BF2S Forums [Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim] Discussion Thread

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Did anyone else kill the imperial torturer at the beginning?

I did, but reloaded the savegame afterwards. Who knows what I can get out of him later?

I followed the Stormcloak guy into the building/tunnels, so I killed ALL the imperials on my way (in self defence of course)...

(I never even knew there were two options on my first character, I just followed that empire legion guy all the way to his door without noticing the other guy at his door)

You get some bad-ass Heavy Armor for killing that female Legion lieutenant or w/e that says "who cares if he's on the list or not I want to see heads roll"....

Last edited by FloppY_ (2011-11-12 14:51:56)

Lucien wrote:

"It's dangerous to go alone, take this"
"Thanks swamp"

Lucien wrote:

WTF is this how did you even?

FloppY_ wrote:

Lucien wrote:

WTF is this how did you even?

I know exactly where that is since i stopped and admired the view as well.
it's on the 7000 steps to the greybeards

what race did you pick and why?

Brasso wrote:

what race did you pick and why?

Wood elf.
I enjoy stealthy gameplay and archery. Simple choice really.

I like how the elves now have a more distinct look and aren't just humans with stretched out fish heads (and a bad complexion in the case of the dark elves)

Smithing and enchanting are so awesome; percentage increases are so OP. Starting to regret going half-mage, should have gone pure physical.

I'd advise anyone using heavy armour to forge up some orcish armour as soon as orichalcum becomes available from smithy shops. You can get it really early and it means you can take out mammoths and such without exploiting pathfinding bugs. I'm about to forge a second set for my follower.

Also where are good companions.

I want a sword and shield brodudely.

FloppY_ wrote:

TimmmmaaaaH wrote:

FloppY_ wrote:

I don't like all the different crafting tools, would rather just have 1 crafting station where all could be crafted/improved...

And don't even get me started on the dull ass mining/woodcutting stuff, I want a game not a "looking at people work, simulator" kthx...

Guess it depends on how you approach it. I thought it was really cool how you can mine the ore, smelt it, then work it into armour/weapons and then sharpen/improve them.

Meh, count together all that time used to mine, craft and sharpen it and you could have done a quest where something better (potentially even enchanted) would have dropped anyway with no effort...

It is more of a mine ore while doing other things, then make things when in town next type thing than this giant undertaking you make it out to be. Also not everything is about time vs reward. Besides I have a full set of ("epic" quality) glass armour now and I would not have that without smithing.

edit: And archery isnt useless, I one shot most enemies from steath (3x stealth damage perk, archery random perks and good bow).

Last edited by TimmmmaaaaH (2011-11-12 19:12:40)

Did the most awesome thing I've done in gaming in a while, I did the finishing move on the guy where you stab him the chest with your sword and then do a quick 360 and slit his throat and the last part made him fall perfectly over the banister behind him, felt soooooo ace

Brasso wrote:

what race did you pick and why?

Redguard so I could make a hot black chick.  Too bad Reguards in this game don't actually sound black like they did in the previous two games though

I was already an Orc male in Morrowind and Oblivion so I wanted to try something else, plus I hate the way the new Orcs look.

DefCon-17 wrote:

I got two characters.

One's a dark elf assassin-y person.

The other's a high elf mage.

Sneaking behind people and cutting their throats is disturbingly fun.

How do you do that?  I haven't figured out any ways to get a stealth kill animation, do you have to have a weapon that's already powerful enough to kill in one hit?

TimmmmaaaaH wrote:

FloppY_ wrote:

TimmmmaaaaH wrote:

Guess it depends on how you approach it. I thought it was really cool how you can mine the ore, smelt it, then work it into armour/weapons and then sharpen/improve them.

Meh, count together all that time used to mine, craft and sharpen it and you could have done a quest where something better (potentially even enchanted) would have dropped anyway with no effort...

It is more of a mine ore while doing other things, then make things when in town next type thing than this giant undertaking you make it out to be. Also not everything is about time vs reward. Besides I have a full set of ("epic" quality) glass armour now and I would not have that without smithing.

edit: And archery isnt useless, I one shot most enemies from steath (3x stealth damage perk, archery random perks and good bow).

Yes, I love that about archery now, it's actually useful for something other than target practice on mud crabs, as long as you keep your bow up to date.  Still using iron arrows until they stop becoming so common.

Last edited by _j5689_ (2011-11-12 20:33:51)

Smithing does kind of cheapen the armour progression a bit, now I have done it. I mean in Morrowind getting a full set of Daedric or Glass armour was a pretty big task and for Daedric particularly could take basically the entire game because there was only a certain number of pieces obtainable.

Now in Skyrim I am level 29 with full glass everything without even leaving town.

full legendary daedric, game even more over.

I've been putting ALL my level-up points into Health for my shield+one-hand fighter...

Brasso wrote:

what race did you pick and why?

Nord - Skyrim native, changed the default character's haircolor to dark brown...

I considered elves but bow and arrow are too weak to be a main weapon and elves look like crap in TES...

Besides, 50% frost resist in a game where frost is everywhere has to be worth it, no?

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

One annoying thing about trainers is, unless I'm mistaken, you gotta take advantage of the +5 every level or you miss the opportunity. Unless I didn't read it right...

Yeah I hate how they kept that system from Oblivion, it was OK in Oblivion since you could stop leveling up by not sleeping, but in Skyrim you keep leveling up in the background, so if you earn some cash to train before leveling up you will likely end up leveling multiple times when you finally pay for the training...

Last edited by FloppY_ (2011-11-13 00:18:00)

FloppY_ wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

One annoying thing about trainers is, unless I'm mistaken, you gotta take advantage of the +5 every level or you miss the opportunity. Unless I didn't read it right...

Yeah I hate how they kept that system from Oblivion, it was OK in Oblivion since you could stop leveling up by not sleeping, but in Skyrim you keep leveling up in the background, so if you earn some cash to train before leveling up you will likely end up leveling multiple times when you finally pay for the training...

TBH, leveling in stuff on your own isn't too difficult, but trainers are simply icing on the cake of non-grindage. You should earn five trains per level and not lose them when you advance to the next.