Lutris, u jelly?

 

When I was linked this I was not expecting to enjoy it. I was wrong

Skyrim Rap

 

Dan Bull :awesome

 

NOT IN PARTICULAR.

Inq's agreed to gift the game to me.

SO I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL.

 

Is it said anywhere that you can join the silver hand?

 

Is the turning into a werewolf thing confirmed or more wishful thinking?

 

Confirmed.

Apparently these are the powers vampires and werewolves give you:

Spoiler

Werewolf:
Beast Form once a day
100% Disease Resistance

Beast Form is a long-duration transformation that gives you knockback attacks and insane movement speed. Attacks are based on the one-handed skill and using them does increase the skill. You cannot use weapons or spells in this form, nor can you enter the menu. Your stamina drains slowly and recovers quickly, but your only way to heal is by eating enemies. Doing this recovers health and extends the duration of Beast Form. NPCs who watch you transform will attack you.

Vampire:
1st Stage - Your eyes are red and NPCs will start to comment on your eyes and your skin. While sneaking you have have the ability to feed on sleeping NPCs to lower your vampiric stage to the first stage.

Abilities:
Champion of the Night - Illusion spells cast by a vampire are 25% more powerful.
Night Stalker's Footsteps - Vampires are 25% harder to detect while sneaking.
Resist Disease - Your vampiric blood gives you 100% resistance to disease.
Resist Poison - Your vampiric blood gives you 100% resistance to poison.
Resist Frost - Your vampiric blood gives you 25% resistance to frost.
Weakness to Fire - Your vampiric blood gives you -25% weakness to fire.
Weakness to Sunlight - Health, magicka and stamina do not recover while in sunlight and are reduce by 15 points. (only when your outside during the day)

Powers:
Vampire's Servant - Reanimate a weak dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds. (can only be use once a day)
Vampire Sight - Improve night vision for 60 seconds. (can be use multiple time and be toggle on/off)

Spells:
Vampiric Drain - Absorb 2 points of health per second from target. (its a novice destruction spell, cost 5 mana a sec)


2nd Stage (24 hours after first stage without feeding)

Changes from Stage 1:
Resist Frost - Your vampiric blood gives you 50% resistance to frost.
Weakness to Fire - Your vampiric blood give s you -50% weakness to fire.
Weakness to Sunlight - Health, magicka and stamina do not recover while in sunlight and are reduce by 30points. (only when your outside during the day)
Vampire's Servant - Reanimate a more powerful dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds. (can only be use once a day)
Vampiric Drain - Absorb 3 points of health per second from target. (its a novice destruction spell, cost ? mana a sec) *forgot to check mana cost*

Powers:
Vampire Seduction - Creatures and people up to level 10 wont fight for 30 seconds.

3rd Stage (24 hours after 2nd stage without feeding)

Changes from Stage 2:
Resist Frost - Your vampiric blood gives you 75% resistance to frost.
Weakness to Fire - Your vampiric blood give s you -75% weakness to fire.
Weakness to Sunlight - Health, magicka and stamina do not recover while in sunlight and are reduce by 45 points. (only when your outside during the day)
Vampire's Servant - Reanimate a powerful dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds. (can only be use once a day)
Vampiric Drain - Absorb 4 points of health per second from target. (its a novice destruction spell, cost 12 mana a sec)

4th Stage (24 hours after 3rd stage without feeding) Most NPCs will attack you on sight. Unknown if a follower or faction you belong to will also attack you.

Changes from Stage 3:
Resist Frost - Your vampiric blood gives you 100% resistance to frost.
Weakness to Fire - Your vampiric blood give s you -100% weakness to fire.
Weakness to Sunlight - Health, magicka and stamina do not recover while in sunlight and are reduce by 60 points. (only when your outside during the day)
Vampire's Servant - Reanimate a very powerful dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds. (can only be use once a day)
Vampiric Drain - Absorb 5 points of health per second from target. (its a novice destruction spell, cost 15 mana a sec)

Powers:
Embrace of Shadows - Vampire is invisible and has improve vision for 180 seconds. (can only be use once a day)



Final Notes: Being a vampire is much more well-suited to a stealth-based character, whereas being a werewolf is more useful to melee fighters. Both have some very useful benefits for anyone though. Because there isn't really a penalty for just being a werewolf, it's the safer one to go with if you're undecided. Additionally, with vampires being immune to poison and both being immune to disease, argonians, bosmer, and redguards are looking even less useful.

 

So is turning into a werewolf voluntary or forced on you at night like in the bloodmoon expansion pack for morrowind?

 

Seems Vampires get more advantages though.

 

Well, vampires also have a few social disadvantages. Werewolves don't.

If you look at it from a purely mathematical perspective, yes, but I know that some people won't want to role-play a vampire, for whatever reason. Playing the 'optimal character' may make you more powerful than the standard character, but it takes away some of the enjoyment for me.

 

New trailer is awesome.

 

Oh my god. What an awesome trailer. :awesome

Edit: In other new.

The Animation of Skyrim

 

Glad they revamped the engine. All of that shit would look either awkward and stiff, or downright painful in Oblivion or in the recent two Fallout games. Assuming that the footage there is accurate to what we'll really be seeing in the game, at least.

Speaking of which, I'm looking forward to seeing what they'll do for the next Fallout iteration with this engine.

 

I was a vampire in Oblivion, but I don't think I will be in Skyrim. In Oblivion, at least, you could go out in the daytime if you had fed recently. Also, being a vampire doesn't seem to make you stronger in Skyrim like it did in Oblivion.

Can Argonians become werewolves? Do they grow fur? Or turn into some sort of lizard wolf?

 

Argonians are immunee to disease aren't they?

 

75% resistance to disease, according to the wiki.

 

Voluntary.

Lulwut? How the hell did being a vampire make you stronger in Oblivion? That thing sucked.

Yeah, they can.

 

And I thought I couldn't get MORE excited.

 

That was to 'become a werewolf', not 'become a lizard wolf', just so you know.

 

Yeah, but still...

Does lycanthropy have any effect on your normal avatar? I remember vampirism (why the hell did they EVER come up with that odd name) slightly altering how you looked, even as an Argonian. Would it mean I'd get a beard?