Detect Life AND Detect Dead : V

» Tue May 15, 2012 6:41 am

from a loading screen "Allies will appear different than enemies when using detect life or detect dead.

What could detect dead do?!?

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:10 pm

Detect the undead (zombies, skeletons etc).

» Tue May 15, 2012 8:54 am

Help you locate corpses for looting?

» Tue May 15, 2012 2:35 am

I'd prefer these two spells be single one, using different colors. Perhaps an high level version combines them.

» Tue May 15, 2012 12:28 pm

Well detect life now doesn't detect undead enemies or dwenmer machines, so I suppose detect dead detects anything not technically alive?

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:39 pm

either you'll see the undead shuffling around AND/OR you'll see corpses on the ground outlined....i hope both since in oblivion i'd lose corpses in tall grass lol.

» Tue May 15, 2012 3:49 am

... hope both since in oblivion i'd lose corpses in tall grass lol.

I swear cyrollic grass is carnivorous. A corpse will fall into it and bam - it's gone, it's like the grass swallowed it up xD

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:54 am

I always thought it odd in OB when detect life would point out skeletons and zombies. I hope it is a Detect Undead, so to speak.

» Tue May 15, 2012 12:18 pm

Are they two separate spells?

» Tue May 15, 2012 2:47 am

Are they two separate spells?

Going by the opening posts quote I would say yes.

» Tue May 15, 2012 4:09 am

Thats pretty cool =) Detect life detecting the dead seemed silly

» Tue May 15, 2012 3:29 pm

Are they two separate spells?

Seems so. We already know detect life doesn't show the undead.

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:18 am

Didnt detect life show skeletons in oblivion?

» Tue May 15, 2012 7:47 am

This could be interesting for ambushes too. Like when draugr and dragon priests emerge or burst out of tombs, perhaps detect dead can see where they are resting so you don't get caught unprepared?

» Tue May 15, 2012 4:22 am

Didnt detect life show skeletons in oblivion?

Yep, I'm pretty sure it did. I guess it was more like Detect Lifeforce or Living, so it work for the Living Dead as well.

I'm cool with having a Detect Undead and Detect Life though.