Improving Skyrim / Recommended Mods thread (Mostly about Requiem)

[Sul]

Oblivion horses were great.

Nope, they were shit as well, it's just they even managed to make even worse in Skyrim. You can see a good exemple of horse gameplay in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.

 

[Excidium]

Horse riding in Skyrim is horrible. The camera's pulled way back, the controls are terrible, there's no free mouselook, dismounting takes too long and the horses look stupid. There's literally no reason to own a horse in this game other than that manual travelling is slightly faster than on foot.

I made the mistake of buying a horse in Whiterun for 5000 gold and instantly hated it. I much prefer hiking (although riding a horse in Oblivion was pretty fun). I tried to park the damned thing back in the stable but it always magically popped up wherever I fast traveled, so I rode it out into a pasture, opened up the console, and "kill"-ed it. Thing dropped like a stone and I had a hearty lol.

Face it, they really blew it with the horses this time.

5000 gold? Wasn't it just 1000?

Anyway, you forgot what horses are really good for in Skyrim: Climbing mountains. They can walk on some very steep walls.

 

[Crispy]

Wait, was the house 5000? I can't remember.

ldguy:

 

[Excidium]

Yeah, it's the house that's 5000.

 

[DraQ]

Anyway, you forgot what horses are really good for in Skyrim: Climbing mountains. They can walk on some very steep walls.

They should've been replaced with Nordic mountain goats or something.

Guys, remember when patches fixed things instead of fucking them up?

It was so awesome.

You're just being nostalgic, modern games are so much better than the old shit.

 

[Rhalle]

I made the mistake of buying a horse in Whiterun for 5000 gold and instantly hated it. I much prefer hiking (although riding a horse in Oblivion was pretty fun)...it always magically popped up wherever I fast traveled, so I... "kill"-ed it. Thing dropped like a stone and I had a hearty lol.

Same. Sad thing is FUSROHDAH doesn't make them shoot across the world, unfortunately.

Face it, they really blew it with the horses this time.

Yep.

 

[sea]

I'd say horses are better in Skyrim. At least they don't fucking hover over the ground half the time, and animate slightly more realistically.

But yeah, whoever decided that SPRINTING should be faster than riding a goddamn horse, and can be sustained nearly indefinitely with potions and a few level-ups, needs to be shot.

 

[Drakron]

Anyway, you forgot what horses are really good for in Skyrim: Climbing mountains. They can walk on some very steep walls.

There is another, fast travel when you are overloaded.

 

[RK47]

I'd just stick in 1.5x speed increase on horses mod to at least make my character sane enough to get on one.

 

[Black Cat]

But yeah, whoever decided that SPRINTING should be faster than riding a goddamn horse, and can be sustained nearly indefinitely with potions and a few level-ups, needs to be shot.

Your horse can sprint, too. And he doesn't have a stamina bar.

Horses can't be encumbered. So if you want to go back to town loaded with loot they can be quite useful.

A sprinting horse is much faster than wolves, winter wolves, mountain lions, etc.

Finally, some of us don't cheat and instead use the mods to remove fast travel.

 

[tindrli]

any worthwhile UI now??

 

[Drakron]

Oh I am mentioning this.

If you have constant jerking of loading something when walking or running in the gameworld try ENBSeries as it completely removed for me despite it still having some graphical glitches.

 

[Excidium]

Finally, some of us don't cheat and instead use the mods to remove fast travel.

Fast travel isn't cheating, it's a convenience. Not everyone has the patience to travel back and forth through the same uninteresting route over and over and over. It would be cheating if you could travel to places you haven't visited yet.

 

[Gord]

Thanks to carriages we at least have the semblance of a transport system in Skyrim. Although I don't understand why they aren't present in all major cities, even if they travel there.

Still, if you don't want to use fast travel at all, it's nice to have. Hope there will be a mod that expands them a bit.

 

[Mangoose]

Finally, some of us don't cheat and instead use the mods to remove fast travel.

Fast travel isn't cheating, it's a convenience. Not everyone has the patience to travel back and forth through the same uninteresting route over and over and over. It would be cheating if you could travel to places you haven't visited yet.

This.

Skyrim is an improvement over Oblivion but its content still is not good enough to mandate spending time traversing it more than once.

 

[Drakron]

Thanks to carriages we at least have the semblance of a transport system in Skyrim. Although I don't understand why they aren't present in all major cities, even if they travel there.

I think those "major cities" barely qualify as such so they dont even stay there besides the ones with stables, I would say its odd there is no ferry system with Solitude and Dawnstar (even if Dawnstar is a dump it still have a harbor) or travel to the villages since, heck if you can take me to places that only reason they are "towns" is because its the capital of the hold then you might as well take me to the smaller villages.

 

[Edwin]

"Horse boat trick: You can dismount a horse in the water and then mount it again to have regular speed.

Horses are great climbers: The horses in Skyrim are expert climbers, they can climb up mountains that you can't on foot. (Maybe they were mountain goats in another life?)

Fast travel while over encumbered: You can fast travel while over encumbered with a horse."

 

[Black Cat]

Fast travel isn't cheating, it's a convenience. Not everyone has the patience to travel back and forth through the same uninteresting route over and over and over. It would be cheating if you could travel to places you haven't visited yet.

That's because people follow the roads. There are always several ways of going from a place to another, either following different roads, secondary paths, or just going through the middle of nowhere, and there are always some little thingies and stuffies to find here and there.

Though someone should MOD Robinson's Requiem's survival system into Skyrim, in any case. Now that would be much better and add a lot of amusing little thingies and stuffies to the exploration and the hiking and the crawling.

 

[abija]

Barbas quest must be a joy without fast travel.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

I thought you actually had to follow that fucking dog manually. He led me into the ruins of Helgen for no reason and ran into a wall for ten minutes while I popped bandit moles.

 

[Excidium]

Yeah, NPCs just can't into travelling long distances. In a quest where you had to follow the companions to the tomb of Ysgramor, they'd literally just run in circles at some point.

 

[tindrli]

Oh I am mentioning this.

If you have constant jerking of loading something when walking or running in the gameworld try ENBSeries as it completely removed for me despite it still having some graphical glitches.

What OS are you using??

Finally, some of us don't cheat and instead use the mods to remove fast travel.

Fast travel isn't cheating, it's a convenience. Not everyone has the patience to travel back and forth through the same uninteresting route over and over and over. It would be cheating if you could travel to places you haven't visited yet.

somehow i think that this could be solved by making horse faster

 

[GreyViper]

Found something for Andyman Messiah while browsing nexus, lo behold I am a horse mod.

 

[Vival]

I had my horse dash past me up the stairs of one of those bandit towers and try to clean it out. That was quite a surrealistic experience hearing those combat noises on the floor above me. Good nightmare fuel for equinophobes i guess. So horses, being all insane in Skyrim, make for decent meatshields outside of dungeons.

 

[Carrion]

I had my horse dash past me up the stairs of one of those bandit towers and try to clean it out. That was quite a surrealistic experience hearing those combat noises on the floor above me.

This happened to me like two minutes after I found my first horse. Haven't touched the crazy animals after that.