Hello fellow Skyrimmers

Our original thread was getting a bit long in the tooth, so here is a brand new bouncy baby thread for us to play in.

If you want to check out the old one, Click Here. After all, it holds some good info.

Hagatha, I answered your question in the original thread, but will copy it here also.

You don't need to use the quick menu to take potions or eat or change what you are doing in battle. Just hit Tab (which brings up the menu while pausing the action), then select items or magic and select the one you want to have active. You can also use "P" to change the magic or shouts.

However, if you Push "F" while an item is selected it will be in the "Q" menu. You can push "Q" at any time, including during fights. That will pause the action and allow you to look at all your Favorites and just click on it...or assign a number to it (1-8). If you want to use the quick items without using the number, just click on it. Just be sure you know which hand you assigned it to and which mouse button that corresponds to.

I was having such a difficult time because I thought the "R" and "L" next to quick items meant Right Click and Left Click, but it really means Right Hand and Left Hand and the Right Hand is controlled by the Left Click.

You can eat during battle too.

Thanks Looney.

Also thanks for the info Smoosh. Unfortunately I already took the crown back to the Imperial Legion, so I guess my only options would be to go back to a saved game WAY before that happened or to start a brand-new game altogether. Yikes! LOL Since I'm way too lazy to do either one of those I guess I'll stick with things for now and maybe go back later on and see what the other side is like.

PS I've been so caught up in this game all of these weeks that I FORGOT (if you can believe that) that it was the Legion that was going to chop off my head. OMG! lol

Tracy

Tracy I forgot that too, but fortunately son reminded me. But maybe you just have an extremely forgiving nature.

LOL! Man I would have to, wouldn't I?

PS--I wonder what it was they were going to execute me (us) for anyway? Heck, I'm an Imperial as my race, you'd think they'd cut me some slack. LOL

Hagatha,

You can also hit the "i" key to bring up the items stored in inventory.

Linda

Tracy, it was just a kind of "You were in the wrong place at the wrong time" thing.

Thanks Lindy, I forgot to add that one.

Whoever mentioned not messing with the giants, you were right.

I went to get a Mammoth Tusk for that one woman and a giant attacked me. I got one hit and went flying into the air and died.

I enjoyed the ride, but not so much the landing.

I was only Level 6 at the time though.

Templeton, yep...those giants and those mammoths don't joke around. I was so frustrated at all the mammoth skulls with tusks just lying around, but could I take one....just one? Nooooooooo!

Thanks for the tutorial on selecting quick items.

I'm at level 17 and a bit worried that I should have spent my money on training instead of buying that house! The skill trees take some getting used to. I have great sneaking skills, unless I'm up against, say, the Master Vamp I just came across, in which case I might as well be running in full metal armour and singing a battle song for all the good sneaking does me.

I gather that enchanting is different? Are there people who can enchant items as in the other two games? Or do you have to do it yourself?

I see Steam is self-updating. Guess I won;t turn off my computer just yet.

My only real quibble with this game is the relatively small size of the dungeons. I loved finding a great sprawling ruin in the other two games. These ones are mere caves in comparison.

I don't believe people can enchant things. It's a skill now so you have to do it yourself. You'll run into those arcane enchanter-type table things which you need for enchanting, usually in witch's lairs, sometimes in useful places. I couldn't buy one for my home, unfortunately.

To enchant things, you need to first destroy an already enchanted item to learn its power. Then you need your new item and a soul gem. Combine your power of choice, item of choice, and soul gem of choice on the arcane enchanting table and voila: brand new shiny item.

They won't be very good at low levels but as you practise you'll get better.

I personally miss the sigil stones, but this is also fun.

And I agree the game seems to be getting smaller.

Hagatha, Smoosh is right....you do your own enchanting. There is a table right next to the alchemy table in Dragonsreach. I just discovered if I go enchant my loot before I sell it, I get more money. Who knew?

I never played the previous game, but I like the small dungeons. It makes it easier to leave and go sell loot, come back, hack and slash, leave to fast travel back to sell, etc.

Is there a way to find out what ver.the game is?
I'm not sure my game is getting the patches, because I have never seen Steam do an update.

Linda

I'm doing the last quests of Thieves Guild. But I haven't done many of their other little quests given by Delvin & Vex
Would you be able to do the other little quests that Delvin & Vex give you, after you finish all the thieves guild quests?

Are there any quests that won't be available after you take some kind of action?

Yes, those quests are available as long as you're playing the game. In fact, you can finish the main quest and still go back and do any unfinished quests. I had so many contracts in Dark Brotherhood that I finally gave up. I'm wondering if they ever end.

Lol, I was wondering the same although I haven't done many. Thanks

I'm hoping there probably won't be any quests in Skyrim that won't be available later on.

The current version of the game is 1.3.7. It says the version number in the menu when you hit escape.

Steam automatically updates your games. So if you have the Steam client open (and aren't already in a game) it will just download away.

The patches for Skyrim are fairly small, so they most likely downloaded and you just missed it since all you get is a little progress bar at the bottom of the screen. If you click that bar, then you get to see more detail.

Also, when you go to launch the game, if it's out of date Steam will update before letting you play. So essentially you are already running version 1.3 if you launch the game and there is no update that pops up.

Thanks Templeton, I clicked around in my gaming looking for a version number but couldn't find it.

Hi again everyone. I just had to post and say that out of curiosity I went back and loaded an early save where I hadn't yet joined the Legion and then went and joined the Stormcloaks. Well, after hanging out w/ these guys for awhile I decided to go right back to my latest save and stick with the Empire! lol Okay, they did try to chop my head off (lol) but I couldn't deal with the racism of Ulfric and the Stormcloak guys, plus since I began my game with the Legion, I felt horrible killing them when I was on a Stormcloak mission! I have to admit though, I love the uniforms that the Stormcloaks have, that blue color and then those neat helmets---I wish we could have cooler uniforms over on the Legion side. Maybe some wonderful modder will give us a choice for a new uniform someday soon---hint, hint.

Tracy, happy to be back with her "boys" and realizing something disturbing......Ulfric is a jerk, BUT, I love his voice and he's kinda cute. If he were different on the inside I'd wear my amulet of Mara around him and see what happened. lol lol lol

You know, Tracy, I joined the Stormcloaks ages ago and the more I learned about Ulfric, the less and less I liked him. I kind of stopped doing the civil war quests because of that. I may see about joining up with the imperials at some point because I never got very far in that line of quests.

Edited to say: Sheesh, 85 hours into this game and I'm not even halfway through the main quest. @ me

Just a side note while I take a breather from this game.

Back in early November I had just downloaded Episode 4 of TSL, had the Blackwell games and The Next Big Thing all loaded and ready to dig into and while deciding which to tackle first, along came 11/11/11. I got my copy of Skyrim really fast and installed it just to see how it was and now here it is almost 1 month later and I haven't even looked at the other games I had in the wings.

This game has me completely hooked. I hurried through the first time to see how the main quest worked and now I'm on a second go around doing every side quest I can find and loving every minute of it. I am a High Elf and am kicking some serious bad guys tails.

Guess it will be a while before I emerge from Skyrim long enough to consider going back to the other games. Oh well, King Graham and the others will just have to wait I need to kill some monsters.

Thanks Templeton for that info. I went to the menu and saw that I have version 1.3. I have never noticed it before because it is light print.

Thanks again.

Oldman, that is me...except for completing it already. I just roam around doing whatever looks fun and occasionally go, "Oh yea, there is a main quest. Let me go do one step before I go back to meandering."

There is now a divorce mod.

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2224

Oh my goodness AnneG