This is Why You Should Play Skyrim on Master Difficulty Ep. 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Stop being a wimp! Turn that difficulty up to Master! The merciless enemies will force you to stop and think about every encounter instead of charging in head-first and spamming your attack.
Be a Dovahkiin with a brain!
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You'll be playing it for +20 years anyway, so what's the big deal ?
True. I guess its just too much, there are things you still must do in the land of reality, the struggle in life is real lol
Looks to me like reason NOT to play on Master. Making the enemies damage sponges and nearly one shoting you does not sound fun to me
For real. People who act like you're lesser because you don't play on the highest difficulty are insufferable. Who the fuck cares? How pathetic does someone's life have to be where playing a video game on a high difficulty is an achievement
Yeah no. I’m not wasting the 15 deadric arrows that I’ve found in my 500+ hours of this game of the past 3 years on a drauger that gives me iron boots and 35 gold when it drops.
There are many kinds of players and none are better than another. Just different. My latest playthrough has been entirely on legendary, but I went heavily into crafting, which puts my weapons and armour on par with most enemies. I'm lvl 97 with full dragon armour and one handed weapons. Also use a bow and some magic for buffs and conjuration/healing. All my gear is upgraded to legendary and dual enchanted, using armor and potions to make smithing and enchanting more powerful. If I played on a lower difficulty I would just one or two hit everything but the leveled enemies and even many of those cap at like 50 or 65...when I don't feel like crafting I generally play on expert. Otherwise it's just plain annoying and really breaks immersion. If I played PC I would just use mods...really want a nice PC lol. My laptop just doesn't cut it
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George Washington Entertainment I know right? Who cares about story and things like that right? I need it to be overly hard to prove I’m awesome! Right bro?!
"...and be a Dovahkiin with a brain"
*Proceeds to run into a swinging trap afterwards, running away from an enemy*
Lores pretty fucking sure that was to demonstrate you can win a fight in more than one way. But hey I may be wrong
Look, I know his point was to make the trap damage the draugr, but he himself got almost killed by it, so...
My thoughts exactly. Thruth is that skyrim combat can't be perfect without mods. Either you are immortal or your enemies are. I'd prefer if both you and the enemy were relatively easy to kill so that the superior tactician wins
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I had to download a mod which fixed the crappy damage multiplier. Master difficulty merely makes enemies do 3x more damage to you, while you only do about 1/4 of your regular damage output, which makes for tedious battles with enemies who seem to take way too many hits to kill.
At least let me retain my base damage output, so that I can kill enemies if I'm being tactical, not because I played "find the exploit" with the most basic enemy for 20 minutes..
Firion316 plenty of good mods for changing how enemies respond and variety of enemies which is much more fun then just make you weaker and them stronger.
storm golem has 100% damage reflect
Holy Nexus Mods what would be do without you.
yeah, exactly. so cringey when people think theyre the shit for playing the crappy game that vanilla skyrim is on master difficulty
I always mod the game to make it so both my enemies and I die easily to everything. That way you and your enemies aren't damage sponges, traps actually become treacherous, and you have to take care with how you approach your enemies.
(You also don't waste as much time when you inevitably get killed by an out of view enemy or trap.)
Too bad the combat in Elder Scrolls games is complete trash, so upping the difficulty really only leads to longer, more tedious fights.
well combat didn't matter in arena to morrowind, but with all those good rpg elements stripped out; they might actually make a good combat system. fingers crossed anyway
high difficulty is trash, if you suck at the game cause you're garbage, also if you're not using your brain, equipping a dagger, like this one, would totally prove that
With an actual fucking chance at dying. If you're playing below Master you might as well toggle godmode
No, you take more damage aswell, so it is far from the same. Not particularly interesting unless you have a nice build and it is only hard if you don't level properly.
noneyabusiness the fights really aren't that tedious. They are longer but not by too much.
I know this video's super duper old, but thanks for opening my eyes. I'll give this a shot.
Nice video on the difference in difficulty options in Skyrim. I really enjoyed your use of your enviroment after watching you spamming the dagger atk. Keep up the good work.
To be honest just use a combat mod so that they take less hits making it more realistic but you also take less hits. There are loads of good combat mods out there
Liam Wyssling if only I had a good PC...or an xbox one lol. Still playing on 360. Too many fricken bills lol
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When there is an draugr death overlord it wont be so funny anymore
1: I like the immersion first person brings
2: I like the immersion the amount of realism having to hit enemies a realistic amount of times brings.
3: I like the immersion that you can shoot them there pots and make fire.
Master Difficulty forces you to think *runs into swinging axe*
Dovahkin with brains understands that life is more fun when enemies die easily
Master also punishes you pretty hard for “speed leveling”, especially in noncombat skills, or skills that you don’t utilize.
That drauger deathlord isn’t going to care about your full skill tree in speech. He also isn’t going to care about your level 100 restoration unless you actually utilize expert and master restoration spells like turn undead stuff and circle of protection.
I will ALWAYS play on the easiest level possible. Sue me.
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I used to do that too but I wanted to be the very best, like no one ever was... so i started playing on medium because I still kinda suck :) I might move to the higher difficulties if I git gud at video games but I doubt I'll get much better than this sooo medium it is. I mean once after attempting the first mission in MW3 on the highest difficulty over and over I eventually was able to breeze through without dying because I knew all the scripted events and hid behind cover like a little wuss most of the time occasionally peeking to kill any enemies that moved up and throw back grenades but after that it was right back to sucking so i reverted to medium, that was that one time though.
My looped dovahkiin music came back to play right in the moment that the MASTER DRAUGR sheated his ancient daedric weapon.
(Sarcasm up there.)
This is more like “why you should play more creatively”. It’s less about the difficulty, let’s be honest, it’s more about how willing you are to experiment and have fun
I think you can still spam fire magic on hardest difficulty
No you fucking cant ,cause magica drains faster on higher diificulty and damage is just pathetic. If you want to survive you gotta abuse follower ,or get stuck in towns and do busines to level up skills like enchntment ,smithing ,alchemia and make op gear.
Magica drains faster? Are you sure about that
And thats why you mod the shit out of your game *insert Kappa*
At least install a mod which restores the Dovakiin's damage output to a base of 1, rather than nerfing it to 0.25. I can deal with enemies doing 3x damage on legendary, but killing my output is just lazy.
Алексей Мартынов bruh. I have a mage build lvl 63 with all magical skill 100. And get your self 25%reduction to cast destruction spells. Plus add this enchantment to ring, necklace, buy master destructioj robes. Making 72% less to cast plus grab nahkriin mkin 92% reduction
I do role-playing on legendary - choose a backstory, and a class, like a Thalmor mage, and try to act accordingly. No bow and arrow, no stealth, no shouts, just mage skills. Just to get some challenge.
In the beginning I would mostly be a healer for Lydia, but increasingly the follower would be a less useful punching bag allowing me to charge my increasingly powerful spells at a distance.
I created my own (much needed) potions, which is also an extremely fast way to make money, btw.
Also, the illusion magic became very useful pretty quick, because battles last forever on legendary, so you want to avoid what you can.
Master is good until a dragon you're fighting kills half a town
So master difficulty in Skyrim is basically easy in Dark Souls
W0w are you telling me higher difficulties make the game more challenging?! You must be a genius.
On anything lower than expert, skyrim becomes a glorified button-masher
+ScoriaTerraria To be honest, higher vanilla difficulties are just as bad, it takes forever to kill anyone. However there are some great mods that fix it
***** I only think that's the problem with LEGENDARY, expert and master though is a perfect balance, adept is also okay.
+Rafał Sobczyk Yeah definitely, this video was made back in 2011, many many mods have come out since then that improves the difficulty curve and adds some challenges to the game, bumping up the difficulty setting in-game is no longer the best option to go
Inserts Pure Mage Build
Master difficulty = button mash more.
forces you to be dovahkiin and use brain - has nothing on his chest
I installed the "Dark Souls Combat" mod which makes enemies deal way more damage but you do as well, so you have to play tactically.
The thing about Skyrim difficulty is basically the damage multipliers, at adept player and enemy deal 1x dmg to each other, and at legendary(1 tier above master) player dmg is only 0.25 effective while the damage to player is multiplied by 3. So I guess the changes can be considered quite lazy.
The dagger is what hurt me the most. I can't trust anyone who is using a dagger but isn't even sneaking
I feel like this guy was having trouble on apprentice, and when he switched it to master. It took him 4 days to get out of bleak falls barrow😂
There are other parts of the game which aren't playable on master because there are like 50 Draugr Lords :/
I play skyrim to feel like a badass adventurer/assassin/warrior/werewolf/archer/mage/thief/vampire. I don't play for the challenge, I play to relax and immerse myself.
Playing on master forces you to get better at the game? What an amazing fucking revelation.
Put even some basic iron armor can be so crucial early on, since there isnt any downsides of wearing heavy armor unless you are stealthing, just stack them up and blacksmithing perk will carry the game
This is why you use a combat mod that makes enemies have logical health yet do lots of damage. I suggest multiple combat mods to make you and enemies have to commit on attacks and get punished for bad moves but great reward for smart plays.
Definetely the best difficulty, not easy, and not too hard.
You will be force to think and be well prepare before any battle, just like any RPG and you will learn to use all element around you to fight
Moral of the story: be a sneaky Archer.
Ah yes, you can spam even more because enemies have stupidly high health pools, truly the pinnacle of gameplay.
Who can kill a mortal with the blood and soul of a dragon?
A couple deado's, probably.
The only thing dragon blood does is allowing you to use shouts, so yeah, swords cut through flesh and loss of blood kills.
Master difficulty forces you to do a lot of things...
Just started playing skyrim today , stumble upon this video after 15 minutes of extremely easy game . Gonna change difficulty right now and fight till the end .
Kate pro good luck mate
It requires a bit more patience than I have to play on master to begin with. Like accepting that I absolutely must give up at the end of a dungeon because of a dreadlord or something is not so great. But once I get a little stronger it's perfect
Yeah it makes the game harder what a discovery
I always felt Expert is a good middle ground between difficulty/realism and fun, especially with a few combat mods mixed in
I played it on Legendary. 28 hours in and i still have to return the Jurgen windcrawler
Dragons dont become a problem on master/legendary if you have the shield "Spellbreaker". It creates a magic ward when you block that absorbs all spells... including dragons fire!
Except for the fact that it isn't realistic in the slightest.
Nothing in these games is realistic, if anything, it makes up for the fact that you can kill armored enemies and skeletons with sword cuts.
+RageWolf What about the fact that a single bandit can now kill you with one or two hits, while you have to spend around a minute hacking away?
Ashley Percival You are talking about legendary mode right now. It isn't like that at all on master
+Fuck Logic But either way, enemies are dealing way too much damage compared to the player. Don't get me wrong; I'm all for things like Survival Mode on Fallout 4 where only a few hits can kill you, but only if the same can be said for the enemies.
Though for things like Draugr, I would still say that it should take a lot more to take them down. They are, after all, zombies with swords.
What about the fact that in Normal a fucking scary draugr in an ancestral Nordi dungeon is as easily destroyed by your unskilled Lvl 1 adventurer as a dumbass bandit in the wild ?
Dragon priests on master difficult nooo, nope, no sirrree bob!!
i’ve loved all bethesda products since oblivion, but i just don’t have time for master level strategy. i’d be playing that game into retirement (and falling asleep after a 20” session). you keep your challenges youngsters, i want progression and power!!
So everything becomes a bullet sponge that shoots trucks?
Expert is the best if you are not a stealth character. I have an orc battlemage, fusing close combat with magic, and it's so much fun. I can fight against any type of enemies, but in the early game I always avoided dragons, bandit chiefs and strong mages. Every fight needs careful planning and tactics, but it's not tediously difficult.
Dovakhin with brain run into traps twice lol
I challenge you to use your smart dovakhin brain against a mage
In my personal oppinion, adept is the best possible difficulty. Not as hard at start, but with time it became harder and harder. At 30-100 lvl it offers decent challenge without wasting much of your time.
"Dovakhin with the brain" ©
Trying to block attacks with the dagger. SMOrc
Nah I don't feel like hitting certain enemies for 20 minutes just for them to one shot me.
I usually end up switching to expert difficulty because some of the boss battles/ mini boss battles are completely impossible with my play style on master difficulty.
Draugr are designed to be spammable. It's the Wights and Deathlord's that are supposed to challenge you. I'm on Adept at around lvl 25 and a Deathlord can still one-shot me.
On my switch I didn’t notice it was on master difficulty and I still found it easy, I was just so used to playing easy and never really noticed until later when it started to actually get hard and I still enjoyed the challenge
I agree 100%, Master is the best difficulty. Legendary is fine, but sometimes when you have to stab a shirtless bandit 30 times in the chest before he goes down, it gets a little tedious, not to mention unrealistic. Another fun way to play is to go on Expert but just keep your army deliberately bad. You still have to think and plan engagements, but both you and your enemies take a good chunk of damage. Much like I assume real melee combat would be, taking an axe to the chest is seriously harmful.
2x damage both ways is the sweet spot. Fights are fast and brutal and one false step or missed arrow is the difference between your life and the bandit's. Magic is especially deadly if you have no resistance to it.
Nope, I'm fine with being a wimp, thanks.
>Uses single steal dagger without shield and no heavy armor
See guys? It does like no damage and you die right away!
playing skyrim on legendary is extremely recommended for those who have already mastered the game in terms of "where can i find said spell or follower"; "how does certain enemies act", "wich skills are good to have early one and how am i supposed to level them up". and its a good thing btw, because you can put all that experience you gained when joining a new game for any reasons.
otherwise, just play it casually - there is nothing worse than trying to learn something new when the difficulty cap is at its highests (remminds me when my friend tagged with me and started playing dota's bot on the most hellish mode; couldnt farm or set foot to the lanes; hell how was i supposed to learn anything if you are kept dead for good?).
I play on legendary with a combat mod, now the player and the enemies deal more damage. That makes it important to avoid getting damage, because a single hit can kill you, but at the same time, fights are so quicker now.
Yes, increasing the dificulty in a game will increase the dificulty
I immidiately jumped into master when I first played the remaster on ps4 and conquered it. That being said, i died soooo many times early on until i found a route with low level enemies that led me in a spiral around Skyrim.
Seems like master difficulty also forces you to level up your restoration…
So it’s harder and tactics used on early level enemies don’t work in the same way because they’re not just stronger, but more skilled? Shocking.
Bullet sponges... or in this case arrow sponges.
I started playing on master with summoning spells, summoned my fire familiar who drew all the aggro on him and then just spammed enemies with attacks. Worked good for me
Only if the player dealt damage doesn't get thrown down a black hole.
You see if the stealth would work properly and they wouldn’t turn around and see you right after 5 minutes of sneaking I’d be okay but when I’m sneaking on a troll and he turns around and beats my ass in one hit i quit
I wouldn't say those draugr fell easily. You were mostly dead after the first three. One or two more without healing and you'd be dead.
I would, but i don't want to lose half an hours progress just to be killmoved at 80% health.
So you are telling me that raising the difficulty makes the game actually more difficult?
Huh, who would have thought that?
I used to play it on master difficulty but the problem will come with the saber tigers,bears attack.No matter how hard you try they deal a lot of damage...how will someone use their brain on that situation.
I didn't like the amount of hp enemies had on master difficulty so I downloaded some combat mods to increase npc and player damage percentage output and to add smarter enemies. Now, my Skyrim is more like on difficulty "God-like". ....but I also have tons of other mods that make Skyrim deadlier....like sands of time, frost fall, deadly dragons, realistic npc detection, enhanced lights and fx set on super dark nights and dungeons. The enemies I fight feel like actual players, you can almost feel their hits, a sword now feels like you're slicing through flesh dealing realistic damage while the same can occur to yourself. I have kuertees battle fatigue and injuries, and realistic needs and diseases just to add more to the immersion. When you start off as a lvl 1 noob, a wolf pack can literally tear you apart in seconds, dragons stay almost impossible at any lvl. I was fighting my first dragon at lvl 20 and I died 50 times with 4 other followers helping out. It was a simple green skinned ice breathing dragon. Mods make Skyrim WAAAAAYYY better.
I think the message of this is "Have combat variation" more than "Play on master difficulty".
I played oblivion on the hardest difficulty, as well as Fo3 and FNV, but truth be told Skyrim dungeons are so fucking repetitive and utterly uninteresting playing on master difficulty would just force you to spend a ridiculous amount of time in a map devoid of character fighting bland enemies.
I know this is super old, but I just thought I'd comment on how I dislike the difficulty settings of Skyrim, TES, and Fallout 3/4 because it just changes damage multipliers. The AI doesn't change at all and because of that the difficulty makes everything cheap. I spent an entire playthrough on Legendary dIfficulty and it was marked by me kiting 99% of enemies until I got strong enough to take a few hits, at which point, I just one-shot most of them.
shoot down the lanterns bro...nvm
How did you make it out of Helgen without a sword, shield and at least imperial armour?
Spec Quick Reflexes. Good to go.
Tbh I have mods so it makes the game more challenging like immersive creatures and organised bandits stuff like that
You make a good point. Hard to believe your video is almost 7 years old! I remember buying the collector's edition at midnight at Game Stop. Sweet memories!
Adept makes the most sense to me. 1:1 damage and since enemies perk up on level combat stays engaging enough with you gradually gaining the advantage as your character becomes stronger, but at higher difficulty having to sink unnecessary time to chip away at low tier enemies and run away like a bitch to heal everytime(truly the legendary dragonborn there) you're hit is extra as fuck, and thats all difficulty in bethesda games boil down to. Lets not pretend like its something that takes any skill, just time investment. I think difficulty should be based in enemy tier and numbers rather than a damage modifier, bc that would be exciting
Like imagine that part in dustmans cairn where you fight off well over a dozen draugr if they were all deathlords. Hell yeah.
It'd be cool if they rewarded you a bit more for playing on Master difficulty, but I think Adept provides a good, hearty challenge. You may be able to mow your way through Draugr, but there's still always going to be enemies that just straight up hands your ass to you, despite being on what us basically Normal mode. Master or Legendary would probably be cool if there were New Game+ or something, but otherwise I don't see any reason, but that's just me.
Yes master is the way to go, this difficulty makes you feel like leveling up, improving weapons and armor and using potions is actually effective. Legendary is just boring and normal by level 30 you're overpowered.
But as you level up, your foes get stronger too. Even if you play on a lower difficulty. Once you get to around level 20, enemies become a fun challenge. If you start off right away at master difficulty you get fucked up by dragons and just random attacks in the wild, no matter how big your brain is.
So basically, Master makes everything damage sponges to the nth degree. Okay...
Fug, Master difficulty no time for that noise.
Expert is just right
I prefer legendary. Restarting the same dungeon over and over again is so fun
I've been replaying all skyrim again on legendary, but i still think it's easy. I made a mage, i avoid to train in Town to ez level, i got a follower on low level and was healling him, so that he fight for me, i got a summon too, with a lot beat and run strategy, and jumping on high places that npcs can't get you is pretty ok. Takes long time, but my priest mage manage well, while doing the mage guild quest when appear like 10 magic anommally to kill take like forever, my follower died a lot and the dumbs npcs revive him in the battle without i notice his death. Made me load back 5 times(tooking 3 hours) it's so hard deal with multiple enemys. Anything one shoot me as a mage with 0 armor on low level, was hell, but fun. Now i lvl 50 is so easy and i no longer need the follower to help. But i play Moba as a support, all kind of beat and run strategy and dodging skills made me pretty good at playing legendary dificult haha. There so many broken easy ways to play safe, i avoid make a sneak thief, cuz you know, you just get that draedric dagger that has a chance to insta kill, and just swing fast as fuck and eventually you can kill anything.
Erik Silva .........nigga what?
The more times you have to hit a button =/= fun
wow I didnt know skyrim without mods was playable
I don't think so. The difficulty settings are just More health for them less for you.
The better way is to mod the game so you and the enemies die easily
Because in master difficulty a single human takes like 20 hits on the head and doesn't die, it kills the immersion
Well done.
I always start the game on legendary. You get better gear early.
My Skyrim experience was Legendary difficulty, only magic, only clothes (no light/heavy armor), and no shields.
Even on normal the death traps are a one hit kill to you. 😂
I'm playing only on Legendary difficulty, it's harder but better things you can get in chests
Play Skyrim again? Finished it twice already, will probably ended up playing sneak archer again...