Elder Scrolls : Skyrim

[TarionzCousin]

This was entertaining: 100 Ways to Die in Skyrim

For #47, does he jump on a bird? I can't see the bird under his feet. I don't know how he did this.

 

[TarionzCousin]

For those of you with an iPad, there's an app for annotating a Skyrim map.

An article about it can be found here.

 

[frankthedm]

but the random encounter dragon just sat on the ground flapping in the wind. I'm guessing that's this bug.

Had one of those happen two nights ago. Was a base vanilla dragon. The body failed to skeletonize.

I've seen a few dragon skeletons fuse into the scenery so they become unmovable / tethered. Thank the Nine you can just walk through them. Still I do like using spells to send dragon skeletons catapaulting into the next Hold.

 

[Banshee16]

Patch incoming!

Skyrim 1.2 update | Bethesda Blog

• Improved occasional performance issues resulting from long term play (PlayStation 3)
• Fixed issue where textures would not properly upgrade when installed to drive (Xbox 360)
• Fixed crash on startup when audio is set to sample rate other than 44100Hz (PC)
• Fixed issue where projectiles did not properly fade away
• Fixed occasional issue where a guest would arrive to the player’s wedding dead
• Dragon corpses now clean up properly
• Fixed rare issue where dragons would not attack
• Fixed rare NPC sleeping animation bug
• Fixed rare issue with dead corpses being cleared up prematurely
• Skeleton Key will now work properly if player has no lockpicks in their inventory
• Fixed rare issue with renaming enchanted weapons and armor
• Fixed rare issue with dragons not properly giving souls after death
• ESC button can now be used to exit menus (PC)
• Fixed occasional mouse sensitivity issues (PC)
• General functionality fixes related to remapping buttons and controls (PC)

I thought many newer TVs worked with computer outputs?

Many do...I think. Mine has a bunch of HDMI inputs as well as computer inputs.....but it's in our living room, which is in the basement, whereas the computer I have that may be capable of running Skyrim is in my office on the second floor, and it's housed in a tower casing, so it's honestly a pain in the butt to move it around just to play a game. And a laptop that could play it would likely be ginormously expensive. My laptop's an ordinary Toshiba Satellite business computer with onboard video....definitely not sufficient for gaming.

Or use the XBox 360 or PS3 I have sitting down there

Banshee

 

[Goodsport]

I finally bought Skyrim (PS3 version) and its Official Strategy Guide on Monday, though I only finally had time to start playing it in earnest the following day. It's pretty good so far, and I've found myself mainly playing it in third-person view. I suppose I'm fortunate that I had the latest v1.2 patch downloaded and installed prior to playing the game for the first time.

It's still too bad that I didn't get a chance to play Oblivion when it was first released, as reading about its events still won't be the same as having lived (played) them. Though I technically could still buy it now and play it, that'd be that much more time (limited already as it is) that I then wouldn't be playing Skyrim.


-G

 

[Banshee16]

Patch incoming!

[*] Fixed issue where textures would not properly upgrade when installed to drive (Xbox 360)


I thought many newer TVs worked with computer outputs?

I just got Skyrim yesterday and tried it last night. Fantastically immersive when compared to Oblivion.

However, that bug fix references installing textures to XBox. I take it there's a bug with that? I just put the disk in the drive and started playing. Is there something like in Battlefield 3 where there are high res texture packs you can install to make the game look better? Or is it just that some players install the game on their HDD so that the drive isn't always spinning?

Banshee

 

[frankthedm]

Or is it just that some players install the game on their HDD so that the drive isn't always spinning?

This is the problem. Installing lets one save lots of wear and tear on their system, a critical thing with just how tempting it is to keep playing the game for HOURS on end. The bug means the game won't look as good when installed.

 

[Agamon]

Hmmm, I hope the patch fixed at least some of the issue as advertised. Last night I decided to install the game now that they fixed the texture issue, but water looks pixelated now. Also, I finally saw the dead-dragon-no-soul bug after 3 hours post patch, but not in the 75 hours I played pre-patch.

 

[Banshee16]

Hmmm, I hope the patch fixed at least some of the issue as advertised. Last night I decided to install the game now that they fixed the texture issue, but water looks pixelated now. Also, I finally saw the dead-dragon-no-soul bug after 3 hours post patch, but not in the 75 hours I played pre-patch.

I'm thinking I'm going to just leave mine on the DVD, and take my chances. I have a spare 360 if it comes down to it.

I'm honestly awestruck when I turn the game on....compared to Oblivion, the graphics are just night and day. Character models are much better, the environmental effects, sound effects, the wind blowing gusts of snow around, the rivers, the way Draugr pull themselves out of crypts to attack is just way, way cool. The whole idea of having a coffin sitting there, and you touch it, and presto, the monster appears and attacks has always been part of the technology limitations. But to see that corpse laying in a niche in the wall, and to see it literally pull itself out, straighten up to standing, and then shamble after you is just....woah. That's a level of immersion I haven't seen in many RPGs at all yet.

Now I kind of feel bad I haven't finished Oblivion. I was finally getting into it, but I'm not sure I can go back now

Banshee

 

[Kaodi]

If I may engage in some hyperbole: I do not know how I am ever going to survive without getting to play this game someday. Between exploration, scavenging, crafting, combat, and immersion... Ugh... Why did I ever quit games?!