Though all of his answers are not new, some of this information hasn't been previously confirmed:

-You can turn off your compass, cross-hair, or health, stamina, and magicka bars by adjusting the HUD opacity settings

-After picking flowers, they are removed visually from the plant

-No more speechcraft mini-game like OB. Speechcraft will now be more like Fallout 3

-Alchemy must be done at an alchemy lab or 'station' and can no longer be done on the fly while out in the game world like in Oblivion (Much more realistic if you ask me.)

-There is a decapitation perk that is part of the one-handed perk tree

-While playing, Pete's character was given a 'Choose Your Adventure' type book BY A CHILD in the game - so in addition to regular books, there are 'interactive' books in Skyrim

-He was asked if the player actually goes out into the woods to cut down trees, which we don't. It will be a station we go to like in the demo where you see the man moving the large log onto the cutting area. It's a designated station we use to cut wood, just like the stations for alchemy and forging. His exact words: 'No, it's almost like a "station", like you have for alchemy or the forge. You go use a woodpile.'

-You can have a weapon in your left hand and nothing in your right

-Right bumper is SHOUT, left bumper is SPRINT

-(Previously confirmed) You can only view your character in the game world, not in the menu

-(Previously confirmed) The random third person finishing moves can not be turned off

-(Previously confirmed) Midnight releases are definitely happening

Pete also cleared up that CVG article that stated 'Skyrim is considerably smaller than both Cyrodiil and Morrowind' by stating 'They're mistaken. If anything, it's bigger, certainly in terms of content.'

He also explained the need for the clairvoyance spell: Stating that it is a 'quest target,' and further explained that 'in the demo, the next step in the quest was to return to the quest giver, which would lead you from the dungeon.' There’s also a proper explanation by Todd Howard explaining that 'the spell creates a path to the current objective,' and that 'the reason for this spell is that the dungeons can sometimes get confusing.'

I knew the dungeons were hand crafted by level designers, but this points to them being much more elaborate than I first imagined!

Though we knew there would be 70+ voice actors in Skyrim, I wondered if the extra voice talent would only be for main characters, but Pete confirmed that there are 'mulitple' voice actors per race.

Thanks but this is old news, and a few of those already have a respective thread

That's nice, though I'm interested how that's going to work. I assume the way to raise the speechcraft skill is not only by passing speech skill checks, because if those are like Fallout 3 they're really rare so you can't train your skill with them.

Unless you're supposed to raise that skill purely through dealing with merchants. Mercantile and speechcraft were merged right?

I love Pete Hines.

Sweet peaches, that's a lot of new info! :batman:

I could have sworn that they said there was a speechcraft minigame like in Oblivion. Oh well, this is good news to me.

Although I think it would be better if you could carry a mortar and pestle to make potions in the wilderness at a significant reduction to quality.

You've got to be kidding. :confused:

Thanks, knew a lot of it, but not all !

Ya I thought that was a little disappointing but whatever, I will get used to it

there is nothing about that I didnt like

He isn't! :vaultboy:

Can someone explain to me how fallouts speechcraft works? Is it better than OBs crappy word wheel?

Small clarification. I believe he said "AND", not "OR". This might mean that you make the entire HUD 0% opaque, not individual elements.


SWEET!!


Hmmm. Guess I'll have to wait and see how this plays out.


I prefer Morrowind's set up. Different qualities of equipment with different textures. Collecting and displaying all the pieces was just as much fun as the added bonus they gave to the potions they created.

Oh boy here we go...

Awesome, I was hoping someone would centralize all the new tweets. Pretty much all good news, NOV 10th 11:59pm cant come soon enough

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1231643-finishing-moves-and-its-features-cant-be-turned-off/page__pid__18618055__st__80#entry18618055

70% of the poll actually favors it/doesn't care.

There is no game at all. You see dialogue that can only be chosen if you have enough speechcraft skill points.

Here we go what? It's pretty stupid. They didn't even put a toggle for it and there's no good reason not to. Anyone who ever thought this was a good idea (along with that third-person exclusive horse-riding) should be fired and forced to play through Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Oblivion before even being considered for rehiring, in my opinion.

I really like that alchemy needs to be used at a station... but I hate what that means for us wilderness folk who go into the woods with a mortar and pestle. Now, I never brought my entire set with me in Oblivion - for it was too weighty - but I did have a mortar and pestle to make potions on the fly and it was extremely useful. I wonder if we can still use a mortar and pestle on the go?

Wasn't there a %chance of successfully pulling off the dialog option? Or am I thinking of something else?

I say here we go because I can see it now, the MASSIVE amounts of complaining, I'm not for it at all, but I can already see how this thread will turn out...

inb4Xarnac

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1231643-finishing-moves-and-its-features-cant-be-turned-off/page__pid__18618055__st__80#entry18618055

So...anything you like from that list?

Well friend, that's what we call negative thinking. :vaultboy:

Oh garsh... :facepalm:

FO3 had a % of success. "[42%] I am successful at convincing you."

NV required you to have a specific skill number to succeed but used different skills too. "[22/25 Explosives] I can use bombs without hurting myself!"