I honestly just navigate the menus with wasd e and tab. Works well and I've gotten used to it.
LOL this is why I hate pc gamers, they complain about every single thing. The perks menu starts in the middle of the screen and not on the left? WHAT EVER WILL I DO??! I have to move my eyes left AND right? Holy fuck I might as well give up on this game.
And for a guy who lists every single problem he can think of with the UI, he doesn't mention any issues with the menus not recognizing mouse clicks.
I'm having trouble with bandits at level 22. In fact, bandits are the only enemies that actually give me trouble. They seem to scale in a strange manner.
Booo. My CTDs are getting worse. Had about 6 in the last day of play alone.
Legion-hating game.
So should I wait for the first patch to buy this game? I want to play it very bad but as usual Bethesda games always have tons of game killing bugs. All of you are making me jealous.
Game is huge! I thought I've seen most of it and then decided to follow the main quest... color me surprised
However, I one shot pretty much anything... Daedric heavy armor, enchanted some other pieces with +blacksmithing (total +100% blacksmithing), upgraded the daedric armor and greatsword (so I'm at 850-ish armor rating, over 1k with shield, 2x +28 heavy armor helps )... put two dmg enchants (fire and shock) on the sword, added a few +45% dmg with 2-handers on necklace, ring, gauntlets and boots... ~500 dmg + ~60 from enchants. I'm walking death, literally.
Can't wait for a second playthrough Will run on max difficulty and play a mage. Should be a blast!
Then a third with a sneaky type... Daggers with x60 dmg sneak attack total bonus? Yes please Plus that Ebony Mail from one of the quests is soooo awesome!
This game is everything Bethesda promised and more. Can't wait for DLC too - hope it will be like Shivering Isles or similar!
EDIT: I think the stacking is a bug. It would be better if only the highest value would be considered. But since the option is there...
So should I wait for the first patch to buy this game? I want to play it very bad but as usual Bethesda games always have tons of game killing bugs. All of you are making me jealous.
While the CTD issue is frustrating, I've played 70 hours and had about 13 CTDs, so it's not too terrible.
I've experienced no other issues other than NPCs with butter knives thinking they are the Almighty or something.
The only real reason to wait is if you want to get it on sale later on or aren't sure if awesome game play is for you.
I'm also somewhat doubtful it will get THAT much better stability wise. If you save often it's still more than playable, and a joy to plat too.
Also, if you have them wait and forget or can't get back to them they will get tired of waiting and return to the original spot where you found them. Of course if it's a companion you paid for, you'll be paying again to pick them back up.
I'm level 30ish pure mage and just rolling through people. At one point I thought I had made a mistake, but then I read a post elsewhere about how to make sure your mage takes no prisoners.
My destruction was also lacking because I ended up becoming a conjur/resto mage to survive. But then I did what's below and am tearing it up.
One thing that helped (didn't believe at first) was that Magicka regen is far, far, far less important than the bonuses that reduce the cost of spells. Your magicka will regen like crap in combat no matter what. However, if you have a good amount of reducing benefits, you can cast and cast and cast.
The main step was getting enchanting to 100. You want the 5/5 initial benefit, Insightful enchanter, Corpus Enchanter and Extra Effect perks.
You'll want to disenchant something with a destruction bonus on it to get Fortify Destruction.
Enchant a ring, circlet and necklace with Fortify Destruction. Once you're at 100 enchanting, these pieces will really rock.
Put your perks for Destruction into Shock 2/2, the usual adept/etc, Dual Casting and Impact (nice).
For leveling, keep choosing Magicka until about 300-350 base then go health. Also, get health on 1-2 pieces of your gear.
Get the spell Chain Lightning. Dual cast it to send your enemies into oblivion. Once I did these changes and started dual casting, my destruction took off. Took me like three days to go 50-51 before this. After, I went to 75 in a handful of hours.
Should point out that the Impact effect works on dragons. Without any real magicka regen on me, I'm having no trouble. Took on 8 guards at once last night and the battle lasted about 30 seconds I think. My magicka bar was still plenty full for more.
In short, do your stuff right and being a pure mage is plenty fine for blowing through stuff. BTW, my armor is the arch mage robe and some 0 or 1 armor items. Don't need it.
Is there a graphics tweaking thread or site to get the most out of the graphics?