I know too many people who center that arrow and beeline for it, every single time. Ignoring the arrow is the best way to play. Best of luck with those!īut, I certainly agree. Especially if it's a tracking quest with an NPC on an unknown schedule. Tracking down someone, ah, now that's frustrating without a marker. Unique quests aren't much different in that regard, and often with them, whatever's needing done is generally.pretty unique, and easy to tell is important. On top of that, with the radiant quests it's an easy task to know you probably just need to find the boss chest in whatever dungeon you're sent to to recover whatever, or kill whatever (sad it's often that easy). I'm sad to say I have the general geography down almost by rote and know my orientations well enough (at least on the surface) to know where all the very major locations are (generally) at, and can keep pretty good bearings underground without an arrow guiding me onward. That also improves the exploration feel of this game a lot. Post script: After I found out how remarkable change it was, I also turned off the not-yet-found-location-nearby sense the Dragonborn somehow possesses. Now I also stumble upon most of the little out-of-the-way details Bethesda developers like to put here and there. Now I have to read all the books and journals I find if I want to know where to go/what to do next with no little arrow helper holding my hand. Considering I played nearly all the quests on an earlier playthrough it's remarkable how little I remember about the actual context of the quest while running from one arrow to the next. I will be looking through every crook and cranny looking for whatever object/person/enemy my devout quest journal sends me to, taking in all the details and taking in way more of the game then I did before. Nevertheless on my first playthrough I always automatically stormed straight to the green/red arrow without a second thought, I experimented turning it off in my second one and I feel sort of free. I love these types of exploration games, no matter how shitty the storyline may be.

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