[Megathread] Skyrim Discussion

[Loaf Lord]

"You see those warriors from Hammerfell? They've got curved swords. Curved. Swords."

[GennGreymane]

"You see those warriors from Hammerfell? They've got curved swords. Curved. Swords."

and curved...bananas

---------- Post added 2013-04-02 at 04:06 PM ----------

cool vid i found

[raist474]

So just re-installed Skryim and a 110 mods.

Time to melt another video card.

I just installed my second Geforce 680. Time for Skyrim with SLI!!

[Joker of Muerte]

what are some good mods for immersion? Like just to basically make the basic game better.

[inboundpaper]

what are some good mods for immersion? Like just to basically make the basic game better.

Skyre, Frostfall, Balanced Magic. Texture packs and body mods to taste.

[Deleted]

I just installed my second Geforce 680. Time for Skyrim with SLI!!

Prepare for numerous headaches then Flickering water, low FPS when trying to fix it.. it took me weeks and having to disable several effects to make it work..

[Valenhil]

I just installed my second Geforce 680. Time for Skyrim with SLI!!

I'm still using a measly GTX 460. Mods dipped my framerate a lot, but I'm still pretty happy with it.

[Flaks]

Skyre, Frostfall, Balanced Magic. Texture packs and body mods to taste.

Dunno if Skyre really improves immersion per se.

Frostfall for sure. Texture packs, maybe Superb ENB. Realistic Needs and Diseases is a must. Any cloak mod (recommend winter is coming). Wet and cold. Climates of Tamriel. Bandoliers/mage's backpack. Immersive weapons/armors. Convenient horses. Realistic Lighting Overhaul. Brehanin's vampire overhaul. Heart of the beast/tales of lycanthropy for werewolves. Skyrim immersive creatures + lore friendly pack (adds a ridiculous amount of new but largely lore friendly creatures. WARNING MIGHT NOT WORK WITH ASIS after testing it out on my own). Reduced fog v2, skyrim optimization (increases frame rates in dungeons).

For combat: skyre, asis (this is a MUST try), yy anim replacer, sperg, deadly dragons, dragon combat overhaul, midas magic and many many more. Just go to the skyrim nexus and search top files.

Also a request for all y'all for myself and any/many other players that might be looking: recommend a music overhaul mod!

---------- Post added 2013-04-05 at 02:41 AM ----------

I just installed my second Geforce 680. Time for Skyrim with SLI!!

I got an AMD radeon hd 7770 which is A LOT weaker than your one card let alone two but I'm hoping against hope that I'll be able to run ENB's well on it.

My last shitty card was a Nvidia GTS 240 and I was running an .ini modded sharpshooter ENB with LOTS of texture mods at 45+ fps so there's no reason a 7770 can't handle the same and more.

[GennGreymane]

any way to be a paladin? I assume restoration with http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dawnbreaker

and

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Auriel's_Shield

so restoration
heavy armor
block
one handed
maybe some alteration
and speechcraft

---------- Post added 2013-04-05 at 04:13 AM ----------

would a druidish type character be possible?

[Kaosbringer]

would a druidish type character be possible?

depends on which form of druid your looking at. If your thinking a WoW type druid, not with vanilla.

[GennGreymane]

if i had to guess. im thinking

light armor
destruction magic into lightning based spells
alteration
being a werewolf
sneak
maybe restoration

as for weapon style no idea

[Valenhil]

any way to be a paladin?

I have 4 paladin builds, all for SkyRe. Too bad for any console users that might be asking...

Here they are anyway:
Races: Imperial, Redguard, Altmer or Argonian

Defender Paladin: Light Weaponry(Longswords), Blocking(Heavy Shields), Heavy Armor, Archery(Longbows), Speechcraft(Positive shouts, strength in numbers), Restoration(Auras, Spirit Guide, Healing) Smithing(Heavy Armor), Alteration(Sunlight Blade and armor spells)

Justicar Paladin: Light Weaponry(Spellblade), Blocking(Wards), Heavy Armor, Destruction(Lightning element), Restoration(Auras, Healing, Wards, Curses), Enchanting, Alteration(Sunlight Blade and Armor Spells), Speechcraft(Positive Shouts)

Crusader Paladin: Heavy Weaponry, Blocking(no shield), Heavy Armor, Archery(Longbows), Restoration(Auras, Curses), Alteration(Sunlight Blade and Armor Spells), Smithing(Heavy Armor), Speechcraft(Harmful shouts)

Peacekeeper Paladin: Light Weaponry(Unarmed), Blocking(Heavy Shield), Heavy Armor, Restoration(Auras, Spirit guide, Healing), Alteration(Pushing, Pulling, sunlight blade, armor spells, utilities), Speechcraft (harmful and positive shouts, strength in numbers), Enchanting.

[GennGreymane]

forever a 360 user

[flarecde]

Skyre's cool, but after breaking my save games for a third time, I gave up on it. Running a more or less vanilla run now with only some of the DLC (haven't gotten Dragonborn yet), and a few texture and UI mods.

Game actually runs worse with my new video card. I had to download a tool to force windowed full screen because normal full screen causes awful vertical stutter.

[GennGreymane]

---------- Post added 2013-04-06 at 01:44 AM ----------

I learned something cool about a certain dragon who helps you

ITS A ME! Paarthurnax

[Loaf Lord]

any way to be a paladin? I assume restoration with http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dawnbreaker

and

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Auriel's_Shield

so restoration
heavy armor
block
one handed
maybe some alteration
and speechcraft

---------- Post added 2013-04-05 at 04:13 AM ----------

would a druidish type character be possible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVNBwYERwsQ Pretty good pally guide. There's two parts to it.

[Flaks]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVNBwYERwsQ Pretty good pally guide. There's two parts to it.

I know to each his own but why would you ever use a class guide for Skyrim?! The entire point is to make your character how YOU want it.

[Loaf Lord]

I know to each his own but why would you ever use a class guide for Skyrim?! The entire point is to make your character how YOU want it.

I personally don't use the guides. I just like reading about what other people come up with and hopefully learning something that can improve my own creations. I'd never copy someone's class 100%.

[Valanna]

I know to each his own but why would you ever use a class guide for Skyrim?! The entire point is to make your character how YOU want it.

Because it's single player, it should be devoid of a metagame, do you think? I find optimization to be among the most fun part of most any game, and that requires research.

[flarecde]

Because it's single player, it should be devoid of a metagame, do you think? I find optimization to be among the most fun part of most any game, and that requires research.

More fun to do your own science than use other's :P.