The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

BriT · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:00

So whats everyones longest stint playing Skyrim? Mines 4 hours solid. Anymore and i get a headache.

iamtheoneneo · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:01

yeh i can do about 4-5 then I need to take a break especially if a quest was long, or the dungeon was a maze of pure ****. Like that one where you get to the end and the item has already been taken .... massive fail.

MrRoper · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:03

About 3-4 hours before I need to stop,

I found my first dwarven dungeon last night, god that thing was a maze! :O

marc1024 · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:03

Since 9am this morning

Deception · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:06

paulc25 said:
You probably have a disease

The dragons will attack if you hit them with a spell or arrow

Koalaboy said:
They last until you have them cured

Have a look in the menu under Magic->Active Effects. It'll show an effect in red if it's bad.

Shamikebab said:
Until you cure it

You can check what you have by looking in active effects in magic.

Haha thanks.. Damn spider bites! Surprised I aint dropped dead yet

Shamikebab · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:09

BriT said:
So whats everyones longest stint playing Skyrim? Mines 4 hours solid. Anymore and i get a headache.

Um 9am Friday morning until about 2am Saturday morning...

I did get a meal occasionally though

Pighardia · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:09

Definitely something up with drivers or whatever for me, that graphics mod which adds a load of post-processing effects has made no difference in FPS whatsoever, it looks even better as well(i didn't think that was possible.
I still get 60fps outside of towns and 25-35 inside of towns.

MrRoper · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:10

Pighardia said:
Definitely something up with drivers or whatever for me, that graphics mod which adds a load of post-processing effects has made no difference in FPS whatsoever, it looks even better as well(i didn't think that was possible.
I still get 60fps outside of towns and 25-35 inside of towns.

Is it worth using then? can you send a link to it if possible?

Koalaboy · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:13

BriT said:
So whats everyones longest stint playing Skyrim? Mines 4 hours solid. Anymore and i get a headache.

Only about 5-6 hours (until I am 'needed' by the family). I did manage 29 hours total from Thursday evening until Sunday though

Pighardia · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:17

MrRoper said:
Is it worth using then? can you send a link to it if possible?

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=131

I used the high saturation one, anyone else tried it and used something different?

redeye_uk · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:19

Im lucky to get 2-3 hours without being nagged at.

Great game though. Only done about 4 quests. Just spend lots of time cooking, smithing and making potions.

I've been pinged 400ft in the air a few times by giants now

Deception · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:21

What class is everyone? I've got for the typical 'me bash' fighter type with two handed axe atm. Does majicka run out as fast as stamina at early levels (I swing like a mad man!)

Beasty · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:21

To prove dragons are random, or at least rely on a dice roll to activate them in that cell, if you reload a save from just before you fast travelled and zone to there again, the dragon may not appear at all! I tested this fast travelling to riverwood once. It would be nice to think they are just placed in the game world to do their own thing but not sure that is how it works.

Kazz · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:22

Fine, I'll come out and say it.

I'm enjoying this more than Morrowind so far :eek:

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Taking nothing away from Morrowind, it's a fantastic game, but this is a little step up for me. Lots of things that I found iffy in MW have been finely tuned here. Best release of the year.

Billythekid · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:23

cant wait to get home and play this, just started last night, travelled to skidow (sp?) to join the imperial legion first, took sven with me for the ride so i want to get home to continue that

Pighardia · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:24

Kazz said:
I'm enjoying this more than Morrowind so far .

Nothing wrong with saying that, Morrowind was great, but times have changed and we have moved on.

Sasahara · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:26

I had an 8 hour stint for 10pm to 6am on saturday night.

Time sort of sliped by.

As for giants

lvl 8 Female Wood Elf 2 - Giants 0

Mr Krugga · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:26

Pighardia said:
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=131

I used the high saturation one, anyone else tried it and used something different?

The sharpen effect looks pretty crap judging from the screenshots posted here earlier.

Any way to get rid of the false AA and just use the colour correction, bloom, DoF, etc.?

EDIT: downloaded and realised there are different versions to choose from.

Deception · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:28

Sasahara said:
I had an 8 hour stint for 10pm to 6am on saturday night.
Time sort of sliped by.

As for giants

lvl 8 Female Wood Elf 2 - Giants 0

I ran at them with axe swinging thinking it was a normal enemy.. Can imagine my surprise when I got 1-hitted and then turned in to a golfball....FORE!

HaggisUK · 14 Nov 2011 at 14:31

Deception said:
What class is everyone? I've got for the typical 'me bash' fighter type with two handed axe atm. Does majicka run out as fast as stamina at early levels (I swing like a mad man!)

I have one of each

Majicka goes a lot further than stamina at the start of the game but after that management of it becomes worse with the higher spells you get whereas stamina gets easier.