What New Improvements will Regular Vampire's have? : V - Skyrim

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:38 pm

What i meant :smile:

When you are in your "normal" form,Will you look different?,Like having glowing eyes like Harkon

I imagine that you will also have glowing eyes like Harkon in your normal form, and that some of the races like the Argonians and Khajiit will have their own unique sets of vampire lord eyes.

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:31 am

Accepted. As I've said before, vampire NPC's don't always have noticeable fangs, so I don't know if we can really draw any conclusions. Wonder if Pete Hines might have an answer?

Hern had noticeable fangs.

You know... to be quite honest I don't think that the vanilla Vampires are going to have any improvements. But I guess we'll have to wait and see since no one at Bethesda has said anything beyond upgrading to Vampire Lord.

Matt Carafano said otherwise. Or was it Todd?

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:43 am

You know... to be quite honest I don't think that the vanilla Vampires are going to have any improvements. But I guess we'll have to wait and see since no one at Bethesda has said anything beyond upgrading to Vampire Lord.

Well thats true except for the fact they have said regular vampires will receive and overhaul.

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:33 pm

Matt Carafano said otherwise. Or was it Todd?

Really?

That's bad ass.

I'm sorry I missed that now...

lol

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:18 pm

I think they said that you would be no longer attacked at stage 4, but only in Vampire Lord form. Not 100% sure though.

sounds more like someone writing their wishes...stage 4 is pretty much a beast form which makes everyone hostile so i doubt they will rewrite that.

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 1:30 pm

There's mods for that.

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:13 pm

sounds more like someone writing their wishes...stage 4 is pretty much a beast form which makes everyone hostile so i doubt they will rewrite that.

It was in a gameinformer article. Vampire Lords are no longer recognized as vampires except in Lord form.

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 1:41 pm

There's mods for that.

Thats great but not everybody uses mods, anyway its great vampires get there own dlc they've been getting shafted since oblivion [along with other things....]

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:00 pm

http://e3.gamespot.com/video/6380961/skyrim-dawnguard-dlc-e3-2012-stage-demo

06:50 "Additionally, all of the vampires we have in the game we went back and added a new look to them, new abilities, we mixed in some new creatures. So this is an overhaul to vampires in general, even if they aren't on part of the story on Dawnguard."-Matt Carafano.

Damn, new look for vampire? This concerns me! I hope we keep the Sith eyes!

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:14 pm

So Stage Four Vampire no longer activate NPC anger towards character?

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:52 am

I hope they have increased jumping height, speed and unarmed claws

You get the big-ass bread-loaf hair from the Bram Stoker's Dracula movie...

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:37 pm

So Stage Four Vampire no longer activate NPC anger towards character?

Thats what they seem to be saying anyway hope its true.

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:54 am

Thats what they seem to be saying anyway hope its true.

same here.
damn villagers always hating me.

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:28 pm

same here.
damn villagers always hating me.

It'd be ironic if the reason the vampire's that are in the forests attack the character is just because their stage four and they think the character is hostile, probably not the reason.

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:25 pm

I seem to recall that in stage 4 some NPCs will fear you. I could very well be wrong though or misheard what was said.

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:53 pm

I hope they have increased jumping height, speed and unarmed claws

And 400% less svck!

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:58 am

I seem to recall that in stage 4 some NPCs will fear you. I could very well be wrong though or misheard what was said.

I believe that was what it was in oblivion as you could go near people at stage 4 but they would freak out and say if i recall this right "AGGH Stay away!" and such & such it was more comical back then.

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:08 pm

Considering Vampire Lords can hover jumping from high distances won't be a problem.....time to have fun jumping off the Throat of The World!

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:40 pm

Considering Vampire Lords can hover jumping from high distances won't be a problem.....time to have fun jumping off the Throat of The World!

but cannot jump over a dog

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:40 am

but cannot jump over a dog

Why would a dog be on the Throat of the World?

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:54 am

Why would a dog be on the Throat of the World?

Lol, Im just saying a Vampire can jump off the throat of world and not be harmed but he cannot jump over a dog.

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:08 am

The new Vamps are Volkihar and the current are Cyrodillic...i still believe it will be a separate set of abilities but i dont think they will improve the current

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:45 am

From the trailer we can see you grabbing a merchant and biting the neck so I'm guessing a mechanic to feed on non-sleeping enemies. What I'd hope to see is feeding to maintain your powers rather then disguise your form.(we had nine clans in daggerfall that could walk about town at night). So the new vampire outside of Lord form would work like this.

Stage One: Feed in past 24 hours
? You have a 100% Resistance to Frost.
? You have a 100% Weakness to Fire.
? While outside during daylight, Health, Magicka, and Stamina have an automatic -60 to their total.
Stage Two: 24 Hours without blood
? You have a 75% Resistance to Frost.
? You have a 75% Weakness to Fire.
? While outside during daylight, Health, Magicka, and Stamina have an automatic -45 to their total.
Stage Three: 48 Hours without blood
? You have 50% Resistance to Frost.
? You have a 50% Weakness to Fire.
? While outside during daylight, Health, Magicka, and Stamina have an automatic -30 to their total.
Stage Four: 72 hours without blood
? You have a 25% Resistance to Frost.
? You have a 25% Weakness to Fire.
? While outside during daylight, Health, Magicka, and Stamina have an automatic -15 to their total.

You have to feed regularly to maintain your powers, the longer you go without blood the weaker your abilities become and the greater your weaknesses, but as a trade off your weakness are also less pronounced when your vampiric powers are weaker. In essence you reverse the stages you begin at stage four.
One could also reverse the weaknesses but that feels like a little much.

I agree with you.

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:01 pm

I hope they do more than just change the eye color for regular vamps

» Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:44 am

The new Vamps are Volkihar and the current are Cyrodillic...i still believe it will be a separate set of abilities but i dont think they will improve the current

I hope this is true! My characters were always Cyrodiilic in my game

I hope they do more than just change the eye color for regular vamps

I hope they don't touch the eyes at all. The eyes on "http://static.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/images/112-1-1321176480.jpg" are the actual ingame eyes. I like it that way. It would be good to see the character's appearance change throughout the stages from normal color to a sickly pale like in Oblivion, but without the wrinkles. Afterall, it makes no sense that you are "blood-starved" and look exactly the same as you did in the first stages.