Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[choadler]

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Gamefaqs is now overrun with the glitch that the new patch brings. It's always something....

this is not good, I am on steam, so I think I am SOL as far as avoiding getting the patch.

[Chizzypoof]

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My favorite exploration quests are the deadric gods shrines. If you see a shrine, approach it. The ending loot you get from them is amazing. I have only seen four so far.

Boethiah Shrine quest spoiler:

Spoiler

I love the Ebony Mail. The main problem is that the poison doesn't know friendly or foe. In some situations I have to take it off to fight.

[WildFan22]

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My favorite exploration quests are the deadric gods shrines. If you see a shrine, approach it. The ending loot you get from them is amazing. I have only seen four so far.

Boethiah Shrine quest spoiler:

Spoiler

I love the Ebony Mail. The main problem is that the poison doesn't know friendly or foe. In some situations I have to take it off to fight.

Sounds awesome. Where can I find the first one or the shrine that is easiest to get to?

[Leon]

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this is not good, I am on steam, so I think I am SOL as far as avoiding getting the patch.

Just start Steam in offline mode to avoid the automatic download.

I really want to get the story moving, but I always get this "Ooooh, that place looks interesting. Let's check it out!" Then it leads to another thing and I'm racking up even more side-quests. I really need to add to my real-estate collection though, I need bookshelves!

I also picked up this guy Mercurio. He's a cool mage, but I feel like his spells are too strong and taking away from my pre-ordained "Special One" status.

[WTF]

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I got into the habit of fast traveling recently to progress the story more quickly. I HAVE to STOP doing that. From this point forward, it's either hoof it or carriage travel.

[Jasong7777]

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I wonder what the DLC is going to be like. I can only imagine if they released a DLC like Shivering Isles for Skyrim.

[Burns11]

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I have a single gripe about this game. The lack of a skill rest option is a pain. Even if used as a one time perk, I believe that it is necessity that needs to be patched in at a later date. For players such as myself, and I'm sure there's a ton, upon starting the game I/we weren't quite sure where to place points or which path we wanted to steer our character towards. And so, without any sense of direction, we starting placing points in slots unsure of how it would affect us later on in the game. And, as a result, my/our skill tree is a bit of a mess.

For example, and I pointed this out earlier; I ended up allotting points to the light armor portion of the smithing tree as opposed to the heavy armor section thinking Dragon Armor was the best in the game. Found out otherwise, and that the Dragon Armor perk offered no weapons, and attempted to place a point in the Daedric slot to open that up for weapons. Couldn't do so. I was forced start from the bottom of the tree and work around, wasting an additional 4 points. Really sucked.

I don't want to restart my toon, but it's looking like that's what I'm going to have to do. No biggie, it can't be avoided. Next go around I'm going for a dual wielding(Two Daedric swords), Dunmer who falls back on both his bow and destruction magics in tight situations. I also want to make better use of the sneak technique. Hybrid Mage/Assassin. I'll use my companion as my tank.

Anyhow, outside of that, this game is excellent. Prior to playing that I'd believed Mass Effect 2 to be the best RPG I'd ever played, but this takes the cake. Simply a masterpiece.

Reason they do that is so people don't cheat the system with it. For instance, once you smith daedric/dragonscale armor and enchant it, both smithing and enchanting are mostly useless and you could safely reallocate those perks to something more combat oriented. I have perks I didn't mean to select, so maybe a cancel button would be awesome, but completely resetting perks is a little much.

[thedudedominick]

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Gamefaqs is now overrun with the glitch that the new patch brings. It's always something....

What is the glitch?

[fishepa]

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What is the glitch?

Reading the Skyrim forums, it appears the new patch completely breaks resistances in the game. In other words, resistances no longer work at all. Your items may tell you your 30% more resistance to fire, but it does nothing. Same goes for racial stats (i.e. Dunmer are no longer 50% resistance to fire, etc).

[WTF]

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Reason they do that is so people don't cheat the system with it. For instance, once you smith daedric/dragonscale armor and enchant it, both smithing and enchanting are mostly useless and you could safely reallocate those perks to something more combat oriented. I have perks I didn't mean to select, so maybe a cancel button would be awesome, but completely resetting perks is a little much.

If you're enchanting, then you can "cancel" prior to "Craft this weapon".

All you have to do is click on the item you selected, and it deselect's it. Like on the 360 control pad, it's the "a" button to select a soul gem, enchantment, or item... after it's selected, then just "a" on it again, and it deselects.

[Chizzypoof]

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Sounds awesome. Where can I find the first one or the shrine that is easiest to get to?

Easy location spoiler. I don't want to ruin anyones fun of exploration.

Spoiler

There's one directly south of Winterhold. Azuras shrine.

A lot of these quests won't start unless you are a certain level. If the shrine isn't speaking then come back later.

[Burns11]

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If you're enchanting, then you can "cancel" prior to "Craft this weapon".

All you have to do is click on the item you selected, and it deselect's it. Like on the 360 control pad, it's the "a" button to select a soul gem, enchantment, or item... after it's selected, then just "a" on it again, and it deselects.

I was talking about perks, there are perks I selected that I didn't mean to. I mean, it's mostly my fault for not making sure first, but sometimes when there is only one perk in the tree you really want it's easy to get off track as you are buying the prerequisites. For instance, there are two perks I accidentally selected (poisoner and snake blood) because I didn't buy any perks until I trained it up to 100 then I just went too fast picking perks. So, it was my fault, but it's just two clicks away from a mistake.

[Phobia]

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Reading the Skyrim forums, it appears the new patch completely breaks resistances in the game. In other words, resistances no longer work at all. Your items may tell you your 30% more resistance to fire, but it does nothing. Same goes for racial stats (i.e. Dunmer are no longer 50% resistance to fire, etc).

This would royally suck!

[ChicagoChris]

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Just popped Skyrim in a bit ago and received a 3MB patch. Graphics look way better (360).

IN fact on 11/11/11, i played the game for a few hours and kept wondering why the graphics stunk so bad.

Much much better now!

[mgoblue]

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Just popped Skyrim in a bit ago and received a 3MB patch. Graphics look way better (360).

IN fact on 11/11/11, i played the game for a few hours and kept wondering why the graphics stunk so bad.

Much much better now!

Did this patch fix the 360 texture issue related to loading game onto Hard Drive?

I'd love to get this game on the HD so I can stop the noise of the DVD