In oblivion, whenever I was out in the wilderness and I killed an enemy, I couldn't ever find his weapon, or sometimes even his corpse. And don't you ever accidentally drop an item in the thick of the grass, you'll likely never get it back. All the grass looked great and all, but did anyone else have a problem with losing items in it? Hopefully something is done to prevent losing things in the grass in skyrim.

Another, but completely different thing I'd like to see in skyrim is for vampires to explode into a cloud of dust when I kill them. And also wooden stakes. I want them for when I go vampire slaying. It'd be so awesome to sneak into a vampires lair and sneak up behind him and do a sneak attack with the stake and watch him go poof. n_n

buffy fan?

Heck yeah. But you collect vampire dust and in oblivion they never actually dusted. I just think it'd be so satisfying and make vampires more interesting in general.

i see your point...i was reading your post though and buffy was all a was seeing...

i think vampires turned to dust when you killed them in morrowind (although the effect was very bad) and the same aplied to dremora

methinks dremora should explode into dust while vampires should die and their blood turns to dust on death

You know that makes sense, maybe after some kind of dust effect they turn to a skeleton wearing the armor/clothes. So when you loot them their skin/organs/etc has all turned to dust and thats what you're picking up.

I never lost anything in oblivion. I have had items fall through the world though in New Vegas. Also I never noticed the dust thing in morrowind.

Yeah... That's why I turned grass off... Looked nice, but it didn't flatten down.

To be honest, the only thing I can think of is to have it act like real grass, and flatten down when a weight acts on it. That seems overly superfluous to me.

They could just recycle the beam weapon effect from fallout and viola,dust vampires. I wonder if they will do something along the lines that?

Vampires "dusting" always made sense to me. I saw it as whatever unnatural force or power that had kept them from aging as suddenly having left them, causing their age to rapidly catch up with them. Since most vampires are a couple centuries old or more, that means instant skeletons or dust. It would be a cool effect, and seems canon enough in Elder Scrolls, since you collect dust off their corpse.


But, no, I never lost anything in the grass. It was easy enough to see where the enemy dropped and go over and move the mouse looking for the text pop-ups indicating I was over a body or item.

I for one found it difficult. I always lost things in the grass, it was just too thick and crowded... and you're right, even corpses were hard to find, many times I had to switch to third person view just to TRY and find what I was looking for, 70% of the times I didn't (especially on hills when the corpses and weapons just slide on the ground).

As for vampire dusting, great idea. But I don't support wooden stakes, it's unnecessary work and it doesn't fit with TES feeling.

It should be almost impossible to sneak up on a vampire unless its sleeping

I think they should do what they did with Fallout, if an enemy dies and loses his weapon you can still loot it off his corpse.. but then again I don't like that because its unrealistic and its fun to hunt down the dropped weapon sometimes. I dunno..

And yeah vampires being better in general would be nice.

1- yes it was hell on earth XD

2- that would be awesome and it would explain the (vampire dust) we keep getting when looting a vamp corpse.

lol, exactly what I was thinking.

Anybody who says they never lost anything in the grass... you mean you never killed anybody near a slope and had the weapon go sliding off somewhere? What about killing a will-o-the-wisp, those things roll like an eighteen wheeler with a full tank of gas when you kill em and the yellowish bits hit the ground. I've lost stuff in the grass many times. I recently killed a bandit and there was a sloped area on both sides with many trees and rocks and tall grass and I have no idea where the weapon went flying off to. I play in 3rd person and usually you can spot the body or the weapon but sometimes it's pretty hard, especially if it's a small item like a dagger. I think I prefer that enemies drop things, rather than having it available in their inventory after death. It makes it more interesting to have to search for stuff but it can be annoying if it was a sword or something you wanted and it can't be seen. Maybe they'll have shorter grass in Skyrim or less dense grass or the grass will flatten out under the weight of bodies and heavier items.......... or maybe even some item detection spell like they have in the Finders Keepers mod which I've used before to detect stuff, especially arrows as I like to retrieve those when I can.

As for the vampire dust thing, maybe they should go poof like suggested when they die. Maybe when they die, the flesh turns to dust and their skeleton collapses in a heap.

I didn't have any trouble with dropped items, but "dusting" vampires upon destruction would be a great detail. I'm hoping the monster death animations/effects in general are more dramatic and creature-specific this time around.

Tall grass + sloped surface = lost stuff.

I hope that there will be a little more realism in Skyrim. When a five pound dagger is dropped onto rough dirt, it doesn't go sliding off as if it's on greasy glass.

It's actually OK with me if little stuff gets lost or bounces off, though. It's really pretty immersive.

I never watched Buffy, but am a fan of the Blade movies! They had the vampires turn to ash effect that I enjoyed. Looking forward to it in Skyrim

I dont think the vampires turned to dust in morrowind you were just able to collect dust from them after they were dead.

I never had too much trouble finding corpses in Oblivion as they're typically large enough to be reletively easy to spot (Sometimes if I fought large groups of enemies it would be hard to tell which corpse I'd looted and which one I hadn't, but that's another matter.) Although sometimes I had a hard time finding the weapons enemies dropped, but that could easily be fixed by doing what Fallout 3 did with weapons, making it so that even though they fall out of an NPC's hand they can still be looted from the corpse, that made my life a lot easier.

As for vampires turning to dust upon death, as long as the effect didn't end up looking cheesy, which that kind of effect can if it's done poorly, it could be an interesting idea, if nothing else, it would add a bit more variety to deaths, which can get a little repetitive when dead characters just fall down all the time.

Hmm, well I've almost always (90% of the time) been able to find such items, unless it's something really small like a ring. You just gotta search awhile, usually.



This sounds cool. :shocking: I wanna see vampires in general be gorier than they were in Oblivion. I hated the fact taht if my vamp went to bite a victim, there was no blood...no struggle. It was so lame!

Just dont be evil to anyone, although I like killing Innocent people . The NPCs will come to you with items you dropped if they like you