Shouldn't we get hungry as well and need to rest after certain amount of time or other wise our stats get decreased! That would be awesome u know!! But all the little kids couldn't handle all this hard work

Cold spells sap your fatigue so by that logic so should the weather. That being said I'm glad they left it out as it would become annoying over time. Hopefully there will be some realism mods in the future.

This is a good idea, obviously wouldnt work on mages though, cuz they could just have fireball dual casted all the time to warm themselves.

If Argonians are cold-blooded, it wouldn't matter how much they wear, since they don't generate any body heat to trap with clothing. Stickler for that detail.
I totally agree. I really wish there had been a hardcoe mode. I don't know how they missed that. It must have been time, I guess... A large majority of people wanted it, based on polls.

Not true, the more you are exposed to cold, the thicker your blood is, and the less likely you are to freeze. Just like people that live in VERY hot climates, have more thin blood, and can deal with the extreme heat. If someone from russia goes to the sahara, they are going to have major issues. and vice versa.

Considering everyone starts with the flames spell one can reason you could warm yourself by simply holding fire in your hands.

yep. My thoughts exactly.

And if you can warm yourself with a spell everyone can easily have the "affected by cold" mechanic fails. If you can't warm yourself with fire you conjure in your hands the mechanic fails even more.

Um, yeah, a little. But not to the extreme that you can safely go swimming in ice water, or work next to an open blast furnace. At least, not without protective gear.

There are people from norway and sweden that go swimming in icewater every day. and have no problems. Its all about conditioning, and lets not forget the guy that conditioned his body to walk naked through siberia naked.

No. Your body gets accustomed to the natural elements.

Do you think you could survive walking around butt naked with no shoes in the Amazon jungle?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak5GichjaCM&feature=related

Oh, school. Come back when you have done your military service

Myself, I care more about the numbers going on and adequate penalties that makes the game mechanics, rather than animations. If they can slow you down due hypothermia AND slow down the animation, that would be sweet. But having only the animation slow down with no penalty? No thanks.

And just like FONV, I'd like it be to balanced so that it's still a fun game. You knew you had a -2 aiming penalty if you didn't meet the strength requirements for a weapon, but that penalty didn't make the game unbearable.

But ONLY hypothermia? That doesn't make sense. We'd need the whole basic needs thing just like in FONV. So you carry 100+ salt piles and need to get rid of them? Normally you'd just eat them with no penalty at all. In a hardcoe mode, salt would also drive up your thirst (makes sense, right?). Any food that takes salt to it, will also for the same reason drive up your thirst.

My idea around hypothermia revolves around accumulating points depending on climate in the area and sun height. Then multiply the accumulation speed depending on wind factor (wind chill, a real deal), wetness factor (don't swim in cold areas without being prepared), and various insulation factors for various clothing and armor.

I made a post about this a long time ago and it didn't get that much attention.

I don't see how it's a bad idea.

IMO hardcoe mode with hypothermia should have been in the game.

There are so many things I'd have them work on first (bugs, magic, quests, etc, etc) than a cold-based system that could so easily hurt gameplay more than help it.

Dude, if any race should be affected, it's the Argonians. Lizards, remember?

Well the NPCs suffer from the cold. I'm often hearing them dry coughing.

While we're on the "I want to play an amazingly tedious sim where my character svcks, because that's More Real?" topic, don't forget to mod in the inability to swim. Since, after all, going into the water wearing full armor plus carrying a couple hundred pounds of stuff should "realistically" equal an immediate one-way trip to the bottom & drowning.


edit: oh yeah - and most of your equipment should be ruined if it gets wet, unless you carry a couple dozen pounds of maintenance stuff with you and spend time drying out and treating everything whenever it gets wet. And you should need to unstring your bow if you're not going to use it for a couple (in game) hours. Etc, etc, etc.

What's even more stupid is that hardly anyone really dresses for the cold, People should be kitted out accordingly to where they are but they are not in this game.

This is old news at the Skyrim mods forum. This will be done after the CK comes out.

I remember a couple of games doing this. The Thing (average game but good concept) and some russian game where you are on a ship and you stood next to light bulbs and other heat sources to keep warm.

I would like to see this as well but it should be fairly slow when on land but if you go into the water you should get cold really fast and have to warm up withing a few minutes or suffer penalties or die. It would be similar to how radiation in the Fallout games made you avoid certain areas just so you didnt get irradiated.

Pathetic.

Sweet. Actually, we used to ask for armor to sink us when we swim. Every time my character jumps in the water fully kitted out, I am reminded once again of how utterly stupid it is that he or she doesn't sink like a rock. One of the things that first attracted me to RPGs was that things you did, wore, choices you made mattered--it was like living in the fantasy worlds I read about. Now it is rapidly devolving into a treasure hunt.

Yes. Skyrim is thought to be the harshest environment on Tamriel for a reason. The creatures and people native to Skyrim are tough and hardy and dangerous for a reason. The climate, the environment demands it. This should be reflected in gameplay.

When Dovakiin climbs to the top of High Hrothgar, he should die of altitude sickness and the story should end.