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Skyrim is a loving stunning game at times. I was blown away by this.  I also appreciate that you don't have to stare into someone's cold, dead eyes now as it doesn't automatically zoom to someone's face, but it does lead to situations where you're, say, talking to a pillar: 
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Badfinger posted:The last 20 minutes of my playtime last night were freaking insane. I went into a clan house with the intention of stopping some bullying, and I ended up hungover in a different town, witnessing a murder, got invited into someone's confidence to expose a conspiracy, and commanded to do foul deeds for a dark god. These two quests are actually broken and will gently caress your game up - don't complete them! Check the FAQ thread in this forum for more info (ctrl + f for 'House of Horrors' to find it).
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Tufty posted:These two quests are actually broken and will gently caress your game up - don't complete them! Check the FAQ thread in this forum for more info (ctrl + f for 'House of Horrors' to find it). Oh cool thank you. The fact that I just randomly got dropped into a world of nonsense made me decide to do other things first (I have to chase down a drunk, dammit!), but that is good info. Much appreciated.
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Dragons are Assholes Dragons of course have no set scripting, so they're "allowed" to do whatever they want, though usually "whatever they want" consists of trying to put fire into parts of your body where fire shouldn't be (hint: all of your body). I was running from one mission to the next, not having enough cash to buy a horse when I hear the characteristic music rise, and immediately whip out my battleaxe, ready to insert tab A (axehead) into slot B (dragon). I look overhead and see the dragon, doing some lazy loops in the sky. I flip through my inventory to realize I accidentally sold by bow, then go couch behind a rock to wait for the thing to land so I can attack it. But it never comes. I pop out from behind the rock to almost be crushed by an enraged mammoth, sprinting away just in time. I didn't think I'd sat anywhere near a mammoth, and was wondering where it came from, when I remembered the dragon! I whirl around, watching it drop down for a scorching pass, and see it belch flames, not at me, but on the mammoth. Thing is, I guess I'm not high enough level or something, because the fire barely scratched the mammoth. All it did was light the drat things on fire, herding them towards the Giant camp that was apparently nearby. The giants, being who they are get furious and make a lot of noise, but can't do anything about it. For the next ten minutes, this rear end in a top hat dragon didn't land. It just circled around in the sky lighting mammoths on fire. I finally got bored because he literally wasn't doing anything else but being a DICK.
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I made an argonian intending to run a 3/NV punch-everyone-to-death character with fast healing. The game immediately gave me a spellbook of Raise Dead. Cue several hours of me running around alternating punching dudes to death, rezzing their corpses, and generally leveling really, really fast. This was especially hilarious with the giant spider midboss in the dungeon with the golden claw quest. Cut to the first plot segment with the dragon. It dies pretty easily and I instinctively hit the skeleton with Raise Dead to see what'll happen. Instead of doing anything predictable, the skeleton flies about 50 feet into the air and starts spinning wildly, falling to the ground only to go blasting of in some random direction and bouncing over the horizon. I laughed quite a bit at that. Skip forward another hour or two, a bunch of plot later and I'm wandering around skyrim and suddenly I spot this giant thing bouncing around in the distance. I walk closer and.. It's the same dragon skeleton. I almost cried I was laughing so hard. I've seen it a couple times since then, too, always glitchy as hell and perpetually bouncing. I think it finally went into one of the rivers and calmed down. tl;dr animate dead turned a dragon skeleton into a tumbleweed
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The other night I attacked the mammoth and two giants near that place with the Jarl who gives you Lydia. When I inevitably died, I shot up into the air like a rocket and didn't slow down before it loaded my quicksave. It was AWESOME.
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First, my Conan-lookalike. He has scale armor now, though. I've been playing him in a sort of a chaotic, amoral way. I've freed all prisoners that have been transported by those three soldier (Thalmor, Imperial) squads along roads. Although, the prisoners have usually died while I've murdered the guards. I've also tried to murder all the Thalmor that I've come across. There were three in Markarth, two guards and their boss, a named elf. I've done in the Thalmor guards by enraging them (the only time I used magic) but I can't kill the boss without getting attacked by everyone. Even at night there's a drat Legate sleeping next to him while he sips some drink or something. I can't leave that drat elf alive and my archery skills are non-existent. Also, the cliff-scaling ability of the horses is amazing. Try going rock-climbing with your horse!
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The amount of small details in Skyrim is amazing. The other day I was out running around, finding locations to make fast travel easier, when I found a fortress imbedded in a mountain over a waterfall. It looked too cool to not enter, and I found a prison inside. By going through the cells, I found notes from the Imperial guards saying things like We have our orders to kill all the prisoners, the fortress will fall into the lake soon and notes from the prisoners saying things like We'll kill the guard when he comes to our cell, and then escape through the body chute Little details like that blow me away.
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bucketmouse posted:I made an argonian intending to run a 3/NV punch-everyone-to-death character with fast healing. The game immediately gave me a spellbook of Raise Dead. Cue several hours of me running around alternating punching dudes to death, rezzing their corpses, and generally leveling really, really fast. This was especially hilarious with the giant spider midboss in the dungeon with the golden claw quest. My dragon skeletons tend to keep shaking for a while after I drain the soul (sometimes even after leaving the area and returning if it's still there) but this is cracking me up. I'm going to try this as soon as I get home and kill a dragon, until then I will sit in my cubicle and shake as I silently laugh
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 18:46 |
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Ever since I discovered that when NPCs are in some scripted, plot event (like joining the mage college) they are completely oblivious to everything you do that isn't talking to them. I haven't tried stealing because I'm too busy abusing dragon shouts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7kFZXj4GW4
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I posted this in the main thread, but I think this one is more appropriate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmJsdyvNY8Q I added a pinch of Magicka (the game) to it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owMRMaJbtO4 Dammit. God dammit. gently caress you Skyrim.
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I have a dragon skeleton in Morthal that's in a different place every time I visit. I like to think the residents can't decide where they like it best. "Do we want it over here by the bridge at the edge of town? Maybe on top of Bill's house... ooh let's try throwing it in the lake..."
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I wish I had turned off the quest notification haha. (also apparently imgur is not good for resizing images  )
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 19:53 |
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  I love this mace.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 19:57 |
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 Nocturnal knows what the gently caress's up.  This armor is so rad.
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Followed the advice in the original thread about stealing all the dwemer scraps. Still more to collect I just got tired of going in an out of the dungeon. Time to start stacking I guess.
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This graphical mod: http://skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=131 is pretty interesting. I find that it's not really a good choice for playing, because - I can't quite put a finger on it but it makes everything look a bit static and lifeless, and without the blurriness that would hint at a huge distance I end up getting violently kicked out of immersion as you realise that the majestic Skyrim region is in fact on a videogame scale. Plus, there is also a 5-10 FPS loss. However, it's toggleable via a simple hotkey (Pause) and the same static, overdetailed quality which I described above makes it excellent for pretty screenshots: Before:  After: 
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 20:17 |
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Ok so everyone knows that if you get wrecked by a giant, you get launched? Well, I just grabbed Lydia real quick so I could kill a mammoth for the tusk quest you get from Ysolda, and I found that giants are apparently very protective of their mammoth friends. Sorry Lydia   It's also possible to leave Whiterun without leaving the "instance" of the town.   
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Dush posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owMRMaJbtO4 I spent like ten minutes getting a troll skull to sit on a shelf just so and the next time I entered my house it exploded off of the shelf and sent everything on my dining table flying
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 21:27 |
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Oh yeah, and when I had a dragon attack in Dawnstar, I had my dance of murder (i.e. chasing it with my little sword while it finds walruses and trolls to ignore me for). When I finally had it in its last throes, a god drat miner from town used the dragon finishing kill move. That no armor wearing motherfucker with nothing but a pick axe jumped on the dragon's head and stabbed it to death. Way to take away my steam, you rear end.
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I wrote this as a troll post on another board I frequent but take out the LA Noire and the quick save thing it was still a true story and made me think "WOAH". I was running to a quest in the snowy tundra when I saw a distant lighthouse with the lights on. I decided to run to it and check it out as it was the only thing in the area and the lights where on so I figured someone would be home. I enterred and upon entrance I notice a dead girl on the floor with blood roaming around everywheres. A quest pops up saying "find out who is behind the murders". I tried following the arrow but it brought me to a dead end when I decided to explore. I checked out the bodies using my detective skills I learned from this years earlier hit LA NOIRE and noticed the young female was clenched in a arms up position, possibly trying to escape from the suspect. I follow the trail of blood which lead to a desk in her room. On the desk was two notes. I looked at one and it said her brother had gone downstairs to check out a bug problem. Next to it was a bloody note talking about how her brother had made a key to the basement from her moms key and hid it in her moms favorite keepsake. This makes me investigate the rest of the house and find the mothers room, also entrailed with blood. I eventually work my way over to her bedside and see a drawer slightly ajar. I open the drawer and inside is a note that states that the family had just recently purchased the lighthouse after the previous owners had dissapeared, and that the mothers favorite keepsake was a Urn she kept above the fireplace. Detective Cole Phelps had taught me that I could use my intuition to connect the dots. Obviously the brother had hidden the key to the basement in the urn! I go to the urn and open it up. Inside is the key to the basement. I figure the perpetraitor was hiding down there, perhaps with the murder weapon. I decide to investigate. I slowly descend the stairs and notice some more dead bodies. As I get deeper into the basement I am alarmed by two huge Clavicle bugs, guarding a entrance to a underground cave system. I make work of the Clavicles and think they might be the murder suspects but Detective Phelps had taught me that not everything is as it seems on the tin. I decide to investigate the hole, arresting more bugs and investigating. Eventually I come into a room wherein I am alarmed by the sudden influx of mutants! Was this family harboring secret mutants? I'm not sure. I apprehend these felons and use my investigative techniques to learn that the rabbit hole goes far more deeper. I decide to explore the underground cave complex some more. I keep venturing further and further for about a hours worth, seeing the dead corpses of the prior owners family mutilated one by one. I investigate each one more which reveals the history behind this innocuous light house. The bugs keep me crawling further in, collecting more evidence to press against my investigation sequence. Eventually I get to the end of the tunnel hole and I see the murder suspect. It is a giant queen Clavicle bug! I try to fight it, using the techniques Cole taught me but I am failing miserably. I decide to resort to the black magic arts to try and solve this mystery once and for all. I decide to summon a Ice Guardian from the gates of Oblivion and a Nethereal Bow that could slay the beast. I kill it along with the ice demon and investigate the carcass. Inside is the head of the original owner, and a key to a chest. Knowing I solved the murder but not the whole story I decide to return to the ground level and investigate some more. This leads me to a hidden door that is locked. I had some extra lockpins in my pocket, ones I keep just in case. I decide to try my luck. On the first try I open the door, which leads upwards towards the lighthouses fire. Upstairs I find a view over the snowy vast landscape of Skyrim, and a large treasure chest near the edge of the lighthouse. I open it up, being careful as I remember Cole Phelps had been in his investigations. Inside I was shocked to find what was inside. I found a Orcish Magical Sword, which had indicated that this lighthouse was actually a ancient burial ground that the Orcs had used before all the prior owners to summon mutants and rule the world with bugs! I had found the corridoor to the bug empire and solved the case for all. It was a great feeling. I look around my surroundings and decide that although the war was won, the horror I experienced inside the light house was too much. I look off the edge of the lighthouse and decide that I would rather jump off to a quick escape and to get away from the horrors. I decide to play it safe like Phelps and pressed F4 to do a Quick Save. I lept to my honor and my horse... Quick Save is F5. I hadn't saved in two hours.
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I can honestly say that I've never had as much fun playing a game as I have had in Skyrim. So much stuff just happens that I find myself totally lost in the world. I hated Oblivion because you could screw yourself over really easily if you didn't do things at a certain level or chose to do one thing instead of something else, but in this game I just throw all caution to the wind and do whatever seems right at the moment, because I have the soul of a goddamned dragon and who the hell is anyone to tell me to do otherwise. Yesterday, I was making my way east from the Rift Imperial Camp to Riften, trying to hug the lake's shore when I came across an Old Orc chilling on a bridge, two dead sabrecats at his feet. Talking to him, I found that he had an interesting view of life and wished for a good death and I sought to make him a happy Old Orc. Being an Old Orc who has clearly been doing the regular orc activity of kicking rear end for a long time, he not only kicked my rear end, but also caved in my skull. After reloading and deciding that suicidal Old Orcs are not be messed with, I head back to the bridge. Still a little ways from the bridge, I am still close enough to see that there's a horsedrawn carriage heading slowly across the bridge towards my Old Orc friend. Out of nowhere, a dragon swoops down and strafes the bridge with fire, sending the carriage flying end over end through the air, completely engulfed in flames and what appear to be bodies tumbling through the air next to it. Not wanting to reload again, I hide as the dragon circles lazily for a moment and then flies off. As I approach the bridge moments later, I see smoldering flames in patches across the bridge, the carriage upside down. There are three bodies strewn about amid the carnage, two Imperial men and a Dark Elf woman, with a stray dog sitting near the two Imperial corpses. I tell the dog to go home, but it chooses to ignore me and remains there, barking pitifully at the body of its dead master. I look around the bridge for the Old Orc, but don't see him anywhere, so I double back and see two boots sticking out from under the carriage. The Old Orc apparently took a flying flaming carriage to the whole body. I wonder if that's what the crazy old bastard had in mind. I Demand Food fucked around with this message at Nov 15, 2011 around 22:13 |
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Hey for greater screenshot justice, is there a way to swing the camera view around while your weapon is drawn? I'm sitting here waiting for the idle animation rotation to start up and it just ain't working!
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Stew Man Chew posted:Hey for greater screenshot justice, is there a way to swing the camera view around while your weapon is drawn? I'm sitting here waiting for the idle animation rotation to start up and it just ain't working! Yup. Go into third person and type in TFC into the console. TM disables the hud.
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I took a carriage ride to Falkreath last night and load in to the town being attacked by a Blood Dragon. Not a moment later, I have 3 people run up to me to give me miscellaneous quests, letters and engage in casual talk. One of the guys was asking if I had seen his missing dog. It's a shame there was no speech option to suggest that the dragon circling directly over him probably had something to do with it.
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Cross-posting from Reddit. I'm sick of coming home after spending days in cold and brutal environments, where dragons swoop on you out of nowhere and mages blow your rear end up with a level 400 explosion spell to THIS: I'm going to kill this ungrateful bitch in her sleep, I swear.
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I'm riding my horse. I get off to fight a wolf. My horse immediately levitates 3 stories into the air, then falls down and dies.
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Decided to hoof it from Winterhold to Solitude. Half way through the journey I come across a lighthouse on a cliffside overlooking the northern sea. It's night time, it's fairly serene and I go inside to see who's living in this secluded locale. First thing I see upon entering is some grisley murder scene, a woman with an axe burried in her abdomen along with a bloody journal trying to describe what has happened here. I proceeded through the lighthouse, down to the basement all the while following a trail of corpses to some giant, ridiculously deep cave full of Chaurus'. 3 real time hours later, I climb victoriously out of that godforsaken hell hole of a lighthouse, spattered with Chaurus goop, multiple levels higher and not much richer other than ~350 Chaurus eggs. I'm never doing a pop in again in this game. (This is seriously the best Elder Scrolls ever made)
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Please post location of said lighthouse that has been mentioned multiple times it sounds interesting tia. So I was in whiterun leveling my pickpocket skill so I could get that extra 100 carry capacity, and while I was trying to steal a bow from a guard the pickpocket fails and he starts attacking me. I just said 'gently caress it' and started slaughtering guards when someone in the town comes to my defense. One of the kids in the town comes to check out the mayhem and the dude defending me starts chasing her around the town attacking her (in vain since they are immortal, of course). This loving game.
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So Lydia and I were travelling westwards for a miscellaneous quest I got from a book (the Red Eagle quest, which incidentally I recommend since it's got a lot of nice polish for a throwaway). Along the way we hit this place called Karthspire Camp, populated by everyone's favourite psycho half-naked barbarians: (picture is after the ethnic cleansing) We actually approach from the "wrong" side, climbing over the mountains to the south, and first meet the Hagraven which was probably intended to be the camp's final boss. She is alone and goes down quickly. When we try to tackle the rest of the camp, however, there is a problem: most of the Forsworn are chumps, but at the top of the stone structure there is a Pillager who doesn't look any different from the others, but apparently she's such a bad-rear end mage that she can: (1) Cast ice spikes with huge range that do a ton of damage. I can dodge them relatively easily, though. (2) Summon Frost Atronachs that are, well, quite tough (my sword, which does 19 + 10 fire I would estimate took <5% of their health). (3) Cast a loving ice-ball style spell that is capable of one-shotting both me and Lydia from an indirect hit. This kills me. A LOT. After many, many reloads with many, many different strategies, I manage to get this to a sort of draw: every other Forsworn in the camp is dead, Lydia is surrendering on the steps to the mage's platform, while the mage (with her Frost Atronach) is just standing gloating next to her. I run around the camp trying to figure out a way to take her out: eventually I climb on the other side of the mountains hoping I can get a better shot from there... but when I do, the mage is nowhere in sight. I run back and Lydia is standing next to the über-mage's corpse as if it was nothing. 
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I threw that one Silver-blood banker guy off a cliff with my shout, for being a completely evil person as well as an incredibly stupid businessman. He fell down on top of a water mill before being dragged into the water wheel and crushed. I only got a 50 gp bounty because the fall and water wheel killed him and not me, so it counted as an assault. Thus far it is the funnest way in which I have killed someone.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 23:04 |
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My 1st random dragon swooped out of the sky as I was walking around doing not much. I'm shooting it with arrows and using my sword when it lands, not doing very well. I'm deciding if I should just cut and run when a BEAR RUSHES OUT OF THE FOREST and starts attacking the dragon. Hell yes, bear friend! Me and this bear are taking down the dragon and whooping some rear end, I'm pumped. Dragon has a sliver of health left and takes off, I string an arrow, turn to shoot it and finish it off....and the bear turns, 1 hits me, and walks off into the forest. gently caress you bear, we were pals.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 23:13 |
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Giggily posted:Yup. Go into third person and type in TFC into the console. TM disables the hud. Did you make another post with those two commands and one about advancing the speed of the game to get better screen shots? I can't remember for the life of me where I saw that post, it's driving me nuts. edit: this post was next to a screen shot of a mage powering up a fireball like a Hadouken. Anyone know what I'm talking about? MustangCharlie fucked around with this message at Nov 15, 2011 around 23:23 |
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This is a thing that works. Items now stay on NPCs' and creatures' heads and body parts if they fit right. I know it looks like I'm holding the item, but I just centered the view for the shot.    They all look so ashamed in this shot And you can rob them blind (  ) and they won't notice. Because they have a bucket on their head, and therefore cannot see. This is just a little thing that makes Skyrim the best game ever.
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Oh a stories thread! Repostin my story from the general thread: I just had my most Elder Scrolls moment of the game so far. During my first trip to Riverwood, I encountered the love triangle between the bard, the shop lady and Faendal. I had approached the bard and he asked me to deliver a forged letter to ruin the relationship between shop lady and Faendal. Even though I had never met Faendal, I had enjoyed the bard's music so I decided to sabotage this stranger's love life. After delivering the letter to shop lady and getting her to dump Faendal, I left Riverwood to embark upon greater adventures. In Whiterun, some other shop lady needed me to bring her a mammoth tusk, apparently rather uncommon, which I agreed to do. Several days later I wound up back in Riverwood, and I decided to meet up with Faendal for the first time to see how he was handling his relationship troubles. I entered his home and sure enough he was there, but more importantly he had a mammoth tusk laying around. Conveniently, shortly after I arrived he decided it was time to leave and I was free to take the tusk in peace. I returned to Whiterun and gave the lady her tusk and then continued on my way. As soon as I exited the city I was ambushed by a trio of thugs. After smashing their heads in I found a note on one of their bodies. They were hired by none other than Faendal, who seemed to be rather upset that I took his prized mammoth tusk. But immediately as I put away the assassination note I saw another man sprinting up the path towards me. It turned out he was a courier, and he had a delivery for me. It was a letter from...Faendal! Apparently he had heard about how I had beat up Hired Thug outside of Whiterun. He said he might have some work for a man of my ability. The timing of the delivery had me suspicious, of course. But perhaps this was a test. Perhaps Faendal was the mastermind behind a great plan, and had sent the thugs to see if I could defeat them, watching me from the shadows all along. I returned to Riverwood one last time to get some answers. But when I spoke with him in his home, he made no mention of either the hired thugs or the letter he sent me offering work, and only insulted me for daring to speak to him after all I'd done to him. So I smashed his head with a hammer. Edit: Average Bear posted:This is a thing that works. Items now stay on NPCs' and creatures' heads and body parts if they fit right. I know it looks like I'm holding the item, but I just centered the view for the shot. This reminds me, I needed to use the forge but some lady was using it already. I kicked her off of the forge by spamming the use button, and when it finally let me use it I was occupying the same space as the lady. She ended up warping to the side where she sat on top of the hand I was using to hammer some metal. With each swing of the hammer I effortlessly bounced her up into the air until eventually she decided to warp away again. Gordon Cole fucked around with this message at Nov 15, 2011 around 23:47 |
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My horse is spiderman. RIP Spiderhorse, I'm sorry I accidentally rode you off a waterfall!
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MustangCharlie posted:Did you make another post with those two commands and one about advancing the speed of the game to get better screen shots? I can't remember for the life of me where I saw that post, it's driving me nuts. Oh hey QT  Hotwire posted:
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Wandering through the forest and fighting the local wildlife is great for triggering finishing blows. Catching a wolf by the throat and stabbing them in the side of the head was a fantastic "Oh snap!" moment. I'll take a lovely photo of the awesome (and huge)bear I saw catching salmon when I get back tonight. That dude was roaring with happiness when he jumped up and snatched a salmon out of the air. Soo cute. Akoogly Eyes posted:
What armour is this?
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Synnr posted:Wandering through the forest and fighting the local wildlife is great for triggering finishing blows. Catching a wolf by the throat and stabbing them in the side of the head was a fantastic "Oh snap!" moment. I believe it's the Nightingale unique armor given out at the end of the Thief's Guild questline.
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