In oblivion we had to sleep in beds. Will we be able to sleep under the stars again?

I'd like it if there were purchasable bedrolls, but honestly, I don't expect it to be in.

When were you able to sleep under the stars? Before Morrowind?

I hope so, I always play a woodsy character (my favorite's name is Grius, he's an assassin) and it'd be nice to have them just lay down on a rock and sleep for a few hours (or a bush).

I'd be very disapointed if we were limited to beds again or if we weren't atleast able to get a bedroll.

+1.

In Oblivion, I tried to keep my character to a "realistic" day/night cycle, so I would deliberately find and destroy bandit camps just so I could sleep.

Well....aswell as the archery mod,they are now using by default,tod also said he liked another mod, a bedroll mod,which let you sleep almost where ever.
So who knows we may be able to.

In Morrowind you can just go into the wilderness and rest. I think you could just wait in Oblivion.

It has been a very long time since I played Daggerfall but its seems to me you could sleep in the wilderness but there was a chance you would be disturbed at some point by bandits or wild animals. I also seem to remember the guards would come after you if your tried to sleep in the street of a town, loitering or vagrancy or some such.

I'd like to see a bigger difference between sleeping and waiting, again. In Morrowind, you wouldn't regain health or magicka if you waited, but you did while sleeping (and it took several hours). In Oblivion, waiting was just as good as sleeping, for most purposes (main exceptions being level up and magicka recovery for those born under The Atronach).. just wait an hour and you're as good as if you had rested more than half the day.

I hope we'll be able to set up camps and stuff like that. A tent, a bedroll, campfire to cook stuff. It would really be cool if we got caught up in a blizzard while we were on a mountain and were force to set up a camp to wait it out. I really hope Skyrim has a hardcoe mode.

Real Nords use a rock for a pillow!

As do I Resistance.

I like making my characters realistic, which means not staying up for days and fast traveling so a camp would be great. I also eat food at times when my character's hungry.

I want to sleep leaning against the tree with sword by my side.

Bandit camps

I do remember reading too about Todd Howard saying he liked the portable bedroll/campsite mod, so there is a good chance it will be in Vanilla Skyrim.

If you want to wake up burried in snow.

Bed rolls could work.
But what's the point of sleeping under the stars if you can just look at the constellations by hitting the up button on the directional pad.
And also, don't you go into a loading or at least a paused screen when you sleep?

I would love the ability to set up a small camp of my own, small tent, bedroll, fire, prepare a little food, sip some honey mead and a good rest.

Good times, man.

In another thread, someone mentioned getting some mead to celebrate the release of Skyrim. That sounds like a good idea.

Having to find a bed to sleep in is akin to having to find a save slot.... it should be killed with fire stomped on then its ashes loaded into a cannon and fired into the heart of the sun. And after all that its momma should be slapped. It is the mullet of game mechanics the hairy chested medallion wearing disco king of lame [censored] tired old game ideas that should die a savage death at the hands of common sense and fun.

That's good to hear, but why say "Vanilla Skyrim"? Are you being passive aggressive?

that would be incredibly uncomfortable, anyone who has taken high alpine survival can tell you sleeping under a tree is typically never a good idea chigers are nasty beasties

The sleeping under the stars part sounds like fun, but the minus ten percent to health for messing up your back sounds like hell. lol, jk
Hope there's like a bedroll or tent you could carry around, but its nothing to expect- just a bonus if its in.

In Morrowind we could sleep On the ground

I think I remember hearing Todd Howard say they liked some things Red Dead Redemption did as well, so we can only hope they implement a campsite but with extra options for crafting, enchanting, and such.

Definitely would love sleeping in the wild, with various equipment that improves the experience, but pretty much requires need for sleep (outside of any hard core mode).
* Bedroll of varying quality to get additional bonuses, but time remains constant to the situation. Nothing beats your mansion bed as far as comfort goes.
* Tents of varying quality and sizes. Provides shelter from rain, and the best ones also from wind. Sizes for 1, 2 and 3 persons (in case of two companions).
* Flint to light your fire (and torches). A fire improves cooking (or outright enables it), but you have to gather wood. Also reduces wind chill.
* Cutlery. Improves result of prepared foodstuffs, which in turn improves sleep. I always sleep better after a juicy beef compared to eating 4 apples
* Water collector. Nice to restock on water supplies if you camp while it rains.

So in FONV hardcoe terms (which isn't really all that hardcoe if you ask me), we get similar effects:
* Food
* Water (could be non pure in places due sulfur, such as near volcanic tundra, replaces FONVs rads in water)
* Sleep
* Cold (replaces radiation)

So there should be game mechanical *reasons* to put it there, even if they only seem to have a purpose in "hardcoe mode". Sleeping in the wild may be perfect for the naturalists (like myself), but despite all equipment making it possible going into encumbrance, it shouldn't be as good as sleeping at home in my own bed or at a rented bed in an inn.

The only thing making FONV hardcoe tedious for me, is the walking (since I don't fast travel, but that one is on me) and the browsing of huge menus which are only alphabetically sorted rather than on context. All ingredients listed with *all* aid stuffs (like magazines). At level 27 (haven't visited Benny at the strip, no rush on this playthrough), I've only suffered mild effects except a single occurrence of very heavy radiation poisoning. And I don't find it even a bit tedious.