I'm at work so I can't access certain websites at the moment. I'll try looking again when I get home. A Googling of Skyrim item scaling seemed to have some results if someone else wanted to look too. From the snippets I could gather, it sounds as though it might be similar to whatever they did in Fallout 3 (I don't know what that was).
But I agree with you, getting permanently under-powered unique items is kind of the pits. It seems as if it would be hard to avoid. If the items levelled up with you, you'd never have a reason to seek out new ones. If the items were a set level no matter when you got them, you could easily break the game by getting a really good one early (I did this in Morrowind). At first glance it seems difficult to reconcile item-scaled loot with level-scaled enemies.
But I agree with you, getting permanently under-powered unique items is kind of the pits. It seems as if it would be hard to avoid. If the items levelled up with you, you'd never have a reason to seek out new ones. If the items were a set level no matter when you got them, you could easily break the game by getting a really good one early (I did this in Morrowind). At first glance it seems difficult to reconcile item-scaled loot with level-scaled enemies.
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Not sure if this has been told here or not but Skyrim is going to be a port for the PC
- 26/10/2011 03:26:57 PM
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At least PC players get mods to fix the terrible decisions like level scaling and bad UI. Oh well.
- 26/10/2011 08:35:54 PM
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Re: Level scaling
- 26/10/2011 08:47:14 PM
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Or they could just design a game that includes dangers you can't overcome.
- 26/10/2011 09:22:09 PM
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As long as it's clear that they're not supposed to be able to beat those things yet, anyway.
- 26/10/2011 09:37:48 PM
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I don't entirely disagree.
- 26/10/2011 09:43:19 PM
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My issue is mostly with equipment and enemy types scaling, not so much actual level.
- 26/10/2011 09:55:29 PM
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I'm more interested in item scaling than enemy level scaling
- 26/10/2011 09:53:55 PM
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I'm not sure.
- 26/10/2011 10:07:54 PM
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Did Fallout 3 and New Vegas have Level scaling?
- 27/10/2011 08:40:54 AM
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NV didn't have scaling. Try walking down the road with Cazadores once you leave Goodsprings. 
- 27/10/2011 02:27:40 PM
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- 27/10/2011 02:27:40 PM
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That's the first thing I tried to do after the goodsprings quests.
- 27/10/2011 02:31:32 PM
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