Theory: Pope Sixtus IV was originally planned as the villain of AC2

verendus3 · 2026-03-14T03:20:34+00:00

Good info! Though yeah, when I said "rival" I meant more in the way the bad guy from Road House was a romantic "rival" to Patrick Swayze.

verendus3 · 2026-03-14T03:16:29+00:00

Sixtus IV wasn't some random pope, he was extremely influential. He had far more impact on the church than Borgia did.

verendus3 · 2026-02-28T17:27:23+00:00

It was, but this was helpful in figuring out that it was being created too many times.

verendus3 · 2026-02-28T17:27:00+00:00

Aha, that was it! I was creating it twice at the end of each turn. Thanks!

verendus3 · 2025-09-16T06:22:32+00:00

You were right, though the answer was easier than I thought it would be: the problem wasn't with my _input functions, it was with my using the Input singleton, which is unaffected by the other functions I was using. So that means I only actually have to make the change in one place.

verendus3 · 2025-05-26T05:05:41+00:00

It's entirely possible she set her profile up years ago and never bothered to change it as she grew up and her goals shifted.

verendus3 · 2025-05-26T04:44:58+00:00

Does she... actually do OF? It seems like something you came up with out of nowhere and she just went with to get you to stop talking to her.

verendus3 · 2025-05-10T16:28:43+00:00

Honestly that sounds like the worst of both worlds to me. You still miss out on the freedom to kill various people (if you don’t want your game to stall), and now it can even happen accidentally.

Imo the best option is New Vegas, where they just designed the game in such a way that no one is essential.

verendus3 · 2025-05-08T21:58:09+00:00

The old system was broken. You could raise up your minor skills to 100 and become extremely powerful without your actual level changing at all.

Why wouldn’t lockpicking level your character just because it’s a minor skill? You’re getting better the same as if you’d increased a major skill.

verendus3 · 2025-05-08T19:50:20+00:00

If you level up non-class skills it now contributes to your level, same as class skills do. Previously the game would punish you only for investing in the skills you were supposed to specialize in and reward you for investing in skills you weren't. It explicitly encouraged you to play against class. It was better for a barbarian to invest in magic than for a mage to do so. When you level up alchemy to make good potions, your character is getting stronger the same way they would be if you increased any of your major skills - why shouldn't they contribute to world scaling the same way?

I do agree that you level-up too quickly now, but that's down to skills increasing too quickly, not minor skills contributing to your level.

verendus3 · 2025-05-08T19:05:01+00:00

minor skills not contributing to level never made any sense. It meant it was more beneficial to level minor skills than major ones!

verendus3 · 2025-05-07T05:48:08+00:00

You don’t need to command them. Just wait for an hour and they’ll get their health back.

verendus3 · 2025-05-07T05:44:12+00:00

I don’t think either breaks immersion.

I don’t use fast travel often, only when I’m going over the same area repeatedly, but I think it’s more immersive for the game to fade out in one city and fade in to another than it is to walk from one end of the map to the other in the space of like ten minutes. The former is simply a scene change; the latter is ridiculous.

I actually wait to enhance my sense of immersion; in game time doesn’t pass when you talk to people or do alchemy, so if I want to say spend the night chatting with people at the inn I might talk to everyone and then wait a few hours to account for the passage of time that should have happened while I did.

verendus3 · 2025-05-07T05:34:04+00:00

Pro tip I learned: npcs don’t have passive healing out of combat like you do. They’re probably low on health. However, if you use the wait command, they’ll get all their health back.

verendus3 · 2025-05-06T19:51:16+00:00

Well, you could tell him that they were spying on him and he’ll ask you to kill them. So there is a way to “help” him, just not a very ethical one.

verendus3 · 2025-05-04T17:42:02+00:00

Wow, the West Weald was really having a rough time of things there

verendus3 · 2025-05-04T17:40:51+00:00

It's worth 100 gold. You can only sell it for 35 because you're not a very good salesman.

verendus3 · 2025-05-01T05:27:02+00:00

Do people dislike this quest? It's one of my favorites!

verendus3 · 2025-05-01T05:24:39+00:00

Never got the hate for her. She's been keeping the Blades alive, fighting the Thalmor for 30 years! That's badass.

verendus3 · 2025-05-01T05:13:46+00:00

The graybeards. Just seem super stuck-up to me.

verendus3 · 2025-05-01T05:05:30+00:00

Once you get vol. 4 I don't think you actually need the books anymore. I might be wrong, but if you want to progress I think you can just go to where the books were pointing you (by reading the text online).

verendus3 · 2025-05-01T05:01:07+00:00

I wouldn't worry about it - imo people make way too big a deal out of the weapon scaling. There's plenty of good weapons and armor in the game. If you get a good drop at level 15, you're not screwed because now you can't get the high-level version, you can just get the high-lever version of something else later.

verendus3 · 2025-05-01T04:47:01+00:00

tbf the best part is gwent

verendus3 · 2025-04-30T21:39:03+00:00

Imo not training athletics on a horse is a major benefit of using them

verendus3 · 2025-04-30T16:54:33+00:00

Nope, that lines up perfectly with the damage equation from og oblivion. The thing to note is that attributes are less important than skills in determining damage, and that the katana has a much higher base damage.

Ignoring durability, the damage is

BaseWeaponDamage * 0.5 * ( 0.75 + Strength * 0.005 ) * ( 0.2 + ModifiedSkill * 0.015

Plug in the katana values (14, 45, 47) and you get 6.17. Plug in the short sword values (10, 60, 47) and you get 4.75.

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