Skyrim - The Elder Scrolls V

[Rub'Rum]

Yeah if your main problem with Oblivion was the bad monster scaling. Then jump into Skyrim right now. It still exists to some extent but I barely notice. It's more visible in terms of what items are available to you.

 

[Double A]

It's more visible in terms of what items are available to you.

Also known as "normal scaling."

Anyway, what's all this I hear about an Orcish Bow of Flames?

 

[uat2d]

Orcish Bow is a type of bow you can craft with the right perk - finding it should also be possible but those items can be really nasty to find. The flames part is an enchantment, I'm sure.

 

[Synobun]

Orcish Bow is a type of bow you can craft with the right perk - finding it should also be possible but those items can be really nasty to find. The flames part is an enchantment, I'm sure.

Really? I found it within my first 2 hours of playing.

 

[Lillefix]

It's more visible in terms of what items are available to you.

What people sell to you, you mean? You would think they could do that just by increasing the price of the good items? Or do you get enormous amounts of money very quickly?


In any case I do regret I never tried the level-scaling mods. I just became to depressed after I looked through an online guide on how to make a good Oblivion character and it explained you should specialise in skills you hardly used. Which made sense when you looked at the game mechanics, but was ridiculous in every other respect.

 

[trader/warrior]

Some of these timelapse videos look really cool.


Link to video.

Link to video.

Someone put a lot of smoke machines up on them mountains.

 

[Disgustipated]

and why are there so many dragons in this game? Is there supposed to be? They are quite difficult to defeat by myself when I encounter one traveling the countryside. I backtracked to a small out post so hopefully these 2 guards can help.

edit: okay, the dragon flew away over that mountain. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to fight these things or not. I really can't fight them unless they land.

 

[Maniacal]

Is that a serious question?

 

[Polycrates]

One of the best bugs I've ever experienced in any game:
I'm assassinating a target at some docks outside, carefully sneaking up behind them to make the kill, when an entire dragon skeleton falls from the sky right on top of their head.


@Disgustipated, from your difficulties with hagravens and dragons, it sounds like it might be worth investing in some potions and/or magic items of resist fire/frost, they really help.

 

[Linkman226]

and why are there so many dragons in this game?

One of the best bugs I've ever experienced in any game:
I'm assassinating a target at some docks outside, carefully sneaking up behind them to make the kill, when an entire dragon skeleton falls from the sky right on top of their head.

Is it a bug? Did the dragon legitimately die?

 

[GoodGame]

Is it a bug? Did the dragon legitimately die?

The dragon probably offended an Imperial Archer, who mistook him for a poacher. LOL

 

[Disgustipated]

The serious question is if I'm supposed to kill them all, or can I just run away from them?

I'm running into so many difficult enemies. It makes me think I'm not developing my character right. I'm trying not to do too many skills, and focus on only a few. I mostly focus on one handed weapons, destruction, light armor, and alchemy. Speech goes up pretty high on its own as well.

I ran into a few thalmor justicar npc's walking through the wilderness, I couldn't even come close to beating them. Am I supposed to? I just ran away, and went the long way around their known area.

I was able to defeat snowy sabre cat, but not before I died twice and my henchman died one. My fourth time I finally got it.

question: does this game get any easier after level 15 or 20 or is it going to always be this difficult?

edit: sigh, I'm fighting a dragon in the wilderness, and at the same time I get gang banged by bears. This game is frustratingly difficult. argh.

 

[Polycrates]

The serious question is if I'm supposed to kill them all, or can I just run away from them?

I'm running into so many difficult enemies. It makes me think I'm not developing my character right. I'm trying not to do too many skills, and focus on only a few. I mostly focus on one handed weapons, destruction, light armor, and alchemy. Speech goes up pretty high on its own as well.

I ran into a few thalmor justicar npc's walking through the wilderness, I couldn't even come close to beating them. Am I supposed to? I just ran away, and went the long way around their known area.

I was able to defeat snowy sabre cat, but not before I died twice and my henchman died one. My fourth time I finally got it.

question: does this game get any easier after level 15 or 20 or is it going to always be this difficult?

There's plenty of situations in the game where you're pretty much supposed to avoid or run away because there's no chance in hell that a low-level character can take it on. The game has a mix of scaled and unscaled stuff, and some things only scale from e.g. level 15+. Don't try and take on bears, sabre cats, trolls, giants, falmer, chauruses etc at really low levels. The northern areas seem more dangerous as well, but I can't confirm that. At higher levels there will still be tough situations, but there will be many more areas (especially general wilderness) that are easily manageable.
But yeah, no shame in sprinting away from something that's way too tough. For dungeons, there's usually some sort of telltale decoration outside the dungeon to give an idea of what sort of enemies are inside - and even if you're rubbish at stealth I'd advise going into sneak mode when you enter a dungeon, if they're far enough away you can usually get away without them seeing you. Then come back later when you're tougher.

Dragons seem to scale to your level somewhat, but I found them to be relatively harder at lower levels. They seem pretty easy to sprint away from though. If you don't think you're up to it then yeah run away from them until you're tougher, they seem to stay in the same area rather than following you. But for me the #1 thing that turned them from hard to easy was resist fire/resist frost potions and items.
Do the thalmor guys attack on sight? I'm pretty sure I had to provoke them before they'd attack.
Sounds like your character is pretty solid, but if you're dying a lot maybe go for a shield and boost up your blocking skill?

 

[Wolfbeckett]

The dragons are honestly one of the worst parts of this game IMO. They're easy enough to kill WHEN they deign to land so I can attack them but these stupid feth heads never seem to want to do that. They always just fly around attacking every freaking rabbit and wolf they see, which means I have to chase them all over creation waiting for a chance. It seriously usually takes anywhere from 5-10 minutes to kill one because it just takes so long for them to finally focus on me. Extremely frustrating, every time I see one I don't think "Sweet, epic battle time!", instead I'm thinking "Sigh, here we go again, goddammit I'm right in the middle of a quest too." Not enjoying them at all.

The rest of the game is mostly great though.

 

[Maniacal]

They're probably hungry after sleeping for so long.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Are all of the in this game dungeons huge? I was expecting that retrieving the Golden Claw would be a straightforward fetch quest, not an hour-and-a-half struggle with reanimated skeletal foes. I did get the first word of power and some nice stuff, but come on. At least warn me if I have to invest that much time into it.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

Not ALL of the dungeons are huge, there are shorter random mines and bandit forts and such, but a lot of them are quite large yes. Personally I think that's great.

 

[GenMarshall]

Hmm, I've been debating on this game for a while (Especially after looking at the system requirements). Though the only thing that I've played published by Bethesda is Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

 

[Thrawn]

It runs pretty smoothly on low on my pc, and my pc is 2-3 years old.

 

[Synobun]

It runs pretty smoothly on low on my pc, and my pc is 2-3 years old.

Yeah, this game runs great for the quality it brings. You could say Bethesda lacks in some aspects, but optimization is definitely not one of them.