Horses of Skyrim!

PaulP · Nov 2011

Today, while playing Skyrim, I was attacked by a dragon outside some town near a stable. The dragon swooped down near to me, getting ready to attack, and there were no gaurds in sight to help me out. Then all of a sudden three horses came out of nowhere and started beating on the dragon and it went down in like 12seconds!

I thought this was a random occurance so I told a friend about this, and he told me he had a smilar story. He stole a horse from somwhere and rode it out to a bandit encampment. As soon as he got off the horse, it ran into the encampment and killed every bandit there!

Has anyone else had any heroic horse or other animal scenarios?

cholden · Nov 2011

At first it was cool, but every time I dismount my horse runs off into the middle of nowhere to kill everything. So it's always dead, and I stopped buying horses.

Pierate · Nov 2011

I've had a similiar incident happen, not with horses though, but with bears. That's right, I watched two bears kill a dragon before nearly killing me aswell, it was awesome.

PaulP · Nov 2011

Haha, go bears! I wish followers were as useful, I had Janessa at the beggining and she would constantly die after a few seconds of fighting, then I had Lydia who has a nack of getting in the way of my arrow shots, as well as ruining my stealth attempts

glynnsmith · Nov 2011

Yeah. I've a horse, and it startles me every time I go through an area door. I hardly ever ride it, because it's slow to get on/off. Horses were done perfectly in Red Dead Redemption. They should have stolen their horses $:\$

Re: Dragon stories - I've had two dragons appear, one of which attacks a giant, and the giant clobbers it to death. It was ace. I've seen an Imperial Guard jump onto the head of a landed dragon, spearing it through the head with his sword. Ace moments.

I've also twice seen dragons fly straight through mountains. Not so cool

TortillaChips · Nov 2011

Get Shadowmare, you'll never need another horse.

Also, I don't think people want another skyrim topic that could easily fit into the main one.

[HP] · Nov 2011

And this isn't in the Skyrim thread, because...?

Andreas · Nov 2011

[HP] wrote: »

And this isn't in the Skyrim thread, because...?

My thoughts exactly. SCB, you muppet. Mod merge thread please.

PaulP · Nov 2011

Ok sorry, my bad! I only saw two other threads about skyrim so I didn't think it'd be a big deal. But yeah if someone can merge it please do so, or if theres a way to delete it let me know. Didn't mean to cause any agro

Alberto Rdrgz · Nov 2011

Andreas · Nov 2011

SCB wrote: »

I only saw two other threads about skyrim so I didn't think

MadnessImport · Nov 2011

derp

almighty_gir · Nov 2011

isn't this kinda the biggest problem with skyrim?

OMG DRAGONS! NOOOOOOO!!!!!

Dragons... the creatures that are supposed to be raising entire villages to the ground, that eat HERDS of horse/sheep/cow/people for their main meals of the day, the creatures that are considdered the apex predators of apex predators, they literally rule ALL in the world of flora and fauna.

the Dovakhiin apparently being "special" and the only thing able to combat them effectively! except, of course... 4 horses, or 1 giant, or a troll, probably even some of those wild foxes or wolves you see running around.

sorry Bethesda, you've really really gone off the mark with how badass dragons are supposed to be.

Bibendum · Nov 2011

almighty_gir wrote: »

the Dovakhiin apparently being "special" and the only thing able to combat them effectively! except, of course... 4 horses, or 1 giant, or a troll, probably even some of those wild foxes or wolves you see running around.

sorry Bethesda, you've really really gone off the mark with how badass dragons are supposed to be.

I admit I haven't been paying incredible attention to the plot but... As I understand it, the dragonborn is the only one capable of killing a dragon permanently because they're the only ones that can absorb their souls.

Ikosan · Nov 2011

the other day i was riding around on my horse, a dragon fell down, i dismounted and without doing anything my horse and dog charged in and double teamed the dragon down...

[HP] · Nov 2011

Bibendum wrote: »

I admit I haven't been paying incredible attention to the plot but... As I understand it, the dragonborn is the only one capable of killing a dragon permanently because they're the only ones that can absorb their souls.

This.

Serp · Nov 2011

lol better get to the dragon quickly before some goats finish it off.

almighty_gir · Nov 2011

Bibendum wrote: »

I admit I haven't been paying incredible attention to the plot but... As I understand it, the dragonborn is the only one capable of killing a dragon permanently because they're the only ones that can absorb their souls.

yes, because that makes a big difference right? i mean... the dragon can just keep coming back if the soul isn't absorbed...... but that's okay, BECAUSE FOUR HORSES CAN KILL IT.

StrangeFate · Nov 2011

I agree that while the dragons are extremely cool in what they do, it's really fun to watch them fly around and kill things... they're extremely weak.

Usually by the time I catch up with a dragon, a mammoth or a collection of smaller wildlife has almost killed it alreaay.

That said, I'm not too worried, the mod community did a great job balancing Oblivion and making it challenging, so I'm sure somebody will fix the horses and dragons soon enough

Irreal · Nov 2011

You could always crank the difficulty

eld · Nov 2011

If they did make them stronger, people would complain that a single dragon would wipe out villages in one swoop, and then the npc's would be made invincible to prevent that, and then players would complain.

Two Listen · Nov 2011

Irreal wrote: »

You could always crank the difficulty

If it's anything like the system in Oblivion, which is likely - cranking the difficulty works via making everything else stronger, and by making you weaker. In other words, horses would get stronger in the same manner that dragons would get stronger, which wouldn't change anything.