Skyrim Locked to Steam and Increased Landmass

[Country_Gravy]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Skyrim-Morrowind-Oblivion-Elder-Scrolls-Steam,14068.html

It seems a new patch permanently locks the game to Steam. This of course is pissing people off.

More interesting than that, it seems that most of Morrowind and Cyrodil are in the game beyond the borders for some reason.

 

[Bruticis]

What's Skyrim?

 

[Country_Gravy]

What's Skyrim?

Some shitty game that everyone keeps talking about.

 

[Damned Registrations]

More interesting than that, it seems that most of Morrowind and Cyrodil are in the game beyond the borders for Obvious DLC cash grab purposes.

Obvious fix is Obvious.

 

[FatCat]

Landmass is old news and it is good thing that it is there , new patch is fuck up that's a fact.

 

[King Crispy]

I don't think including all that extra landmass is for DLC purposes. I haven't even seen anything verifying the veracity of the article that claimed it was all there and accessible through the noclip command.

Even if it is, I think it hints at groundwork laid down for a TES MMO instead.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Doubt it's anything so elaborate, it's just part of the skybox for when you're atop the mountain/meridia quest.

 

[Overweight Manatee]

How was the game not locked to steam beforehand?

 

[Forest Dweller]

Have they released the Construction Kit yet?

 

[Morkar Left]

Oops, completely forgot that Bethesda switched to steam only. Some money saved at least.

 

[deuxhero]

I don't think including all that extra landmass is for DLC purposes. I haven't even seen anything verifying the veracity of the article that claimed it was all there and accessible through the noclip command.

Even if it is, I think it hints at groundwork laid down for a TES MMO instead.

Or you know, the skybox...

 

[Deleted member 7219]

It was always there, it wasn't brought in in the new patch, and it is so you can go up a mountain in Skyrim and see LOD in the distance instead of just blankness. Try it. Go to the far south-east of Skyrim, past Riften, and you'll see a valley through the mountains with a gate at the end of it. Through that gate you can see Red Mountain and Vvardenfell.

 

[Luzur]

um, you could walk to Elsweyr, Hammerfell, Skyrim, Argonia or Morrowind in Oblivion too, if you disabled the borders.

although they are very compressed and empty landscapes, and if you venture far enough (around where Almalexia shoudl be) you fell thorugh the ground and in to the void.

 

[Turjan]

I don't think including all that extra landmass is for DLC purposes. I haven't even seen anything verifying the veracity of the article that claimed it was all there and accessible through the noclip command.

Even if it is, I think it hints at groundwork laid down for a TES MMO instead.

There's a Youtube video of what is contained:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlbA2qiXsf0

It's basically High Rock, most of Hammerfell, Cyrodiil, the western half of Morrowind (half of Vvardenfell), plus a few other bits and pieces. Of course, all is very rudimentary with less detail the further out you go.

The rumor of DLC use came from the fact that Skyrim contains a road to an elaborate gate to Morrowind.

 

[Volrath]

I don't think including all that extra landmass is for DLC purposes. I haven't even seen anything verifying the veracity of the article that claimed it was all there and accessible through the noclip command.

Even if it is, I think it hints at groundwork laid down for a TES MMO instead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlbA2qiXsf0

Edit:
Turjan

 

[King Crispy]

Got it. My mistake. The skybox explanation makes the most sense.

 

[Joe Krow]

So if I have Morrowind and oblivion installed can I cross over? That would be neat.

 

[Luzur]

.....no.

 

[Xi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jz2e0aA ... re=related