1561

I confess I don’t understand the “this is why” portion. Too many things are changing in those shots for me to glean a link. Explain?

And yeah, definitely thanks for all this. I still need to apply the no-prediction fix for my archery to actually feel like archery.

1562

What’s changing is the distance to the deer. The first shot is the maximum distance you can hit something at by default.

Auto-aim fix is easy, under MyDocs\MyGames\Skyrim\Skyrim.ini

find the section for <Combat>

put these lines in that section:

f1PArrowTiltUpAngle=0.7
f3PArrowTiltUpAngle=0.7

1563

I only ground out the last 20 or so points. It wasn’t responsible for a significant amount of my leveling. The leveling in this game is just damn fast.

1564

The leveling is actually pretty slow for me. I’m at 70 hours, level 32 and I’ve only done Thieves Guild and half the main quest. Lots of misc objectives and side quests too. I think from hour 55 to now I gained 3 levels. Mainly cause my archery and stealth and locks are high and I haven’t used anything else. The scaling is crazy on the second companion quest. I fought two draugr death overlords, six scourges, and about ten restless draugr. For a stealth player this fight was way harder than any dragon battle so far.

1565

I’ve googled the particular quest that is bugging out on me, but I have a side quest from a a certain person to obtain a certain book. The thing is the book was already in my inventory. However, the quest won’t advance to let me hand it in. Also, I can’t drop the book because it’s a quest item.

Anyone stumbled upon a similar issue? Would I have to break out the console to fix it?

1566

Agreed. The armors get goofy looking. But, I hate the way ebony and daedric swords look. They don’t look like swords at all!

1567

Sooooo, apparently this patch (Steam) has completely borked the game for me. I’ve been busy for the past couple days and haven’t been able to play. I sit down tonight, and the game won’t launch, so I delete it and redownload and install it. Still doesn’t work. I restart, and the game finally launches, only now I’m getting CTD’s all the damn time…

I haven’t made any tweaks to the game at all. Have been playing it as-is. Windows, and all my drivers are up to date.

1568

Huh, it must be related to your particular combat skills. I’m using Heavy Armor, Block, and One-Handed weapons and I level like crazy. Smithing definitely added a fair amount (probably 8 of my thirty levels); generally I leveled smithing between questing by buying up all the leather the vendor in Whiterun had available and turning it into bracers. My played time is MUCH lower than yours though; I’m only about 36 hours into the game.

1569

Blood on the Ice did this to me. Don’t know of any fixes for that one.

1570

you know, I was playing again tonight, just for an hour (ha!) and I was again amazed at the “dungeon” designs. Some are truly out of the box, like one that is actually a plush outdoor type location. Others just make me go ooh and ah with the absolute majesty of some of the rooms and locations. And others just scare the hell out of me (I’m playing on the console, but good headphones, with music turned off, can be truly frightening.)

There is a handcrafted nature to these that really impresses me. Just one more touch that shows how much care was put into this game.

1571

I had a problem with this quest because I, uh, found what I was looking for about half a dozen steps earlier than I was supposed to. I then had to go through the rest of the quest like I hadn’t already accomplished the end-goal to, you know, complete it. Stupid.

I’m not sure where you’re stuck (and I’m being as vague as possible here), but…

Hint

You come across a person’s name while doing this quest, and you have to talk to that person in order for things to proceed, without it ever being mentioned in the quest objectives. For me, this made the sequence of events even more absurd, but I was able to complete the quest.

1572

Yes please! The heavy plate above orcish is kinda doofy looking to me, or at least not fitting for the environment. I like the dragonplate helm ok, but the armor itself looks weird. After tooling around in full dragonplate for a bit, I grabbed some potions and +blacksmith gear and noticed that improving gear gets even better if you buff your smithing past 100, so I built/improved a set of ancient nord armor to make it nearly competive (like -50AC to my 100 skill legendary dragonplate, somewhere in the 600-700AC range as I recall). Of course if I’d done the same thing to that same dragonplate, it would’ve gone to a way higher AC, but I was feeling pretty invicible to physical damage at that AC level anyway, since fights are over so quickly when you max out 2handers.

1573

you can improve gear up to 4x it’s base stat beyond 100 blacksmith if you wear fortify smithing gears.

1574

On the one hand, I have only experienced one crash in my entire time with Skyrim.

On the other hand, the crash occurred at literally the most dramatic moment in the entire game! “BOO-YAH! Come forth, $NAME_OF_LAST_BOSS, and be crushed! Skyrim’s mightiest warrior shall rain destruction down upon your evil… … … … … … … … …” derp.

So close, Bethesda. So close!

1575

Man why is everyone so down on the armour and weapons? I think they all look terrific, and I really like the daikatana appearance of the ebony greatsword. They have really made gear that looks plausible and wearable (even if I am really not sure metal and glass bows would really, you know, work ;)

Honestly it’s like a tour de force of art direction… Inspired by the world but not of this world, familiar yet unique. I love the style differences of the heavy armour, the racial distinctions.

Alright I’m gushing. But yeah I think the did a great job.

1576

It’s of course subjective, personally I think these don’t look all that plausible:

Pictures of late-game armour

But mainly I just don’t think they look that good. Perhaps I’m being unfair but they come across as being overly ornate and adorned at the expensive of artistic merit. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with ornate armour, it’s just got to have the style to go with it, and personally I’m not feeling that with these.

But I should say that these are prominent exceptions to the rule - generally I really dig the designs.

1577

Heck I think they look great, sort of thing I would like to wear if I was a dragon killing, dual wielding, spell casting, arcane enchanting hard arse.

1578

I hear you sitting at my Mom’s house and contemplating 11 more days of no Skyrim and cursing why I didn’t get dear old mom a quad core processor and real video card when I got her a new computer last year. Yes mom you really need a $1,000 computer sans/monitor for email and web.

1579

I was sort of irritated by the armor of the female warrior in the Meridian quest, who was wearing plate mail that had nipples.

1580

She’s Batman!