Within the context of AI handling ranged attacks by stealthed characters, which is not a fact. Really, it's not an issue of me not understanding the statement. I understand it perfectly fine. Within the context of where it was made, it was baseless speculation and it was stated as fact.

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No. It's pretty much exactly what they described it to be, it just doesn't function nearly as well as they'd portrayed it as functioning. It was always going to be "scripted AI" - it was an AI scheduling system with a few scripted reactions to certain things, and that's pretty clearly all they ever intended for it to be.

I love how most of this thread is Sleign arguing with everyone whether he said some thing was speculation or fact.

It's because pretty much everyone in this thread except him who's actually read the article recognizes a lot of the statements he's made as speculation despite their having been stated as fact, and he believes that it's an issue with others not understanding "subtle linguistics" rather than an issue with him consistently stating speculation as fact multiple times in his original post. If he wants to start a thread compiling information about Skyrim then that's fine, but doing so while consistently misrepresenting his own speculation as fact isn't helpful.

You might want to remove that, it's not true. That was just the journalists way of saying that it's an open-world game. He'd probably say the same thing about Oblivion, even though you can see some places that you can't get to.

Yep stated as complete fact with no uncertainty.



Well seeing as how BGS even said that they had to scrap their Radiant AI system and only use an aspect of it, I guess your right, they always intended it to be that way.



Well it's fun to repost all my information from my last two thread where the majority of the posts were "Thank you for the well ordered information" and the questions which I and the other members of this forum answered for those that can't get the GI article and then get the topic derailed by people saying I am claiming three items, that I wrote as speculation and made it abundantly clear with the wording that it was speculation, are stated as fact as I have showed they aren't. I love how I type all these in-depth explanations for everyone, taking my time to help others get the information that they otherwise wouldn't get or would have to sift through the countless forum posts that may or may not by true or accurate and then I get harassed by people claiming that I said something that I didn't. Being attacked for a few shreds of information that were speculation but were in their correct sections....now I know how the devs felt after Oblivion...



I understand your concerns but at least I can't be attacked for that snippet of information if it is wrong, those are game informers words. I really don't want to remove it and it be true. Might as well leave it in since GI claimed it and it raises the hopes of those waiting for Skyrim.

I could defiantly be wrong here, but isn't that actually a direct quote from Todd Howard?

The most precise thing we can expect is being able to go anywhere INSIDE Skyrim and not outside of it.

Not sure if it is a direct quote from Todd Howard but it is a direct quote of the Game Informer article.



Might not be able to see any other lands of Tamriel due to maybe rugged cliffs on the borders blocking passage out and such. We can only speculate about the borders of Skyrim at this point.

You know that Morrowind did have level scaling, right?

That's what I was doing, speculating on what I know from past BGS games.

Morrowind may have had level scaling, but not of the sort of Oblivion, more similar to F3.

Yes but not a true level-scaling system like those in Fallout, Oblivion and now Skyrim. The level-scaling in Morrowind only applied to a small number of things and really wasn't even noticeable, at least to me since I blew through the game without almost any resistance. I haven't played Morrowind more than once and for all I know if I build my character a different way it might be actually difficult.

This. Also sorry if it seemed like I was attacking you, I was agreeing with you, I was just quoting you for a springboard for conversation hehe.

No, the level-scaling wasn't as severe as Oblivion's or FO3's, but it was certainly prevalent. You also have to remember that level-scaling also applies to the loot you find, which was scaled in Morrowind as well. I just think if Sleign would like to be as accurate as possible it should be edited.

I'm not trying to nitpick for the sake of nitpicking, mind you.

I'll edit it it to "almost" none then since it really doesn't make an impact on the information as it is just an example. Thank you for your input :biggrin:

I wasn't completely sure about scaling in Morrowind. Anyway, the Oblivion type scaling should be abolished, it was wonderful reaching the Ghostgate base and finding Lord's Mail at level 5. Good thing they changed it for Skyrim.

That's always been my thoughts on the subject. Oblivion had just too much level-scaling while Morrowind had too little. Hopefully Skyrim will have perfected the level-scaling.

BUMP to the top of the list...this thread RAWKS!!!!!!!!

Children?....Beards?...E-P-I-C.

I didn't see this in the main OP, but I saw axes, two-handed weapons, a dagger, a sword (short or long I can't tell) a mace, a bow and arrow set, the giant had a hammer but I don't know if it's usable by players, and one of the draugr is holding what looks like a flimsy, poorly constructed halberd but could just as easily be a two-handed axe.

In any case, the weapons and armor are more stylized than Oblivion.

Although I saw no evidence of beards, but then I don't have a copy of the magazine present at this time.

Thanx a lot for this info, its impossible for me to find a copy of the gameinformer of my own becose they dont sell it in my country (Finland)

Fantastic avatar there bee! :mohawk:

Added the names of three of the cities in Skyrim and one of the names of a possible village that was shown in the Behind-the-scenes. Feel free to post any other information you deem important that you found in the video so that we can compile it here. Thank you in advance.

Crafting seems even more confirmed, Todd Howard mentions a Creation Kit that the level developers are working on. Also, an Auto take gold option appears alongside other stuff, need more research.

Yeah I was wondering if I should put the auto-take gold onto the speculation section and you just reasserted that it should be mentioned. Thanks.

Posting this geographical information yet again. Eastmarch is described as "volcanic tundra." The southeastern region around Riften is called Rift and is described as "Fall Forest."