Okay, I've just got Skyrim now for Xmas and have to say that although I'm liking it overall, I'm finding the menus very unintuitive compared that of Oblivion. But my main issue that's preventing me from enjoying this game as much as I could be, now that I have just installed and updated it, is with the Hotkeys. I don't know if anyone else has this problem and I'm assuming its a bug or a very silly restriction on melee weapon switching. Basically my melee weapons will not stay bound to my hot keys...

I am familiar with the whole favourites menu and adding the weapons, shields and spells to it, and binding them to a number key. No problem, but when I start switching melee weapons, like say a one handed weapon to a two handed weapon or a bow, then the weapon I was previously using falls off its binding. This means I can't switch back to it without either pressing the number that represents the weapon I've changed to again or accessing the Favourites or Inventory screen again.

An example:

Favourites Menu

5. Healing
2. Iron Shield
1. Iron Warhammer
3. Long Bow
4. Sparks

* I am holding the long bow. I press 1. My character puts away his bow and pulls out his Iron Warhammer.
* Now I press 3. He puts away the Iron Warhammer and pulls out the Long bow.

All is great until now...

* I press 1. Nothing happens. He remains holding the Long Bow.

I look at the Favourites and the Iron Warhammer no longer has a number next to it.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

My System Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus IV - Gene-Z
Graphics: Gainward GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2GB Phantom
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3
ROM: Lite-On Blu-Ray Disc Writer with LightScribe
Hard Drive: Western Digital Green 1TB
Sound: Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium

Yeah I get the same thing too. It's annoying.

Glad to know its not me. I thought I was going crazy for a moment.

Only time my melee weapons came unbound from a hotkey was when I had more then one of the item. For instance if I happen to want to hotkey an Orc Warhammer & I had 2 or more of them, the hotkey wouldn't stick.

The thing is, I can't always replicate it. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes not.

I think it has something to do with picking up an identical item to the one that is bound.

You could be right guys. You see when I left Helgen, I got distracted by a mine I found, so I killed all the Bandits and looted it. That's where I realised the bug was happening. Of course I'd picked up many weapons, including more than one of the same.

Once I finally got to Riverwood and sold it all, the bug went away.

It's definitely a case of having more than one of the same weapon. It happens to bows too.

I really hope they fix this.

The http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3865 mod solved this issue for me. You can bind anything to either hand to any key you like. Works wonders.

I've noticed this too, mostly with bows. When I have more than one of the same kind, the assigned hotkey is only assigned until I actually choose it.. then it disappears.

I really hope someone makes a classic Oblivion UI mod for Skyrim. I thought I'd get used to it by now, but I'm level 37 and I'm still hating it.

Does anyone find that mousing over options can also stick where you don't want it to? Especially during conversations and shops. Quite often I'll select my sentance and it will auto-stick to a different conversation line and I have to keep messing around with the mouse pointer and wheel to get it to change its mind. Quite often I end up saying things I don't want to because of it. It's almost like my character suffers from turrettes syndrome! And when selecting catagories on the left side, when I'm shopping, it often exits the shop instead. Very irritating!

You could try http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863 and see if that floats ya boat!

Looks good thanks, I'll give it a spin at some point. I also tried the extra Hotkeys mod suggested above, but I couldn't get it to work.

Thanks for recommending SkyUI Paingiver! So far its brilliant. If they just combined the Magic and Item menu together, or a quick switch from one to the other it wouldn't be far off the same system as Oblivion's UI. Still its a major improvement.

Well, the day is young and the CK isn't even out yet but they did a good job. The future's bright as they say!