Steam’s a big tease. “SKYRIM 50% OFF” I click it, knowing full well that Dawnguard is exempt. Still, I feel a little let down.
The Green Pact, in lore.
How’s Dawnguard on PC? Hopefully the bugs’ll be fixed by now after letting the 360 pick through it for a month.
I did the exact same thing. Should be discounted by the Christmas sale.
To anyone plating Dawnguard - what level should I be to start? I don’t want to be too weak or worse, too powerful.
I’m not playing Dawnguard yet–in fact, I’ve only now really started playing Skyrim since I got a new machine. I’m just posting because I want to share some classic TES weirdness I witnessed last night:
I fast-traveled to a spot on a mountain slope (don’t recall the name, it was just the closest point to my destination that I had mapped). As I loaded in, I heard the dramatic music start, and before I could get my bearings, there was a dragon right in front of me. Then, just as suddenly, there wasn’t. It was skidding down the slope and plowed into some rocks a little further on. I ran down and whacked it once with my mace, and it died. Cue the Highlander lightshow, which I ignored in favor of a more pressing concern: somewhere in the immediate vicinity was something that had beaten a dragon to within an inch of its life. I turned to look up the slope and saw…a goat. Staring down at me and the bony remnants of the dragon with its strange goat-eyes.
I elected not to trouble Mr. Goat, and went about my business. Which was somewhere not on Mr. Goat’s mountain.
I would have gone after the goat. No goats, no glory.
Must have been one baaaaaaaad mofracky.
We have many goats. Goats are a key resource for Lightly Enchanted Daggers, Inc*. Just not this particular goat. Besides, I had no empty soul gems at the time.
*A wholly owned subsidiary of the Cheez Weasel Corporation. LEDI has no operational associations with CWC’s other subsidiaries, Levitating Buckets, Limited and the Whiterun Market Realtime Census Bureau.
Man, am I scarred from early games full of bugs.
I went to install something on my computer, and it told me I was out of space.That seemed kind of wierd, I have 1.5T of drives on the system, and I don’t put any of my huge files from work.
So i fire up a file system analyzer, and gave it a look. 10 minutes later it showing me a pretty multicolored picture , with one enormous purple block in the middle, scanning over it, Skyrim save… Skyrim save… Skyrim save…
I had 98G of Skyrim saves. :eek:
I had no idea I was saving basically ever 2 minutes of play time. There were also 42 of New Vegas, 35 of Drakensang. And more in the steam folder from when my computer crashed and I had to reinstall the OS, I left the old windows partition around.
over 500G of save files altogether.
Can anybody beat 98 Gigs of Skyrim. or do I win 
Well at least it’s obvious what the next step is, Off to MicroCenter for another Tera drive, I could never delete my preciousess.
I’ve 4 Go for something like 600 saves. So you must have about 15 000 saves!
…why do you guys need that many? I’ve got 11 named ones, and I cycle through them slowly enough that if something happens, I can backtrack. 160 Mb, or 277 Mb with quicksave and 3 autosaves. Also, does Steam Cloud let you back all those up?
I’ve never tried the cloud stuff.
I’m on a PS3 and I usually rely on the auto-saves when I need to go back. Were your auto-saves all saved under different file names or something? I’m carrying 5 unfinishable buggy quests at lvl 63 and I still can’t get the DLC because I was dumb enough to get it for the PS3 so you will probably be better off either ignoring or doing the exact opposite of anything I ever suggest.
971 megabytes, 129 saves. Most are of old characters that I’ll probably never play again; I’ll probably delete them.
I was thinking about starting another Sims 3 character, since I’ve done pretty much all I wanted to in Skyrim, but I just saw this DLC ad for Skyrim Hearthfire. I’d seen this concept on a Skyrim Mod of the Week youtube video awhile back. Looks pretty neat, and a way for the non-PC crowd to get in on the “Sims” style of play.
Description:
*With this official add-on to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you can purchase land and build your own home from the ground up - from a simple one-room cottage to a sprawling compound complete with an armory, alchemy laboratory, stable, garden, and more. Use all-new tools like the drafting table and carpenter’s workbench to transform quarried stone, clay, and sawn logs into structures and furnishings. Even transform your house into a home by adopting children.
Hearthfire, the next official game add-on for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, will be available for download for 400 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE® on September 4. *
Anyone played Dawnguard yet?
There’s a hour long “quick look” on Dawnguard over at Giant Bomb’s website. It’s two GB writers playing through a few levels and gives a good sense of what to expect without giving too much away. It looks pretty good, but I haven’t played it yet.
I started a new character to play Dawnguard. I haven’t gotten very far in that quest, I’m mostly doing the guild quests and then DG and main quest.
400 MS points means $5 on PC?
Dawnguard is pretty good. You can choose factions. It seems to me that it’s better to stick with Dawnguard until you win, then switch to Vampire Lord if you want. Crossbows are decent, and I think the only way to get better ones is to not be a vampire. Decent side quests, one of the rewards for the Aetherial Quest seems good:
1. Aetherial Staff which seems meh, summons various Dwemer contraptions 2. Aetherial Shield which turns enemies aetherial on bash 3. Aetherial Crown, which lets you keep two Standing Stone blessings of your choice.
Plot seems decent, and your vampire sidekick is cool, except she has the habit of zombifying dead bandits before I could eat their scrumptious hearts. I have a lot of lore/personal attachment to the wolf, but I might change to vampire later.
Yes, although I haven’t gotten too far along the storyline. I’ve been enjoying the Vampire Lord and the new-and-improved werewolves though; I just got the Werewolf mastered achievement by getting all werewolf perks on a character. I like werewolves; there’s something very satisfying about literally ripping the head off a Thalmor as he spouts his Elf-Nazi rhetoric.
Crossbows are pretty good too.