u/SarcasmSanctioned

Every once in awhile, I see a post or comment that says something along the lines of the Stormcloaks all being untrained farmers, and acting like that isn't subject to later change. Talking about it like their lack of training is a permanent state-of-being, or something.

In the event of a Stormcloak victory, once things settled down, obviously 1 of the first things that'd happen is the senior warriors passing on their skills to the newer members/recruits, training and shaping them into a proper army. They wouldn't be entirely helpless the next time a conflict rolls around.

I'm pretty sure I'm not properly getting my point across, but I'm posting this anyway.

The longer it stays that way, the more annoyed I get. If they can't bother to fix something this obvious and glaring, I just don't have any faith in them to make the next game decent(not to mention their more recent dogshit decisions).

They've had ample opportunity to just record and patch in a conditional dialogue line or 2, and they haven't. The studio has gotten lazy. Their half-assed attempt to recreate the 'toxic' variants from DL1 with a simple green-cloud and leaves effect is further proof of that.

At the start of the game, he didn't attack the Town Hall group (only killed the Baron's men seeking refuge there) and didn't kill Kyle when he could've in the train tunnel (debatably saved him by throwing him away moments before a grenade went off), and when Kyle frees him from the temporary capture of the Baron he seemingly listens to and heeds Kyle telling him to run.

But once we get to his boss fight, he seems to have completely lost what little restraint he had left, attacking without any hesitation (granted, the red mist may have increased his aggression).

I just think we should've had a few more encounters throughout, showing him act increasingly mindless and savage, and such.

I'm asking 'cause I'm planning on doing a 'build' that's consistent with the gear, looks and abilities used in cutscenes. I.e. the bubble-shield, armor melting fire-spray, and so on. And there's one or two 'flashback' cutscenes that show Geralt in the starter outfit, and I have this annoying urge to make things as consistent/'canon' as possible.

So, basically: has anyone else done it, and if so, how difficult does it get?

I was a little disappointed that Ifrit only gets 2 abilities (both as himself and as Clive). All the other Eikons get 4 + an Eikonic Feat, but our guy only gets 2 (3 if you include Limit Break).

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So, I got to thinking: What would a full Ifrit ability set with his own feat be like? Would it basically just be the Infernal Shadow/Eikon moveset?

Specifically, a mod that makes it so that Wood Chopping = One Handed XP.

This idea came to me after reading The Axe Man in-game book, in which a guy learns that all the menial chore-labor skills he's learned can be applied to chopping people up with an axe.

I've already got some other mods that make it so that Cooking=Alchemy and Smelting+Tanning=Smithing. Useful for when I'll eventually need to craft potions (and maybe poisons) as well as armor/weapons.

Anyways, this is all because I'm planning on doing a 'roleplay' playthrough in which my character starts out just as an average citizen, but then either joins the Dawnguard (hence the axe) or becomes a Vampire, depending on whether or not I survive my first random Vampire attack.

Big Oni looking dude called Faye 'godling' like, twice and she didn't retort/pushback at all. And the place she's in is allegedly 'The Afterlife of the Gods'.

So... why? Unless I missed something, Faye isn't a god. Is she a god, and somehow didn't know? Was there some sort of... spiritual mixup? Was she just straight-up lying about it?

Like, the way it worked in the RDR was basically perfect. You got achievements disabled and a little tag that marked it as a 'cheat save', but you could still keep your progress. Then they decided to change it in 2 for no good reason.

2 not allowing you to save at all with cheats enabled is basically the game punishing you for wanting to have fun and repeat things you've already done. Like, maybe I just want to boost my Arthur's stats because I feel that lorewise, they should be higher than they are at the start, or whatever.

I just find it a bit frustrating.

So, in the mission where you rescue him from Strawberry, Micah tells Arthur that he looks up to him. (Though this was probably just an attempt to butter him up.)

Then, in his next mission, when they get ambushed by the O'Driscoll's and get sent flying, Micah's near-immediate reaction after landing is to ask if Arthur is okay, then tell him to get in cover. Something about the way he said it always gave me the impression of that being an extremely rare moment of Micah showing genuine concern.

During the High Honor - Help John Escape ending, Micah doesn't finish Arthur off, unlike in every other ending (to my knowledge). This could be Micah leaving Arthur be out of respect/acknowledgement for him being a better man, whereas in the Low Honor version of it, he declares that Arthur isn't better than him before shooting.

Anyways, this all has got me wondering if there are any other examples of times when Micah may have shown legitimate concern/respect for Arthur (or anyone else really).