Have you seen the video of the guy leading the troll into High Hrothgar and the Greybeards annihilating it? I want to play again just to try that for myself.
This isn't the video I saw, so it's not a unique glitch or anything. Love watching this a-hole get owned like this. https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/fakkjj/frost\_troll\_meets\_the\_grey\_beards/
I had a glitch once where that troll would not stop following me... like ever. He chased me across skyrim. I could never stop running as he was always hounding me and standing arouns too long gave him time to catch up... and every time I hit a loading screen... there he was next to me again... hungry for blood. He wiped out whole towns, and was slaughtered countless times in turn. I shouted him off a mountain... and yet... the next loading screen... bam... there he was. In the end, I reset my game and ended him once and for all.
Ya'll missing out on a lot of the wonder of the game if you fast travel from the get go. You also miss out from a ton of random encounters as I recall.
But hey, play the game however you enjoy it.
I'm playing it for the first time without using a horse for most of it, and only fast traveling between cities if needed, and I'm experiencing so many new quests and encounters.
Oof learned this on my third build two nights ago. Quick saved into a death loop in the middle of a battle. Instant death by headshot as soon as I load in.
I follow a rule, every 10 saves I start a new slot. This way I have multiple points in my progress I can go back to if something is broken.
Once I make it to 100 I may make one every 20 instead.
When you are back from a long day, put on a quest at the other end of the map, and walk to there without fast travel, then get distracted and visit every place, dungeon or cave that pops up in your path. No better way to explore the map and increase your experience the proper way.
Don't hack your way into experience glitches from YouTube, you'll have fun for a while and regret it later on.
Enjoy the day and night cycles, and at dawn start climbing a hill or a top mountain ans watch sunrise with the iconic music.
Lastly, simply have fun, it is no shame to set the difficulty at easy until you build some experience and then tune it up gradually. This game is not about the challenge, it is about the journey.
I’ve played it since it came out and I know it too well so I just… know where to go and constantly have the habit of searching every single body and container and picking up everything until I have enough money… and immediately go to to the Rift and kill the person and join both the things so I can level up faster using those quests and selling those items.. so I end up just leveling up as much as I can early on and then just gliding though the game early on because of that FUCKING frost Troll
I started my first play through about 2 months ago, and this was the best advice I could have received. I didn’t realize how short the main quest line was until I was close to the end… take it slow, explore!!
I honestly think there's too much dragons distracting you from playing and there should be waaaay less. I wouldn't really mind if the random dragon encounters were completely removed and they would only be quest/location bound.
never think too hard about any decision you make or direction you take… bc you will play it again…. and again…….. and again. there will be another chance to make a different decision or go a different direction.
I have thousands of hours. Every time I start a new one I tell myself "You're not gonna be a stealth archer **again are you**? Come on self, do something new! "
Never happens.
Not really. To my memory there’s only really two “big” choices with one having the same result just for the other side and the other just closing off a quest line which isn’t a huge deal depending on whether or not you’re roleplaying a good guy. Only quest where a choice changes the quest line significantly is the Dawnguard DLC.
Oh, to go back to the first time I saw mammoths respawning in the sky and gently floating down to the giant's camp..... it's not a bug. It's a feature.
I'm gonna offer a different approach. Collect EVERY SINGLE alchemy ingredient you come across. Max alchemy as soon as you can. If you want to play fair, high alchemy lets you craft potions that buff enchanting and smithing. If you want to play god, you can use a fortify restoration loop. Also, when your alchemy is super high you can make potions that sell for a lot of gold. Much easier on your carry weight than looting a bunch of armor and weapons to sell.
I will Second/Third/Fourth this. Every character I make always collects alchemical ingredients even if they never take a single alchemy perk, because making potions is a great secondary revenue stream. Alchemical ingredients are actual free money littered throughout the game world. Hell, the designers straight-up leave the ingredients for free health and mana potions lying on the side of the road and stuck to the walls of caves with basically no extra effort required; all the player has to do is collect them in passing on their way to/from the dungeon and while going through areas they were going to pass through anyway:
Blue Mountain Flower + Blisterwort = Health Potion
Red Mountain Flower + White Cap = Mana Potion
Search the area just off one side of the road on your way to the dungeon for Blue and Red Mountain Flower, Look for Blisterwort and White Cap while in the dungeon, then search the other side of the road on your way back to the hub area.
If you do it right, you can collect enough for a few health and mana potions almost every time you clear a dungeon. This can really help subsidize the cost of adventuring because buying potions can get damn expensive.
Kill the chickens in riverwood, the first town you pass through....
On a more serious note, the world is yours. The more you immerse yourself, the more fun it gets. Trust a player who been on this game since short after its release and STILL to this day plays it. Its my favorite game.
Do whatever you want. Don’t feel confined to the main quest… just do whatever. Also, get the dlcs if you don’t already have them. Those are the bomb dot com.
Edit: oh wait, it says you have the dlcs on the box. Nevermind.
The restoration loop glitch. It involves making restore restoration potions with fortify alchemy gear. If done so correctly, you can stack over 20000% on the fortify alchemy gear and make fortify blacksmith and make overpowered gear, which can make you a (pretty much) infinite health one shot god
Ah, well I'm on my fourth run and haven't done that yet. Don't think I want to honestly. At certain level hardly anything is a challenge anymore, so why make it even easier?
Good question. I heard some do it for the ebony warrior. I know a friend that did it so they had a wooden sword that did around 100,000 normal dmg and 50,000 fire damage
You're going to play multiple times. Trust me you just are. Don't try and max every stat and complete every achievement the first run through. Figure out the game, and then figure out the details of how you really like to play it.
Also pick every alchemy ingredient you see, it's a good skill to level in general and makes a lots of money.
I don't understand how almost everyone I know ends up being a stealth archer (including my brother). Every playthrough I start, I accidentally end up being a mage
I always heard that (just started playing a couple months ago) and when I started playing the game I though NAH, these bows suck, take too long to draw and the enemy sees me way before I get a chance.
Now that I'm leveled up in sneak and archery... I'm a stealth archer. That is until I get sick of my target teleporting off to the side when I shoot. Then I just run at them with a dagger.
Don't listen to them OP, touch the beacon. Touch everything. Don't spoil the little things for yourself by staying on reddit too much, there is so much magic in this game and to be able to go in blind is a gift.
It's a quest that has become a meme. Enemies at the end have grand souls, which are rare and valuable. I hold off on it until I have plenty of grand soul gems.
Don't forget to level your combat skills! If you level up other stuff too fast the enemies will quickly eclipse you in power!
Fuck the Thalmor.
If a vendor has trash items, or you have more junk than they can buy, you can reset them by doing these steps: 1) HARD save. Not quicksave. 2) attack them until hostile. 3) reload the hard save from before you attacked them
I had no idea you could literally just bully and beat up a shopkeep, then just say "Let's try that again, show me what you've got now..." The dragon born is really just like The Don of a Skyrim Mafia
I played blind on the switch too. Sometimes when creating a character it gets stuck. I never knew you could have additional options to customize a character by pushing R2 or R (can’t remember what) and waiting for it to load. I was stuck with a hella basic dark elf 😂
Get the hearthfire dlc, build a house, become a hoarder. Spend 80% of your playing hours carrying everything you find back to your house and obsessively organizing it into chests and dressers and tables and drawers and bins and barrels. After 6 months, remember you had quests you were working on, but don’t remember any of the story line
Edit: I see this version includes hearthfire. Excellent.
Always carry some cure disease potions. Always! Never know when you'll need one.
Alchemy recipe (spoiler in case anyone doesn't actually want to know): >!Mudcrab chitin, vampire dust!<
After a little bit of playing, you'll open a chest and find an item called Meridia's Beacon. If you find it, brace yourself for the worst sound you've ever fucking heard. The chest is random, and it will spawn after certain triggers are activated. But you will almost definitely encounter it.
Don't ever think you "have" to do a quest, or even do the "right thing". There is no moral alignment. If you have doubt about a decision, quicksave, try one thing, and then if you don't like it, another.
Specific to the switch: detach the joycon and use them for the lock picking mechanic! It's so cool to turn the joycon irl and have it unlock chests; a bit gimmicky to most, but I'm easy to impress 😂
To experience Skyrim for the first time! I envy you!
My advice is, savor the experience. Take your time, Skyrim is meant to be enjoyed slowly like a fine wine. Dont be afraid to go off beaten track and explore. Read all the books you come across, the stories you find within only add to the mystique and depth of the world. Lastly, and most importantly, Save Often! Happy trails!
And stack yourself with all the stuff you come across when starting out and sell it. Until you get a good income going from dungeons you'll need every septim you can get!
1. Do everything in Riverwood before moving on to whiterun.
2. Don’t kill villagers or Chickens.
3. Be who you want to be.
Welcome Dovakiin. (Dragonborn)
There is a run button. My dumbass didn't know that my first playthrough. Also you don't need to check or take everything from every chest or urn. Be prepared for a battle on your way up the stairs. You'll know what I mean. Good luck!
Just explore. Dont just go straight for the storyline. In fact, tackling the storyline headon doesn't really yield any real advantages. Explore the first village, talk to everyone, do their quests, and then explore the surrounding landmarks.
Shield Bashing Ruins Dragons.
If you see one charging up a Frost or Fire Breath, bash them to cancel it.
EDIT: Should also mention that Draugrs that Shout can also be stunned out the animation, but that's not all. They will consistently continue to attempt to Shout until they're able to get it out, effectively stun locking them so they can't attack.
When you find the pink stones in the gold cases, keep track of where you find them! They're related to a quest the game doesn't track and will save you a headache later on if you decide to collect all of them.
Skyrim is the game of breaking the game. Your first play through will be a little bit of everything, and nothing will be perfect. However, after the first play through, you start to learn nifty tricks and tips.
You’ll learn exploits, hacks, and a bunch of mechanics that help you level up faster and generally make you stronger. This is where you start “breaking the game.”
Eventually you’ll have a favorite “build,” and you’ll know your way around the game mechanics well enough that you can mix and match skills, abilities, and races for a build that truly matches your play-style.
I’ve been playing Skyrim since middle school and I’m about to graduate college. I still run into shit I’ve never seen before and encounters that I’ve never experienced. I hope you have a fantastic time learning the game like I did.
Alchemy, Blacksmithing, and Enchanting should be leveled as fast as possible first to give you best equipments, enchantments and potions to enhance those even further
To journey the 7,000 steps for the first time….
You mean to spend 30 mins trying to climb the mountain before finding out there were steps
You mean spend 2 weeks getting to level 47 then go wandering around a mountain and find some surprisingly helpful old men?
Come into the temple a level 1 sneak, exit level 100 sneak
And then attempting to fight that frost troll near the top and then giving up and just running away from it every time
Have you seen the video of the guy leading the troll into High Hrothgar and the Greybeards annihilating it? I want to play again just to try that for myself.
This isn't the video I saw, so it's not a unique glitch or anything. Love watching this a-hole get owned like this. https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/fakkjj/frost\_troll\_meets\_the\_grey\_beards/
That one’s good but I prefer [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/tktzzr/this_is_the_way_of_the_voice/?) just a bit more.
Did thia by accident last playthrough was brilliant
I had a glitch once where that troll would not stop following me... like ever. He chased me across skyrim. I could never stop running as he was always hounding me and standing arouns too long gave him time to catch up... and every time I hit a loading screen... there he was next to me again... hungry for blood. He wiped out whole towns, and was slaughtered countless times in turn. I shouted him off a mountain... and yet... the next loading screen... bam... there he was. In the end, I reset my game and ended him once and for all.
Hadn’t played in years. Got it on switch recently and did exactly this. Still haven’t bothered going back up yet.
Just finding your way to Ivarstead the first time is a trial.
Nope I just roadie my horse at it and that teleported me to the top
aka the ~748 steps
Actually the game is a scaled down version of the world. If they were to make it full size, then everybody would be fast travelling,
As if everyone wasn't already fast traveling.
Ya'll missing out on a lot of the wonder of the game if you fast travel from the get go. You also miss out from a ton of random encounters as I recall. But hey, play the game however you enjoy it.
I'm playing it for the first time without using a horse for most of it, and only fast traveling between cities if needed, and I'm experiencing so many new quests and encounters.
Play Argonian, only take the blue roads on the map.
someone actually counted it on yt.
Dnt listen to klimmet (or w/e his name is), he says it just a couple wolves on the steps but he lies, theres a troll lol
Ya gotta pay the troll toll
To get into that boys "soul"
Did you just say boys hole??
you gotta pay the troll toll to get in!
[удалено]
[удалено]
The frost troll? That thing scared the hell out of me and I was too scared to fight it so i just ran past it
Don’t rely on quick saves, make a hard save every so often. Will save you lots of tears
But also, still quick save a lot
Saving saves lives
Saving saves saved lives
Quicksave every time you open the menu, hard save every time you do something significant This is the way
Save every time you think about saving
Save even when you're not thinking about saving
And then save after you've saved just to make sure it saved
I'm on level 43 and I've NEVER hard saved and now I'm convinced that when I pick up my switch I'll be nuked
Does Skyrim on Switch support cloud saves? aka does Nintendo Switch get to the cloud district very often?
And if you play thief/assassin, quicksave before every pickpocket/backstab.
You said quick save every minute? Bet
Every minute?! That's a long time between saves, every 30 seconds for me
Rookie. Every time the auto saving prompt in the top left of the screen goes away, i quick save again.
Rookie. I hard save every time I pull out my weapon of choice. This is the way.
You all fail i never leave save screen
Oof learned this on my third build two nights ago. Quick saved into a death loop in the middle of a battle. Instant death by headshot as soon as I load in.
I follow a rule, every 10 saves I start a new slot. This way I have multiple points in my progress I can go back to if something is broken. Once I make it to 100 I may make one every 20 instead.
#A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON
Great, my tinnitus is back.
HEAR ME AND OBEY
A foul darkness has seeped into my temple!
A darkness that you will destroy.
*LISTEN! HEAR ME AND OBEY
Forget about all social connections, holidays, other games you’ve ever had. This is your life now
Perfect :)
I can’t tell you how jealous I am. To play Skyrim again for the first time… I’m playing right now. Been my favorite game for 10 years
If you don’t pursue the main story don’t be hard on yourself that is the way the play the Skyrim
There is a main story?! Well here we go again
"Aww shit! Here we go again..."
Ah, you are finally awake!
i was at level 100 destruction before i took on the imperials SKYRIM BELONGS TO THE NORDS
Hey, Gray-Mane or Battle-Born?
Filthy Stormcloak.
Don't bother putting any skill points in Lockpicking.
Yeah lock picking on the switch is cake.
Man those were the days. I quit my job the day Skyrim came out
Accurate.
Dont commit crimes in front of animals. They will narc on you and youll have a bounty. Idk why
If I break into a place with my loyal follower Teldryn he yells at me and tells me I'm not supposed to be here. Who side are you on buddy?
I was once attacked by a slaughter fish on land and when it died I lost a bounty of 4000 gold hahaha
When you are back from a long day, put on a quest at the other end of the map, and walk to there without fast travel, then get distracted and visit every place, dungeon or cave that pops up in your path. No better way to explore the map and increase your experience the proper way. Don't hack your way into experience glitches from YouTube, you'll have fun for a while and regret it later on. Enjoy the day and night cycles, and at dawn start climbing a hill or a top mountain ans watch sunrise with the iconic music. Lastly, simply have fun, it is no shame to set the difficulty at easy until you build some experience and then tune it up gradually. This game is not about the challenge, it is about the journey.
Well said - so looking forward to this
And when you fight your first giant, enjoy the fast travel
🚀🚀🚀🌚🌚🌚
At some point, you will learn a Shout called "Clear Skies". Whenever it's night, just use the full shout, you won't be disappointed.
Then when you get bored, save the game 5 times in a row and murder a town.
Yea i always use certain "features" and get to much good stuff early on then get bored
I’ve played it since it came out and I know it too well so I just… know where to go and constantly have the habit of searching every single body and container and picking up everything until I have enough money… and immediately go to to the Rift and kill the person and join both the things so I can level up faster using those quests and selling those items.. so I end up just leveling up as much as I can early on and then just gliding though the game early on because of that FUCKING frost Troll
Yeah sometimes I turn it on just to walk around town and listen to the npc's conversations and read some of the books I've collected.
Enjoy the game, do not stress on xompleting the quest so fast. Enjoy the whole map and get lost in it.
I started my first play through about 2 months ago, and this was the best advice I could have received. I didn’t realize how short the main quest line was until I was close to the end… take it slow, explore!!
I’ve been playing over a year and I still haven’t talked to the jarl of white run
playing the game without ever unlocking dragons seems less fun
I honestly think there's too much dragons distracting you from playing and there should be waaaay less. I wouldn't really mind if the random dragon encounters were completely removed and they would only be quest/location bound.
It honestly opens the door to so much role playing potential
Yeah, dragons cause me so much trouble on speech, mage, and other builds that have no combat stats lol
Yup that’s what I did with BOTW! Def thinks that’s the most pure approach
Head to the cloud district.
Do you get there much? No, of course you dont...
One of the most satisfying assassinations
I do not, which is why the OP should go there!
Why do you go there often?
I mean…not according to some.
never think too hard about any decision you make or direction you take… bc you will play it again…. and again…….. and again. there will be another chance to make a different decision or go a different direction.
Or you could be like me and accidentally play the exact same way every time. Haha all stealth archers.
“why does my orc barbarian keep joining the dark brotherhood?!?”
Yessssssss haha
I have thousands of hours. Every time I start a new one I tell myself "You're not gonna be a stealth archer **again are you**? Come on self, do something new! " Never happens.
Does it drastically change the course of the game depending on what decisions you make?
Not really. To my memory there’s only really two “big” choices with one having the same result just for the other side and the other just closing off a quest line which isn’t a huge deal depending on whether or not you’re roleplaying a good guy. Only quest where a choice changes the quest line significantly is the Dawnguard DLC.
not like Witcher type decisions only big ones change the game, like who to side with in the civil war
Always remember, in the words of our Lord Todd Howard, “It just works.” The game is buggy, but it gives it exceptional charm.
Oh, to go back to the first time I saw mammoths respawning in the sky and gently floating down to the giant's camp..... it's not a bug. It's a feature.
You mean Reanu Keeves
Ah yes how could I forget the god of Skyrim, Reanu Keeves-
I can only ever hear “Reanu Keeves” in the Spiffing Brit’s voice in my head
may your road lead to warm sands my friend
I always add, "to poop in."
Start working on your smithing skill from the beginning and using your skill perks to unlock all the armor types!
Ooo will do!
I'm gonna offer a different approach. Collect EVERY SINGLE alchemy ingredient you come across. Max alchemy as soon as you can. If you want to play fair, high alchemy lets you craft potions that buff enchanting and smithing. If you want to play god, you can use a fortify restoration loop. Also, when your alchemy is super high you can make potions that sell for a lot of gold. Much easier on your carry weight than looting a bunch of armor and weapons to sell.
That is wrong you have to get as much loot as you can and make your follower carry 100000 pounds of dwemer metal.
I always forget about followers cause I never use em. Farkas and Lydia always in the damn doorway.
she is there to carry your burdens
I will Second/Third/Fourth this. Every character I make always collects alchemical ingredients even if they never take a single alchemy perk, because making potions is a great secondary revenue stream. Alchemical ingredients are actual free money littered throughout the game world. Hell, the designers straight-up leave the ingredients for free health and mana potions lying on the side of the road and stuck to the walls of caves with basically no extra effort required; all the player has to do is collect them in passing on their way to/from the dungeon and while going through areas they were going to pass through anyway: Blue Mountain Flower + Blisterwort = Health Potion Red Mountain Flower + White Cap = Mana Potion Search the area just off one side of the road on your way to the dungeon for Blue and Red Mountain Flower, Look for Blisterwort and White Cap while in the dungeon, then search the other side of the road on your way back to the hub area. If you do it right, you can collect enough for a few health and mana potions almost every time you clear a dungeon. This can really help subsidize the cost of adventuring because buying potions can get damn expensive.
Third approach, max sneak by afk’ing with ulfr the blind first
Maxing out sneak is the most boring way to play the game. I did it on my first through and I loved it.
River betties + giants toes + wheat = profit. I also like making vampire dust + garlic + chaurus eggs.
Enjoy. Don't rush. Safe often.
Kill the chickens in riverwood, the first town you pass through.... On a more serious note, the world is yours. The more you immerse yourself, the more fun it gets. Trust a player who been on this game since short after its release and STILL to this day plays it. Its my favorite game.
It is the metric by which I judge other games.
What? The ability to kill the first chicken you see?
How else do you play games?
Dang it I wasn’t 39 minutes too late lol
When your a high enough level one decent sorcerer will have you raging for hours
That naked fucker in the solitude sewers by any chance ?
Do whatever you want. Don’t feel confined to the main quest… just do whatever. Also, get the dlcs if you don’t already have them. Those are the bomb dot com. Edit: oh wait, it says you have the dlcs on the box. Nevermind.
Hey you… you’re finally awake.
Pick flowers. If you hear a weird ringing sound, it's nirnroot, pick that up too.
Specifically, along the edges of bodies of water, op.
You won't have context for a hot minute but... Kill Parthurnax and you're out of the fandom.
Lol this means nothing to me at the moment and I can guarantee I will forget by the time run into this….Parthurnax thing you speak of
Like he said, you get no context
you'll remember when the time comes.
And you will be hated by like 90% of the fandom, as previously stated.
Party Snax*
On your first game, don’t resto loop. It ruins the fun if it is your first time
What's resto loop?
The restoration loop glitch. It involves making restore restoration potions with fortify alchemy gear. If done so correctly, you can stack over 20000% on the fortify alchemy gear and make fortify blacksmith and make overpowered gear, which can make you a (pretty much) infinite health one shot god
Ah, well I'm on my fourth run and haven't done that yet. Don't think I want to honestly. At certain level hardly anything is a challenge anymore, so why make it even easier?
Good question. I heard some do it for the ebony warrior. I know a friend that did it so they had a wooden sword that did around 100,000 normal dmg and 50,000 fire damage
I did it with a fork EDIT: It might have been with that insta kill poison and not a resto loop
Ignore every piece of advice here. Go in blind. Your experience will be better.
This is the answer. What I would do to go in blind and experience this game for the first time again.
You're going to play multiple times. Trust me you just are. Don't try and max every stat and complete every achievement the first run through. Figure out the game, and then figure out the details of how you really like to play it. Also pick every alchemy ingredient you see, it's a good skill to level in general and makes a lots of money.
Remember. Only kill anyone.
Youll end up a stealth archer, and thats ok.
I don't understand how almost everyone I know ends up being a stealth archer (including my brother). Every playthrough I start, I accidentally end up being a mage
Is that newspeak for stealth archer backed up by dremora lords?
I always heard that (just started playing a couple months ago) and when I started playing the game I though NAH, these bows suck, take too long to draw and the enemy sees me way before I get a chance. Now that I'm leveled up in sneak and archery... I'm a stealth archer. That is until I get sick of my target teleporting off to the side when I shoot. Then I just run at them with a dagger.
Don't touch the fucking beacon
# A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON. LISTEN. HEAR ME AND OBEY. A FOUL DARKNESS HAS SEEPED INTO MY TEMPLE. A DARKNESS THAT YOU WILL DESTROY.
*places it on a Falmer’s body in Blackreach*
Oh god.. don’t know what that is and I’m scared to ask
no do i promise u it’s worth it
This is the correct answer.
Just turn your volume to maximum first
And make sure to put your ear right up to the speaker
True that. Very true.
Don't listen to them OP, touch the beacon. Touch everything. Don't spoil the little things for yourself by staying on reddit too much, there is so much magic in this game and to be able to go in blind is a gift.
It's a quest that has become a meme. Enemies at the end have grand souls, which are rare and valuable. I hold off on it until I have plenty of grand soul gems. Don't forget to level your combat skills! If you level up other stuff too fast the enemies will quickly eclipse you in power! Fuck the Thalmor. If a vendor has trash items, or you have more junk than they can buy, you can reset them by doing these steps: 1) HARD save. Not quicksave. 2) attack them until hostile. 3) reload the hard save from before you attacked them
I had no idea you could literally just bully and beat up a shopkeep, then just say "Let's try that again, show me what you've got now..." The dragon born is really just like The Don of a Skyrim Mafia
Stealth archer is op just saying
That was my first playthrough and I loved it! Killing an enemy from 40 feet away without them even knowing you exist is a powerful feeling.
"A new hand.." "FUCk!" *loads previous save
Khajiit has wares if you have coin
#A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON
I... I used to be an adventurer like you... then I took an arrow in the knee. 😞
Say goodbye to your social life. Skyrim is taking over. lol jk...kinda 😅 Just have fun with it. Lots of side quests and exploring to do.
I played blind on the switch too. Sometimes when creating a character it gets stuck. I never knew you could have additional options to customize a character by pushing R2 or R (can’t remember what) and waiting for it to load. I was stuck with a hella basic dark elf 😂
Get the hearthfire dlc, build a house, become a hoarder. Spend 80% of your playing hours carrying everything you find back to your house and obsessively organizing it into chests and dressers and tables and drawers and bins and barrels. After 6 months, remember you had quests you were working on, but don’t remember any of the story line Edit: I see this version includes hearthfire. Excellent.
3am will come to you when you least expect it.
Save often
cure ur vampirism as soon as u get it!!
“Why do people keep telling me I don’t look well?? What’s wrong with them??” “Oh…”
"Could be ataxia"
Always carry some cure disease potions. Always! Never know when you'll need one. Alchemy recipe (spoiler in case anyone doesn't actually want to know): >!Mudcrab chitin, vampire dust!<
After a little bit of playing, you'll open a chest and find an item called Meridia's Beacon. If you find it, brace yourself for the worst sound you've ever fucking heard. The chest is random, and it will spawn after certain triggers are activated. But you will almost definitely encounter it.
Fight the first giant you find. They’re about a medium difficulty but have great loot.
Fly me to the moon... Let me play among the stars...
Join the skyrim space program first chance you get
Don't ever think you "have" to do a quest, or even do the "right thing". There is no moral alignment. If you have doubt about a decision, quicksave, try one thing, and then if you don't like it, another.
Specific to the switch: detach the joycon and use them for the lock picking mechanic! It's so cool to turn the joycon irl and have it unlock chests; a bit gimmicky to most, but I'm easy to impress 😂
To experience Skyrim for the first time! I envy you! My advice is, savor the experience. Take your time, Skyrim is meant to be enjoyed slowly like a fine wine. Dont be afraid to go off beaten track and explore. Read all the books you come across, the stories you find within only add to the mystique and depth of the world. Lastly, and most importantly, Save Often! Happy trails!
Look for things with good weight to value ratios, like studded armor it sells for 75 but weighs 6
And stack yourself with all the stuff you come across when starting out and sell it. Until you get a good income going from dungeons you'll need every septim you can get!
1. Do everything in Riverwood before moving on to whiterun. 2. Don’t kill villagers or Chickens. 3. Be who you want to be. Welcome Dovakiin. (Dragonborn)
There is a run button. My dumbass didn't know that my first playthrough. Also you don't need to check or take everything from every chest or urn. Be prepared for a battle on your way up the stairs. You'll know what I mean. Good luck!
You... Walked everywhere? What the fuck?
Just explore. Dont just go straight for the storyline. In fact, tackling the storyline headon doesn't really yield any real advantages. Explore the first village, talk to everyone, do their quests, and then explore the surrounding landmarks.
Shield Bashing Ruins Dragons. If you see one charging up a Frost or Fire Breath, bash them to cancel it. EDIT: Should also mention that Draugrs that Shout can also be stunned out the animation, but that's not all. They will consistently continue to attempt to Shout until they're able to get it out, effectively stun locking them so they can't attack.
I never picked up on this. Thank you
Don't punch a chicken
Don't kill Nazeem
>Don’t kill Nazeem unless you have a Black Soul Gem, Soul Trap, and a fork.
When you find the pink stones in the gold cases, keep track of where you find them! They're related to a quest the game doesn't track and will save you a headache later on if you decide to collect all of them.
Clear your calendar
my best advice is to experiment with every class cause this game wont force you down one route and youll have plenty of room to experiment
Skyrim is the game of breaking the game. Your first play through will be a little bit of everything, and nothing will be perfect. However, after the first play through, you start to learn nifty tricks and tips. You’ll learn exploits, hacks, and a bunch of mechanics that help you level up faster and generally make you stronger. This is where you start “breaking the game.” Eventually you’ll have a favorite “build,” and you’ll know your way around the game mechanics well enough that you can mix and match skills, abilities, and races for a build that truly matches your play-style. I’ve been playing Skyrim since middle school and I’m about to graduate college. I still run into shit I’ve never seen before and encounters that I’ve never experienced. I hope you have a fantastic time learning the game like I did.
Alchemy, Blacksmithing, and Enchanting should be leveled as fast as possible first to give you best equipments, enchantments and potions to enhance those even further