The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

That reminds me, how can I edit mouse sensitivity in game?

My mouse is fine in windows and all other games, but skyrim, its not sensitive enough.

Also I dont remeber the game asking me how hard I want it to be.
 
Putting performance issues to the side for the moment as i believe they will be fixed(though it is a tad annoying) I have just played for around an hour and done my first dungeon.

This game is truly epic, after so long waiting and so much hype(though not quite as much as i expected tbh) i have to say that I am very happy with it! The game looks absolutely gorgeous and there is not a single thing barring the perfomance and the UI(which i am sure i can get used to) that i would complain about. I love the animations such as finishing moves, the combat has much more feel to it than previous games, the new magic mechanisms are great, dual-wielding spells and swords is epic!.

The atmosphere seems excellent as well, and maybe the most impressive thing which i am sure many people will like is that it doesn't feel like it is holding your hand at all. So far the quests seem to occur very naturally in the sense that you are just told what to do and don't get big text bubbles popping up telling you exactly where to go etc(though there are still quest markers, which i don't mind at all, imagine the game without them:eek:) Very much a Morrowind feel as opposed to Oblivion tbh;)
A special mention for the sound as well, excellent soundtrack and great effects.

The Golden Claw quest was brilliant as well!


Sort out some drivers/patches whatever to give me a constant FPS and i will be even happier:D

PS i did have texture problems with the snow, anyone else? seemed like it was not being displayed properly, the ground was just totally white
 
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opethdisciple said:
That reminds me, how can I edit mouse sensitivity in game?

My mouse is fine in windows and all other games, but skyrim, its not sensitive enough.

Also I dont remeber the game asking me how hard I want it to be.
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Once in game press Esc, then you can set the mouse sensitivity in the Gameplay menu. By default it's way too low.
 
 
Seriously good game. Not played anything like it really in terms of scope and amazingly good AI. Fought my first dragon and could literally feel the adrenaline pumping through my body. Cannot remember the last time that happened whilst playing a game!
 
to the guy earlier who said nvidia was so much better at this than ati..
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Can someone help me find a place please? It's Yngol's Barrow (I think that's it). I need to go there to do a quest, but the place didn't show up when I got the quest item. I've searched around Winterhold but I can't find this place. A screenshot of where it is on the map would be much appreciated.
 
Are there any skills or abilities that improve sighting of enemies?

If I've spotted an enemy, it doesn't appear on the radar until its hostile, and especially at night some 'infravision' would be nice, especially as I'm a Wood Elf ;)

There seems to be a lack of more 'passive' skills in this game - most of them are very direct, mainly being attack skills or creation skills. First one that came to mind was the "Acrobatics" tree, which I used to use as my Wood Elf Ranger in Oblivion, with them being quick and athletic, it fit with the role.
 
So far, I've spent more time frickin' around with downloading at w4nk speeds from Steam than I have done playing it.
TBH, I'm going to buy physical anything I can from now on.
4 hours and nearly a fifth of my bandwidth allowance later, I've got a game that cost more than the physical media, has none of the extras that come with the physical media, has NO resale value unlike physical media and can't be played if my net goes down unexpectedly.
TBH, I think I'm saying that Steam stinks of doggydoodoo, and I will only be buying games on offer from them from now on. I will never buy another premium title from them again.

On the plus side, Skyrim is sexed up Oblivion. When I finally redownloaded it and got it working, it's great. Shame most of my beers were gone by the time I got to play it, senses too dull to really appreciate it.
 
Yup, speech is the main issue with low sound, nothing else, its a right pain when something is going on but you have to get next to whoever is talking and look directly at them just to hear what they are saying.

There's also a couple major buggy moments with sound in terms of horrendous design...... you get a power, the game plays big happy "you've just got a power" type music for about 15 seconds, but the guy is still talking and I couldn't hear a damn thing he said, seeing as its part of the main storyline, thats just crazy lazy and stupid.


Also the freaking stupidity that is randomly crap in the room flying everywhere, so irksome, doesn't happen all the time but in one dungeon it happened basically everywhere, in huge cavernous rooms, with water, so I was looking for all the loot for god damned ages.

There are awesome bits in this game, and it looks VERY good for a tiny game that runs so smoothly. IT would run smoother for more people if it could use 4 threads properly, so they missed the boat there, and difficulty wise its not quite working.

I managed to kill that ice troll, but he was a badass who would pretty much kill me in one combo when he did power hits. Long range sneaky archer + companion with me, died a couple times but got it done, theres a cave full of normal trolls, killed one fine, but further in another troll one shotted my companion, I was running in circles healing and hitting him when his friend showed up and made me cry :p

At the moment I've killed off a leader in a camp for one mission, and later on got the same mission again from someone else, which leads me to the dead body and the quest won't move on, oh well.

The stealing is a bit, silly, as is some of the dialogue, I broke into a store to steal everything and the entire time, the lady who owned it was asleep upstairs....... talking to me, offering me stuff as if she were behind the counter :p

I do hate the time sink that dev's put in these games where, a sword thats worth 200, a store will only buy it off you for 30 or whatever, then it will be on sale instantly again at 200. I've just cleared out the entire castle of crap in the first main town you hit, room by room, thank god with companion(if you didn't know, you can give them stuff to carry). Its ridiculous, just have realistic pricing and let people have money, you're a hero and awesome and it bugs me in every single stupid damn game.
 
Must be 3-4 hours in now, maybe more, does it say played time in-game somewhere?

I found it quite confusing at first but I'm getting used to it now. It's all a bit too deep for me and I prefer things more simple but once you get past first few hours it gets better.

You know that first town you enter, riverdale or something, I went in a house and was talking to people and then after everyone in the town including the people I had spoke to were attacking me so I had to run off.

And then when I was running across the vast lands there was these cavemen type people around a camp fire, they hit me once and I flew 500 feet into the sky and died, that was weird. Guess they must have been some kind of elite mob.

Also guards kept attacking me all over the place, I didnt realise I had even done anything wrong.

I stole a horse at one point tho, that was after everything that I'd explained previously happened. I didn't have 1000 gold so had to steal it. Once I got off the horse though it ran off, I thought it would stick with me after a while?

Am suing xbox 360 controller and sitting back in chair and relaxing whilst playing. I think I've just got inside my first dungeon, it seems like a dungeon anyways and I just killed a big spider? Is that the first dungeon?

So far it seems like a great game with amazing graphics and a sweet engine which runs perfect on my rig but the moment I first entered the game I noticed when you look up at the sky the lightining changes, I've noticed many games do this these days too, I think battlefield 3 might even do it. I wonder why game companies make it so when you look up and down the light changes. It's kinda strange and distracting but I guess they were going for some sort of effect/visual look. Anyone else find that annoying though?

Also probably the 2nd thing that annoys me after the lighting effect with the sky is all the items and crap in my bags and it slowing me down and not sure what I can get rid of as I dont know how useful the items will be later.
 
Just killed the first Dragon, Epic!

Fantastic game so far, i can't find much to moan about really(not that i am looking). It is just the performance which i still have problems with. When fighting the dragon with everything flying around everywhere and loads happening on screen i got a constant 60fps, i then returned to the town where i was getting 25fps:confused: Very annoying.

It has kind of taken me by suprise just how good this is tbh.

drunkenmaster said:
Yup, speech is the main issue with low sound, nothing else, its a right pain when something is going on but you have to get next to whoever is talking and look directly at them just to hear what they are saying.
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Yeah i am finding this a bit as well, i think maybe they listened to the criticism a lot of people had over their other games about the camera always zooming in on the faces of the people you talk to, so now conversations often start away from NPC's so sometimes you can't hear them as clearly.
 
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