I was reading an article :

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=419782

And i found some of the new info interesting. Could anyone tell me if any of this is true or is it just another forum where people make this stuff up, lol.

I posted in a different topic that i said it would be cool to not follow the same story every playthough. it was lame.
I would like to be able to change how i want to play, like if i found out that i was getting intercepted letters for the DB quests and didnt kill Ungolin at the end and we found the traitor, in turn, saving Lucien.

I would like to see this in Skyrim.

Here: (for the people that dont want to go to the link)
Todd Howard Interview :
dynamic shadows
-if a weapon and a shield or two weapons are equiped, you cannot cast any spell (quite logical indeed)
-it seems that smithing can only be done in forges (you cannot repair your equipment everywhere like in morrowind or oblivion)
-incredible level of detail such as : blood vessels on skin, modelling, animations, clothings (not sure what "clothing" means here))
-meteorological effects : clouds are gathering in real time around mountain peaks (sounds pretty cool), snow affects textures (so again pretty much confirmed that this isn't 3d accumulating snow but I'm fine with that anyway).
-a major inspiration for snowy landscapes seems to be artists like Brom and Frazetta.
-Matthew Carofano (artistic director of Skyrim) : Dwemer ruins (we know that already) and a Dunmer city!!! (yeah you heard me : Dunmer :celebration: ) ;
-again from M. Carifano : "after Oblivion where every place looked alike, in Skyrim you'll find once agin the excentricity of Vvardenfell. Here every Nord Clan has its own colors, its own identity."
-For consoles : the "block" action is performed by pressing both trigger buttons at the same time. Each separatly correspond to the action of what you equipped in one hand or the other.
-80 spells among which some are entirely new (the journalist might have picked a rounded off number since I remember GI said 85 or so?)
-spells confirmed : Detect Life, Fury (force ennemies to fight between them), Circle of Protection (hurl ennemies outside a magic circle), Snow trap (triggers only when an ennemy walks on it), Lightnings, Fireballs.
-Concerning finishing moves we'll see stuffs like : Axe blade planted in the neck, dagger in the chest.
-Concerning skills : Athletics (they surely meant Acrobatics) doesn't exist anymore (to prevent the player boosting this only by jumping on stand)
-AI : NPCs have day and night activities like cooking and brushing the ground in front of their houses.
-dialogues : most "inimportant" NPC like simple villagers won't have any dialogue tree (instead they'll directly comment on rumors or on what they're doing) ; only important NPCs will actually exchange dialogue with you, you CAN cut short the dialogue simply by walking away.
-Every city and town is bound to some particular resources meaning if you burn their mill or mine, you affect their economy and they'll be forced to buy flour or mineral somewhere else and when you'll want to buy these resources here again it will be more expensive. (good thing for evil characters and maybe desctructible environnement?)
-the Dragon Shout key on PS3 is R3 (don't ask me more since I'm a PC player)
-archery : when aiming at something, you can hold your breath (consuming stamina) and the action is slowed.
-Dark Brotherhood mentionned as might be in (the reason beeing that the devs had a lot of fun developping it in Oblivion)
-Dragons can be unpredictible in their behaviour, they will fly in the air, crawl on the land, they can crash when wounded.
-On the favorite menu: "Cliking on a key, the screen freeze and a list of weapons or 'favorite' spells is shown next to each hand".
-"a cause-consequence tree for each mission",
-each mission will be a bit different from the same mission played by another player who has done other quests. Also can be different depending on which mission you did before.
-If you meet a Giant on the road he might totally not attack you unless you attack him.
-it seems he says that when most NPCs give you a quest, they'll give you precise directions or accompany you to the road showing you which direction to take to go on on you quest.
-the player should be excited when discovering a new place, or overhearing rumors spoken by NPCs between them.
-the testers mark the most beautiful landscape, so they should have things like temples, stuff that will entice the player to go and check by himself.
-in Oblivion there was only 1 guy working on the dungeons, this time for Skyrim, 8 devs are working on them.
-120 dungeons (again might be another round off number, cause we already heard 130+)
-Speaking of jobs : woodcutting, weaponsmithing, sells stuffs you made to the forge or to the mill...
-he insists on the importance of activities they thought apparently useless before Skyrim, but they found that was surprinsingly important for immersion after implementing them into Skyrim.
-There is a perk that will lower the sound of your footsteps.
-Perk for Axe that enables deeper cuts, which means prolonged bleeding. You can hit someone once and they will eventually bleed out.
-Eventual perk upgrade for Maces that will allow you to hit for full damage, ignoring armor stats.
-The article mentions placing runes on the floor (that we know already) but in particular talks about 'lob a frost rune down and if an enemy wanders over it, shards of ice will be launched through its body'
-Telekinesis is an available spell.
-'No more agility to build up so don't have to keep jumping around to level up' (I assume they mean no longer skills like acrobatics and athletes but they use the word agility)
-When you kill a dragon you're able to absorb its soul which will make you learn a new dragon shout.
-There is a dragon shout called 'Unrelenting Force' which pushes anything standing directly in front of you backwards.
-Dragon shouts have cooldown periods after each shout performed. Individual shouts will have their own cooldown time.
-In the northern parts of Solitude is the Bard's College. The city is a busy port and there's event similar to bonfire night that has the burning of an effigy of King Olaf.
-Windhelm is the largest city. It has a palace that should look spectacular. This is also apparently the hangout for the Imperial Guards who monitor the path to Morrowind.
-Bleak Falls Barrows is a dungeon, with ancient Nord catacombs which features rivers, tree roots coming through the ceiling and light coming through odd cracks.
-120 Dungeons and they claim that 'no two areas will be alike'.
-Just to re-confirm this fact straight from Todd Howard. Oblivion had 1 dungeon designer with artists doing the rest. Skyrim has 8 dungeon designers.
-Whole world is hand-crafted. Oblivion had some generated landscapes and there is NONE of that anymore used in Skyrim.
-The Shivering isles expansion inspired the team that unique, hand-crafted cities, where no two buildings look the same, was the way to go.
-Example of a 'Radiant Story'. OXM UK recieved a quest to go to Bleak Falls Barrow and retrieve a golden dragon claw antique and take it back to shopkeeper Lucan. If you killed Lucan, the quest would change to his friend Camilla instead.
-The Snow. Has been a lot of confusion about this. OXM UK says that snowfall is dynamic. Instead of a texture with a bit of white added, landscapes realistically get dusted with snow landing in appropiate nooks and crannies.
-There are one-off puzzles in certain dungeons.
-Example of new AI: 'Wolves have a den. Few times a day they go out and do a patrol and hunt in a pack. If they kill something then they'll hang out there. If you go outside and they're on patrol they will come after you. If they've killed something they will guard that and not chase you down as they want to look after it..

Confirmed Skills
Alchemy
Illusion
Conjuration
Destruction
Restoration
Alteration
Enchanting

Well, the link clearly goes to a thread on another forum. So unless they've got a full-time staff fact-checking every post, I don't see how there could be any guarantee of accuracy.

Yes, it does, but the info seems to match up with other info that has been released, so i was just wondering if anyone else has heard about this..
Of know where they got their info?

GOD I hope it's real...

I don't know why, but your avatar creeps me out. Something about Todd's Steve Carrel-esque looks...

OT, that would be very cool if they put that much effort into the quests, can anyone confirm/deny?

Yes it would, theres also a few other interesting pieces of information there like the blood vessle texturing and stuff.

Coincidently...
This was provided on another forum:
http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/286552-skyrim-information/page__pid__3162704__st__1240#entry3162704



There's a tiny bit of new info tehre i particularly enjoy
(quote, google-translated from the french)

A lot of that is old info but I do hope we get more choices during the quests instead of automatically giving the quest giver his item that he wants.

Yeah, a majority of this info is old, but alot of it was overlooked.

I hope this is true, no one has been able to clarify if it was real or not.

:drool: the best part of that was that you can only repair you equipment at smithies. finally, no more rebuilding a completely destroyed piece or armor or a bent and shattered sword with ...........a freakin hammer. dammit i love how this game is turning out.

Hmm, does this mean we can block while casting spells/dual wielding?

And hopefully we wont wear through a full set of armor just walking from one city to another..
But i like this addition as well :]
I hope we can customize armor a little, or have a choice on how we want certain armor.

How would the anolog sticks control the direction of a slice? Doesn't one move your body, and the other control the camera/way your looking? How would pc users control their swings too? I'm imagining jerky camera motions as people try to "direct" the swing.

Another potential problem:
Say you're dual wielding one sword in each hand, or any two bladed weapons for that matter.
How are you going to control the slashing direction of both weapons at the same time?
If both move in the same direction that creates some jerky combat moves, the swordsman equivalent of drunken monkey kung fu,
A nice way to get yourself killed.

But I'm sure they've come up with a solution.

it sounds like the same system used in MB warband which if it is im happy for. i initially used the WASD keys in that game since it gives you the option but after i tried out mouse direction i found it to feel more natural. also, you are only moving your mouse a very little bit its not like you moving it from one side of the pad to the other. im assuming that is if they did it like MB warband. Skyrimer has a good question in how they manipulate two weapons. im assuming that you use weapons in sequence and not at the same time so you would just have to move the mouse of pad for each swing.

Well as your swinging, you move the stick in the direction you want to hit.
If you want to swing with both, you hit both triggers. If not only one. and yes if it swung both at the same time every time it would be weird, but it would make sense to make you more vulnerable if you only attack this way.

2 swords - high attack low defence
1 sword 1 sheild - medium attack and defence (depending on thength of sword/mace/axe/)
1 sword no sheild/ 2 handed weapon - medium attack no defence/ high attack low defence.
2 shields - confused turtle ( jk )
something like that.

You do have a point there.

i think they mean somethin similar that was in morrowind with the chop, slice, and stab. not sure tho

I dont think so.. sounds too runescape-ish

Its says in this link we will only have 3 perk trees, But im looking at the leveling constellation screenshot and i count five just on the screen, and if i remember right didn't todd say that theres a perk tree for each skill?

I can't believe theirs a chance that we'll not be able to use both fire and frost..

Out of all the information, two things pleased me the most:

Freaking awesome. I've wanted to see events like this since Daggerfall did them.


Pretty much just like Daggerfall as well. Most people don't have anything to say, nor do they really WANT to say anything. Its more realistic and also puts less strain on the devs.


You're reading it wrong. He means that if you were to use fire on one hand and frost in the other, they would have no combinational effects. That is, you wouldn't get effects like a jet of scalding water if you try to use them together. Instead, you would just shoot them both at the same time, and the enemy would probably get burned and slowed, but have no special effect happen simply because you used them together.

Maybe they can make it so the fire would burn the enemy and the frost would only slow down the enemy...

It wouldn't be any different than any of the other games in that aspect. Its not like I couldn't combine effects on the same target in any of the other TES games.

Here's how I read that:
Go to perk screen, 3 main options: Combat, Magic and Stealth. Click on one, it opens to a page with perk trees for each skill, plus one for "Combat / Magic / Stealth" in general. So you've got the skill perks, but also perks for things previously covered by attributes, which Todd said will be the case.

Examples being carrying capacity for combat, magic regeneration for magic, and movement speed for stealth.

Note that I'm making all of this up, but that's how I suspect the system will be set up.