SubRosa- Yes, all of the effects. haze, mist, fog kick in much earlier than the last game. If you dislike it then certainly stay away from the True Storms mod. I was walking near Redbelly Mine yesterday and the whole mist effect kicked it- I thought it was a creature from Stephen King 'The Mist'. It was so over the top.

And with god-rays and new lighting/shadow at the same time there is a whole lot going on.

Grits- LOvE the new pic! The mist through the trees looks sweet. Good pick up by Lopov to spot the distant tower. I didn't see that the first time. It almost looks like the two guys are having a disagreement- one standing off slightly while the other explains his point of view. Lol.

And don't tease Buffy with the shirt-off pic. You know how she gets about water and spontaneous undressing....

This post has been edited by Winter Wolf: Nov 5 2016, 10:58 PM

Fired up Special Edition on the triple monitors. It's unplayable that way, as the majority of the UI scales off the top and bottom, until Flawless Widescreen adds support.

But it does do the wide open tundra well.

Winter Wolf: Wow, you really need to explore Blackreach! It is one of the neatest areas in Skyrim. My guess is you never did the main quest, as it is sort of part of that. You can get there without doing the main quest, but you have to do the Septimus Signus/Hermaus Mora quest to get into Blackreach. The main quest also forces you to do that quest, because there is a main quest item within Blackreach.


Acadian: Arvak is my favorite horse in the Elder Scrolls games. Because you can summon him up when you want him, and he disappears when you don't need him.

Persephone found a Bound Bow spell tome in some random loot. So she decided to use it to get the spell and start using it for long distance sniping. So far it is has come in handy. But without any perks in the archery skill, it is still mostly something to play with.

P&S did pick up Grimsever while they were at Mizzenmast. I was not expecting it to be there, as Persephone had not talked to Mjoll about recovering it. I thought it would only spawn there if you started Mjoll's quest.


Grits: That flying bandit was an interesting series of events. Persephone got a killcam for killing him, and in the middle of the killcam sequence Serana blasted the same bandit with a lightning bolt (that you see in the pic), which also sent him flying about 30 feet away!

The moment I saw her face in that killcam, I thought of the ending of Unforgiven. It helps that Persephone was literally going on a killing spree at the time.

Team Persephone has come together really well this time around, with Serana, Ulfar, Sigrun, Arvak, and now Durnie.

The Dragon Carved is working so far. I originally tried it with the plate gauntlets and boots. But I got a view from a lower angle, and it made her legs look kind of spindly. So I switched over to all Dragon Carved pieces.


Renee: I have thought about writing Persephone, but she is a difficult character to portray in print. She would work fine in a movie, as the strong, silent type. But in print, she is so taciturn and simply cold that it would be difficult to really portray her. I think I would have to write her from the point of view of another character, like a sidekick. That had me thinking of creating something like perhaps an intelligent magic sword, that might make fun of her and say all the things that she refuses to. Or maybe a ghost that decided to tag along with her. Or even a mortal child whom she adopted. But none of it ever came together. If she does make an appearance in the story I have in mind, it will be written from Aela's pov.



Mothman prophecies

Serana

Dark Stalker

Darkfall Passage

Hello there

Forgotten Vale

Skinhead

Visiting

Forgotten Vale II

Icy Lake

Lakeshore

Overlook

What could this be?

Archery

In the dark

Waterfall

Reverse grip

Splekt!

Loosed

Pincushion

That is amazing!

This really does look better and bigger too! Thanks for showing these!







Nice!







The Riverwood dock shot is fine, but I'm floored by your screen of the month shot !!!! That is Awesome, what kind of a rig was that taken on, the XBox? Awesome !!!!!







I have pretty much not liked Skyrim since it came out, but these screens make it actually look enticing! Everything looks roomier, larger, and cleaner/crisper!

Great shots, thanks for sharing them, WW !!!!







This looks much more colorful than the vanilla shots I've been seeing till now, this is awesome! A bit too foggy in some shots, but I think someone said you can remove the fog by an INI tweak.

Thanks for sharing these, WW !!!!

Grits: Jerric looks amazing. He's like Kurt Cobain's cousin, or something.

SR: That would be fine actually, if you told some stories (even one or two) through somebody else's eyes. Persephone's gotta be an interesting one to be around.

Wow, look at those moths. Serana looks positively hot in that first picture of her too. She looks like an actual hot goth lady.

I love "Reverse Grip". I can see what you mean too, I think. I look at Persephone's eyes in that pic. How can a human like us even discern what's really going on behind those eyes?

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I finally got my Skyrim game running again. Somehow, half the .pex and .psc files which are part of SKSE were simply *not* there in the Data file anymore. Which boggles me. Where did they go? It's not like they got overwritten by anything else. I also had some additional problems with CTDs, and wound up totally re-installing almost all my mods again through Wrye Bash, just to be doubly-sure that nothing else will go wrong.

And nothing else has gone wrong. So finally here we go. Nassqa is back.

Nassqa doesn't do very much. He's a miner, with literally no ambition other than to mine ores and sell them. In a way, this makes him the perfect character for me to return to, after several months of not playing TES: V. And after reading ghastley's Kothet story (which has some mining in it) I got particularly inspired to return to my Akavir.

Occasionally Nassqa must run though. He hunts occasionally, but never engages in fights. In this case, one of the bandits in Embarshard Mine caught him!

This post has been edited by Renee: Nov 6 2016, 06:39 PM

Nassqua! I remember him. He actually looks asian too. I cannot get a truly asian-looking female character in Skyrim.

Ghastley – That is indeed a fabulous panorama of the tundra!


SubRosa - Those ancestor moths know one’s true character and I’m not surprised they deemed Persephone to their liking.

The long and forced closeness with Serana through Forgotten Vale forges either love or hate toward the Daughter of Cold Harbour I reckon. Though a bit stormy at times, Buffy and Serana emerged as close friends. I bet P&S will emerge the same – a friendship forged in ice and the blood of Falmer.

In the dark is a magnificent shot of P&S!

I love the Loosed shot – glowing bow and glowing eyes!


Renee – Oh I remember Nassqa the miner. SubRosa is right about what a nice job you did incorporating Asian features into his face. How nice to see him back!

I have just realized that I forgot to say thanks on my last post to Renee - sorry about that.

Nassqa looks like he has had a really hard life down in those mines. Still, it does help to keep the body lean. It is a very interesting role play that you have going on there.

mALX- I am really happy that you like the look of Skyrim SE. For console gamers it is clearly the best game that I have ever played. The 2011 Skyrim was a horrible game on console that made me want to throw it over the back fence. With mods this one is simply sublime. I really like the god-rays, lighting etc but it might not be to everyone tastes.

You are right about it feeling roomier. Skyrim always had good world art but with the new engine they are showing it off like never before.

SubRosa- You are 100% correct. As a result of me throwing Skyrim over the back fence on many occasions I never got to see either the MQ, Blackreach, Serena and Dawnguard or much of Dragonborn. I have only done a little of each. I feel like I have gone 5 years back in time and the game has just come out with SE.

Darkfall passage and the glowing mushrooms looks so epic. Although when I think of the dark I think of Falmer.

Loosed was a great pic. Those eyes!!

My favorite one though- Overlook. The ice, the two characters, so neat.

Renee: I guess Persephone has been dead long enough to start attracting insects!

Serana is a hot goth lady, who unlike other goth girls really is a vampire!



Acadian: The only character of mine who had a problem with Serana was Revansch. But that was because Revansch had been tortured and killed by vampires and then rose from the dead to take vengeance upon them. That does not work at all with the Dawnguard questline. Since then I have approached it with characters who possess less vitriol for vampires. Thanks to that, they have all gotten along with Serana just fine. Persephone has the strongest bond with her by far, thanks to also being undead. Serana is like a sister, just like Sigrun.


Winter Wolf: There were plenty of Falmer to fight through before getting to Darkfall Passage, and plenty more inside the Forgotten Vale.

Persephone's glowing silver eyes were added in her current incarnation. In fact, finding them was one of my inspirations to pick up the character again.


Glacial Passage

Glacial Passage II

Auriel's Sanctum

Frozen

Deadwalkers

Vrythur's Throne

Thawed

Into the light

Serana

Overlook

The Army Of The Dead

If this is a consular ship, then where is the ambassador?

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 7 2016, 03:37 AM

Wow, it was Darth Vader in that last pic!

I have no idea what all these pics are (Dawnguard or MQ I presume!) but they look sensational.

I see that I have a lot of catching up to do on Skyrim DLC. Lol. Everything looks fantastic though. The ice passages are lovely and the host of undead, both npc and pc are rocking the show.

The Army of the Dead was my favorite. Great shot. Goth, Undead women are hawt!

This post has been edited by Winter Wolf: Nov 7 2016, 10:00 AM

Really enjoying the Special Edition. Add in the fact that my PC is finally built, and it's like a brand new Skyrim!

The Throat from Loreius Farm
My Competition Character in Whiterun
Riverwood in the Evening
Before the Storm
Bleakfalls Barrow

SubRosa -

So much ice and cold! Nice that neither P nor S require a toe ring of resist frost.

Deadwalkers is such a beautiful shot of Red Eyes and Blue Eyes.

And. . . Army of the Dead is a fabulous shot of Red Eyes and Silver Eyes.

Love that moment when Serana picks up VampGeek by the throat to choke him out! Makes ya just wanna cheer!

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Cain –

I’m so glad you’re enjoying Skyrim 2.0.

Your game certainly looks beautiful!

Cain: Wow the skies are so blue, especially in that first pic. The colors just pop out of the screen.

He really has a face that fits his profession - mining. I mean, he couldn't be an Arch-Mage with this kind of gaze and I don't mean this in a bad way.

Love all the new shots! Coool to see you getting into it, Cain. What do you mean "competition character" though?

It's going to be a fun Skyrim Season.


Yes you can. Just use the Akavir mod I found a couple years ago. Actually ... I can't find it on Nexus right now. Maybe I can share it with you somehow.



This post has been edited by Renee: Nov 7 2016, 11:33 PM

Over at Haven we have Dead is Dead competitions for funsies. That is Tyranus, my Breton bounty hunter for our Bounty Hunter round.

I tried using one of those Akavir mods, and it didn't give me an asian-looking character. I even tried a preset, and it didn't look anything like the pictures on the Nexus...

No worry, I will totally hook you up, hon. The mod I use adds an entirely new race (Akaviri) but like I said, I don't know what its name is. I'll dig it up later when I'm gaming on PC.

This mod requires Apachi Hair, which I believe you already have.

Cain: I've been meaning to check out Haven. Looks pretty cozy over there.

This post has been edited by Renee: Nov 8 2016, 01:37 AM

I do have Apachii Hair, so that is no problem.