Skyrim Survival Mode: 10 Tips for Beginners! (2021!)



In this video we will be discussing 10 tips for Skyrim Survival Mode Beginners! If you have any additional tips, please feel free to …

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  1. Those are some great tips. Though I think you forgot to mention hot soups and that the torch gives +50 warmth rating when hold.
    Personally I prefer the Nord though. Though the orc can move a bit faster (only outsped by the high elf), Nords have the highest cold resistance of +25. I found myself in hazard weather such as snowstorms where my character would have died a long time before was he not a Nord.
    Utalizing Goldenhills Plantation as a player home is a great strategy. The unicorn comes in handy as well since it's the fastest and strongest mount in the game, outspeeding even Shadowmere.
    The Ring of Namira is a great artefact that let you feed on corpses to restore your hunger.

  2. The only issue I had with this is it forces you into a certain playstyle. Followers while handy often ruin sneak based gameplay so it kicks you out of assassin based builds by that alone. A tip I would give is always check your inventory for anything that you might not need and have a drop off place such as your house to store anything you want to keep by can not do anything with at this time.

  3. What I love about survival mode is that it makes the game feel more like a D&D campaign, you got to plan your journey. I remember in vanilla Skyrim me and brother started our own challenge for our characters, we didn't use fast travel, had to eat, sleep a minimum 7hrs and no fast travel. At the time in OG Skyrim there was no mods for this so we just did it ourselves with role play plus we shared a PC so we built a character together and held each other to the rules. We always talked about how Elder scrolls was the closest thing to a D&D tabletop experience, we even started a campaign together on Elder Scrolls Online.

  4. Not sure if the designers took a cue from Conan Exiles, but I rather like the added challenge on survival mode. It always struck me as odd that eating and sleeping were optional…..

  5. Got a question for you all, every reply is appreciated. I never played skyrim before. I got both the og skyrim and anniversary edition. Should i start with the og or this one? This survival thing looks good, i love managing such needs within games. Thank you for your time, y'all

  6. Tip: it's possible for you to construct a portable campsite. Obtain 3 Firewood & 1 Leather, then make Camping Supplies at any Forge or Anvil. That way,but you're out in the wilderness & run into severe cold problems, you can just establish your campsite, get warmed up, make some food & generally rest up before heading out.

  7. I remember starting near Winterhold with the alternate start mod on my first survival mode. It then became a challenge to get to another city without freezing. Had to resort to stealing and entering every cave along the road south to survive.

  8. just started another play-though of Skyrim and im doing survival mode on master difficulty
    it's definitely rough, although im using a extra carry weight mod, to make life slightly less painful, since i don't like using followers and it's not a sneak build
    pretty much any bandit with a 2 handed weapon, or a mace can 1-shot-kill me, since im playing as a mage so im wearing robes with only gauntlets and boots heavy armor
    there are definitely some good race choices for survival, but since im playing on Master, i needed to go with Breton for the magic resistance

  9. Survival Mode has made me in the first time in years to bring down the Legendary difficulty to Master instead.

    It's such a learning curve to get use to, I'm so use to just fast traveling and having passive health Regen.

  10. They REALLY should have made fast travel available on a horse (or other regular mounts). Forcing you to go through a DLC quest just to get fast travel is really pretty non-doable for those of us who like to limit our questing based on character specific RP. If they had left it to working while on any horse or mount that would have suited a lot more RP styles.

  11. DaMN, I played a Bosmer in survival mode+ledendary difficulty and kind of gave up around Level 20. Carry capacity was 160 and without fast travel I was constantly dropping items. I wanted an archer build but my one handed weapons do more damage than even Elven arrows and Bows. I had to use 100s of arrows sometimes go kill average enemies. Everything was taking way longer than it should. I think a game like this shouldn't have introduced this mode coz it wasn't designed for it in the first place.

  12. Just found survival mode after downloading the anniversary upgrade. Brilliant it makes so much more sense now with food cooking and bed locations all over the place. I used to ignore them all but now it’s changed the game. Red apple and cabbage soup all the way
    Give your follower 1 x fire arrow and take away their steel/ iron arrows 💥 unlimited fire arrows for them
    If things get chilly get your follower to carry your warm clothing for you then change when it’s combat time
    If you level up during a dungeon crawl make sure you note where the beds are go back to the bed and level up before continuing to the boss
    Use a torch early on to help locate beds before you get candlelight spell so you can see where the beds are

  13. Been playing and have beatin skyrim and it’s dlc’s for years repeatedly. Not once have I even thought about doing survival mode until I woke up this morning and didn’t feel like gettin on Ark..seems like this is a new challenge that I have been looking for

  14. You’re not really playing till you turn off the HUD and check map to see where you need to go.

    The game is beautiful that way and getting lost sometimes adds to the immersion.

  15. Bro I am doing a survival play through with some mods and since I chose the left for dead start on alternate start mod, I spawned in on an island in solstheim and couldn’t play without cheating to get over the water. The water is brutal in this game mode.

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