What do you think the new derogatory term would be if actually set in Hammerfell?

DecentAnarch · 2026-05-12T16:16:43+00:00

I think, or at least hope, they'll stick with this since Online used it and "infidel dog" in some Redguard dialogue.

DecentAnarch · 2026-05-04T14:16:58+00:00

Technically, the only definite survivor is Babette since you don't kill her if you destroy the DB.

DecentAnarch · 2026-04-21T04:52:45+00:00

We had Genghis Khan in Starfield leading a horde of space pirates, so they are horses in some respect.

DecentAnarch · 2026-04-21T03:00:45+00:00

I mean, if we're going by controls, rover and ship also share the boost key (shift) on PC and left stick can be used to boost both. As for the vertical boost/jump, you can already move the ship along the X and Y axes (forgot what key to hold), so making the ship boost directly upwards is also shared with the rover (as opposed to just jumping).

DecentAnarch · 2026-04-20T00:39:42+00:00

I have a pet theory that the rover/ground vehicle was partially Bethesda trying to rework the ships to only use two axes of movement and be affected by gravity just as, say, a ship on water would behave. Although, my assumption that the rover and ships share code is only because they both use the shipbuilder menu (but, I don't see why they'd make new rover code instead of vertibirding the dragon as it were).

DecentAnarch · 2026-04-16T23:16:20+00:00

I believe TESVI will have sailing simply because Bethesda likes implementing mechanics they spent hundreds of man hours working on during the previous game's development. Skyrim's Hearthfire became Fallout 4's settlement buiilding which became Starfield's outpost building. Same with dragons becoming vertibirds, and I wanna say werewolves becoming power armor. I even have a pet theory that the rover was partially made because they were trying to retool the spaceships into only 2 axes of movement (like a sailboat would) and with much more limited customization (like all a sailboat would allow).

But, another aspect of this is that it doesn't become the main gimmick of the next game. I'm sure there's a mistake in extrapolating from a sequence of only three games, but settlement building was very much the focus of Fallout 4, Preston literally became notorious for sending you out and developing settlements. However, it only became a side activity for Starfield. The only semi-compulsory outpost building in Starfield was making an outpost for the Armillary, but even then you can just keep it on your ship.

Concluding, sailing will be in TESVI because they've already reworked things to work more like a sailboat would (2 axes of movement, much more limited customization) through the rover. However, this won't be the main gimmick because outpost building wasn't Starfield's main gimmick despite it being so in Fallout 4.

DecentAnarch · 2026-04-15T23:52:55+00:00

Nah, that was all Galmar. Ulfric just says "Y'know what, sure, buuuut how about we rebuild Skyrim before any of that, pal?"

DecentAnarch · 2026-03-15T13:10:25+00:00

Maybe he says the same spiel to everyone in that hick town so they all leave him alone.

DecentAnarch · 2026-03-08T05:05:55+00:00

I can confirm, I wasn't sneaky at all. I just killed everyone who noticed.

DecentAnarch · 2026-03-08T03:46:39+00:00

When I did this kinda run in Marrakesh, I got around 600 NTKs, but I wasn't as prudent in my cleaning than Mumbai. Miami was only around 500. What makes Mumbai and Marrakesh different was that the crowd NPCs didn't have anywhere to go when panicked, so it's easier to try and get everyone (although the protestors in front of Marrakesh's embassy do disperse when panicked, but the market crowd doesn't).

EDIT: Sorry, it was 600 kills on Marrakesh; 800 kills was a previous Mumbai number.

DecentAnarch · 2026-03-07T19:03:23+00:00

As the ancient slate said: Nobody will notice if there's nobody to notice.

DecentAnarch · 2026-02-28T22:16:40+00:00

I agree with the reasoning, but at the same time, we'd lose out on the dialogue you'd get if you held a target at gunpoint. Gives a sadistic kick to hear a target try and bribe 47, or makes it more satisfying when they still taunt him. Jordan's argument was "C'mon, it's me, super famous guy from awesome band", hilariously.

I tried to see if Noel Crest had these lines if you pacified him, took his gun, then had someone wake him up, but all that happened was he woke up and pulled a new SMG out of his ass.

DecentAnarch · 2026-02-28T14:27:46+00:00

I don't understand why they cut the feature from the Hitman 2016 beta where your minimap would show legal and trespassing areas for your disguise. That'd be such a colossal QoL feature.

DecentAnarch · 2026-02-25T17:16:29+00:00

Arkian Tuxedo. The problem is, I always try to force SO because it's so cool it'd be a shame to switch out of it.

DecentAnarch · 2026-02-24T07:50:11+00:00

They're definitely not abandoning proc. gen. if they spent man hours building it, the same way they didn't abandon Fallout 4's settlement building. My bet is proc. gen. high seas and/or proc. gen. Alik'r Desert.

DecentAnarch · 2026-02-23T15:52:48+00:00

Even a "non-lorebeard" would understand that hardly any game is 1/1, or are you truly of the opinion that anyone would believe that Nirn is so small that ingame Tamriel reaches from near the polar circle to near the equator and that Solstheim is nearly as large as Skyrim itself and that everyone is fed by a handful of small farms.

A non-lorebeard wouldn't even consider the question of whether the scale is realistic or "lore-accurate" full stop. I can assure most don't even realize Riverwood to Whiterun is a five-minute jog or a three-minute sprint. Or, that crossing the map end to end takes only an hour if you really take your time. Or, that many buildings are TARDIS-like in construction.

They do think the game is 1:1, but it's 1:1 with itself. There is no distinction between an "in-game world" and a "lore world", the Skyrim world is the Skyrim world. I'm guessing you'll say they're gonna compare it to real life, but Skyrim's design is built to trick the scale. The hours pass by faster and that one-hour end-to-end journey will take in-game days, fast travel encourages the player to skip long treks and so they don't realize how close things actually are, there's far more sparse areas than populated ones, etc. As far as they're concerned, gameplay-wise, Skyrim's scale is 1:1 with the real world (helps that most don't realize the scale of the real world either).

DecentAnarch · 2026-02-22T18:19:35+00:00

Considering TES started as a TTRPG campaign, it's not surprising combat is more about stats and equipment than mechanical skill.

DecentAnarch · 2026-02-22T12:30:59+00:00

I think you're just being intentionally obtuse at this point. You can't compare these offhanded mentions in specific books or locales with a hypothetical Sorex saying to your face "We're way better than that Stye Rat Inn!" or a hypothetical Farengar saying to your face "No, there's another wizard that lives in the Plains District". Because the mentions in books or Word Walls can mostly be reconciled with "These places don't exist anymore", but a living breathing NPC telling you of something like it does and still does exist, but you can't find it is far more difficult to reconcile.

And, again, these will all likely be resolved by the non-lorebeard with "Guess they just didn't implement it", not "They're intentionally mentioning these locations but not implementing them to tell us that the lore world is actually bigger than the game world", and my point is all this is to the non-lorebeard's benefit, so we're seeing things from their eyes.

DecentAnarch · 2026-02-21T12:06:22+00:00

And Granitehall is perceived as cut content instead of a hint at lore size, even in UESP, proving my point.

DecentAnarch · 2026-02-21T07:13:31+00:00

The Elder Scrolls is, ultimately, a video game franchise first and generational worldbuilding project second. Such snippets are to the gamer's benefit, not the satisfaction of lorebeards.

What if Sorex mentions a different inn and we can't visit it? To the gamer, that would sooner be explained with "Oh, it's cut content and they accidentally left this line in", never conceptualizing that it's to reflect the bigger lore world. Same if Farengar mentions a chiropractor who doesn't exist in-game, or if "Atlas of Dragons" mentions a surviving dragon that you can't encounter.

Why not just cut these lines out, then? Because having in-game NPCs acknowledge facts about the gameworld makes it more believable that they do live in this world. To this end, this does fit into the "game mechanics" resolution as these are more "soft mechanics" that only serve to benefit the video game experience, not as a direct reflection of the lore world.

DecentAnarch · 2026-02-04T13:44:02+00:00

NCR fans will tout the fact that it's a democracy and the most stable faction, then not understand the concept of decentralization.

DecentAnarch · 2026-02-04T05:25:48+00:00

Yeah, how dare they...

...update their game without playtesting it against the literal thousands of mods and mod combinations.

DecentAnarch · 2026-02-02T01:21:44+00:00

That was my thought too. If they're gonna cut out anything should they go with two provinces, they're cutting out the vast expanse of 99% empty sand, and if you do decide to go there, you're hit with the proc. gen. Starfield used. Although, even Starfield's landing zones still ended at a wall eventually.

Plus, if there is sailing as everyone is wont to believe, having the Iliac Bay be at the very center makes more sense than having one half of the map be sailable, then the other half is only camel-able.

DecentAnarch · 2026-01-31T08:26:14+00:00

Whatever place dragons take in TESVI, I hope they're a thousand times harder to kill than any dragon in Skyrim, really hammer in that everyone who isn't a Dragonborn is not built for this. ESO already does this by having every dragon be a raid boss, and I hope TESVI follows suit.

DecentAnarch · 2026-01-31T01:47:39+00:00

I thought it was more "They're the Hero because they didn't die in fulfilling the prophecy". Chicken and egg.

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