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[Domenique]

Am I the only one that finds bows inferior to melee in all means? I use bows as much as I can but I do much less damage than I would with a blade. Is it the arrows (i use ebony bow and iron arrows) or the archery is really weak in Skyrim?

I'm not quite sure. I think most of the effectiveness from bows comes from sneak attacks. I find that with a sneak attack I can take out a bandit with half as many shots as without one.

I'm not really playing a pure archer though, and I suppose with perks you could make bows much more powerful (there seems to be a perk for each type of weapon that makes them do 20% more damage with each upgrade).

I'm not a purist either, obviously, but it was said that bows will be one-hit and arrows will be rare (none of this that I found true), even with sneak attacks I hit barely more than up-close with a blade. I have the perks, I have a very good bow for my level.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Am I the only one that finds bows inferior to melee in all means? I use bows as much as I can but I do much less damage than I would with a blade. Is it the arrows (i use ebony bow and iron arrows) or the archery is really weak in Skyrim?

You shouldn't be using bows as your only source of damage, unless you're sneaking/using bows.

The perk to do 3.0x sneak damage as well as slow down time is amazing. You can obliterate squads of people before they can find you.

[Dohon]

Are there any "mechanical" weapons in the game? Crossbows or somesuch?

[hemmingjay]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The headless ghost guy leaded me to some graveyard and disappeared. I killed the skeletons (just as weak as they were in oblivion) and walked towards the chest to claim my loot. Suddenly a zombie comes out of the closet and raped me with some kind of frost spell.
Ouch.

Also, I just realized I never actually chose a birth sign or starting skills? Not that it really matters but it's quite a change.

Dutchling, can you please  spoiler that?

[Dutchling]

Sure. It might actually be part of some quest

[debvon]

Has anybody else tried to move an item around and accidentally shouted instead, knocking everything off of the table/shelf and shitting themselves in the process? I've done it constantly and it never stops scaring the crap out of me.

[Azkanan]

Has anybody else tried to move an item around and accidentally shouted instead, knocking everything off of the table/shelf and shitting themselves in the process? I've done it constantly and it never stops scaring the crap out of me.

I've sometimes went to press the Action/talk button with my favourite merchant, and accidentally set him on fire.

Fucking Dorf Sub-concious.


NPC AI: Also, if ever you're in a tough battle you need to get past, jump over a line of rocks (Causing them to go around), or simply on top of a rocky outcropping they can't get access to you from - they'll wander off.

Dual Weapons: I take it you haven't made the combo of One-sword Mastery (Giving +X% Damage for single weapons (non-two-handed)) and Dual Flurry (+45% speed). You can swath your way through a town in seconds.

Skyrim is beautiful.

My only disapointment is, when can I build my own village, or choose my own hideout/headquarters for my entity guild? Or even better, when can I make my own guild, choose from parameters to say what the guild is about, and have it autogenerate an everything for it?

Honestly, that last point doesn't seem to be that far off - They've already made auto-generating quests and auto-generating new members. Now we just need the option of management, and bam. New Empire.

[SP2]

@debvon: All the goddamned time. It's worst when in dungeons and I crap myself even more.

@Azkanan: In regards of your last point, it wouldn't surprise me if someone mods that in. (That is assuming it isn't in already)

[Azkanan]

@debvon: All the goddamned time. It's worst when in dungeons and I crap myself even more.

@Azkanan: In regards of your last point, it wouldn't surprise me if someone mods that in. (That is assuming it isn't in already)

Indeed, I'll be building that into Project Terra.

In other news, I've just started to use the Steam browser for this forum, so I can annoy you inbetween dragons, giants, trolls, vampires, werewolves and your mother now.

Addendum: When using Dual Blades, you don't need to block. With high Stamina, you can run past them and nick them with your blades. With practice and skill, you're a regular Drizzt Do'urden. Especially on two-handed weapon wielders.

Edit;;

LIVESTREAMING DUAL BLADER

www.livestream.com/azkanan

I can read messages, by the way, but can not reply. Livestream is/was bugged therein.

[Dutchling]

So I killed everyone in a vampire lair and when I walk ten meters away from it I'm in a little Nord village with a couple of kids playing on the street.
Those vampires must have been legendary+5 liars or something like that >.>

[Greiger]

Found a skyrim bug, it's just a visual one though and it is rather amusing.

Spoiler: not really a spoiler (click to show/hide)

The arrow has been there for 3 days.  The ice spear for 4 ish.

Also I'm finding difficulty finding things I want to spend level up points on.  Back in Oblivion I was going for a two handed sword weilding heavy armor lizard, and I'm going for that again.  But I'm finding myself unable to put points into things I want. I guess I just hold onto them?

[umiman]

I have no clue how some of you guys can progress so far in so few days.

Like, I've played this nonstop since release and I haven't even seen the Dark Brotherhood yet.

[Sirian]

Also, I just realized I never actually chose a birth sign or starting skills? Not that it really matters but it's quite a change.

No more starting skills, probably because there is no more primary-secondary skills for levelling up. Which is a good thing i guess, previously people had to meta-game their way around the system if they wanted to get the maximum benefits.

You can sorta choose a birth sign with magic stones. You probably saw those 3 stones (warrior, mage, thief) at the beggining of the game ? Well you can find more of them for different effects, for instance i found a stone for "The ritual", allowing me to raise the dead once a day. The effects for each sign seem similar to what they were in oblivion, the big difference being that you can now change your sign, so that's pretty cool in my opinion.

Edit:

I have no clue how some of you guys can progress so far in so few days.

Like, I've played this nonstop since release and I haven't even seen the Dark Brotherhood yet.

I know the feeling

I guess you're like me and enjoy being thorough when you visit a place. I have only been in one big city, Whiterun, and i already feel like i have too many quests ! And i know i'm still missing many quests in Whiterun !

[shadenight123]

I have no clue how some of you guys can progress so far in so few days.

Like, I've played this nonstop since release and I haven't even seen the Dark Brotherhood yet.

just walk in a town.
you will get DINGEG with thousands of quest just by listening to people rants.
really.
and remember that DB never changes it's way of working:
(this isn't a spoiler, anyone knows this)
first kill someone innocent.
npc or similar.
then go to bed
wake up to meet brotherhood member.
good killing.

on a side note, i started as a breton. did all the DB quests, am currently doing all the mage ones.
level 18 and going up.
and it's funny how people address me.
somewhere, it's "please, just please, i know who you are but we have nice people here, please...let them be"
"..."
on a side note i was nearly STOOD up at my marriage.
by the bride.
who seemed not to appear until like 5 minutes before the end of the allotted time.

[umiman]

I know the feeling

I guess you're like me and enjoy being thorough when you visit a place. I have only been in one big city, Whiterun, and i already feel like i have too many quests ! And i know i'm still missing many quests in Whiterun !

Yeah. I take it really slow. Check every nook and cranny for every secret.