calyps Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Who lights these damn things? I have needed a torch ONCE in a hundred hours of playing. ONCE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AreeSoothsayer Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 I agree. I mean we enter into ancient burial chambers where no one has stepped in hundreds of years... oh look! someone lit a bunch of ordinary wax candles for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calyps Posted December 11, 2011 Author Share Posted December 11, 2011 I agree. I mean we enter into ancient burial chambers where no one has stepped in hundreds of years... oh look! someone lit a bunch of ordinary wax candles for us. Exactly. It borders on distractingly silly when I break into a tomb that's sealed tight but has lit candles everywhere. Just give us the ability to drop lit torches that last a few hours and we'd be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dianacat777 Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 You know, I never really thought about that before, but yeah, that's one hell of a logical fallacy there. On the flipside, it'll be really hard to see (and carrying torches sucks when you're trying to sneak) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calyps Posted December 11, 2011 Author Share Posted December 11, 2011 You know, I never really thought about that before, but yeah, that's one hell of a logical fallacy there. On the flipside, it'll be really hard to see (and carrying torches sucks when you're trying to sneak) So sneak in the dark. It makes more tactical sense. Or add a sneak perk, nighteyes. I play sneak characters all the time and my favorite moments were in the ratway warrens in the sections where it was darkest sneaking up on foolish Thalmor. And there could still be ghostly light, I can buy that. But this lit candles stuff in dead dusty tombs is silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitsuneshoujo Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Maybe the draugr dont like being in the dark? Some of the caves I can see them being lit, like the tombs above Riverwood. Theres bandits camped in there. Further in behind the claw-door I dont think there should be lit candles and torches though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calyps Posted December 11, 2011 Author Share Posted December 11, 2011 Yeah, before the went to undeath they asked their mommy to plug in the eternal candles nightlights. When you come stomping in with your weapon out they know they were right...monsters are real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IxionInc Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Yeah, before the went to undeath they asked their mommy to plug in the eternal candles nightlights. When you come stomping in with your weapon out they know they were right...monsters are real. That theory checks out for me. Instead of just deleting the bloody candles in the tombs, why not replace them with braziers, or cave lights or something? I mean, sure, braziers STILL had to be lit by someone, but it's less questionable than candles or torches, which as we all know, burn up in 5 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calyps Posted December 11, 2011 Author Share Posted December 11, 2011 Yeah, before the went to undeath they asked their mommy to plug in the eternal candles nightlights. When you come stomping in with your weapon out they know they were right...monsters are real. That theory checks out for me. Instead of just deleting the bloody candles in the tombs, why not replace them with braziers, or cave lights or something? I mean, sure, braziers STILL had to be lit by someone, but it's less questionable than candles or torches, which as we all know, burn up in 5 minutes. Braziers definitely give more the "lurking occultists and black mages who just stepped out for a daedra heart" vibe than candles. But for now I'd be happy with a mod that just deletes most candles and plunges half the dungeons into darkness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InuyashaFE Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 I agree, we need to get rid of the ambient lighting as well, or at least reduce it. The only reason I play as a Khajiit is for unarmed bonus, night eye is useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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