Another collection of Fallout 4 Far Harbor screenshots. one of these days i will probably find my way back to the Commonwealth. But I really like the effect of the fog in Far Harbor. A common theme this time seems to be Dogmeat in the lower right of the picture.
Also. the Giant Hermit Crab is like the best thing ever. It’s a hermit crab with a BUS FOR A SHELL! how awesome is that?!
More Skyrim screenshots with Loki! not really a lot to say. I started building one of the Hearthfire houses, I chose to go with Heljarchen Hall partly because it was the only one i hadn’t yet used as a main house, but also because Winstead Manor (despite being my favorite location) was right out because I have Frostfall and I am not playing a snow elf vampire that is completely oblivious to the cold, and Heljarchen Hall is right at the point where the temperatures get tolerable, and it also sits right between two giant camps, which seemed fitting for Loki. so far i have the main hall and the back wing (alchemy tower) constructed and most of the indoor furnishings. need more lumber and iron to finish the rest, also goat horns so i can add more lights. It of course uses my very favorite Hearthfire mod, Shezries Kitchens. which turns the useless back room into an adorable little kitchen, so you can use the east wing for something else, I’m leaning towards library.
Besides that I just did your usual dungeon crawling and fought a dragon that attacked Dawnstar. That thing killed 5 guards. Luckily I have the Run for Your Lives mod, so no townsfolk were killed. I had much fun using the Meteor Shower spell from Forgotten Magic against the dragon, you can see it about to get hit in the head with some meteors in one of the screenshots. Of all the magic mods I have tried, Forgotten Magic is definitely the best, imo. On the subject of mods, I have been a longtime fans of W.A.T.E.R. (now only available as part of that compilation as far as i can tell) for, well, the water in the game, but saw that Realistic Water Two had become quite popular, and decided to give it a try. I normally try to only talk about mods i like, but…. NOT impressed with Realistic Water. In the screenshots above, at the very bottom, the one on the left is Realistic Water, the one on the right is W.A.T.E.R. after i put it back. I think it’s plainly obvious which one looks the best. Both mods add waves along the coast if you have Dragonborn, but Realistic Water made no effort to colour match the waves and the ocean textures, and while some of it is that the first screenshot was taken in the middle of a bright day, and the second was taken around sunset, the colours in Realistic Water were kinda gaudy in comparison, and the textures had more obvious tiling. Went back to W.A.T.E.R.
It’s been a long time since i posted screenshots from Skyrim, so i can’t even come close to posting all of my favorites, but… oh well. I finished both the cor game’s main questline and Dawnguard’s main quest, so some cool stuff. I may make a second post for the ones I had to leave out, we’ll see. Completing Dawnguard was especially big with this character because Aleddor is a vampire AND a Snow Elf, so meeting Gelebor was cool for him. th maion quest the highlight was Sovngarde, just because it’s pretty. During this time I also bumped my difficulty up to Master, and that plus the mod ‘Resilient Dragons’ which basically just adds HP to the dragons, the dragon fights are exciting again. So all that was cool, but I’ve had problems of the technical kind…
I love mods, but they can cause problems. Along the way, I had some mods that stuck some bad scripts into my save game, it ballooned to around 40MB. I won’t name the mods because I am not sure if the scripts themselves are at fault or if it was me removing the mods improperly. Either way, the end result was and the game was crashing very frequently, and I was afraid I may have to retire this character because his save games were becoming pretty much unplayable. I tried the tricks of making a ‘clean’ save by waiting in game for 31 days in a quiet place (one of the patches Bethesda added removes inactive scripts from a save after 30 days of in game time) and using the ‘pcb’ (Purge cell buffers) console command, and SKSE’s Clear invalid Registrations function, but to no avail, the scripts kept running and the save just kept growing to ridiculous sizes. Luckily, this tool: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/31675/? came along and was able to fix it. But I lost oh, a good 10 hours or so, because I realized the first time I tried it, I uncovered a bug with this tool which completely broke the Civil War questline (I am in contact with the creator of the tool and they were able to reproduce the issue, so hopefully it will be fixed soon) and I had to revert back to before I had used it and take a more advanced targeted approach using that tool to removing the rogue scripts. Game is stable now.
But then (well, around the same time as this was going on, i guess) I finally caved and installed the Unofficial Skyrim Patch. Big mistake. One of the reasons I had been staying away was because it seemed like whenever Bethesda released a patch of their own, if you had the USKP, it would break the game because you then had fixes fighting with eachother. But now that Betheda has stopped patching the game… that issue is gone. But another reason was because I find it too all encompassing, fixing things I don’t think need fixing, and it’s all or nothing. But I installed it hoping it may fix the Civil War issue (it didn’t because it wasn’t a regular game bug) Then discovered it messed up the lighting added by Enhanced Lights and FX and it ‘fixed’ the Necromage vampire… well, I hesitate to call it a bug or an exploit, because I’m pretty sure that Bethesda knows about it and chose to leave it in because *it makes sense*. The Necromage perk simply states that any spells used on an undead target will be 25% more effective, if my character IS undead, why shouldn’t self buff spells be stronger? And I have an absolutely absurd weakness to fire and regen debuff in the sunlight because the debuffs are 25% stronger as well, and as both a Snow Elf and a Vampire, both of which have innate weaknesses to fire which stack… it gets pretty nasty when faced with fire, so it balances out. And I had to buy/grind my way to 70 Restoration to get it, and I almost never use Restoration spells aside from Stendarr’s Aura (which I bought from the Dawnguard by using charm spells on them to stop them from attacking me. hee hee!). So to have the patch ‘fix’ that was very annoying, is what I’m saying. (also they ‘fixed’ the physics of giants hitting you so you don’t fly 100 feet in the air, I mean come on, that was hilarious, why take that out when it only ever happens after you’re dead anyway?) It feels like they ran out of actual bugs to fix, so are moving on to rebalancing the game and sucking some of the charm out of the game, and that’s not what I want from it. I want bugs that break the game fixed, that’s it. Superficial things like lighting, balance issues and the like, no. There are other mods that address lighting glitches in a much better way, and there are other mods out there to rebalance the game in various ways if I wanted to rebalance it, I can use one of them. So yeah, when I reverted back to the old save, I ditched the USKP, and went back to a loose assortment of mods to fix the problems that affect me.
And finally! I collected all 15 Daedric Artifacts needed for Oblivion Walker, and the achievement wouldn’t pop. :( Look, screenshot to prove it: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=152993633 and I didn’t use the console for any of them (I dropped the Oghma Infinium after reading it to i could keep it to display in my house.) so.. I’m pissed off. That was one of the reasons I made Aleddor. I would have let the Skull of Corruption and Mehrunes Dagger get destroyed if I had known it wouldn’t pop anyway. I saved Boethia and Namira’s quests to last so i could just do them quick and get the achievement, then reload before doing them. Vampire or not, Namira’s quest is a step too far for me, so I went there after reloading and slaughtered the lot of them.
Realized i had another backlog of Skyrim screenshots. I like the dragon breathing fire one, it’s just unfortunate the snow went all wonky when i turned on the free camera. :-/ Guess i’ll just have to find another cliff to try and recreate the scene with no snow ;) You may notice most of these were taken at night, and that will likely continue because Aleddor is a vampire now. He CAN go out in sunlight, but he’s way more effective at night, so…. the darkness shall be a continuing theme from now on, though hopefully some nice auroras will turn up. It’s also boosted my sneaking to the point where I’m just slitting throats all through dungeons, so there will probably be fewer fight screenshots going in.
I just realized today I have a TON of screenshots from Skyrim over the past little while, and some are pretty cool. Or maybe just pretty. I ran out of space here so you can see more of the ones featuring my character Aleddor, who is quite fun to play so far, at his Elder Stats page.
I ended up being ported all over Skyrim by quests, first I got shunted up near Windhelm by a Companions quest, then while i was there i got punted down to Markarth by Sanguine’s quest, spent some time there then ended up in a jailbreak and made a run back to Whiterun, there i decided to sit down and finish Sanguine’s quest and join the Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, and (temporarily) the Dawnguard, and FINALLY at, like, level 20, see the Greybeards… so I went to the throat of the World and to Riften to murder an old lady, and then back up to Windhelm when the Dark Brotherhood caught up with me (ironically, just after solving a murder case for the town.) and I woke up near Solitude… I still haven’t finished Sanguine’s quest. But I did do Meridia and Sheogorath’s! I should note that I try to avoid fast travel, so getting shunted all over the damn place is extra annoying. It’s been a rather hectic playthrough, but has provided some nice screenshot opportunities.
So, my new Skyrim character Aleddor fought Mirimulnir (the first dragon you can fight in the game) the other night, and I got some cool screenshots. :)
