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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited May 2012
    maybe new factions?

    that was one of my favorite parts about bloodmoon

    East Empire Company is the tits

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    Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    bloodmoon owned so hard
    i still want a morrowind mod for skyrim

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    I realize this is a way late question, but is there any easy way to manage multiple saves on the Xbox. Want to start a Mage but damn the save system sucks.
    redundancy

    i don't think there's an elegant way

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    DuxDux A host to DarknessRegistered User regular
    edited May 2012
    Dux wrote: »
    Zay wrote: »
    but

    you can be a vampire

    They might expand on it.
    Dubh wrote: »
    DE?AD had an interesting theory
    vampire animations + crossbows

    maybe a vampire hunting expansion?

    That'd be pretty cool!
    It's got something to do with Snow Elves too though. Wonder how big this DLC is going to be. I'm hoping for it to be closer to Shivering Isle size than Fallout 3 DLC size.
    They straight up said that it's going to be the size of an expansion pack, like SI or Tribunal.

    Like directly? I know they said it's going to be pretty bigger, but I didn't know they're likened it directly to SI and Tribunal.

    They said they were going back to the old model of making large expansions. Can't remember if they likened it to the previous expansions but there you go.

    We'll see more at E3, I guess.

    Dux on
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    Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Bloodmoon had building your own town and werewolves going for it

    which are two pretty awesome things and no question

    but I still didn't like it anywhere near as much as Tribunal.

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    TefTef Registered User regular
    Dubh wrote: »
    DE?AD had an interesting theory
    vampire animations + crossbows

    maybe a vampire hunting expansion?

    That'd be pretty cool!
    It's got something to do with Snow Elves too though. Wonder how big this DLC is going to be. I'm hoping for it to be closer to Shivering Isle size than Fallout 3 DLC size.
    Are Snow Elves the Falmer? If they're not I would love to talk to an intelligent Falmer. Not to the point where I want to walk through another fucking Falmer dungeon, however

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    Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    tribunal was cool and all, but it seemed way smaller, and had no real overworld like solstheim

    yeah the city was big, and the ruins and sewers, but those aren't the same. didn't have the same sense of adventure to me

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    DuxDux A host to DarknessRegistered User regular
    Tef wrote: »
    Dubh wrote: »
    DE?AD had an interesting theory
    vampire animations + crossbows

    maybe a vampire hunting expansion?

    That'd be pretty cool!
    It's got something to do with Snow Elves too though. Wonder how big this DLC is going to be. I'm hoping for it to be closer to Shivering Isle size than Fallout 3 DLC size.
    Are Snow Elves the Falmer? If they're not I would love to talk to an intelligent Falmer. Not to the point where I want to walk through another fucking Falmer dungeon, however
    Snow Elves were what Falmer were before they were tortured and turned into the beings they are today. I think.

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    Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Tef wrote: »
    Dubh wrote: »
    DE?AD had an interesting theory
    vampire animations + crossbows

    maybe a vampire hunting expansion?

    That'd be pretty cool!
    It's got something to do with Snow Elves too though. Wonder how big this DLC is going to be. I'm hoping for it to be closer to Shivering Isle size than Fallout 3 DLC size.
    Are Snow Elves the Falmer? If they're not I would love to talk to an intelligent Falmer. Not to the point where I want to walk through another fucking Falmer dungeon, however
    Originally I think so, yeah. We'll probably meet some Snow Elves who managed to escape being fucked over by the Dwemer.

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    TefTef Registered User regular
    Beautiful. I'm hoping there will be some decent exposition in there about that then

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited May 2012
    re: expansion, files found in newest patch
    the file names say "snow elf prince"

    which could be, you know, any old prince, or it could be a reference to a thing from bloodmoon

    theory: given presence of snow elf prince animations that point to a supposedly long-dead bloodmoon character, as well as a fleshing out of vampire mechanics
    the snow prince was a vampire and still lives, the expansion being about
    well
    something involving the snow prince ascending to something, given that that is one of the animation files is called?
    also a possible return to solstheim


    in my fantasies they utilize the open gate to morrowind that exists ingame as the starting point, adding the western half of Morrowind and Solstheim in the north to the skyrim map

    look at that blacklight is a redoran town and skyrim featured a cave named Redoran's Retreat for no particular reason clearly it is a sign

    Dichotomy on
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    Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    Dichotomy yes that is what i want

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    Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    I would be excited to an unseemly degree if that were the case, dich. My excitement would not be invited to refined parties or brunches.

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    TefTef Registered User regular
    Dich, you are a genius

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    TefTef Registered User regular
    Re: Dich's post
    I could have sworn that Snow Prince was also referenced in Skyrim. It may have been an NPC in a tomb or a book

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    more re: expansion, files found in latest patch
    the other thing is these
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_End.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_EndL.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_Idle.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_IdleL.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_LToR.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_RToL.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_Start.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_StartL.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_Talk01.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_Talk02.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_GuardedToOpen.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_End.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_Idle.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_Start.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_Talk01.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_Talk02.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_Talk03.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_Talk04.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_OpenToGuarded.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Playful_End.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Playful_Idle.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Playful_Start.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Playful_Talk01.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Playful_Talk02.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_PlayfulToSerious.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Serious_End.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Serious_Idle.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Serious_Start.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Serious_Talk01.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Serious_Talk02.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_SeriousToPlayful.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Shock01.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\RF_Shock02.hkx

    just from looking at the filenames, they all sound like
    well, facial animations, intricate to a degree that hasn't really shown up in a bethesda game before

    I have no idea what RF indicates but based on what appear to be detailed facial animations I am also going to guess this expansion features some kind of giant face

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    Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    He's featured in a book that you can find in Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim but otherwise isn't mentioned according to uesp.

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    Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    the snow prince was in that cave in morrowind, on solstheim
    you can get like his sword i think, and also there are like 3 blocks of stalhrim

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    CrowbawtCrowbawt Member of the Midnight Crew Registered User regular
    I just hope there are cool new vampire things because being a vampire currently is boring.

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    TefTef Registered User regular
    What are cool Vampire things? A lair, maybe? I'd give BRT's left nut for a cape

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    ZayZay yes i am zay Registered User regular
    It'd be neat if they made being full on vampire less annoying

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    Crowbawt wrote: »
    I just hope there are cool new vampire things because being a vampire currently is boring.

    super secret patch files
    two secret patch files added in the
    uh
    latest patch
    are
    Animations\DLC01\Paired_VampFeedBack.hkx
    Animations\DLC01\Paired_VampFeedFront.hkx

    these look like they correspond to a bit of that skyrim game jam video that depicts a vampire character feeding on an enemy in combat

    so

    there will probably be cool new vampire things

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    Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    are there no cape mods out right now

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    CrowbawtCrowbawt Member of the Midnight Crew Registered User regular
    edited May 2012
    If they add the vampire and werewolf things they teased in that video I'd be very pleased

    Crowbawt on
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    ShabootyShabooty Registered User regular
    I hope they add opera capes

    and widow's peaks for all the races

    and and a large castle on top of a mountain

    and a village at the bottom of said mountain where the people LIVE IN FEAR

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    TefTef Registered User regular
    Shabooty wrote: »
    I hope they add opera capes

    and widow's peaks for all the races

    and and a large castle on top of a mountain

    and a village at the bottom of said mountain where the people LIVE IN FEAR

    Give this man a job

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    Crowbawt wrote: »
    If they add the vampire and werewolf things they teased in that video I'd be very pleased
    i would be incredibly down with something that made werewolf form less terrible

    we would like to present you with a superpower

    this superpower reduces your armor damage reduction from 80% to zero and cuts your weapon damage to about 2/3 of what it is

    YOU'RE WELCOME.

    actually werewolf form is still pretty decent offensively since it has crazy knockdowns and shit, but the zero armor thing is fucking atrocious

    god help you if there's an archer nearby; you're half dead by the time you've finished transforming

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    Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    I would download a widow's peak mod so fast

    every character rocking a widow's peak

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    TefTef Registered User regular
    Werewolf form eventually just became a method for me to run from point A to point B and nothing more

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    ahem
    as a proficient wolfman I simply must tell you you are wolfmanning wrong
    how to be best at wolfman:
    - only do power attacks while moving, these send everything short of mammoths and dragons flying and if dudes are trying to stand up they are not attacking
    - fear shout
    - hitting the fear shout button while feeding interrupts the feeding animation and lets you continue the rampage while still healing you
    - get the ring of hircine so when you need to heal up in a dungeon without eatable people in it you can just rest, heal yourself normally, then wolfman up again
    - better fear shout

    on characters in which I become a wolfman I have to limit myself my wolfmanning because if I didn't I would just kill everything as a wolfman and gain no experience for all my dungeon crawling

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    Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Werewolf has some awesome animation, generally just looks cool and feels great to use with a controller but ultimately I just never felt like it was powerful enough to warrant use.

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    Mr FuzzbuttMr Fuzzbutt Registered User regular
    Crowbawt wrote: »
    If they add the vampire and werewolf things they teased in that video I'd be very pleased
    After seeing the lycanthropy skill tree and werebear in that video I basically postponed playing Skyrim until the expansion just in case

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    Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Theres also that

    being a werewolf does fuck all for any of your skills

    which is more damning than any other single thing about it

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    my main problem with werewolf form offensively is that the third-person camera feels pretty loosey goosey in combat and i found myself whiffing power attacks more often than i liked

    it otherwise does great damage

    i just didn't feel like it held up very well against multiple enemies

    maybe the upgraded fear shout helps; in my wolf-person game that sequence of quests bugged out so i wasn't able to get those things

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    CrowbawtCrowbawt Member of the Midnight Crew Registered User regular
    yeah but

    you're a big wolfman and you eat people and roar and rawr!!

    that's all I ever needed to use it

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    you're all just bad at wolfman

    I have accomplished some of my greatest feats as a wolfman

    slew many giants with my bare hands
    ate markarth
    even killed a dragon as a wolfman once

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    Theres also that

    being a werewolf does fuck all for any of your skills

    which is more damning than any other single thing about it
    one of the ideas i've had on the back burner for a while (especially since that game jam video) was a really devoted werewolf run, where i'd just run around in like, fur armor with a knife and use werewolf form for the majority of the combat

    i wasn't quite sure how to work out the leveling issue though

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    don't level

    just eat skyrim with nothing able to oppose you

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    Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    skyrim without leveling sounds pretty boring

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    i guess by the time werewolfing became a practical option i'd have to have had a few levels under my belt already

    enough to get the ring of hircine at the very least (although i'm pretty sure that's one of the earliest daedric quests you can get)

    aside from that i'd be looking at

    -alteration (for extra defense)
    -sneak possibly (how much sneaking would i do when i can do into a wolfman though)
    -smithing, enchanting, etc (fuck these skills i'm not grinding them again)
    -the shit that just naturally goes up, if slowly (lockpicking, speech)
    -maybe i could cheese it with the companion trainer exploit

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