The Elder Scrolls Megathread XV: A Song of Ice and Draugr - Games

Aww yeah got my first Skyrim DLC. I got Hearthfore because I had $5 in my PSN wallet.

[QUOTE=Durrsly;43661214]Aww yeah got my first Skyrim DLC. I got Hearthfore because I had $5 in my PSN wallet.[/QUOTE] If you have skyrim on anything other than PC you wasted your money.

[QUOTE=doomkiwi;43661426]If you have skyrim on anything other than PC you wasted your money.[/QUOTE] Not really. Its something you can get on PC for free, but for consoles it's nice.

Ugh. I've forgotten how boring Skyrim is when you reach level 50+. By that time you've completed almost all of the quests in the game and you can kill anything in one or two hits. Making a skill Legendary and starting over isn't going to anything because you'll have no reason to level up your skills again, seeing as how all the non-radiant quests are done. The only thing keeping you playing the game is finishing the DLC and possible mods

[QUOTE=doomkiwi;43661426]If you have skyrim on anything other than PC you wasted your money.[/QUOTE] I'd of wasted money if I went with the version I can't play because my computer is terrible.

My Skyrim runs smoothly but I always get these FPS drops, where the game freezes for a second (or several sometimes), and then continues as normal. How do I make it stop? I followed [url=http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/articles/1153/?]this guide[/url] and it helped reduce how often they happen, but they still do and sometimes annoyingly often.

[QUOTE=Chilean_Wolf;43662126]My Skyrim runs smoothly but I always get these FPS drops, where the game freezes for a second (or several sometimes), and then continues as normal. How do I make it stop? I followed [url=http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/articles/1153/?]this guide[/url] and it helped reduce how often they happen, but they still do and sometimes annoyingly often.[/QUOTE] Are you using any mods? If so, which? Certain mods, like frostfall, combined with RnD, will cause that

God damn these leveled enemies. Doing one of the companion missions where you rescue that guy from the cave and the first enemy one shots me with her mace and health absorb. Even bleak falls was tough. So for now I'm just doing some small side quests before I can go in there. I want to avoid having to use followers, but I guess I will need to.

The whole 'leveled' enemies thing is absolute horseshit. It pretty much broke my pure thief playthrough, as I had zero combat skills outside what little experience I earned in one-handed and archery. Plus, too many important quests rely on direct combat. Instead of fighting Gromthor the Draugr Lord of Dragon Phalluses and getting one-shot by his Dongbringer, why can't I just sneak into his lair, snatch the artifact/read the magic glowing wall of dragon swears and then cave the whole place in?

[QUOTE=Eva-1337;43662513]The wholed 'leveled' enemies thing is absolute horseshit. It pretty much broke my pure thief playthrough, as I had zero combat skills outside what little experience I earned in one-handed and archery. Plus, too many important quests rely on direct combat. Instead of fighting Gromthor the Draugr Lord of Dragon Phalluses and getting one-shot by his Dongbringer, why can't I just sneak into his lair, snatch the artifact/read the magic glowing wall of dragon swears and then cave the whole place in?[/QUOTE] The alternative is having set level progression for all the different storylines meaning after you complete say the mages guild if you wanna go do the companions the start would be super easy and slowly scale back up as you progress. I prefer that myself too but I'm just saying there -is- advantages

[QUOTE=Eva-1337;43662513]The wholed 'leveled' enemies thing is absolute horseshit. It pretty much broke my pure thief playthrough, as I had zero combat skills outside what little experience I earned in one-handed and archery. Plus, too many important quests rely on direct combat. Instead of fighting Gromthor the Draugr Lord of Dragon Phalluses and getting one-shot by his Dongbringer, why can't I just sneak into his lair, snatch the artifact/read the magic glowing wall of dragon swears and then cave the whole place in?[/QUOTE] Because Skyrim has terrible stealth and at this point Bethesda should just step trying to add stealth in their game because they are completely unable to do it properly.

My apologies for bad reading and general comprehension failure on my part, the Yokuda (Extant) refers to the blue parts within the green Yokuda (Projected) area in the map.

I still don't understand why people don't just turn down the difficulty when Skyrim is literally impossible. Like, I get not wanting to go down the slippery slope of tweaking it whenever it's too hard, but if you have trouble in bleak falls and you're literally stressing out about it, it becomes a whole thing. Just go into your settings and turn it down, it's not like Jesus watching you while masturbate

[quote]Visit to Aetherius occur even less frequently than to Oblivion, for the void is a long expanse and only the stars offer portal for aetherial travel, or the judicious use of magic. The expeditions of the Reman Dynasty and the Sun Birds of Alinor are the most famous attempts in our histories, and it is a cosmic irony that both of them were eventually dissolved for the same reason: the untenable expenditures required to reach magic by magicka. Their only legacy is the Royal Imperial Mananauts of the Elder Council and the great Orrery at Firsthold, whose spheres are made up of genuine celestial mineral gathered by travelers during the Merethic Era. [/quote] [url=http://www.imperial-library.info/content/pocket-guide-empire-third-edition-magic-aetherius]Pocket Guide to The Empire, 3rd Edition[/url]

[URL="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9245-Skyrim-Tales"]Old, but appropriate.[/URL] [t]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/75/75543.jpg[/t]

[video=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MISw1f1K6yg[/video]

[QUOTE=Kommodore;43663924]I still don't understand why people don't just turn down the difficulty when Skyrim is literally impossible. Like, I get not wanting to go down the slippery slope of tweaking it whenever it's too hard, but if you have trouble in bleak falls and you're literally stressing out about it, it becomes a whole thing. Just go into your settings and turn it down, it's not like Jesus watching you while masturbate[/QUOTE] I kind of agree, or used to. I used to play games on easy, but now I play them near hardest just because it feels more exciting to progress through a game. Skyrim I keep it near adept-expert but most other games on hardest. Skyrim isn't about entirely the chalenge but some mods help make it not so much a spam the attack button game.

[QUOTE=kopd;43665278][URL="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9245-Skyrim-Tales"]Old, but appropriate.[/URL] [t]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/75/75543.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Marked For Death shout > Draugr pansies.

I've found that Marked for Death is the greatest shout ever for dealing with any high-hp enemies. If you're having trouble with Draugr/Vampires, go get [URL="http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/27789"]Dawnbreaker[/URL], it absolutely wrecks undead.

[QUOTE=Excalibuurr;43654341]Yeah.. Pretty big... [IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/cYeEye.png[/IMG] :pwn:[/QUOTE] This picture made me wonder if there are any nude/sex mods for Daggerfall.

[QUOTE=pawelte1;43665892]This picture made me wonder if there are any nude/sex mods for Daggerfall.[/QUOTE] Don't need to mod Daggerfall for nudity.

Well, I somehow did something and now Skyrim crashes at random whenever I attempt to save. I don't recall changing anything that would cause it to do this, are there any good diagnostic tools that'll help me find out what's wrong? I've already optimised my load order using BOSS.

[QUOTE=Excalibuurr;43666473]And did you try the recent CTD fix thing using SKSE?[/QUOTE] No, I wasn't aware there was one. What should I be looking for?

[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;43666131]Well, I somehow did something and now Skyrim crashes at random whenever I attempt to save. I don't recall changing anything that would cause it to do this, are there any good diagnostic tools that'll help me find out what's wrong? I've already optimised my load order using BOSS.[/QUOTE] Got the same issue. The only thing that fixed it for me, was to type "player.kill" in the console when I load my game up, let that reload your save and then you'll be able to save again. You'll have to do this everytime you start the game. There's a major bug with the dawnstar quest that causes this and for some reason, a certain combonation of mods, bad luck, something with the vanilla game, or scripting or whatever causes this bug to happen even if you don't do that quest at all. [editline]25th January 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=RearAdmiral;43666527]No, I wasn't aware there was one. What should I be looking for?[/QUOTE] Just google CTD fix with ENB+SKSE

Thanks, I'll see if this helps If it does I'll celebrate by installing the 50 Cent follower mod

My game crashed 2 seconds after loading my game oh no

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;43663644]Because Skyrim has terrible stealth and at this point Bethesda should just step trying to add stealth in their game because they are completely unable to do it properly.[/QUOTE] Stealth works in some cases. My main way of playing is sneaking around and sniping people with my bow, and that works most of the time. And when it doesn't, I can still use a sword. But then again I'm not trying to avoid combat. I think the problem is that Bethesda apparently doesn't like making things possible by means other than combat these days. They apparently believe every single quest should involve fighting stuff, even though in previous games the quests that didn't involve combat were some of the best ones in their respective games.

So these are the stats of my cousin(the one with the werewolf screenshot from earlier)'s save: [t]http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/3314948989893839940/6A084EC3948573D37A9B7E6DE0F32851D24CDC30/[/t] [QUOTE]Days Passed 15[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Mauls 1000 Werewolf Transformations 4 Days as a Werewolf 12[/QUOTE] holy hell i need to do this

Only 4 transformations and a thousand mauls? Jeez. That's actually kind of impressive.

[QUOTE=xxfalconxx;43667036]Only 4 transformations and a thousand mauls? Jeez. That's actually kind of impressive.[/QUOTE] I imagine at this point he'd need to wait a week to transform back :v: