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» Sat Oct 15, 2011 8:12 pm

About treasure maps: http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/125188642313474048

About Skyrim not being released early: http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/125188854742388736, http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/125207027411726336

About more Skyrim media coming: http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/125188915559804928

About PS3 footage: http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/125210474613719040

» Sat Oct 15, 2011 6:02 pm

Treasure Maps, that's awesome. :celebration:

» Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:51 pm

He also said PC specs are coming next week

» Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:22 pm

@DCDeaconPete Hines
@Charlie_Barry1 Because we still have to fix all the little bugs,
balance game, and then make millions and millions of discs.

I have to admit that I do not understand what it means to "balance the game"... He mentions that specificially. What is that and how do they do it? Thanks for any help.

:tes:

» Sun Oct 16, 2011 12:47 am

@DCDeaconPete Hines
@Charlie_Barry1 Because we still have to fix all the little bugs,
balance game, and then make millions and millions of discs.

I have to admit that I do not understand what it means to "balance the game"... He mentions that specificially. What is that and how do they do it? Thanks for any help.

:tes:

Balancing could mean tweaking the rate that skills increase, the level area for certain enemies, Dragon Spawn Rates, etc.

» Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:29 pm

Balancing could mean tweaking the rate that skills increase, the level area for certain enemies, Dragon Spawn Rates, etc.

This means the speedrun results are wrong.

» Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:05 pm

@DCDeaconPete Hines
@Charlie_Barry1 Because we still have to fix all the little bugs,
balance game, and then make millions and millions of discs.

I have to admit that I do not understand what it means to "balance the game"... He mentions that specificially. What is that and how do they do it? Thanks for any help.

:tes:

Balancing out combat and leveling and character development, making sure nothing is too overpowered or too underpowered, things like that.

» Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:04 pm

More media, can't wait. That will be my fix between now and release. As long as its not too spoilish, a nice new gameplay trailer will do, but I don't really expect another demo or anything, in fact that might be too much.

» Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:12 am

Oh goodie, treasure maps, this will give me another reason to play as 'Steve the gay Pirate'.

-Mr. MRIC

» Sun Oct 16, 2011 1:23 am

http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/125188642313474048 confirmed.

http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/125188854742388736 Skyrim will not be released early.

More http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/125188915559804928 coming.

Hope there are more maps than in say Red Dead Redemption. That was a good diversion but it didn't last long enough.

» Sun Oct 16, 2011 2:01 am

omg!! specs out next week!! will my xbox be able to run it? can't wait to find out!

» Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:49 pm

Thanks for sharing

» Sun Oct 16, 2011 3:48 am

@DCDeacon Forum is predicting Skyrim will be finished around the 25th. Good guess?

@yanks4champs Not really. :-)

» Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:37 pm

Thank you Terror and Corakus. I see...they wait to do those evaluations once the game is complete; it's a final look and chance to tweak things. I hadn't thought about levelling decisions.

:tes:

» Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:02 am

@DCDeacon Forum is predicting Skyrim will be finished around the 25th. Good guess?

@yanks4champs Not really. :-)

Uh oh....I don't know if that's good or bad?

» Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:11 am

Cool, thanks mate.

» Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:58 am

Uh oh....I don't know if that's good or bad?

I don't think he would have put a smiley face at the end if it wasn't.

» Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:11 am

Treasure Maps, that's awesome. :celebration:

» Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:38 pm

Treasure Maps, that's awesome. :celebration:

» Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:21 am

Treasure Maps, that's awesome. :celebration:

» Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:32 pm

I have to admit that I do not understand what it means to "balance the game"... He mentions that specificially. What is that and how do they do it? Thanks for any help.

I thought it meant a technical balancing, like making the game run more stable, less crashes, etc. I guess the skills and everything are in balance already because indeed, the opposite would mean that the speedrun was rather worthless.

» Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:09 pm

Update:

http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/125207027411726336 Skyrim will not be released early.

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About http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/125210474613719040.

» Sun Oct 16, 2011 4:03 am

ARGGGGGG

X marks the spot you worthless sea maggots XD

» Sun Oct 16, 2011 3:27 am

Hopefully we have to buy local maps from vendors in rather than them just being accesible in the menu.

» Sun Oct 16, 2011 6:49 am

I thought it meant a technical balancing, like making the game run more stable, less crashes, etc. I guess the skills and everything are in balance already because indeed, the opposite would mean that the speedrun was rather worthless.

Don't put too much in the speedrun. It is an event held for fun and to look for bugs in the game. This game is so huge, they will be debugging, tweaking and balancing until the day it goes gold. In fact it continues (at least for the PC) as they release patches.

Storm