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[Airbot]

Well, the magic resistance seems to be fixed.
Verified game cache after updating to the patch just for kicks.

Just fought and killed a blood dragon though post 1.3, and it didn't burn up and give it's soul at all. Also had a random CTD.



I thought they were supposed to have fixed the dragon soul thingy back in the 1.2 patch.






BTW, there are the release notes for 1.3.


Patch 1.3 Notes:

   Information

General stability improvements
Optimize performance for Core 2 Duo CPUs
Fixed Radiant Story incorrectly filling certain roles
Fixed magic resistances not calculating properly
Fixed issue with placing books on bookshelves inside player purchased homes
Fixed dragon animation issues with saving and loading
Fixed Y-look input to scale correctly with framerate

News - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Updated

 

[Airbot]

Wow, look at that!

An official LAA!

We’re also planning on rolling out support for 4-Gigabyte Tuning (Large Address Aware) next week for our PC users. Stay tuned!

Skyrim Update 1.3 now on Steam | Bethesda Blog

 

[sygnus21]

Well when I was writing that post that's when the 1.3 patch kicked in so I guess you'll never know if my theory was true. Anyway glad to hear the 1.3 patch seems to have fixed it. And I got a post 1.3 crash as well

Thanks for the news link, it wasn't up when I checked it after my game updated. Glad to see it up now.

Wow, look at that!

An official LAA!

We’re also planning on rolling out support for 4-Gigabyte Tuning (Large Address Aware) next week for our PC users. Stay tuned!

Skyrim Update 1.3 now on Steam | Bethesda Blog

Yeah I was just about to post that while writing this till I saw your post. All I can say is happy happy joy joy

 

[fseal]

About 1 in 5 dragons fails to give me a soul even with the 1.2 patch. I think it's probably just time to start thinking that it's a normal random game event like finding a treasure chest with nothing in it

Speaking of which, something even MORE annoying. I killed a lot of dragons (maybe 14) and never "spent" their souls because I didn't realise you had to for a long time. Well now I do and I can only spend down to 11 souls and then it says I don;t have any more to spend... even though it lists 11. I then kill 3 more dragons and I have 14 and then I spend 3 and I can;t spend a fourth, again back to 11 souls, unspendable

 

[Airbot]

Speaking of which, something even MORE annoying. I killed a lot of dragons (maybe 14) and never "spent" their souls because I didn't realise you had to for a long time.

Same here. Had accumulated quite a few souls and shouts before I figured out how to actually spend them. They should have made it more obvious IMO. :huh:
Or just made it automatic. Learned a shout and had a dragon soul - automatically used the soul to activate the shout.

Although you have to have an equal amount of shouts to spend all those souls on, or you can't spend anymore....because you don't have any shouts learned to spend them on.

 

[sygnus21]

You can only spend dragon souls on shouts you have, so for example you have 5 shouts, but 10 souls, you'll only spend 5 souls. On the other hand if you have 5 shouts, but only 3 souls, you'll only be able to use 3 shouts. I don't know how many shouts there are but I currently have 16 and still have 21 souls left.

What you have to do is click on the shout that's greyed out, it will say something to the effect that you have not spent a soul. Click OK, then click "R" than click OK again, you should now have that shout available.

As for dragons giving up their souls, I haven't run into one that didn't giveit up, yet.

 

[vierasniper]

Speaking of which, something even MORE annoying. I killed a lot of dragons (maybe 14) and never "spent" their souls because I didn't realise you had to for a long time.

Same here. Had accumulated quite a few souls and shouts before I figured out how to actually spend them. They should have made it more obvious IMO. :huh:

lol more obvious? its hard to miss it. unless your like the guys that played witcher 2 and complained that it was too hard.



On a more serious note, any one have any mods? Not just reskins of items but actual mods. I have one that introduces arrow fletching, but it feels like it was always there.

 

[fseal]

No I have shouts that need activation with a soul, and 11 souls. But it will not let me spend any of the first 11 souls I got on any of the shouts I have not yet activated.

It's probably a save game glitch...

 

[Airbot]

Speaking of which, something even MORE annoying. I killed a lot of dragons (maybe 14) and never "spent" their souls because I didn't realise you had to for a long time.

Same here. Had accumulated quite a few souls and shouts before I figured out how to actually spend them. They should have made it more obvious IMO. :huh:

lol more obvious? its hard to miss it.

Not if you're playing with an xbox controller. You have to push X to spend the soul. Other buttons normally used are A. Which would just say the soul needs to be unlocked. Yeah, well, it only dawns on you after awhile that you'll need to push X to spend it. How am I going to know? I'm sure I wasn't the only one. :sarc:

At first I thought certain earned shouts needed a certain amount of souls before one shout could be unlocked. And so on and so on...

 

[sygnus21]

No mods used here.

There certainly are lots of people who are confused by, and complaining about, the shout/soul spend issue. I just looked through the instructions, again, and I'll paste the shout instructions here....

SHOUTS

Shouts are special combinations of dragon language that produce powerful effects. Press Z to use an equipped shout.​

The longer you hold it down, the more words of a shout are used, and the more powerful the shout. You can only have one power or shout equipped at a time.​

After using a shout, you must wait before shouting again. Your compass will flash while recharging. When your compass stops flashing, you can shout again.​

The individual words of each shout must be learned by finding Word Walls in the world. After learning a word, you must unlock it with a dragon soul before you can use it. Dragon souls are absorbed by slaying dragons.

The problem with that last statement is it doesn't tell you how to unlock a shout - which is the "R" key (PC's using keyboard)​

Anyway I found out early when I went to use a shout that wasn't unlocked. I just followed the on-screen instructions and good to go.​

I guess a lot of people just assume shouts are automatically available once learned, which we see is not the case.​

 

[vierasniper]

my son of skyrim is going pretty strong. i finished the companions quest line and it was pretty awesome, im like level 20 and i still haven't touched the main quest.

 

[fseal]

Hit 45 last night and finally joined the Imperials side of the war.

Yeah both sides suck, but being an Argonian I didn't fee like being told how *I* suck when I'm trying to work for someone

Besides, I like White Run a lot would rather fight for that city...

 

[sygnus21]

Haven't did the Companions quest at all dispite getting it early, and I'm all the way up to level 37 now.

 

[vierasniper]

Haven't did the Companions quest at all dispite getting it early, and I'm all the way up to level 37 now.

id recomend it for a warrior type of character. or any character really but it has a lot of goodies for warriors.

 

[fseal]

Tried out a nice mod last night called True Darker Dungeons.

Visually awesome. Actually makes using a torch a requirement sometimes (unlike now where it and the Kagit night eye are NEVER needed :/) Mist/dust/magic effects and such are much nicer, lighting nicer due to the higher contrast (darker) backgrounds. Much more immursive feeling, looking down a tunnel you see blackness now, need a torch or mage light or use the fire/candle lights to get into every nook and cranny now. Seeing an enchanting table glowing in the mist in a dark corner of a cavern is WAY more awesome with this mod installed

Haven't played with it for any length of time yet to see how I like it long term but it's a quick and easy mod (not injector or anything) to add or remove.

 

[Alsisgevat]

LOL I just did a drinking quest, I went drinking with some guy in solitude...woke up in a feild, then had to this 'hangover" tipe run around where i search for someones lost goat, I fondled a sacred girls statue, got married,lost the ring....in the end it worked out, that was one surprising and weird quest!! Welldone Skyrim!

 

[fseal]

LOL I just did a drinking quest, I went drinking with some guy in solitude...woke up in a feild, then had to this 'hangover" tipe run around where i search for someones lost goat, I fondled a sacred girls statue, got married,lost the ring....in the end it worked out, that was one surprising and weird quest!! Welldone Skyrim!

Heh, that was one I ran into early on. Very funny, cleaning up the mess(es) you made the night before. I've even run into some repercussions from it weeks later

 

[Alsisgevat]

Haha,yeah it was a great surprise!

 

[sygnus21]

OK, without giving away major spoilers can anyone tell me why these (red dot) are still locked despite me fully completing the main quest with those in red?

Completed but still locked



You can see the complete list for the main quest here - Skyrim:Main Quest - UESPWiki. All of those are done.

Here's a screen on some of my completed quests, note the inclusion of Unbound Bleak Falls.

 

[Wishmaster]

Although I cant say for sure, it might just be a bug in the achievements.


One way you can test if this is the case.
Do you have any saves where you were close to completing any of those objectives?
If so, load it up and and see if you get the achievment this time.


I remember Darksiders doing the same thing. Not updating for key Acievement places. But if you reloaded and tried again, you could sometimes get it.

Kinda wondering if the same thing is happening where it doesnt trigger properly at times.