Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim - Page 90

On November 06 2011 08:13 Nash wrote:
Will the skill system be as awful as it was in Oblivion? I've tried to find an answer to this before posting to ask but I failed. :/

On November 06 2011 08:56 Celadan wrote:

The real question is wethever the fans will be just as awful in this TES

On November 06 2011 17:38 Nash wrote:


I'm not a fan. I play games that I like and don't play games that I don't like. My question was a simple one.

On November 06 2011 18:12 dormer wrote:


"Is this awful" isn't a very clear question, though. What part of the skill system are you talking about -- major / minor skills, how you level up your skills, how you level in general? All that info should be online already -- someone posted all the skill trees a few pages back, should be here on Reddit, with a lot of talk about how the skills work in general. If it's something else, ask away, someone can probably answer.

On November 06 2011 20:15 Nash wrote:


I looked at that list but those are just names of skills and what the skills do. I don't remember exactly how things worked in Oblivion but I remember having to kind of abuse the system in a way, not picking skills I wanna be good at, trying not to do too much of certain things. I don't know, I just remember the system tying your hands in an awful way (though I enjoyed the game anyway) and I wondered if things are the same now.

On November 06 2011 20:13 Derrida wrote:
Any ideas when steam would let us start downloading parts of the game for those who pre-purchased? I don't have the best connection, I'm scared that it won't dl in time for release.

On November 06 2011 20:41 dormer wrote:


In that case, I know what you mean, and yes, it was awful :-p Or at least, if you wanted to actually gain stats when you leveled so you could keep up with the leveled-up mobs, then yeah. That should be better in Skyrim -- in Oblivion, you leveled after you got 10 major skill-ups. But you also got to increase your base attributes, and you got bigger increases for the more skill-ups in a certain attribute you had. So to get the biggest increases to your attributes, you had to level your minor skills a lot before you leveled your majors and leveled up. Basically every time you leveled, you could increase your attributes by as little as 3 or as much as 15, but the mobs always got steadily stronger.

From what I've read that shouldn't be a problem in Skyrim. There are no attributes like strength, intelligence, etc. -- instead, every time you level you can add 10 points to either health, stamina, or magicka, so every time you level up you get stronger by a set amount. There are also no classes, no major or minor skills, so every skill increase will contribute to leveling up. Basically you should be free to just play how you want and get naturally stronger, and then invest into the skill trees to improve the skills you want to use most.