales and bones directly to Esbern, and maybe a free un-stolen set of Blades gear.
So not much.
I also hear you can go around recruiting new Blades and such, but whatever, fuck them, Parthanaax is my bro
I think you can actually do that without doing what the Blades want you to do.
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
I didn't kill Parthanalox (or whatever that dragon's name is) because it was bugged and then I finished the main quest. I think that means I cannot continue talking with the Blades right? What am I going to miss?
The ability to
sell dragon scales and bones directly to Esbern, and maybe a free un-stolen set of Blades gear.
So not much.
I also hear you can go around recruiting new Blades and such, but whatever, fuck them, Parthanaax is my bro
Yeah I couldn't kill him either, he's a cool dude and he likes to have shouting matches with you which he calls "a good conversation"
I didn't kill Parthanalox (or whatever that dragon's name is) because it was bugged and then I finished the main quest. I think that means I cannot continue talking with the Blades right? What am I going to miss?
The ability to
sell dragon scales and bones directly to Esbern, and maybe a free un-stolen set of Blades gear.
So not much.
Pfft, that's it? Good.
I didn't kill Paarth... Para.... Pete, because he seemed like a pretty rad dragon. Eff those blades assholes. I did feel uneasy after finishing the main quest though, like maybe that Dragon was using me for his own sinister purposes...
Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
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DuriniaEvolved from Space PotatoesRegistered Userregular
I'll be honest, I played the game on my first runthrough as a generic heavy armor warrior, only focusing on one handed weapons, block, and heavy armor skills, and just basically rushed through the main quest and was honestly a little disappointed.
Now I'm rocking a high elf with over 80 one handed and archery at lvl 26 and I've explored maybe 25% of the quests in this game and still have to visit 4 of the capital cities, like just walk into them.
The quests so far have been incredible. This game seriously didn't even need a main quest. I could have fun without even knowing what a dragonborn is.
I basically stopped the main quest completely after learning fus ro dah. Been having too much fun simultaneously working on a massive criminal network and stabbing people in the back for big payoffs. I didn't even visit Solitude/Winterhold/one of the others until like level 30.
...and I realize that I'm only doing like 1/10th of the content.
For business reasons, I must preserve the outward sign of sanity.
--Mark Twain
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
I'll be honest, I played the game on my first runthrough as a generic heavy armor warrior, only focusing on one handed weapons, block, and heavy armor skills, and just basically rushed through the main quest and was honestly a little disappointed.
Now I'm rocking a high elf with over 80 one handed and archery at lvl 26 and I've explored maybe 25% of the quests in this game and still have to visit 4 of the capital cities, like just walk into them.
The quests so far have been incredible. This game seriously didn't even need a main quest. I could have fun without even knowing what a dragonborn is.
I basically stopped the main quest completely after learning fus ro dah. Been having too much fun simultaneously working on a massive criminal network and stabbing people in the back for big payoffs. I didn't even visit Solitude/Winterhold/one of the others until like level 30.
...and I realize that I'm only doing like 1/10th of the content.
Yeah same here on my current playthrough. I learned Fus Ro Dah and did the first blades quest where
you learn that dragons come out of the dragon burial grounds
just so they'd spawn more, and then I went off to make my way in the world as a cold blooded killer.
So my thief/assassin is pretty amazing now. I haven't touched blacksmithing or enchanting yet. But I have 30x backstab crits which are oh so awesome. In one dungeon, I pickpocketed the final bosses weapons first then annihilated him. I probably could have punched him to death, it was great.
The break combat sneak perk turned me into the harbinger of death. I'll drop down mid-fight become a shadow, then reappear behind the target and slit their throat. It doesn't work on dragons though, I haven't gotten a sneak crit on a single one yet. For regular enemies it works wonders though, It is especially nice against the forsworn, they seem to have incredibly high perception.
I have to say overall I am loving the thief/assassin way more than my mage. I still haven't gone up to the greybeards yet and I'm almost level 40, I should probably get up there just to unlock some shouts, but there are too many side quests to distract me.
This is what my dual dagger thief/assassin ended up looking like by 40. The Lockpicking perks actually came really late in life because my level has eclipsed my skill gain rate, for the most part. Light Armor is completely stalled for me, and I doubt I'll ever see the higher-tier perks in it unless I grind it out. The Critical Charge attack in 1h is absolutely fantastic, since it can be used while sneak-rolling.
This is what my dual dagger sneak thief build looks like. I am at present powerful enough to not worry about anything I run into except dragons and Draugr Deathlords. As Red Dawn said the break combat sneak ability is awesome, I wiped an entire Stormcloak camp in like 20 seconds by breaking combat and cutting throats, it really is an awesome ability. I also haven't spent points on lockpick mostly to keep a little challenge when picking locks and also because once you figure it out it's pretty simple even the master locks.
lol, thanks all - glad to see we're mostly on the same page here
I liked him, and I stood there bashing his unresponsive, undying body I started having serious regrets. I could have loaded a previous save but my conscience told me to just move along. He was meant to live.
When the TES set comes out I swear to God I will learn how to mod and make something that raises the threshold at which fucking guards will comment on various skills.
I get so sick of guards making these comments about my "criminal" activities because I have modest stealth, anemic lockpicking, and no pickpockets whatsoever.
The threshold for them to comment on the skill as if it is a particular noteworthy aspect of your character is like, 25.
L Ron HowardThe duckMinnesotaRegistered Userregular
I get complimented on how good of a spellcaster I am.
When I'm in full Nightingale Armor.
And a big old glowy bow of doom on my back with arrows made of the finest, most exquisite materials ever. So exotic are they, that the simpleton guards can't even pronounce their names.
And they're standing there naked as I've taken all their armor and weapons.
Oh. And I casted 'Muffle' once.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
When the TES set comes out I swear to God I will learn how to mod and make something that raises the threshold at which fucking guards will comment on various skills.
I get so sick of guards making these comments about my "criminal" activities because I have modest stealth, anemic lockpicking, and no pickpockets whatsoever.
The threshold for them to comment on the skill as if it is a particular noteworthy aspect of your character is like, 25.
Do it after committing a crime and all is forgiven!
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L Ron HowardThe duckMinnesotaRegistered Userregular
Oh. And Regina. You should take out the guard banter where they all talk about how they were all adventurers until they took an arrow to the knee.
How the fuck do all of these guys even walk?
I want a mod that puts a target over the head of everyone who is a witness to a crime I have committed.
Joking, but more seriously, the whole "you have killed the last witness" effect is nice, but needs to be looked at. It doesn't work consistently, and often I find that once I've killed all the witnesses I am still left with a bounty for at least one murder.
DragkoniasThat Guy Who Does StuffYou Know, There. Registered Userregular
You know I honestly wish that the game was better balanced towards the late game in some areas.
Werewolf form sucks late game because of its piss poor defense rating. I mean I only want to transform for fun anyway but it does annoy me how the endgame in Bethsada games pretty much assume you're going to be breaking the game at that point.
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GoodKingJayIIIThey wanna get mygold on the ceilingRegistered Userregular
I have recently discovered that Skyrim actually uses the CPU for shadows instead of the GPU, so this is responsible for most of the performance issues people are having
Oh fuck me, that explains so goddamn much about how this game runs.
Can you post your reference on that one (curious where you found that)? If it's true I think I'm just gonna disable shadows entirely, see if it smooths things out. That explains why it chugs so bad in towns. While there have always been performance drops in towns in elder scrolls games due to the increased scripting of the ai associated with towns, the extra overhead of shadowing rendering would make it even worse in skyrim. For example, on my rig, vanilla oblivion gets 80+ fps in wilderness and 60+ fps in towns. In skyrim, it's about 60-70+ fps in wilderness and 30 fps in towns. That really sucks for modding, since you have less overhead to add extra scripts, if you are already barely getting 30 fps in towns.
Why in the bloody hell, though, would you do shadowing rendering with the CPU?
Same reason you would do almost all the graphical stuff on the CPU in Morrowind.
...because Bethesda isn't the brightest, I suppose.
And people flipped their shit when I called their engine a gilded turd before the game launched. Who's laughing now?
Not me.
Yeah I was looking back on old screenshots and I think we were hit with a pretty egregious bunch of bullshots.
Luckily a lot of the tweaks are simple enough to reproduce or download that you can get the game looking fantastic even on an older machine like mine, but there are still parts of it that are meh (taking wide environmental screenshots for instance, look like shit unless you do some major fucking around in the engine, which then makes the whole thing pretty unstable even on a high-end machine.)
It sort of amazes me that Beth, for all its accolades as a game developer, can't get their coding issues sorted out.
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Morrowind was a PC->Console port.
It did almost all of the graphical stuff on the CPU. It's a Bethesda doesn't understand hardware functions problem.
There's an infinite supply of daedra hearts at
I've got all these burning crosses in my closetandnowtheflatisonfireohmygosh
Be warned, this can break the game. I did this exact thing and couldn't go into the dungeon at all after. Had to load a previous save.
The break combat sneak perk turned me into the harbinger of death. I'll drop down mid-fight become a shadow, then reappear behind the target and slit their throat. It doesn't work on dragons though, I haven't gotten a sneak crit on a single one yet. For regular enemies it works wonders though, It is especially nice against the forsworn, they seem to have incredibly high perception.
I have to say overall I am loving the thief/assassin way more than my mage. I still haven't gone up to the greybeards yet and I'm almost level 40, I should probably get up there just to unlock some shouts, but there are too many side quests to distract me.
This is my build for anyone interested.
I was talking with one guy and he started talking about Morrowind, so I assumed he was a Dunmer. Upon further inspection, he was a Redguard. WTF. I don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing. I mean, in Morrowind and Oblivion, the races were cartoonishly easy to distinguish. In this game, I really can't tell.
What are you talking about Skyborn Alter is entirely outside, avoiding labyrithian is just a way to get there without going through the outdoor areas of the labyrinth.
This is what my dual dagger thief/assassin ended up looking like by 40. The Lockpicking perks actually came really late in life because my level has eclipsed my skill gain rate, for the most part. Light Armor is completely stalled for me, and I doubt I'll ever see the higher-tier perks in it unless I grind it out. The Critical Charge attack in 1h is absolutely fantastic, since it can be used while sneak-rolling.
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And people flipped their shit when I called their engine a gilded turd before the game launched. Who's laughing now?
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I mean, I'll probably be long dead and my great grandchildren will be playing Fallout 25.
But it's bound to happen. Right?
If anything, I should be gaining courage. Rich, tasty courage...
Are there Khajiit hearts, etc? I'm thinking of starting a heart collection.
You are now a milk drinking imperial baby.
Found one, decided to eat it.. character was all "Bleahhh!" *Damage Health discovered from Human Heart*
http://skyrim.melian.cc/?cmd=cmdSkyrimAlchemyWizard
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Now I'm rocking a high elf with over 80 one handed and archery at lvl 26 and I've explored maybe 25% of the quests in this game and still have to visit 4 of the capital cities, like just walk into them.
The quests so far have been incredible. This game seriously didn't even need a main quest. I could have fun without even knowing what a dragonborn is.
Ophidian Wars: Opac's Journey
I don't like just randomly killing people in the wild, but I LOVE assassination missions.
Anyone else have the problem where you're a stealth archer and you come across a camp and just assume it's bandits because it's ALWAYS bandits, so you get off a shot and realize it was just the one dude and he's just a hunter trying to make a few bucks... ?
The ability to
So not much.
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I think you can actually do that without doing what the Blades want you to do.
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Pfft, that's it? Good.
I basically stopped the main quest completely after learning fus ro dah. Been having too much fun simultaneously working on a massive criminal network and stabbing people in the back for big payoffs. I didn't even visit Solitude/Winterhold/one of the others until like level 30.
...and I realize that I'm only doing like 1/10th of the content.
--Mark Twain
Yeah same here on my current playthrough. I learned Fus Ro Dah and did the first blades quest where
just so they'd spawn more, and then I went off to make my way in the world as a cold blooded killer.
This is what my dual dagger sneak thief build looks like. I am at present powerful enough to not worry about anything I run into except dragons and Draugr Deathlords. As Red Dawn said the break combat sneak ability is awesome, I wiped an entire Stormcloak camp in like 20 seconds by breaking combat and cutting throats, it really is an awesome ability. I also haven't spent points on lockpick mostly to keep a little challenge when picking locks and also because once you figure it out it's pretty simple even the master locks.
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Ophidian Wars: Opac's Journey
I get so sick of guards making these comments about my "criminal" activities because I have modest stealth, anemic lockpicking, and no pickpockets whatsoever.
The threshold for them to comment on the skill as if it is a particular noteworthy aspect of your character is like, 25.
When I'm in full Nightingale Armor.
And a big old glowy bow of doom on my back with arrows made of the finest, most exquisite materials ever. So exotic are they, that the simpleton guards can't even pronounce their names.
And they're standing there naked as I've taken all their armor and weapons.
Oh. And I casted 'Muffle' once.
So you favor the bow? I'm a sword man myself.
Do it after committing a crime and all is forgiven!
How the fuck do all of these guys even walk?
Joking, but more seriously, the whole "you have killed the last witness" effect is nice, but needs to be looked at. It doesn't work consistently, and often I find that once I've killed all the witnesses I am still left with a bounty for at least one murder.
Werewolf form sucks late game because of its piss poor defense rating. I mean I only want to transform for fun anyway but it does annoy me how the endgame in Bethsada games pretty much assume you're going to be breaking the game at that point.
Yeah I was looking back on old screenshots and I think we were hit with a pretty egregious bunch of bullshots.
Luckily a lot of the tweaks are simple enough to reproduce or download that you can get the game looking fantastic even on an older machine like mine, but there are still parts of it that are meh (taking wide environmental screenshots for instance, look like shit unless you do some major fucking around in the engine, which then makes the whole thing pretty unstable even on a high-end machine.)
It sort of amazes me that Beth, for all its accolades as a game developer, can't get their coding issues sorted out.
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