• The Elder Scrolls Megathread XX: Might as well be XXX
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No it's not. Skyrim was simply not designed with the ability to fly in mind, it's an artistic choice. It would actively ruin the gameplay if you gave yourself that ability with a mod. Whether removing the ability to fly from the series was a good choice though, that's open to interpretation.
Who cares about flying spells? I want to summon a horde of skelingtons at will.
Leviathan is a fairly decent set to pair with Hundings, especially with the stamblade's bonus to crit damage. I'd argue that dual wield is superior to 2h (for pve purposes, 2h is godly in pvp) because you get two weapon traits, and two weapon enchants on one bar. (The enchants are full strength too, so poison + weap damage is reaaally strong.) For the bow bar, you'll want the standard endless hail, caltrops, poison arrow and rearming trap, with the final slot being for a heal or something. Frontbar, for dw at least, there's a couple of nice dots you can place, such as rending slashes and blade cloak. (25% aoe reduction is insane when it stacks with your other resistances.) Hidden blade is a cheap aoe ranged spammable that does huge damage while costing barely anything! If you're not using S'rendarr and combat metrics, then I'd recommend it - keep your dots up to around 80-100% and you'll have a nice time. I'd argue personally that you can reach 20k "sustained" in any vaguely correct stam gear, the rest is ensuring you have as many damage dealing effects up as possible as long as possible. If you have sustain issues, don't neglect potions! Almost all of my characters can't sustain without potions, and it's worked so far for me!
Don't force me to call in the executioner.
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Quick question to those who are still playing TESO. Have there been any free skillpoint resets in the last year? I quit playing shortly after the Morrowind expansion released and want to turn my nightblade tank (who was brutally murdered by balance patches) into a melee dps of sorts when I get back. I don't want to be stuck with a barely functional built untill I can get enough gold to reset my skillpoints.
So, is TESO worth playing solo?
There is no point in stacking crit with a set when you can do it so many other ways. The classic setup is one pen set and one dmg.
Are people still playing oldrim or is everyone moving on to special edition? Has the focus of mods shifted to newrim?
It'll be a couple of years before that happens, and most of the people whom play SSE at all are people who pick it up on sale and primarily consoles, and the people begging for mods are almost universally on console. While it's inevitable to eclipse LE in active play due to how Beth is selling it, SSE is never going to be 1:1 as a replacement, either in mod count or numbers. At some point most people will just have "enough" equivalent mods to do ________ KF2 already is pretty what TESV is going to be, they lazed out and fumblefucked the launch hard enough that some people don't like it simply on principle compared to the old one, and the look new shiny shadows work now evangelists/apologists haven't really made all that compelling a case for upgrading other than "i can install bad mods now and it doesn't crash" even though said mods still fuck your string tables and all the other stuff like they always did. The fact that 32 is played by 25 to 50% more people consistently on the SCP list than 64 is pretty telling. They should have waited another year and actually spent the money and resources and had one dedicated studio properly update the title to and in a consistent format, console sales would still have been strong and PC owners would have a legit reason to upgrade without worrying about compatibility or they should have forked the console versions and just done a 64bit recompile. The PC version is a literal afterthought and it shows, all you have to do is take a trip through 64's CK.
Yep, but unless he's planning to grind nSO for TFS (Which with 11k dps doesn't seem like the most fun of experiences.) or use Sunderflame which IIRC isn't that ideal for stamblades, there's not a whole lot of options from dungeons I believe? NMG with a damage set such as Automaton could work fairly well - but again, I'd argue just about any stam set combination will be enough to get to that 20k mark. Once there, you have enough dps to farm the more efficient sets, and actually enjoy the process too.
Spriggans. It sounds more like a rotation problem though
Anyone know of a mod for oblivion that replaces the enemy health bars with someone more readable and precise? Always hated that simple line in vanilla.
Just how fucking big is ESO? Because I spent all day yesterday downloading about 82 GB of data and now I go to boot up the installer and it needs another 87 GB Jesus fucking christ thats like my entire fucking SSD
There's no reason to actually pick Stormcloaks. The whole reason they're fighting in the first place is because of shit the Thalmor forced on the Empire. Go Empire, reunite the Empire, overthrow Thalmor, Talos worship no longer banned, everyone wins. Ulfric's fight is short-sighted and reckless.
The fact that the stormcloaks actually think they can stand up to the thalmor on their own AFTER beating back the combined imperial legion is laughable. Reckless teenage years is picking stormcloaks Adulthood is picking Legion
You could pick Stormcloak if you're playing a dumb racist nord, but not if you're actually planning on playing someone smart.
As much as I am a stern Imperial supporter (as the Imperial forces in Skyrim are a clear reference to Ancient Rome and the Gallic Wars and I fucking love Ancient Rome), the main questline flat out tells you that the Stormcloacks and Ulfric in particular are being manipulated by the Thalmor into opposing the Empire to further their own goals
I genuinely don't think I could do a "dumb racist nord" run. It'd probably work out just like my failed Fallout 3 asshole run where I quit when I got to Megaton because I felt bad.
i want a daedric/lava whip in either oblivion or skyrim
So I listened to this podcast with the Godd himself in it. A few of the quirks and design decisions around Bethesda Games Studios's games makes more sense now. The standout thing that Todd mentioned is that there will be a new animation system that BGS will use, but not until the next game after the current one in production. If the general internet predictions are right about BGS's next game will not be Fallout or Elder Scrolls, then making the reasonable guess that they'd want to return to Elder Scrolls afterwards, then there's a high probability TESVI will have a new animation system. Diagonal Walking 2.0, anyone? :V
Honestly that part is one of the most interessting parts of the game for me, simply because of how well made it feels. Going away from the quests, because c'mon it's Bethesda, they're bound to be crap, the whole way the devs designed the conflict, the colours of the two factions, your introduction to them etc. I had friends follow the stormcloaks blindly, believing everything which was said even in the face of the Thalmor stuff, and even just the morality of what the Stormcloaks were even doing, and what their actual values were. That is perhaps the single thing i will commend Bethesda for, that part of the game was absolutely great.
It's pretty goddamn big, but my currently installed folder only has 90mb in launcher and 61GB in the install dir. It probably cleans up after. I would say so. There's plenty of content to do alone, and if you mean going-in-with-no-friends-playing solo, there are plenty of guilds looking for people. I've just been doing quests and delves all by myself and having plenty of fun.
nowhere near done with AHO yet but i can definitely recommend it only thing i really, truly dislike is that there's a painting of that Dwemer-style BB-8 mod in one location which is kinda dumb and out of place environments are fucking sweet https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/214503/5f2ad624-1635-4015-a5c8-7000b560c0c4/AHO.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/214503/8b7db850-6312-4385-8fc4-3bac69074d47/489830_20180323153006_1.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/214503/831f5b21-afdb-4b66-878d-1bead13b3312/489830_20180323150104_1.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/214503/c078985c-84b8-4a3c-8757-4e69b7d7435a/489830_20180323145553_1.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/214503/f5a3eb73-b745-4adb-8b02-c755e86da687/AHOStripmine.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/214503/1087e41c-c96d-4082-a8f0-ca246c53ac59/AHOLibrary.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/214503/71c8c035-a679-4fca-a18b-19b65906a70d/489830_20180323151052_1.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/214503/90d233df-4353-4585-a7d6-78b65f215bb6/489830_20180323142615_1.png
Legit they really don't play the whole 'racism' part up very well, and it annoys me
There's plenty of racism in the game though. Khajiit aren't allowed in cities, and I'm pretty sure some NPCs claim it's "for their own safety" due to nords being rowdy cunts. Nords are shown being rowdy cunts by trashtalking dark elves in Windhelm. Argonians are relegated to second class citizens in that same city and are stuck working out in the cold as dock workers. If Stormcloaks take over Whiterun they nearly run Adrianne out of business and only allow her to stay because of her Nord husband. Altmer are racist pricks all around and will talk you like utter dogshit if you're anything else but an Altmer yourself.
Also there's some dude in a tavern in Riften(?) that starts talking shit if you're an Imperial, because of the war.
I get way more damage with how I play, especially multitarget, using an axe, than using 2handers, it also has an insane boost to survivability as well, Rally is an insanely solid healing passive that gives the same buff hidden dagger has, except it lasts slightly longer. I've always hated fast weapons in games anyways. Funnily enough I get far better stamina sustain too. Leviathan is nice for mixing and matching, though with Hundings, even with both sets at max bonus it barely does shit when my weapon damage is so trash I've been boosting weapon damage, just 50% crit is what people have with perfect 35k dps builds, and then they usually have 4k weapon damage. It's heavily increased just by increasing it yo 2373.
I usually don't download mods for any videogame which are about users adding their own expansions or otherwise original NPCs and questlines, unless they pose themselves as major tweaks of already-existing stuff. I'm kind of an idiot, am I not?
"idiot" is being overly harsh However you are denying yourself some of the best quests
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