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Jehan-reznor wrote: Was playing skyrim until the Kill the dragon mission after you vist the geezers on the mountain and after 20 tries killing the dragon i am done. Now playing bloodborne at least here it feels that it is my fault when i get killed by a boss
I thought the "kill the dragon" mission was before visiting the Greybeards?
The first dragon you kill is outside the village, at the watch tower with several guards present and you can hide in the castle, the second one is with Delphine, to kill a dragon as it is getting revived by another dragon, that is the one i have trouble with and i do not know if i have a save where i can roam first to get a flame resistant armor.
That's one of the reasons I generally go through ALL of the guilds before advancing that questline. I pay special attention to the thieves guild, and mage guild questlines. Make sure you have properly finished both - got the Archmages gear, and the guildmaster gear from the thieves guild [you will need to do a load of radiant quests for that one and brought the 5 cities back into the fold. There will be 5 new merchants in the ratway when you have done]. this should see you have enough to cast resistances on yourself to mitigate the damage and a high enough sneak to hit it with a bow and do some serious damage on a sneak attack.
Of course, you could also get your enchanting to 100% and do double enchants on all your gear. Flame/frost resistance for preference, then anything that increases your prefferred damage or if using spells reduces their cost. Correctly spec'd armour and the correct skills can mean you cast spells for free.
Because I normally go sneak/archer with enchants and do side quests first, by the time I pick up the main questline to that point, it's a cakewalk.
This is obviously the problem with these open-world games. The developers stand no chance of balancing the game. It could be improved by blocking certain quests until a certain point in the mnain quest is released.
I just take cover behind a rock...
As for game balance, if you play on pc and can mod Skyrim I recommend Perkus maximus. It's a very drastic overhaul to the perk trees, replacing the boring passive bonuses like +x% damage with more situational perks like bonus damage for attacking staggering enemies, more damage for shooter over/under a certain range (longbow/abortive).
I'm lvl 19 now and basic bandits are still dangerous.
Got Steam Marines, a turn based strategy/rogue like platformer. It's pretty fun, and can be a bit unforgiving, (ambushes. Ambushes everywhere.) and overall, I'm enjoying my time with it.
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Jehan-reznor wrote: Was playing skyrim until the Kill the dragon mission after you vist the geezers on the mountain and after 20 tries killing the dragon i am done. Now playing bloodborne at least here it feels that it is my fault when i get killed by a boss
I thought the "kill the dragon" mission was before visiting the Greybeards?
The first dragon you kill is outside the village, at the watch tower with several guards present and you can hide in the castle, the second one is with Delphine, to kill a dragon as it is getting revived by another dragon, that is the one i have trouble with and i do not know if i have a save where i can roam first to get a flame resistant armor.
That's one of the reasons I generally go through ALL of the guilds before advancing that questline. I pay special attention to the thieves guild, and mage guild questlines. Make sure you have properly finished both - got the Archmages gear, and the guildmaster gear from the thieves guild [you will need to do a load of radiant quests for that one and brought the 5 cities back into the fold. There will be 5 new merchants in the ratway when you have done]. this should see you have enough to cast resistances on yourself to mitigate the damage and a high enough sneak to hit it with a bow and do some serious damage on a sneak attack.
Of course, you could also get your enchanting to 100% and do double enchants on all your gear. Flame/frost resistance for preference, then anything that increases your prefferred damage or if using spells reduces their cost. Correctly spec'd armour and the correct skills can mean you cast spells for free.
Because I normally go sneak/archer with enchants and do side quests first, by the time I pick up the main questline to that point, it's a cakewalk.
This is obviously the problem with these open-world games. The developers stand no chance of balancing the game. It could be improved by blocking certain quests until a certain point in the mnain quest is released.
That's of course going for optimization. Doing a half-mage in Skyrim is actually really pretty difficult- I'm attempting what is essentially an Oblivion/Morrowind style Sorcerer (attack magic, heavy armour) on one account and I'm having a rough time of it. On the other hand, with my High Elf Paladin, with most of my perks in Block, I'm having a blast- things are tough, but not too tough. That perk that allows you to block most elemental damage with your shield is lifesaving, and makes fights against Dragons all the 80's Fantasy Movie you could want.
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Went and bougth Shadowrun Hong Kong last nigth, and so far I am enjoying it greatly. So much depth in the game and its a great story so far.
The developers seems to be on a really good flow with their Shadowun publishing as of late
Skyrim. Got it at Christmas, started playing about 3 months ago and I've been addicted to it ever since. I'm at the stage where I've
Spoiler:
trapped Odahviing and am about to go to Skuldafn
and am about level 43 at time of writing. Archer/Assassin Nord, with soul stealing glass bow, fire and frost enchanted glass daggers and a paired Mehrunes' Razor and Dawnbreaker combo. Not the best, but I like it.
Sgt_Smudge wrote: Skyrim. Got it at Christmas, started playing about 3 months ago and I've been addicted to it ever since. I'm at the stage where I've
Spoiler:
trapped Odahviing and am about to go to Skuldafn
and am about level 43 at time of writing. Archer/Assassin Nord, with soul stealing glass bow, fire and frost enchanted glass daggers and a paired Mehrunes' Razor and Dawnbreaker combo. Not the best, but I like it.
Good luck.
I know I had it, Mehrunes Razor's effect worked on Alduin!
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I've been playing a lot of Oblivion recently. Playing as a level 4 dark elf Night blade. I'm trying to role play with him a little bit and thinking about writing out the backstory I have for him in my head.
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ds9lord wrote: I've been playing a lot of Oblivion recently. Playing as a level 4 dark elf Night blade. I'm trying to role play with him a little bit and thinking about writing out the backstory I have for him in my head.
Still think Oblivion had the weakest story, if only because you, as the 'main character', are somewhat superfluous to the actual plot. Morrowind, you're the Nerevarine, key to taking down Dagoth Ur, Skyrim you're the Dragonborn, only one who can permakill dragons... Oblivion, you're this scrub who got shanghei'd into playing babysitter to a bastard priest.
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Playing starcraft 2: heart of the swarm. I kinda wish I could pre-order 'legacy of the void' for no other reason than to play with those new beta units. The protoss don't get much of anything cool but did you guys see that terran helicopter that can switch modes? It can either attack massed aircraft (like mutalisks, void rays and similar) or it can change modes and become a long ranged air based siege cannon that does 85 damage per shot to ground targets at a good distance. Personally I think it should be toned down a bit but it looks super cool in the concept art.
Starts showing it off at 0:27 and to me it's a fitting addition that I like the look of at least.
Other than that I'm wondering if I should play some command and conquer 3 or maybe some 'wargame: red dragon'.
It might take time though since I have to reinstall everything on my computer but starting off at square 1 even if annoying can be fun just to start over fresh again. For those who don't know my computer was shut off multiple times in a storm and my computer needed to be fixed with a new copy of windows 7 and yes I know that's old. It got rid of some viruses sure but everything needs a reinstall.
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I gave Skyrim a try for about an hour. What with the stale and clunky melee combat system like from NV I found it boring. Just gonna play Fallout 4 after christmas
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Anvildude wrote: Still think Oblivion had the weakest story, if only because you, as the 'main character', are somewhat superfluous to the actual plot. Morrowind, you're the Nerevarine, key to taking down Dagoth Ur, Skyrim you're the Dragonborn, only one who can permakill dragons... Oblivion, you're this scrub who got shanghei'd into playing babysitter to a bastard priest.
Overlord Thraka wrote: I gave Skyrim a try for about an hour. What with the stale and clunky melee combat system like from NV I found it boring. Just gonna play Fallout 4 after christmas
Anvildude wrote: Still think Oblivion had the weakest story, if only because you, as the 'main character', are somewhat superfluous to the actual plot. Morrowind, you're the Nerevarine, key to taking down Dagoth Ur, Skyrim you're the Dragonborn, only one who can permakill dragons... Oblivion, you're this scrub who got shanghei'd into playing babysitter to a bastard priest.
Wierdly enough that's one of the things I liked about Oblivion. I get a little tired of always being the hero of destiny. "Only you can save mankind"! Bah.
Though Morrowind's plot had a nice twist on the whole destined hero thing, if I remember right.
Picked up Black Mesa (Half Life 1 remake). Its on Steam for 20 quid but you can get a copy from moddb wesbite for free.
Well worth a look - its HL1 fully reskinned with a huge gfgx update, level tweaks and sans the aweful Zen nonsense. Fun.
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I've gotta admit, if have been more annoyed about Oblivion if it weren't for the fact I was basically playing Richard Sharpe's sidekick. Cause, face it, that's awesome.
Oblivion was a lot of fun at start, but after a few hours, the scaling system just took any fun out of it. Mere bandits suddenly running around in top tier armor armed with top tier weapons ust ruins any immersion. Took the game up a few years ago with mods and it was good, but the sour feeling never really left.
Compel wrote: I've gotta admit, if have been more annoyed about Oblivion if it weren't for the fact I was basically playing Richard Sharpe's sidekick. Cause, face it, that's awesome.
Well, I have started playing the addictive "black hole for time" game known as Hearthstone. For such a relatively simple game, it sure is fun and there seem to be some deep strategies for deck building! Biggest problem is that it is hard to quit playing that and start painting all my miniatures...
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Survived multiple assassination attempts, organized by my sister and uncle, only to die of consumption without a legitimate child. So now I get to play as one of the people who failed to murder me. Oh, Crusader Kings.
Sigvatr wrote: Oblivion was a lot of fun at start, but after a few hours, the scaling system just took any fun out of it. Mere bandits suddenly running around in top tier armor armed with top tier weapons ust ruins any immersion. Took the game up a few years ago with mods and it was good, but the sour feeling never really left.
Easy way round that. Tell the game you are a fighter, then play a thief*. As the mobs level with you, and you only level in Oblivion by increasing your major skills, you won't leve uo so fast, and neither will the mobs.
Downside is you become OP pretty quickly as your sneak levels fast and things just don't notice you so much. If you use a bow you end up being able to take most things down in a single shot before they even notice you are there.
Similar situation for saying you're a thief and then playing a fighter. Stomp round in heavy armour taking everything they can throw at you and cutting them in two or turning them into Strawberry jam at every oportunity. You will only level according to how many locks you pick.
Or you could take a middle ground, so you work on the above for a while, then when you think you are getting OP for the stage of the game, level up your major skills to gain levels until you are happy again, then continue.
This was a major exploit in the game, and the reason they dropped the idea for Skyrim.
*other combinations are available.
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So, Did some Marvel Heroes, getting a little tired of Captain America, but the only other 2 heroes I remotely like are Deadpool (underpowered) or someone like Doom.
Doctadeth wrote: So, Did some Marvel Heroes, getting a little tired of Captain America, but the only other 2 heroes I remotely like are Deadpool (underpowered) or someone like Doom.
I levelled up Punisher the other day, was massively impressed with his funness factor.
~16000 Astra Militarum: 
~1200 | Imperial Knights: 
~2300 | Leagues of Votann: 
~1300 | Tyranids: 
~5000 | Kruleboyz: 
~3500 | Lumineth Realm-Lords: 
~700
