Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[lamaros]

Visiting Avanchnzel for the first time. The design so far in this game has been top notch. Different places have really different feels.

[Amaron]

Has anyone been noticing the stone carvings littered around cities near doorways or other odd places?  Here's a pic:


I tried searching and didn't find anything.

[MuffinMan]

I saw a carving like that on the underside of the bridge entering Whiterun. Figured it would be some meeting place in the future for some quest or faction.

[Paelos]

That's a shadowmark. It's left by the Theives guild.

That particular mark means that there is loot in that building. That same mark with no lines in the square would mean that the house is empty.

There is a book in the game that lists them all.

[MuffinMan]

I don't play games to read. I play games to crush.

[murdoc]

I've been playing a dual-wielding, heavy armour wearing, archer - but I think I need to do a spell/weapon combo based purely on the fact that the magic effects are awesome.

Oh god, so funny: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/21/skyrim-lydia-death/

Don't worry it's not a spoiler.

Holy crap, that's fantastic.

[Sky]

Started a new game because my main game was CTD on the quicksave I was on, and I wanted to just get a taste of other playstyles. Now I'm hitting a freeze crash during the escape sequence, same spot (where a cave-in takes out the wood bridge). And it ran for like five hours straight without a hitch yesterday, ffs.

[Yegolev]

I don't play games to read. I play games to crush.

 

[Surlyboi]

Hey man, nice shot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE4uzGaQDQg

[MuffinMan]

Hey man, nice shot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE4uzGaQDQg

BW.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Just found what was really messing my game up, fucking land reflect on water, lagged me out every damn time.

[Rendakor]

Finished up the Thieves Guild story today; not as good as the Dark Brotherhood but still pretty decent. Getting the final achievement for them is apparently a real bitch though, so I'm not going to bother with that.

[Morfiend]

I rerolled 3 times in the first 3 hours of gameplay, to get a character I liked (I am odd like that).

I am playing a Imperial Duel wield, stealth, archers with light armor. Kind of going the assassin route. It seems to be what I end up doing in all the elder scrolls games. I am having a blast. The graphics are breath-taking and the sheer amount of stuff in the game is staggering.

[schild]

I rerolled 3 times in the first 3 hours of gameplay, to get a character I liked (I am odd like that).

What the fuck is there to reroll in Skyrim?

[ajax34i]

Facial and body features.

[Morfiend]

Facial and body features.

Honestly, that was one of the things that bugged me badly. My Nord looked like he was mildly retarded (more so that every other character), and every time I saw his face it made me unhappy.

My first character was a heavy armor, 2h wielding, magic user. Honestly, the UI is what killed this character. The stupid hotkey selection is horrible.

[Surlyboi]

There's a hotkey section?

[Rendakor]

Under favorites, if you mouseover one of them and hit a hotkey (1-8) it will bind that item/spell to that key.

[tmp]

Facial and body features.

Is there a way to open the character creation panel in the middle of the game from the console, and tweak the features like in Fallour 3, btw?

[stray]

I managed to make a decent looking male Nord. It took me multiple tries too though. The noses are a bit deceiving in the character creator. In game, they don't look as big or grotesque.

I think character creation is kinda overrated though. It'd be nice if on top of that option, you'd get one well done, pregenerated face. Saves time. Like Bioware does with Shepherd or Hawke.

[NowhereMan]

Is there a patch or something coming through? When I hit play in the Launcher I get an admin permission box saying Skyrim wants to make changes to my computer. If I hit yes it relaunches the launcher and if I then hit play I get an admin permission saying Skyrim wants to make changes to my computer... Tried Steam in offline mode, no dice. If I hit no then it just goes back to the launcher. I'd rather not spend a few hours redownloading everything for a reinstall if I don't have to.

[tmp]

Is there a way to open the character creation panel in the middle of the game from the console, and tweak the features like in Fallour 3, btw?

welp, google to the rescue

showracemenu
can redo the apperance etc, but this will reset your level and skills.

so afterwards would need

player.setlevel ##
pretty self explanatory

and

player.modav skill X
Where “skill” is the skill you want to modify, and X is the amount you want to modify it by. Skills are inputted via their in-game names without spaces, apart from Archery which is “Marksman”, and Speech, which is known as “Speechcraft”.

[koro]

Is there a patch or something coming through? When I hit play in the Launcher I get an admin permission box saying Skyrim wants to make changes to my computer. If I hit yes it relaunches the launcher and if I then hit play I get an admin permission saying Skyrim wants to make changes to my computer... Tried Steam in offline mode, no dice. If I hit no then it just goes back to the launcher. I'd rather not spend a few hours redownloading everything for a reinstall if I don't have to.

There was a patch to the .exe today that prevents it from being run on its own without going through Steam.

Is there a way to open the character creation panel in the middle of the game from the console, and tweak the features like in Fallour 3, btw?

welp, google to the rescue

showracemenu
can redo the apperance etc, but this will reset your level and skills.

so afterwards would need

player.setlevel ##
pretty self explanatory

and

player.modav skill X
Where “skill” is the skill you want to modify, and X is the amount you want to modify it by. Skills are inputted via their in-game names without spaces, apart from Archery which is “Marksman”, and Speech, which is known as “Speechcraft”.

Using showracemenu will ONLY reset your skills and such if you change your race, sex, or select a different preset for your current race/gender. Anything else shouldn't alter any stats or skills.

[slog]

Anyone else raising smiting by making iron daggers over and over?  I'm up to 63 so far, but I'm wondering: is this is viable up to 100?

[Lakov_Sanite]

Anyone else raising smiting by making iron daggers over and over?  I'm up to 63 so far, but I'm wondering: is this is viable up to 100?

Leather bracers is bar none the fastest way to do it.  Also there's a shrine somewhere that will give you a 20% skillup increase to smithing.

[Sky]

I did iron daggers. Leather would be good, too. If you want to get technical, I think bear skins are the most efficient, you get 4 leather for 3 weight.

THey should probably fix that, but since the world nodes are mostly iron, you'd have to buy most of the ingots to level if they did.

So, it's a broken system, but it works. YOu basically only need enough ingots of a tier to craft your armor and weapons and improve them. All the rest is iron for level and gold/silver for money.

[Xuri]

Cool patch. It apparently breaks various mods, including user-fixes for making it possible for Skyrim to use more than 2.5gb memory or some such. Modders everywhere are taking Skyrim into offline mode, refusing to patch, making old versions of skyrim.exe available for download on the net, etc.

[slog]

Anyone else raising smiting by making iron daggers over and over?  I'm up to 63 so far, but I'm wondering: is this is viable up to 100?

Leather bracers is bar none the fastest way to do it.  Also there's a shrine somewhere that will give you a 20% skillup increase to smithing.

Leather Bracers and a Shrine?  What do they take, some leather strips?  (any idea where the shrine is?)

[Sky]

Another couple of sharp knee gripes:

I'm on a three part quest (well, the middle of a large quest that has a three-part mid section). I get parts one and two just fine, but the third dungeon is locked. Cannot find a key or entrance anywhere. Finally tired of searching, I hit the wiki to find it's a mage college quest that gives you the key. I don't have enough magicka to cast the summon spell for entrance into the college. I don't want enough magicka to do it, I'm a goddamned nord warrior. I've run into a couple of these kinds of blocks, luckily one I needed for becoming Thane in the Reach was gated for thieves and I had enough lockpicking to get there (the quest actually wants you to pickpocket).

The other is finding a 4 weight quest object I can't store and I have no idea where it goes. I think I have another 6 weight quest object in there, too.

[slog]

THey should probably fix that, but since the world nodes are mostly iron, you'd have to buy most of the ingots to level if they did.

I have no idea what you mean by a "world node."  Can you mine these yourself or something?

[Lakov_Sanite]

Anyone else raising smiting by making iron daggers over and over?  I'm up to 63 so far, but I'm wondering: is this is viable up to 100?

Leather bracers is bar none the fastest way to do it.  Also there's a shrine somewhere that will give you a 20% skillup increase to smithing.

Leather Bracers and a Shrine?  What do they take, some leather strips?  (any idea where the shrine is?)

Leather bracers is one piece leather and two strips I believe, super cheap and skill ups never seemed to diminish.  I found the shrine while journeying west from whiterun on foot, it's just a small ruins out in the middle of the plains, had a couple bandits squatting there.

[Miasma]

Oh yes I really hate the quest objects with weight that you can't store.  I haven't done the magic college and by the sounds of it would have to enchant a bunch of junk with +magicka so I hope the three quests you're talking about don't involve a claw which may or may not be ivory in colour...

Got a random dragon down to one third life then it ran off to kill a spider and wouldn't land to engage me no matter what I did.  Spent ten minutes just looking at it fly around above me roaring.

[lamaros]

THey should probably fix that, but since the world nodes are mostly iron, you'd have to buy most of the ingots to level if they did.

I have no idea what you mean by a "world node."  Can you mine these yourself or something?

You can mine ore from the ground with a pick axe.

I've only seen gold so far, and I didn't have an axe on me when I did.

[Arinon]

The Companion questline dumped about 15 weight worth of quest objects into my inventory early on.  Had to Google the 'solution' which is basically keep doing more quests for them until you need those items again.

[stray]

Or, you can store them in a chest (at home, I guess.. or the one in Jorvasker).