SkyrimTourist

For me there is a general apathy about Skyrim at the minute. It was only really mods that kept my interest in the game alive, but I even think that there is a lack of interesting mods at the moment. Been playing Oblivion a little and rediscovering other games.

I suspect that it was texture packs, however, I also had these already installed and see no reason why I had to download them again. I now run Steam in Offline mode, and should update 1.7 ever appear, well, I will be sticking with 1.6, far, far away from Steam. The annoying thing is that the game cannot even be played during the update process, even though Steam does not seem to touch the files that are in the Skyrim folder during the download process.

Not upset, but irked at a DRM system that has issues. The update from 1.6 beta to 1.6 release should surely not entail a 3.8 Gb download? I updated from 1.5 to the 1.6 beta and the download took less than five minutes!

Many thanks for all the feedback. @abc123qw I always usually run Steam in Offline as everything just loads so much quicker, Skyrim just launches without any wait in Offline mode. Unfortunately I was tempted by the Beta 1.6 update, which had some issues, and which Steam refused to update to the 1.6 release build. I finally sorted it out in the end, but only after having to download 3.8 Gb of data! Steam does have its good points, and for some releases Steam does make sense, but it makes no sense when I am bound to lengthy downloads when I chose to purchase physical media to avoid this. Not impressed at all, and I may be a drop in the ocean, but I would certainly think long and hard about purchasing any future Bethesda title if it came with Steam attached.

Sorry, I disagree, it is a problem with Steam. Verifying the game cache was the only option I had left available because Steam refused to update the 1.6 beta to the 1.6 release build (something that should have been an automated process and that other users have also reported an issue with) Believe me, if this had have happened as it should have, I would certainly not have verified the game cache! I cannot also think that the update from the 1.6 beta to the 1.6 release build entails 3.8 Gb of data, the update from 1.5 to 1.6 beta was, I think, about 40 Mb

I have long maintained that due to the use of Steam as Bethesda's DRM of choice, I will not buy another one of their products. I purchased my copy of the game on physical media for the sole reason my connection is not a speedy one, however, for the second time in the space of four months I am now waiting on a 3GB download (some four hours) before I can play....why? Why I do not know. I have everything installed, including the official High Res Texture packs, and this is a clean, mod free install of the game. The only reason I even dared venture back into my steam library is that Steam, having updated my copy of the game to the 1.6 beta update, seemed to not want to update it to the 1.6 release version. I had read that asking Steam to verify the integrity of the game cache would fix this, and thinking that everything was up to date apart from the actual TESV,exe, ploughed ahead. The result of that action is a 3GB download (oh, and Steam, it would be great if you could actually tell me just what you are downloading) Sorry, rant over

It would be nice if there was a dolly system built in to the Free Fly Camera, a little like the Black Ops Theatre mode. If you want to slow the camera down though, type SUCSM n, where n in the speed you wish, into the console. I use SUCSM 2.

I think one of the problems at the moment is the feed layout look very untidy, probably off putting to first time users who do judge a site by its cover. On the latest mod fees, the image does not seem to even have any float css styling applied to it, and the text looks ugly as it just starts at the bottom of the image. All very 90s. Could it not look something a little akin to this please in the future. http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/6939/61515401.jpg

Thank you for the feedback. Didn't realise that this was possible, but it does improve the situation now I can just filter for new files. Many thanks :)

Not overly keen on the new look I am afraid. I think first and foremost, that most people come here looking for mods. I would also hazard a guess that the vast majority of users do not comment, just grab the mods that interest them, and leave. I cannot see that type of user ever participating in any type networking feature. The front page just looks confused now, and yes, the mods are still there, but the design kind of makes them feel them relegated, as it were, to the sidelines. As a web developer, I always use the side bars for 'secondary' content and navigation.