I have no sense of direction and can't drive without Google Maps. Could anyone be so kind as to tell me where the hawk's nest in Solitude is? I've just spent two hours running around the rooftops under where the hawks are circling, but I don't see a single hawk's nest. You'll have my eternal gratitude.
I tried inserting an image but Nexus doesn't seem to like it, so I'll do my best to give directions instead: Start by going to the training yard outside Castle Dour, and go up the stairs next to the archery targets. At the top of the stairs, look directly to your right. The walkway on top of the wall with the archway is where we want to go. Go either left or right, looping around on the walkways to get there. You'll know you're at the right spot when there's a bit of hanging moss on the edge and you can see the bards college & blue palace by looking out straight ahead. Now, look down and to the right. There's a lower platform you can jump down to, and you should be able to see the chest containing the armor there. Just for clarity, it's adjacent to the giant archway that leads to the emperor's tower (you can't jump down from on top of there, though, there's an invisible wall). Hope this helps!
How the hell is anyone ever supposed to find that?? There are so many nests in this game and how is an ordinary person supposed to know that THAT one is the nest you need? Also, looking it up there are only two hawks nests in the game and they are on the hearthfire houses, I swear 4th deliberately misleads us and sends us on a wild goose chase for his own amusement.
In dark souls 2 there is a falconer shield you can only get by getting through the door where the petrified pyromancer woman is. I feel you should includer the falconer shield with this set.
Oh look, it is the swiggity wooty guys from Dark souls 2. The ice skaters as I like to call them. Their animation was right up there together with vanilla Skyrim animation. I practiced parrying these guys for several hours just to do a glitch that I ended up not even needing.
Lol! If this (amazing) armor looks like "light" to you, show me which one you think is "heavy". This isn't a light armor, my friend. It looks very heavy enough.
It's a plate cuirass over mail, that'd actually be very light and maneuverable. Medieval armor isn't anywhere near as heavy as people mistakenly believe it is.
A full plate set can weigh up to 50 pounds. I wouldn’t exactly call that very light. The weight is evenly distributed throughout the body so it doesn’t feel that heavy but you’re still going to feel it. The real problem with plate armor is the lack of ventilation. It can get very hot quickly. Still if you’re going into combat there’s nothing better.
most are usually in the 30lbs, the ones over 50lbs are tournament/jousting armor, and that weight is distributed evenly across your body, from your legs down to your hands and shoulders so it's not exactly crazy heavy and clunky, a veteran man-at-arms wearing a suit of plate armor would be fairly maneuverable and agile enough to mount their horses without help.
it's a prevalent myth that plate armor is heavy and clunky.
If you're wearing thick plate, because you are jousting, or you are the vanguard lancers charging and know you could be charging anti-heavy cavalry formations... then you might have armour which weight 20-25kg. Partially because the harness plate will be thicker... partially because not only will you likely be wearing hauberk and chausses beneath that, but that mail will be thicker too, and because your mail is thicker, and heavier, you are likely even wearing akaton and hose, thicker than normal as doubling to pad better. You are also likely wearing frogmout helm, or great helm... and helm is oft worn with a simple nasal, or secrete, beneath, they can be suspended, and probably wearing thicker padded hood on your head, because your coif will maybe be thicker too.
This is because you KNOW that you are likely going to be charging at a formation, with countermeasures ready, which will use your momentum against you, to carve you up/impale you..... OR someone is charging towards you down a set list, guaranteed to HIT you, with a lance... even just a jousting one.
MOST of the time, even PLATE armour.. DID NOT weigh this much. It was AMPLY effective when it weighed 13 kg.... almost nothing was getting through it, especially if you someone, any many Knights were, especially in Southern Europe, who still wore mail beneath, even by the early 17thC. Glaives, Lances, heavy X/Bows, Halberds, things like Martial Picks and Mauls, could open you up, or deform your metal skin.... but for the most part, anything else could not hurt you... Knightly combat was about making the other guy commit an error, or loosing his balance, or get overly focused on retreating/fleeing... all which lead to openings, which allowed you in to the gaps. Every Knight carried something like a Rondel Dagger for a REASON... namely... their MAIN weapon was just to fight to the point of that error, off balance moment, flight, and he could then get inside the opponents defensive range, and use something much more personal, with much more concentrated force, in a gap to end it.
If 25KG was the STANDARD for full case harness, then add their mail, and doubling, you are looking at probably over 30kg... they literally could not fight each other well enough to DO that dance, find those openings, and ever hurt each other.... and even if they DID. the armour at that point would be likely too much even for a dedicated up close and personal beak....so basically armies.. or units of heavy Knights at least, would essentially fight themselves to exhaustion, for a stalemate outcome that was pointless.
Nah. Armour weighing almost 30kg, or almost 40...was not UNHEARD of... but it was VERY SPECIFIC armour, and FAR from the NORM.
For those who are playing on VR and just cannot find the chest like me: Change the ESL to an esp, that fixed it for the me and I could finally put on this gorgeous Armor.
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Lovely mod, thank you!
Start by going to the training yard outside Castle Dour, and go up the stairs next to the archery targets.
At the top of the stairs, look directly to your right. The walkway on top of the wall with the archway is where we want to go.
Go either left or right, looping around on the walkways to get there. You'll know you're at the right spot when there's a bit of hanging moss on the edge and you can see the bards college & blue palace by looking out straight ahead.
Now, look down and to the right. There's a lower platform you can jump down to, and you should be able to see the chest containing the armor there. Just for clarity, it's adjacent to the giant archway that leads to the emperor's tower (you can't jump down from on top of there, though, there's an invisible wall).
Hope this helps!
Edit: for some reason it had an issue when I loaded into the save in 1st mode. No idea why, but otherwise amazing armor.
i didnt knew what it was, so i went step by step over one day.
so, when i give my follower this to dress it (looks fantastic btw), and i save, the game is corrupted and will crash when trying to load.
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This isn't a light armor, my friend. It looks very heavy enough.
it's a prevalent myth that plate armor is heavy and clunky.
This is because you KNOW that you are likely going to be charging at a formation, with countermeasures ready, which will use your momentum against you, to carve you up/impale you..... OR someone is charging towards you down a set list, guaranteed to HIT you, with a lance... even just a jousting one.
MOST of the time, even PLATE armour.. DID NOT weigh this much. It was AMPLY effective when it weighed 13 kg.... almost nothing was getting through it, especially if you someone, any many Knights were, especially in Southern Europe, who still wore mail beneath, even by the early 17thC. Glaives, Lances, heavy X/Bows, Halberds, things like Martial Picks and Mauls, could open you up, or deform your metal skin.... but for the most part, anything else could not hurt you... Knightly combat was about making the other guy commit an error, or loosing his balance, or get overly focused on retreating/fleeing... all which lead to openings, which allowed you in to the gaps. Every Knight carried something like a Rondel Dagger for a REASON... namely... their MAIN weapon was just to fight to the point of that error, off balance moment, flight, and he could then get inside the opponents defensive range, and use something much more personal, with much more concentrated force, in a gap to end it.
If 25KG was the STANDARD for full case harness, then add their mail, and doubling, you are looking at probably over 30kg... they literally could not fight each other well enough to DO that dance, find those openings, and ever hurt each other.... and even if they DID. the armour at that point would be likely too much even for a dedicated up close and personal beak....so basically armies.. or units of heavy Knights at least, would essentially fight themselves to exhaustion, for a stalemate outcome that was pointless.
Nah. Armour weighing almost 30kg, or almost 40...was not UNHEARD of... but it was VERY SPECIFIC armour, and FAR from the NORM.
Thanks a million for the mod!
Thanks to the author for this great work, looks fantastic!