If They Ask Where You Went...Say Skyrim

[jinsaotomex3]

Holy shit, better than any community made mod I’ve seen. And that’s in one week. All that stuff needs to be in the next DLC.

Well I would hope so, since they have access to actually add some stuff that can’t be easily added with the regular CK as it is (some stuff is just hardcoded in the EXE and can’t be changed by anyone that isn’t bethesda ). Their CK also has access to 3rd party plugins and such which our version does not (due to licensing and such).

THEN AGAIN, a lot of that stuff was added to Oblivion the hard way (Deadly Reflex for 1st and 3rd person mounted combat, SSAO and other shaders via OBGE, spears with animations even though it was just thrusts, kvatch rebuilt or kvatch aftermath let you rebuild kvatch and become the Count of Kvatch, few other mods let you build settlements from the ground up, Akatosh mount with animations, Lich staff for the floaty animation that the Vampire Lord seems to have, MMM and WarCry added a ton of new unique enemies with proper animations, there’s also the mods that added underwater creatures and such). It worked fine too for the most part (as good as gamebryo games work before it decides to croak on you ). Stuff like ranged kill cam animations… that was in fallout 3 and new vegas, why the hell was it missing from skyrim? I have no idea.

I liked the giant mud crab the most, I really want to see more giant boss enemies in the game with unique attacks and patterns, dragons were pretty weak sauce. Specially in remote areas and such. Maybe just crazy ass experiments mages are doing that are creating giant enemies, whatever works!

Time constraints, man. A common problem in all games these days.

At the very least, these can be added on down the line.

Oh I know, after all they are trying to meet their deadlines, if anything I’d like them to just release HOW they made these mods (and if it’s not possible to replicate them with our CK then they can release those mods are part of DLC…or a patch). Specially the spears and the flail. Adding weapons with custom animations would be a huge plus IMO, even if they have to be their own weapon type and such (perks working with weapon types should be easy enough to fix with some script hackery).

[DaRabidDuckie]

I’ll wager a lot of those will end up available for the PC version soon, especially with the Creation Kit releasing earlier this week. I love that Space Core mod, it’s pretty hilarious. He shows up in random load screens, in the skills menu, in your inventory once you find him, and he can even be made into a helmet (and you get to keep the core)!

[jinsaotomex3]

http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1343691-info-detailed-analysis-of-highres-pack-click-to-learn/ This was a good read.

[BadMojo]

http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1343691-info-detailed-analysis-of-highres-pack-click-to-learn/ This was a good read.

What’s the tl;dr on that? What I got from skimming it was Bethesda dun goofed? Half assed the textures and fucked up packaging them with incorrect addresses.

Yet, they were able to implement spear animations, mounted combat, dragon mounts, follower training, adoption, enhanced shaders, vampire minions, and giant enemy mudcrabs among others in ONE WEEK. Yeah, modders could eventually add all of that but not in a week’s time.

[DaRabidDuckie]

What’s the tl;dr on that? What I got from skimming it was Bethesda dun goofed? Half assed the textures and fucked up packaging them with incorrect addresses.

Yet, they were able to implement spear animations, mounted combat, dragon mounts, follower training, adoption, enhanced shaders, vampire minions, and giant enemy mudcrabs among others in ONE WEEK. Yeah, modders could eventually add all of that but not in a week’s time.

In my opinion, you’re probably looking at it the wrong way. The hi-res texture pack involved a lot of assets, and a small number of them were missing spaces in some names. The mistakes in the code are EASILY fixable, breaks absolutely nothing (the “goofed” textures just show the originals), and is not a required asset to play the game. For all intents and purposes, the texture pack is just a mod anyway, and was completely free.

I really do hope they add some of those things in the coming days as mods. I’d love mounted combat, especially with a spear.

[CLU_2]

If you’re a light armor user, Light Dragon Armor is the best light armor in the game. There’s a heavy version, but it’s not as good as Daedric armor.

Well then - thank god I went with light armor, lol.

[BIG_BAD_MOG]

Having a really hard time enjoying the game. I didn’t do the exploit to level up weapons at the beginning of the game like I heard people did, but the whole blacksmithing to get the best gear is too easy. Now I do the side quests in hopes of finding interesting ways to do quests and open new dialogue, but killing things has become more of a chore than anything.

[DaRabidDuckie]

Having a really hard time enjoying the game. I didn’t do the exploit to level up weapons at the beginning of the game like I heard people did, but the whole blacksmithing to get the best gear is too easy. Now I do the side quests in hopes of finding interesting ways to do quests and open new dialogue, but killing things has become more of a chore than anything.

You’re not the first person to have that problem. The game itself starts out on Adept (Hard, whereas Master is Very Hard), and once you get to level 20 it suddenly takes ten swings to kill a bandit, whereas they seem to get insta-kill crits on you in one or two hits.

[jinsaotomex3]

What’s the tl;dr on that? What I got from skimming it was Bethesda dun goofed? Half assed the textures and fucked up packaging them with incorrect addresses.

Yep, but there is also more interesting mod talk later on about having wet rocks and stuff like that (for rivers and other bodies of water).

Yet, they were able to implement spear animations, mounted combat, dragon mounts, follower training, adoption, enhanced shaders, vampire minions, and giant enemy mudcrabs among others in ONE WEEK. Yeah, modders could eventually add all of that but not in a week’s time.

Completely agree, it just boils down to not only having the better CK but doing this for a living. Most modders are amateurs and do it during their spare time. Though some do end up getting jobs in the industry (like Oscuro getting hired by Obsidian for doing OOO, which is why New Vegas has a hardcore mode), they are a very small minority though, regardless of how good their work is. Shame really because a lot of modders with access to the good CK would be able to do fucking wonders in general without resorting to hacks and other things to bypass limitations.

I really hope this is not true
http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1346368-creating-new-animations/

[Shazay]

One month and 180 hours later I think I’m finally done with this game (for now at least). I completed every quest line and got all the achievements (lots of misc. stuff left open but I’ll leave it so I have something to do when dlc comes out). I didn’t start doing the whole blacksmith/alchemy/enchanting thing until level 50 and I never went overboard with it so the master difficulty was good until the end. As fun as it was I probably should’ve never played this game lol.

Mehrunes Razor <3

[Scarlet_Rabbi]

So something odd and a little humorous happened during my daily dose of Skyrim.

First off, a few days ago I started a whole new character from scratch, because I wanted to go completely stealth archer this playthrough, as opposed to the mage/stealth/archer character I started with. Figured I’d give it a try without the magic and invest more into stealth and archery, along with one-handed. So, started a whole new character (but stuck with the Dunmer, I don’t think I’ll ever stray from them in an Elder Scrolls game)and slowly but surely made my way to Riften.

Now, in my previous playthrough I got married around level 35, to Mjoll the Lioness. So since I got married so late into my playthrough I had tons of gold horded, so I immediately moved me and Mjoll to my house in Markarth, instead of staying with her in Riften. Now, as many of you know Mjoll has a ‘follower’ named Aerin who does just what his title implies. Follows her. Everywhere. I figured he would go away after me and Mjoll got married but then I find this little asshole inside my house with my wife everytime I come home. So something had to be done. Long stort short, I waited til Mjoll fell asleep then put a poisoned Elven arrow through Aerin’s heart, dragged him into that little closet the house in Markarth has, stripped him for good measure, closed the door and forgot about it. Next morning Mjoll woke up completely oblivious to the fact her follower was gone and that was that.

This playthrough, however, something very different happened.

I decided off the bat I wanted to marry Mjoll again (what can I say, that accent grew on me) so as I soon as I got to Riften I did her quest, located her sword and married her right away. I didn’t even have 5,000 gold at this point so I moved in with her, into Aerin’s house. Again, Aerin very quickly started to irritate me, so I decided to get him out of the picture early. It started out the same way as before, I waited until Mjoll went to her room to go to sleep, then I snuck into Aerin’s room and did him in while he was sleeping. Took his gold, and got up and left the room. Literally two seconds later, Mjoll jumps out of her sleep and runs into Aerin’s room and sees him dead. I’m like, “oh fuck…”…

She starts freaking out, screaming and shit. After a few seconds of that she gets up runs out of the house, so I follow her. I shit you not, she goes outside (still hysterical) and does a full circle around Riften before running back into Aerin’s house. We go back into the house and I try to talk to her to get my home-cooked meal and she says, “get out of here, I don’t feel like talking” or some shit like that. I’m like OK, thats cool. I just murdered your little homie so you don’t have to cook for me today. Tomorrow, however, you’d better have that ready or I’m taking you down a peg. So I wait 24 hours and try again. Same answer. Wait another day. Same thing. So then I wait a whole week and I still get that “get out of here” line. At that point I start weight my options.

I’ve read that Mjoll is an NPC that can’t be killed (even if she could be killed I probably wouldn’t, like I said that character grew on me), so I can’t ‘divorce’ the Skyrim way, I can go back and re-load a save and do this whole shit over again, or I could just deal with this and never progress the marriage further. The last option I’m not doing, I’d miss out on steady gold plus those home-cooked meals…so I decide to just re-load a previous save. But not before I realease some rage. So I pull out my mace and start going to town on Mjoll. I then notice she has a life bar that depletes with each hit so I think, “hey maybe she can die”. So I just keep whaling on her, blow after blow. The whole time she doesn’t raise a finger against me, but begs me to stop. It’s delicious. I relish every hit.

After a while her health bar empties and she drops to a knee, but doesn’t die. I put my mace away and step back, and after a few seconds she gets up. I decide before I re-load my save, I wanna hear what she has to say after all that fun. So I go up to her and, wouldn’t you know it, she says, " It’s good to see you again, dear." and all the marriage dialoges open up, including the free gold and home-cooked meal. :o

I make a mistake, then give her time and space enough to forgive me, and she acts like a cunt. I take an enchanted mace to the side of her head and she’s ready to cook me a meal. Amazing how life like these women in Skyrim are. Moral of the story? Force gets you what you want…also don’t try to kill Aerin inside his own home. Do it in your house.

[Weeks]

damn dude your sneak/archery character sounds exactly like mine. you even married the same npc

[CLU_2]

So something odd and a little humorous happened during my daily dose of Skyrim.

First off, a few days ago I started a whole new character from scratch, because I wanted to go completely stealth archer this playthrough, as opposed to the mage/stealth/archer character I started with. Figured I’d give it a try without the magic and invest more into stealth and archery, along with one-handed. So, started a whole new character (but stuck with the Dunmer, I don’t think I’ll ever stray from them in an Elder Scrolls game)and slowly but surely made my way to Riften.

Now, in my previous playthrough I got married around level 35, to Mjoll the Lioness. So since I got married so late into my playthrough I had tons of gold horded, so I immediately moved me and Mjoll to my house in Markarth, instead of staying with her in Riften. Now, as many of you know Mjoll has a ‘follower’ named Aerin who does just what his title implies. Follows her. Everywhere. I figured he would go away after me and Mjoll got married but then I find this little asshole inside my house with my wife everytime I come home. So something had to be done. Long stort short, I waited til Mjoll fell asleep then put a poisoned Elven arrow through Aerin’s heart, dragged him into that little closet the house in Markarth has, stripped him for good measure, closed the door and forgot about it. Next morning Mjoll woke up completely oblivious to the fact her follower was gone and that was that.

This playthrough, however, something very different happened.

I decided off the bat I wanted to marry Mjoll again (what can I say, that accent grew on me) so as I soon as I got to Riften I did her quest, located her sword and married her right away. I didn’t even have 5,000 gold at this point so I moved in with her, into Aerin’s house. Again, Aerin very quickly started to irritate me, so I decided to get him out of the picture early. It started out the same way as before, I waited until Mjoll went to her room to go to sleep, then I snuck into Aerin’s room and did him in while he was sleeping. Took his gold, and got up and left the room. Literally two seconds later, Mjoll jumps out of her sleep and runs into Aerin’s room and sees him dead. I’m like, “oh fuck…”…

She starts freaking out, screaming and shit. After a few seconds of that she gets up runs out of the house, so I follow her. I shit you not, she goes outside (still hysterical) and does a full circle around Riften before running back into Aerin’s house. We go back into the house and I try to talk to her to get my home-cooked meal and she says, “get out of here, I don’t feel like talking” or some shit like that. I’m like OK, thats cool. I just murdered your little homie so you don’t have to cook for me today. Tomorrow, however, you’d better have that ready or I’m taking you down a peg. So I wait 24 hours and try again. Same answer. Wait another day. Same thing. So then I wait a whole week and I still get that “get out of here” line. At that point I start weight my options.

I’ve read that Mjoll is an NPC that can’t be killed (even if she could be killed I probably wouldn’t, like I said that character grew on me), so I can’t ‘divorce’ the Skyrim way, I can go back and re-load a save and do this whole shit over again, or I could just deal with this and never progress the marriage further. The last option I’m not doing, I’d miss out on steady gold plus those home-cooked meals…so I decide to just re-load a previous save. But not before I realease some rage. So I pull out my mace and start going to town on Mjoll. I then notice she has a life bar that depletes with each hit so I think, “hey maybe she can die”. So I just keep whaling on her, blow after blow. The whole time she doesn’t raise a finger against me, but begs me to stop. It’s delicious. I relish every hit.

After a while her health bar empties and she drops to a knee, but doesn’t die. I put my mace away and step back, and after a few seconds she gets up. I decide before I re-load my save, I wanna hear what she has to say after all that fun. So I go up to her and, wouldn’t you know it, she says, " It’s good to see you again, dear." and all the marriage dialoges open up, including the free gold and home-cooked meal. :eek:

I make a mistake, then give her time and space enough to forgive me, and she acts like a cunt. I take an enchanted mace to the side of her head and she’s ready to cook me a meal. Amazing how life like these women in Skyrim are. Moral of the story? Force gets you what you want…also don’t try to kill Aerin inside his own home. Do it in your house.

I ought to run a character named Aris, ans try to replicate that.

(I kid)

damn dude your sneak/archery character sounds exactly like mine. you even married the same npc

My first character ran that build - except he was a Breton.

The shit was retarded easy.

And I’d started out with the one-handed skills… but I noticed those bow perks quickly enough, that I broke it hard.

[Hadoukie]

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[Bomberman3000]

Now I can say for certain, that maybe this expansion is the reason why Vampirism wasn’t worth very much in the normal game. They saved the good shit for this!

[OnlyWingedAngel]

Ah yes I had almost forgotten about it. I wonder if we will be forced to the dawnguard side? Will there be a good or evil choice here I wonder. Also the new style vampires they look like Snow Elves + Gargoyles. Or Rather they just look like Gargoyles without legs I saw lol.

also lol at the ability to transform into bats, I always thought that was kind of like Dracula-Cartoon style. Anyways still hyped.

[Million]

DAWNGUARD, folks… people need to get THAT. I never got around to playing the game that much (only up to level…8 or 9, I think), but ever since Dawnguard came out, I’ve been playing this game regularly now. Of course I joined the vampires ASAP, sheeeitttt. My character as a Vampire Lord is a god now… I love just about everything about it… no limit on the transformation, you can stay transformed for however long you want, there’s the life-drain projectile attack from your right hand, and a raise dead spell on the left hand (*though unfortunately it’s a low level deal…of course Vampire Servant beats it with the ability to raise more powerful things)… yeah, this is now the vampire RPG I’ve dreamed about for years, since no one else in the industry seems to be interested in making one. Anyway, basically anything that runs up while I’m already transformed… the bastards learn the hard way. Vampire Fledglings (aka chumps, rookies, jobbers, haha… peasant-ass nigs…I’m a LORD over here, and they should know their place.) tried to start some shit with me earlier today. They got murderized with the quickness.

Great moment— just standing there taking the full ice breath of a frost dragon… heh, of course thanks to that high resistance that vamps have… I didn’t even notice whatever damage it was doing. I almost felt bad for the dragon… he really couldn’t do a damn thing to me. My Orc vampire is The Shit™. I stole Dawnguard armor recently… with that + a Dwarven helmet/face mask and a matching gold dwarven axe, he’s also looking incredibly bad-ass right now.

Another great moment— the very atmosphere of certain scenes… like no spoiler here– standing next to Lord Harkon as he addresses the other vamps about certain plans… my baby Serrana was standing on the other side of him… I’m wondering if your character can hook up with her at some point… it should be interesting.

*sidenote— there’s not much point in feeding except pure roleplay reasons now… I’m sure most fans of the game know about this by now but townsfolk are no longer automatically hostile to you at stage 4 of vampirism. It’s great… I just stay at 4 the whole time now… only recently feeding to satisfy my curiosity and another occasion where I had to do it as part of a certain quest.

[Zero]

Eh, I dont know…maybe when the price goes down, I’ll pick it up.

I just got a brand new computer and its a gaming behemoth, so I’ve been looking for a game to play it on (besides Civilization 5), so I’ll probably pick this up sooner or later.