Elder Scrolls V Skryrim: Dawnguard DLC. Vampire Apocalypse?

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**Amaya**

Looked cool at first, but then I read about the storyline and was like...meh.

So much more potential than what they're actually going to do. Hopefully someone will mod in a Vampire Invasion similar to the Zombie Apocalypse mod for Oblivion.

**Vini**

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Skyrim could rot in hell with steam

In every year i've install Oblivion coz i love rpgs (live, cards, pc) but i'm very-very-very-very dissappointed with Skyrim. Not much new, only sh*t... The new dlc could rot in hell too
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**Corpsesarefun**

You srs? Oblivion takes the worst aspects of morrowind and Skyrim without very little of the positives.

**purplefood**

I liked the spell creation of Oblivion but that's it...

**Manchu**

Cyrodiil felt bigger than Skyrim, IMO. I suppose this "geographically accurate" but it's not very impressive design-wise.

**Vini**

Corpsesarefun wrote:You srs? Oblivion takes the worst aspects of morrowind and Skyrim without very little of the positives.

Yep, I am

Because I'm lacking in english rhetorical ability, I can't exactly write down the thoughts that floating around my head, so in a nutshell

Skyrim has more cons than pros for me. And some aspects (not really the game, but the business policy and etc) are annoy me. They didn't go bankruptcy without my money so I sleep well at night

It's a shame but i never played morrowind...

**purplefood**

The business policy?
Also what cons? I mean there are some but not that many...

**Vini**

Just one word: steam. I never had a steam account, and i think i never going to have. Regional lock, pff, censorship/boycott in the 21th century?! ( oh well, and they sell games twice the price than my local gamestore) Second i'm more like a modder Than a gamer, "you can download construction kit through your steam account" well, just lol. But this is just only my opinion, nobody have to accept it, but i know way too more people, who thinks the same. My first post was half joke, half serious, the serious part is that i strongly disagree with this bp. Peace

**remilia_scarlet**

Honestly, I could give a gak less about the environment in skyrim, since it's all the same, but fighting more vampires is somethin relevant to my interests.

**Eura**

wait a minute... do the cloak spells envelop the horse too?

**NoBaconz4You**

I am very excited for tuesday! Since I'm on a console I don't have access to mods, so Skyrim is becoming a little boring.

Damn you micro$oft! Bethesda even said they wanted to make mods available to the xbox!

**Manchu**

I think crafting pretty much breaks Skyrim. Once you can make ebony everything, raiding caves gets a bit redundant.

**thenoobbomb**

The worst thing of the improving is that they scrapped the items getting worn off stuff from Oblivion.
Honest, your items can only become better without any cons, and that is a bit.. easy.

**Bakerofish**

I just wish theyd start making characters i can actually care about and not just view as "next pickpocket victim"

**Manchu**

Does anyone know whether Dawnguard will have a phsyical release a la Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles or will it be download only like Mothership Zeta?

**NoBaconz4You**

I doubt it dude, when I bought the Oblivion expansion (Shivering Isles and KotN) on disc, I was able to use it unlimited times, so my friends essentially had it for free. I think they wanted to stop this.

I haven't seen an expansion on disc since. I have seen GOTY editions of Fallout etc but they just come with however many codes in the box just to download all of the DLC. I understand it's a pain for someone with a slow internet or not one at all.

Does anyone know what time it will arrive on the marketplace today?

**Medium of Death**

Downloading this at the moment. Might even be finished, seeing as it was only half a gig...?

Hmmm...

Vampire Lord a go go!

**Manchu**

Reviews?

**vodo40k**

I only just started. When you download it make sure to restart your game, I wasted half an hour trying to figure out why it wasn't starting. I dont know why it pleases me so much to see the Vigilant of Stendar getting slaughtered and im a Dawnguard supporter.

**Alfndrate**

Made a save before I chose which faction I wish to side with... idk about this vampire stuff.

It's interesting, but I'm annoyed that I can't do... ANYTHING besides activate levels and open doors... No looting, nothing. Same reason why I disliked the werewolf.

Will probably see this through though... who knows.

Also did anyone else have this issue:
I spent forever searching for the cave to get over to the Dawnguard place. I followed my map to the area, and it led me to a mountain that I couldn't climb... Eventually I stopped tracking some minor quest and followed the quest tracker a little ways north... Here was my dilemma last night:

This is after I followed the quest tracker on my map. My location on the map is the where I am where the second pic was taken...

So it says I'm nowhere near the place I need to be...

But!

Here I am...

**Kanluwen**

Maybe it's a really big cave?

**Manchu**

Quest markers sometimes show where an important event is going to happen in the quest rather than where the quest begins.

**Akroma06**

Walk forward from the second image. The area where you "enter" the cave isn't as close as most of the others, a mistake I made from horseback as I got to close and had to step back then in again.

As for a review the vampire lord is very powerful, and some of the new creatures are cool. Crossbows don't feel that powerful and I can get more out of my glass bow. Now for a lower level charachter they seem ok, or as a rollplaying weapon. The ability to make dragon bone weapons and arrows in general is really nice. All in all I like it so far but the lord form is annoying having to constantly switch back and forth. Some of the new skeletons are actually tough (then again I'm sneaky and I can't really sneek up on them.

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It looks like your world map is off, but otherwise your ok.

**Bastion of Insanity**

Got this last night.

The two things that stand out so far are the crossbows and the camera angles when you change into a vampire lord.

I was given a crossbow, first thing I did was visit a blacksmiths and now I have a legendary crossbow that does more damage than the Nightingale Bow. Hopefully there'll be crossbows made from something other than steel later on.

I hate the camera angle change when you transform into a vampire lord. At times it's pretty hard to see properly, I also don't like the fact it puts you into 3rd person view when you change back. Is it the same for werewolves?

I've also heard that people aren't happy with the legendary dragons seeing as they apparently won't spawn until your character is level 75 or higher.

**Medium of Death**

I really like this add on, i've only done the Vampire quest so far as I don't have a character that would be suitable for Heavy Armour/Vampire slaying.

I've started a new character to specifically take advantage of being a vampire (Dark Elf) and have just finished the quest to get the 'Vampire Artefact'. I plan on refusing Lord Harkon's gift of the Vampire Lord this time though, while it is incredibly powerful you can't really do anything in that form. Not sure if he will kill me if I refuse. I'm pretty disappointed that the Vampire Skill tree isn't in with the other skill trees and that Vampiric Grip can't be used by a regular Vampire.

Spoiler:

As for blocking out the Sun...

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**vodo40k**

Bastion of Insanity wrote:Got this last night.

The two things that stand out so far are the crossbows and the camera angles when you change into a vampire lord.

I was given a crossbow, first thing I did was visit a blacksmiths and now I have a legendary crossbow that does more damage than the Nightingale Bow. Hopefully there'll be crossbows made from something other than steel later on.

I hate the camera angle change when you transform into a vampire lord. At times it's pretty hard to see properly, I also don't like the fact it puts you into 3rd person view when you change back. Is it the same for werewolves?

I've also heard that people aren't happy with the legendary dragons seeing as they apparently won't spawn until your character is level 75 or higher.

You can get Dwarven crossbows later on as well as fire, ice and lightning explosive bolts (steel and dwarven).

**Manchu**

So does this just suck? No one here has been chatting about it ...

**daedalus-templarius**

I enjoyed it, the Vampire campaign took me about 2 afternoon-evenings to finish. Has some spotty parts, but its Skyrim.

Was still a fun time; probably have over 200 hours clocked on my character now. Not seeing a legendary dragon till level 75 is pretty annoying though, I am already level 63 and they don't come very fast anymore...

**Iur_tae_mont**

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**vodo40k**

I have to say the dawnguard heavy armour is my favourite in the entire game, it looks good but isnt as "bulky" or "formal" as steel plate or daedric. Ranged kill cams + crossbows = Epic.