Hassat Hunter

Oblivion adventures: Edit; looks like I missed all the fun

Nope... no luck to be found here. Unless you call *bad luck* luck too

@ Kaftan: Nope, luck at 51. It was drained to 41 at one point, but that has since been restored. And every enemy I meet has Mythrill on currently. NO exceptions; It is really annoying. Also the local armorer HAD Orcish once, now that I returned (when needing it) to buy it he only had Iron and Leather? WTF I do already found myself decent weaponry though (and every enemy I meet has magical weaponry). The 15 Ebony Blade is pretty nice, even though most enemies I meet now need magic weapons, thus forcing me back on the 8 damage (unless damaged... which is 24/7) Debaser... @ Deadly Nightshade: I really hoped I shouldn't be forced to do this... ah well, if you wan't to play tough *opens PM screen*

Hmmm, lvl 17 now and the game starts to get pretty though; using pretty heavy enemies towards me. The fact I STILL have only steel equipment probably doesn't help either, nor the dissapearance of my amulet, since ALOT of enemies seem to cast magical spells upon me now and 14% back to sender would help alot in battling them...

Just pick his house clean " 2/3 of his targets don't know how to lock a door, so no need to kill them for that looting. Also, does killing pay more? Don't really think so. (only tried with the first person though!) 150 for spying, 150 for killing. Bounty was more though (might have something to do with me taking a guard with her )...

I've seen this before, what does it mean? The power of Google; Too long, didn't read... 1) It is Morrowind. Nice Vet. you are... 2) Your sig is far bigger than forum regulations allow. Combined with the awfull pinkness I might PM some mods with a remove request if you don't do it yourself soon... in order to save my eyes... On Oblivion progress (will keep it short this time ): Visit the nearby Shrine and currently having trouble with it's inhabitants, while collecting meager loot Zombies who take 100 hits with my 14 attack blade... Ghosts who need a worse weapon... need about 40 hits, deal 20% health bar damage and have a nasty spell that causes me to be encumbered and locked on a location, unless I drop 33% of my inventory Do I have to mention I am having a hard time cleaning that Shrine?

Still have to add that one to the current to see your "actual" % board domination.

*cough*with this account*cough*Rabit*cough*

Ever heard of G.O.D. Games...? Let's just keep it at "broke"...

Valve asks money to devs for them using Steam. I don't know if Direct2Drive does so too, but I would suspect that that will be the case. Eiter we have 1) Devs use their own distribution, leaving the risks I mentioned before 2) Devs use other peoples distribution system, and have to pay cash. Smart marketing types smell cash and before you know it the online distributors do the same stuff the publishers are blamed of now, and nobody advances a freaking step, besides the fact we as costumers probably have a longer time between purchase and actual playing and a larger chance that we can no longer play a game we have legally bought... Edit; PS. And publishers/distributors can also easily go broke...

Stories (yah!)... If you fall asleep there is always the "previous button" STORY 1; Teh Great Escape. So I had to get locked up with guy X for some quest. Easy enough, just steal that bowl infront of the guard. So I pick up the bowl. For some reason he didn't notice it though... was it the sudden FPS drop that came out of nowhere during the action? So I just *also* steal the sword next to it. This time it got noticed, and both Jailor and prisoner (how ironic) yelled "thief! thief!" So I ended up getting jailed. Good thing I managed to slip one of those lockpicks with me; so I try to make a break for it. All well, and the lock opens up. Next time I might consider doing that though when the guard isn't standing infront of it :D I run past the Jailor and went for the door. A nice popup told me guards don't like breakout attempts and added additional gold to my bounty. Who cares? I looted the evidence box and quickly (after all I had to make a run for it) only equiped the chest (Steel plate) piece (shouldn't that be unable to attach during combat?) and made a run for it. Got around the corner and whaam... crashed into 12+ guards who just rushed out of the Guards Sleepingquarters. Good thing the archers hit nothing but other guards and I could make a slip to the right. Tried to yield several times but every attempt was ignored. They were out to kill me! I HAD to make a run for it. Crashed past another guard to the Castle's main hall. Tried to run out of the castle. 2 more guards, positioned next to the door and alot less bloodthirsty than their prison and bedroom counterparts tried to convince me into paying or returning back to jail (again). I runned past them out of the castle. Several guards followed me when I ran into town. City watch seemed to be alerted as 2 guards with bows came down on me. I then learned shields are way better defense tools as your bare hands for arrows (oh, and other weaponry too!). After getting some souvenir in my hand for trying such a silly defense method I (once again) made a run for it. Several other guards patrolling through town added in the major assault on me. I made it to the Northern Gate and left the town; hopefully getting rest and freedom in the wild. Once beyond the gate another 2 guards awaited me. But so did a horse. So I stole the horse. Guards cried "THIEF", but my criminal record was long enough and the bounty high enough to not care about this additional crime at all. Some guard with a sword tried to beat me of my horse, failing misserably. Another bowguard took some shots. I was hit by one and my horse by another. But it seemed we actually escaped city guard. So I ran away with my horse quickly from the town when we saw a dead body on the road. Curious we approached the body to check it out. It was a bandit... and the kill was fresh! I heard growling and slowly turned around, facing myself eye-to-eye with a huge Brown Bear. It hit me as I quickly jumped onto my horse. It gave my horse some scars as we went of too. The bear soon lost us but was replaced by a wolf. Not that much of a threat though and he was quickly shaken off too. So I was save once again... and actually made that successfull escape. Where to go? I looked on my map and saw the Imperial City was not too far away; that would become my goal. While riding to the City though I met another bear. I tried to shake it off when I suddenly got a Arobatics level up when being mid-air with my horse. Does horse jumping levels you up too? Nope, I quickly learned... the latest XP was from my own jump. After the risky jumped I heard an animalish death-cry beneath me, what appears? My horse just died from the jump I made with him (and it didn't even looked that high ) and threw me off in midair. I didn't have alot of time, the bear was still chasing me and the fall from my horse and previous encounters with bears/guards left me severly wounded. One blow from Brownie and I would be done for! So I ran behind the corpse of my horse, rolling beautifully (on a sick yet entertaining kind of way) down the hill and ripped that one arrow from his dead corpse (hey, it's gold!). I still needed to get rid of that bear though when I noticed a shrine. People there could kill the bear for me! So I quickly ran there and noticed when I came in they took out their glass weaponry to assault the bear. Unlike I hoped it still tried to kill me instead of the people trying to hack into him! That psycho! So I had to keep running, avoiding any kind of impact, since it would killed me instantly, hoping the worshippers killed the bear. The plan failed and I was hit... and died. To add salt to the wounds the bear died before I even hit the ground... *sigh* Too late for me. STORY 2; Cleaning House. A reload later I found myself in the same town as story 1. Guards still friendly with me though. I was back at town to sell some goods and was heading back to a bandit-infested camp to finish the job and get some more loot. After everything was done in town I returned to the cave. I exited the same Northern exit and came past 3 bodies. These bodies were not sudden though... 2 died by my hand, and the other... Well, let's tell the story of all 3 corpses there. Corpse 1, Imperial Forester: Some while before the current story I walked around this same area for a quest. I found 2 Foresters killing each other. Apparently the dead deer had something to do with it. They had some hefty bit of combat with each other and after 1 won he immediately ran away with an amazing speed I had only seen before on the Khajiit of the Imperial City. I robbed that corpse clean before continuing and that is how I found him back again on the road. Corpse 2/3, Bandits (male redguard/female altmer): After finishing the quest mentioned in the Foresters' death story I returned to town to get my reward. These 2 ambushed me. I easily disposed of both of them and since they had both the same equipment I took the stuff of the woman (couldn't carry both equipments) . Now I properly looted both corpses though I went forward for the cave I was looking for. Came by a farm house before that though. Picked the garden clean of anything eatable and wanted to pay a little visit to the owned of the house. Door locked; How rude! So I just *took* the liberty to get into her house. Her dog (Jake) welcomed me with some barks. She was less welcoming of me though, and never said more to me than (an old) rumor! How dares she. Even my Elven Sword of 12 Attack could noy convince her. Maybe swinging it close would loosen her tongue? Oops! :"> That was a little bit too close; and I think I cut of her tongue instead of loosen it. Or was there some other reason she ran out of her house and dissapeared into the mountains, screaming (hey, maybe she didn't loose her tongue)?... Anyways, during her escape I tried to do a charge upon her, yet missed and threw her dog through the entire house. He landed on the ground with his mouth wide open (guess I hit during a bark)? So after she dissapeared from the crime site I went back in to search her dog. I guess the open mouth invited me to some disgustingly deep investigation into the dog (ah, I AM still a cat after all... no love for the doggies ) and I actually retracted a gold piece from...somewhere. Left him to rot and went to the cave. Entered (Special note: all enemies in the cave wore Mythrill equipment. NO EXCEPTIONS). So; there I was again. Some bandit actually was sleeping in the first real "hall" of the cave... despite 2 dead mates and a rat lying there.... he had guts! For this I promised him a fair dead... so no "sneak attacks" while he was sleeping. Okay, I DID get a free shot or 3 on his head when he waked up but that doesn't count! Having space again I properly looted the new made corpse and the old corpses. Went left further into the cave. Two other bodies now finally receiving their proper looting, and some boxes. Hmmm, a dog in the distance! And the thing smelled me. A quick one-shot-one-kill later I continued on searching the next "room". 2 dead rats... nice dog! Some more chests to loot and a door further inside the cave. Went another "room" further and met a Ranger type enemy. When being a ranged enemy she was weak, the arrows just upped my blocking skill. When I advanched to start beating her on her head she pulled a glass dagger. And she was FAST with it. Hell, she damaged me more in one flurry of that dagger than some huge axe-wielding friends of her did... she did not live out to teach others the quick skill. Looted corpse and room and had some space problems. From then on just dropped lower priced stuff if better priced was available. I can't travel up and down forever! Returned back to the start and to the right this time. Just rats and mudcrabs to be found there. Easy kills and some quick extra loot. Returned to the door further into the cave. Saved before entering (thank god I did that!). Inside many mushrooms I collected and a trap, that I easily spotted and dismantled. Continued on to the main area of this cave, where 3 enemies (or 4) were holding up VERY close to each other. This means trouble (and trouble came!)... * Attempt 1 (Special mention: Only time I met 4 enemies, also only time I had 2 enemies with Fire Damage weapons. Nasty me being a Vampire!): 3 of the 4 sticked close. Very close. I was actually lucky when they spotted me 2 ran upstairs (more on this later) and the weakest (the 4th not on any other attempt... a sleepy Khajiit) was attacking me. Quite easy that one if I may say so. Less so with the 2 other enemies. Besides them being very damaging with their heavy axes, they could also use them fast AND they gave heating damage. I was either Blocking or having my "Heavy hit stumbling back animation" 24/7, never even could get a hit on them when they decided to kill me. Painfull. * Attempt 2 (The area gets alot less worse): Only met 3 enemies now. 2 very close. When 2 spotted me they ran up (more on that later) and then proceeded to me. Cannot really recall this battle precisely, but I do know one weapon made me light up dark blue entirely and the other was lifestealer. I could kill one, but the other overpowered me * Attempt 3 (The successfull one): Once again 3. Once again 2 close. Once again going up (once again see later) and then they came for me. One was a dunmer with a heavy mace type thing which he used very slowly on me. The other was a Nord on speed with an axe on speed. So they came for me and I blocked and hit for my life. They damaged me pretty badly but the Dunmer hitted the bucket pretty soon luckily, allowing me to fully concentrate on the Speed Nord. Also got lucky on this guy as he got stuck in some broken box lying there. It was just a matter of staying back during his flurries and Charge during his resting times. Quite easy as that. One to go, who also went upwards. This allowed me to heal and loot some part of their base, gaining some additional gold/potions and ingredients. The 3rd was downstairs and with 4/5 health again I moved up to him. While he was being a ranger he noticed me when in melee range and never used any of his arrows on me. Being a ranger he didn't really stand a change melee against my Soldier and thus another dead person. Detect life told me this was all in the cave and I looted all on ground level. Now I went to the First Floor to check out what was there. When being on the way up I noticed several corpses of Mudcrabs and Rats. So that was what those guys where killing each time they tried to ran up! Ah well, let the enemies slaughter each other, eh? So the level was pretty clear and I moved quickly to the latest chest of the cave (level 16, having enough skill for 17) protected by a trap I just triggered and outran. Opened the chest to find a handsome reward in expensive Misc. items, a very expansive amulet and a 14 Attack Ebony Longsword. Yah! When scanning my inventory after that I seemed to have lost my 14% reflect magic amulet somewhere... too bad I cannot remind where, and I already do not expect to see it back again. Hopefully I can find something better somewhere soon then. Now I have to choose. Return to town to sell loot or check out that nice looking Aryleid (sp?) ruin just North of the cave? I will sleep a small while over that... adventure (and a levelup ) awaits! @ Judge Hades; You read fast... or just skimmed the text... :D

Those evil drugs! They are just ruining your life like that! :ph34r:

If you play a good game you will be so addicted to it you won't need drugs. Besides that you won't use it since 1) It messes up your aim 2) You cannot get away from drug "Games" 3) You have to go outside to buy it (can't do that now, can we?)

Good grief man, do you go to war with all games you play? Affirmative

Adventures- Part I in this new Threat: So I decided to go to Bruma. Had to fence some stolen stuff weighing me down and wanted to get some additional quests etc. So first thing what you do arriving in a new town is checking who leaves his door unlocked while not being home. In Bruma this was Ongar So while exploring the town I picked a lock. And when this happened I got a "lvl up" message. Funny thing is that this permanently locked the "joint" I worked on, even if I failed a zillion times (except if I got the lockpick to try to get that joint up, then it would drop ... So I decided to go stealing at a Inn. All good (nobody saw me... was alone in the room, just 2 doors to block me and the people, enough for looting). For some reason they all started yelling when picking up a meat "THIEF" though... while not doing so on the meat next to it... Some reloads and thief calls on odd locations and after-maths later I suspect that when an AI wants to have opened one of the 2 doors rendered me *visible* for the AI. Even if the door was not yet opened, nor the character even close to said doors After making this assumption and having it in mind during stealing I was not detected. Sort of similar in a guardspost. No guard in near sight (one was on a lower level though). I could rob some but suddenly there would be THIEF calls all over the place. Reloads didn't give a clear sign what caused this though. Seemed time and item independant... And I had no LOS on the guard whatsoever, like I had in the Inn... And now for a potentially QUEST-BREAKING GLITCH for Thief Characters... You get busted and use the Lockpick to break out... All nice, no? NO. All the quest-related weaponry will NOT be returned when robbing the evidence chest. Did not have any Quest related Magic/Armor to check if it happened there too, but the possibility is likely. Pretty serious if you ask me... Edit; hmmm, those items are returned when you leave the castle.... weird Nevermind this glitch... Edit2; Also the fact many rumors do not "gray out" after asking is annoying. Thus re-hearing old ones when expecting new ones. This usually happens with Fighter/Mages guild involving rumors... but there are several others...

Maybe it will be good to provide an example. We take company X, which we call Troika. Company X makes several buggy games and goes broken. Closing the company. Now let's see what happens if they use modern CD technology, and what would have happened if they used futuristic Internet-DL-Technology. CD. Gamers will still be able to buy and play the Troika products if they like, even if the company is no more Downloading of games. Since Troika went down they lock their servers. Nobody can buy new copies of their products, and if one has problems with ones PC and has to Format or something they cannot re-install the game (since server down; thus no DL'ing of a new copy). Even if the gamer would have liked to play said game years later he cannot...; unlike with the other technology. Also if devs abondon games gamers can no longer play them since they are no longer available online... (while a CD allowed one to still play unsuported games) Additional side-effect; More cluthering of HardDisks (since nobody ever uninstalls games any more out of fear of never being able to play those games again, and Formats and other systemrepairs which force you to loose your data will be set FAR back, even permanent, causing a large gamma of technical issues not kept to just a performance loss...)

Download Bink and Smacker here

If that was so how can it be Kotor2 does have these robes... on X-box too? "

And how would they detect if the DL was a Fraud one by your friend or a legit one by the seller of said copy for another PC?

And if (for some odd reason) you don't have Flash 8.0 or you DO have a 56k connection, a HTML variation of the site should be available soon

Another option would be "report"...

In reality, you do not... Note "patches"... Metadigital reading comprehension -1. The fact it logs your activities, hardware etc. With SiN Episodes they wan't to monitor every minute when you play what you do as to alter later episodes. Can be seen as revolutionary improvement or dirty spyware activity... (easy to note under which one I would place it) (WTF is wrong with a questionaire form?) And why can't you do so easily (note I gave up on any steam transactions and games using it after a few meatings with Steam)...?

I can walk to any PC in the freaking world, jack in my CD and tada... I can play ALOT sooner than I could if I had to DL it first. I could also take patches with me on CD instead of DL'ing that same 500+MB every damn time again on every PC... Besides that I don't have spyware like Steam running than; potentially hogging system resources etc.

What stops you from allowing friends to DL it with your "copy" then if you can also DL it multiple times? Steam sucks. One packaged version for me SVP instead of a system that asks 6498 GB to install (really, it asked that! It's no lie )