Anyone else using mods yet? There's already some good ones coming out.

Some good ones:

Enhanced Night Sky

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=85

Less blocky faces:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=30

More Detailed faces:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=26

Savegame Manager:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=15

Originally Posted By Stiler
Less blocky faces:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=30

 

More Detailed faces:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=26

I'll definitely want to look at those in the morning.  I find my character, despite my best efforts, to look pretty ugly, and awfully butch.  Compared to my Oblivion character my Skyrim character looks mean and joyless.  Sigh... 

Characters definitely look more Morrowind-like...

Anyway, I'm angry D: I bought all the home upgrades and decided to start manual decorating. So I placed a bunch of stuff on shelves, spent hours moving them in the right position etc. I left home, came back... just to find everything thrown around on the floor. Rooms reset or something, so everything just "drops" once it loads. WHY? Why would you give me a home, an option to move items and then ruin everything with shitty physics?! On top of it, you have to 'bump' items into things to make them rotate into the right position. Ughhhh to hell with this :|

Yeah, I'm always bumping into stuff or tripping over it, sending it rocketing away.

Mods:  I'd really love a new world map.  I hate this interface.  They tried to plop icons (that all look alike) over a realistic 3D terrain.  

Have to say I miss the focus of the Guilds and focused quests.  I'm busy, but a bit lost and wondering what the story is.  I am not enthralled by the "dragons coming alive" story.  

The attitude of many characters is out-right mean.  In Oblivion, the grouchy types were at least on your side, urging you along.  In Skyrim, too many people threaten to kill you.  Very bleak.  More so than Fallout 3.

So I'm loving the depth of missions and wonderful graphics, and not liking the story vision or writing at all.  I was always happy playing Oblivion.  This game is humorless and dour.  So far.  18 hours in.

Well, isn't it supposed to be grim? Just look at the colour palette. And the opening sequence...can't get much more grim than that.

thanks for the ongoing reports. much appreciate hearing all the details. Sounds like the in game physics may need some tweaking of objects are not staying put.

Originally Posted By walsh
Well, isn't it supposed to be grim? Just look at the colour palette. And the opening sequence...can't get much more grim than that.

Graphics can be dark and grim without being dull which, unfortunately, they are. The game looks very washed out unless it's night time. Waiting for texture mods to fix that. As for the story/characters, yeah, it's weird... people get angry easily. All I wanted was one chicken leg and the entire village got angry with me for anninhilating that chicken. Not fun

I'm not sure the room resets, sometimes they stay in the same spot for days while others drop to the ground next time you enter.

I think it's just the akward physics that make decorating your house impossible.

I messed around with a firefly in a jar, no matter how much i bumped it around i never got it into an upright position 

either i ran into a bug or i'm not sure how the dragon shouts work:

I've found 5 words so far and absorbed 5 dragon souls. But i can only use 2 shouts, the other 2 are grayed out and the text in the left hand corner says '4 dragon souls' ?!

Shouldn't i be able to use all 5 words ??

You need to "activate" the shouts for them to work, you can't just pick grayed out shouts. 

oh that clunky interface again, i didn't notice the unlock button  Thanks!

Originally Posted By Stiler

lol that asounds hilarious, wish you had it on video.

So do I, it was deffinetly a youtube worthy moment. I've heard similar reports from others as well, where the AI manages to create some really interesting events.

Well, i almost give up with this Jondrelle guy.  He keeps getting in my way during combat no matter what i do, and ends up hostile to me.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to get rid of him via dialogue.  I may have to kill him if this carries on...

i've got a sort of noob question concerning alchemy.

everytime I try to make a potion, I mix some ingredients (randomly) and then it says I failed.

i think it has something to do with the fact that I do not know what are the effects of the ingredients (mushrooms, herbs, etc).

so, how do I learn to make real potions?

Originally Posted By Inesrocks

i've got a sort of noob question concerning alchemy.

 

everytime I try to make a potion, I mix some ingredients (randomly) and then it says I failed.

i think it has something to do with the fact that I do not know what are the effects of the ingredients (mushrooms, herbs, etc).

so, how do I learn to make real potions?

first you have to consume each item once, so you'll learn one effect.

Then when you've got two items with matching effects you can select them both and create a new potions.

As you make potions you'll discover the other effects of the ingredients used

To make a successful potion or poision you have to combine at least two items that each contain the same affect (IE + healing, or poision for a poision).

You discover what affects an item has by doing various things. To discover what the "first" affect it has, you have to eat one of that item. Then to discover other affects you mix and match potions, basically going through trial and error.

If you odn't want to do that, you can use a guide, such as:

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Alchemy_%28Skyrim%29

ah! I'd never have guessed that I have to actually eat the ingredients first

That guide will prove useful, thanks

The dungeons (actually caverns) are not as washed out as the exteriors. Still, when the sun is out particularly, it all looks pretty good.  Harsh, but good.  It does feel Northern and cold.  I was hoping for a warmer feel to the characters. Nehrim is so wonderful with that.

If you walk/run long distances with characters, their random monologues are nice.  But, wow, everyone has a problem and a quest, right?  Get out of the pub and knock on some doors yourself!

Anyone explore the Daedric house in Riften (I think it was Riften). ?

I found the eastern part of Skyrim to have a far more welcoming climate than the central parts (not really spent a lot of time in the west yet). 

Loving the game so far, but it's a pity there are no hotkeys to slot in your favorite magics, weapons, and shouts instead of going into that menu all the time.

By the way, I'm surprised that so many are making such a big thing about there "finally" being dragons in a TES game. Skyrim is actually the 3rd TES game containing dragons. The first one was Daggerfall, which contained a possibility of finding a dragon in a certain quest, plus there were the dragonlings, and you could learn the language of the dragons (all that did was make the dragonlings not attack you on sight). And there was also a large intelligent dragon in Redguard. 

Skyrim is the one that brings dragons to the forefront. IMO with how they've handled them, the whole flying around, fighting, breathing fire, attacking cities and things it finally brings the mythical dragon fight in fantasy lore and does it right.

Originally Posted By walsh

Loving the game so far, but it's a pity there are no hotkeys to slot in your favorite magics, weapons, and shouts instead of going into that menu all the time.

There are hotkeys, once you add an item to your favorite hover over it with your mouse,t hen hit a number key, it'll assign that item to that number. Then you can simpyl press it to equip that item.

I'm glad I found this out, makes switching from sword/shield to healing a lot easier.

Does anyone know how to use the "resurrect" console cheat code?  D:  (If you have no clue where the NPC is gone?  As in:  most probably swept down a river with rapids...  )

Today: companion misfortune. I lost my dear Faendal :[ He didn't die, but he got bugged... wouldn't stop crawling after one point and I was forced to dismiss him. Sigh. I took Lydia with me, but she died pretty quickly. One good thing came out of it, though: I think I figured out my house decoration problem! See, I moved some stuff around, returned... and the stuff was still there! Intact! So I decorated my house again and it stayed that way. Until. I walked in and some random NPC was exiting (WTF was he doing in my home?!) - some of the things were thrown around, but most of it was where I left it. So, I think it's the NPCs that can throw your items around. There's no-one livning inside now that Lydia has died, but I'm scared of these random people entering my home :[

Encountered my first bug - got a quest to kill someone, but I'd already killed them. I had to use "resurrect" command on their corpse to kill them again and finish the quest. So, Trav, I think you might have to use "reurrect [NPC #]" command... perhaps it would also work if you know their name? I only used it on a corpse I could select.

Now that we're getting all necromantic... I'm tempted to run back where I left Faendal and see if resurrect command can reset him to stop crawling and join me again :/

Originally Posted By Dona

Today: companion misfortune. I lost my dear Faendal :[ He didn't die, but he got bugged... wouldn't stop crawling after one point and I was forced to dismiss him. Sigh. I took Lydia with me, but she died pretty quickly. One good thing came out of it, though: I think I figured out my house decoration problem! See, I moved some stuff around, returned... and the stuff was still there! Intact! So I decorated my house again and it stayed that way. Until. I walked in and some random NPC was exiting (WTF was he doing in my home?!) - some of the things were thrown around, but most of it was where I left it. So, I think it's the NPCs that can throw your items around. There's no-one livning inside now that Lydia has died, but I'm scared of these random people entering my home :[

 

That only happens when that person stands close to the door of my house, when i enter it seems that all npc's in your close area move into your house too, i gues they do this so followers follow you into the area you enter?