Skyrim Beta 1.9!!!

[stoppingby4now]

Finally, a patch to verify if Steam actually fixed the Automated Updates setting.

[Farlo]

Does anyone know what the "japantutest" and "loctest" options are in the Beta Participation window? Are they just tests for new localizations?

[LynziRaeighn]

I hope we're not forced to use this patch. The Legendary skills thing sounds god awful.

[rpsgc]

I hope we're not forced to use this patch. The Legendary skills thing sounds god awful.

I don't understand where people get this idea that making a skill legendary is mandatory :|

[PioneerRaptor]

I hope we're not forced to use this patch. The Legendary skills thing sounds god awful.

Legendary Skills is optional. It's merely a new difficulty level you would select that most likely comes after Master. Even then, you still don't have to use the skill portion.

[LynziRaeighn]

I hope we're not forced to use this patch. The Legendary skills thing sounds god awful.

Legendary Skills is optional. It's merely a new difficulty level you would select that most likely comes after Master. Even then, you still don't have to use the skill portion.

That's good. What's even better is that I misunderstood how it would work. It's not actually as terrible as I thought it would be now that I've finally found somewhere that explains it decently.

I'll probably still stick with a mod solution to the level cap though.

 

rpsgc Wrote

LynziRaeighn Wrote

I hope we're not forced to use this patch. The Legendary skills thing sounds god awful.

 

I don't understand where people get this idea that making a skill legendary is mandatory

I knew it wasn't mandatory but I'd been thinking maybe Uncapper wouldn't work well with the changes or something. To be fair, I was half-asleep.

[torminater]

To make things clear:

 

There is a new difficulty setting called Legendary: This has nothing to do with Legendary Skills!!!

 

Legendary skills are completely optional. A player can choose to downgrade a mastered skill (100) to 15 to relevel it again - or leave it be as it is.

 

Of course you can use the legendary difficulty setting without legendary skill reset.

[EssArrBee]

Uncapper will probably have to be changed a bit, but Elys has been very quick to release updates to the mod, so it shouldn't be a problem. If anything, Elys will take this update and find a way to make leveling even more customizable.

 

I really hope this legendary difficulty is more than just increasing health points that enemies have. Master difficulty is so boring just sitting around hacking away at some enemy. I want to be challenged by smarter enemies not just really strong, but stupid ones.

[rpsgc]

If you're expecting smarter AI (better tactics, no rushing, use of flanking, etc), don't hold your breath.

 

Putting aside the fact that the game is more than 1 year old, this is Bethesda we're talking about.

[tomtomtommy]

for smarter AI try "Duel - Combat Realism"

[LynziRaeighn]

Putting aside the fact that the game is more than 1 year old' date=' [b']this is Bethesda we're talking about.[/b]

Quoted for truth. That made me giggle-snort.

[Thc002]

When it comes to AI of enemys, the combination of deadly combat and pise asis (both terrific mods) is still unbeaten imo.

[Farlo]

I've been playing pretty much all day (6+ hrs) with the beta using STEP+CoT+SkyRe+AV and I just got my first CTD approaching the Imperial camp south of Ivarstead. Thankfully v1.9 doesn't seem to have upset anything yet.

[torminater]

I've been playing pretty much all day (6+ hrs) with the beta using STEP+CoT+SkyRe+AV and I just got my first CTD approaching the Imperial camp south of Ivarstead. Thankfully v1.9 doesn't seem to have upset anything yet.

Were you getting CTDs more often before?

[Farlo]

I've been playing pretty much all day (6+ hrs) with the beta using STEP+CoT+SkyRe+AV and I just got my first CTD approaching the Imperial camp south of Ivarstead. Thankfully v1.9 doesn't seem to have upset anything yet.

Were you getting CTDs more often before?

I haven't actually played for an extended period recently, so I can't say for sure.  I suspect it's around the same amount as before for me.