Console CommandsĬonsole commands are generally used by developers to debug the game during glitches. It also gives you a metric-ton of Alchemy points, so that’s pretty cool, too. However, Bethesda snuck in an extra reward: shoot the salmon as its mid-jump, and you get salmon roes, one of the most powerful alchemical ingredients in the game that’s necessary for stuff like water-breathing potions. Prior to this update, players would be rewarded with mostly salmon meat regardless of how they catch the fish. That’s right, in a sneaky move by Bethesda during one of their regular patches, the studio added a little extra something-something for people with mad archery skills every time they tag a salmon in the stream.

But here’s the thing: all the budding alchemists can benefit from a little time with the ole’ fishing pole (metaphorically, considering the Dragonborn can’t use fishing poles. It’s also the best way to get salmon meat because, well, duh. Here are some Skyrim secrets from the vanilla version of the game that you may or may not have heard of: Fishing in Skyrim is More than Relaxing, It’s RewardingĪlchemy fans of Skyrim know that salmon fishing in Skyrim’s many, many rivers is one of the best ways to get ingredients. Of course, hardcore players who haven’t stopped playing the game since ’11 will most likely have discovered most of the secret and hidden gems the game has to offer, but for the more casual gamer like myself, running into these secrets just gave me an even fuller appreciation to one of the best games of this decade. Yes, it turns out, the developers threw in a host of easter eggs, secret codes, and locations that are only being explored now. With more than 100 hours of vanilla gameplay (i.e., main quest line + ‘official’ side quests), Skyrim without mods or DLC’s was already expansive, and that was just the quests they told us about. And that’s not including all the amazing and intricate mods you can download online (click here if you want to know where to find Skyrim mods). It’s not just that the vanilla game plus DLC’s (Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn) take up a little over 22GB of HDD space, but also because most, if not all, of the vanilla game’s secrets, are still being unearthed almost 10 years on. Now, almost a decade after its release, and with respect to other immersive franchises like Fallout and Red Dead Redemption (my personal favorites), and it’s still one of the most expansive games of all time. When it came out in 2009, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was considered to be one of the most massive, extremely intricate, and highly immersive games of all time.

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