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Looks awesome, Prometheus, as always. :)

The Gates of Issgard http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/703/ubv4.jpg Wow.... I revisit this thread every once in a while, just to see what new progress there is, and each time I'm more awestruck by what I see, as always, astounding work Prometheus.

I've a little experience, the main thing it requires is patience, it will take many, many months of growth to get anywhere near a beard like that. Here's some tips. 1. You are going to itch on your neck, but don't shave it, the itching will pass in a week or two. 2. Lift weights or otherwise work out, lifting weights causing a boost in testosterone levels, so you can try and accelerate your natural testosterone build up with exercise, specifically lifting weights though. 3. Depending on what race or ethnicity you are, your facial hair growth time length will differ, as it does depending on how much testosterone you produce, certain racial groups are prone to less facial hair than others, so if you're one of them, just expect to have to wait a little longer than someone else might. 4. When you finally have a thick, good length facial hair growth, then you can look for ways to style it, but as for the 'knot-beard' look, I can't say how that would be done, I'm sure someone has a video on youtube somewhere for it. It won't matter until you've grown enough hair to style though, so you'll have plenty of time to research it. Although, by the looks of it all you need is some sort of tight band to wrap around it, maybe even some thin rope like material, a rubber band would look a bit trampy though, ha.

Have you considered approaching the maker of Falskaar and/or the maker (s) of the interesting NPC mod and ask them where they acquired their voice acting talent? Both Falksaar and the INPC mod had very believable and professional voice acting, it couldn't hurt to see where they came from. One of the biggest ways great mods can be marred is by having sub-par voice acting that doesn't sound believable/realistic, it seems to me that many mod makers would do well to share tips and talent locations with each other.

Please refrain from any spoilers. I just purchased the new Dragonborn DLC for Skyrim, but I'm curious as to what point it makes sense to visit Solsteim and do the new quest lines involved chronologically speaking? What I mean is, and again without giving any spoilers, is the dragonborn DLC plotline better played after the completion of the main quest of vanilla Skyrim, speaking purely on story terms, or is it told so that you can, as is the case in my playthrough, start the DLC main quest while being half way through the main vanilla quest and have it still make sense story wise and chronologically?

Well I do use a decent number of mods, such as SkyRe, Frostfall, Bellyaches HD Dragon Replacer Pack, Skyrim Monster Mod, and others, but I've had no problems with them at all since I started my playthough. Also what do you mean exactly by a timescale issue? It's strange that the command to complete the quest causes Alduin to inexplicably return and start attacking though...

I've arrived at Kynesgrove with Delphine during the mission 'A Blade in the Dark' from the main quest line, but I've run into a bug that is stopping me from progressing. We run into the female NPC who tells us of the dragon attack, we run up the hill towards Alduin who is resurrecting Sahloknir, but immediately I notice that, once Alduin uses his voice to unearth Sahloknir's burial mound, Sahloknir is no where to be seen? Alduin finishes his speech, flies away after telling Sahloknir to kill us, Delphine yells to attack Sahloknir, but nothing happens because Sahloknir isn't there, he hasn't appeared. There is a white quest marker over the mound, but he just doesn't spawn. I looked on the UESP wiki page for the quest... http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_talk:A_Blade_in_the_Dark ...and it says the only way to complete the quest (unfortunately since I was hoping for a fight) is to type 'setstage MQ106 200' into the console, the problem is that I've done this and, yes, the quest ends, but then Alduin flies in, the sky turns red, and he starts attacking me!? :confused: I thought someone had edited the wiki to play a joke or something when it happened, because, apart from Sahloknir not appearing, nothing else seemed a problem, then I type in this command and it sets Alduin on me with meteors falling from the sky! Does anyone know how to, ideally solve the quest by getting Sahloknir to actually appear, or just solve it so that it completes without Alduin bizarrely flying back for an unscripted fight?

I'm having trouble with the sound levels of my PC when playing Skyrim, basically whenever I start Skyrim, and load a game, the PC starts to really sound like it's taking off and 'giving her all she's got'. I don't have a problem running it graphically or anything, and my FPS has always been fine since getting it back in 2011. My Specs are: Now, what I'm wondering is, since I'm not sure it's simply a fan issue, is if there is anything I can buy to upgrade the PC to be able to manage Skyrim? By the sounds of things it sounds like it's struggling to run the game, if this is the case, what can I purchase to improve it's powers to run it, and make running it a lot quieter? I'm not very computer savy, but I'm thinking something like the CPU could be improved by buying a new more powerful one? Thanks for any replies/help.

Loving that latest picture! :thumbsup: I hope you'll consider an optional file/files for those who only want a certain elf race changed, either way it's going to be awesome! This will undoubtedly blow the front page away!

This looks amazing! :thumbsup: This looks to be an absolutely fantastic mod!!! I don't want to look like I'm nit-picking already, but there's two things I'll throw out there. 1. Perhaps it's the custom hair and face (lipstick) you're using in those pics, but they could do with looking slightly less beautiful, but then again it might look different for people not using whatever face/hair mods you're using. 2. It would be nice if there were to be an optional file for those who liked the new look of one elf type, but prefered the old look of another, for example I would love my High Elves to look like yours, but I might like to keep the Dark Elves as they are, it's just personal preference, but it would be nice if we were given the option in a file. For example, on this picture... http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/675468-1345671071.jpg I love the Elf on the right, but the left and middle female elves still look a bit beautiful and glossy, again though, it could just be some mods you're using? http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/675468-1345754408.jpg The third dark elk, the one in Riverwood, looks absolutely phenominal! He's the perfect blend of improved features, but he still hasn't lost too much of the original look. Out of curiosity, is he an in-game NPC? Keep up the fantastic work! :thumbsup:

This looks amazing! :thumbsup: This looks to be an absolutely fantastic mod!!! I don't want to look like I'm nit-picking already, but there's two things I'll throw out there. 1. Perhaps it's the custom hair and face (lipstick) you're using in those pics, but they could do with looking slightly less beautiful, but then again it might look different for people not using whatever face/hair mods you're using. 2. It would be nice if there were to be an optional file for those who liked the new look of one elf type, but prefered the old look of another, for example I would love my High Elves to look like yours, but I might like to keep the Dark Elves as they are, it's just personal preference, but it would be nice if we were given the option in a file. Keep up the fantastic work! :thumbsup:

The features you hope to add sound amazing, I just hope they can be fully realised! :thumbsup: Atvir Dres sounds like the best follower mod there is (has ever been?)!

Skyrim has the Dragonborn. :thumbsup:

Perfect thanks!! :thumbsup:

I hate the noise that plays when you successfully stealth kill someone with a bow, the sort of 'thum!' noise that sounds like two gongs being slammed together. :down: It kind of ruins the immersion of being stealthy and it's a little cartoony as well. I was sure there was some kind of mod that removes it, but I've looked around and I can't find any that do so?

Personally I've never liked the idea of were anythings, at least not being on in-game. You spend all this time gaining levels and perks that allow your human character to perform new moves, animations, kill, shots etc..., and then you waste it all by just transforming into a were creature that renders all of them useless while you're in that state. :confused:

I think the main criticism of this, is that many players simply don't want to have to be on 'Watch Duty' every single time they enter a hold or walk in the vicinity of a village. I don't want to have to double check every single village/house I go to just to make sure that everyone is alright and there's no vampires lurking around... :confused:

The person did last time you were in the cell, bodies take awhile to get cleaned up. When I fast travel from an area to another area and I don't expect to come back and find someone dead that was literally sitting on the porch in front of me before I fast traveled (Alford or whatever the hell the smith is in Riverwood) Regardless of the "official" explanation, it doesn't change the fact that NPC's are dying from other NPC's without my interaction. What official explanation? Have the developers even responded to this ridiculous game killing implementation?

You see, this is what I'm talking about, this is what's worrying me, a village like Whiterun doesn't even have that many NPCs to start with, and it sounds like Dawnguard aims to do it's best to lessen the numbers even further. A quick solution is to keep using 'resurrect' via the console, but I'm a player who values immersion, in fact I do what I can to maintain it, so this 'fix' would ruin all that.

That can't always work though, the body of the NPC might disappear over time without the player noticing and being able to resurrect it. More to the point though, there shouldn't be a part of the game where the console is needed in order to fix it.

I wasn't sure whether this counted as a spoiler or not, so I thought I'd put it in the spoliers section to be safe. For those who don't know, Dawnguard introduces the chance, apparently a very high chance, of random vampire attacks in towns and cities. These attacks will cause 'Mysterious Travellers' to spawn inside towns and villages, when you are fairly near them, and these vampires will stealthily kill NPCs, and from what others are saying, these NPCs can be anyone, crucial or not, shopkeepers can die, quest givers can die, it apparently doesn't matter. What's more, is that these attacks are scripted so that, one the vampire has entered a house, the game automatically kills an inhabitant inside it. The player does not even need to be inside the village in the case of those villages with walls, such as Falkreath, he/she only needs to be near it, picking flowers or whatever they're doing, for these Mysterious Travellers to spawn and start killing off NPCs. :down: Here is a link to a thread on GameFAQs discussing the problem... Frankly I'm amazed Bethesda implemented such a game killer. I'm excited to eventually play Dawnguard, but not at the expense of having entire villages and NPCs killed off periodically. I'm hoping Bethesda bring out a patch or something to address this, because it sounds like a terrible idea that they've implemented.

I really love mods that add songs to bards in-game, such as this mod... http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9366 ...the only ones I can find are either for Malukah and are female bards only and they seem abandoned by their mod authors I'm wondering how I would go about adding songs to male bards in-game and if it's possible to get the mouths of the bards to sync more or less to the song?

Right, my FPS is back to normal now, in fact it's better than normal, it's perfect. All I did was restart my PC though... I'm now wondering what it is exactly that caused this FPS drop and how I can prevent it in the future, I don't know if i'll ever figure it out though...

I checked my savegames, I only had about 1 save and 4 autosaves, since I just reinstalled Skyrim a few days ago. I deleted any saves of mine anyway, so it's not save game sizes causing the issue. I unchecked them, even if I uninstall them all, which I tried previously, the problem remains. I had this problem before, then uninstalled skyrim, reinstalled my mods, then for some reason my FPS was fine, in fact it seemed better than ever, I played this morning and everything was fine, now I try and play about an hour ago and ever since then my FPS has been ridiculously bad and unplayable, it doesn't make any sense, I haven't done anything to affect my game since then, but then I didn't really do anything to stop the FPS, it just suddenly worked, but not anymore it seems.

I played Skyrim this morning and my FPS was perfect, I couldn't have asked for a more fluid and responsive game, yet after leaving it for a few hours, I started Skyrim up again, and now my FPS is painfully bad, I'm struggling to turn my head. Now first off, I do use a lot of mods, but I was using the exact same mods as I always have this morning, and like always my FPS wasn't affected at all, it was perfect, what's more I get this lag even with no mods enabled, so it can't be the mods causing it. I checked my options on Steam (I usually load Skyrim with the SKSE) and the settings did seem high, so I clicked default and my settings reverted to Medium Quality. I assumed that was the problem, that somehow my settings had just been set incredibly high, but no the FPS and lag was the same. I'm at a loss here, this morning it was playing perfectly, I turned it off, then when I load up again the FPS/lag is god awful, I even tried starting a new game but it doesn't help. Is there some bug with random gigantic drops in FPS and huge lag that I don't know about? :down: I really need some help with this one, appreciate any answers that anyone has to this.