Some stuff I would like to see in 1.5, I'm sure most of this wont happen.

What would be LEGENDARY is if a Beth pro would actually comment on some of the stuff, but I have low hopes for that either..


* FOLLOWERS *
- Dogs should have a dialog option to set their 'home'
- It would be cool if at least some dogs could be told 'silent', like they are specially trained
- Need to be able to push NPC out of the way
- Show health meter

* HORSES * all the follower stuff plus this..
- Cast non-combat spells on horseback (night-eye & heal especially)
- Horses need aggression turned WAY down
- No saddlebags? Horses should carry stuff! c'mon!
- Different breeds & speeds
- Horses should not be spiders (no vertical climbing)

* PICKPOCKETING *
- Fortify effects seem broken, actually reducing success chance

* INPUT EVENTS *
- Dragon shout, dialog option, shoot arrow etc the game doesn't respond at all

* UI *
- Font is too small for enchanted items
- Recharge from a selected soul gem, not just from the weapons menu
- Containers need categories
- Sorting functions in ALL inventorys: weight, value, damage, charge
- Use more controls in menus (L1,R1 switching vendor <> character inventory etc)
- We need indicators of active effects and time remaining. (Stoneflesh, poisoned etc.)
- Breath hold timer/indicator when underwater
- Allow me to always show health, magick and stamina bars

* HOTKEY *
- D-pad wheel for items, ala OB, FONV etc...
- Let favorites menu be assigned to one direction or specified by user

* MAP *
- Toggle weather display
- Show roads as they are discovered
- Fully rotate and zoom
- Location type filter
- Return to main menu again from the map

* VISUALS *
- Improve lighting effects from fire sources (Breezehome looks terrible)
- when you are shooting arrows around a corner and the arrows bounce off of thin air in front of you.

*iDropWeaponDeathChance (sp?)*
- Please set this to zero, its annoying to have crap littering the world.

* PRISONER SAVE *
- When you make a new char it should just use one of the normal autosave slots


* PERFORMANCE *
- 1.4 has reduced the times when I get severe FPS drops, but I still get them
- In general the FPS still looks bad in a lot of environments


+edit+
*SERVICES*

- We should be able to pay for weapon/armor upgrades

Nice list! I could add to it, but it wouldn't be anything that hasn't already posted.

I know you won't like this but... But modders have come up with a lot of this for the PC version of the game (some of these things and a whole lot more).

That leaves, why won't Bethesda do this for the consoles? (In my humble opinion)

#1. Console makers don't want you to have "full access" to their programs, etc. If you had access to all of the programming and hardware, they couldn't sell you an exclusive machine, you could just build and program your own. Therefore, console users can't mod any program, it just runs as it was purchased. (With the exception of fixes and paid for downloadable content, more on that later...)

#2. Bethesda has concentrated on fixing bugs/glitches. Almost everything you have listed is not considered a bug, or a glitch. They are just things that you would like to see implemented because you feel that it would make gameplay better. Only three of the items I saw could be considered "glitchy", (Fortify effects seem broken, actually reducing success chance + Dragon shout, dialog option, shoot arrow etc the game doesn't respond at all + when you are shooting arrows around a corner and the arrows bounce off of thin air in front of you.) And to add to it, since Bethesda feels as though they have "fixed" the game (for example, the latest patch reduced "lag" for most players), I doubt very seriously they are going to concentrate of fixing much of anything else. (Maybe major quest breaks, etc., but that's about it. Bethesda doesn't care if your fire looks pretty, just does the light inclusion/shadows etc. work right.) Anything/everything else you are just going to have to live with. It takes tens of thousands of dollars to come up with, and implement, a patch. That means that they aren't goiing to spend that much money on, what your horse looks like for example. UNLESS... they have some kind of return on their investment. Which brings me to my last point...

#3. DLC content. Much of what you have listed could be included in downloadable content because let's face it, there are people that WILL pay for new horses, or armor, or weapons, etc. For instance, all of the things you have for horses and dogs could be included in a "companions" DLC that upgrades, and adds to, your pets and followers. In that instance, they wouldn't be losing so much money for nothing because people would buy it. (For instance, there are rumors about a Dragon Rider DLC.)

Oh, don't get me wrong, I like most of your list and I agree with JamesMB. I just think that your first comment - I'm sure most of this wont happen. - is correct.

Who moved this?

Why does every f*ing post get lifted from to general discussion where it gets mired in the 'this mod is good for that' discussion?

While I respect, admire and (nowadays) envy the PC community, we on consoles are just stuck with the myriad of poorly or half-implemented components of the software.

I know you won't like this but... But modders have come up with a lot of this for the PC version of the game (some of these things and a whole lot more).

That leaves, why won't Bethesda do this for the consoles? (In my humble opinion)

#1. Console makers don't want you to have "full access" to their programs, etc. If you had access to all of the programming and hardware, they couldn't sell you an exclusive machine, you could just build and program your own. Therefore, console users can't mod any program, it just runs as it was purchased. (With the exception of fixes and paid for downloadable content, more on that later...)

Well, I'm not asking to mod the game. I'd like Beth to finish making what I thought I was paying for the first time.

As an aside, I kind of understand why the TES-console could be an issue on, consoles, because it could allow privelege escalation etc.. anyway I don't want the console for ps3.

#2. Bethesda has concentrated on fixing bugs/glitches. Almost everything you have listed is not considered a bug, or a glitch. They are just things that you would like to see implemented because you feel that it would make gameplay better. Only three of the items I saw could be considered "glitchy", (Fortify effects seem broken, actually reducing success chance + Dragon shout, dialog option, shoot arrow etc the game doesn't respond at all + when you are shooting arrows around a corner and the arrows bounce off of thin air in front of you.) And to add to it, since Bethesda feels as though they have "fixed" the game (for example, the latest patch reduced "lag" for most players), I doubt very seriously they are going to concentrate of fixing much of anything else. (Maybe major quest breaks, etc., but that's about it. Bethesda doesn't care if your fire looks pretty, just does the light inclusion/shadows etc. work right.) Anything/everything else you are just going to have to live with. It takes tens of thousands of dollars to come up with, and implement, a patch. That means that they aren't goiing to spend that much money on, what your horse looks like for example. UNLESS... they have some kind of return on their investment. Which brings me to my last point...

"frankly my dear scarlet, I don't give a damn".

I didn't twist their arms to release this buggy mess. I had to loan them my $60 for a few months until they even got the game running on my platform. Doing something right the first time is more efficient than re-doing something several times because you keep effing it up, right?

#3. DLC content. Much of what you have listed could be included in downloadable content because let's face it, there are people that WILL pay for new horses, or armor, or weapons, etc. For instance, all of the things you have for horses and dogs could be included in a "companions" DLC that upgrades, and adds to, your pets and followers. In that instance, they wouldn't be losing so much money for nothing because people would buy it. (For instance, there are rumors about a Dragon Rider DLC.)

Oh, don't get me wrong, I like most of your list and I agree with JamesMB. I just think that your first comment - I'm sure most of this wont happen. - is correct.

I agree, and its just a pathetic sham that this series is becoming a shell of its former glory.

a lot of things for just a patch
btw, nice list

Dude, your harshing my mellow...

I did point out that I agreed with you, and as far as consoles go, you only have two options at this point -

A. You get the TES-console for consoles so you can do it yourself, - or -
B. Bethesda does it for you and gives it to you for download in DLC's.

So I explained (IMHO) why you aren't going to get the TES-console and why Beth isn't going to give it to you for free. And yes, most of these aren't glitches so you are asking to mod the game as it currently is.

And I can see why we both clearly agree on #3.


lol, so true. I could only guess that it had something to do with the advertised release date and they must have fallen behind so they just released it as is, imo, unfinished. Why else would we get some of the things that we got? example, the map just feels like it is halfway done. The futuristic google-earth-esque map that is basically only good for fast traveling someplace. Where are the roads? How come I am playing a static period rpg but I am looking at the world through satellite imagery? As you have pointed out, where are the map controls and legend? Almost all of your stuff here smacks of an unfinished game that was rushed to completion just to meet a ship date. I would like to see this stuff implemented, and then some. I doubt it's going to happen though. I feel like I wasted my $60 on my PS3 version of this game and I refuse to buy it for pc because I feel like that is just rewarding Bethesda for releasing an unfinished/glitchy game. (They sell me a glitch-fest like this and I don't like it so I turn around and give them another $60, I don't think so. Due to the return policy where I bought this game at, I can't return it, I've tried.)

or, and this is a scary thought, they released this game this way on purpose because the rest of the content is content that they are planning on charging us for. Kind of makes sense when you think about it. (If that is true, then Bethesda truly is - EBIL!!!)

-THIEVES GUILD FOLLOWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
-All armor sets to get the match set bonus (fur, ebony mail, stormcloak armor)
-All weapons mainly unique daedric weapons to be smith-able and assigned proper smithing category (dawnbreaker,wuuthrad,etc)
-Craftable arrows
-Ancient knowledge fixed
-Proudshire bugs fixed (glitchy basemant wall textures, chairs not cleaning up, housecarls room, floating hay, and backwards chest)

Screenshot capture on console.

this is mine:

a roll you can dodge with
1st person horse/werewolf
a roll you can dodge with
killcam toggle
a roll you can dodge with
goblins
a roll you can dodge with

• Marriageable Bosmer and Khajiits since there are 0 in the game!
  
• Flying vampire lord (from game jam vid)
  
• Werewolf that regenerate heath
  
• Werewolf encounters (at night)
  
• Goblins
  
• Better Vampires
  
• Better High level enemies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
• Mounted Combat
  
• Horses for NPC's (bounty hunters, followers, and bandits)

sorry. you are right. nerdrage took over.




this is what I've been thinking the whole time.

OT-

I would also like to craft arrows.

lol. I hope that I wasn't comming across as confrontational or offensive and if anybody was offended, I apologize. That certainly wasn't my intent.

I thought of one to add, Why can't we buy property's. For instance I like Drelas's Cottage in Whiterun. Or Anise's Cabin in Falkreath by Riverwood.

Maybe the steward could just sell us a house "kit" so we could put it wherever we wanted. There is some beautiful scenery in this game and maybe my character would like to go out of his house, sit in a chair on his front porch, and take in the view. I was thinking, Will I always be stuck in/around a city? (I only got as far as owning Breezehome before the "oops" so I admittedly don't really know what all of the others look like, but I wasn't that impressed by Breezehome.)

love this idea.

Some things I would add to this list would be:

• The ability to run and jump at the same time
  
• Dragons attacking cities more often.