In other words, no terrifying three-eyed gorilla monsters until we've got the gear, stats, and (hopefully) psychological preparation to deal with them. Has anyone else found that the level scaling gets a little annoying around level 48/49 My first 40 or so levels on Skyrim the combat felt perfect to me, enemies died fast but I still had to be careful as I could be ass whooped by the odd tough one. Skyrim's is similar to Fallout 3's, not Oblivion's,' wrote a Bethesda community manager on the game's official forums.įallout 3's level-scaling, of course, was much less pronounced and far more refined.

All our games have had some amount of randomness/leveling based on player level. 'Since people are asking, wanted to briefly touch on level scaling. At skill level 100, with no perks, or smithing improvements, that same iron sword does 12 damage. An iron sword with a 1h skill level of 15 does 8 damage. As a result, players complained that the game lacked a tangible sense of progression, and it served as a small red mark on an otherwise fantastic game.įortunately, this time around, Bethesda's learned its lesson. You can improve them yourself if you have a decent level of smithing, however. Instead, enemies' levels would scale with yours, or washed up enemies would be replaced with something more capable of snapping you like a particularly sob-prone twig. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, though? Not so much. Most RPGs have a built-in reward for your painstaking efforts to grow stronger than the fierce, two-foot-tall sewer rats of the world: you get to beat the stuffing out of the baddies who hung you from flagpoles and gave you swirlies back in the day.

Skyrim weapon level scaling