New players... sheesh! : V

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:14 am

My husband just started a character after watching me play 15 levels or so.

Him: Now, how do you catch butterflies?
Me: The same way you did when you were 8 years old.
Him: What does that mean?
Me: You'll figure it out.
Him (several minutes later): I see what you mean....

Him: Are these red mountain flowers good for anything?
Me: Yes, you can make poisons and potions with flowers.

So now, even when an unknown is in the distance, he has to stop and chase Torchbugs and pick flowers... it's adorable and disconcerting at the same time...

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:01 am

You ain't grown up until you dare act childish

You gotta love it

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:50 am

Just wait 'til he's 200 hours in before realising the sprint button works on horses.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 2:22 am

Just wait 'til he's 200 hours in before realising the sprint button works on horses.

Haha oh man...I did the same..I'm such a noob

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:44 am

Just wait 'til he's 200 hours in before realising the sprint button works on horses.

I was way further than that into the game before I realized that you could swing a pickaxe manually at an ore vein to mine. It did not ever occur to me to do that until I read about it on this forum and I have been playing these games for years.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:36 am

Now he's learning everything there is to know about archery at the Companions practice range, including bashing. :laugh:

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:12 am

I'd be worried!

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:47 am

I was way further than that into the game before I realized that you could swing a pickaxe manually at an ore vein to mine. It did not ever occur to me to do that until I read about it on this forum and I have been playing these games for years.

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

you can manually swing the pickaxe? :blink:

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:12 am

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

you can manually swing the pickaxe? :blink:

I didn't know that was possible either

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)

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:09 pm

So now, even when an unknown is in the distance, he has to stop and chase Torchbugs and pick flowers... it's adorable and disconcerting at the same time...

He'll get out of that real quick the first time he doesn't notice the sabre cat stalking him as he chases a luna moth.

Happened to me.

I often wonder what my follower is thinking as I'm running here and there after bugs or fish.

Probably not what they were envisioning when they took house-carl 101 at Skyrim U.

Maybe I've played this game too long.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:47 pm

I didn't know that was possible either

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)

In so trying that when I get home!

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:04 am

I was way further than that into the game before I realized that you could swing a pickaxe manually at an ore vein to mine. It did not ever occur to me to do that until I read about it on this forum and I have been playing these games for years.

You sir, made my palm hit my forehead. I've played the game for 300 hours, and didn't even figure that one out.
I'm pathetic sometimes, usually I'm good at quickly finding my way about in new games.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:18 pm

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

you can manually swing the pickaxe? :blink:

Yeah, just equip it like you would a normal weapon and press the attack button while facing the ore vein.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:44 am

You sir, made my palm hit my forehead. I've played the game for 300 hours, and didn't even figure that one out.
I'm pathetic sometimes, usually I'm good at quickly finding my way about in new games.

Yes, a pickaxe, an iron ore vein and a transmute spell can be ... profitable.

Now, if I can just figure out what the damn shovels are for ...

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:27 am

Just wait 'til he's 200 hours in before realising the sprint button works on horses.

That's about the time it took me to realize you could pickpocket people in Morrowind.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:34 pm

Yeah, just equip it like you would a normal weapon and press the attack button while facing the ore vein.

Nice, that's being tested shortly! (feeling kinda stupid, that I didn't know that 'till now...)

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:12 pm

In so trying that when I get home!

So, what you've done up until now has been to manually hitting the vein till it's depleted?

Doesn't that drain a lot of stamina?

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:28 am

Manually swing the pick..aaaaaaaahhhh! I didn't know! 163 hours...geez!

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:31 am

I was way further than that into the game before I realized that you could swing a pickaxe manually at an ore vein to mine. It did not ever occur to me to do that until I read about it on this forum and I have been playing these games for years.

Yeah same here, I looked into the strategy book and it showed a man dual weilding pickaxes and it said you can mine ore twice as fast. I equipped two clicked the ore but nope nothing, few hudnred hours later I figured it out ha.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:27 am

Hehe,Like when my girlfriend first played skyrim. It was fun.
*oh look a fox! *follows the fox* then she is lost in the forest and dont know where to go x)

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:53 am

I just found out after 300 hours that I could look at the maps in the game, the ones with the pins on it, and get my map updated.

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

And, last noobie thing, using the End and Home keys when in a screen that uses a slider. Like when bartering your arrows, use the Home Key to get quickly to 1 or the End key when you want to rest 24 hours.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:31 am

Hehe,Like when my girlfriend first played skyrim. It was fun.
*oh look a fox! *follows the fox* then she is lost in the forest and dont know where to go x)

Silly Swede, gamers don't have girlfriends. Don't try to pretend so.

Anyway, I was like that when I first loaded up Skyrim too. I just had to jump from that waterfall and swim all the way to the ocean, while grabbing all the colourful fich I saw on the way.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:36 pm

Him: You mean I travelled all that way to kill a guy with two swings of my warhammer?
Me: Yeah...

HIm: I paid that minstrel 25 gold for that stupid song?? I shoulda killed him right in the middle. I think I'm gonna go back and just kill him.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:39 am

I was way further than that into the game before I realized that you could swing a pickaxe manually at an ore vein to mine. It did not ever occur to me to do that until I read about it on this forum and I have been playing these games for years.

Mind. Blown. Ive gotta go try that!

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:57 am

It wasn't until well into my second play through (I think I'm the only gamer who doesn't know how many hours he plays his games for - I've never understood the whole "you get about 200 hours out of it" stuff) that I realised you can bash with your bow. And my first character was the bigger archer - d'oh!