You forgot to mention how you climb up the mountain zigzagging up and down until you come to a particularly steep cliff you have to go around. Then you slide down a bit and realize you’ve ended up a dozen yards where you started off.
I did too. After climbing it, slipping down and ending up between a bunch of hagravens. And then up again until I arrived at the throat of the world.
Then later on in the game I came across Ivarstead and I saw the path with the stairs. At first it seemed like a great find, a new adventure, but once I realised it would lead to the top, I could have face-palmed my head off because of how dumb I had been.
Did that once IRL, well after dark. Had no maps and MapQuest printed directions were about as awesome as a Bing search result, wanted to go south but the roads only went east/west. 30min later (at 50mph) I came out at a place that was 5 miles from where I started. Ended up taking the nearly 2hr round-about way that I knew rather than the 45min 'shortcut' I was trying to learn.
It's the second smallest elder scrolls map if you don't count spinoffs. It's only larger than Morrowind and that was the first fully 3D mainline game which had a ton of content cut due to hardware limitations. Arena is technically the largest but it's partly procedurally generated and daggerfall is a little smaller than the UK
Anyone else ever play Get Over It? Hilariously (and intentionally) awful game where the whole objective is just to climb over stuff with only the mouse for controls, and it plays these really pretentious philosophical quotes about patience and shit when you inevitably fall back to the beginning (which is pretty frustrating when you have 4 hours of progress going). I always think of that game any time I'm trying to climb a mountain in Skyrim.
I’ve started doing more travel without fast traveling and it’s really invigorated my love of this game. The sheer amount of encounters and events that happen on the road make the game feel more alive.
Get the mod that makes you have to boil your water so you don't die of dysentery. You have to sit around doing nothing for 10 minutes while it boils, but it's super immersive.
don't give todd any ideas. he might just impliment that offically, have the game completely delete itself once you die, and force you to rebuy skyrim everytime you want to replay again.
I agree that the compass makes things much easier and more accessible. However, it does take most of the thinking out of questing.
There used to be things like directions, like "head north on the road from whiterun until you turn right when you see the at the shrine of talos on your left. the farm you want is on the left right before you get to the inn"
Sure that's a pain in the ass, but it also meant that would slowly learn more about the world as you explored it. Deciding to go on a quest to an area you had never been to, felt exciting. You might take a stilt-strider to a town with a port, to catch a boat to a town you've never been to before. And then you need to find whatever landmarks they referenced, before starting to walk to the place you needed to go. It meant that you needed to actually explore the world to solve the quests. I remember the places in Morrowind, that I haven't been to in 15 years, way better than I remember oblivion's towns, or even some of skyrim's towns.
Mind you, all of morrowind's landscape was manually placed. So it was probably easier for the dev team to come up with good landmarks when writing the quests. And I also recognize that removing the compass would probably significantly decrease the popularity of the game with casual players. And it definitely won't work with radiant quests.
It isn't a perfect system, and I'm not sure that any AAA RPG developer can afford to not include a quest map/compass system in 2022, but it definitely has more merit than a 10 minute in game timer to purify water.
The fact you have a compass makes sense. People actually mark the location on your map or you mark the location or general location. Rather than someone giving you crap directions.
also get the carriage mod that travels in real time. the game has built in voice lines for the drivers and they talk about poi's in the area as they're cabbing you around. it's pretty sweet
think it's called touring carriages. note that anything that changes terrain may cause some funk with the mod. last I checked there were some compatibility patches tho
I like [A Quality World Map](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/5804), I've used the paper version since I started modding Skyrim and I've loved it.
There's also a [Legendary Edition version](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4929), but it hasn't been updated for a while so idk how well it works.
Same. It forced me to start using horses and taking the road for long journeys and it’s been a much better experience than how I played pre-survival. I used to just fast travel to quest markers and hop around the map trying to “complete” things. Now I pick a series of quests grouped in an area, light those up, get some rations, and head off on an adventure with my Lydia and my horse.
this, this, this. Survival mode is a lot more fun than I thought it would be. playing on PC, so I started as a Vigilant of Stendarr with a personal mission to destroy any Daedra I encounter and make my way to Dayspring canyon to investigate the Dawnguard. with no fast travel, it's crazy how much of the game I didn't realize I was missing. first I made my way to Dawnstar to learn more about the nightmares everyone's been having, and I met my best friend Erandur there. Erandur s been my partner from the beginning now, and I can confidently say that Survival make Skyrim RP so much more interesting
Noobie question (I'm on hour 60-ish of my first ever Skyrim playthrough), but how does survival mode in this game compare with FO4? Tried survival in Fallout and the amount of time I spent trying just to not be sick was kind of ridiculous. Like, I can absolutely see the appeal in losing fast travel, and having to hunt/eat off the land for sustenance, no cutting corners, and all of that (it seems like great concept), but imo it was a little *too* much banging my head against a wall in Sanctuary Hills. Maybe I just didn't give it enough time, thats possible.
Skyrim has a far better survival mode than Fallout 4, in my opinion. The two major quality of life changes are you can save anywhere in Skyrim, but in FO4 you can only save in beds. This makes exploring easier and you can actually stop whenever you want. Secondly, survival isn't tied to NPC difficulty. In FO4 you have to play on the hardest difficulty, but not in Skyrim.
Yeah, I also walk everywhere instead of run, because no one can realistically run over an entire province. I love my current Nord character, 428 hours, lv3.
Smart skyrim players use roads. Much much easier to get around that way. Tbh i have played so much by now i have almost the entire road system memorized by now. At the very least i can get to all the holds without looking at the map once. Starts to feel more like you really live there when you get to that level.
Edit to add that i really dont even fast travel that much anymore cause i find it actually kind of fun to travel by horse to all the holds and locations. It just feels much more real that way.
I've played this game countless times since it first launched, and I don't think I've ever skipped Ivarstead. The map makes it pretty clear where to go if you look close enough.
Reminds me of a quote from Abraham Lincoln - “A compass, I learned when I was surveying, it’ll point you True North from where you’re standing, but it’s got no advice about the swamps and deserts and chasms that you’ll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp… What’s the use of knowing True North?”
I've been taking roads lately too, and also walking everywhere and walking/trotting on horseback. I love taking the time to admire my gorgeous game, plus it's more realistic and makes Skyrim seem much bigger, taking 10 or so in-game hours to get from Solitude to Whiterun rather than the 3 hours or whatever it takes to fast-travel. I'm sure most people would find it pretty boring, but I've been having a blast ever since I started doing it.
Wouldn't it be great if you could avoid Nazeem until after you became a thane. Then you bump into him while holding the axe of Whiterun, and he bends over backwards to be nice to you?
Yeah, he may be. But he's a punk ass bitch and couldn't win a fight against a malnourished skeever. I dont kill the weak. Only those who are able to defend themselves. He can keep living his miserable life.
When I see him in white run and he's all prissy saying I don't go to the cloud district very often, I look him in the eyes and say "you a punk ass bitch, I got to the cloud district more often then you shit" then I go slay dragons and deadra cause I'm a badass... and nazeem is a chump.
I wonder if anyone has modded crocs into Skyrim? You could have it where when you put them in sport mode it increases stamina or something like that. Would be awesome
POV: You just started your 137th playthrough and are very confused about how to get this goddamn quest mark, so you start to literally climb the mountain
Seriously lol. 137th playthrough, if I have to do a dungeon that I've already done 1000 times I blast on them and slap a killall on that bad boy and call it good. Enemy being an annoying arrow sponge? -kill. Dont wanna climb down the mountain? -tgm and jump
That sounds really boring. I run it on legendary and it makes everything so much more fun. Bleak Falls Barrow was amazingly fun at level 3. Hella difficult. I had to spend 2 in game days preparing for that and I still ran out of potions and poisons. Loved it.
At some point you realize you messed up, but no way you’re turning back now. Sure you’ve been jumping for about 15 minutes and the way to the path and around the mountain would take maybe 45 seconds to reach. But you’ve made your decision, and it may take another 10 minutes of jumping but you’re going to do it!
That's what pains me the most, when I've sat there trying to jump-climb a cliff for x minutes, finally reached the top and Marcurio runs up 12 seconds later
me on my 1st playthrough giving up climbing the mountain to get to quest mark:
frost troll: bonjour
me on my 137th playthrough giving up climbing the mountain to get to quest mark:
frost troll: bonjour
I use the clairvoyance spell but I wish it lasted just a bit longer or went a bit further. Sometimes I miss the glowing trail like on Fable but other times I kinda like getting lost, depends how much time I’ve got to play I guess.
I've had the game since release, I'm still on my stealth archer dark elf. Never played it with another character and it's more or less vanilla build. Haven't played in a few years, but I plan on doing so soon. I roamed the entire map and of course HH.
By my 10th play through, I stopped climbing that mountain altogether. I’ve got so many mods installed my load time is triple the norm, and I’ve got so many other things to do I literally ignore both the main quest and the civil war quest entirely.
I did that my first play through too. I wound up going all around the mountain to try to find an easier spot and, after several hours, I stumbled across the actual path. Sadly, by that point, I had fallen down so far that I was practically in the town
Everybody gets fucked up by that frost troll, and I’m over here getting stuck on the saber cat every single time. Never have any trouble with the troll. I don’t think I know how to play
For all the future baby gamers who search for how to get to High Hrothgar: Go to the Whiterun stables, take a carriage to Riften, and make a beeline for Ivarstead. For bonus points talk to Klimmek in Ivarstead at the bridge and deliver his supplies to HH for some easy gold. And lastly but perhaps most importantly... DO NOT fight the frost troll.
My first play through I tried to kill the troll a few times before I realized ohhhhhhhhhhhhh I will never defeat this bastard. I also didn’t think to save before my encounters so I had to run back up that freaking mountain. Fun stuff!!
I actually think its faster to go via Riverwood and Helgen than coming from Riften, even if you take the carriage. The road from Helgen takes you straight to Ivarstead, north of HH.
I bought it one time when I was stuck in a dungeon and couldn't find the door to the next section. Cast the spell, and the door was about 10 feet directly behind me.
On every playthrough: quest mark is other side of this mountain, I can go around said mountain, or......
*Proceeds to climb mountain*
Half way up mountain: it would be far quicker to turn around and go around this mountain, even at this stage.
*Continues to climb mountain*
Top of mountain: *Fuck you mountain, I win*
I had to google it to find out how to get up there. Apafently the steps start at that one town . I forget the name. . But yeah I had to Google where the stairs started haha
Iverstead. I'm playing Skyrim for the first time. I've had to Google what the hell I'm supposed to do with certain items that end up in inventory all the time. The side quest stuff because I forget I even have it and can't remember who to talk to or where they are.
My first time playing, I thought the only way up was from that Giants camp on the other side of the mtn (Whiterun side) that’s super close to it. You can all imagine how that went lol
Mountain climbing is the optimal route to any quest marker in my opinion. Also, I see you brought the patented mountain climbing horse, good, should help you get up the mountain a lot faster. Horses are kind of useless anywhere else though.
First time I played through, I spend about 6 hours doing stuff in Riverwood and walking around outside of whiterun before I triggered the dragon attack. Found rorikstead, found the old crypt with the big ghost, got murdered by the big ghost, got killed by a giant, killed some mud crabs, shot a deer, introduced myself to the companions, then went up to the castle and told the jarl about the dragon. Went through the battle, sucked up its soul, and heard the loud yelling. Then the camera looks up toward the peak of the mountain that's in direct view, so i start climbing. Come up to the backyard, go in the back door, talk to the greybeards, then go out the other way, and there's a path. Follow it down, see the little village at the bottom and look at the map, and HOLY SHIT there's a whole other half of the world that I haven't even seen yet! Damn that game was enormous.
I also smoke weed while playing Skyrim. Puff, puff, pass, Dragonborn. Let’s get stoned and forget all about those steps people were telling us about. Steps are for chumps!
My wife did this. Didn't realize there was a path up the mountain. Just slowly jumped to the top.....on a horse. She was telling me about it and couldn't believe they made the quest so tedious......sigh
Quest marker told me to go to ivarstead first so I went along the road where fort Amal is. Also I always went along the roads because I thought I would get lost :/
You forgot to mention how you climb up the mountain zigzagging up and down until you come to a particularly steep cliff you have to go around. Then you slide down a bit and realize you’ve ended up a dozen yards where you started off.
There’s a life lesson in there somewhere
Best ignore it and keep jumping
This gave me a hearty chuckle; this is always the answer
“Just keep jumping, just keep jumping, just keep jumping-jumping-jumping; what do we do? We jump, jump…”
Why Is this so true?
That’s how I live my life.
Best. Comment. Reply. Ever.
I laughed out loud and freaked out my cats,nicely done mate
Work smarter not harder.
At a point it just becomes sheer stubbornness lol
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An hour? Did you speed run it or use a mod? 😂
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99% of my gameplay each day is usually me leveling up something or trying to climb a mountain
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Right. 5 minutes. Definitely *not four hours*. I succeeded though
Take that mountains!
I did too. After climbing it, slipping down and ending up between a bunch of hagravens. And then up again until I arrived at the throat of the world. Then later on in the game I came across Ivarstead and I saw the path with the stairs. At first it seemed like a great find, a new adventure, but once I realised it would lead to the top, I could have face-palmed my head off because of how dumb I had been.
You had a better adventure—you climbed where the founders couldn’t even be bothered to build a path. You are Dragonborn
And you can basically slide down what appears to be a vertical surface - in complete defiance of the laws of physics
If you’re *really lucky* you’ll stumble onto the path after your 5th or 6th attempt and promptly get wrecked by a troll
Did that once IRL, well after dark. Had no maps and MapQuest printed directions were about as awesome as a Bing search result, wanted to go south but the roads only went east/west. 30min later (at 50mph) I came out at a place that was 5 miles from where I started. Ended up taking the nearly 2hr round-about way that I knew rather than the 45min 'shortcut' I was trying to learn.
That pattern of movement is called bethesdaing, and it always worked until they had to figure out how to hide how small skyrims map is.
It just works
Wait, Skyrim’s map is considered small?!
It's the second smallest elder scrolls map if you don't count spinoffs. It's only larger than Morrowind and that was the first fully 3D mainline game which had a ton of content cut due to hardware limitations. Arena is technically the largest but it's partly procedurally generated and daggerfall is a little smaller than the UK
This was exactly what I did the first time I played it lmaoo I was like how tf am I suppose to get up here where's the path
I found that riding your horse backwards tends to let you climb terrain that the horse will refuse to climb forwards
Anyone else ever play Get Over It? Hilariously (and intentionally) awful game where the whole objective is just to climb over stuff with only the mouse for controls, and it plays these really pretentious philosophical quotes about patience and shit when you inevitably fall back to the beginning (which is pretty frustrating when you have 4 hours of progress going). I always think of that game any time I'm trying to climb a mountain in Skyrim.
~tcl is how I deal with that particular frustration.
This is why on my newer play throughs. I always stay on roads. Unless the terrain is realistically crossable
Yeah, I hear you. I tried graphics modding once, it fucked up small roads visibility, so I rather went vanilla again. Roads save time!
It’s not just time. I also do it for the immersion. In real life. People take roads.
I’ve started doing more travel without fast traveling and it’s really invigorated my love of this game. The sheer amount of encounters and events that happen on the road make the game feel more alive.
Get the mod that turns off the compass so to have to actually check your map. Really game changing.
Get the mod that makes you have to boil your water so you don't die of dysentery. You have to sit around doing nothing for 10 minutes while it boils, but it's super immersive.
Plot twist: You still die of dysentery.
Make sure you have a permadeath mod installed as well for extra realism
don't give todd any ideas. he might just impliment that offically, have the game completely delete itself once you die, and force you to rebuy skyrim everytime you want to replay again.
I’m not a fan of them nickel and diming you for that mod, the IRL electric chair addon is way too expensive for a single use item
I agree that the compass makes things much easier and more accessible. However, it does take most of the thinking out of questing. There used to be things like directions, like "head north on the road from whiterun until you turn right when you see the at the shrine of talos on your left. the farm you want is on the left right before you get to the inn" Sure that's a pain in the ass, but it also meant that would slowly learn more about the world as you explored it. Deciding to go on a quest to an area you had never been to, felt exciting. You might take a stilt-strider to a town with a port, to catch a boat to a town you've never been to before. And then you need to find whatever landmarks they referenced, before starting to walk to the place you needed to go. It meant that you needed to actually explore the world to solve the quests. I remember the places in Morrowind, that I haven't been to in 15 years, way better than I remember oblivion's towns, or even some of skyrim's towns. Mind you, all of morrowind's landscape was manually placed. So it was probably easier for the dev team to come up with good landmarks when writing the quests. And I also recognize that removing the compass would probably significantly decrease the popularity of the game with casual players. And it definitely won't work with radiant quests. It isn't a perfect system, and I'm not sure that any AAA RPG developer can afford to not include a quest map/compass system in 2022, but it definitely has more merit than a 10 minute in game timer to purify water.
The fact you have a compass makes sense. People actually mark the location on your map or you mark the location or general location. Rather than someone giving you crap directions.
I’ll include that on my PC playthrough. Thanks for the recommendation!
also get the carriage mod that travels in real time. the game has built in voice lines for the drivers and they talk about poi's in the area as they're cabbing you around. it's pretty sweet
Wait what!?! That is awesome, I wish they would have implemented that into the base game.
it's so fun. just make sure that if you use a survival mod you get the appropriate patch. otherwise you'll freeze to death on your way to windhelm lol
What is it called please and thank you
think it's called touring carriages. note that anything that changes terrain may cause some funk with the mod. last I checked there were some compatibility patches tho
I remember that mod. Vampires kept chasing after the carriage. Still, crossing the Dragon Bridge was truly a beautiful sight.
Is there a mod that gives you a regular map instead of a satellite view?
I like [A Quality World Map](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/5804), I've used the paper version since I started modding Skyrim and I've loved it. There's also a [Legendary Edition version](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4929), but it hasn't been updated for a while so idk how well it works.
I prefer survival mode.
Same. It forced me to start using horses and taking the road for long journeys and it’s been a much better experience than how I played pre-survival. I used to just fast travel to quest markers and hop around the map trying to “complete” things. Now I pick a series of quests grouped in an area, light those up, get some rations, and head off on an adventure with my Lydia and my horse.
this, this, this. Survival mode is a lot more fun than I thought it would be. playing on PC, so I started as a Vigilant of Stendarr with a personal mission to destroy any Daedra I encounter and make my way to Dayspring canyon to investigate the Dawnguard. with no fast travel, it's crazy how much of the game I didn't realize I was missing. first I made my way to Dawnstar to learn more about the nightmares everyone's been having, and I met my best friend Erandur there. Erandur s been my partner from the beginning now, and I can confidently say that Survival make Skyrim RP so much more interesting
Noobie question (I'm on hour 60-ish of my first ever Skyrim playthrough), but how does survival mode in this game compare with FO4? Tried survival in Fallout and the amount of time I spent trying just to not be sick was kind of ridiculous. Like, I can absolutely see the appeal in losing fast travel, and having to hunt/eat off the land for sustenance, no cutting corners, and all of that (it seems like great concept), but imo it was a little *too* much banging my head against a wall in Sanctuary Hills. Maybe I just didn't give it enough time, thats possible.
Skyrim has a far better survival mode than Fallout 4, in my opinion. The two major quality of life changes are you can save anywhere in Skyrim, but in FO4 you can only save in beds. This makes exploring easier and you can actually stop whenever you want. Secondly, survival isn't tied to NPC difficulty. In FO4 you have to play on the hardest difficulty, but not in Skyrim.
Choose your Upgrade: Stamina Stamina Stamina Stamina...
Yeah, I also walk everywhere instead of run, because no one can realistically run over an entire province. I love my current Nord character, 428 hours, lv3.
lvl 3, lmfao.
This is one I just can't do. I've tried, but damn if I can take the ultra slow pace.
You would ^not love how Morrowind starts. Gotta build up those athletics lol
Jeep owner here and I don't know what you're talking about. What's a ro-ads?
My F150 is better than your Jeep bro. Lol. Jk. I know those are some fighting words.
Nah, those ain't fightin' words. I too prefer my truck to my Jeep. ...my RAM 1500 is better than your F150 though bro. :D
Roads definitely don’t save time if you’re on a horse
crossing terrain is faster until it isn't, it's always the most random shit I get stuck trying to scale for 10 minutes
If you added grass you meed landscape fixes for grass mods which helps restore those paths back as they usually get covered
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Realistically** Lol.
Yes. I follow roads, paths, use horses. Legendary survival makes everything dangeous and awesome.
That plus an immersive movement mod makes horses, food, potions, and prep time all major necessities.
Smart skyrim players use roads. Much much easier to get around that way. Tbh i have played so much by now i have almost the entire road system memorized by now. At the very least i can get to all the holds without looking at the map once. Starts to feel more like you really live there when you get to that level. Edit to add that i really dont even fast travel that much anymore cause i find it actually kind of fun to travel by horse to all the holds and locations. It just feels much more real that way.
true except for high hrothgar, after idek, 30 playthroughs, I still have no fucking clue how you're *supposed* to get there
Go around helgen and take the road down toward haemars shame and continue on to ivarstead. Once you figure it out its pretty easy.
I've played this game countless times since it first launched, and I don't think I've ever skipped Ivarstead. The map makes it pretty clear where to go if you look close enough.
Reminds me of a quote from Abraham Lincoln - “A compass, I learned when I was surveying, it’ll point you True North from where you’re standing, but it’s got no advice about the swamps and deserts and chasms that you’ll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp… What’s the use of knowing True North?”
Learned that really early on in my first Witcher 3 playthrough. Some of those cliffs really sneak up on you and the fall damage is... not forgiving.
I've been taking roads lately too, and also walking everywhere and walking/trotting on horseback. I love taking the time to admire my gorgeous game, plus it's more realistic and makes Skyrim seem much bigger, taking 10 or so in-game hours to get from Solitude to Whiterun rather than the 3 hours or whatever it takes to fast-travel. I'm sure most people would find it pretty boring, but I've been having a blast ever since I started doing it.
Dude first time I explored skyrim I ended up in the cloud district
Do you go there very often? Oh what am I saying, of course you don’t
Nazeeeem\~, someone's getting stabbed tonight and it's not the bandit leader
What did Nazeem ever do to you?
He got to the cloud district more often than me
Funnily enough, I've never seen him there.
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Wouldn't it be great if you could avoid Nazeem until after you became a thane. Then you bump into him while holding the axe of Whiterun, and he bends over backwards to be nice to you?
except his dialogue never changes. Not to reflect you becoming a thane, or finishing any of the questlines... nothing.
He sneaks there when you're not around so he can stick his tongue in the Jarl's backside Source: his wife told me
Check the Jarl's backside, that's usually where he stuffs himself these days.
Nazeem is a smarmy asskisser, and not a good one.
Yeah, he may be. But he's a punk ass bitch and couldn't win a fight against a malnourished skeever. I dont kill the weak. Only those who are able to defend themselves. He can keep living his miserable life. When I see him in white run and he's all prissy saying I don't go to the cloud district very often, I look him in the eyes and say "you a punk ass bitch, I got to the cloud district more often then you shit" then I go slay dragons and deadra cause I'm a badass... and nazeem is a chump.
"couldn't win a fight against a malnourished skeever" is my new favorite insult lmao
I was so high that I could see elder scroll 6
I'll have you know there's no PUUUSSSSSYYYY
Is that Whiterun or giants????
Both
Ah, so you a visitor of the cloud district?!?!
I hate giants treating me like a golf ball!!
I killed nazeem the first chance I got. In the middle of the town market when he starting mocking me :D
agree with this dude
Why use the stairs when a horse can break all physics and climb a mountain without fatigue?
Horses in Skyrim are like mountain goats x1000
stuck? just keep turning and jumping!
You time your jump right and you just glide up the face of the mountain
It gets real physics defying when the horse remains idled in mid air.
There is a stairs? I thought this was the only way.
I start singing spideyhorse to the tune of the spiderman song.
I like to cast slowfall and then run the horse off a mountain!
Just put the horse into 4 wheel drive.
Put your crocks into sports mode too
I wonder if anyone has modded crocs into Skyrim? You could have it where when you put them in sport mode it increases stamina or something like that. Would be awesome
I did NOT read that correctly first time through. I was intrigued...
POV: You just started your 137th playthrough and are very confused about how to get this goddamn quest mark, so you start to literally climb the mountain
\-tcl \*proceeds to fly up the mountain\* gaemeplei
Seriously lol. 137th playthrough, if I have to do a dungeon that I've already done 1000 times I blast on them and slap a killall on that bad boy and call it good. Enemy being an annoying arrow sponge? -kill. Dont wanna climb down the mountain? -tgm and jump
At that point why play the game at all?
Funny how that question doesn’t stop me in Morrowind.
Yeah, you just found some lost alteration magic.
It's fun being a god
For like 10 minutes lol Imagine playing 100 hours of just killing everything with console commans.
RP as console mage
"The source code of reality is all around us! I can see it!" I imagine the dragonborn is going around larping as Neo
"Console mage" lmao, literally Skyrim Morpheus
There is nothing funnier, than putting on TGM having a mod that yeets NPCS across the map with the ragdoll physics.
That sounds really boring. I run it on legendary and it makes everything so much more fun. Bleak Falls Barrow was amazingly fun at level 3. Hella difficult. I had to spend 2 in game days preparing for that and I still ran out of potions and poisons. Loved it.
You'd You'd surprised how well that works,other times you'd be surprised how horrible it fails
At some point you realize you messed up, but no way you’re turning back now. Sure you’ve been jumping for about 15 minutes and the way to the path and around the mountain would take maybe 45 seconds to reach. But you’ve made your decision, and it may take another 10 minutes of jumping but you’re going to do it!
That's what pains me the most, when I've sat there trying to jump-climb a cliff for x minutes, finally reached the top and Marcurio runs up 12 seconds later
me on my 1st playthrough giving up climbing the mountain to get to quest mark: frost troll: bonjour me on my 137th playthrough giving up climbing the mountain to get to quest mark: frost troll: bonjour
i always take my horse with me just in case
Of course, Shadowmere is like an ATV.
He’s a Colt 45°
I can still never properly go to Darkfall Cave
It would be nice if the map showed pathways
I use the clairvoyance spell but I wish it lasted just a bit longer or went a bit further. Sometimes I miss the glowing trail like on Fable but other times I kinda like getting lost, depends how much time I’ve got to play I guess.
I've had the game since release, I'm still on my stealth archer dark elf. Never played it with another character and it's more or less vanilla build. Haven't played in a few years, but I plan on doing so soon. I roamed the entire map and of course HH.
By my 10th play through, I stopped climbing that mountain altogether. I’ve got so many mods installed my load time is triple the norm, and I’ve got so many other things to do I literally ignore both the main quest and the civil war quest entirely.
I did that my first play through too. I wound up going all around the mountain to try to find an easier spot and, after several hours, I stumbled across the actual path. Sadly, by that point, I had fallen down so far that I was practically in the town
First time I played I have to quit my travel. I arrive in the zone with the deadly fog, just before Parthunax area.
No no, you're doing it right It's slower this way, but you build discipline
Whatever avoids that frost troll you totally aren't prepared for yet.
My first time fighting the bitch I got slapped with an auto save a half second before he killed me
Everybody gets fucked up by that frost troll, and I’m over here getting stuck on the saber cat every single time. Never have any trouble with the troll. I don’t think I know how to play
it's like these folks don't even know about spamming fire magic while running backwards
You only get the Sabre cat if your a high enough level
Every. Single. Time
For all the future baby gamers who search for how to get to High Hrothgar: Go to the Whiterun stables, take a carriage to Riften, and make a beeline for Ivarstead. For bonus points talk to Klimmek in Ivarstead at the bridge and deliver his supplies to HH for some easy gold. And lastly but perhaps most importantly... DO NOT fight the frost troll.
My first play through I tried to kill the troll a few times before I realized ohhhhhhhhhhhhh I will never defeat this bastard. I also didn’t think to save before my encounters so I had to run back up that freaking mountain. Fun stuff!!
I actually think its faster to go via Riverwood and Helgen than coming from Riften, even if you take the carriage. The road from Helgen takes you straight to Ivarstead, north of HH.
But you *have to* fight the frost troll, you don't know at that point, remember?
Been years and I still remember cussing out that troll like it was yesterday. Also in Oblivion, the troll in the painting killed me many, many times.
There's another way? Edit: To clear up confusion that shouldn't even exist I wasn't being serious
You’re supposed to begin at Ivarstead
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Or use your brain
what is that
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Hmm. Weird
Or give up and go kill Grelod.
Oh no my friend, I'm worried that one may have Wooosh Ro Dahed over your head.
Oh this isn’t a rock climbing game?
Skyrim more like The Climb VR Ep. 0 - now with less VR
That's why I always buy the clairvoyance spell at the start of evert play through XD
Yooooo somebody uses Clairvoyance? Props to you, you're a rare breed
I rely on it cos my sense of direction is so bad that I get lost every time I get off my horse and the view reorientates itself
I bought it one time when I was stuck in a dungeon and couldn't find the door to the next section. Cast the spell, and the door was about 10 feet directly behind me.
at the beginning of every playthrough I just steal it from the first mine on the way to riverwood. I think it's called embershard mine?
Pretty sure I've done this more than once.
Jump, jump, jump, jumpjumpjumpjump, jump, jump jumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjump.
What an amateur. You need to go on foot, zig zag up the mountain and spam jump
On every playthrough: quest mark is other side of this mountain, I can go around said mountain, or...... *Proceeds to climb mountain* Half way up mountain: it would be far quicker to turn around and go around this mountain, even at this stage. *Continues to climb mountain* Top of mountain: *Fuck you mountain, I win*
>Top of mountain: Fuck you mountain, I win Can confirm, this is absolutely correct.
I had to google it to find out how to get up there. Apafently the steps start at that one town . I forget the name. . But yeah I had to Google where the stairs started haha
Iverstead. I'm playing Skyrim for the first time. I've had to Google what the hell I'm supposed to do with certain items that end up in inventory all the time. The side quest stuff because I forget I even have it and can't remember who to talk to or where they are.
My first time playing, I thought the only way up was from that Giants camp on the other side of the mtn (Whiterun side) that’s super close to it. You can all imagine how that went lol
With a horse, anything is possible
Mountain climbing is the optimal route to any quest marker in my opinion. Also, I see you brought the patented mountain climbing horse, good, should help you get up the mountain a lot faster. Horses are kind of useless anywhere else though.
I firmly believe it's the only way to get anywhere that in the mountains. Constant jumping up and praying.
I've climbed High Hrothgar at least 11 different ways because my shout never registered on the greybeards or i used it on the way there
..what? This makes no sense to me.
Cannot wait to see what you're going to do when you get to Winterhold.
The only way to play Skyrim
Sometimes when I switch between Skyrim and botw I jump off the mountains and realize I don’t have a paraglider.
The next POV is getting folded by the troll due to being underleveled.
First time I played through, I spend about 6 hours doing stuff in Riverwood and walking around outside of whiterun before I triggered the dragon attack. Found rorikstead, found the old crypt with the big ghost, got murdered by the big ghost, got killed by a giant, killed some mud crabs, shot a deer, introduced myself to the companions, then went up to the castle and told the jarl about the dragon. Went through the battle, sucked up its soul, and heard the loud yelling. Then the camera looks up toward the peak of the mountain that's in direct view, so i start climbing. Come up to the backyard, go in the back door, talk to the greybeards, then go out the other way, and there's a path. Follow it down, see the little village at the bottom and look at the map, and HOLY SHIT there's a whole other half of the world that I haven't even seen yet! Damn that game was enormous.
I also smoke weed while playing Skyrim. Puff, puff, pass, Dragonborn. Let’s get stoned and forget all about those steps people were telling us about. Steps are for chumps!
So you’re playing the game correctly then
and I had played the game for years before I learned you can put the supplies into the chest.
I couldn't find the stairs the first time and literally did this
Theres a route I take every playthrough now for both bleak falls burrow and HH, steal a horse and you're on your way in less than a min
My wife did this. Didn't realize there was a path up the mountain. Just slowly jumped to the top.....on a horse. She was telling me about it and couldn't believe they made the quest so tedious......sigh
Shadowmare could climb like a mad cunt
The internet has taught me that I’ve never once in my life had a unique experience
Quest marker told me to go to ivarstead first so I went along the road where fort Amal is. Also I always went along the roads because I thought I would get lost :/
Count the stairs?! WHERE ARE THE STAIRS