General Malaise "vs." reading comprehension ; also some talk of skyim and the elder scrolls (6 Viewers)

[TxBuckeye]

Here are all the items and bugs the patch fixes. Note that even though something may be listed as fixed, they are not 100% sure all will work with if the patch is downloaded while in the middle of a game. It seems more reliable if you download the patch and then start a new game.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrimatch

Yea, with over a 130 hours invested, that certainly isn't happening. I can't see the list here at work, but someone posted it a few pages back. Thanks though.

 

[culdeus]

Got a new tv and a new xbox. Moving the save over was super easy. If someone still is trying to do that and has issues let me know.

 

[General Malaise]

LET'S GO SKYRIM!!!!! CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP

 

[NCCommish]

LET'S GO SKYRIM!!!!! CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP

This is the little thread that could.

 

[culdeus]

how long till the skyrim werewolf game kicks off?

 

[AcerFC]

how long till the skyrim werewolf game kicks off?

next week IMOMatts ran skyrim speedwolf IIRC

 

[culdeus]

how long till the skyrim werewolf game kicks off?

next week IMOMatts ran skyrim speedwolf IIRC

I was joking, is this serious

 

[TxBuckeye]

Wow, liking the patch so far. Didn't help me with my one stuck quest, but the game seemed smooth. No herky jerky motion, quicker load time between areas, no lock ups.

 

[Todem]

Wow, liking the patch so far. Didn't help me with my one stuck quest, but the game seemed smooth. No herky jerky motion, quicker load time between areas, no lock ups.

Thats what I wanted to hear.About to play tonight. It has been a while. Off to do some adventuring.

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

So how do you get 1.4?

I only see 1.2 and 1.3 on Steam.

 

[TxBuckeye]

So how do you get 1.4?I only see 1.2 and 1.3 on Steam.

I turned on my PS3 and loaded the game.

 

[crush304]

i'm bad at this...

lydia walks in front of me and gets one shot

a while later i'm faced against a boss and i see him pull out a dwarven war hammer,

no problem, i'll just go berserker and slice him up

#### i forgot i had just used it of for the day to kill a dragon back in town,

my orc lies dead in a pool of blood

 

[joker]

Question - my stepdaughters just "lost" my Skyrim disk for the 360 (it means they broke it but won't own up to it). **Sigh**

If I go buy a new disk, all of my saved games should still be there, right? Installing the game again (if I even have to) won't overwrite them, will it? Will I even have to install it again or just pop the new disk in and start where I left off?

 

[thayman]

Question - my stepdaughters just "lost" my Skyrim disk for the 360 (it means they broke it but won't own up to it). **Sigh**If I go buy a new disk, all of my saved games should still be there, right? Installing the game again (if I even have to) won't overwrite them, will it? Will I even have to install it again or just pop the new disk in and start where I left off?

All of the game info is on your Hard Drive or Memory Unit. You can put in any Skyrim disc and you will be good to go.

 

[Bigboy10182000]

Is there a breakdown anywhere of what types of enemies fill what kinds of soul gem?

 

[NewlyRetired]

I am struggling with the dragons :(

Not that they are killing me but they keep flying away before I can kill them when I have knocked their health way down. I have killed 3 and had 3 escape. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

========================

One more question: Ignoring perks, if my one handed skill goes up, does the damage I do with one handed weapons go up or are the skills only related to attaining perks?

 

[TxBuckeye]

Is there a breakdown anywhere of what types of enemies fill what kinds of soul gem?

Alphabetical

 

[TxBuckeye]

I am struggling with the dragons :(Not that they are killing me but they keep flying away before I can kill them when I have knocked their health way down. I have killed 3 and had 3 escape. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

I've had very few fly away after they have taken damage from me. Normally when one flies away, it is because I was never able to get it to target me. When they are flying away, are they fighting you? Or are they fighting other enemies too at the time?

 

[NewlyRetired]

I am struggling with the dragons :(Not that they are killing me but they keep flying away before I can kill them when I have knocked their health way down. I have killed 3 and had 3 escape. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

I've had very few fly away after they have taken damage from me. Normally when one flies away, it is because I was never able to get it to target me. When they are flying away, are they fighting you? Or are they fighting other enemies too at the time?

Once in a town where a bunch of people were fighting and twice just me.

 

[thecatch]

I was goofing off yesterday during an extended play session in the wilds (thus, no auto-saves) and finally managed to get my destruction skill up to 100. About 45 seconds later, I run into a pyromancer and an equivalent frost mage (types of enemies I'd never seen previously in 100+ hrs of gameplay) and got 2 shot killed (my guy is a level 56, full glass armor). I didn't realize enemies would scale based on your level in a combat specific skill before.

Too bad I won't see them again for awhile, given that I ended up losing a couple of hours worth of leveling

 

[Tat]

I am struggling with the dragons :(Not that they are killing me but they keep flying away before I can kill them when I have knocked their health way down. I have killed 3 and had 3 escape. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?========================One more question: Ignoring perks, if my one handed skill goes up, does the damage I do with one handed weapons go up or are the skills only related to attaining perks?

There's a shout you will learn that will keep the dragons floored for extended periods of time. Another thing you can do in the meantime, I think, is to bash them with your shield, it stuns them for a little bit.

 

[NCCommish]

I am struggling with the dragons :(Not that they are killing me but they keep flying away before I can kill them when I have knocked their health way down. I have killed 3 and had 3 escape. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

I've had very few fly away after they have taken damage from me. Normally when one flies away, it is because I was never able to get it to target me. When they are flying away, are they fighting you? Or are they fighting other enemies too at the time?

Yeah I have had two fly away to attack something else while we were fighting but never had one take off once engaged just to run. Luckily those two stayed close and I got there in time to get their souls.On the perk thing I think your damage goes up but it goes up more if you add the perk.

 

[NCCommish]

So had a pretty good yesterday. Learned a new word, killed my first blood dragon(that was pretty tough), took out a frost troll for the first time(don't know why but these have been kicking my butt), and met Mjoll. I am looking forward to getting her onboard today. How do I get her to ask me to go get her sword? I need that to get her to follow right? Or could I marry her and she'll follow anyway cause I'm down for one less dwarven dungeon crawl if I can get there.

 

[NCCommish]

All right, as creepy as this sounds, I am out to go win Mjoll's favor. I got several sidequests to help people in Riften and am hoping completing them will raise my rep enough to get the sword quest. It's a lot easier to date in real life.

 

[Hawks64]

All right, as creepy as this sounds, I am out to go win Mjoll's favor. I got several sidequests to help people in Riften and am hoping completing them will raise my rep enough to get the sword quest. It's a lot easier to date in real life.

You get the quest if you tell her the thieves guild sucks. You essentially have to agree with her complaints about them and the scum in Riften.

 

[NCCommish]

All right, as creepy as this sounds, I am out to go win Mjoll's favor. I got several sidequests to help people in Riften and am hoping completing them will raise my rep enough to get the sword quest. It's a lot easier to date in real life.

You get the quest if you tell her the thieves guild sucks. You essentially have to agree with her complaints about them and the scum in Riften.

I did that no quest. Then I did some reading and I found out some folks have to do missions for the locals to raise their positives in Riften before she'll give them the quest. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason but it may be due to having a bounty prior to meeting her is a theory I read. I had one for theft. Still not sure what I stole. So I'm doing the fish delivery, the pickup for the alchemist and I already got Sapphire to lay off the stable guy.

 

[NCCommish]

Meant to add got the 1.4 update(Xbox 360) and since I didn't have any quests messed up so the only thing I noticed was less delay with scenery uploading and going through doors.

 

[NCCommish]

So I have come to the attention of the Dark Brotherhood for killing the old bat at the orphanage. I am just wandering along minding my own business, take a nap and wake up with Astrid. I am not big on being told what to do so I went with killing her. It was easier than I thought it would be and I guess I am now Destroying the Dark Brotherhood. They should remember me from last time I wiped them out.

A tip for fighting Astrid should you end up in the shack:

Spoiler

You can stand behind the captives and hit her with arrows or long distance destruction, It appears she won't cross over the hostages. I found this by accident. I decided to kill her but I wanted some distance. She never got a hit in.

 

[NewlyRetired]

I am struggling with the dragons :(Not that they are killing me but they keep flying away before I can kill them when I have knocked their health way down. I have killed 3 and had 3 escape. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?========================One more question: Ignoring perks, if my one handed skill goes up, does the damage I do with one handed weapons go up or are the skills only related to attaining perks?

There's a shout you will learn that will keep the dragons floored for extended periods of time. Another thing you can do in the meantime, I think, is to bash them with your shield, it stuns them for a little bit.

one of my dragons never landed. I was on the very edge of a mountain and there was no where for him to set down. I shot arrows when he would hover but eventually he just flew off in the distance and circled and I could not hit him.

 

[NewlyRetired]

I am struggling with the dragons :(

Not that they are killing me but they keep flying away before I can kill them when I have knocked their health way down. I have killed 3 and had 3 escape. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

========================

One more question: Ignoring perks, if my one handed skill goes up, does the damage I do with one handed weapons go up or are the skills only related to attaining perks?

I don't think dragons try to escape. They may fly away if they lose track of you or zero in on something else. I've had it happen to me a handful of times. Just shake your fist and move on. You don't happen to be sneaking, do you? Because that can make it more likely.Here's the damage calculation from UESP

displayed damage = (base damage + smithing increase) * (1 + 0.5 * skill/100) * (1 + perk effects) * (1 + item effects)

So every time you increase your level in a weapon skill, you increase your damage by half a percent.

awesome thanks! I assume it works that way for all skills, even the non combat skills (ie you get a tiny bit better every skill level).

 

[NCCommish]

I don't think Mjoll finds me attractive

 

[Bigboy10182000]

I think I now must have thousand of ingediants and I'm about to test out that alchemy planner and before I did I was curious about something. After I pump everything in will it just show me the highest priced potions or will it show all of them so I know what makes what?

 

[TxBuckeye]

I think I now must have thousand of ingediants and I'm about to test out that alchemy planner and before I did I was curious about something. After I pump everything in will it just show me the highest priced potions or will it show all of them so I know what makes what?

It will show you the best way to combine ingredients in order from highest value to lowest. It will NOT tell you what you are making. It's just a list of recipes and values. It is basically going to tell you how to mix everything you have to make the most money.

 

[TxBuckeye]

Pretty sure I'm about to finish this thing. I am about to enter the Hall of Valor. When done, the big question will be, again with a new toon, continue with my current toon and just do those things I haven't done (Dark Brotherhood, Markath, Solitude, finish Thieves Guild, etc), or move on and play something else for awhile. Not real sure which way I want to go. I have the following sitting on the shelf unplayed:

Mass Effect 2

Dark Space 2

Uncharted 2

Demon's Souls (half way through it)

 

[Bigboy10182000]

I think I now must have thousand of ingediants and I'm about to test out that alchemy planner and before I did I was curious about something. After I pump everything in will it just show me the highest priced potions or will it show all of them so I know what makes what?

It will show you the best way to combine ingredients in order from highest value to lowest. It will NOT tell you what you are making. It's just a list of recipes and values. It is basically going to tell you how to mix everything you have to make the most money.

Other then buying the recipes or just trying things is there a way to find this out?

 

[NCCommish]

All of the sudden the game is thick with dragons. Just killed my third blood dragon today. I guess it's places I'm going but that doesn't even count the two that passed me by. I don't think I've ever seen 5 dragons in one days play.

 

[thayman]

All of the sudden the game is thick with dragons. Just killed my third blood dragon today. I guess it's places I'm going but that doesn't even count the two that passed me by. I don't think I've ever seen 5 dragons in one days play.

I hit spurts like that as well. No dragons for awhile then all of a sudden I can't do anything without having a dragon getting in the mix.

 

[NCCommish]

All of the sudden the game is thick with dragons. Just killed my third blood dragon today. I guess it's places I'm going but that doesn't even count the two that passed me by. I don't think I've ever seen 5 dragons in one days play.

I hit spurts like that as well. No dragons for awhile then all of a sudden I can't do anything without having a dragon getting in the mix.

Yeah it seems like every time I come out of a cave or whatever there is a dragon waiting nearby. Oh well now that I have a house I at least have somewhere to stash the bones and scales. Of course I have put nothing into smithing so not sure how much good that will do me in the long run.

 

[NewlyRetired]

All of the sudden the game is thick with dragons. Just killed my third blood dragon today. I guess it's places I'm going but that doesn't even count the two that passed me by. I don't think I've ever seen 5 dragons in one days play.

I hit spurts like that as well. No dragons for awhile then all of a sudden I can't do anything without having a dragon getting in the mix.

Yeah it seems like every time I come out of a cave or whatever there is a dragon waiting nearby. Oh well now that I have a house I at least have somewhere to stash the bones and scales. Of course I have put nothing into smithing so not sure how much good that will do me in the long run.

Just keep storing all leather and iron ingots you find. After you have a ton, go to a forge and make iron daggers. Smithing levels up incredibly quickly.

 

[NCCommish]

All of the sudden the game is thick with dragons. Just killed my third blood dragon today. I guess it's places I'm going but that doesn't even count the two that passed me by. I don't think I've ever seen 5 dragons in one days play.

I hit spurts like that as well. No dragons for awhile then all of a sudden I can't do anything without having a dragon getting in the mix.

Yeah it seems like every time I come out of a cave or whatever there is a dragon waiting nearby. Oh well now that I have a house I at least have somewhere to stash the bones and scales. Of course I have put nothing into smithing so not sure how much good that will do me in the long run.

Just keep storing all leather and iron ingots you find. After you have a ton, go to a forge and make iron daggers. Smithing levels up incredibly quickly.

Thanks I'll keep that in mind. Of course I think I'll still need perks to get to making dragon armor. And those get harder to come by the further along you go.

 

[Arizona Ron]

Waste of $60

 

[TxBuckeye]

Thanks I'll keep that in mind. Of course I think I'll still need perks to get to making dragon armor. And those get harder to come by the further along you go.

Yes, you need to complete the heavy or light side of smithing perks to get to dragon, 5 perks in all. And your smithing will have to be at 100 to choose it.

 

[NCCommish]

Waste of $60

Sorry you didn't get into it.

 

[Bigboy10182000]

Thanks I'll keep that in mind. Of course I think I'll still need perks to get to making dragon armor. And those get harder to come by the further along you go.

Yes, you need to complete the heavy or light side of smithing perks to get to dragon, 5 perks in all. And your smithing will have to be at 100 to choose it.

I did Boethiah's Calling and got

Spoiler

A nice Ebony Mail with muffle and an effect that posions enemies that get close

I went up the left side of the Smithing tree but I may have to put a couple more perks in (Ebony & Arcane) to make it stronger. Anyone else do this?

 

[Rustoleum]

Thanks I'll keep that in mind. Of course I think I'll still need perks to get to making dragon armor. And those get harder to come by the further along you go.

Yes, you need to complete the heavy or light side of smithing perks to get to dragon, 5 perks in all. And your smithing will have to be at 100 to choose it.

I did Boethiah's Calling and got

Spoiler

A nice Ebony Mail with muffle and an effect that posions enemies that get close

I went up the left side of the Smithing tree but I may have to put a couple more perks in (Ebony & Arcane) to make it stronger. Anyone else do this?

Forget about being a sneak archer with that armor. On xbox360 at least, when you go first-person, sneak, and try to zoom, the noxious black fumes coming off your body obscure your targets something fierce.

Spoiler

But it is funny to sneak up behind weak enemies and just stand there until they die without ever hitting them.

 

[NewlyRetired]

Waste of $60

Sell it on eBay to recoup some of your cost. Not sure why you spent 60 to begin with though. I picked mine up 3 weeks ago for 35.

 

[NewlyRetired]

Thanks I'll keep that in mind. Of course I think I'll still need perks to get to making dragon armor. And those get harder to come by the further along you go.

Yes, you need to complete the heavy or light side of smithing perks to get to dragon, 5 perks in all. And your smithing will have to be at 100 to choose it.

I think the Heavy path is 6 perks to get to dragon, light path is 5 perks. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:SmithingI also intend to use one perk at smithing level 60 to allow me to upgrade enchanted armor.Leather to Elven to Glass to Dragon is my planned light armor path.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Thanks I'll keep that in mind. Of course I think I'll still need perks to get to making dragon armor. And those get harder to come by the further along you go.

Yes, you need to complete the heavy or light side of smithing perks to get to dragon, 5 perks in all. And your smithing will have to be at 100 to choose it.

I think the Heavy path is 6 perks to get to dragon, light path is 5 perks. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Smithing

I also intend to use one perk at smithing level 60 to allow me to upgrade enchanted armor.

Leather to Elven to Glass to Dragon is my planned light armor path.

Let me give you a tip: Dragon armor isn't worth it. Daedric is cooler looking and just as tough. The only difference is the Dragon armor is a little lighter.Don't go the light armor path. Any armor you end up wearing can be found or bought and enchanted. The Heavy armor line is way better because the weapons are better. Having a Daedric sword before glass weapons are even available from merchants is a huge advantage.

 

[NewlyRetired]

Thanks I'll keep that in mind. Of course I think I'll still need perks to get to making dragon armor. And those get harder to come by the further along you go.

Yes, you need to complete the heavy or light side of smithing perks to get to dragon, 5 perks in all. And your smithing will have to be at 100 to choose it.

I think the Heavy path is 6 perks to get to dragon, light path is 5 perks. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Smithing

I also intend to use one perk at smithing level 60 to allow me to upgrade enchanted armor.

Leather to Elven to Glass to Dragon is my planned light armor path.

Let me give you a tip: Dragon armor isn't worth it. Daedric is cooler looking and just as tough. The only difference is the Dragon armor is a little lighter.Don't go the light armor path. Any armor you end up wearing can be found or bought and enchanted. The Heavy armor line is way better because the weapons are better. Having a Daedric sword before glass weapons are even available from merchants is a huge advantage.

Too late, I have already built the character around light armor. Way too late to change it. Maybe with my next character I will go with heavy if I build a tank.

 

[NCCommish]

Thanks I'll keep that in mind. Of course I think I'll still need perks to get to making dragon armor. And those get harder to come by the further along you go.

Yes, you need to complete the heavy or light side of smithing perks to get to dragon, 5 perks in all. And your smithing will have to be at 100 to choose it.

I think the Heavy path is 6 perks to get to dragon, light path is 5 perks. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Smithing

I also intend to use one perk at smithing level 60 to allow me to upgrade enchanted armor.

Leather to Elven to Glass to Dragon is my planned light armor path.

Let me give you a tip: Dragon armor isn't worth it. Daedric is cooler looking and just as tough. The only difference is the Dragon armor is a little lighter.Don't go the light armor path. Any armor you end up wearing can be found or bought and enchanted. The Heavy armor line is way better because the weapons are better. Having a Daedric sword before glass weapons are even available from merchants is a huge advantage.

Yeah I was too far in when I realized how much smithing could mean to my character. Next guy will definitely explore it far more heavily.