Skyrim Survival mode Review (2021!)
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- čas přidán 25. 11. 2021
- In this video we will breakdown some of my favorite, and least favorite Skyrim Survival mode mechanics. These are my opinions only but I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!
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I can handle the survival, I just use clear sky shout and rush using horse in a cold area, have a lot of pet and blessing to fix the inventory problem. But the no fast travel tho, at first it's awesome seeing skyrim fully, but now I need too get back to High hroghtar a few times it's a bit tiring.
Just covered the fast travel problem for you in my Top 10 tips for survival mode I just put out. Check it out !
You can actually ask the guy you helped with his supplies to "guide" you up to High Hrothgar. The screen will go black and you will be at the steps of the temple. I'm playing a no fast travel style right now.
@@VnTheMad REALLY?! I have to try this out, I’m playing in survival mode rn
@@VnTheMad update, it did not work :(
@@lucidlillie2464 😂😂😂
i absolutely LOVE the survival mode, especially the effect that cold areas have on your health, in can get crazy when you are out exploring the frozen areas and your HP slowly ticks down while you are searching for somewhere to find shelter for a while
the one thing i hate though is the fact that it disables fast travel, that was absolutely making me die inside
especially for doing the dawnguard DLC where everything is all over the map, Castle Volkihar and Fort Dawnguard are literally on opposite corners of the map
what i've resorted to doing is either using the loading zone glitch, or just turning survival mode off and on every time i want to fast travel, since when you do this it "saves" your hunger and food levels when you re-enable it
i hate the it cuts your carry weight in half!!!
Lot of constructive criticism here, but I'm saying it because I see potential in your channel.
Survival Mode is huge: it impacts a number of facets of gameplay and completely changes the way you approach the game, and you've devoted a whole four minutes to it. If I were writing a hypothetical script, I'd suggest something like the following:
1. Overview: changes to carry weight, importance of food and shelter, leveling changes, changes to shrines. A lot of these (like the shrines) take up five seconds, so a mention in an overview is fine.
2. Managing temperature. Skyrim is noted for being snowy and frigid and for the first time you've got a game mode that reinforces this notion in-game (which is both annoying and awesome). Explaining the stat effects of cold exposure and ways to mitigate cold (clothing and armor with different warmth ratings, torches, racial bonuses and penalties, "hot" versions of foods, flame cloak spell for frigid water) would have all been extremely useful bits of information, especially for players who haven't tried Survival yet.
2. Food! For the first time, you've got a game mode where finding food as loot (especially salt piles...precious, precious salt piles) might very well be more exciting than finding septims. Tell us your favorite recipes (vegetable soup doesn't take salt, salmon steak is extremely light); this would be a great time to tie-in with two new pieces of AE content: fishing and Goldenhills Plantation, AKA The Farm.
3. Rest/Sleeping. No fast travel means you've got to plan your journeys in legs; where are you going to sleep tonight? Are you using the Camping creation? Did you know that not resting for too long will impact your magicka as you become fatigued? (Wizards need their rest)
4. Weight. Carry Weight is halved, which was mentioned in the overview, but here you could discuss ways to alleviate that: companions, Pets, Horses, alchemy and enchants. One of the most annoying things to get used to is the drastically reduced carryweight, but there are plenty of ways around that.
In short, the video was far too short for such a drastic change to gameplay. If you wanted to break it into a shorter videos, you've got a whole series of five minute videos here. Leverage the content, and give your viewers more.
I don't mean any of this in a negative way, as I said, I think you've got potential and I offer this as sincere constructive criticism. Cheers!
I appreciate that Forsure, I am gonna make a tips video for it here this week that will be longer! I just wanted a short video out of this one on my overall grade of it. I really appreciate the constructive criticism though fs !!!
There is a huge flaw with this mode, you get cold way too quickly! Literally 5 minutes outside Winterhold and you're freezing to death it's just not realistic at all and some areas are unplayable. If there's a dragon on top of a snowy mountain, good luck fighting it with 30% health and -80% attack speed
The cold isn’t as big of an issue if you are playing a build catered towards survival, which I will be covering some tips to help everyone out with in my video this Friday!
@@SimplisticMinds start pumping out that content buddy
@@notyou69420. gotchu !
Consider that time in Skyrim flows 20 times faster than in real life. So 5 minutes in game equals to 100 minutes in real life - I think that it is long enough to freeze without proper equipment.
Get out your torch my friend
*The air is treacherously cold.
*You are freezing.
*You are numb.
*You are frostbitten from the cold.
Great video straight to the point, short and comprehensible. Subbed!
There are a lot of good additions in this game mode, but there is one lore problem in this mod.
Volkihar Clan are known to be immune to cold, but when your character becomes a Vampire he still suffers from cold effects. This can be fixed by buffing up the damage that you receive from fire up to 100% like it was the case in original vanilla game.
Even the book "Immortal Blood" states that some of Volkihar vampires swim in lakes awaiting their prey, and some vampires are immune to frost spells damage in game.
I know, I’m making a video on vampires and werewolf’s in Skyrim’s survival next should be out in a day or 2
False information. Fishing is included in Survival Mode for free. You do not need to upgrade to Anniversary Edition, or anything within in it. So they actually do give you everything you need for Survival Mode in the base game.
In my honest opinion, everything in Survival Mode is perfect. I'm fine with everything... Everything BUT COLD! The cold mechanics is absolutely ridiculous, broken beyond what could be considered sane. it's 99% too fast. You take literal 2 steps outside and you are already pretty much dead because it's so cold... And you literally stepped outside. It literally doesn't matter how warm armor you use or whatever you try to do. It's beyond absurd. Everything else is perfect, but this one thing absolutely destroys the whole game for me. I had to stop playing on survival mode JUST because of how stupid the freezing part is. Everything else, pure pleasure.
and cutting the carry weight by half!!!!!! these 2 things,.......its just evil!
also you/i have no stamina i can deal with the magika drain but stamina, carry weight and freezing to fast no, just no!!!!
I started a Survival playthough myself on the Switch version, so here are some of my quick thoughts on the matter:
-- At least the Switch version seems to be glitched in that Cold/Hunger/Fatigue does *not actually reduce* your total Health/Stamina/Magicka -- contrary to their descriptions, when checking your Skills page these attributes always keep their full value. The other effects are in play however, and if your Cold level reaches 100% of your Health meter it will still kill you outright (I remember nearly freezing to death trying to clear Ironback Hideout up near Solitude -- fortunately that place has a fire for warmth).
+ Arrows and Lockpicks now having 0.1 weight means you can't just endlessly hoard them anymore, and the lack of Health regeneration by default is HUGE.
+ Innkeepers stock a wider variety of food items, making it actually pretty easy to stock up on snacks for longer trips away from towns (per no fast travel).
= I almost wish the initial carry weight was a nice round "100" instead of 150, but then again a full set of Heavy Armor is easily >50 weight so I can understand not setting the limit TOO low.
= You don't receive a Rested bonus sleeping outdoors (e.g. random bedrolls in bandit camps, etc) nor does it fully refresh your Fatigue level, but you CAN do so in any indoor/dungeon area (e.g. inside Embershard Mine near Riverwood).
-- If Khajiit and Argonians can eat raw foods without harm, shouldn't they also get a bonus to Hunger for it too? The difference between cooked and raw food is about 10:1, regardless of race.
Coming back and on switch no less (it’s difficult to some things like bows fluidly even on console but especially switch lite) I feel like survival is something it will take either a while in game or multiple restsarts to really find what I like fit that , and that’s kind of welcome bc it encourages me to use oats of the game I basically ignored in previous play throughs
I recently got around to start playing Skyrim survival mode a couple of weeks ago but I am now sick in bed and watching videos like this makes me want to play the game but I don't feel like playing the game and that makes me feel sad
Did they change anything about survival mode do you know? I’ve always preferred ineed/frostfall over that since I can take more than 10 steps without being hungry, and I’m not completely useless with the debuffs unlike survival modes incredibly exaggerated debuffs.
Not that I am aware of unfortunately, the other mods mixed with it do give it a nice feel however. The hunger is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed.
Make sure to subscribe and I’ll keep giving updates on the mods I’m playing with though ! I’ll keep updates on whenever they get updated as well, fallout will also be coming to the channel sooner than later, as well as other RPG games.
@@SimplisticMinds bruh I eat literally 8 cups of soup and four vension chops and my character won’t be dated at all.
@@SimplisticMinds hate survival, I cannot get enough food at alo
I have fishing activated but I don't remember adding camping does that one need to be bought or is it free cause I thought I had camping but I guess not cause it doesn't show I do
Hope to see you grow
who walks from one end of the map to the other? boats and carriages exist. Also, fishing almost negates hunger. I've been chilly because of random fires all over the place. i may have gotten cold once. sleep is really no big deal and they gave us backpacks for carry weight. combat is separate. you can play novice survival mode. Ineed, frostfall, wet/cold, hunterborn, wildcat combat, and TEST animal mod does way better than Bethsedas weak ideas
"This gets very frustrating when you are walking from one side of the map to the other because there is no fast travel and you're constantly having to hunt or go out of your way to find food"
What are you talking about? Stop at one farm and you can harvest enough food to make 10 batches of vegetable soup and each only weigh 0.5. Seriously, leeks, potatoes, tomatoes, and cabbages are super prevalent in skyrim, and make a kick ass vegetable soup (without needing salt), and even with reduced carry weight you can carry days worth of food. At least enough to get you across the map and into any major city (which will have plentiful food available for you). Fishing and hunting is not even necessary unless you want to engage in those activities and eat some meat.
The hunger meter fills up so fast in my opinion, those soups will not last very long.
Is there a mod go show my hunger, warmth,etc. stats in terms of percentages? Like an extra hud showing these statistics?
For me Survival Mode is far superior to all Skyrim Mods on the subject, for being Direct, Intuitive and Complete. It's hard and boring to install SKSE, SKYUI, Disable Fast Travel, Frost Fall, Ineed, Etc. And having to configure and turn everything on every time in a New Game. Creation Club is wrong, but Bethesda understands the game they made.
Short but clear video! As a new player I thought after playing 5 hours wtf! In survival mode.Walk SO slow.Each time I fight dead! Was so fu weak!Freezing dead.Hunger! Can't do shit! Thought! Is this the game everyone so excited about? I'd rather play the Witcher 3! Now I know the reason! So as a Rookie you better start playing without survival mode.Then SKYRIM will be just as cool a game for me as most of you are now! Thank you all for your info!
I just got into skyrim. Should I enable survival mode or should I enable it after I completed the game
Yeah, do a vanilla run first. Don’t rush through the main quest line. Explore everything, then do a survival run.
@@SimplisticMinds thanks alot. Im currently doing alot of side quests and few main quests. What is your recommendation
@@OIW Whenever you level up you'll hear a spartan chant and the blue bar will be all filled up. DO NOT activate your level up(skills) until you are at low health if you are for instance in a fight and need to use a potion because after you activate your level up it refills everything(magica, stamina, and health). It's pretty much a free healing. Whenever you're traveling and find "blue mountain flower", pick them up because you can use those along with wheat to make health potions in the alchemy skill. I would highly recommend using "healing" which you'll find in the restoration section in your magic and get the perk for it where you can use both hands to double the speed at which you restore your health. Sorry for the long post but I hope this helps.
Isn't it better to just have frostfall, campfire and iNeed installed?
Hi. Thanks for the vídeo. I would like that You can compare the features one by one and with some other mods in the internet that came earlier,
Good point
Hey man I don’t understand one thing. I didn’t add any mods or pay $20 for this but I still got it?
I believe its free thats why you got the updates
@@joshbrosh6626 weird it tells me to pay $20 for the anniversary upgrade (says it adds fishing and survival) but when I start the game I already have fishing and survival. If I didn’t know any better I would of payed the $20. But it seems like I got it anyway?
@@MikeOcksmallClips idk cuz i also have some of the content on my skyrim and i never paid trough vortex
I have no idea Lmaoo. Take it and don't question it.
Not me choosing to play as an argonian in skyrim one of the coldest places in tamriel then saying hey I'll try out survival
I really enjoy the survival mode. Makes the game way more immersive
It's funny that a meal without salt cannot be cooked. You got 4 potatoes? No pinch of salt? Nope, no cooking those today. I loved survival mode at first. But no one is THAT Hungry. 😅
If you have the special edition it's 10$ for the anniversary edition and you get the whole cc store for free just have to download it so the cc store really isn't a wast of you read the right hand corner when you started the game clearly tells you what the anniversary edition is my guy
The way your verbiage is in regards' to camping implies that only people that have survival on would be able to play camping and fishing, survival is not for everyone and is a toggleable feature in the menu. but good content otherwise, just realize that if they were all together that you would not be able to camp or fish outside of having survival and that's just silly.
I’m my personal opinion those 2 don’t have a true purpose without survival mode so I figured they should just implement them all together. I would never set up camp outside of survival as I could just fast travel to another city instead of sleeping outside, and I personally don’t ever eat fish outside of survival Bc there isn’t really a purpose in my opinion but I see what you’re saying. I appreciate the feedback Forsure though, be sure to sub !
would have been nice to get a warning that you are a gangster before the sign off
The one thing I hate is the speed that hunger occurs in the game.
It feels FAAAAARRRR to fast.
Edit: Ring of Namira for the win though, amirite?
Just seems like a crappy, streamlined version of Ineed and Frostfall
I actually enjoy it, adds a different level of difficulty, sure it has its own flaws but what doesn’t ya know
I think hunger is too often but otherwise it's great
Lone wanderer said it best
Drink
Some
Water
Just have water
Warmth?
WARMTH?
So all the new stuff was just added as free mods in the creation kit? That's really lame!
The survival one is especially lame because the mod frostfall is arguably better!
Yeah, that's bethesda though. Sell it until it cant be sold anymore. Am I right !? Lmao
Is frostfall better tho? It constantly requiring up to date mods which seem to get broke constantly with each update.
I prefer the survivability mode that comes with AE. It just works. And that's it. Always will.
🤔 15 goat leg's 10 fish and still hungry, he eats like a village, he will eat all animals to extinction at this rate 😱 Hunger stacks to i kept him hungery for sometime and he eat everything in my inventory.
Why did your microphone go serIOUSLY LOUD HALFWAY THROUGH YOUR VIDEO
Not sure, didn’t notice that my fault
I just wish I liked Skyrim, I can't get beyond level 2. The input lag is so bad.
Make tips for survival mode pls
Drop a sub, I gotchu Friday
@@SimplisticMinds Done
@@kasunnalinde735 @xXFullSendzXx YT GOT it coming out a few days late, had some Personal stuff come up, but it’s comin
Just dropped it my boy !
Subbed
Hunger comes way to fast. It’s not realistic
Oh, the hunger part isn't realistic? How about freezing to death while checking your mailbox... Yeah, perfectly normal in Skyrim if the air temperature is -500 C
I could never play with this mod because the immersion is terrible. There I am freezing my balls and/or tits off and on the brink of dying, and a bunch of drunks are standing in the middle of a snowstorm asking me if I want some alcohol.
It's a type of game mode that needs to be implemented at the beginning of development and each NPC would have to scripted to be part of it. There are SOME mods that help with this a little, but it only does so much. Hopefully Elder Scrolls VI expands upon this.
It’s almost good. The food mechanic is good, if a bit shallow, but the sleeping/fatigue mechanic is absolute dogshit. As far as I can tell, there is no way to get rid of the first level of fatigue besides sleeping in an owned bed, which is absolute garbage since there are nowhere near enough opportunities to sleep in and owned bed while exploring. Also, the first level of fatigue gives a goddamn 25% penalty to stamina and magic regen. Who the hell thought this was a good idea? All you have to do is make it so that any bed that is not marked as owned by an NPC can get rid of this first level of fatigue and there you go. This is way too steep of a penalty and it needs to be reworked
i eat all the time, game still says im starving. Stupid Game 0/10
i don't care what the advantages are, take away fast travel and I'm out.