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| Adella's Way; A survivalist trial for masochists...chuckles | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 14 2017, 09:20 AM (6,946 Views) | |
| glargg | Mar 22 2017, 12:23 AM Post #21 |
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Glad to help. I like what you're doing, even though my play-skills aren't up to this much challenge. I'm eager to see how it goes for you all. :) |
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| After Dark | Mar 22 2017, 03:26 PM Post #22 |
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My character doesn't like those situations when you have to steal an item in order to advance with a questline, like Raerek's Inscribed Amulet of Talos in the civil war questline - Stormcloacks side (we wouldn't want to upset Malacth, right!?). During our last competition, i bypass that with Lydia's help (she has no problem stealing or even murdering someone for no reason...), but this time we can't bring a follower. I could justify joining the Thieves Guild undercover in order to catch their leader. Does destroying the Dark Brotherhood count as one of the Destinies or we have to join them - again, killing someone for no reason it's not the same as a mercenary's work. We have bounty quests and Companions radiant quests for that. This is fragment of the readme file from Acquisitive Soul Gems Multithreaded, just to give you an idea what's this all about: Spoiler: click to toggle
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| After Dark | Mar 24 2017, 10:49 PM Post #23 |
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Thursday i started my character took me half an hours just to fine tune my character. I haven't done much, just the basic mining and gathering ingredients around Riverwood and Whiterun. I crossed the mountains and helped a group of warriors that were fighting a giant. After about 2 hours and a half, I stopped by a waterfall and let by character enjoy the view while i went to bed. Next morning was my turn at work. He's lvl 6 now. The 0 lvl skills weren't that much of a problem. One-handed is leveling pretty fast. I miss my healing spells the most. Inside Embershard Mine i didn't risk too much and headed for that rock in the water when the situation was too risky. I don't have short videos, only the full-length one, but i can link to some interesting encounters: Dancing with a Bandit First pack of wolves You know this giant Those wolves aren't a problem anymore I hope he enjoyed the view, because now it's his turn to show me "what a real orc can do". |
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| Rick | Mar 26 2017, 05:38 AM Post #24 |
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AD, the links just take us to the full length video....which was excellent btw...if rather long. Just catching up with her ladyship's videos. This is the almost generic opening scene, it changes little... https://youtu.be/ghtdBuUREaM 'Captured' But once in the Keep, things get a bit more variable....and dangerous! https://youtu.be/XqOVzv-Emn4 'Escape from Helgen' :) |
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| After Dark | Mar 26 2017, 03:10 PM Post #25 |
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Well, that's a big one, but i have a bigger one today (about 3 hours and a half - 9 GB in size). It appears to be sped up a little because Handbreak encodes the video at 30 FPS and the source (.avi) varies between 19 and 30 FPS. Usually you see the frame rate drops during autosaves. On rare occasions i ran Handbreak in the background while playing Skyrim. That's when you really start to notice that my computer is running this game at it's limits. This leaves me almost no room for additional mods/improvements.
Thank you, i'm glad you like it, all credits go to Laast and his Purity mod (initially Pure Waters) which changed almost all waterfalls in game and added names and mapmarkers to the most important/beautiful ones.
Today i notices the first problem regarding the 0 lvl starting skills: Before the Storm was bugged and it won't advance once i talked to Gerdur. Usually i bypass this issue by heading directly to Whiterun and using a persuassion to enter the City, but due to the low level i have on Speech, that option is missing.
Yeah, it's that full-length video, but each link leads to a different time from that video (copy URL at current time option). The links work the right way for me. I tried it with a new account on Youtube.
I just use Youtube to store my videos. My computer has quite a small HDD if we're talking by today's standards...
You have an interesting unarmed combat mod there, but those moves doesn't fit a Lady like Adella, at least that's how i see it.
You're welcome. I used the console commands a lot while i was playing an unmoded version of Skyrim. Once i added the Unofficial Patches, the console became almost useless for me, but seems like there are still reasons to refresh that information from time to time. |
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| Rick | Mar 26 2017, 03:50 PM Post #26 |
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AD, Well as far as ladylike moves go.....I never saw Lady Lara Croft have an issue with unarmed combat when required ;) However...more vexing issues have arisen....to wit.... OK...NOW I AM OFFICIALLY SEETHING WITH ANGER..... Its all hitting the fan and there's no solution! Look... 1. My XB1 video recorder refuses to upload to the XBox cloud....it records clips but I can't edit them and get them to you tube. 2. I found a work around...by loading the clips to another cloud then into my phone for editing....fussy but doable 3. So now the XB refuses to also load into my alternate cloud....finally stuffing my video making completely 4. I probably need a day one factory reset of the console, but what about my game saves...they will be gone. 5. Ok....I can restart the game from level one....don't want to..but I can. So.....checked my Load Order before acting.....wise move! 6. The body mod Adella uses is greyed out......yep...if I reset the console I lose her body which I have tweaked and got looking good. Using a different body mod will not give the same look. This is a disaster as far as I am concerned. 7. So once again....a mod is pulled and we the user base suffer the consequences.....I am lost for words I can use here..... I just don't know what to do for best here....ultimately no matter the cause....that missing body mod is gonna be a problem. As for the Xbox itself.....listen people.....don't buy one! The apps it uses for recording are unstable and breakdown....the video quality is p.poor too, being a blurry 720p and with a low bitrate.... Yeah....pretty unhappy right now :( Thing is....Adella's trial is actually going well too....what a damn shame. |
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| Rick | Mar 28 2017, 06:45 PM Post #27 |
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Ok, after a few failed work arounds....I went the whole nine yards.....uninstalled Skyrim...cleared the mod storage 'reserved space' and then reinstalled everything with all the mods. Now.....I am still unhappy with the animations attached to there new tbbp bodies. Also the laughable girly animations mod...which was good...until the MA made it into "Prissy animations" instead. The body mods and girly ani mod have her flinging her arms akimbo like some electrified octopus. The girly walk is only sexy at ultra slow ... normal fast walk and jog looks like she in need of a dump....or has just done one. I mean for gods sake Mod Authors...NO ONE moves like that....well maybe only the very worst Barbie pool party airhead with a squeaky voice. But our chars are warriors...or at least savvy in a wild world....they should move sexy when real slow then transform into a more grown up running ani....Lara Croft can do it...why can't the guys making these mods huh! Yeah...I'm pretty frustrated with it. The elbows and shoulders angle back so far when running that it clips very (very) badly through the shields on back. But carrying a shield has it wafting around like a paper fan....utterly ridiculous. I only kept the girly ani...cos it does have a neat 'feet together' girly jump and a nice kneeling sneak crouch...but normal walk and run is a disaster. The MA was asked by several people to consider undoing the update that introduced the most extreme prissyness. His response was basically...its my mod and I like it so tough crap. Not the most helpful attitude I have to say. However, even without it...the basic girly moves built into the three or four main body mods now are almost as bad anyways... The only good news here is that Fluffin does do a tbbp version of his discontinued 'innocence' body which is not only generously endowed by more importantly Adella's face looks right on it. I tried Beautiful Mistress...but it made her look so surly...heavily pee'd off. Any how I am about ready to re-start Adella on her Trials challenge....even if I can't darned well record it.... |
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| Rick | Mar 28 2017, 07:22 PM Post #28 |
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Ok.....forget all my last baloney. Its not that it ain't true....I'm just now fed up with seeing myself complaining all the time. So...its time to shut up and get on with it. And Adella had nothing to do with my slapped face, ok.... |
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| Areial | Mar 28 2017, 07:52 PM Post #29 |
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OK... I'm sorry to hear it's being a pain again. |
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| Rick | Mar 28 2017, 08:17 PM Post #30 |
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Thanks hon, but at least we are underway again. These things are sent to try us....but now best to look forward rather than back eh! As I write, the Contessa has left the cave exit at Helgen :) |
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| Areial | Mar 28 2017, 09:03 PM Post #31 |
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heh... I had a few issues today as well.. a Hearthfire patch for Cutting room floor, decided to errr check it self?? I haven't used CRF in a while, so it's kinda weird.. was causing CTD's.. but it's all taken care of. Good to hear she's on her way again. Lucien didn't have to start over, though it was a close thing. |
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| Rick | Mar 29 2017, 05:12 AM Post #32 |
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CRF is one of those things thats tempting...like I wanna see it.....but you know that its full of bad issues. Unfinished fragments that can break your game. I don't know enough about it to properly appraise it....best left alone! Good for Lucien, restarts are frustrating eh! My big restart took all of yesterday. Uninstalled the game and wiped all the mods. Did a 'day one factory default' reset on the console. Then spent hours loading it all back in. I am heartily sick of restarts for sure. At least its a guarranteed fresh start with a clean install now. Lets play :) |
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| Areial | Mar 29 2017, 08:11 AM Post #33 |
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I really haven't had any issues with CRF, when I am using it... but the patches DO seem to want to stick around.. I think the only real thing was an issue with another mod that changed Dawnstar, but... tbh Dawnstar has some odd navemesh issues all on it's own. You know Michael had suggested that I move the x-box 1 over to my table and use it to play all the competitions ( and DAI ) but honestly.. I'd rather deal with the issues I cause by using mod's that don't quiet get along.. than have stuff yanked.. and some of the issues you've had. Well plus I finially got NMM to switch from one game to the other good, even if SSE has a lot of lag in it for me. |
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| Rick | Mar 29 2017, 04:27 PM Post #34 |
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Well, yeah, if you can run two different set ups on one machine...great! You get full pc functionality for all your gaming.....cause yeah....the XBox has some frustrating limitations. Plus, the software/apps are pitched at the wrong demographic. By which I mean.....MS probably want the machine to be trendy amongst the twenty somethings with the money.....and yet.....the notification messages and help files are worded to appeal to like thirteen year olds. At my age...I don't want a machine to say "Great! You uploaded a file" or "Oh dear-Something went wrong. Try again in a bit" That kind of patronising talk is a real turn off.....the marketing is just way off beam. On top of that....it never tells you exactly what went wrong and the help files are simplistic to put it mildly.....like I said.....aimed at 13 YO kids. Stick to the PC :) |
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| glargg | Mar 29 2017, 04:34 PM Post #35 |
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Yeah, except that recent Windows and Mac versions are just about as patronizing. The dialogs are a little more "grown-up," but equally lacking in useful information. |
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| Rick | Mar 30 2017, 05:41 AM Post #36 |
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Thanks the gods......the qualifier for Lakeview this time was Embershard...I am so fed up with almost always getting Bilegulch mine...its the hardest one. Randomly chosen?...my eye, pah! Anyhow, with Embershard, its in the bag :) Just gotta save up that five grand now! This time I want to get Adella into BFB before level 15.....We don't need tougher draugr. My new 'Better Draugr' retex mod does make em more scary....a rotted brown instead of fish silver grey, and with red eyes. I bet they're harder to see in the shadows too! Got loads of video clips to put together....hopefully! :) |
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| Rick | Mar 31 2017, 08:59 AM Post #37 |
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Catching up.... Not particularly glamerous video play, but edited for ease of watching and a necessary part of setting the scene. 1. Seeing Gerdur in Riverwood...then off to see Jarl Balgruuf https://youtu.be/QSdyRoZMb7o 2. Learning to smith....and finding out how inconvenient those Zero Starting Skills can be! https://youtu.be/RHskDU2G6LI Vids Next up....some fighting....and a daring raid for ores. Shame the visual quality is such utter crap....can you believe MS would even dare "sell" this as a working video production suite.....I am baffled in truth. You would think that as soon as the XBox project managers saw this junk....someones head in 'Development' would be rolling. But no! They seem to be proud of it.....unbelievable, truely. |
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| Rick | Apr 1 2017, 08:09 AM Post #38 |
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"First bandits".....the Contessa needed the coin and had to go adventuring. Upon finding this small camp she breezed in and wished the folk a good morning. Well, we know how that had to go down! So....here we have a short vid of Adella's first bandit encounter.....and trying on a new outfit ! https://youtu.be/riQPwbWqyQY More to follow.... |
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| After Dark | Apr 2 2017, 12:35 PM Post #39 |
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I see you're way ahead of me despite the fact that you had to start over. I've been away for almost a week. It was the last chance to go on a fishing trip before the season closes for two months. Yesterday i got some time to play again. After i sold some items to Lucan, my speech skill rised enough to trigger that persuasion check and the guard let me enter the city. Learning to smith wasn't so difficult for my orc even if he never set foot in a Stronghold. Of course, he started with nails and iron fittings and eventually made his first steel armor. He even crafted some jewelry, but the result wasn't quite what you'd expect. The Jarl sent a detachment to Riverwood when i told him about Helgen, then his wizard sent me to retrieve some old artifact that, apparently is connected with the dragon appearance. I'm use to this kind of work, but usually i have to babysit one of those "treasure hunters". They sent me there alone. Aren't they afraid that i'll just keep the artifact for myself and run away to Cyrodiil? While i was heading out, i remember about that group fighting a Giant near the stables, so i went to Jorrvaskr and talked to their leader. After a little test they sent me beat a woman!!! They talk about honor, but this doesn't seem like a honorable feat to me. I still need the coins, so i'll go there and see if i can scare her without actually beating her. That didn't go as planned. I tell you, that woman would mop the floor with those so called adventurers i used to work for. I returned to the Companions and this time they sent me an old tomb to retrieve a fragment of an old axe. This begins to look like my old job. They even sent someone to "observe" me. I told him to set camp outside the tomb. First i have to retrieve an artifact for the Jarl (or just retrieve it...). Inside Bleak Falls Barrow i encounter my first bandit thug. It took a while to defeat it, but that wasn't the most dangerous foe. The Wounded Frostbite Spider almost killed me once with a jump power attack. It took a lot of patience to defeat it. Then we have spell caster Restless Draugh and the final boss. |
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| Areial | Apr 2 2017, 01:09 PM Post #40 |
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Good job... the fight with Carlotta might have been a bit easier... it's scary having to worry about hitting other NPC's and have "immortal" guards chase you down. |
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