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[Flying Dice]

I believe there's also a mod that adds a chest with a spell to boost skillbooks from one level to ten, and a full set of skillbooks, so you could cheat yourself to whatever point you wanted. Alternative, mash together a bunch of different mods with Duel; that's pretty fun early on, and even in the lategame it's decent. With the level 45ish assassin I'm playing right now a group of 5-6 bandits with crap unleveled gear can still wreck me if I try to fight them without planning.

[Reudh]

I played a mage type a bit.  I forgot how badly you need either lots of restore magicka potions or high enough enchanting for free destruction magic. 

I rerolled as a "sword-n-board" orc with light armor.  Should I invest perks in swords for chillrend or should I go for the more reliable maces?

Invest in swords! INVEST IN SWORDS.

That 10/20% chance to deal critical damage with a sword kicks in very, very often, and it's saved my hide more times than the Mace perk has.

[umiman]

I don't even know what the vanilla perk bonuses are any more.

[Neonivek]

I don't even know what the vanilla perk bonuses are any more.

To admit I rarely play with mods.

Mostly because most are overrated and poorly balanced (Ignoring that base Skyrim is pretty broken and unbalanced... but lets just say every modder wants to be "better" then the base game) and it is just so much work to keep everything separated until you find the good mods. Then even when you find a good mod, most of the time they will be forever unfinished or have large glitches.

It is a lot of shoveling is all I am saying. It is worth it though, I just got to invest the time.

I feel like a milkdrinker because of it, and I adore everything outside of this - but the mod is atrociously boring until you get a character that's at least semi competent

Goodness the sheer number of games this applies to... Of which I will name none of.

But honestly don't feel bad think of it from this mentality: You are essentially back in the days when you had to kill rats for the first few hours of gameplay. Why did gaming get so far and we are back killing rats?

[Flying Dice]

The mods I play with, among other things, change the sword/dagger perks to increase attack speed and give a chance to have a massive single-strike attack speed buff, and remove the worn jewelry limit. Using a 1h sword is like an old TMNT reference and third person looks like spastic jazzhands conducted at an appreciable percentage of c.

But of course the most broken part of Skyrim is, was, and always shall be 30x sneak attack damage with daggers. It's a sad thing when you can tap a sleeping dragon with a knife and watch it go through the entire 'wake up, take off, crash-land' sequence with an empty health bar.

[Rex_Nex]

But honestly don't feel bad think of it from this mentality: You are essentially back in the days when you had to kill rats for the first few hours of gameplay. Why did gaming get so far and we are back killing rats?

I feel like there's a difference - yeah, you killed rats for the first few hours just as you do in requiem, but those games also meant for you to be killing rats. You'd start out near them, the first few quests would be about them... etc. Even if the game was very hard, there was usually some semblance of "okay we're going to start out like this so at least you have a chance".

With Requiem? Any quest that involves combat is completely impossible. The dragonstone start of the main quest included. The nearest bandits from spawn (even assuming you start at Helgen as intended) will rip your face off. You'll probably find ~6 mudcrabs anywhere remotely near you and might level up once while fighting them. Then you'll have to fight the two-three groups of wolves that respawn once in a blue moon near you - and doing so means you'll have to drain your pockets dry because the only way to regain health is buying/crafting potions. You'll constantly be tricked into quests that would be easy in the base game, just to find out that one draugr you have to fight will instagib you. You successfully killed him? Grats, heres your five potions worth of gold because your barter is shit.

[Neonivek]

Well Rex Nex it is likely you are meant to already have a save for that...

Otherwise YEAH they should have given you a skill boost for the start of the game.

[Vendayn]

Enjoy the screenshots 44 of them. And I can surprisingly play it at 30 fps average

http://s4.photobucket.com/user/Vendayn/library/Skyrim/Epic%20Skyrim%20of%20Ultra%20Graphics

[BFEL]

Enjoy the screenshots 44 of them. And I can surprisingly play it at 30 fps average

http://s4.photobucket.com/user/Vendayn/library/Skyrim/Epic%20Skyrim%20of%20Ultra%20Graphics

Recipe for "Ultra Graphics":
Pump contrast up to OVER 9000!!!!
Make game ridiculously bright.
Replace female characters with Anime versions.
Ultra Graphics achieved. So beautifully immersion crushing.
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Anyway, on a more serious note, Anyone know if Frostfall conflicts with Falskaar?

Thinking of installing Falskaar, but I'm not sure if Frostfall would be like "I DON'T KNOW WHERE ANY OF THESE HEAT SOURCES ARE AND I DON'T KNOW HOW COLD ITS SUPPOSED TO BE SOMEONE HALP MY SCRIPTING FRIED"

[Vendayn]

Enjoy the screenshots 44 of them. And I can surprisingly play it at 30 fps average

http://s4.photobucket.com/user/Vendayn/library/Skyrim/Epic%20Skyrim%20of%20Ultra%20Graphics

Recipe for "Ultra Graphics":
Pump contrast up to OVER 9000!!!!
Make game ridiculously bright.
Replace female characters with Anime versions.
Ultra Graphics achieved. So beautifully immersion crushing.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Anyway, on a more serious note, Anyone know if Frostfall conflicts with Falskaar?

Thinking of installing Falskaar, but I'm not sure if Frostfall would be like "I DON'T KNOW WHERE ANY OF THESE HEAT SOURCES ARE AND I DON'T KNOW HOW COLD ITS SUPPOSED TO BE SOMEONE HALP MY SCRIPTING FRIED"

You will find the scenery better. Those are old screenshots. I aimed for a desolate, harsh, winter wasteland look.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/Vendayn/Skyrim/Epic%20Skyrim%20of%20Ultra%20Graphics/Isabella/WHATISTHAT.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/Vendayn/Skyrim/Epic%20Skyrim%20of%20Ultra%20Graphics/Isabella/FrozenRiverwood01.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/Vendayn/Skyrim/Epic%20Skyrim%20of%20Ultra%20Graphics/Isabella/OMFGBEAUTIFUL.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/Vendayn/Skyrim/Epic%20Skyrim%20of%20Ultra%20Graphics/Isabella/DesolateWhiterun01.jpg

[Sergius]

Enjoy the screenshots 44 of them. And I can surprisingly play it at 30 fps average

http://s4.photobucket.com/user/Vendayn/library/Skyrim/Epic%20Skyrim%20of%20Ultra%20Graphics

Recipe for "Ultra Graphics":
Pump contrast up to OVER 9000!!!!
Make game ridiculously bright.
Replace female characters with Anime versions.
Ultra Graphics achieved. So beautifully immersion crushing.

Don't forget the bloom.

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=222

[Teneb]

SNIP

You probably should add a NSFW warning. It's nothing major, but there is some minor nudity in one of those.

On the pictures themselves, you went into the oppositve direction to the point things looks greyscaled.

[Vendayn]

SNIP

You probably should add a NSFW warning. It's nothing major, but there is some minor nudity in one of those.

On the pictures themselves, you went into the oppositve direction to the point things looks greyscaled.

A lot of people on another forum actually like the new style. The other was too cartoony. No enb gives a true winter desolate look, but I actually am gonna tweak it in game. Should be better for the look I want.

[BFEL]

So anyone know about the Falskaar/Frostfall thing?

[Culise]

You will find the scenery better. Those are old screenshots. I aimed for a desolate, harsh, winter wasteland look.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/Vendayn/Skyrim/Epic%20Skyrim%20of%20Ultra%20Graphics/Isabella/WHATISTHAT.jpg

I'll admit, the title has me curious.  What is that big round thing?