The OFFICIAL Anandtech Forums TeS V: Skyrim Thread

[dust]

Lastly, and definitely not leastly, my number one complaint about Skyrim is that the world is just stupid, unresponsive, unknowing. The NPCs repeat the same scripted lines over and over again. Regardless of what you do, almost nothing changes. They don't know the civil war is over, they don't know I'm a powerful warrior, they don't know I'm Thane of the hold they live in, they don't know I've killed 50 or 60 dragons, most of them don't even know when it's night. I haven't played a stealth/thief character, but I have to imagine it's a bummer to enter a city at 3:00 AM and find the whole population, kids, guards, adults, wandering around the streets with all the torches blazing.

The NPCs only get responsive when you kill chicken lol.
As for the Thane part, I think it must be a common title in the hold, maybe even the above chicken has it :biggrin:

 

[Markbnj]

Game must have updated. Getting a lot of bow kill animations suddenly.

Yeah I saw a ton of those last night. Not sure why they dropped that in all of a sudden.

 

[thedarkwolf]

ahh I just thought I finally got good enough at using a bow to get them .

 

[Martimus]

I just checked last night, and while i have 96 hours in for Skyrim, I have over 400 now in Albion Prelude. It seems that since I have gotten that game I haven't played any other game. I should come back to Skyrim and play it some more. I never did finish the main plot (or even come close), so I could do that. I just have to get over my addiction to X3.

 

[dennilfloss]

Loving those rather frequent bow kill animations. Just got on on a blood dragon.:awe: Boom! Head shot! Also it makes hunting a lot more personal when you see your arrow hit an elk close up.

Closing in on 500h of Skyrim. Been busy with real life issues lately so I've slowed down gaming a bit.

 

[Markbnj]

Loving those rather frequent bow kill animations. Just got on on a blood dragon.:awe: Boom! Head shot! Also it makes hunting a lot more personal when you see your arrow hit an elk close up.

Closing in on 500h of Skyrim. Been busy with real life issues lately so I've slowed down gaming a bit.

Wow, 500 hours. About 260 here. Did anyone notice they also put in animations for spell kills... at least I've seen them for projectile spells like firebolt.

 

[dennilfloss]

The giant chicken made me laugh so hard I spat on my keyboard.^_^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8KQlZJcv8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=no1fBQzVKQc

 

[dennilfloss]

Yup. Got some spell kill animations too.

 

[dust]

Wow the new patch made the game a little unstable for me. I think I had only one crash before, for ~450 hrs of gameplay, but I have experienced a second one after about one hour of play with the new patch. Will have to test it more.

Edit: It works fine, even with my mods. I guess it was just a fluke:thumbsup:

 

[mkmitch]

Question for you peeps, going to buy the game and was wondering if it is better to purchase from steam and download or buy retail CD and then download the patches, upgrades etc.? Any advise would be appreciated.

 

[Rhezuss]

Wow, yesterday I finished most quests in Markarth...damn what a corrupt city!
Its a cool place to wander and do stuff and the quests are cool.

 

[dirtnap101]

Question for you peeps, going to buy the game and was wondering if it is better to purchase from steam and download or buy retail CD and then download the patches, upgrades etc.? Any advise would be appreciated.

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but it really doesn't matter, as either way it requires Steam to run and Steam will auto-patch Skyrim unless you are super-vigilant about checking your settings in Steam after every "Steam update". By that I mean update of the Steam software itself, not Skyrim or other Steam games. After every Steam software update it re-sets your option to auto download game updates to the "On" setting, from what I've read.

So really it all depends on whether you want to download GBs of stuff from Steam over your internet connection (and how long that might take on a slower connection) for the initial install or get that data off a CD/DVD - after that it's all the same, it will require Steam to run the game.

 

[dust]

Wow, yesterday I finished most quests in Markarth...damn what a corrupt city!
Its a cool place to wander and do stuff and the quests are cool.

I'd love a mod that allows me to set the houses on fire, I'm already killing whoever I encounter in Markarth and Riften, a nice camp fire after I left would be nice.

 

[Qbah]

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but it really doesn't matter, as either way it requires Steam to run and Steam will auto-patch Skyrim unless you are super-vigilant about checking your settings in Steam after every "Steam update". By that I mean update of the Steam software itself, not Skyrim or other Steam games. After every Steam software update it re-sets your option to auto download game updates to the "On" setting, from what I've read.

So really it all depends on whether you want to download GBs of stuff from Steam over your internet connection (and how long that might take on a slower connection) for the initial install or get that data off a CD/DVD - after that it's all the same, it will require Steam to run the game.

That's how it works, yep :thumbsup:

 

[Skott]

I downloaded the game and dont have any complaints. I can play offline, once installed, if I want no problems either. Two years ago when I first got Steam I was leery of it. Heard all the horror stories and such. Its worked out quite well and I'm happy with it.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Question for you peeps, going to buy the game and was wondering if it is better to purchase from steam and download or buy retail CD and then download the patches, upgrades etc.? Any advise would be appreciated.

I'd suggest just downloading it from Steam unless you can find it cheaper on disc or you have a bandwidth cap that you're worried about (or slow internet in general). Like others said, the game requires Steam regardless and it's going to auto-update itself, so skip a step and do it through Steam to begin with.

 

[zinfamous]

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but it really doesn't matter, as either way it requires Steam to run and Steam will auto-patch Skyrim unless you are super-vigilant about checking your settings in Steam after every "Steam update". By that I mean update of the Steam software itself, not Skyrim or other Steam games. After every Steam software update it re-sets your option to auto download game updates to the "On" setting, from what I've read.

So really it all depends on whether you want to download GBs of stuff from Steam over your internet connection (and how long that might take on a slower connection) for the initial install or get that data off a CD/DVD - after that it's all the same, it will require Steam to run the game.

ya, go with the option that is cheapest for you. it will be through steam anyway.

also check out Green Man Gaming?

 

[homercles337]

I just checked last night, and while i have 96 hours in for Skyrim, I have over 400 now in Albion Prelude. It seems that since I have gotten that game I haven't played any other game. I should come back to Skyrim and play it some more. I never did finish the main plot (or even come close), so I could do that. I just have to get over my addiction to X3.

Not to be debbie downer or anything, but 400 hours since December 15, 2011? That is ~16% of the TOTAL time since that date.

 

[Martimus]

Not to be debbie downer or anything, but 400 hours since December 15, 2011? That is ~16% of the TOTAL time since that date.

I did say that I was addicted. It could be that Steam tracked the hours incorrectly as well. Early on, I would leave the game run overnight or while I was at work after I finished a major complex to see how it would run by itself (I would often have to make a tweak early on to get it to run properly since there were things I wouldn't think of like Pirates attacking or maybe I miscalculated material needs.) I don't do that anymore, so the online time isn't growing as much.

That said, I am amazed that there isn't an active thread on X3 in this forum. It is one of the funnest most indepth games I have ever played.

 

[CrimsonWolf]

"The Tragic Life of a Skyrim Hoarder"

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2012/03/29/tragic_life_skyrim_hoarder

 

[dennilfloss]

Looks like magic items & potions for enhancing smithing no longer have any effect on the resulting piece of gear. Unless it's a bug that only affects me.

 

[Martimus]

Looks like magic items & potions for enhancing smithing no longer have any effect on the resulting piece of gear. Unless it's a bug that only affects me.

That sucks. I never built my Daedric Armot since I didnt have enough obsidian by the time I quit playing.

 

[KaOTiK]

I gotta say, I'm surprised that DLC hasn't come out for it yet lol. Thought just came to me as I exploring and a bear that I didn't see got pissed off oops

 

[dust]

Looks like magic items & potions for enhancing smithing no longer have any effect on the resulting piece of gear. Unless it's a bug that only affects me.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were! I hate the new patch with passion. From random CTDs while sniping to random CTDs while loading different areas. As a plus, the game seems a bit harder now, can't tell if it's my (lack of)skill or something else.

 

[dirtnap101]

"The Tragic Life of a Skyrim Hoarder"

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2012/03/29/tragic_life_skyrim_hoarder

As a fan of Skyrim and the show Hoarders, that was awesome...