....for god sake let us climb these mountains.

I am so sick and tired of this 3D map, I do not know where any roads or pathways are.

So I forgive going a shortcut is fine, but the game doesn't.

It's the same thing with Oblivion, it's so darn flippin hard to get up a mountain. The worse thing is Skyrim is a game about mountains and rocks. You'd think we'd have more options of climbing them, but no.

Sorry a bit of a vent from frustration.

I climb mountains all the time in Skyrim. It just involves some awkward movements.

The answer to your problem is one word


Horse

Horse beats physics.


It does. And takes a lot of time too. I have to go side to side, then forward to see if it will let me go up one, then side to side, forward, side to side, forward. -.-

horses and diagonal jumping is your friend. i don't think there is a mountain you can't climb...eventually.

in oblivion i always used paintbrushes. wish something like that was in skyrim... lol

Meh, I enjoy scaling mountains, but now I just go up from the foot of the mountain and follow the path up.

Well it wouldnt be a mountain if you could waltz up it from any angle would it? I get the frustration, ive done the exact same thing many times and have had to execute a "go around" to find a clear path up or one that I can cliffwalk up. But at the end of the day, thats terrain for you.

Not all the paths should be this difficult to climb up though. Especially, since I have hiked before and climbed before. Some of the paths, they don't look like you could waltz up there, but you can certainly not even have to climb much. A lot of bended knees, sometimes a little bit of grabbing, but you get on. Not having my Skyrim character sit there and feel like he's walking for 10 mins being blocked by a brick wall.

Not to be a git, but I live in a mountainous region and done a few mountain walks in my time. Unless its a clearly defined and marked path, then yes its bloody murder to get up a mountain. Its just the game reflecting the fact that a mountain peak is a bit of a geographical bugger to get to.

There are two floating boxes that can be bought in Whiterun. The chances of seeing them are very rare though.

I understand this. That's what I mean though. But it doesn't mean you're being blocked by a brick wall either.

You mean we shouldn't be able to parkour in steel plate armor? Crazy talk.

Same, I actually got quite good at climbing really steep slopes.