Happy Thanksgiving! Thank some turkeys on my behalf!

Thanks! I will thank them with my teeth!

The only thanks they understand.

I've only been playing this for 1.5 hours so far :( Wives and daughters take up too much of my time.

 

Looks like there might be a couple of useful mods to use including one which makes the inventory easier to navigate. I was finding it difficult just to know what was selected so will give that a go. Also one for arachnophobics which turns spiders into bears :?

 

I'm sure I'll put plenty of hours into it and never finish it like Oblivion, Fallout 3 and FO:NV.

What it really needs is a way to assign pairs of weapons/spells to a single key.

Yes, I totally agree. I assigned my fire hands to 1 and my sword to 2 and was confused when I ended up with a sword in one hand and one on fire. I thought maybe I could add a shield to 3 so I could press 2 and 3 but after pressing 1 again I was back to fire/sword with 3 unassigned.

If you mark things as favourites, you can just press Q and mix and match to your heart's desire. I realise this pauses the action, but it's a start.

That's true. And maybe I'm too impatient to want to wait instead of pressing a key to switch to what I want, or just used to playing where you can. Or I want to do things quickly as I don't tend to have much time to play each time.

Maybe this would be of some help. http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1741

 

I think it allows binding weapons/magic to ,. and [] for left and right hands. I expect it would be more useful for cursor key users rather than wasd.

There's a very stupid bug/glitch that I've found, where if you assign a spell to your first hand there's no way to unequip it or equip another spell there. If you try to select/unequip the same spell, it just toggles between one-handed and two-handed, and if you select another spell it always puts it in the left hand. In order to change your right-hand spell you need to go to items, equip and unequip a weapon to leave your right empty, then pick the spell you want in your right hand.

 

Pain in the ass for a mage character.

Skyrim 1.2 patch tomorrow.

That's what the mod that I linked to earlier does. Not quite what I thought. If you are in the magic/items menus (not sure about favourites) you can press [ and ] to equip specific things to each hand.

I've applied a few mods. First one makes the horses more cowardly. They'll still rush into battle, but will run away after taking a couple of hits and will retreat to a safe distance. Also applied the inventory mod. It's a MASSIVE improvement over the Bethesda interface. Not perfect mind you and very much in preliminary stages of completion, but it's a big step forward.

Also applied a couple that allow you to smelt down certain items at the smith and make arrows and the likes there.

How thoughtful of you to mention these handy sounding mods and not link to them.

Got them all from here:

 

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/25/skyrim-mods-the-20-best-so-far/

Cheers. I can never be arsed to trawl through mod sites looking for decent ones, i much prefer it when someone does the work for me and makes a handy list.

Giants are off limits until way later in the game when you are level 30 plus :)

Aye, I've got to the stage where I can take a giant out in 3 arrows. I always feel a bit guilty about it, though.

 

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thanks now amended as no longer there

At the start of the game after Riverwood I went for a wander and saw a giant. I didn't realise he would attack me as soon as I went over to him to.I went to say hi. One swing of his swingy thing and I was dead straight away.

 

Slightly further on I saw another giant attacking some wolves so I went to help. He started on me instead so I ran to a nearby fort where there was an evelated walkway where he couldnt get to me and killed.him off with my flaming hands.