The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[EagleFan]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

That's better than my setup and I'm doing fine on medium graphics.

Thanks. With my previous laptop I got to where I decided to get games on the 360 instead of the laptop as it would overheat relatively quickly. Finally made the jump at the new laptop last month as a birthday present for myself (but still didn't go with a budget buster one).

[frnk55]

I do agree the interface isn't the greatest but I'm using mouse and keyboard and it works just fine. I couldn't imagine using a controller but that's me.
Maybe I'm old school.

[Scoobz0202]

Yea, it works. But I do hope a mod overhauls the UI as it's clearly lacking.

I would also like a mod to get rid of the Google Earth type map. Kind of ruins the immersion for me. Give me a more old school, "cloth like" map. I might just be weird, though.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Do it. I gave in over the weekend.

But I just picked up MW3, I have Assasin's Creed coming on Tues, have FM2012, and will be picking up FM2012 for my iPad. Gaming is out of control at the moment.

[frnk55]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

But I just picked up MW3, I have Assasin's Creed coming on Tues, have FM2012, and will be picking up FM2012 for my iPad. Gaming is out of control at the moment.

Yes, life is good.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by frnk55

Yes, life is good.

LOL

[BYU 14]

Ended up getting a new PS 3 since the video chip was fried on the old one, so just got to fire this up for a couple of hours today.

I picked up the guide as well which gave me a 20% discount on the game at Best Buy, over 650 pages!!! Holy shit this game is huge.

First impressions are good, the graphics are extremely nice on the PS 3 and it is enough like Oblivion in terms of commands that I felt comfortable fairly quick. Rolled a Wood Elf Thief/Archer type and just at the beginning of Embershard mines and I can already tell this is going to take most of my gaming time.

One funny thing during the fight to escape the city, we were fighting imperial guards on a bridge. I swung at one and he moved backwards to evade my blow and ended up going over the side and falling to his death in the creek below, good stuff!

Question for PS 3 players, is there a way to toggle weapons I am missing, without having to hit select, go into items and switching between bow and sword? I checked commands in the options and didn't see anything.

[Izulde]

Nope no weapons toggle that I'm aware of, but it doesn't bother me to just hit circle and go into items to change up weapons and armor (I sneak around in very light armor, then change up to heavy armor if fighting starts) as needed.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by BYU 14

Ended up getting a new PS 3 since the video chip was fried on the old one, so just got to fire this up for a couple of hours today.

I picked up the guide as well which gave me a 20% discount on the game at Best Buy, over 650 pages!!! Holy shit this game is huge.

First impressions are good, the graphics are extremely nice on the PS 3 and it is enough like Oblivion in terms of commands that I felt comfortable fairly quick. Rolled a Wood Elf Thief/Archer type and just at the beginning of Embershard mines and I can already tell this is going to take most of my gaming time.

One funny thing during the fight to escape the city, we were fighting imperial guards on a bridge. I swung at one and he moved backwards to evade my blow and ended up going over the side and falling to his death in the creek below, good stuff!

Question for PS 3 players, is there a way to toggle weapons I am missing, without having to hit select, go into items and switching between bow and sword? I checked commands in the options and didn't see anything.

You mean other than to "favorite" them?

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

That's better than my setup and I'm doing fine on medium graphics.

Better than my system and I'm running on high with a few tweaks.

[EagleFan]

D*** you guys....

...that is all

[DaddyTorgo]

Grrr

[Mustang]

Maybe you guys have an idea.. The graphics are ok on my machine (can run high with no issues) however, my mouse control is just off. Seems like looking left and right is ok, however the pointer seems to drag in some screens and I don't have any speed really looking up/down. Tried tweaking mouse settings in the control panel and on the mouse... Is this all mouse related or something else?

[PurdueBrad]

This is the best gaming experience I've had in a long time (and I had trouble getting into Oblivion). This game is awesome, definitely blows away Arkham, any of the FPS games, and it caused me to set Uncharted 3 aside despite the fact that I'm addicted to that series.

This one is a big wow.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by BYU 14

Ended up getting a new PS 3 since the video chip was fried on the old one, so just got to fire this up for a couple of hours today.

I picked up the guide as well which gave me a 20% discount on the game at Best Buy, over 650 pages!!! Holy shit this game is huge.

First impressions are good, the graphics are extremely nice on the PS 3 and it is enough like Oblivion in terms of commands that I felt comfortable fairly quick. Rolled a Wood Elf Thief/Archer type and just at the beginning of Embershard mines and I can already tell this is going to take most of my gaming time.

One funny thing during the fight to escape the city, we were fighting imperial guards on a bridge. I swung at one and he moved backwards to evade my blow and ended up going over the side and falling to his death in the creek below, good stuff!

Question for PS 3 players, is there a way to toggle weapons I am missing, without having to hit select, go into items and switching between bow and sword? I checked commands in the options and didn't see anything.

You can hotkey things (Weapons, armor, items) onto the Dpad on the 360. I assume it works the same on ps3.

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by Mustang

Maybe you guys have an idea.. The graphics are ok on my machine (can run high with no issues) however, my mouse control is just off. Seems like looking left and right is ok, however the pointer seems to drag in some screens and I don't have any speed really looking up/down. Tried tweaking mouse settings in the control panel and on the mouse... Is this all mouse related or something else?

The mouse sensitivity is definitely less for moving up and down than it is for side to side. I put the mouse sensitivity all the way up and it's still not as high as I usually like it. Not sure if there's anything that can be done (until, hopefully, mods fix it). I got used to it though.

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by Mustang

Maybe you guys have an idea.. The graphics are ok on my machine (can run high with no issues) however, my mouse control is just off. Seems like looking left and right is ok, however the pointer seems to drag in some screens and I don't have any speed really looking up/down. Tried tweaking mouse settings in the control panel and on the mouse... Is this all mouse related or something else?

For some reason it has mouse smoothing turned on by default and seems to override system settings on it. Follow instructions here on how to disable both mouse smoothing and vertical sync.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim tweaks improve graphics, disable Vsync, change FOV and more | PC Gamer

I also changed my FOV to 90 when I turned off mouse smoothing, not sure if that helped too. I mentioned it early in the thread, for some bizarre reason the y axis mouse sensitivity is tied to frame rate which can make it different from the x axis sensitivity. No idea why they'd do that, hopefully it gets patched out soon.

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by sabotai

The mouse sensitivity is definitely less for moving up and down than it is for side to side. I put the mouse sensitivity all the way up and it's still not as high as I usually like it. Not sure if there's anything that can be done (until, hopefully, mods fix it). I got used to it though.

You can change the x and y axis mouse sensitivity separately in the .ini settings, I'd didn't do it and would have to look it up. I've read it helped for some people, but as I just posted disabling mouse smoothing and vertical sync should help.

EDIT: http://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comme...better/c2yyjrd

At the end of your Documents/My Games/Skyrim/Skyrim.ini file, add:
[Controls]
fMouseHeadingYScale=0.0200
fMouseHeadingXScale=0.0200

You may have to tweak the numbers until you discover what works for you.

[EagleFan]

Made the jump. Early on I would say the mouse control really sucks. I'll toy around with those settings tomorrow but a little surprising that the default controls "out of the box" would suck that badly.

[mckerney]

On the technical side there's nothing amazing about Skyrim's graphic, you definitely don't need a top of the line machine to run it. Even the ultra settings aren't on the level of some recent release and there are quite a few low quality textures. The style and art direction are fantastic though and do a lot to add to the open world atmosphere.

[sabotai]

Thanks mckerney.

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

You mean other than to "favorite" them?

I might be misunderstanding this feature, I thought this just had to do with which weapon you preferred to use and not equipping.

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

You can hotkey things (Weapons, armor, items) onto the Dpad on the 360. I assume it works the same on ps3.

Can't see this anywhere in commands, do you just select a direction and then add a weapon?

[Crapshoot]

Started playing. No clue how to pick a character. I generally play a rogue in most of these games (neither warrior nor mage), but not using archery - wondering if I should do a playthrough with something like the High elf or Redguard instead.

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by Crapshoot

Started playing. No clue how to pick a character. I generally play a rogue in most of these games (neither warrior nor mage), but not using archery - wondering if I should do a playthrough with something like the High elf or Redguard instead.

What race you choose doesn't seem all that important, as far as I can tell there are only minor difference in the starting skill levels of different abilities.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by BYU 14

I might be misunderstanding this feature, I thought this just had to do with which weapon you preferred to use and not equipping.



Can't see this anywhere in commands, do you just select a direction and then add a weapon?

[RainMaker]

How many hours do you think this game has in it?

[Shkspr]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

How many hours do you think this game has in it?

All of them.

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

How many hours do you think this game has in it?

Depends on how you play. You could probably blow through the main story in 3-5 or ignore it and spend hundreds of hours doing other things.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Shkspr

All of them.

You win!

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by mckerney

Depends on how you play. You could probably blow through the main story in 3-5 or ignore it and spend hundreds of hours doing other things.

I don't know. Don't you think the game has preventative measures for this? SUch as the monsters you have to fight in the main quest line get really hard so you have no choice but to do more side quests and follow other paths before you can do each story leg? I know that it may not be the case but after oblivion, you/'d think Bethesda would learn

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

I don't know. Don't you think the game has preventative measures for this? SUch as the monsters you have to fight in the main quest line get really hard so you have no choice but to do more side quests and follow other paths before you can do each story leg? I know that it may not be the case but after oblivion, you/'d think Bethesda would learn

I read that in QA testing the best time was a little over two hours, but I'm sure now that it's out it won't take long for people to find the glitches necessary to complete the main quest line in 5 minutes.

[DaddyTorgo]

Why would you want to do that though? I never even finished Oblivion. And I never even finished Red Dead either. I love just wandering around in these Open World games and screwing around.

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

Why would you want to do that though? I never even finished Oblivion. And I never even finished Red Dead either. I love just wandering around in these Open World games and screwing around.

No idea who would just go through the main storyline, though I can certainly see speed runs being fun for people.

[Crapshoot]

Spoiler

the morning after I talk to Alvar, leave his house per his request, I come back to his house... and he attacks me, alongside Sigrid and Hadvar. Is this a bug from a previous save game? Ie, no matter when I load the game, they always attack me. Feel bad murdering my buddy Hadvar for no reason (who I escaped the keep with).

Sorry, am I being an idiot here? does this always happen?

[Crapshoot]

Originally Posted by Crapshoot

Spoiler

the morning after I talk to Alvar, leave his house per his request, I come back to his house... and he attacks me, alongside Sigrid and Hadvar. Is this a bug from a previous save game? Ie, no matter when I load the game, they always attack me. Feel bad murdering my buddy Hadvar for no reason (who I escaped the keep with).

Sorry, am I being an idiot here? does this always happen?

Spoiler

Ok, now this is frustrating. I loaded a save before I went into their house (this is the morning after I talked to Alvar), and walked around, and someone named Gerder attacked me. WTF? I'm fine if this is in game, but I'm worried if this is a bug because in a previous version, I accidently attacked Alvar and then re-loaded to before I did that - and that re-loading didn't delete that seed or something. I'm playing on the 360.

[Izulde]

Red Eagle Quest spoiler question

Spoiler

So I was pissed when I killed Red Eagle that I couldn't loot his corpse. Now I'm hearing there was a totally badass weapon called the Honed Ancient Nord Greatsword of Burning that he should have dropped. Does this actually exist or was it a glitch that it didn't drop? I wanted whatever he had because the damn bastard completely disenchanted one of my favorite magic weapons in one drop

[Izulde]

dola,

Frustration spoiler above aside, I continue to be amazed at just how much this game has sucked me in. I planned to do a Dark Brotherhood Quest and go eat supper. 5 hours later, I still had not done said quest and hadn't eaten supper because I got wrapped up in doing other quests that came along.

I can't remember the last time I got this hooked.

[Izulde]

trola,

Going to get food now.

[SackAttack]

I started my game over after finally feeling like I knew wtf I was doing.

Second time around, I'm discovering quests in the first NPC town I didn't know about...like the crafting quests with Alvor.

[sabotai]

Steam says I've played this game for 27 hours....I want to make it 28 but I have to get up early for work....damn stupid work!

[SackAttack]

I've got two arrows sticking out of my head and I can't seem to remove them.

[Peregrine]

Originally Posted by Scoobz0202

Yea, it works. But I do hope a mod overhauls the UI as it's clearly lacking.

I would also like a mod to get rid of the Google Earth type map. Kind of ruins the immersion for me. Give me a more old school, "cloth like" map. I might just be weird, though.

What specifically do you want changed in the UI? For me the only part that seems pretty bad is the skills/perks area on the PC - it's just really awkward to have to click a dozen times to move left or right to a specific skill. I would prefer to be able to mousewheel to a specific skill, then use WASD or something to go to the specific skills - it looks cool but is annoying.

The rest of the UI I don't have much of a problem with - the tab and then directional thing is annoying but I only use that when I level up, the rest of the time I just use I, M, J, P to go directly to particular areas.

I personally love the look of the map, but that's just personal taste.

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by EagleFan

Made the jump. Early on I would say the mouse control really sucks. I'll toy around with those settings tomorrow but a little surprising that the default controls "out of the box" would suck that badly.

welcome to the cult.

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by Crapshoot

Started playing. No clue how to pick a character. I generally play a rogue in most of these games (neither warrior nor mage), but not using archery - wondering if I should do a playthrough with something like the High elf or Redguard instead.

welcome to the cult. Races that are better suited for rogues are Argonian and Dark Elf, and if you want to go archery-wood elves start with a bonus there.

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

I've got two arrows sticking out of my head and I can't seem to remove them.

It's the Skyrim fashion accessory all adventures die to try to get-you should feel quite stylish really! Lots of people in the forums posting about that-don't think there's a fix for it, but could be wrong.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

I've got two arrows sticking out of my head and I can't seem to remove them.

Those used to go away when you healed and/or repaired your armor, but since we can't repair armor anymore ...

Are the arrows in your head or are you wearing a helmet? If so, have you tried removing the helmet to see if the arrows go with it?

[Drake]

Anybody on the PC seeing issues crop up where textures aren't loading and you get the purple, blobby meshes instead? A quit-to-main-menu and reload fixes it, but I always seem to have a texture or two fail to load -- sometimes it's trees, sometimes a particular set of clothing/armor, sometimes an animal. I haven't found any duplicate experiences by Googling, and it's definitely not the low-res texture issue some 360 users are reporting. This is a complete failure to load.

It could be that I just need to update the drivers on my nVidia gt540 (I think...sorry, laptop is at home). Er, or I could go back to the non-tweaked ini files.

[PraetorianX]

Originally Posted by Izulde

Red Eagle Quest spoiler question

Spoiler

So I was pissed when I killed Red Eagle that I couldn't loot his corpse. Now I'm hearing there was a totally badass weapon called the Honed Ancient Nord Greatsword of Burning that he should have dropped. Does this actually exist or was it a glitch that it didn't drop? I wanted whatever he had because the damn bastard completely disenchanted one of my favorite magic weapons in one drop

It is real, I have it myself though I only tucked it away in my home. You should have been able to loot the body, iirc.

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

Thanks CF

[PurdueBrad]

Originally Posted by mckerney

What race you choose doesn't seem all that important, as far as I can tell there are only minor difference in the starting skill levels of different abilities.

Yeah, I hadn't noticed a big difference either. I'm a Redguard warrior but it truly doesn't seem like race mattered much other than some of the random dialogues on the streets.