» Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:50 pm In Morrowind if you wanted to find a location, you were given these awesome directions (Head north from Balmora, turn left at the twin tall rocks and head east until you reach the coast...) when I'd find myself lost, I might retrace my steps or pull out my physical map to try and find my location and where I might go.
With Skyrim, we of course get nothing like this, thanks to the compass. However, I have my compass turned off because it is so hideous and poorly placed, plus it's no fun just following a waypoint.
I'll literally get quests like Go find this sword at Mzahnch, with not further information on it's location, it just appears on my map, and I just run in that direction, occasionally opening my map to reach it. The most annoying thing is when I have to find people. No one tells me where they hang out or live, I hate it. If they could just say he hangs out at the inn, or his house is north of the apothecary. As lame as it is, I use clairvoyance as does less damage to immersion than the atrocious compass. Problem is that clairvoyance is absolutely useless, it will send me out the main gate, only to send me back in, or it will constantly change directions. I was literately running back and forth between two points ten feet away from one another trying to find some stupid kid in Windhelm earlier today. And yes, I only had that single quest active.
My current strategy is to google names or locations, and hopefully get more interesting directions from a wiki. Apparently alt-tabbing is still more immersive than the compass.
Anyone have any better means of getting around without the compass? So sad that zero nearly zero effort was put into alternatives of such a stupid idea to begin with.
