--Satan, quoted by John Milton
Also heavy armour + shield + perk-powered one handed is pretty powerful. The only downside is how many perks it gobbles up.
Can be found here: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/index.php
Have to sign up to download large files but it's free and you don't get any spam.
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Mortious wrote this stupid crap:
I've not done much questing beyond the basic ones in the first city.Too busy running away from giants after being used as a baseball.
"You will spend days wrecking dragons. You will stomp their shit in at the slightest provocation. Giants however? They'll make you their bitch."
I, on the other hand, just finished my Brotherhood replay so now I'm all ready for tomorrow's Revelations. Man, I can't wait.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
It's still there but it's much more subtle and mixes in low and high level enemies along with the level appropriate ones. Much more realistic and fun.
I have been using only the bow for combat and it is "ok", the damage seems very random and often pretty low.
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Mortious's fortune cookie read:
I love blacksmithing!Also heavy armour + shield + perk-powered one handed is pretty powerful. The only downside is how many perks it gobbles up.
I'm doing the same, just can't fucking WAIT for the 50% reduction in elemental damage when blocking. That alone will make me overpowered as hell.
Orcish armor looks amazing. Dwarven is a little 'meh'. Haven't gotten to ebony, daedric, or dragon yet. Haven't wanted to cheese the smithing too much with the iron daggers 
Daedric quests are so much more fun now. Sanguine's quest was a riot; Meridia's was great, though I'm still searching for Azura's shrine. Gotta get me dat infinite soul gem! Khyron fucked around with this message on 11-14-2011 at 12:38 PM.
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Khyron was all like:
I'm doing the same, just can't fucking WAIT for the 50% reduction in elemental damage when blocking. That alone will make me overpowered as hell.Orcish armor looks amazing. Dwarven is a little 'meh'. Haven't gotten to ebony, daedric, or dragon yet. Haven't wanted to cheese the smithing too much with the iron daggers
Daedric quests are so much more fun now. Sanguine's quest was a riot; Meridia's was great, though I'm still searching for Azura's shrine. Gotta get me dat infinite soul gem!
It's a stone's throw from Winterhold on a mountaintop. Massive statue, can't miss it.
My only gripe is when I got to the character creation screen. The familiar races were there; orcs, high/wood/dark elves, Humans, dark humans, etc.
Thing is, everyone (Elves especially) are ugly as hell.
What's with that?
Went with a lizard-man to recreate my old iksar from EQ. 
Beautiful Skyrim Mod (updates clutter and crafting tables)
Display RL Time on Loading Screen
Sharpen Effect (use the "less sharp" optional file as the main file is almost like a cell shader, the less sharp is much better)
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Rodent King said:
Best way to steal stuff.
LMFAO
I had absolutely no idea you could do this. This is genius!
Okay, maybe not.
Well, or a 360.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Though ripping elven faces off and eating them in front of their friends is glorious fun.
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So quoth Mortious:
Werewolf form; for when a battle is too hard in human form and you just want to cheese it.Though ripping elven faces off and eating them in front of their friends is glorious fun.
Mort, do you like damn-near photorealistic images from Skyrim?
Go to http://deadendthrills.com/.
Here are some of what I felt were better pictures from his photoblog of in-game skyrim images (linked due to size) :
http://bit.ly/sRjioO
http://bit.ly/u8ZAIa
http://bit.ly/t8UFsg
How to abuse the shit out of Skyrim's enchanting, alchemy, and smithing to become powerful enough to 1-shot almost any non-boss in the game : http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20366 Khyron fucked around with this message on 11-15-2011 at 09:50 PM.
Only on loading a new area though, for example when I fast travel. Stable everywhere else.
How odd.
Seriously Bethesda.. this isn't 1998.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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Vin~ had this to say about Pirotess:
So I leveled up to 25 on pickpocketing only, and now can literally steal clothes off peoples backs and weapons from their hands.
Just got up there in Lockpicking too, when I get off work I'll turn Riften into a nudist-city.
Anyone else feel wrong going down all the guild quest lines on the same character?
I mean, the thieves' guild and Dark brotherhood go hand in hand, sure. But it feels strange to jump from sneaking/assassinations to paladin jobs.
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Mortious had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Fixed my problems by fooling the executable into using more than 2GB of ram. Vanilla won't use any more than that and will crash when it's full.Seriously Bethesda.. this isn't 1998.
How did you do this? I have more than enough RAM but I have no notion how to force the executable to use more of it.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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Damnati wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
Is it bad that I find this kind of game infinitely more fun when cheesed? Still trying to find the optimal way to do it; some kinds of cheating take some of the toil out of the game and free up time for the fun but others just make it too easy.
How to cheese Skyrim:
Get 100 Smithing
Get 100 Enchanting
Get 100 Alchemy
Make 50% enchanting boost potion.
Enchant gloves with +Alchemy Boost
Then keep this cycle up, making better stuff each time. Until you get tired of it or stop seeing improvements.
Make smithing boost gauntlets, chest, ring, necklace. Get the Notched Pickaxe, disenchant it, drink an enchanting potion, put it on something else.
Smith your armor. Drink a smithing potion, then improve the armor (smithing doesn't help base weapon/armor stuff).
Drink an enchanting potion, then enchant all your gear with +% weapon damage (depending on if you're 1h or 2h primary), and other stuff all over the armor.
Enjoy one shotting everything.
I did the light version of this, without alchemy. And I'm still destroying most everything that crosses my path. It's pretty fun. Yes, it makes the game easy. But I don't care -- one shotting a dremora makes me happy. Falaanla Marr fucked around with this message on 11-23-2011 at 12:56 AM.
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Damnati said:
How did you do this? I have more than enough RAM but I have no notion how to force the executable to use more of it.
Bethesda/Steam recently patched the EXE to force it to launch only through Steam, which broke the LAA (Large Address Aware) patch. Great going Bethesda! Try to stop pirates but only punish your paying customers.
You can get around it by using the original EXE and the LAA program and by telling Steam not to update that game via the game's properties page and the updates tab in steam. I'm hosting the original EXE so I can personally guarantee it's virus and trojan free. Scan it with your virus scanner of choice if you still don't trust me.
Link here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/the_avatar/TESV.rar
That EXE is already Large Address Aware so you don't need to LAA patch it.
What the LAA flagged EXE will do is:
Hope this helps. Please don't abuse the download by spreading it everywhere, in which case it will be removed as my bandwidth is finite.
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Catalyst1111aperformance.aspx
I consider leveled quest rewards one of the most bafflingly stupid ideas in recent TES games because it basically punishes you for playing the game. I'm disappointed to find that it has been carried along to Skyrim.
Does anyone know if a similar mod to defeat this feature exists for skyrim?
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Mortious enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
Also for anyone with an ATI card, get the new 11.11a drivers as they improve performance in Skyrim.http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Catalyst1111aperformance.aspx
I hate my laptop at times like this. Installing the latest drivers from ATI causes rampant BSOD. Stupid ass proprietary HP bullshit.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Mortious fucked around with this message on 11-24-2011 at 03:40 PM.
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Mortious's fortune cookie read:
With ATI, always follow the three step rule.
- Express uninstall via the ATI uninstaller. Reboot.
- Run Driver Sweeper to clean out anything leftover from ATI (listed as AMD graphics). Reboot.
- Install new drivers. Reboot.
Tried this multiple times... and have been unsuccessful.
I'm just going to install my old drivers again.
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We were all impressed when Brahmin Bloodlust wrote:
Tried this multiple times... and have been unsuccessful.I'm just going to install my old drivers again.
Much the same for me. Got a BSOD after following those steps.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Both with laptops? Might be something to do with integrated chipsets.
So it craps itself.
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Mortious had this to say about Duck Tales:
Tends to crash a lot more when you add modded textures, but that's because its very low RAM allocation gets swallowed up and the game has no idea what to do once it's full.So it craps itself.
Are the mods that responsible for this? I just picked Skyrim up, added a few simple graphics mods (no-blocky-faces, more realistic water, beautiful Skyrim), and the game crashed about two hours in. I'm using your hosted exe instead of the Steam launcher.
It doesn't really seem like the mods are a huge improvement over default settings (it was a huge difference in Oblivion and Morrowind), and if the mods are going to cause any of those crashes I'll just as soon drop them.
