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[scourge728]

*grumbling about elsweyr*

[Egan_BW]

So that Six, am I right? Looks like a neat new landscape.

That's 'bout all it looks like.

[Madman198237]

I actually found it fairly informative.

It's a single ruined castle on a hill, surrounded by...NOTHING. Assuming no trickery or major changes, that seems, to me, to imply a larger world than Skyrim, assuming similar numbers of settlements/NPCs/quests/whatever that need buildings. In Skyrim you can't find views like that because there's ALWAYS something there that's not just the landscape.


OK so maybe it was only slightly informative and very good for fueling speculation for the next seven years of nothing.
Good play, Bethesda. Good play.

[Shadowlord]

Maybe Todd wants us to walk even farther to get from questgivers to quest objectives!

[Flying Dice]

They're going to add autorun. It's the logical next step down from GPS waypoints and fast travel.


Somewhat more topically, I got sick of instability and looking pretty but running like ass, so I did a fresh reinstall, ditched my ENB setup, got rid of a few dozen other mods, and abandoned any pretension of doing an original character build. Back to basics with a Bosmer stealth archer plus a little of those big knife ears, T&A, and physics-enabled high-res hair. feelsgoodman

[Putnam]

They're going to add autorun. It's the logical next step down from GPS waypoints and fast travel.

autorun was bound to Q in oblivion

[Rolan7]

I was assuming that was a joke, since yeah it's definitely a thing in Oblivion.  And also Skyrim I'm mostly sure?

What I *really* want is Daggerfall tier """fast travel""" which has actual consequences for "teleporting" across the land.  Yeah Oblivion does an impressive job of passing time, even taking your athletics into consideration.  But that's purely a good thing, as it depletes various timers like the Archmage's magic chest.

I REALLY want fast travel that has a random encounter chance.

I assume that there are options for that, especially for Skyrim.  I eventually went with Frostfall and that one travel-between-settlements mod which put carriages everywhere, but they cost a nominal fee.  But It'd be great to be occasionally accosted instead.

[Teneb]

I was assuming that was a joke, since yeah it's definitely a thing in Oblivion.  And also Skyrim I'm mostly sure?

There is on Skyrim too, but I forget the key on PC.

I REALLY want fast travel that has a random encounter chance.

I assume that there are options for that, especially for Skyrim.  I eventually went with Frostfall and that one travel-between-settlements mod which put carriages everywhere, but they cost a nominal fee.  But It'd be great to be occasionally accosted instead.

*Fast travels*
"Your travel has been interrupted."
*Loading screen followed by three cliff racers*

Let's just say that I have a deep dislike of fast travel random encounters because of the way many games handle it. Oh, moving between locations? Have fun going through twice the loading screens because these bandits that die in one hit each want to attack you. Every. Single. Time.

[Rolan7]

Point taken, though load times aren't nearly what they were.
But sure, it should be optional, which I supposed it already is through mods.

That's what I want though:  Some tedium or consequence for travel, focusing on the "interesting" parts.  Just like playing DND. 
Early OoTS

Vanilla fast travel feels so cheap that I often walk instead, even in Oblivion where there's no penalty at all.
As opposed to Skyrim where I have to rely on hold wagons.
"Different strokes"

[Kagus]

Y'know what I liked? Red Dead Redemption.

You could wrassle yourself a horse and just ride the damn distance, or you could hop on a carriage which would actually drive along the roads and take you there, instead of just turning into a loading screen as soon as you hop onboard.

There were buttons to "go faster" (which works about as well as it does in the later GTA titles... Namely, you don't really move that much faster, but the pathfinding AI becomes a lot more entertaining to watch) or just sleep it out and go straight to the loading screen approach... But you fully had the option to take the scenic route while letting someone else drive. Random encounters would also still spawn occasionally, so you'd be able to see people out hootin' and hollerin' in the fields as you rode past, or get a few bullets slung your way by some ill-to-do ruffians. And you could stick your gun out the window and answer them with some peas of your own.


In theory you could also hop onboard the iron horse and cross large distances very quickly, but ha-frickin'-ha... There's one engine on a one-line track, so it's never where you need it to be, and also the fat fuck doesn't stop for anything.

This is actually slightly comical, because several players reported difficulty in getting the achievement for wiping out all the remaining American buffalo, because the train beat them to it.  *Splat*.

[Rolan7]

Ya' know whasn't ported to PC due to $BS$?

That does sound entertaining, though, especially the sped-up pathfinding heh.

[Kagus]

Ya' know whasn't ported to PC due to $BS$?

That does sound entertaining, though, especially the sped-up pathfinding heh.

It really is some BS, RDD is a fabulous game and I'd snap it up if it got ported in an at least half-functional form to PC.

One thing is out-drawing and shooting the hat off some bloodthirsty varmint, another is hip-firing a Sharpe rifle... But have you ever thrown a heat-seeking stick of dynamite at a crow? I bet you haven't.

[Dunamisdeos]

Joke's on you, I threw a heat-seeking crow at a stick of dynamite.

[scourge728]

I'd like to point this out, They DID intend for you to be able to take the scenic route in Skyrim, finished all the code and the voice lines as well, just decided at the last minute not to for some reason

[umiman]

I'd like to point this out, They DID intend for you to be able to take the scenic route in Skyrim, finished all the code and the voice lines as well, just decided at the last minute not to for some reason

You can get mods to put it back in and it'll become readily apparent why they removed it.

Enemies spawning in and you can't do anything to fight back, the cart bugging out as usual, broken pathfinding, etc. Etc.