http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=746

NPC greeting issue resolved here, I use it. Works great.

About the dual-wielding executions, they're definitely there, but you have to use the weapon in your right hand.

1: Biggest complaint: The sheer number of things that randomly attack you on the way to anywhere at all. On the road (the ROAD, not the middle of the woods, the ROAD that everyone travels on) between the Valtheim Towers and Riften I counted no less than 3 attacks from bears who were sitting in the middle of the road and two simultaneous Troll attacks. That's idiotic. The forest should be dangerous but you should at LEAST be able to stay on the apparently well-travelled road for more than a minute without 3 wolves, a bear, giant spider, troll and 2 more trolls barreling at you cause you killed their cousins one minute ago during the last attack. Especially annoying considering the awesomely ultra-realistic way that my character is utterly helpess and vulnerable while riding a 700-pound war horse. That's okay cause if I get attacked I can just hit E and, within the hour, he'll be off the horse and ready to ragdoll into a tree while pulling out his weapons. Then the horse will run 10 miles up the road to fight 2 more bears.

2: Stop telling me I'm detected when it's my own horse that detects me.

3: Are there no execution animations for dual wield either? I've only ever seen them when I accidentally kill someone with just one weapon. If true, very disappointing for dual-wield assassin.

4: Frequency of dragon attacks. At around the 40th time one showed up I was just rolling my eyes and saying ugh, I'm in the middle of something, go away.

5: NPCs are way too talkative. I did not ask if you work the mill, or if it is fulfilling or if it pays well. I didn't ask because this is the 100,000th time you've volunteered the information while I sprinted past you.

6: The horse can run off on its own but no one thought to give it a map marker or something? After every battle I have to climb a rock and try to spot my horse among the trees. Surely that will never get old. Let me guess: 'eh, the modders will do something about it'.

Seems like a useful mod.

A complaint shouldn't be disregarded simply because it can be "modded in", or out, as the case may be. (Not saying that you did, just wanted to put it out there)

About the dual-wielding executions, they're definitely there, but you have to use the weapon in your right hand.

Huh. I'll try that then. Thanks.

@ Gun Owner
Sweet! Thanks for the heads up on that mod. I agree with Typhoonxz's comment that it really should be fixed officially though.

2: Stop telling me I'm detected when it's my own horse that detects me.

look, i might not be the best blacksmith in whiterun, but....

This. Also, I hate Ash Piles. I thought they could remove them finally with the new engine, so why haven't they? Ash Piles everywhere thanks to random Necromancers is really starting to grate with me.

Ash piles!!!! I have hated these since Fallout 3 have they been staying in your world to? Bethesda needs to remove the piles altogether they could patch them but I say remove them for less irritation!

Certain things I hate about all Bethesda games that they have continued in skyrim.

Cloning: Everybody is the same height and uses one of the maybe five voice actors that cover the entire game. EVERY TOUGH GUY SOUNDS LIKE FARKAS. When every man is Farkas, Farkas is no longer special.

Copying: It's hard to care what the npcs want me to do when it merely winds up sending me to YET ANOTHER bandit/hostile mage/undead cave.

Interface: A given. It's horrible. Not letting me remove the daedric quests that have no "Good" way out gets under my skin in particular, as if not being able to tell Boethiah where he can stick it wasn't enough.

Henchmen have no personality at all once hired. Not much intelligence either.

Those are some good points. I agree - it's always annoying when my horse starts deciding it's Hercules and starts trying to kill a dragon on it's own - rescuing damsels in distress is one thing. Having to rescue my horse again and again is just tiresome, especially since it's Shadowmere, and he can die in Skyrim. How about a kriffing option to change the horses reaction to a 2-ton carnivore 'run the **** out of here' instead of 'I AM SUPER-HORSE! FEAR MY MIGHTY HOO-*dies*. Okay, he doesn't die THAT easily... but it's still annoying when I constantly have to adjust how I play to ensure that Shadowmere will be around later on.

I'm on the 360 btw. New Vegas died repeatedly because of these damn Ash Piles, and Fallout 3 was nearly as bad as that. Why on earth did they include them again?! It's like we're being trolled by these things. And why do raised dead dissolve into Ash Piles in the first place? Seriously, there are dozens of these piles between Whiterun and Markarth for me as I had to move a lot of stuff between Breezehome and Vlindrel Hall, and the framerate just plummets around there. Worse still, I'm only on these forums now because Skyrim has totally crashed on me 5 times in the last 24 hours. If I find out those Ash Piles have caused this, I'm gonna rage.

the ash piles are just a nuisance. There is no point for them, I have an ash pile that refuses to leave the ritual stone> I do not understand it, I am on XBOX 360 for now too and I have to say I hate it, there is no reason to have them. Since 08 I have suffered with the lag they cause in Fallout 3 if an enemy was reduced to ash enemies would not respawn. I hope this is not the case in Skyrim!

I'm fairly sure they respawn, but the Ash Piles remain. It looks like hell when they cover so much of the ground.

Yea. I agree with all of those things, except the dragon attacks. Yea, you can complain when an ANCIENT or ELDER dragon attacks, as they are impossible to kill, but not a normal one.

Other than that, yes. I hate the darkness/lighting problems in this game, it makes some dungeons impossible to navigate without a torch.

Cloning: Everybody is the same height and uses one of the maybe five voice actors that cover the entire game. EVERY TOUGH GUY SOUNDS LIKE FARKAS. When every man is Farkas, Farkas is no longer special.

I really don't understand the complaint about random encounters along the road. Pretty much everything give a warning telling you not to get close. A bear will stand up showing its presence. Wolves will howl. Bandits will outright tell you to keep your distance.

Obey that and you won't get in trouble with them. With enough stamina and/or high enough level you can just ignore them and run past them, and unlike Oblivion where they would follow you forever, here they will give up. 100 times better than Oblivion. And I love it. Roleplay - use your senses and look out for danger and you usually can stay clear. Sometimes you'll just get surprised and get a whopping - that kind of stuff tends to happen a lot in role playing games...