The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

Jono8 · 2 Dec 2011 at 15:01

Cliste said:
I'm just looking at the Hi-Res screenshot thread and a fair few people play as females. A lot have done so in Oblivion too.

I've never bothered, but is there a great satisfaction of taking down a dragon as a female warrior?.. not to sound sexist .

I reckon that when I get the game I'll do so on one of my many run throughs.

I'll just wait for a realistic boob physics mod before doing so

Matmulder · 2 Dec 2011 at 15:05

Silly question maybe...

But how do you have multiple saves/characters? I was told that if I backed up my save folder from MyDocs, then created a new game, if I try to then revert back to the original files (and saves) it won't work??

Redman · 2 Dec 2011 at 15:25

Cliste said:
I'm just looking at the Hi-Res screenshot thread and a fair few people play as females. A lot have done so in Oblivion too.

I've never bothered, but is there a great satisfaction of taking down a dragon as a female warrior?.. not to sound sexist .

I reckon that when I get the game I'll do so on one of my many run throughs.

I normally play females tbh, I find it a bit weird watching the back end of a bloke wandering around, picking his clothes & looking after him. And if it's a game with relationships, either ignore or lez up, job done

Usher · 2 Dec 2011 at 15:41

you can of course change sex during the game via the console by typing' sexchange'

CaptainRAVE · 2 Dec 2011 at 15:42

Usher said:
you can of course change sex during the game via the console by typing' sexchange'

lol

Calabi · 2 Dec 2011 at 15:44

Matmulder said:
Silly question maybe...

But how do you have multiple saves/characters? I was told that if I backed up my save folder from MyDocs, then created a new game, if I try to then revert back to the original files (and saves) it won't work??

Use this:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=15#content

xxShinobixx · 2 Dec 2011 at 16:41

Deadbeat said:
Aye, but my enchanting isn't really high enough yet (can get up to 22% reduced cost), I've not really levelled alchemy much (it seems very slow to level, despite me making potions of pretty much everything I pick up along the way) and part of me really doesn't want to break the game by making insane destruction spells completely free to cast.

Even with 22% you still can get 88% reduction when you enchant 4 different items as they all stack.

SuperTronNarwhal · 2 Dec 2011 at 16:49

Redman said:
I normally play females tbh, I find it a bit weird watching the back end of a bloke wandering around, picking his clothes & looking after him. And if it's a game with relationships, either ignore or lez up, job done

Dave**** · 2 Dec 2011 at 16:54

Deadbeat said:
Aye, but my enchanting isn't really high enough yet (can get up to 22% reduced cost), I've not really levelled alchemy much (it seems very slow to level, despite me making potions of pretty much everything I pick up along the way) and part of me really doesn't want to break the game by making insane destruction spells completely free to cast.

You can eventually get up to 34% free destro spells so you only need 3 pieces of armour with it on, I have done this and put water breathing on the item that used to have the last 25% destro on.

It does make it a tad easy even on Master, but, "I'm a wizard, Harry!!!"

Deadbeat · 2 Dec 2011 at 16:57

xxShinobixx said:
Even with 22% you still can get 88% reduction when you enchant 4 different items as they all stack.

Got 85% at the moment - 22% on neck & head, 21% on ring (need another enchanting phial to get the extra percent out of a grand soul gem) and 20% on expert's robes of destruction along with 125% magicka regen. Strange that it's reduced so much and still I can only cast about 4 thunderbolts until I have to pause :/. No fortify magicka gear on right now.

Incinerate is seeing me through for single target though, considerably cheaper to cast and more damage for single targets than its shock equivalent. Got Thunderbolt on 2 and chain lightning on 3, which pretty much covers all the basics - never really need ice as big scary warrior types end up consistently staggered, big shock for pesky mages and chain shock for groups of wimps

Edit: 34%! WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?

Dave**** · 2 Dec 2011 at 17:15

Deadbeat said:
Edit: 34%! WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?

I told you, I'm a wizard, Harry

And I lied, it was 28%.

Haven't played it for so long I forgot exactly how I did it. Here is a screen of how I managed it...

I made some crafting gear to increase my enchanting potions which made the 25% become 28% and it also made the 15% (on chest) become 18%. Which is only 3 pieces of armour.

28+28+28+18 = 102

I then equipped my Crafting Gear again to make some fortify smithing potions and then used them with my Crafting Gear to upgrade to my main gear to Legendary (I only have 3 points in Smithing).

Usher · 2 Dec 2011 at 17:20

I just changed my character to female

I immediately got a bit smaller & my front expanded, I also looked prettier :rolleyes:

,

Earlier in the game I married my female mercenary (Lydia) although she ran off straight after the wedding :confused:

so I now stake my claim to be the first official Skyrim Lesbian

Radiation · 2 Dec 2011 at 17:28

The graphics are a bit disappointing, i don't know whether it's the lighting or textures but everything looks a bit dull and flat, things don't really pop, it all just blends together like in older games.

Im guessing consoles are to blame for the lack of polish, maybe next generation things will have moved on?

Deadbeat · 2 Dec 2011 at 17:31

So you can enchant gloves to give you +alchemy skill,which makes your potions stronger, and you can make potions to give you stronger enchanting... if you have the mats for it, surely you could make an infinite loop here?

Dave**** · 2 Dec 2011 at 17:34

Deadbeat said:
So you can enchant gloves to give you +alchemy skill,which makes your potions stronger, and you can make potions to give you stronger enchanting... if you have the mats for it, surely you could make an infinite loop here?

You know, I hadn't thought of making some new Crafting gear with 28% on.... you might be right.

Fanatic · 2 Dec 2011 at 17:35

Dave**** said:
I told you, I'm a wizard, Harry And I lied, it was 28%.

Haven't played it for so long I forgot exactly how I did it. Here is a screen of how I managed it...

I made some crafting gear to increase my enchanting potions which made the 25% become 28% and it also made the 15% (on chest) become 18%. Which is only 3 pieces of armour.

28+28+28+18 = 102

I then equipped my Crafting Gear again to make some fortify smithing potions and then used them with my Crafting Gear to upgrade to my main gear to Legendary (I only have 3 points in Smithing).

Is all that crafting gear Dwarven? There is a quest that at the end you get an ability with 25% smithing bonus if wearing a full suit of Dwarven armour.

The quest is called Unfathomable Depths

Deadbeat · 2 Dec 2011 at 17:38

I've never seen any gear with a "fortify enchanting" enchant on, I'dimagine because getting that enchant would break crafting a bit. Enchant a piece to fortify enchanting, wear that to enchant a new piece with fortify enchanting, wear that to enchant a new piece with fortify enchanting, wear that to... and so on

Dave**** · 2 Dec 2011 at 17:38

Fanatic said:
Is all that crafting gear Dwarven? There is a quest that at the end you get an ability with 25% smithing bonus if wearing a full suit of Dwarven armour.

The quest is called Unfathomable Depths

Nah it's a mix of Elven (chest, helm) and Steel (gloves). I bought a necklace from a trader with fortify smithing on and disenchanted it. I did the same with fortify alchemy.

Dave**** · 2 Dec 2011 at 17:39

Deadbeat said:
I've never seen any gear with a "fortify enchanting" enchant on, I'dimagine because getting that enchant would break crafting a bit. Enchant a piece to fortify enchanting, wear that to enchant a new piece with fortify enchanting, wear that to enchant a new piece with fortify enchanting, wear that to... and so on

Yeah, there isn't any. But that idea about the fortify alchemy you had may well work, to some degree.

drunkenmaster · 2 Dec 2011 at 17:46

Deadbeat said:
So you can enchant gloves to give you +alchemy skill,which makes your potions stronger, and you can make potions to give you stronger enchanting... if you have the mats for it, surely you could make an infinite loop here?

Pretty much, its ridiculous basically.

I think I have a set of clothes/jewellery that gives me something along the lines of 80+% for alchemy and smithing, then you can make alchemy potions, then use that and do alchemy poitions for smithing, then you put on smithing gear, with a +85% smithing thing and get silly silly silly upgrades to armour.

Its laughable, I've gotten so bored of the game I haven't played in a week nor felt the need to finish it. Other than doing so much side quest crap that's inane, the loot is awful compared to crafted/enchanted stuff, but almost nothing even makes a dent. One shot almost everything, anything below the equivilent of an elite type dude doesn't even make health go down any more.

Also with crafting you can obviously level up crafting to get the +100% strength of potion type options or enchantments. being an archer beyond a lot of archery talents, there isn't much else you need so getting up to 2 enchants is easy, and a few points in alchemy to get the base 100% strength. Armour upgrades a couple points but at almost level 50 my light armour skill is still around 35-40 because nothing gets close

Had I known I wouldn't have leveled enchanting/crafting/potions as hard

its FAR to easy, the crafting system is completely borked, the improvements to armour/weapons needs to be cut in half, at the minimum.

The crafting system is also painfully easy to not exploit but, rush through. Fast travel around, buy up all the iron/steel, leather, build hats/daggers, stick on companion, enchant and sell, rinse repeat over and over again for a couple hours, done.... invincible.