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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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.

the real so and so's are the sabre tooth snow leopard thingies that sneak up and swat you down the sides of mountain passes, one caught me a good un and I literally skidded to my death.....

From what people said on here the horse mod sounds useful, not that I have one yet. They sound very unhorselike without it.

 

I also increase the FOV as I find it too narrow on my monitor. Might be different on a widescreen monitor.

Right all this chat, I'm off to play it right now Level 20 and I still havent seen the GreyBeards to continue the main quest as I'm having so much fun with the side quests, oh and watch out for being turned into a vampire, hint : always use a shrine after every major mission if you get to stage 4 vamparism everyone npc attacks you on sight and you need to get the cure which is a pain and a fiddle :)

I dunno, I increase it to 85 on my monitor (27", 16:9 ratio) which makes it a lot less claustrophobic.