The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ~|OT|~

[Don Flamenco]

the zero punctuation review convinced me to hold off on this for a while.  Just doesn't sound like it hits the right spots for me.  Sounds like dark souls and demon's souls are my rpgs of choice this winter. 

[Great Rumbler]

the zero punctuation review convinced me to hold off on this for a while.  Just doesn't sound like it hits the right spots for me.  Sounds like dark souls and demon's souls are my rpgs of choice this winter. 

Isn't the whole point of Zero Punctuation to sarcastically bash whatever's currently popular?

[Don Flamenco]

yeah, i just made a decision about a game to buy because of some dumb comedy and sarcasm because i'm totally distinguished mentally-challenged


real answer:  he made a lot of good points about the balance-- money becoming worthless, potion spamming, hard enemies being simple to exploit because of dumb AI/collision.   i care more about this kind of stuff over quantity of shit to do.

[demi]

LOL, only Bethesda would make a patch that breaks their game. Guess I'm waiting to play Skyrim a little longer.

[Don Flamenco]

yeah, there's also the issue of it maybe working/maybe not working on my system  

[Van Cruncheon]

- fixed an issue where game worked properly

if they had a special olympics for testing, well, bethesda wouldn't even get the attendance award

[Himu]

This blood dragon on the companion's quest line is tough as fuck.

[Great Rumbler]

LOL, only Bethesda would make a patch that breaks their game. Guess I'm waiting to play Skyrim a little longer.

Nah, Techland wins that award.

[pilonv1]

There should be a reality show where bethesda testers are given fully working software and they have 1 hour to code as many bugs as possible

[Joe Molotov]

LOL, only Bethesda would make a patch that breaks their game. Guess I'm waiting to play Skyrim a little longer.

Nah, Techland wins that award.

Techland also released a patch that broke their game, but they also accidentally created awesome bugs like "Press W to No-clip".

[Timber]

Balls to this, I can't buy the Riften house because a quest got bugged.

Don't enter a place called Cragslane Cavern unless a quest instructs you to.

[Timber]

I think Bethesda should hire me in a special QA capacity. I'll be the guy who patrols the office and randomly smashes the heads of unexpecting programmers into their monitors while yelling FIX YOUR SHIT YOU ROTTEN FUCK. HUH. FIX YOUR STUPID SHIT.

Can't believe that at the end of the console generation, now that they've built up a lot of experience with the hardware and the engine, they staight up went and made their buggiest game since Daggerfall. Had to make that catchy release date, I guess.

[pilonv1]

I have two weird bugs at the moment

- Anytime I'm near water, I get glitches like I'm entering/exiting it constantly even if I'm on dry land
- Constant sound effects of items being knocked over inside buildings

As for interesting quests

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The daedric stuff in the abandoned house in Markath after you get drunk was crazy

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[Brehvolution]

I'll be heading to Markarth after this quest I'm on now. I got a not from a guy who wants me to bring him a war hammer with fear that he figured I'd found in a dungeon I cleared. I wonder if he'd be pissed if I disenchanted it first.

[demi]

LOL, only Bethesda would make a patch that breaks their game. Guess I'm waiting to play Skyrim a little longer.

Nah, Techland wins that award.

> PC

No issues here, go paint your brush elsewhere.

[Robo]

I've been hoarding skill points like nobody's business -- still not quite sure what combat specialties I want to focus on.  I kinda want to go two-handed/archery/enchanting, but as someone who plays primarily in 3rd person, it irritates the shit out of me how the weapon on his back clips through the arrow quiver.   

[Timber]

Just made a Daedric bow that does 264 damage + 43 fire damage + 35 shock damage. It's super sexy. My sneak attacks will be super sexy.

Anyone know if Alchemy lets you make better Smithing/Enchanting potions than the ones you find/buy? Best I got right now are +50 smithing and +25 enchanting potions.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Anyone know if Alchemy lets you make better Smithing/Enchanting potions than the ones you find/buy? Best I got right now are +50 smithing and +25 enchanting potions.

Oh yes. Yes it does.

[Timber]

Oh wow. My alchemy is only fourty-something. Need to work on it to become even more ridiculously overpowered than I already am.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Alchemy, Enchant and Smith are easily the most important skills in the game. Easily.

[Himu]

Just made a Daedric bow that does 264 damage + 43 fire damage + 35 shock damage. It's super sexy. My sneak attacks will be super sexy.

Anyone know if Alchemy lets you make better Smithing/Enchanting potions than the ones you find/buy? Best I got right now are +50 smithing and +25 enchanting potions.

help making this shit

[archie4208]

http://store.steampowered.com/news/6906/

Bethesda Game Studios announced today that the PC version of The Elder Scolls V: Skyrim will be using the Steam Workshop, making it possible for users to submit, browse, rate, and download mods for Skyrim through Steam. Bethesda’s thriving modding community has been creating some of the most inventive, unique, and compelling user created content around. We’re excited to be providing the framework to make distribution and consumption of this great content easier than ever.

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/skyrim

PC gaming wins again. 

[Robo]

Alchemy, Enchant and Smith are easily the most important skills in the game. Easily.

Any particular perks that are especially important to shoot for?

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Well since there's no upper limit to the amount you can improve things with those three skills scoop up any perk that says it improves your skill or the items you create. The double enchant perk at 100 enchant is also essential.

[Great Rumbler]

http://store.steampowered.com/news/6906/

Bethesda Game Studios announced today that the PC version of The Elder Scolls V: Skyrim will be using the Steam Workshop, making it possible for users to submit, browse, rate, and download mods for Skyrim through Steam. Bethesda’s thriving modding community has been creating some of the most inventive, unique, and compelling user created content around. We’re excited to be providing the framework to make distribution and consumption of this great content easier than ever.

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/skyrim

PC gaming wins again. 

That's pretty awesome.

[Timber]

help making this shit

Wiki says

Fortify Enchanting    Blue Butterfly Wing    Snowberries
Fortify Smithing    Blisterwort    Glowing Mushroom

I realized just today is that there is no set number that corresponds to the item improvement ranks. So when you have a weapon all the way up to (Legendary), it can still vary between kinda-crappy-legendary and legendary-legendary. I've crafted a set of smithing bonus apparel (armor, bracers, ring I believe) and when I'm wearing it, I get better results than when I'm not, even though my base smithing stat is 100 and it already shows up as Legendary when I vanilla improve something. You can make crazy powerful things when you boost everything up with gear and potions.

The 100 enchanting perk is by far the best Master level perk in the game.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Yep. Double enchant is godly.

[Timber]

Bards sometimes play the tavern music from Arena and Daggerfall.

[pilonv1]

So what does this mean for Skyrim nexus?

[Timber]

So what does this mean for Skyrim nexus?

From Bethesda's blog: "Prefer to use existing modding sites? Not a problem. You’ll still be able to upload/share/access Skyrim mods on fan-created mod sites."

[Himu]

help making this shit

Wiki says

Fortify Enchanting    Blue Butterfly Wing    Snowberries
Fortify Smithing    Blisterwort    Glowing Mushroom

I realized just today is that there is no set number that corresponds to the item improvement ranks. So when you have a weapon all the way up to (Legendary), it can still vary between kinda-crappy-legendary and legendary-legendary. I've crafted a set of smithing bonus apparel (armor, bracers, ring I believe) and when I'm wearing it, I get better results than when I'm not, even though my base smithing stat is 100 and it already shows up as Legendary when I vanilla improve something. You can make crazy powerful things when you boost everything up with gear and potions.

The 100 enchanting perk is by far the best Master level perk in the game.

any suggestions for getting started on enchanting and smithing?

[BlueTsunami]

help making this shit

Wiki says

Fortify Enchanting    Blue Butterfly Wing    Snowberries
Fortify Smithing    Blisterwort    Glowing Mushroom

I realized just today is that there is no set number that corresponds to the item improvement ranks. So when you have a weapon all the way up to (Legendary), it can still vary between kinda-crappy-legendary and legendary-legendary. I've crafted a set of smithing bonus apparel (armor, bracers, ring I believe) and when I'm wearing it, I get better results than when I'm not, even though my base smithing stat is 100 and it already shows up as Legendary when I vanilla improve something. You can make crazy powerful things when you boost everything up with gear and potions.

The 100 enchanting perk is by far the best Master level perk in the game.

any suggestions for getting started on enchanting and smithing?

They're two of the easiest skills to grind out.

Smithing: Buy leather straps and iron ingots from local smiths. Make a bunch of Iron Daggers.

Enchanting: Take those Iron Daggers and use Petty Soul Gems (either bought or fill them yourself by killing small wildlife) with any enchantment.

Clear Stock: Sell those enchanted Iron Daggers to any merchant and make some money off the training.

[Himu]

Gonna grind that shit out. Thanks!

[BobFromPikeCreek]

BT, how'd you get to 100 Alchemy? It's pretty rough to grind out without an ample supply of Giant's Toes I find.

[Timber]

BlueTsunami pretty much covered it. Many foxes have lost their souls for my shitty leather bracers of +1% archery.

For optimum results you're gonna have to spend a lot of perks, though.

[archie4208]

So what does this mean for Skyrim nexus?

Pirates can still use that site. 

[BlueTsunami]

BT, how'd you get to 100 Alchemy? It's pretty rough to grind out without an ample supply of Giant's Toes I find.

I just kept on mixing shit throughout the game for money to put into training. Besides Giants Toes + Wheat the real workhorse combo's are reagents that make Slow, Paralyze, Damage Magicka Regain, Damage Stamina Regain and Invisibility. They don't give you the large single gold output of Giants Toe and Wheat but the reagents that make these potions are usually found from stores. One of the first things you want to max out though is the perk that reveals different properties of each ingredient so you can obviously make more of these sort of potions.

[Sho Nuff]

 

[Cormacaroni]

scrubbing myself with a steel brush now, brrrrrr

[Van Cruncheon]

[pilonv1]

Behold the island with an air moat

[Robo]

BT, how'd you get to 100 Alchemy? It's pretty rough to grind out without an ample supply of Giant's Toes I find.

I just kept on mixing shit throughout the game for money to put into training. Besides Giants Toes + Wheat the real workhorse combo's are reagents that make Slow, Paralyze, Damage Magicka Regain, Damage Stamina Regain and Invisibility. They don't give you the large single gold output of Giants Toe and Wheat but the reagents that make these potions are usually found from stores. One of the first things you want to max out though is the perk that reveals different properties of each ingredient so you can obviously make more of these sort of potions.

Additionally, there's this profitability calculator: http://www.endoftheweb.se/skyrim/

If you don't have enough skill points for that perk yet, you can scan your stock, see what you've got a lot of and use the calculator to find how to get the most out of it.  Leveling is directly proportional to the base value, so that's the best way to go about it.

[Eel O'Brian]

why yes, i am a fucking badass, how nice of you to ask:



playah:



hatah:



(not pictured: lydia, too busy upstairs sulking and eating all my bread to come down and party)

[Van Cruncheon]

can i come to your party?

[Eel O'Brian]

always!

(bring bread)

[Great Rumbler]

[Brehvolution]

Had my first CTD in

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Markarth. Breaking out of prison and all the fighting made it crash. Framerate started to chug then boom. Reloaded the save, break out and now I'm not an enemy to the Markarth guards and just walk around looting gold from corpses. Best result from a CTD I've seen.

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[Sho Nuff]

Holy fucking shit 

[BlueTsunami]

I'd fucking buy a boxset full of episodes from this series

[Van Cruncheon]

[Joe Molotov]

That should have came on right after Jem and the Holograms.

[Himu]

MOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Himu]

Best place to get soul gems aside from killing things?

[Great Rumbler]

Best place to get soul gems aside from killing things?

Magicians in the major cities have them, but be prepared to fork over some dough.

[Himu]

How often do shopkeepers get new stock and more cash so I can keep forking over enchanted iron daggers?

[Joe Molotov]

Once a day, I think.

[maxy]

Skyrim(original) got

360 4GB got

i'm so hopeless  :'(

installed to memory stick,inserted old 20GB HDD,saving to 4GB inbuilt Flash
playing without a patch,seems fine

[Brehvolution]

My merc that had helped me out a lot, and that I equipped with the nice shit I wasn't using got launched into the abyss by a dwemmer piston. 

I could still have used all of it.  :'(

[BlueTsunami]

That's my fear when it comes to using mules. I remember, in New Vegas, I lost a unique weapon 'cause it got knocked out of my companions hand. No more uniques for you, motha fucka!

[Human Snorenado]

Reload the auto-save.