Everybody seems so worked up on the trailer that nobody pointed that there is a new screenshot on the official site.

It's the mountain pic from GI that Pete Hines had confirmed that it was in game but almost everyone was like "That's impossible, I'll wait and see."

http://elderscrolls.com/skyrim/media/screenshots/mountains-skyrim/

Look at that lighting! Look at the fog effects! Look at that draw distance! Look at those textures! Look at that sky!

A few people were worried with some textures shown in the trailer, but this... This blows me away!

That is not the same mountain picture from Game Informer that Pete Hines confirmed was in game.. it has that mountain in it though, yes, but it is not the same picture.

I have GI sitting right next to me and the quality of it is nothing near that picture which is obviously not taken from in game footage. Not unless it's on the PC with the best tech available and Directx 11 and even then it's pushing it.

GI has a cut version of the same screen behind the text " A New Land".

I'm pretty sure it was confirmed by Pete Hines to be in-game on twitter right after GI was shipped. I'm gonna look for it right now.

And it's under screenshots on the official site so... I'm preeetty sure that's in game footage.

Edit: Drat it! Twitter has "elevated error rates" and won't load!

I don't know if it'd be PC-pushing or not, or if it's a screenshot of the game or not, but it'd be awesome for those mountains to be seen in the game.

How in the hell am I supposed to get to the top of those???!!? I wonder if they have slipping and falling in the game.

Proof the mountain screenshot is in-game:

http://i.imgur.com/cAZDa.jpg

Why would they have huge sprites there?

Wouldn't they appear 2d if you got close?

There's probably gonna be paths up, you definitely won't be able to spam the jump button or zigzag your way up those slopes like in OB.

I hope twitter gets fixed soon, I wanna get that direct quote from Pete Hines...

It is listed under the "Screenshots" section.

My only question though is, where is the dual monitor version?

Don't think Bethesda magically got rid of the LOD problem. The density gets higher as you approach.

Love the *mood* in it though.

Thanks for pointing that out!

Those mountains are far off in the distance, so naturally, the mountains in the screenshot are the lower detail, distant versions of them, Oblivion had this for its distant land too, but Skyrim looks like it handles this much better than Oblivion. The distant land is still less detailed than the nearby land, though, and that's to be expected, it just wouldn't be feasible to render objects such far away in the same detail as nearby objects, nor would it really be necessary as you're not going to be looking at them so closely. And now the point of all that was that I think we can probably assume that the clouds and fog on those mountains are also low detail versions, and we're not going to be seeing the same sprites from up close.

The image still looks pretty impressive, though, and while the small flaws in it seem to prove its an in-game screenshot, when actually playing the game, I could probably ignore things like that easily enough. It's definitely a big improvement over Oblivion's mountains.

Thanks for pointing it out, I must have missed it. It's pretty :drool: There's also a couple new concept pieces there. I really like how they laid out the new website.

Took a bit of digging but I found the direct quote from Pete Hines' Twitter account.

http://twitter.com/DCDeacon/status/24025244436004864 in answer to http://twitter.com/faulgor/status/24019187710038016

I personally hope you can have the ability to have your own house on one of the mountains with a fantastic view Made a whole idea and system for it on this forum http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1169471-houses-in-skyrim/