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I had the whole random 2-3 second pauses on my old computer running xp, but nothing of the sort when i started on my new one with windows 7. Occasionally the game will close or whatever, but it is remarkably stable compared to oblivion or daggerfall (morrowind i played on xbox); and yeah, if you are having problems with alt tabbing, follow avatar 720s advice, cause that's brought the game up fine for me every time.

Avatar 720 wrote:The fact that there are feth all materials for mid-level smithing (only 2 easily obtainable moonstone veins, for example, makes elven smithing a bitch).

How I rank Trolls and Bears as deadlier opponents than Dragons.

The fact that the game freezes for a few seconds at seemingly random intervals, although moreso if sprinting.

Yeah, those are problems that annoy me too.

There is absolutely no reason to smith all the way up to level 90 to get daedric armor, as you won't need 50 full suits of steel/iron/dwarven armor.

Hell the only way I got up to smithing 90 was by spending like 3-4 hours by crafting tons of iron daggers and selling them off, and hells bells that was boring.

I also find it hilarious that dragons are meant to be what everyone is afraid of, and a couple of giants can pants one easily.




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purplefood wrote:
Do your companions have an infinite gear carry weight?
AFAIK yes.

They don't. Try giving Lydia like 30 dragon bones.

Well, great, I can't complete thieves guild now.

Got a bug on the scoundrels folly quest where you have to shadow that argonian dude. But he dissapeared, and the quest marker is inside of a wall where you can't go. I discovered this to late so don't have any recent saves. Yey.

Soladrin wrote:Well, great, I can't complete thieves guild now.

Got a bug on the scoundrels folly quest where you have to shadow that argonian dude. But he dissapeared, and the quest marker is inside of a wall where you can't go. I discovered this to late so don't have any recent saves. Yey.

Not even an auto save?

Nope >_<

They should really make a quest reset button for elder scrolls, they are always full of bugs, might as well make a way to get around it...

There are ways to finish it if you're on the computer, but not consoles.

I'm on xbox so poo to that.

I still hate ponies btw.

In that case, I would stop the quest for now, and find some other things to do. If you're lucky, the NPC will reset and sort himself out. They do that sometimes.

By the way, my avatar is a flag of my interests, not an attempt to affect yours.

Soladrin wrote:I'm on xbox so poo to that.

I still hate ponies btw.

I hate gears of war and foam hands.

Do you see me complaining?

corpsesarefun wrote:

Soladrin wrote:I'm on xbox so poo to that.

I still hate ponies btw.

I hate gears of war and foam hands.

Do you see me complaining?

Yes, I do.

Anyway, did the entire dark brotherhood quest line (in a dayXD) and the char reset, pretty much done with skyrim now, just have to become guildmaster with thieves guild and get lvl 50 (half a level to go). Already got al shouts maxed, and I run around with 150k gold.

I will never be "done" with Skyrim.

Bring on the mods.

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purplefood wrote:
Do your companions have an infinite gear carry weight?
AFAIK yes.

They don't. Try giving Lydia like 30 dragon bones.

Bit late no?

Menus on PC. Someone never bothered adapting them for the mouse and keyboard, but that's just a PC issue. The menus in general I find a little bland and boring, lacking the character of Oblivion's or Morrowinds. At the same time though, they're not quite as... cluttered?

Love the leveling system. It works wonderfully. I do wish they'd kept attributes but that's a minor concern.

I've had the random pauses as well but to be honest it doesn't bother me enough to ruin the experience. There's a lot of minor glitches laying around but that's to be expected from Elder Scrolls.

Spells are my biggest complain. I like magic in the game, but only having two equips and a power/shout is annoying. Very annoying. Especially since it makes battle maging notoriously annoying to do, especially since on the PC, there are no hotkeys! *rage* The favorites menu is nice though, a good addition.

But overall I love Skyrim. Best game for me in the past year by miles and a few fathoms. EDIT: Oh, and werewolves are back. Yeeeaaaaah!

I did pretty much everything in under a 100 hours... Bored with it now.

Let me know when we get DLC.

So I ran into an issue with mining. The big iron mine with the transmute spell has gotten all of the ore veins refilled and yet I can't mine them. All of the bandits are back and so are the mammoth tusks. The ebony mine in the orc stronghold has also refilled veins but these I just walkthrough as though they were never there. I have no idea why but it is incredibly annoying.

The only other thing I wish I could do would be to smith lockpicks or arrows. I mean come on I have 100 smithing am level 43 and only have 6 freaking ebony arrows? I guess I also wish there were dragon weapons instead of just the armors, but I can take it or leave it on that one.

Exit and re-enter the mines, that usually fixes it.

I tried it and while I'm not ghosting through them I can see that the veins are replenished but I still can't mine...grrr...it's a charachter that is designed to scoop up the achievements so I can RP it next time through so it's not a have-to-have, but if I messed it up I want to know before my next playthrough. I did do the "extra ore" glitch so I wounder if that messed up the respawn.

So after installing the update from xBox live I can mine the ebony mine again but not the iron mine. Not that I need cash anymore, but I don't want it to spread to say a moonstone or ebony one. That and if I do an execute while having an arrow stuck in me the arrow will stay there forever. While that one isn't so bad (I save before any fight) the big one is the Markarth Guards. I did the consipiracy quest and now if I commit a crime in the Reach they just say that I can either a)declare thanedom which fails b) plead innocent c)go to jail d) resist. So I can't pay a 1000 gold fine and going to jail does nothing it just gives me the next screen saying "what do you need" at which point the process starts over again. If I back out at the what do you need part they attempt the arrest again, even though I submitted.

Why is it that when I feast on a dead body (don't ask) I gain health and health regen, but when I eat Human Flesh I take damage?

Slarg232 wrote:Why is it that when I feast on a dead body (don't ask) I gain health and health regen, but when I eat Human Flesh I take damage?

Because Human Flesh is pumped full of preservatives to give a longer shelf life.

The Alchemical Ingredient Brokers Association has its hand in everything now.

Slarg232 wrote:Why is it that when I feast on a dead body (don't ask) I gain health and health regen, but when I eat Human Flesh I take damage?

Because its not fresh. You should only cannibalize freshly slaughtered civilians. If it ain't fresh, it ain't good.

Deathshead420 wrote:Yes I tried the other bed but I do not get the well rested buff, also someone that works on one of the farms comes in and out of my house at random.

I have noticed when it doesn't say that you are well-rested it will still show up in the magic menu under "Active Effects" on the PS3 atleast...

As a note to those on PC wanting to hotkey, you can: When you have the favorites menu open, mouse over whatever and click the # you want for it.

Soladrin wrote:Well, great, I can't complete thieves guild now.

Got a bug on the scoundrels folly quest where you have to shadow that argonian dude. But he dissapeared, and the quest marker is inside of a wall where you can't go. I discovered this to late so don't have any recent saves. Yey.

Are you sure he aint in the secret entrance in the warehouse? Failing that enter the 'next' area in the quest. I am sure he will spawn right in front of you. If that fails try resting. I had a similar thing with barbas the dog.

Has anyone else noticed that it is 4 or 5 times harder to sneak outdoors than in? The 'eyrie' areas especially. (Skulfangr (i think thats the name) from the main quest is an example of an Eyrie btw). Also the nightingale altar sneak buff (again dont know the name) seems to do bugger all.

Oh I fixed ages ago by just playing the main story, the guy had his location reset and it was all spiffy from there.

Perkustin wrote:

Soladrin wrote:Well, great, I can't complete thieves guild now.

Got a bug on the scoundrels folly quest where you have to shadow that argonian dude. But he dissapeared, and the quest marker is inside of a wall where you can't go. I discovered this to late so don't have any recent saves. Yey.

Are you sure he aint in the secret entrance in the warehouse? Failing that enter the 'next' area in the quest. I am sure he will spawn right in front of you. If that fails try resting. I had a similar thing with barbas the dog.

Has anyone else noticed that it is 4 or 5 times harder to sneak outdoors than in? The 'eyrie' areas especially. (Skulfangr (i think thats the name) from the main quest is an example of an Eyrie btw). Also the nightingale altar sneak buff (again dont know the name) seems to do bugger all.

the one that makes you invisible when you crouch?
if they already know you are there it doesnt work iirc

Have had few problems Overall the game is FABULOUS, one problem which wasn't really a problem just made me lol hard i went to enter my house in whiterun and fell through the floor and was like okaaaaay then jumped up and was outside so that was cool. Umm some minor quest problems which weren't a big deal.
The thing i like the best in this is theres no restrictions to what you specialize in you can switch into whatever you want anytime you want although its tougher just have to grind for a bit till you're good to go back
Exampl: Started out as Stealthy wood elf archer and i found some cool staves and armour for mages so i decided to go that route so im badass at picklocking and can shock the crap out of whatever = D

I had a glitch (think its fixed) where if you made a save in proud spire manor and then loaded the save, all the furniture disappeared.

Im hoping someone can help me with a glitch. I want to become thane of all 9 holds. However in Riften whenever i talk to the Jarl (Maven on my playthrough) she only repeats the stock lines of "the throne suits me dont you think?" ect. Therefore i never get a dialogue box and never get given the option to do tasks and buy a house to become thane. And yes I have done the skooma side quest.

Nah thats the 'shadow warrior' perk, that works fine lol. Might go back to the shrine.