Rather than run toward Solitude, I aim for Dawnstar. Below, enjoy a small supercut of my repeated deaths just as I reach safety.Īfter about five tries I finally make it, after taking a sprinting jump off the first floe and using my healing spell the moment I've got my boots on the next one.

For a while, it seems like I simply won't be able to make it: I keep freezing to death the instant I make it to the next floe. Standing on the ice floes, I try repeatedly to swim to the relative safety of land. Granted, the world is mostly covered in snow so it seems unlikely you'd ever become dehydrated (if this hypothetical thirst system let you consume a fistful of snow, that is), but it does feel strange that nothing regarding thirst has been included. There's no thirst system in Skyrim SE survival, which feels like an odd omission. I just wish it wouldn't occur so often: I've scarfed down several apples and five entire cabbages already but I'm still almost always hungry. I do enjoy the hunger notification itself: it's a rather convincing sound effect of a hungry stomach gurgling. As long as you can find a few moments of privacy and a have a few centimeters of magicka, you'll be able to stay alive and heal.Īs I escape the ship and climb out onto the iceberg it hit, the hunger system kicks in frequently-a bit too frequently for my tastes, though that's certainly not exclusive to Skyrim SE's survival mode ( I've griped about the common problems with hunger systems before). You don't automatically regain health over time in this mode, either, though that's not such a big deal in Skyrim since every character is born with a healing spell.

In SSE's survival mode, being cold limits you from filling your health meter completely (it also makes lockpicking and picking pockets more difficult, presumably due to shaking fingers). As I splash around in the bowels of the flooded ship, the freezing water eats away my health quickly, and I can only spend a few seconds paddling around before I'm near death.

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