It's too frustrating

Honestly, the first half hour I played Skyrim, I considered it to be the best game I ever played. After that half hour however, I just kept dying and dying and experiencing glitch after glitch and bug after bug. Except cheating, I tried everything and every playing style, including changing difficulty settings. But no matter how high level you become, you never get better. I'm an level 65 archer with 93 archery and still need at least 6 headshots to take out a bear. And magic is even worse, the amount of damage you deal doesn't even come close to the amount of damage your enemies do. Even if you are using the same spells. I'm seriously scared of every enemy I encounter, because it only takes them one good swing and bang! dead and I have to keep firing, chopping for a couple of minutes. I played it for about 60 hours now, and I only play it for the environment and atmosphere. To me, the gameplay is completely broken, unless of course Skyrim is made for roleplaying as a prey animal in the wild, that I could get into.

But since I noticed that this story is a bit too close to trolling for some people, I want to be perfectly honest and clear here;

1. When I wrote this, yes I was pissed off. And yes, after practicing I did got better. But I got stuck after 60 hours of playing at fighting Alduin, and all my autosaves were occupied by this. Needless to say as not a real experienced gamer and being it my 1st char, Alduin kicked my ass time and time over. With my last solid save playing at 40 hours, kinda sucks. Be that my own mistake as it is. And I got more examples that after an considerable amount of time getting completely stuck is terribly annoying.

2. I work fulltime, maybe I just dont have the spare time to really get good at Skyrim within a couple of weeks. Something I only have considered recently.

3. I don't want anyone to think I look down on anyone or anything. It's just that in my opinion, Skyrim could've been so much more, but TO ME that breaks my RP experience. That is actually most of the cause of my frustration.

4. And I do still respect the great immerse environment and atmosphere. That is in my opinion unmatched. And I'm a poor sod that bought a pc good enough for games like Crisis and of the sort.

5. I really am sorry if I offended anyone sincere. I wouldn't take me that seriously though, I have more of a life outside the Internet than on it

Question pardnar. Do you play on PC or Console?

If you are of the PC gaming Race, many well made mods that can rival and even surpass official content can be added to the game from places such as the Steam Workshop and the Skyrim Nexus very eazy to install and uninstall...now some may ask if Skyrim is so good why do people add mods? well the answer is simple people add mods to make an already excellant and enjoyable game even better then it already is and to fix numerous bugs that were never fixed by Bethesda.

Skyrim does have it's quirks as far as bugs go. I'm on the Xbox and even after the latest patch I still see glitches. My character also excels at Archery and while using Sneak can take down a bear in one or two shots. Keep your distance and Fus Roh Dah.

If you're going to use Destruction magic, you pretty much have to use it exclusively or yes, your damage output will suck and enemies will own you. I know you said you changed the difficulty but if you're really having trouble take it all the way down to Novice. Play an easy style, like a warrior with sword and shield. Keep a follower with you. Get the hang of the play and stick with it for awhile. Use Smithing to improve your gear and excess gold to train skills up. You will eventually start mopping the floor with most foes. Mages require a completely different strategy than just wading in and blasting.

I favor Sneak based attacks and it's even easier to take your enemies down. Also use Alchemy to make potions and poisons to give yourself an edge.

60 hours isn't really a lot of time to explore every style of play. Give the game a chance and find the style you enjoy playing.

I'm a PC gamer, and yeah I think you are right about installing mods and keep practicing etc. It's just that the constantly dying and fleeing destroys my gaming experience. But I guess it's just adjusting to that or find an other game.

Not sure what to tell you there pardnar, unless you're constantly charging the bad guys like a lemming. Running and dying is part of the experience.

Not all fights should be fought, you can always take the long way around, sneak past, or bring a companion (or 15 if you got the mod for it.)

Even in those instances when there is no way out, you can always go home, and come back later with better gear and skills. There are many powerful single use items in the game, which I mostly sell for loot but can help in one of them very specific pinches. You know? That scroll that makes Draugar bosses flee, or that fire spell that turn frost trolls to barbecue.

Hang in there pardnar! The game ain't so bad once you get the hang of it.

What is your difficulty.
How You put perks.

I legendary, your weapons do much less damage than usually like 0,25 % and enemies do 3x more. Adept is one in one.

For glithes Unofficial patches are must BUT you will lose
- restoration bug
- hidden chests

If you want play as legendary, use followers as shields and drawn enemy attention. Serena is not melee, but she is essential, wont die. So she is perfect meat shield (yep in too difficult sitsuation, I hide behind Serenas back, she is ba**ss vampire chick).

For followers mods
Which is better AFT or UFO, I have use both, but none as this play throught.

If you are dieing all the time I would lower the difficulty. I play on adept, but for the first few levels I will sometimes lower it to apprentice. To me it's no fun dieing all the time either. Sneak with archery is fun, and can get overpowered. I can one shot most enemies with my sneak archer. Melee is my next favorite, but there have been a few times I have had to leave a fight. I'm only at level 20 now though. Magic takes a whole different play style, and it's not for everyone. My pure mage took some getting use to. But it's a lot of fun too. I make sure to have a follower for my mage, and only felt comfortable at higher levels to go it alone. I also have my summons, Dremora Lords are my all time favorite. Alchemy is a huge help, I always use it. It can be a life saver at times.

lol... Must be that Skyrim redone mod.... yea it's meant to make the game harder >.> Notice myself dying alot with that mod installed keeps things interesting and you have to watch your back at all times no matter what your playstyle is ... Bandits can jump up... Knock you down with their two handled weapons then finish you off hahahaha

I dunno, I'd say you're doing it wrong.

One aspect of Skyrim that is not very obvious, is that you shouldn't concentrate too much effort on the main quest line, and a few other major quest lines. If you advance those lines too quickly, you'll soon find yourself on the receiving end of a smackdown. Don't be reluctant to work minor side quests. Actually, make side quests a bit of a priority.

Another piece of advice, if you're still at the Whiterun portion of the main quest line, exercise some reluctance to attack Giants. They hit pretty hard.

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One aspect of Skyrim that is not very obvious, is that you shouldn't concentrate too much effort on the main quest line, and a few other major quest lines. If you advance those lines too quickly, you'll soon find yourself on the receiving end of a smackdown. Don't be reluctant to work minor side quests. Actually, make side quests a bit of a priority.

Another piece of advice, if you're still at the Whiterun portion of the main quest line, exercise some reluctance to attack Giants. They hit pretty hard.

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Ok thanks, makes sense

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DenverRalphy said:

One aspect of Skyrim that is not very obvious, is that you shouldn't concentrate too much effort on the main quest line, and a few other major quest lines. If you advance those lines too quickly, you'll soon find yourself on the receiving end of a smackdown. Don't be reluctant to work minor side quests. Actually, make side quests a bit of a priority.

Another piece of advice, if you're still at the Whiterun portion of the main quest line, exercise some reluctance to attack Giants. They hit pretty hard.

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Ok thanks, makes sense

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I don't know how much you've gotten into smithing and enchanting, but each of those go a long ways to increasing the damage you inflict and limit what you take.

Also getting better equipment is important. You can have 100 archery, but if your bow sucks then it doesn't mean much.

Also I recommend starting out on lower difficulty levels. Even with good equipment, early on in the game you can still get your butt kicked pretty easy on the higher difficulty levels.

I will say though that I myself didn't really get into the game the first few times I picked it up. I played maybe a week and then stopped for a month or two and only picked it up again after getting bored to whatever I had been playing. The second time around, the game really grew on me.

There's a lot to Skyrim that takes a ton of playing to learn. It took a long time to truly figure out the game mechanics, but with the right knowledge you can take out bears with a single arrow, even on master difficulty, without cheating or abusing anything.

I think the key is enchanting. Learn everything about enchanting and you'll know how to make a great character. It's probably the most complicated aspect of the game but if you know it inside out you'll have no difficulty with the game at its default difficulty

Are you doing any smithing, alchemy, or enchanting?

I start out upsmithing and collecting ingredients, and I disenchant every magical item I can find, using my loot profits to buy soul gems. It sounds like you're using stock weapons and armor, and yes...you will lose your lunch money quite regularly, without upping the ante.

The priority perks for me are melee (usually 1h) and armor, followed by archery. As I level up and get perks that I can't yet place into one of those, I use them for other things, like alchemy and enchanting.

I have a bit of a formula, starting with the loot I collect from dungeons. The first thing I do is try to come up with 1000 septims, to get a horse. Then, whenever I do a dungeon, I find a place close to the "front door" with a barrel, urn, or something. When I get close to overencumbered, I backtrack to the storage and dump it off, then go the rest of the way through. When I'm all done, I go back to the front door, get all my junk and trudge out to the horse, which lets me fast travel with all that stuff.

Go somewhere with an enchanter closeby, like fast travel right to Dragons Reach. Disenchant anything you don't already know the secret for, and sell whatever the mage will buy for a few petty and maybe a grand gem (full). Pickup as many full petty gems as you possibly can. About lvl 23, you can find banish weapons. Disenchant one, and make 10 septim daggers and 40 septim petty gems in to at least 700 septim banish daggers. Cha-ching! With that money, buy more grand gems for your armor and weapons.

Start making yourself enchantments that resist fire, frost, and shock (boots, ring, necklace) or if you have an inborn resistance, then use that slot for something else.

Meanwhile, sell armors to the smith and buy the right kinds of ingots to upsmith your armor/weapons. As soon as you get a smithing enchantment, learn the secret and enchant your four pieces of "smithing gear," and buy/make a smithing potion. Between those two items, your armor and weapons will see a significant jump in damage, especially with your perks in the right place. In my opinion, the base armsman perks are more useful than the specialty mace,axe,sword perks at first, as they affect straight up damage rate. Same with armor.

Pick every single flower, mushroom, bug, bee, anything you can get your hands on, and make potions. Paralysis and damage health potions, healing and fortify health potions, etc., are a lifesaver.

You won't be frustrated for long...at least as far as your power. Bugs, unfortunately, I can't fix.

Good advice, the banish enchantment is pure gold. Enchanting and alchemy are both big money makers, and if you focus on both of those disciplines you'll end up with tons of money. The problem then is how to get rid of all that stuff, which is why I'd always recommend the first speech perk and the following three on the left side of the skill tree. The level 50 perk is the big one- then (by using trainers that also sell items) you can spend 10,000 gold on training and easily sell enough items to the same person to make back all of that money. This is good for further leveling speech to chase the next perk on that side of the tree.

Unless I'm trying to put limits on myself (I just started playing on legendary so that may never be the case again) I'll always do enchanting, alchemy and speech. All of that money becomes extremely useful for skill training in skills that level slowly

Wish I could have more to contribute, but I simply do not have those issues. By level 12 or so I'm very good at not dieing and by the time I'm over 20, my arrows can generally take down a bear with 2 or three shots and a deathlord with about 5. I'm kind of liking magic now that I've got my regen over 300%, wear armor and use it often.

Wish I had some advise, but, all I can suggest is perking up your archery and getting some archery enhancement.

My issue used to be one-handed, but, once I started perking and using some enhancement those problems solved themselves.

Hope you have better luck soon. Wouldn't want to lose a fellow Skyrimmer! (?????) Somehow that doesn't sound quite right.

I'm not sure how you can be a level 65 archer with only 93 in archery. (Weapon skills go up very fast with normal use.) Come to think of it, I'm not sure how you can be level 65 after only about 60 hours of play; your skills must be spread very oddly, and you must have gotten most of your skill bumps by training or grinding.

You shouldn't have much trouble putting most enemies down if you have a decent bow and all the damage-boosting archery perks that you qualify for. I'd have to see how you built your character to figure out how you can be dying so much.

I know the mistake I use to make when using archery was that I was trying to take my time and perfect each shot. It's more efficient when you "trust the force" and just let them fly.