The last poster wins

[BlackRampage]

Wacky indeed. The universe even messed up your grammar. :teehee:

[Thor.]

What grammer issue :whistling:

[Iv000]

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AHOY

[Thor.]

lv000 get your Christmas hat on your AV. Its your duty, you must, for the sake of the lounge.

Edited December 12, 2013 by Thor.

[Iv000]

lv000 get your Christmas hat on your AV. Its your duty, you must, for the sake of the lounge.

 

I will I will

 

When I have time, it's a gif so I'll have to redo the whole glitch thingy.

 

If I can't find the .psd then the lounge is out of luck.

[Thor.]

The new version of enb has Shadow from clouds now

 

http://www.enbdev.com/mod_tesskyrim_v0240.htm

Edited December 12, 2013 by Thor.

[K00L]

I want it. :sad:

Skyrim is fun when I load it down with mods. But I want it to be pretty too, just my laptop isn't really made for gaming.

Edited December 12, 2013 by K00L

[Thor.]

Its kind of buggy right now, the reflection from the buildings on the water is kind over the top, which is another new feature with v2.40. ENB is kind of reworking the engine and beyond, reflection from the clouds i'm most excited about, though disabled in this version.

 

http://oi43.tinypic.com/2eav3hd.jpg

Edited December 12, 2013 by Thor.

[AliasTheory]

[billyro]

 

 

There were crossbows in Morrowind, but yeah, I still don't like the way ESO is doing it. Explosive bolts? Might as well make the crossbow a gun, seeing as how they're so obviously trying to appeal to the engineer MMO play-style.

 

Oh well, at least it is a crossbow, and not a gun. I sincerely hope that The Elder Scrolls never advance in weaponry past where it is.

 

 

Crossbows date back more than 2,000 years in our world, and exploding arrows have been around almost as long. The first major European power to use them was the Roman Empire, who's best effort was the Scorpio-which was essentially the birthplace of the Sniper Rifle. The Scorpio's ancestors started to appear around 370 BC, and it quickly evolved to the point where it could strike a man-sized target with pinpoint accuracy at ranges of around 1/4 mile. Ammunition types for it varied from anti-personnel rounds, armour-piercing ammo, fragmenting-head flechette and even incendiaries-all weapon ideas we consider modern, but which were in use in Greek and Roman times. Explosive ammunition also existed-the Romans had their own equivalent of Napalm and used it extensively against wooden fortifications. And that's just Western history-China is another country which was experimenting with crossbows from an extremely early age, and had gunpowder extremely early on. Korean history also makes extensive reference to exploding arrows and even dumb-fire explosive rockets.

 

That they'll be in ESO makes sense to me: I expect you'd have seen exploding arrows and castle sieges in Arena had the engine been capable of it. Just as Vikings would have used chainsaws if they'd have had them. Don't let loremongering blind you to the business: video game tech is evolving and Bethesda would be criminally negligent not to take advantage of recent advancements. And besides, Oblivion had Canon exploding arrows, Skyrim had Canon exploding arrows and Crossbows, Morrowind had Canon Crossbows and Canon means to make exploding arrows. I don't want to be that guy, but I don't really see what the problem is.

 

Pic is too big to post directly, link instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Balliste.jpg

 

 

I would be perfectly fine with it if the character had the crossbow in two hands, but she held it in one hand. I don't even know if the people would have had sufficient technology in those times to make a crossbow reload without the use of a second hand. That's my main gripe - it's an obvious "lore-friendly" duplicate of a pistol. A crossbow that shot explosive bolts is all fine and dandy, but only if the crossbow is a big, clunky weapon (which you'd expect) that requires both hands to use.

 

To me, a one-handed crossbow that shoots explosive bolts in a medieval time is ludicrous. Two handed crossbow, I'm fine with.