Yet Another Skyrim Question - Lycans?

[HyenaThePirate]

Can you contract lycanthropy in the game? Are there different types or is it just your typical werewolf, if that?

I suppose with the types of races available, lycanthropy of different species is kinda a moot point.

You know, I wish the Vampire/Whitewolf series would get picked up by Bethesda. I'd love to see how that series would have grown under their stellar direction. I personally loved Vampire the Masquerade some years back but it was admittedly very "lite" for an RPG imho.

Anyway, if anybody has progressed far enough to experiment to discover the ability to be a werewolf or hell even a vampire which I read in an article was returning, could you tell me if they did anything different? Better? Worse than Elder Scrolls? In all honesty I think that Morrowwind did a much better job with the supernatural character game play than Elder Scrolls which didn't allow you to be a werewolf at all and in which being a vampire was more of a pain in the butt than it should have been to play.

Thank you in advance for not trolling/flaming/mocking/disparaging/hating.

 

[HyenaThePirate]

On a separate note, but not wanting to start a new thread (there are plenty as is) is anybody else growing a bit tired of games refusing to at least include a coop function? Whether you personally like coop or not is irrelevant, as if you don't like it you don't have to use it, but I feel that there are enough people out there who would love to be able to take their characters into their friends games for some buddy questing and just traveling around getting into adventure that you would think that it should be as required to an RPG or open world game as multiplayer is to a shooter. Thoughts?

 

[OverweightWhale]

You can become a warewolf when you join the Companions and progress through their story line. They're basically the fighters guild of skyrim. I think it's just your typical warewolf since all the warewolfs I see look the same.

 

[lacktheknack]

When you refer to "Elder Scrolls", I think you're referring to Oblivion. Elder Scrolls is the name of the series. Clarify?

 

[Owen Robertson]

Yeah you can become a werewolf.
Morrowind and Arena had Werewolves if I'm not mistaken. So it's a tradition rather than bandwagoning. Although the vampire/werewolf ship sailed some time ago in my opinion. And the zombies have just about died off. Whose ready for demons and a revival of Christianity as evil?

 

[Akihiko]

I just became a werewolf myself, and it was part of a questline, in fact it looks like you have to become a werewolf to continue that specific questline. Each race turns into the same looking werewolf by the looks of it.

 

[Rawne1980]

It is confirmed that you can indeed become a werewolf...

I'll spoiler it for those that want to find out on their own.

Spoiler

You get a quest chain in Whiterun for a group called the Companions, they are Skyrims version of the Fighters Guild.

After a couple of quests for them they give you the option to join them properly and become werewolf.

There is also a ring that drops randomly that gives you the Beast Form spell.

Just don't go changing in public places, they don't like that and try and use your body as a sword holder.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

So what ever happened to lumping all these questions into one topic?.

because i thought that was the best advice for everyone in mind.

 

[NotSoNimble]

So what ever happened to lumping all these questions into one topic?.

because i thought that was the best advice for everyone in mind.

Personally, I don't mind all the threads. It is odd that people aren't just using the wiki for all these specific questions though.

OT: No, no co-op. It would be too much a bother to add when they (devs) already have enough on their plate.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

It is confirmed that you can indeed become a werewolf...

I'll spoiler it for those that want to find out on their own.

Spoiler

You get a quest chain in Whiterun for a group called the Companions, they are Skyrims version of the Fighters Guild.

After a couple of quests for them they give you the option to join them properly and become werewolf.

There is also a ring that drops randomly that gives you the Beast Form spell.

Just don't go changing in public places, they don't like that and try and use your body as a sword holder.

you can do it in the Companions? i thought it was like vampirism in oblivion: it only gets offered by the Dark Brotherhood.
incidentally, there is a DB vamp (a 10 year old girl) and werewolf.

and Skyrim would be a lot more fun with co-op.

and Khajit werewolves would actually create pretty hilarious social consequences: cat-man turning into dog-man.

 

[Atmos Duality]

So what ever happened to lumping all these questions into one topic?.

because i thought that was the best advice for everyone in mind.

Why bother when you can farm posts for Hot Topic badges with such an obviously popular topic series?
Notice how some of these start with "I'm sorry/I know it's another Skyrim topic BUT...." and then they post it anyway...hypocrites.

 

[WanderingFool]

Yeah you can become a werewolf.
Morrowind and Arena had Werewolves if I'm not mistaken. So it's a tradition rather than bandwagoning. Although the vampire/werewolf ship sailed some time ago in my opinion. And the zombies have just about died off. Whose ready for demons and a revival of Christianity as evil?

Revival of Chirstianity as Evil? The hell you talk'n about, they never stopped...

 

[Rawne1980]

you can do it in the Companions? i thought it was like vampirism in oblivion: it only gets offered by the Dark Brotherhood.

Nope, i'll spoiler again just so people don't get the plot to it ruined..

Spoiler

The inner circle of the Companions are all Werewolves. Farkas changes on one of the earlier missions and gives it away.

When you get back Aela and Skjorn I think his name is, take you to the Underforge and offer you the option of joining them.

Kodlak, the Harbinger for the Companions, is trying to find a cure for it because he thinks it's a curse.

There is more to the story but you get the general idea.

And on that note I didn't even notice the Brotherhood had a werewolf (although the Blacksmith fella looks the type) but did giggle at the tiny Vampire they have.

 

[Terminal Blue]

I personally loved Vampire the Masquerade some years back but it was admittedly very "lite" for an RPG imho.

At risk of derailment, I feel compelled to step in on this point.

White Wolf as a company is actually pretty infamous for building horrifically dense role-playing games. Exalted is probably my favourite game system ever, but it's also a system where an experienced role playing group can spend an entire evening playing through one combat scene. Compare that to most D&D editions where you could run a whole multi-levelled dungeon with numerous battles of varying size and complexity in the same time.

If you're talking about the video games they made, well, yeah, they were going to have to tone some stuff down. Still, VtM: Redemption in particularly is a very classic dungeon crawl RPG even if it's not the best work of storytelling in history (it bends the source material over a basin quite hard, but I like to think that's out of love).

As for Skyrim. Yup, I'm told you can become a vampire or a werewolf, but it seems like they've gone back to Morrowind a little in that there are serious disadvantages for doing so, rather than merely having to find a sleeping person occasionally (oh.. please don't treat me so rough Oblivion!)

As for different 'types' of vampires/werewolves. That was a Morrowind thing and it didn't work because like everything in Morrowind it was horribly unbalanced and had only one relevant choice.

 

[Owen Robertson]

Revival of Chirstianity as Evil? The hell you talk'n about, they never stopped...

I meant as a theme. Last I checked, Priest was the closest thing to mainstream that featured Christianity as anything close to bad. I'm talking "Play as Azrael, the Angel of Death, smiting the enemies of God: The Catholic Church. They've become pompous and arrogant, and contradict themselves, muddling the glory of the Lord." I'm not a christian but I am an amateur Theologist, and I enjoy a good demonization. Muslims have been attacked since 2001, and Hebrews never stop getting harassed. Shit on the Buddhists. What are they gonna do? Get angry? They live in the moment, and the moment will pass. WARNING: The preceding statement was entirely humorous. It was not meant to be taken literally or as offensive.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

you can do it in the Companions? i thought it was like vampirism in oblivion: it only gets offered by the Dark Brotherhood.

Nope, i'll spoiler again just so people don't get the plot to it ruined..

Spoiler

The inner circle of the Companions are all Werewolves. Farkas changes on one of the earlier missions and gives it away.

When you get back Aela and Skjorn I think his name is, take you to the Underforge and offer you the option of joining them.

Kodlak, the Harbinger for the Companions, is trying to find a cure for it because he thinks it's a curse.

There is more to the story but you get the general idea.

And on that note I didn't even notice the Brotherhood had a werewolf (although the Blacksmith fella looks the type) but did giggle at the tiny Vampire they have.

the blacksmith is the werewolf. when you first enter the sanctuary, if you listen closely to what he says, he mentions being a 'big dong running about.'

 

[The Funslinger]

It is confirmed that you can indeed become a werewolf...

I'll spoiler it for those that want to find out on their own.

Spoiler

You get a quest chain in Whiterun for a group called the Companions, they are Skyrims version of the Fighters Guild.

After a couple of quests for them they give you the option to join them properly and become werewolf.

There is also a ring that drops randomly that gives you the Beast Form spell.

Just don't go changing in public places, they don't like that and try and use your body as a sword holder.

you can do it in the Companions? i thought it was like vampirism in oblivion: it only gets offered by the Dark Brotherhood.
incidentally, there is a DB vamp (a 10 year old girl) and werewolf.

and Skyrim would be a lot more fun with co-op.

and Khajit werewolves would actually create pretty hilarious social consequences: cat-man turning into dog-man.

vampirism didn't only get offered by the dark brotherhood. You could just contract the disease from any vamp. It's the same in skyrim with vampires and werewolves I think, but the companions are definitely the simplest way.

 

[Bvenged]

Co-op in an RPG would be a truly massive feat, as the game not only has to clock everything a single player does and calculate how to develop itself further for said player; but has to do it for both players.

Mass Effect co-op is a bit like CoD Spec Ops. TES / Fallout coop would be a stupidly enduring challenge to compile and Borderlands (which I disliked) did it pretty much the only way it can be done currently. Maybe on the next gen it could be done properly, TES style xbox live co-op. But any more and it would become and MMO.

I do not wish for Coop in TES for a while as it will certainly take away from the experience.

PS - Lycanthropy is in the game, there are no variants, but why would you want there to be? It's not a big part at all, just a side feature like Oblivion's vampires.

 

[WanderingFool]

Revival of Chirstianity as Evil? The hell you talk'n about, they never stopped...

I meant as a theme. Last I checked, Priest was the closest thing to mainstream that featured Christianity as anything close to bad. I'm talking "Play as Azrael, the Angel of Death, smiting the enemies of God: The Catholic Church. They've become pompous and arrogant, and contradict themselves, muddling the glory of the Lord." I'm not a christian but I am an amateur Theologist, and I enjoy a good demonization. Muslims have been attacked since 2001, and Hebrews never stop getting harassed. Shit on the Buddhists. What are they gonna do? Get angry? They live in the moment, and the moment will pass. WARNING: The preceding statement was entirely humorous. It was not meant to be taken literally or as offensive.

Oh. So I shouldn't feel to bad for chuckling while reading that. Good...