New players... sheesh! : V - Skyrim

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:49 am

One thing I just found out today after hundreds of hours of gameplay: My character just fought some vampires but got contracted with early stage of vampirism.. pretty nervous about it, no cure disease potion, no town or village nearby (I'm playing without fast travel), but then my character past by some of the mage of vigilant of Stendarr. Came up to them to talk and they actually offer to heal me! Well more specifically they give me an option "Please heal me." And they did! So yes, another way to cure your disease if you are out of cure disease potion like me at that time.

I just started a new character and have been trying to actually role play... so after a long day roaming around catching butterflies and picking flowers I retired to the Bannered Mare for some Mead.
I went up to my room and sat on the balcony to listen to the bard and heard Hilda exclaim "Saadia wake up dear!" "Yes ma'am." And a few seconds later Saadia comes to take my order. Lol. Nothing stopping me from going downstairs to buy Mead but having someone wait on me made me say "Bow to the Dovakhin!".

I also just notice this not too long ago, good service in Whiterun inn.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:54 am

i lust for the eyes of a noob, they see past a fog i refer to as "technical understanding" allowing a new level of real to be felt...

he won't be like that forever, treasure it, luv it, and remember it.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:50 am

One thing I just found out today after hundreds of hours of gameplay: My character just fought some vampires but got contracted with early stage of vampirism.. pretty nervous about it, no cure disease potion, no town or village nearby (I'm playing without fast travel), but then my character past by some of the mage of vigilant of Stendarr. Came up to them to talk and they actually offer to heal me! Well more specifically they give me an option "Please heal me." And they did! So yes, another way to cure your disease if you are out of cure disease potion like me at that time. :smile:

Interesting. And all this time I thought the Vigilants of Stendarr were just there to act like jerks and make you feel bad.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:06 am

Interesting. And all this time I thought the Vigilants of Stendarr were just there to act like jerks and make you feel bad.

your an orc arent you?

its cuz u serve malacath...
and you can kill them, i did, i do...
i can loot their cure disease potions if i need to cure my diseases...

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:41 am

I remember when me and my sister first got the game. My sister made my mum try it.

Yeah.
'Mom, you can move while looking...

"

"What?"

...

"WHAT'S THE ATTACK BUTTON?"

"JUST CLICK"

"CLICK WHAT?"

"THE MOUSE"

...

And my dad? Well I won't get in to that.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 2:19 am

I remember when me and my sister first got the game. My sister made my mum try it.

Yeah.
'Mom, you can move while looking...

"

"What?"

...

"WHAT'S THE ATTACK BUTTON?"

"JUST CLICK"

"CLICK WHAT?"

"THE MOUSE"

...

And my dad? Well I won't get in to that.

LOL!!!

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:01 pm

I remember when me and my sister first got the game. My sister made my mum try it.

Yeah.
'Mom, you can move while looking...

"

"What?"

...

"WHAT'S THE ATTACK BUTTON?"

"JUST CLICK"

"CLICK WHAT?"

"THE MOUSE"

...

And my dad? Well I won't get in to that.

Probably should have started them out on something closer to their gaming skill level... maybe pong...

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:18 pm

My husband has just discovered that jumping in puddles makes the water move.

He is also in a dilemma over eating his large antlers.... does the choking hazard outweigh the experience earned....

He is cracking me up.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:03 am

My husband has just discovered that jumping in puddles makes the water move.

He is also in a dilemma over eating his large antlers.... does the choking hazard outweigh the experience earned....

He is cracking me up.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:58 am

Oh, and rotating the world map, that was recently discovered.

Wait, what? You can rotate the world map?! HOW?! :ooo:

You have to be trolling... You can move bear traps, too!?!?!??!?!?!?

I've heard you can also throw them at enemies with telekinesis. Should you ever feel the need to use other, quite unique, weapons.

Shooting torches out of their brackets was something that surprised me early on. After that, I looked for more things to shoot, just to see if it would work. A useful technique when in dungeons with arcane traps!

Ahhh ... haha yeah yes of course, I knew about that!

*runs off to try it out*

I just started a new character and have been trying to actually role play... so after a long day roaming around catching butterflies and picking flowers I retired to the Bannered Mare for some Mead.
I went up to my room and sat on the balcony to listen to the bard and heard Hilda exclaim "Saadia wake up dear!" "Yes ma'am." And a few seconds later Saadia comes to take my order. Lol. Nothing stopping me from going downstairs to buy Mead but having someone wait on me made me say "Bow to the Dovakhin!".

Yes, often when you take a seat in an inn, the owner will command the tavern girl/boy to go take your order, which they do.

Oh yeah, and I see a lot of people not knowing sprint works for horses. Do you realize jump works too? And if you don't move with the horse and press the jump key, it'll "stand on its hind feet" (I can't recall the right term for it).

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:27 am

Oh yeah, and I see a lot of people not knowing sprint works for horses. Do you realize jump works too? And if you don't move with the horse and press the jump key, it'll "stand on its hind feet" (I can't recall the right term for it).

That's called rearing. For reasons which will remain unspoken.

I figured out the horsey sprint thing, the rearing thing, and a couple of others, but some of these are like bolts out of the blue. When I get a new game, I mess with things, don't read the book on gameplay, like to learn for myself. I had to ask someone on this forum about moving objects around your house, for instance. Duh?

Anyway, good stuff, best thread yet.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:54 am

i found out that i could mine ores with a pick axe manually earlier on, but when some DUMB miner walked past me, i get a bounty of 40.
Moral of the story: Always get rid of the people nearby if you want to manually mine. By means of getting rid of them, it doesnt matter how as long as they are good and gone.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:02 pm

Does he realise you can move bear traps? Another source of endless time wasting fun.

You can do that?

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:00 pm

Ah, discovery. I had to pick my jaw up off the floor when I figured out that there are little markings on all the buildings in towns and they mean something.

I think I was about 200 hours into Morrowind when I finally discovered I could drag corpses and things around. I spent an entire day building a pillow fort in Balmora

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:46 pm

It took me a while to learn that if you read the 10 etched tablets on your way up to High Hrothgar, you'd get the Voice of the Sky effect for 24 hours. :tes:

I wondered if it would work in reverse order so I tried it. It works. If you forget on the way up, you can read them all on the way down. :tes:

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:08 pm

WAIT WAIT WAIT.....................................

you can manually swing the pickaxe? :blink:

THIS.

I did not know of this!
*loads up game to murder some veins*

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:45 am

I've heard you can also throw them at enemies with telekinesis. Should you ever feel the need to use other, quite unique, weapons.

Bear traps are great in places where enemies are sleeping. Sneak and put traps beside their bed than retreat to the other side of the room and make a noise. I did it with 3 of them once thinking that at least one would get him but he managed to step on all 3 and died.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:40 am

Does anyone else know that when you punch with heavy gauntlets (I would assume light would work as well) you're heavy armor skill goes up?

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:22 am

I think I was about 200 hours into Morrowind when I finally discovered I could drag corpses and things around. I spent an entire day building a pillow fort in Balmora :biggrin:

You can move corpses in Morrowind? I know you can put items in your inventory then place them where you want by dropping them, but I thought that was pretty much all you could do.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:53 am

I just found out that in a brawl you can hold both buttons down to do a power attack,just like when dual wielding only with fist's. :twirl:

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:44 am

I had no clue Anise's cabin has a cellar lol.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:43 am

I just recently found out you can move bodies and stuff on the XBox while debating to myself whether I should steal a jeweled necklace while holding the A button down. It never said anything about it in the guidebook. So I spent about 20 minutes throwing plates of food at people, triumphantly. Then I threw wolf bodies down a mountain.

I thought dragging was only for the PC for some reason.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:12 am

I didn't know that was possible either :ohmy:

Everytime I come across an ore vein, it just says "mine ore vein", and I just press X to start watching my char collect it. (yes, I'm on PS3)

Try dual wielding them as well as manual mining, it's faster.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:54 pm

I had no clue Anise's cabin has a cellar lol.

This too. She will also flip out at you having

Spoiler

found that she is a witch

and attack you on sight.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:57 am

I gave my buddy a loan of the 360 version for a fortnight and deliberately didnt tell him a thing about the game so he could experience it on his own. Two weeks later and I find out that he still has not found a town yet, not even riverwood. And he is overloaded in junk like lanterns and linen wraps.