*sigh* It was a joke. Don't you have a baby from a prophecy to find?

The demo at PAX was said to be the latest alpha build. Why a June demo is at Eurogamer a month after PAX is very odd.

1. Berserk Racial power confirmed.

Sorry, but you're wrong.

They don't change textures a few months before the release. Those are made from the start. If a certain texture is really bad, that of course can be changed. However, the OP described the textures in general to be bad.
What was so bad about them seemed to be texture depth. The solution to enhance this to a modern level and not a that outdated one is tessellation or parallax occlusion mapping. These are hugely time and resource demanding things and there's no chance in hell you'll see that in Skyrim.

The LOD coding is made from the start. Bethesda rewrote everything at the beginning, and bragged about it in their interviews and demos. To say that they start changing one of the most fundamental technical things in rendering a few months before the release is simply ridiculous.

Hi everyone, I went to the Eurogamer convention today and just got back home. Well as you can imagine the first thing I did was go to the Skyrim booth, while waiting I did too some of the staff for Bethesda, they told me that the current build they were showing was the promotion build and is the June edition, so as you can imagine there would be a lot of bugs so I'm going to start with the bad first...
1: Screen tearing (I think that's been fixed in the newer builds)
2: One player had the trouble of low frame rate, this lasted for roughly 8 seconds and then sorted itself
3: The loading screen is a little too long for comfort for me, but I'm sure this will be fixed and I'm sure PC users won't experience this
4: There was an issue with an invisible door where you could see the door handles floating but nothing else.
5: Heading far south I did notice an extreme issue with the water where it sort of connected with the land, I at first thought I was stepping on ground and then fell in water. (can't explain any better)
6: The textures were in my opinion not great, on close inspection the textures like the wall, items and everything were really really flat.
7: The LOD was pretty poor, I was perhaps 12 ft away and all of a sudden a treasure chest just appeared.
8: (This I blame on the TV, the resolution, contrast and brightness were terrible. Everything was jagged, the LOD was pix-elated and the dungeons were really bright, I know this is due to the TV because a: They told me that they are not on 1080p or 720p but rather 480p! also the TV's were terrible, barely even HD, and the brightness was set too high.

Ok now onto the actual gameplay, now my first playthrough didn't go too well I played an Orc, I went through to Riverwood and I heard the old lady scream out about the dragons as heard in the Skyrim Demo, the only difference was that the voices had changed. I then went through into a bar, being daytime still only the owners were inside, I was greeted by a funny argument between the husband and wife, the wife was moaning about having low stocks about a certain ingredient to which the husband was ignoring her and in the end said "yes I know" and she replied "so you don't have potatoes in your ears" I then spoke to the husband and asked about any rumours to which he replied that a certain somebody (can't remember the name) is searching for the Dark Brotherhood.

After leaving the bar I went outside and headed north again and on my way I killed a few wolves and bandits, finally I stumbled upon guards escorting a stormcloak prisoner and when I went upto the prisoner I had the option to set him free or set him free and give him items. I decided to set him free to which the three guards responded by attacking me and the prisoner, I have to say it was an impossible match! They killed the prisoner in less than 10 seconds and almost got me but thank Sithis a wolf came out of no where an began attacking the guards while I tried to escape, I then tried to run away but the guards quickly killed the wolf and began pursuing me yet again, almost dying I decided to use my heal spell and to my shock one of the guards yelled out "we can't win this" and began to flee only to return yet again.

Finally managing to escape thanks to more wolves and a horse I found and stole I came across a man sitting outside a cave calling for help, when I went up to him he told me that him and his partner were trying too collect bear pelts but had a little trouble. I decided to enter the cave and the first thing I came across was a Spriggan (and they look amazing, so dark and evil looking) the spriggan attacked me with bees and seemed to have some sort of camouflage power where it would turn invisible and reappear again. Finally being able to kill it I continued on however I then got attacked by a bear, an oh my god they're tough! I died twice from the same bear, I was able to kill bandits, a pack of wolves and a spriggan but the bear was the only thing able to kill me. Getting pissed off I went outside one the game loaded up again and decided to kill the man that sent me in there, expecting a battle I held down the attack trigger to find that my character had done an instant finisher, the move was something I never saw, basically my character shoved his sword into the NPCs guts and then quickly pulled the sword back out. Then my 20 minutes were up.

I'll be writing my second play through which was much better, I learnt a lot more new things so stay tuned.

So the "problems" are more with the Graphical part of the Engine rather than with the Gameplay? NIce to hear that. :disguise:

...but thank Sithis a wolf came out of no where an began attacking the guards while I tried to escape, I then tried to run away but the guards quickly killed the wolf and began pursuing me yet again...

Not amused to be honest.June build or not,why the [censored] would they show that?.....they are showing off their game ,not trying to put people off.

This better not turn out like another new vegas,that game was a mess.

I can understand things like that in earlier builds,but why show it off.

Anyway,we'll see.

Everyone has a right to be concerned (no matter how dramatic lol)
But that is only becuase we dOnt know what is going to be updated in the final build
A june build?? A lot has been improved since then.....
like i stated above bfbc2 beta was the same way
It was a whole different game when it finally released
I expect the same from skyrim
It will be updated severely right before release into its final build
And then its just patches and updates from there

That's a relief... kind of.
Well not truly a relief, it's still sounded way too fast for a racial power.

I wouldn't be falling back on this "June Build" nonsense too hard guys. It's highly unlikely that the LoD or ANY textures will be changed between then and now..

Floating doors and invisible doors? Sure..

Screen tearing? MAYBE

Frame Rate problems? Doubtful this will be fixed, consoles are struggling to keep 30fps as is


BUT

For us computer players.. it sounds like something we will take care of no problem..

Load times? Haha.. just installed a 120gb SSD
Framerate? My 2GB 6950 says bring it on
Screen tearing? force Vertical Sync on through GPU
Bad Textures? If true 1080p doesn't fix this mods will
LoD may be the only problem, just depends.. some games won't let you mod that.


BRING IT ON!

You're right, but the PC might get better textures as has been said. The LOD is probably weak because of the 360.

This is good news. Rumors were flying around here of the usual OB wildlife that magically teamed up with everyone but you to kill... only you.

If you don't care about graphics at all, you should play Minecraft.

Updated with the second play through

The rate to auto regeneration Health is 1 HP per 1 second real time , at Level 1, and this is very, very FAST. BGS must change this before Gold.