mrstickball said:
Mummelmann said:
mrstickball said:
RolStoppable said:
Pullus, do you know what "epic" means?
It certainly doesn't mean running around for ten minutes and shooting bolts. |
You know what is epic? What I just saw on my brother's copy of Skyrim.
I was playing it for a little while. I own the 360 version, and he has a PC version. I was trying out his character to see what he had different than mine. We both rolled the same class essentially - high elf battlemage, but with mostly different loadouts in every slot.
At any rate, he tells me to travel to an area just to complete a simple quest. I fast travel to the area.
I begin talking to the lady to finish the quest and recieve the item.
Out of no where, in the background, I see an immense dragon flying towards me in the background. It gets closer and closer while I am finishing up this conversation, and eventually begins to breathe fire on myself and the woman I am having a conversation with.
From that, we began a 15 minute battle with not ONE but TWO dragons attacking the area. Every humanoid and animal character within a 1 mile radius began attacking the dragon. Fire, flames, arrows, and swords were clanging together to fight off the beasts. You would see them land in the distance, and begin to massacre and eat imperial soldiers, wolves, and whatever else was in the area. Eventually, we won, but the entire town was ransacked. The dragon nearly destroyed a farm house by sitting of its roof, while spitting flames at the townspeople.
It was 100% unscripted. Totally random. I have never seen that kind of random brilliance in any game.
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How do you spend 15 minutes killing them, with the aid of all those others? I kill two on my own in less than two minutes...
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When they fly around a lot in an area with a lot of trees. This was in between Whiterun and Windhelm at the little mining camp. Not a good area to get a lot of arrows or fireballs off. The dragons would constantly sweep in, breathe some fire, then fly off with a guard in their mouths or something of that nature. Generally, they kept away from close in fighting until they were hurt enough. Once my brother could engage them with melee, they went down VERY quickly.
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Yeah, it can be a pain when they don't touch down. I usually get a sneak shot in with my bow as they take to the air and taking heavy damage seems to prompt them to land even before they crash. They're especially fond of circling when there's two of them, almost like the AI scripts are interfering with each other. I've also had a couple of episodes where I'm fighting one dragon and another shows up, circles a bit and then just leaves again without engaging me.
The dragon fights are great fun but somewhat easy on Adept, the only challenge that can arise is facing one in completely open terrain with no cover from breath weapon. Then again, I have a couple of hundred healing potions on me plus another couple hundred in the stash in Whiterun so I can just gulp them down... 
I'm level 43 right now but I only have 220 health and mediocre armor (leveling up enchant now to make it better) so if someone or something gets very close, I can die once in a while. Its rare though since I sneak almost all the time and one-shot every enemy except Vampire Masters, Mammoths, Dragons and certain bosses. Gonna make me another Daedric bow and smith and enchant it a lot better for 3-400 damage or more, can't imagine the dragons living for long then!
