9 Overlooked Mechanics In Skyrim That'll Get You Playing Again
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ธ.ค. 2023
- Skyrim is such a massive game that even after 12 years since its release date it still has a ton of stuff that people don’t realize you can do. Here are 9 cool game mechanics and concepts that some players may have missed out on.
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"Hitting the butterflies with a weapon makes them much easier to collect"
Proceeds to miss 4 times in a row
Ikr, I have no prob just simply catching them
shout them out of the sky
Plus, hitting them with a weapon first and then collecting them is 2 actions now, not just one. I'd rather just stick with the spam interact key.
I like how his tip for butterflies is more difficult than just catching them
Yep. You just wait for them to land or at least get down to eye level. I've never had success swinging at them; they're quite easy to catch if you're not trying to get the ones flying high.
It can be, but sometimes the chase has frustrated me so much that I just want to get my vengeance by killing them with a Force Shout. 😆
But continuous spells or AOE spells like fire make it much easier.
just use some spell like Flames easy peazy
I got no issues catching them..but using unrelenting force can get the job done as well..no weapons needed..
For Saadia it's a bug. She's considered a Whiterun citizen so when she despawn she's considered dead and automatically get an urn in the hall of the dead
Yeah I don't see how most Elder Scrolls youtubers don't get this yet
Yeah, right, a bug,,sure, cuz you would never believe that a guy could lie,,, I don’t believe it’s a bug at all, Kematu is just a lying murderer 🤨
@@stormym5434 maybe google this before assuming someone is dead wrong?
@@VladimirDemidovIllusiveMan google isn’t the answer for everything 😋
@@stormym5434 Sure is the answer for this though
I don't understand how swinging at a butterfly is easier than just spamming the interact button
Probably ties in to the cloak spell, the flame cloak will kill then, thus you don’t even need to aim just press the mouse button and bam, instant wings
still gotta pick the wings up tho, don't you?@@madswipe4419
No problem with spamming when using keyboard and mouse lol imagine playing on a controller
@xinlou6707 there is also no problem on a controller lol
Another note on the veggie soup, is the health/stam regen stacks... So if you scoff down 5 veggie soups.. you regain 5 health/stam per second. The only downside is carrying a ton of soup takes up a fair bit of carry weight.. lol =P
Yep. You can suck down 8 or 10 and regenerate stamina faster than it gets used by running. I've seen people run completely thru bleakfalls barrow without engaging in any fighting with just a double-handful of soup.
main downside of vegetable soup is that you can't grow tomatoes in skyrim, so you need to steal every single one you find and check every merchant you come across and even then they usually don't have any or just a few.
this is why venison stew is equally important.
Yes, this is an issue.. which is why most deer i come across, dont survive... =P
But once i have a few soups on me.. any ingredients i get i store in a draw in front of the fire pit in Breezehome. after awhile, you end up with more than enough!
Good soup.
Are you gonna give the soup a mean look to when you scoff at it
As a veteran of Skyrim since the beginning, I have to openly admit I never knew about the Fortify Destruction since I have ALWAYS been a melee, archer, stealth dagger type of character that used magic more of healing, light, find the path type small minded uses....
But THAT sounds freakingly awesome that I have to try it out immediately :)
Thanks :)
I think it was Spiffing Brit who had a video comparing it to a nuke. He resto looped to an insane amount, then used it to immediately kill everyone in a dungeon.
I'm not sure I understood this one correctly tbh. Does it mean that using fortify destruction potions with clothes that reduce magicka cost of destruction spells increases the area of effect of the spells?
Using the necromage perk and Bloodworm Helm in anniversary together, as a vampire, you can produce self-focused cloak-type spells so strong that a flame cloak will empty a dungeon before you can usually see the enemies.
Bloodworm Helm is a mod. This video about original in-game stuff.
@@user-fe8du3ig7n Not actually a mod. Everything included in Anniversary was confirmed as being canonized, and it's officially labeled DLC. Effectively, it's Bethesda saying they like the modders so much they semi-hired them as temporary developers.
All that stuff was thoroughly checked and they say it's fully compatible with canon, as well as being sold as an official DLC bundled together, to make it look less like a mod pile and confuse people less.
@@UnswimmingFishYT what I said still applies though.
With the sneaky approach instead of doing those 2 things one way I found out 8 years ago is that sheathing or unsheathing your weapon will cause your character to move like normal
And then there's the Elsweyr Fondue. If you're a caster, that stuff is just *chef's kiss*.
Doesn't that have drugs though? It has moonsuger.
You have to be a decently high level in order for the black market merchant to sell daedric gear. If you unlock the power very early in your playthrough you'll be disappointed at his selection.
I've NEVER heard of him, and in the hundreds of videos I've watched, nobody's mentioned him!! That's so wild, learning this doesn't even feel real lol
@@dethmaulWhy are you watching… just play the game…
@@motodog242because watching videos about the game is unironically more fun than playing it 😂 Skyrim sucks as a game itself g
Where do you even find the book to learn the summoning spell for the black market demon? It sounds very useful for when you kill a dragon and/or something heavy that’s worth a lot.
@@BheartL I'm pretty sure it's one of the books you need to complete the main questline for the Dragonborn DLC.
Saadia's urn is a bug, as a named citizen of Whiterun, she's been given an urn to spawn in the Hall of the Dead when she dies, but when she is removed at the end of the quest, the game interprets this as death, so the urn is incorrectly spawned in
Does that mean empty caskets in graveyards are a bug irl? The dead aren't always available for burial
no, it means Bob the Necromancer did an unboxing
Another option when sneaking is to be in 3rd person, draw a one handed weapon or bow while sneaking and moving forward and you'll move at normal speed. no perks needed. although I could be severely wrong as I haven't touched vanilla in a long while.
Wear clothes and not armour too.
Not only moves silently but moves faster too when you draw your daggers.
Closed some big distances with this.
important note is that this does not work with magic equipped in your off hand.
@@christinaedwards5084 i always just use the steed stone to make amrour weightless, works great with the ebony mail.
@@windhelmguard5295 Thank you for mentioning this as I completely forgot to do so, considering I've used this method countless times it boggles my mind as to how I forgot
Blue butterfly + blue flower = 100% negate magic regen poison. Always (alchemy level doesn't matter).
So wizards would just charge you holding an iron dagger after a few firebolts.
i always made this js to sell it bc at high levels it can be sold for like 100 a piece
"Damage Magicka Regen" always reduces it by 100%, the only variable is how long it lasts. Also, there's possibly a bug because it seems to affect the victim's _base_ Mgicka regen rate instead of simply stacking with other Magicka regen effects.
For comparison, if you play Survival Mode then this applies a -100% Health regen _effect_ by default meaning your Health does not regenerate at all without some "Regenerate Health" effect in play to offset it; contrast with transforming into werewolf form which applies a _base_ Health regeneration rate of zero which not only blocks any natural Health regeneration, it also blocks any "Regenerate Health" effects that you might have had before transforming.
Anyone who plays in survival mode knows the power of cooking (especially the ability for hot soups to keep you from freezing to death.) I've played around with the cloak spells but I may have to go back and enchant some armor with the Fortify Destruction enchantment. Then throw in a potion as well ...
Remember, of course, the Fortify Destruction _enchantment_ isn't the same as the Fortify Destruction _alchemy effect._ Enchantments reduce Magicka cost, alchemy increases the spell's actual effect.
Skyrim is a great game
I agree
Yup
Some of the best bits of code ever written. Skyrim is more than just a game.
So glad there’s a new Skyrim vid up!❤
You can also use offensive shouts such as Unrelenting Force and Fire Breath to kill multiple bugs/fish at a time; much easier than trying to slice each one with your sword.
Reverse pickpocketing paralysis potions is so much safer because it doesn't make the target aggressive.
in 2000 hours I dont think I ever dropped a valuable item in the middle of town.
oh I actually did once early on in my Skyrim life with my first character. I lock picked something in Riften that had valuable stuff in it, but then i got over encumbered, so I dropped the items. Someone around noted that I dropped something, and I think they said something about if i don't take it they will, seemingly unaware it was stolen goods.
@@Frogleeoh I unloaded the cheapest items and I got scolded for littering. But if I dropped armor some honest NPC's asked me if they can keep it.
The fondue does the same but for magicka. Moon sugar is required but is illegal in skyrim. The merchant chests in dawnstar, markarth and solitude all have it. Between 3 and 5 I believe.
I use the Dremora Merchant a lot. Good way to get rid of misc loot.
Noticed the A&M profile picture how have you been feeling about your season
@@BrownAndSticky Pretty pitiful. I'm shocked we made it to some bowl game. Good Lord, the Regents could have given me $78 million to lose. What a cluster f###.
How does one get it? 😅
@@gaaraofthefunk7163 It is one of the options from one of the Black Books. I think it is actually called the Black Market power. It is an option from the quest Untold Legends in Benkongerike.
I knew about the interactive shopping thanks to Arcadia's cauldron
I always stole it all before I interacted with her 😂
I only stole a couple
@guitarandcomedy you literally just have to do something for her and you can have most of the stuff for free anyway lol. Everytime it respawns too, just not the void and fire salt, and the higher value potions
Deep calming voice, a well edited video, and Skyrim. Yeah you just got a subscriber.
I'm doing a semi-unarmed (still using bow for dragons and one handed in a pinch) khajit run right now and the kill animations are amazing
No doubt about it, the Black Market power is excellent. But the realm of Apocrypha is pretty tough for someone at an early level, nevermind whatever difficulty one would face to get that Black Book in the first place. (Can't think of it at the moment.) Hell, just Solstheim itself is frustrating if you're under-leveled. So it may be better to just wait a bit longer to get that set of Daedric armor... Though that is a sweet reward... (I guess one could just lower the difficulty of the game for those instances.)
I don't know why, but the ability to Force-shout and strike bugs out of the air doesn't seem to work on dragonflies in either console versions of the game I've played (PS3, Switch), despite being shown in some videos as working on them specifically. It's like the game can't load in their dead forms, so it just doesn't do it at all.
To be fair, the Alik'r said Saadia would come to no harm on her way back to Hammerfell, hinting that her treachery may be enough to put her to death over once they brought her back to face justice. (I think others have pointed out the urn as being a "glitch" of sorts anyway; even if a character is removed from the settlement they are assigned to permanently rather than killed, the game considers it a death. Apparently, in the case of a Stormcloak victory in the civil war, Ondolemar will, of course, be removed permanently, and one can supposedly find an urn for him in Markarth's Hall of the Dead - though that could also be a remnant of the uninitiated plans for the civil war questline, wherein Galmar himself kills Ondolemar.) Plus, I find it hard to believe Saadia's story of the Alik'r working for the Aldmeri Dominion, given that the Alik'r fought so hard to get the Dominion OUT of Hammerfell after the first version of White-Gold Concordate gave them a crap deal. Though I guess it's possible the Dominion hired some mercenaries to pose as Alik'r, but Saadia makes no mention of such deception, and pretty much confirms them as being Alik'r.
...Ugh... Sometimes the only way to win is by not playing at all.
(Edit: And now that I've learned this for myself, I have to mention it... Supposedly there are some magics that your "traditional" types in Hammerfell look down upon, so the fact that Kematu uses a paralysis spell is pretty suspect... UNLESS it's the game developers making things easier by not having to program in some new animations for other methods, etc. of securing Saadia. I dunno. I'm not even sure if the paralysis spell is of one of the schools that Redguards might look down upon.)
Oh man it's been 3 months you know I've been craving skyrim videos
I did a new playthrough when I learned fortify alteration potions increase the duration of the slow time shout, running around taking everyone out like Neo, so much fun
Out of my 20+ hours playing Skyrim I still learn stuff new. It truly is a masterpiece of a game.
20 😂😂 rookie numbers bud. You gotta pump those numbers up
I am sure you'll be discovering new stuff even after 200+ 😄
😂😂😂 You just wait! I’m years in, tens of playthroughs and hundreds of hours and I’m still learning new stuff.
I struggle to understand how a game of this volume was created and so many years ago at that!
20 hours ain’t an achievement in Skyrim my dude
I'm 1830 hrs in Skyrim and still finding new stuff.
these are some well written and informative videos.
thank you...subbed
Playing this for thousands of hours and still learning something new, thanks!
I stumbled on the Dremora Merchant by accident, and summoning him is literally the most used magic I have used in my playthrough. His purchase price was less than half of the value (w/out perks or enchanted apparel), but I sold so much looted crap to him I quickly accumulated gold.
Wild question but does anyone know the armor mod that the argonian is wearing at 6:30?
#3 was already in TES3 Morrowind almost decade prior to Skyrim.
And in TES2 Daggerfall before that you actually clicked on the shelves to browse the wares and buy (or try to steal) them, though they were more like containers than loose in-world items.
Some even older games, like Lands of Lore 1 actually had you click on the items in the shop, though one could argue the shops in those game were heavily dressed up menus.
I was wondering when u were gonna make a another skyrim vid, keep at it
I just kill butterflies in-game with "Marked for Death".
Yea never knew about the dynamic shopping despite 2k hours. guess it just shows you how much you miss by paying more attention to stats than detail. Ill probably learn a lot more misc stuff like this when I do my no fast travel or carriages + no dialogue skip playthrough next year. I might also make it so I can only save whenever I'm in a city or house, but that'll come down to if that's to harsh or not. maybe just no saving while your clearing a location or something. I'm not doing legendary again. it wasn't too or anything but it locked you into using every skill in the game in conjunction in order to do anything that's like a tier above you until your end game, and that's bad for people like me who like to make coherent builds. I would still recommend a legendary playthrough though, as it was still some of the most fun I've had playing the game simply because of how chaotic it was, and yea skyrim+chaos is an amazing combination. And don't get me started on boss fights. Actual perfection.
Why am I typing this again? Oh yea because I'm autistic or something and I'm obsessed with elder scrolls.
Well, if my memory is correct, morrowind actually introduced this mechanic
I learned a thing! Thank you! 😘
I have over 1000 hours in Skyrim, and some of these things I didn't even know lol. Simply incredible.
Me too, just short of 1900 hours and still learning new things about it feels amazing
"attacking a bug is much easier" takes 3 times as long to get
Quest items and gear are weightless. You can pickpocket any gold/item amount from paralyzed people when they get up. Marked for death increases bash and punch damage. Marksman potions increase all physical damage. You can infinitly sprint with a 3rd person torch if you spam the sprint button as you run out of stamina
can't believe there are still new things to learn about Skyrim, great video
The easiest way to catch flying bugs is with the slow time shout. It's even easier if you take a fortify alteration potion to lengthen the duration of the slow time shout. They just hang there basically frozen for you to grab.
I just started playing again... for the 9000th time! :)
Does chain lightning chain on bugs too? Be pretty cool to bug zap a bunch of em at once.
Going fishing with a warhammer was already on my list and now I also want to try shouting and casting fireballs on butterflies.
After 10 years, I just re-installed it last night. Played for six hours straight. Getting up for work was absolutely no fun!
Omg! It’s not that hard to catch the butterflies,,, they land quite often and sometimes you can catch them,ahem,,on top of another one ☺️😏…….also, you forgot to mention that when people, such as myself, play on survival mode, cooking food is absolutely essential in the game as hunger is no joke especially when in the north. So not freezing to death is saved by making hot soups with fire salts😉☺️
With skyrims timescale I never could stick with survival. Every few minutes you are hungry again, you get tired before you walk down the street. .And changing the timescale feels weird given the map size.
@@Ahglock I am on my 41st character, so I try to make the game as challenging as possible… and you would be surprised how many potato soups and salmon patties one can carry☺️😉…and it doesn’t really take that long to walk from Riften to Markarth 😄…and it makes carriages more useful as well👍
Having a horse in survival is essential also. 1) The bus goes places but not there when you leave. (Winterhold, etc. ) but the faithful horse will be waiting for you.
2) weight does not matter so hop on no matter how many cucumbers you are over.
3) ATV. The horse can go where you can’t walk.
4) best form of “fast travel” survival mode.
@@robertbartels3742 I agree, so as soon as I am able to make it to the college of Winterhold, I get the quest for the unicorn,, the only horse I get.. I find it has a lot of stamina to be able to get away from enemies ☺️
@@Ahglockmy problem too. In new Vegas is much better survival mode. You need to make overhaul of Skyrims one to make it better. Some dudes have it really better like you even learn how to pelt animals and over time getting better. You need to cut your wood off trees and all those things. And if you find some mod where on map will show camps i think it will be great but by itself is not. You just leave building and your freezing to dead and so on. Yeah but folks of town with kids just roam around like there is no tomorrow. 🫥
great job I didn't know about fence or a brawl caused by me dropping loot
Haven't stop play Skyrim this whole time but I totally forgot what vanilla Skyrim looked like.
I don't always have a heavy load, and can't quite make it to town in time, but when I do, I go to the Black Market Pocket Demon.
As for number #3, don’t buy the potions from the trader in Riverwood until you retrieve the golden claw. Because they’ll be removed from his shelves and after you retrieve the claw you can just take them for free off the shelf.
"Could" pickpocket an organ? More like can & will.
(Briarhearts)
I thought I knew everything until #4. I may have to go play again 😄
Damn, I only knew one of those! Yet another reason to love this game.
Did you know that you can wield a pickaxe as a weapon (or dual wield) and spam hit ore deposits instead pressing 'e' and waiting 5 hours to mine it👍
what shaders or visual mod do you have on ? my lord, it's pretty
6:30, theres a glitch where bhopping while crouched you jump farther and higher as a breton whilst keeping most of your momentum, so speed bhop sneaking is my go to, but im guessing the walkspeed might be faster
Now I need to find out if I can flame shout at the butterflies. Lol
When im overencumbered I give the stuff to my follower
And any animal companions if you have the "Pets of Skyrim" mod. The goat can carry something like 90 pounds.
I do system and no mods can be put on there
For Number 3, you could do the same in Oblivion. Crazy detail for such an old game when you think about it
this dude has such an amazing voice
Trying to catch a butterfly should be difficult. I actually like that you have to mash the button or slash at the air to get them.
Thieves Guild fences sell Daedric weapons too by the way. If your level is high enough.
Pickpocketing someone who is paralyzed doesn't work for me...
Damnit now I have to start up Skyrim
I never stopped playing
Loathe to depopulate the inns, I prefer to leave Saadia intact and go kill Klamato. I get lots of curved swords, and like Partyslax, it's not for me to judge her past.
Partysnacks*
I turn Saadia in and then kill her. Every single time.
Parthurnax became good and helped defeat the dragons. Saadia betrayed her nation and doesn’t seem to far at all. You can’t compare the two. If she true felt bad she’d be in hammerfell fighting the dominion instead of in Skyrim hiding from the law.
I love how you can't even sell stolen items to a litteral DEMON without a perk lol
Yeah I play Skyrim legendary as a khajiit without using any weapons or shouts or magic, so food is actually very useful for any added healing, plus for survival mode, vegetable soup is also the goat for power attack
I just want a boost [insert magic school] effectiveness enchantment for at least rings or gloves. Every other damage method gets an enchantment to boost its effectiveness. Sure I can reduce mana cost to 0, but when you're level 65 plus sure you can blast a spell that does 50 dps or 75 dps with a long cast time but you can do easily do 3 or 4 times that with an enchanted legendary dragonbone sword.
Yes I know you can exploit alchemy, but would it really be so bad to have one enchantment to put on one piece of equipment to boost destruction damage?
Dude thinks using a sword to kill butterflies will get me playing again
I have not played video games in over half a year. Il be playing Skyrim or ESO again when I do. As excited I was for Starfield I just cant help it. All that new content for Skyrim im all over it after I complete my warhammer 40k army.
I DON’T NEED ANY MORE REASONS NOOOO-
*New Game started*
you can craft a full set of deadric armor at level 1 aslong as you know where to steal some deadra hearts and then go mine some ebony at shors stone. take the materials and go to winterhold and use the atronach forge to do so by putting in the specific amount of indgriedients to what you want to build. No conjuration grind needed it takes 45 min
You still need a sigil stone though, and the only way to get that without grinding conjuration is via a glitch, AFAIK.
@@talideon 1 hour casting soul trap on a dead crab and you have a maxed conjuration. Not really grinding if it's the easiest skill to max. Not like it's restoration
Oh go on then, I'll start a brand new play through.
Never played the game, started playing a week ago. At first i didnt even knew what to do, now i'm loving it (already did the level 100 pickpocket trick🤓)
May I highly recommend pure race builds.
So each race starts with 1 skill at 25 and 5 skills at 20.
Level only those skills.
Makes replaying the game with each race a fun challenge each time and gets you using skills and perks you probably wouldn't of used/chosen normally.
I had an imperial with blades armour and daedric weapons. Were they the best items? No. Not at all.
Did they suit the character? Absolutely they did.
Was infinitely more fun having characters that had weaknesses built into them.
Few characters have archery as a skill.
So its always up closer and personal against dragons for a lot of characters
Ever since spiffing brit showed off the cloak spell and destruction glitch i literally cant play skyrim outside of a mage unless i put mods on and patch out the fortify restoration loop 😂
Does anyone else have the Khajiit problem? By this i mean, playing this game on
360
PS3
XB1X
PS4
PS4 Pro
Series X
PS5
PC
I always have in my head to create a new character, play as a new race....... Yet all i do is build a sneaky puss with magic or a sneaky puss with daggers.
I have had Tigger, Puss N Boots, Panther, Lion........ My latest Khajiit build, is based around the Pallas Cat or better known as The Manul.
I've created a small, furry ball of grey and white fluff, that's very angry, kills people with a staff and robs everything and everyone on sight.
It's got too a point now, where if i am not a Cat, i would feel like was cheating.
I'm always a cat. From day 1.
During civil war in Whiterun I had a broken destruction potion from the restoration loop and I used my flame cloak to prepare for battle and literally every npc that spawned was obliterated before I even got to see them. It was very anticlimactic actually
Destruction spells: Buff fire spells. aaaaaand. This also amplifies fire breath shout. Etc. there is a lot of things which can be stich together
Damn I didn’t know any of these tips lol
Bro I started playing can u give some tips
The venison stew does the same and the stack, also the white soup does the same with magica
Hitting a butterfly with a sword is way harder than just grabbing it
Can't wait to use my Enchanted Daedric Warhammer to smash a butterfly
Still learning about Skyrim lol
Yep. Been getting the itch to play again.
Still playing December 2023
6:19 same with bow even if you doesn't have any perks in it, you can just ready the arrow, it's increasing speed, even if you have like 5000 overweight
The best way to pickpocket someone is by becoming high king and demanding their belongings.
Accuracy while swinging a sword is a lot harder than accuracy while pressing interact. I’ve never had an issue with grabbing a bug out of the air
I was trying to shoot through a locked door and shot the lock off instead, unlocking it. I'm not sure what else this works on or if it was a one off but it beats lock picking or taking that one stone power.
vegetable soup effect = the power of whole grains
Bioshock is only other game other than SkyRim, I know that has more than one ending depending on what items you use and choose through the game .
Bro's voice is so soothing to listen to
I'm an airplane mechanic. I often feel like I'm overlooked, too.
You can browse in a similar way than red dead in arcadia shop in whiterun by buying on her shelfs
If you have to much loot and have a companion. Don’t trade them simply drop it on the floor have have them pick it up. Unlimited inventory
Damn I didn't know people thought cooking was useless 😭 yeah the healing spell works but what if you run out of magicka?? I always keep as many health items on me as I can (blue mtn flowers, butterfly wings, wheat, soups, potions)
You can actually STAND on the butterflies and rise.. Try THAT for thumb mashing.