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  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    Big Trouble in Little China.

    Best movie or bestest movie?

    Bestestest movie.

  • wiltingwilting I had fun once and it was awful Registered User regular
    I want to play Skyrim but I can't because I have to finish my mod first. :(

  • Capt HowdyCapt Howdy Registered User regular
    So I'm level 54 and I still haven't found any alchemy enchanted gear. Are there any go to areas to remedy this? Alchemy skill is at level 75, if that affects finding the gear.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    You mean an item with an alchemy improvement enchantment? You can get one as a reward early in the Dark Brotherhood questline.

    Barring that, check Radiant Raiment in Solitude.

    It's hard to believe you haven't found any though; I am basically tripping over that shit most of the time.

  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    Okay, so I'm terrible at Elder Scrolls games.

    I was only able to get through Oblivion by using the achievements as guideposts, otherwise I would become kind of paralyzed and just wander around that first town for a hundred hours breaking into houses before starting a new character.

    So, for Skyrim, I generally like to play sneaky bow-type people that, well, steal things. Am I going to have difficulty completing things because I focus so much on the archery and stealth? Is there anything I should do immediately in order to make things easier on myself?

  • BionicPenguinBionicPenguin Registered User regular
    HA! HAHAHA! Ha...

    Archery and stealth are crazy overpowered together. You'll be fine.

  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    HA! HAHAHA! Ha...

    Archery and stealth are crazy overpowered together. You'll be fine.

    Well, I've done a couple of bounty things that I found at the Bannered Mare in Whiterun and it seems like the moment I do anything, no matter how far away or how well hidden I am, everybody within a mile and a half knows my exact location.

    Also, smithing/tanning/etc is addicting.

  • Capt HowdyCapt Howdy Registered User regular
    Elendil wrote: »
    You mean an item with an alchemy improvement enchantment? You can get one as a reward early in the Dark Brotherhood questline.

    Barring that, check Radiant Raiment in Solitude.

    It's hard to believe you haven't found any though; I am basically tripping over that shit most of the time.

    Guess I'll have to hit up the Brotherhood.

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  • Blackbird SR-71CBlackbird SR-71C Registered User regular
    HA! HAHAHA! Ha...

    Archery and stealth are crazy overpowered together. You'll be fine.

    Unless you're doing any quest that puts allied NPCs at your side. In that case, you won't be able to execute sneak attacks - at all - since you're flagged as "detected" when they see you, and they WILL see you at all time, somehow. Even Shadowmere :(

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    I'm really digging those cloak mods, Cloaks of Skyrim and Winter is Coming.

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  • InkSplatInkSplat 100%ed Bad Rats. Registered User regular
    Dashui wrote: »
    I'm really digging those cloak mods, Cloaks of Skyrim and Winter is Coming.

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    What outfit is that that you're wearing under the cloak?

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    That's Triss Marigold's outfit from The Witcher 2 converted and recolored, and he's also using that impressive bandolier mod from the looks of it.

  • InkSplatInkSplat 100%ed Bad Rats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    Gaslight wrote: »
    That's Triss Marigold's outfit from The Witcher 2 converted and recolored, and he's also using that impressive bandolier mod from the looks of it.

    Ooh. Nice.

    Are those pants a separate piece? Because good lord do I need to find some pants. So much promising armor ruined by nothing on below the waist. And the best I've found so far are shorts, which, while better, are still not quite ideal.

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  • Alice LeywindAlice Leywind she/her Registered User regular
    InkSplat wrote: »

    Ooh. Nice.

    Are those pants a separate piece? Because good lord do I need to find some pants. So much promising armor ruined by nothing on below the waist. And the best I've found so far are shorts, which, while better, are still not quite ideal.
    Nope. It's a single piece.

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  • InkSplatInkSplat 100%ed Bad Rats. Registered User regular
    heenato wrote: »
    InkSplat wrote: »

    Ooh. Nice.

    Are those pants a separate piece? Because good lord do I need to find some pants. So much promising armor ruined by nothing on below the waist. And the best I've found so far are shorts, which, while better, are still not quite ideal.
    Nope. It's a single piece.

    Argh.

    I seriously don't get why tons of "armor" has individually pieced skirts, belts, shorts, and even panties.. but nobody has made a damn pair of pants for UNP. :(

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  • Alice LeywindAlice Leywind she/her Registered User regular
    InkSplat wrote: »
    Argh.

    I seriously don't get why tons of "armor" has individually pieced skirts, belts, shorts, and even panties.. but nobody has made a damn pair of pants for UNP. :(
    Because pants dont show as much skin as humanly possible, thus most modders don't give a damn.

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  • InkSplatInkSplat 100%ed Bad Rats. Registered User regular
    Why in the hell did they get rid of the Greaves armor slot anyway? Did they ever give a reason for that? It seems like such a jerk move, given that they must know how much people love dressing up their virtual people.

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  • MackenzierMackenzier Gold Star Police Ninja Lurking... less than usual.Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Okay, so I'm terrible at Elder Scrolls games.

    I was only able to get through Oblivion by using the achievements as guideposts, otherwise I would become kind of paralyzed and just wander around that first town for a hundred hours breaking into houses before starting a new character.

    You mean that isn't the point of these games?

    Anyways, sneaky/archer is absolutely viable. I went with a pure archery character (sans sneak) and it played reasonably well; once I add sneak damage modifiers in, dungeons were caaaaaaaake. Dragons... not too, too bad.

    If you can, try to train up blacksmith to give yourself access to a better bow early. That made a fair difference for me and I never even bothered enchanting them, so if you add that on top you should be mowing down your foes.

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  • MongerMonger I got the ham stink. Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    InkSplat wrote: »
    Why in the hell did they get rid of the Greaves armor slot anyway? Did they ever give a reason for that? It seems like such a jerk move, given that they must know how much people love dressing up their virtual people.
    I believe they said it was a performance thing, presumably for console limitations. Less armor slots means less armor models needing to be loaded and rendered, which means more power available to have more characters around simultaneously.

  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    Monger wrote: »
    InkSplat wrote: »
    Why in the hell did they get rid of the Greaves armor slot anyway? Did they ever give a reason for that? It seems like such a jerk move, given that they must know how much people love dressing up their virtual people.
    I believe they said it was a performance thing, presumably for console limitations. Less armor slots means less armor models needing to be loaded and rendered, which means more power available to have more characters around simultaneously.

    Pretty much.

    Personally, if they want to reduce the number of models in play even further to increase the number of people on screen in the next Elder Scrolls, I'd be fine with clothes/armor being part of the NPCs themselves, so it's only 1 model + weapons per actor... but then people would complain how there isn't a "realistic" 1:1 corelation to what people are using and what you can loot/steal from them.

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    HA! HAHAHA! Ha...

    Archery and stealth are crazy overpowered together. You'll be fine.
    After awhile I had to force myself to go back to daggers.

    ..Of course now that they're introducing crossbows I'm going to end up relapsing.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    i've been playing minus smithing on expert

    and I need daggers a lot more than i did on my previous stealth game

    the bow doesn't always do the job

    and if a really tough guy gets alerted and charges me, there's a non-zero chance i won't be able to stop him

    and there's a non-zero chance i'm dead in one hit

    so i try to knife the biggest guy in the room if at all possible

  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    christ i forgot how ugly the default character models look in this game

    time to go find that mod that makes bretons and elves look like they're not 65 year old chain-smokers

  • MackenzierMackenzier Gold Star Police Ninja Lurking... less than usual.Registered User regular
    christ i forgot how ugly the default character models look in this game

    time to go find that mod that makes bretons and elves look like they're not 65 year old chain-smokerskawaii catgirls and bishi models

    Fixed that for ES Nexus. At least there's Steamworks options now!

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  • Alice LeywindAlice Leywind she/her Registered User regular
    Mackenzier wrote: »

    Fixed that for ES Nexus. At least there's Steamworks options now!
    Nah. It's not like that at all...they don't care about the male models, so there's no bishis. just horrible, horrible anime or ridiculously large cup sizes.

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  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    Okay, finally starting to visit some other cities. Riften is my jam.

  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    heenato wrote: »
    Mackenzier wrote: »

    Fixed that for ES Nexus. At least there's Steamworks options now!
    Nah. It's not like that at all...they don't care about the male models, so there's no bishis. just horrible, horrible anime or ridiculously large cup sizes.

    http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/7887

    152,000 downloads :argh:

  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    I love the default character models, I dont like mods that 'clean' them up

  • AcharenusAcharenus Registered User regular
    Gota say I warmed to the default models after getting the hd pack.

  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    i don't mind most of them, honestly

    it's just the bretons and elves that bug me, since it's impossible to make a breton lady that looks younger than 40

  • AsheAshe Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    InkSplat wrote: »
    heenato wrote: »
    InkSplat wrote: »

    Ooh. Nice.

    Are those pants a separate piece? Because good lord do I need to find some pants. So much promising armor ruined by nothing on below the waist. And the best I've found so far are shorts, which, while better, are still not quite ideal.
    Nope. It's a single piece.

    Argh.

    I seriously don't get why tons of "armor" has individually pieced skirts, belts, shorts, and even panties.. but nobody has made a damn pair of pants for UNP. :(

    Have you checked out this? Might be what you are after for mixin' and matchin' armour pieces.

    Also, thanks @Dashui for adding Cloaks of Skyrim to the OP!

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    So I just spent a ridiculous amount of time, on a tiny rock in the middle of night, just playing with the camera, lighting and depth of field effects. I took about 36 screenshots. It's easy to get distracted in this game and with some of these mods.

    It started with me noticing a color sky I hadn't seen before, and I've played a lot of Skyrim. I've seen a lot of green auroras, but purple and blue? Never.

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    Then I found a nice little rock and thought, what if I started fucking with spells? It ended up being hard to stop. Here are a select few of the three dozen I uploaded (the rest are mostly me playing with different angles):

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    kWqMG1h2dWvKa.jpg kcz6uVyoKwqH2.jpg kyeYvw3qLP8fU.jpg kb1xLuNYiSpBxt.jpg
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    I didn't use photoshop on any of the screenshots, either. It's all ENB. I really like the reactive effect it adds when you zoom around bright light sources.

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  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    edited June 2012
    Dashui wrote: »
    So I just spent a ridiculous amount of time, on a tiny rock in the middle of night, just playing with the camera, lighting and depth of field effects. I took about 36 screenshots. It's easy to get distracted in this game and with some of these mods.

    It started with me noticing a color sky I hadn't seen before, and I've played a lot of Skyrim. I've seen a lot of green auroras, but purple and blue? Never.

    k2VDRBEfKyZkJ.jpg kYr7iqh5pUmkl.jpg kbgU9KDN76mm3k.jpg kGkDQzKGffAJO.jpg

    Then I found a nice little rock and thought, what if I started fucking with spells? It ended up being hard to stop. Here are a select few of the three dozen I uploaded (the rest are mostly me playing with different angles):

    kbnNjWaV1gtLXe.jpg kbcv6m8TLCVv2q.jpg kBG1qvF2OP7fb.jpg kOehN27Q5F5gP.jpg
    kWqMG1h2dWvKa.jpg kcz6uVyoKwqH2.jpg kyeYvw3qLP8fU.jpg kb1xLuNYiSpBxt.jpg
    ktWfsipFNVXDZ.jpg kkIb0zqW1a1z8.jpg ksp5Vma4d2y1R.jpg k8AYxZv9jyP5S.jpg

    I didn't use photoshop on any of the screenshots, either. It's all ENB. I really like the reactive effect it adds when you zoom around bright light sources.

    what mod are you using for your face meshes? i know that hair is apachii but i dont recognize the rest of it :O

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    I only use Xenius Character Enhancement for the faces. It just smooths out the rough edges and bumps up texture/mesh resolutions (for the face, body, scars and even face paint). I have it in the OP. All the others facial mods seem to cover them in glitter and makeup or edit them to look like Japanese anime characters. HULK SMASH!

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  • jaziekjaziek Bad at everything And mad about it.Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    At what point in all of the questlines are they actually considered complete?

    I 'finished' the dark brotherhood and companions over the last couple of days, but neither of them have shown up as completed questlines in my statistics page. Is there extra stuff after the "final" quest that I have missed?

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    jaziek wrote: »
    At what point in all of the questlines are they actually considered complete?

    I 'finished' the dark brotherhood and companions over the last couple of days, but neither of them have shown up as completed questlines in my statistics page. Is there extra stuff after the "final" quest that I have missed?

    There are extra quests, and I think the guilds supply you with an endless number of minor quests, as well.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited June 2012
    InkSplat wrote: »
    Why in the hell did they get rid of the Greaves armor slot anyway? Did they ever give a reason for that? It seems like such a jerk move, given that they must know how much people love dressing up their virtual people.

    I think I saw a mod that splits nearly every armor in the game into torso and legs so you can mix and match as you see fit, but it only does it for the vanilla armors.

    edit: and I like how my sneaky archer turned out, anti-gravity hair aside.

    edit edit: ...and now I can't unsee the shadows giving her a uni-nostril.

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  • ShimshaiShimshai Flush with Success! Isle of EmeraldRegistered User regular
    She needs to go easy on the moon sugar.

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  • Casually HardcoreCasually Hardcore Once an Asshole. Trying to be better. Registered User regular
    I'm playing this again and this time I'm just going to do unenchanted sword and board. No magic (outside of healing). Not enchantments. Just sword going up arseholes.

  • Blackbird SR-71CBlackbird SR-71C Registered User regular
    Dashui wrote: »
    jaziek wrote: »
    At what point in all of the questlines are they actually considered complete?

    I 'finished' the dark brotherhood and companions over the last couple of days, but neither of them have shown up as completed questlines in my statistics page. Is there extra stuff after the "final" quest that I have missed?

    There are extra quests, and I think the guilds supply you with an endless number of minor quests, as well.

    Dark Brotherhood gives you two different kind of additional quests: One endless, one with four "stages", you should already know which one I mean if you finished the main plot.
    The Thieves guild supplies you with seemingly "endless" side quests, but once you've done a certain ammount of quests in the four major holds, you'll get one special quest in each of them. Complete these in turn and you get the last quest that let's you restore the thieve's guild to its former glory!

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