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Beev

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I don't know if it's part of the story (I hope not or I skipped some quests :() but I totally found a thingy. I salivated like a fanboy when I picked it up.
 
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Rage187

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Beev said:
I don't know if it's part of the story (I hope not or I skipped some quests :() but I totally found an Elder Scroll. I salivated like a fanboy when I picked it up.
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Part of the main storyline if you found it in a snowy area of the map.
 
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Rage187 said:
Part of the main storyline if you found it in a snowy area of the map.
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Ffffffffff. Is the game going to make me skip large steps of the story quests now? Fallout 3 would do that and it makes me regret exploring, which isn't a feeling I think I should have in a game like this.
 
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Rage187

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Beev said:
Ffffffffff. Is the game going to make me skip large steps of the story quests now? Fallout 3 would do that and it makes me regret exploring, which isn't a feeling I think I should have in a game like this.
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This game handles it well. A few times I had on my person a quest item before I got the quest. They would give me the quest and then I would have an option to say I already had the item.
 
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That would be an awkward conversation...

"Retrieve the Elder Scroll!"

This one? *presents scroll*

"...why do you have an Elder Scroll on your person...?"
 
HeXen

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i'm pretty early in the game. i was traversing moutains on horseback...makes mountain climbing easy... and came atop the dragonborn place. I don't think i was suppose to beable to go the back way like that. anyway, i looked down and see a dragon that just sits as if awaiting a scripted event to trigger. he only activated if i got off the horse.
kinda weird. do dragons not attack if horseback?
also kind weird how you can climb up and down steep mountains via horseback, so long as you don't fall too far, its easy to shimmy down a cliff.

my only real issue at this point is i occasionally switch to desktop. i can only return to game if i do Alt/tab/delete which puts me directly in game. very annoying. any fixes for this?
 
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Rage187

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System_Mechanic said:
i'm pretty early in the game. i was traversing moutains on horseback...makes mountain climbing easy... and came atop the dragonborn place. I don't think i was suppose to beable to go the back way like that. anyway, i looked down and see a dragon that just sits as if awaiting a scripted event to trigger. he only activated if i got off the horse.
kinda weird. do dragons not attack if horseback?
also kind weird how you can climb up and down steep mountains via horseback, so long as you don't fall too far, its easy to shimmy down a cliff.

my only real issue at this point is i occasionally switch to desktop. i can only return to game if i do Alt/tab/delete which puts me directly in game. very annoying. any fixes for this?
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That dragon is part of the same quest line as the elder scroll.
 
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Rage187 said:
That dragon is part of the same quest line as the elder scroll.
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so what happens if i kill it early? or can i? i dunno what the elder scroll quest line is, but again i'm very early in the game.
 
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How should one distribute magicka, health, and stamina.

Can you get more than two schools to zero magicka cost?

If you can only do two then you probably need at least 450 magicka to be able to cast every spell if you have it 50% reduced in cost.


Magicka 500 health 400 stamina 200
 
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now i can't play the game. load screen hangs onscreen but i can hear the music and my character move around, its like listening to myself play, but can't see anything.

before i could cntrl/alt/delete and it would work ok, now it doesnt and shows black screen or shows windows task manager.
updated audio drivers, tried 16bit audio
reinstalled dx and dotnet.
tried low quality settings....nothing works so far. After many attempts, i did see the gamescreen come on after an cnt/alt/delete a few times but issue repeats itself.
already have the latest NV driver
 
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Rage187

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Beat it today. Only have the dark brotherhood to finish. Was good. The last couple of missions were drawn out and made you listen to dialog which prolonged it even more.

Also, I just rode my first horse. They should have had an achievement for stealing one so that I tried riding one earlier.
 
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Rage187 said:
Beat it today. Only have the dark brotherhood to finish. Was good. The last couple of missions were drawn out and made you listen to dialog which prolonged it even more.

Also, I just rode my first horse. They should have had an achievement for stealing one so that I tried riding one earlier.
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How many hours? I am about 44 now, level 30. I already want to play again but as a warrior, I hate how my Mage gets screwed by any semi competent enemy, sometimes in just one hit, but armor is around 85 because I keep magic regen robes on. No idea now why I brought smithing to 100 since I barely make use of armor!
 
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Rage187

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Doppel said:
How many hours? I am about 44 now, level 30. I already want to play again but as a warrior, I hate how my Mage gets screwed by any semi competent enemy, sometimes in just one hit, but armor is around 85 because I keep magic regen robes on. No idea now why I brought smithing to 100 since I barely make use of armor!
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95 ish to finish all story lines and guild missions. I still have to find 10 more Daedric artifacts and get married to complete the 1000.

I'm currently level 51 with 100 enchanting, smithing, destruction, Lockpicking and speech. I haven't leveled in awhile though since I'm not using any new skills.
 
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My save is at 112 hours now and at 12mb, and I'm finally starting to lag. I hope the patch hits tomorrow...
 
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Hadsus

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Where do you look up hours played? Can't seem to find it.

Sent from my DROIDX running SSM-602 V3 using Tapatalk
 
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IceBergSLiM

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Played ALOT over the long weekend. This game is so massive. I'm level 18 now and feel like I've barely started scratching the surface.
 
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Beev said:
I don't know if it's part of the story (I hope not or I skipped some quests :() but I totally found an
Elder Scroll
. I salivated like a fanboy when I picked it up.
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Heads up!

This will probably be considered an extreme spoiler since it's a major component of the main storyline. i would remove or tag that part of your post.
 
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warcrow said:
Heads up!

This will probably be considered an extreme spoiler since it's a major component of the main storyline. i would remove or tag that part of your post.
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I debated that, but the whole series is kind of about that... and no one said anything about it until now...
 
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