Can I Survive 100 Days in Hardcore Survival Mode? - Perfectly Balanced Skyrim Challenge

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Welcome back to skyrim! Where today we set out on an impossible challenge! Can you beat the survive 100 days in skyrim hardcore challenge? The rules are simple, Legendary difficulty skyrim with survival mode but the added twist that you are not allowed to equip any Armor or weapons. This is the hardest possible challenge skyrim can offer. You are effectively playing at 1 hp and almost anything will kill you and fail the run. Ontop of that in survival mode you must eat and sleep similarly to an indie survival game. You must also balance temperatures which in the cold northern lands of skyrim is rather impossible.
So sit back and watch as the spiffing brit tests to see if Skyrim is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits or surviving 100 days of skyrim hardcore is a task that is simply too impossible for this pro exploiter!
What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold and infinite money all in a fantastic montage. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience.
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Title: Can I Survive 100 Days in Hardcore Survival Mode? - Perfectly Balanced Skyrim Challenge
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00:00 - THE RULES
01:23 - DAY 1 - MEET LEGLASS, he is a beautiful boy.
08:48 - DAY 2 - I avoid combat because Skeletons are Spooky.
10:49 - Levelling up…..
13:53 - DAY 3 - (Sicko Mode)
16;36 - DAY 4 - Put me on Life Support because I flabbergasted myself to death
17:36 - DAY 5 - Master of the house?
18:06 - DAY 6 - Stealing all the Elixirs because I deserve them, then meeting a crab.
21:19 - DAY 7 - Dear Todd Howard, How have you been? I’m concerned about you. Are things okay? Do you have food? Water? A safe and supportive group of friends? You have my number, please, reach out if you need it. - L
23:18 - DAY 9 - This is it, The Happiest Day of My Life :’) I would cry but I removed to tear ducts for tax reasons.
27:05 - ‘The DAY 10 Wheat Incident’ (Authorities have been alerted)
28:16 - DAY 11 - Turning a ghost into toast.
31:23 - DAY 12 - The Wheat and the Chaff
33:57 - Day 13 - Blowing up destruction
38:08 - Day 14 - 2 BUFFD 2 LIVE, 2 QUEST 2 DIE
41:10 - FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
41:30 - RIP
41:50 - A Life Well Lived.
42:30 - Leave a comment!
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@thespiffingbrit Жыл бұрын

*This is by far the hardest skyrim experience I have ever constructed and the results were a magnificent existence of finding the simple balanced pleasures in life!* I hope you all liked todays video and perhaps would like more?

@adampope5107 Жыл бұрын

There's nothing more cringe than saying cringe.

@lennaffect4018 Жыл бұрын

More Skyrim please

@Skwigz Жыл бұрын

Yes

@kujubuo Жыл бұрын

Damn no exploits i dont understand

@Reth_Hard Жыл бұрын

It is "Hardcore mode" but do you promise that you never made a single backup of your save files? Hum?? Just in case you do a small mistake along the way... HUM??? 🤨

@bigsmoke4385 Жыл бұрын

I love how even in a challenge where Spiff isn't allowed to use bugs, they always find a way to get to him themselves.

@douglasboyle6544 Жыл бұрын

That's Skyrim!

@mgunter Жыл бұрын

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Especially after a decade.

@EEEEEEEE Жыл бұрын

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E

@poilboiler Жыл бұрын

It's not like it's hard to find bugs in Skyrim.

@KL-cj9ti Жыл бұрын

It's just the power of Todd 💪🤡

@resileaf9501 Жыл бұрын

"Spiff lives like a (relatively) normal person in videogames" is a series I didn,t know I wanted, but I want more of it now.

@EEEEEEEE Жыл бұрын

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E

@williamcooper598 Жыл бұрын

this isnt a normal person. this is just masochism. a normal Skyrim NPC does use weapons and armor at their disposal.

@theonlylunarmage Жыл бұрын

"Can you complete GTA5 whilst obeying British traffic laws?"

@sdfkjgh Жыл бұрын

@@theonlylunarmage: You utterly sadistic monster! 😱 I love it!

@fabiangarcia6072 Жыл бұрын

Spiff: *RPs in an RPG* everyone: 😱😱

@user-qz1ms3mv1h Жыл бұрын

Spiff: "We do resist like 30% of all spells, so that frost mage isn't the biggest danger in the universe" That Frost Mage: "You wot mate?"

@aelegriniv1649 Жыл бұрын

Legendary bandit thug: "30% of my spell is twice your health bar."

@gurk_the_magnificent9008 Жыл бұрын

There were ice spikes whizzing past his head 😂

@randosmallfoot2132 Жыл бұрын

A fatal miscalculation that turned out to be

@JadeHeartOfFire 10 ай бұрын

Frost Mage: I’m about to do what’s called a “pro gamer move”

@tgnm9615 Ай бұрын

And frost spell is like 75% of the enemy lol

@michaelriggs1865 Жыл бұрын

This is hands down the closest anyone has come to recreating the authentic mortal experience of living in Skyrim.

@denispetrov844 Жыл бұрын

Yes. And how can we make him make it a series? :D :D

@EEEEEEEE Жыл бұрын

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E

@blunderingfool Жыл бұрын

Mods have been handling all sorts of needs since Morrowind I think.

@jakubguziur7522 Жыл бұрын

He's just a wandering NPC alchemist

@Madiannereid Жыл бұрын

Especially the “HOLY FCK it’s a walking Skeleton! I’m getting out of here immediately”

@natsudragneel7083 Жыл бұрын

"As long as we don't die, we can run away" wiser words have never been spoken

@Nightmare88ish Жыл бұрын

Seeing him die to his own hubris in forgetting this simple lesson is something I found very funny. If only he'd taken the time to realize he wasn't capable of fighting the enemies and that he just should have ran away. Even had he won, it's likely he'd of just died to something the same way a little later without remembering this simple rule: 'If we don't die we can run away.'

@thefudgems Жыл бұрын

I paused this video to eat dinner and when I came back, this was the very next thing said I am quaking in my boots

@tturi2 Жыл бұрын

1st rule, cardio

@dragonboyjgh Жыл бұрын

The joestar secret family technique

@Go.Shaman Жыл бұрын

35:58 :)) put that in the main comment! :)

@sonicmarsh232 Жыл бұрын

Can we take a second to appreciate how skyrim is still relevant 11 years later

@cp2676 Жыл бұрын

I'd also like a toast to the fact that even 11 years post release, a bug so blatant such as casting spells with 0 magicka exists for months

@quarreneverett4767 Жыл бұрын

Asside from people making mods and videos for it. Skyrim got more popular when it became easier to share things on the internet etc. Also engaging a new generation new in games. Oblivion set up the foundations for the modding as several carry over.

@quarreneverett4767 Жыл бұрын

Btw companions started as mods for oblivion

@GAOMaster Жыл бұрын

@DantePurgatory Жыл бұрын

I find it funny how he went from Falkreath to Rorikstead walking because he wanted wheat but still he says "thats not valuable for us" when the game tries to give him a farm.

@SonicLink1622 10 ай бұрын

It would be harder to travel back there. Which is probably why it wasn't valuable

@DustySiren 9 ай бұрын

A farm that produces a fuck ton of gold too

@AndroidNoir-L06k 9 ай бұрын

@@DustySirenbut with danger of dragon that spawn on the occasion.

@ZackRToler 8 ай бұрын

@@AndroidNoir-L06k only if you decided to progress far enough in the main story that dragons start spawning. If you got a horse, it's a quick and relatively safe trip back to whiterun. I do it on my survival argonian playthrough. Great place to make money and grow all your alchemy ingredients

@daniellittle3249 7 ай бұрын

@@DustySiren Yep I always just walked past it never knowing better till I decided I want the mass produce rare ingredients, holy moly the cash just flowed after that.

@wagglewiggle Жыл бұрын

This unironically looks like a fun way to play. I've played skyrim for like 3k hours and this genuinely took my interest in the game from negative 100 to fairly high

@berendkunstman4523 Жыл бұрын

3k hours? that's like 125 days, 125 days and nights of only skyrim. jesus, that's 1/3 of a year. considering a human gets to about 80 years old that means that you spend 1/240 of your life on nothing but skyrim. those are rookie numbers, pump m up.

@wagglewiggle Жыл бұрын

@@berendkunstman4523 it's hard I've put in something like 2.5 years of gameplay into world of warcraft

@ironCondor623 Жыл бұрын

@@wagglewiggle my brother in christ that's >20000 hours

@wagglewiggle Жыл бұрын

@@ironCondor623 I mean I've been playing world of warcraft since alpha I was very lucky to know some people who got me into the testing so I've had like 20 years to do that ( I have taken breaks but never fully quit the game )

@vergiloftheastralclocktowe9781 Жыл бұрын

@@berendkunstman4523 i have as of friday nov 18 2022 3:28 am 27,637 hours

@Jackie89000 Жыл бұрын

I love the idea of the dragonborn just sorta deciding to just pretend that helgen didn't happen and went on to live a simple life as a farmer with a wife and kids.

@xFlower_Iris Жыл бұрын

that was me when I first started playing Skyrim, I was a really big pussy back then and most of my first characters ended up just being Riverwood's Hobo who works at the Lumber Mill

@motorscorpion48 Жыл бұрын

Dragonborn: okay, I just survived a dragon attack, but if I told anyone I'd either be hung for lying or arrested, so imma just forget that whole thing happened and just... Start a new life, I guess

@hoangkienvu7572 Жыл бұрын

I don't know if Arduin will give the dragonborn enough time to find a wife or husband, let alone giving birth to a child, before he ends the world.

@raeB_D_ahC Жыл бұрын

@@xFlower_Iris I was the exact opposite, as soon as I got to Riverwood I started to attack everyone immediately

@settratheimperishable4093 Жыл бұрын

@@hoangkienvu7572 clearly, there is infinite time as long as you don't do the missions

@cormacolinde Жыл бұрын

Spiff last year playing Skyrim: YES! 12 GAZILLION DAMAGE! Spiff playing Skyrim today: YES! ELEVEN WHEAT!

@TimberOdom-yu1kc 3 күн бұрын

How tf do you have 712 likes and no comments

@TheWhildOne Жыл бұрын

Technically having a wood axe or pickaxe in your inventory without being equipped isn't using them as a weapon, and if you activate a wood pile or an ore vein, it will automatically use them as tools but you won't equip them as weapons or be using them as weapons ^_^

@YSleepish Жыл бұрын

Well you are still "using" them, and he said no using weapons, not just using them as weapons.

@YSleepish Жыл бұрын

@Moritz P. did he use it?

@rustyshackleford2022 Жыл бұрын

You have to equip the axe 100 percent , like do you even play bro

@purpleplutonium1132 Жыл бұрын

@@rustyshackleford2022 You just need it in your inventory.

@Dead_Goat Жыл бұрын

@@YSleepish He said no exploits. yet he exploited.

@jonymanay Жыл бұрын

I gave the challenge a go. I lasted 3 days and made it to lvl4. Some one hired 4 thugs to kill me. They chased me outside solitude. I ran to the guards hoping to be helped and got 1 shot as the guards did nothing.

@poemsbypoetry Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I have a mod that fixes guards not helping you when bounty hunters attack. Always seemed weird they wouldn't interfere. There's also another that makes it so hired thugs don't kill you, though they take the stolen items or whatever back.

@m.macafe 9 күн бұрын

Get a frenzy spell (i think that’s the spell that makes a npc attack anyone nearby) and shoot it at the thugs near one of the guards. U will have 20 guards by ur side in no time

@screenspelunkers1026 Жыл бұрын

Spif: I’m not leaving the path for any reason! Also Spif: Oh look a farm!

@BiohazardPsycho Жыл бұрын

I was shocked he didn't complete that quest tbh - it gives MORE money and has people make alchemy ingredients for you! Between that and Ysolda he would've been set

@bradonhoover3002 Жыл бұрын

Spiff sleeping from 1:45 to 6 am was truly the most realistic part of survival mode

@bigfudge2031 Жыл бұрын

literally watching this at 6am

@memesfor1192 Жыл бұрын

I saw this comment at 6 on the dot

@countluke2334 Жыл бұрын

Based on the nature of the challenge I don't quite understand why he doesn't sleep longer to make the most of the money spent for the night and pass some extra time.

@robhenry4197 Жыл бұрын

I get a solid 8 hours of sleep in video games where the sleep mechanics matters, but I settle for 3 hours 5 nights a week irl lmao

@ElDuderinoh 2 ай бұрын

@@countluke2334because you want the light of day for as long as possible when doing something like this, obviously. It’s not like he’ll get any bonuses for sitting there safe and cozy.

@90shadowlink Жыл бұрын

Getting your own farm would have been perfect. You could have had infinite wheat!

@jasonlambert5552 Жыл бұрын

The "haunted" farmstead has five skeevers inside the main house, it's how the farmer died. They aggro as soon as the character is inside.

@shawnmoore8460 9 ай бұрын

@@jasonlambert5552 Didnt one poison the other who killed them with an axe because they both thought the other was responsible for their sons disappearance

@ZackRToler 8 ай бұрын

@@jasonlambert5552 There are no skeevers on the farm, the farmer died cus he was poisoned by his wife, which lead him to kill her with an axe. Cus they both suspect each over the disappearance of their son who tragically died from wolves near the well just outside the farm. Whole part of the quest to get the farm is solving this mystery and bringing peace to the family.

@davidlane1248 7 ай бұрын

@@jasonlambert5552that's a different home. Goldenhills plantation is a ghost murder mystery mini quest

@CommanderBly5052 6 ай бұрын

@@jasonlambert5552 wrong house. You’re thinking of Lund’s Hut, the other house near Rorikstead.

@tammyboy2084 Жыл бұрын

I just saw the bit where you said that having the farm as your own house wasn’t valuable. It’s INSANELY valuable! You can grow huge amounts of potion ingredients and earn profits from the farm itself.

@pandasan_6666 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the Same, when he said that i was « HOW IS THAT NOT VALUABLE ?! » 😭

@ArtisChronicles Жыл бұрын

That portion made me want to start a new character and to seek out that farm to use as a base of operations

@josuedelgado1111 Жыл бұрын

This man has created a way to become the “protect this npc” quest but for 100 days… Bravo to you sir!!!

@Gormathius Жыл бұрын

"Spiff, what kind of escort quest is this?!" Spiff, terrified: "I AM THE ESCORT QUEST!"

@masew2012 Жыл бұрын

Wow, reading all the comments and seeing that EVERYONE feels the same is heartwarming. Spiff PLEASE make MOAR skyrim videos !!! And this challenge made you actually play the game normally and was AMAZING to watch. Greetings from a *Camel Tea* lover in Denmark

@thespiffingbrit Жыл бұрын

Yeah reading the comments on this one is wonderful really has made my day. Your all lovely

@comithziguess2020 Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit that house in rorikstead can make like 600 gold a day

@burritomafia352 Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit As Todd re-releases skyrim constantly. The spiff shall re-release constant skyrim gameplay!

@KorporalNoobs Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit No you are. And if you do Skyrim more, it could be interesting to use major in-depth overhaul mods (think requim) and try to do exploitation shenanigans in those.

@tammyboy2084 Жыл бұрын

If you want a free place to sleep, do Faendal’s friend mission in Riverwood. You can take the key to his house out of his inventory and use his bed and cooking facilities as often as you like. All you have to do is deliver a letter to another Riverwood resident.

@tammyboy2084 Жыл бұрын

Also, if you find a piece of firewood (I know you said you won’t make any under these restrictions, but you can find it now and then) you can sell it to the innkeeper in Whiterun, and she’ll let you sleep in her bed in one of the rooms above the kitchen.

@m.macafe 9 күн бұрын

@@tammyboy2084?! i didn’t know this

@DexStarrTheManiac Жыл бұрын

Never in my life did i think i would hear someone say “im not equipped to fight a skeleton” in reference to an elder scrolls game.

@dakotahawkes2483 Жыл бұрын

Hearing Spiff hit like 2 octaves higher with that skeleton was so funny I had to listen again and again. Actively crying with laughter!

@daddysnake5250 Жыл бұрын

the metal gear music made it even better lol🤣

@DemianCorvus Жыл бұрын

Spiff: "No exploits" Also Spiff: "We'll call this a gameplay mechanic"

@Hwk1901 Жыл бұрын

Yes, has no mana, knows it's a bug letting him continue, I'd call that an exploit

@potatos_4_free Жыл бұрын

@@Hwk1901 It's a feature, not a bug. If Bethesda left it in the game you can be rest assured it is a gameplay mechanic, given their track record of releasing perfectly balanced, exploit-free AAA games!

@SotiCoto Жыл бұрын

He ran into it by accident. I reckon that is fair.

@aredub1847 7 ай бұрын

you can do that with console commands. i would need the entire video uncut to believe him.

@xaiano794 Жыл бұрын

"marriage is so overpowered, you do nothing and they do everything and you just take all their stuff" Spiff discovering how life works...

@MrPsyren99 10 ай бұрын

You can tell it's a fantasy game because the guy is the one who does nothing and gets the money

@m.hankins2210 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed how you decided to not just sleep the whole time in Alvor's house. You actually progressed during the challenge.

@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't sleeping 100 days kill him because of survival mode?

@adelefurness4021 Жыл бұрын

@@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD I think they meant just returning to alvors house to sleep every night

@derekking9670 Жыл бұрын

I don't understand you can just sleep the entire time. Hunger doesn't kill you in survival node. How is this a challenge?

@jamesdixon6582 9 ай бұрын

@@derekking9670 It can be a challenge if you say, "Let's see how much I can level up and progress through different questlines in 100 days," so you aren't measuring success solely on whether or not you're alive by the end of the set timeframe 👍

@stampsu Жыл бұрын

Fastest click in my life: Spiff plays Skyrim. Gotta be a blast

@thespiffingbrit Жыл бұрын

well it was a blast to make so I hope it is a blast to watch

@benjaminloewen9458 Жыл бұрын

To true

@ngotemna8875 Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit I'm 10 seconds in and so far it's blasting 👍

@animalxing8697 Жыл бұрын

Brit playing Skyrim is always good. This game is just so Todd Howard.

@SirFlooberis Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit it’s more blasting, then team rocket blasting off away

@Unprotected1232 Жыл бұрын

I've never seen Spiff actually play the game normally for this long. It's not long mind you. If Spiff doesn't exploit Skyrim then Todd will do it for you.

@rtg5881 Жыл бұрын

You have seen him play the game normaly when he was stacking potion and enchantment effects. Thats how the game is meant to be played,boosting your intelligence by a few thousand to make better potions to boost it further to make even better potions and enchantments. They made it quite clear that they expect it to be played that way with the wizard falling from the sky after boosting jump by 1000.

@Just_A_Dude Жыл бұрын

Thing is, this _still_ isn't normal. He's intentionally making it harder than it needs to be for a challenge.

@42691bird Жыл бұрын

Definitely want to see more of this. The survival aspect makes it really entertaining.

@julianpenstemon Жыл бұрын

If you ever decide to attempt this again you can get Faendal in riverwood for free to do your bidding while you run away from a bandit screaming! That’s what’s I’d have done at least

@felinelamp2551 Жыл бұрын

that’s what i was thinking

@adityanadgauda Жыл бұрын

Hearing Spiff squeal with the Skeleton jumpscare was probably the highlight of this video. I never thought I would see the day where Spiff would actually get spooked, that too in Skyrim. I want more now

@ryanclemons1 Жыл бұрын

spooky scary skeletons

@ZyliceLiddell Жыл бұрын

@@ryanclemons1 *Skelingtons

@scribesorcerer4967 Жыл бұрын

The fact Spiff is struggling so badly because he can’t just use exploits to fix all his problems is amazing.

@TurtleMedicine Жыл бұрын

he struggles to not exploit todd howards masterpiece

@CompiledGabriel Жыл бұрын

He is so good a exploiter that he did it on accident to level up alteration

@aredub1847 7 ай бұрын

in Bethesda games he just uses the console. thats just a cheat, not an exploit. makes the titles a lie often.

@k-nick97 Жыл бұрын

Yeah this definitely needs another go. Would love to see it with the rules tweaked too so it changes up how you play through these first two weeks as well. Something like: you can use weapons, armor, and enchantments, but only what you personally craft. The living hell it'd be to try and brave dungeons to find loot you could use to break down and learn enchantments would be an interesting risk/reward decision.

@blacksuitnotie Жыл бұрын

You could change the rules to no magic or ranged fighting interactions. Like a Puritan warrior build. Honeslty, that would be much harder, while opening up the option of working your way up to better armor.

@LeoStaley 7 ай бұрын

Even change to "pickaxes, axes, and fishing rods don't count as weapons for the purposes of this run" would have made all the difference.

@kiwigamer4671 Жыл бұрын

The problem I’ve found with survival mode is that food is ridiculously cheap, like something that restores ~300 hunger is 1-5 gold, it’s amazing.

@AdaTheWatcher 9 ай бұрын

Atleast it's realistic, in most survival games you're like eating constantly. While you do get hungery while surviving you usually aren't eating 20 steaks per day.

@Nightmare88ish Жыл бұрын

When you think about it, this is effectively what is like to be a regular townsfolk npc in this game. Really puts into perspective how heroic the dragonborn really is when you see what it would effectively be like to be a weak townsfolk npc. You're just a guy, you dont have or wear fancy armor. Maybe you have some magic abilities but it's not much. You eat sleep and get injured and can die. Then one day, someone shows up blasted out in legendary armor, a badass weapon and a badass sidekick, and they can literally just yell things into or out of existence with the power of the dragon's voice. At best you've got a little dagger and maybe some magic if you're lucky. If you ran out into the wilds you'd never survive alone against a bunch of bandits. And lets not forget, there is a civil war going on as well. You're a lowly peasant just trying to make some coin and survive 100 days. I love it.

@Tinmann_77 Жыл бұрын

Remember, the DragonBorn starts as a prisoner who is tied up with no armor or weapons and has to find some while running from a dragon that is attacking... unlike the weak townsfolk noc in your scenario the Dragonborn isn't content to be a weak person who relies on others and does what he has to in order to improve his lot in life.

@Nightmare88ish Жыл бұрын

@@Tinmann_77 Dragonborn. Sigma-born grind mentality. Gigaborn? Lol. (Ya ok pretty bad jokes but lmao anyways) But yeah gotta respect the effort to grow the dragonborn does. Tho to be fair, as the player it's natural we'd be able to learn new skills and kick ass. You do gotta point tho.

@dannylee1523 Жыл бұрын

To be fair, a normal NPC could likely use a wood chopping axe, a pick axe, or just general farming equipment to earn their living. Not much of a living mind you, but a few coin here and there to survive. Those without lodging of their own could or would sometimes have lodging provided by their employment (farmhand, miner quarters as examples). This could simulate an NPC with some physical disabilities (say due to illness or injury) without any family or kin to look out for them.

@kdawg3484 Жыл бұрын

This was engrossing. I agree with others that just watching you play the game normally trying to survive, getting attached to the character, being genuinely scared for his safety and sad at his loss...it really was amazingly wholesome and enjoyable. Would definitely like to see some more cracks at it.

@FantomPhoenix Жыл бұрын

I love how much this challenge makes challenging even so much as a single Skeleton a terrifying experience

@jamesrichardson7619 Ай бұрын

9:17

@zarcher7643 10 ай бұрын

I know it's been a while since this project was started and last touched/abandoned, but you've introduced such a fun challenge mode for skyrim. Thank you for this short lived series!

@scrantondangler8068 Жыл бұрын

I really hope he sees our enjoyment of this series and makes a part 2. NPC: what in the world happened to you? Spiffing Britt: I wanted wheat.

@jasoncrawford5417 Жыл бұрын

The ending montage where Legless’s life flashed before his eyes was the best.

@hannahowlette Жыл бұрын

It reminds me of Sips' series when he thought Uthgerd had died and oh god I'm now going to have to go back and watch that entire series again, aren't I?

@crazay7777 Жыл бұрын

By far one of the most entertaining videos and creative I`ve seen on youtube in a while! Can´t wait for more content like this *sips tea*

@percy7836 Жыл бұрын

I'm honestly impressed with how far you got, I'd love to see something like this again, especially as a livestream!

@polarwind77777 Жыл бұрын

Honestly, I didn’t expect you to fail. This does seem like a great way to experience Skyrim.

@bensoncheung2801 Жыл бұрын

69 👍

@Sangheillioz Жыл бұрын

You basically beat the challenge as soon as you got married and made it back to Whiterun. At that point you can spend the other 100 days having Ysolda cook for you once a day and giving you money and a free bed. For round 2, I think you need to incorporate another goal, like amassing 1 million gold or defeating the Ebony Warrior or completing a major questline or something. Could be interesting to see you do this challenge with the added goal of building and fully furnishing a hearthfire house. The travel to and from would be a challenge by itself, and you'd have to balance keeping yourself alive with buying materials for the build. It would also make improving your stamina something you would need to do so you could carry more materials each trip.

@granatmof Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Spif maintaining the basic goal of survival was achieved via marriage. Without a goal to explore the world and achieve something within those 100 days there's nothing that will pit those difficulty mods into play. Even doing something like amass 10,000 gold via trading between towns would achieve more things. I'm curious if there's a traders guild mod that encourages building trade routes.

@mosherubenstein8248 Жыл бұрын

No. He cheated. Mara's amulet wasn't allowed in this challenge.

@IrvineTheHunter Жыл бұрын

@@mosherubenstein8248 It's equipment but not "armor" or a "weapon" so it should be fine?

@hudsonthecheeyote7843 Жыл бұрын

The ebony warrior is incredibly late game. It was basically meant to be the last thing you could possibly do. It would take him idk 1000’s of days to get to it without console commands

@gwenreed6288 Жыл бұрын

I agree with this take, since he's basically playing a peasant merchant I think they goal of home ownership is highly appropriate and would be a delight to watch.

@lsdap1969 Жыл бұрын

This leaves me craving for a full rpg series from you with different builds and approaches to the challenge 😍

@reichstein011 Жыл бұрын

This was great, loved the video. I really hope that you do end up coming back to this challenge, as it would be great to see you complete the 100 days. Totally spiffing, good job, cheerio.

@kirkhawthorne2350 Жыл бұрын

Legendary difficulty actually makes you take 4x more damage and makes you do 25% of the normal damage you would do on the games "normal" difficulty. Therefore this feat is even greater than could be imagined

@buckduck3624 Жыл бұрын

What about armor stats do they change?

@kirkhawthorne2350 Жыл бұрын

@@buckduck3624 nothing you just take enemies just deal 4x more damage and you deal less, its a very Bethesda way to increase difficulty just make everything more spongey and hit harder

@derpderpington824 Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure it's x3 against you. 25% against enemies. But summons and followers are unnaffected. Spiff made this way harder than he had to. No Faendal (free follower. Free house. Extra gear to sell). No vegetable soup (endless stamina). No fetch quests in Whiterun (extra money). No guard tower chests outside Riften (lots of extra money and stuff). No Illusion spells (calm, frenzy, etc). Did he even get camping supplies? That's what makes it more impressive that he survived.

@Mendoza-yi6qk Жыл бұрын

@@derpderpington824 Illusion spells are pretty much broken insuch a challenge so Spiff will use them in another attemot at this for sure.

@samuelele Жыл бұрын

It‘s not quite correct: the damage output of the opponents is x3, your own output is x0.25

@mizaru666 Жыл бұрын

I laughed so hard at that skeleton scene.

@thespiffingbrit Жыл бұрын

I almost died when recording. Why are they so dangerous!!!!

@resileaf9501 Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit The sound you made when you saw the skeleton was definitely the sound of someone about to die of a heart attack.

@dlichu Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit I almost died when watching this :P

@molhemalaa1252 Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit I never imagined I'd ever hear someone say Skyrim's skeletons are dangerous

@jonathanbrightwell272 Жыл бұрын

@@molhemalaa1252 Skyrim skeletons are the reason I VASTLY underestimated the skeletons in dark souls when I first played it 😂

@szlatnik Жыл бұрын

This was really cool. I've never played Skyrim, but watching you play this game like this vaguely reminded me of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (it also has permadeath and is also very difficult, although the resemblance largely ends there). It was fun! I hope you keep trying until you succeed. I'm aware that if you ever succeed it will probably be... a three hour video, but I'd watch it in its entirety. It was cool. 😊

@kaskando Жыл бұрын

Loved this XD haha really enjoy seeing you do some real limiting this without exploits. Very fun change of pace!

@npcknuckles5887 Жыл бұрын

"marriage is so overpowered" literally the most wholesome thing the spiffing brit has ever said

@MrAlopex112 Жыл бұрын

i would call it a nerf, but hey 😅

@egorsdeimos3523 Жыл бұрын

@@MrAlopex112 ok satan

@adisander Жыл бұрын

The hubris of making so many healing potions then not using one when a single ice bolt took off nearly half your health :D I'd love to see more!

@llanowar90 Жыл бұрын

Classic Skyrim player experience "why use it now, might need it later"

@Go.Shaman Жыл бұрын

41:05

@quarreneverett4767 Жыл бұрын

@@llanowar90 sou ds more like someone experienced with running quests and di geons to me :)

@quarreneverett4767 Жыл бұрын

Hubris? Funny coincidence. Or irony

@josetorresjr1644 Жыл бұрын

In the beginning of your journey you should of gotten Faendal from Riverwood as your companion. All you had to do to get him was his simple quest and you would have gotten a decent companion for free.

@demikus Жыл бұрын

Also he gives you a bit of gold from his job at the lumber mill if I remember right. 2 birds with one stone, a companion to help out and some spending cash for room and board.

@WhiRav1 Жыл бұрын

+ those skeletons and wolves are just destruction magic xp bags, so he just wasted some good lvls

@yogxoth1959 Жыл бұрын

“Marriage is overpowered.” - British man

@Go.Shaman Жыл бұрын

37:44 :))

@joewerner7067 Жыл бұрын

We absolutely need to see another run of this challenge, absolutely glorious. There is no way any other KZfaqr could make a 40+ min video off of 14 days of Skyrim.

@resileaf9501 Жыл бұрын

Today Spiff learns what it's like to be a peasant struggling to survive.

@jenbervis4352 Жыл бұрын

The subtle realism of being an urchin: survival life hack, get married to someone that has a house and food

@LegoCowManZ Жыл бұрын

"The only reward is that you can stay in the farm as your own house" False, you can also turn the farm into, well, a farm. Which means you can grow wheat and make potions. You can also build a stable, and receive passive income from workers you hire. No clue if they get paid after you hire them, or if it's a one-time payment for a lifetime of work, but it's also not really my problem. Just make sure you never trigger the dragons spawning or you'll be dealing with them off and on again. Hey, now that I think about it, even if you can't wear armor nothings stopping you from making and selling it, right?

@RPoolman Жыл бұрын

This might be a start of a nice series however painful. This was some great content and I enjoyed it immensely. Would definitely like to see more 100 day survival mode attempts.

@duck13x76 Жыл бұрын

For anyone curious about casting "detect life" with 0 magika, if your current magika gets lowered below 0 via lack of sleep while you're casting any hold to cast spell then you can continue casting it until your magika lowers again or you stop holding the cast

@Hwk1901 Жыл бұрын

Still an exploit

@gareth14111984 Жыл бұрын

@@Hwk1901 *gameplay mechanic... there, I fixed it for you XD

@michaelkornberg392 Жыл бұрын

can't blame todd for that one. thats on the modders

@polarsbear668 Жыл бұрын

@@michaelkornberg392 I'm pretty sure the survival mechanics are in the base game for the super mega todd howard edition

@delinquentpanda Жыл бұрын

@@RaphaelAmbrosiusCosteau Since they're employed by Bethesda they're technically official DLC

@chroniclesofguyver7888 Жыл бұрын

I would definitely watch another attempt at this challenge. This video had a lot of genuine, laugh out loud moments. I honestly didn't think this was going to end with a death. I was just expecting a "Continued in Part 2". 😅

@carafurry7862 Жыл бұрын

It's always nice when you get to know a game well enough to get exited when you find a random item

@victoriataylor1471 Жыл бұрын

This is the first time I have ever watched one of your videos and thought I’d have done something different, so here! When you began in riverwood, you can make a fair chunk of change by completing Camila’s love life side quest, which is 2 social interactions and no combat whatsoever! You also get a free follower of either Sven or Faendal so you don’t waste 500 gold on janassa. In Whiterun, you get 500 gold just for asking Mikael to leave Carlotta Valentina alone. (Can you tell I like getting involved in side characters love lives?) 200 gold for delivering a sword from Adrienne the blacksmith to her father in Dragonsreach, and of course a bit of gold in asking any blacksmith for an introductory course and then selling all of their materials back to them. Another favorite hack is to improve any weapons and armor you find and sell them at a markup. This was so fun to watch! Thanks for the best entertainment as always Spiff

@LadyMorrigan Жыл бұрын

So theres a weird glitch where you can cast all channel spells for Zero magicka if you have a very specific (to the decimal I think) magic regeneration rate. It was used in a few builds on the skyrim character building blogs ages ago. I think perhaps the fact that you were tired made you just happen to stumble across one of the specific magic regeneration rates that give you infinite channeled abilities. Once you got more tired from standing around or rested, you regen rate changed and thus it stopped working. Not sure if you care about any of this, but I thought I would mention it 😄

@AlexBlackRaven Жыл бұрын

That's really cool, thanks for sharing!

@afeathereddinosaur Жыл бұрын

Perfectly balanced

@LadyMorrigan Жыл бұрын

@@afeathereddinosaur it just works

@ImRandomDude Жыл бұрын

or simply the mod just messed up magicka

@MonkeyDGreed1854 Жыл бұрын

This was so beautiful it brought a tear to my eyes. Watching Legless's body ragdoll across the ground was heartbreaking! He got so far and struggled for so long. But he will live on in our hearts and minds. Perhaps Legless Jr. Will fair better? Journeying across skyrim to find his father he never knew.

@sdfkjgh Жыл бұрын

@Camdon Durfee: For a second there, I thought you were gonna break out the Linkin Park meme.

@thomasmalin7306 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful analysis

@mariobutoto534 Жыл бұрын

But Legless never did the nasty with Ysolda...

@brosephstalin2805 Жыл бұрын

Great clip, and love the smash music include at the end.

@LM-fu3fk Жыл бұрын

Yes, i enjoyed this vid and yes, id love to see a pt 2 or 3 or however long it takes!

@nutslut Жыл бұрын

I like the way you narrate your videos. I was tired and kept nodding off, closing my eyes, but I could still visualize what's going on on-screen because you narrate every action you take.

@Yertle_Turtle Жыл бұрын

that's a backhand way of saying he puts you to sleep. question is, does he tuck you in, too?

@NotRudyy Жыл бұрын

@@Yertle_Turtle i used to watch skyrim playthroughs in high school because they would help me fall asleep. I guess other people do too lol. I didnt think they were boring or anything, they were just calming ig

@AlexAnimusAA Жыл бұрын

@@Yertle_Turtle I’ve literally fallen asleep listening to heavy metal. I don’t think they were throwing shade, just saying they were tired. Everyone’s been there. I purposely put on city engineers videos cause his voice is calming lol so I get it

@Redolentleek Жыл бұрын

@@Yertle_Turtle people have watched shows or podcasts specifically to fall asleep. And when They wake up start from where They stopped. Sleep is good

@BoolyK Жыл бұрын

Such a good burn

@quanawhite9256 Жыл бұрын

This was so good and the ending was phenomenal.

@chandler2814 Жыл бұрын

Like the spiffing Brit I’ve spent way to many hours in this game and can say with certainty this is the only way I could get a challenge out of the game now haha Would love to see more of this!

@kelli2783 Жыл бұрын

The squeak when the skeleton attacked after fleeing through the door was incredible

@johnbright6982 Жыл бұрын

I have not once, ever, heard spiff as terrified as when that skeleton attacked him. Never had I thought I would see the day that a drinker of yorkshire tea would have something to fear.

@sethmathews1860 Жыл бұрын

His power was taken from him. There was no tea and no exploits

@patrickormerod3472 Жыл бұрын

only the gay english drink tea

@kierankennedy6971 Жыл бұрын

Damn. I wasn’t paying attention to the length of the video, so I wasn’t expecting such a sudden, abrupt end. I was so invested in this that I felt like I lost the challenge as well. Please do it again, you have to.

@MichaelJones-rg3hv Жыл бұрын

This was so good. I'd love to see an attempt #2 when you're ready. No need to make it harder than it already is though.

@zemosion1129 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love how they changed food in survival mode. I end up healing with just food a lot of the time because they buffed it sooooo much

@countluke2334 Жыл бұрын

Is this an official game mode now or is it a mod?

@shockingboring_ Жыл бұрын

I kinda hate that not all food reduces your hunger. doesn't make sense to me and makes survival more tedious than it needs to be. @Count Luke it is and official game mode

@liquidsleepgames3661 Жыл бұрын

@@shockingboring_ how so. taffy or an apple shouldnt fill you like a potato or a mammoth snout.

@shockingboring_ Жыл бұрын

@@liquidsleepgames3661 still, the difference shouldn't be that enormous. also I recently discovered that some of the problems I encounter could be linked to the Unofficial Skyrim Patch which seems to remove the hunger restoring aspect of most foods entirely. sadly the patch is absolutely necessary to fix what bethesda considers ready for multiple releases over the years. so until they fix that, guess I can't really play survival mode... and it has already been years with apparently few people noticing this issue ...

@KarmasAB123 Жыл бұрын

@@shockingboring_ You shouldn't use the official survival mod anyway. It's based off Chesko's Frostfall mod, he helped them with the official mod and then they stiffed him. Just use "Frostfall" with "Complete Alchemy and Crafting Overhaul" and "iNeed." Edit: Quotation marks for clarity

@miksor23PL Жыл бұрын

I think that taking this farm from ghost(29:46) would make this run way easier. You could plant planty of crops(like wheat) or other alchemy ingredients. By planting blue mountain flower and wheat you could make healing potions and sell them to upgrade your farming empire to grow more plants and make more money

@AsuraBoss Жыл бұрын

Spiff turns yet another game into a money-making tycoon game

@Idrinkhoppes Жыл бұрын

Planting 1 Creep Cluster, 2 Mora Tapinella, 1 Scaly Pholiota in that ratio will net you the highest value potion possible with strictly grown crops.

@Tossphate Жыл бұрын

@@Idrinkhoppes Plus it would be all organic too

@charliemaddox5564 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing when he said he didn't need the plantation

@fredrichardson9761 Жыл бұрын

That was awesome - would love to see you take on similar challenges!

@cianwright3114 Жыл бұрын

Spiffing Brit: “I will not be tempted by anything off the side road until I get to the city” Also Spiffing Brit: “There’s a farm, it looks good, I’m gonna do it… THERE’S A GHOST”

@TheTexas1994 Жыл бұрын

Spiff: He's probably friendly! It's going to be fine Also Spiff: HE IS NOT FRIENDLY!

@Go.Shaman Жыл бұрын

29:46 :)) feel free to edit your comment with the timestamp!

@Gottaculat Жыл бұрын

Innkeeper: "Ysolda, dear, why do you put up with Legless? He's just using you. What makes him so special?" Ysolda: "It's because he gave me his mammoth tusk." * winks * Innkeeper: "Oooo! You go, GURRRL!!!"

@thanquolrattenherz9665 Жыл бұрын

that can be taken out of context

@shiverbane9920 Жыл бұрын

That's it that's the joke

@grey3414 8 ай бұрын

As someone who only started my firsy Skyrim playthrough last week, I'm learning a lot from your playthrough! Also, I need to buy that Elemental Bolt asap

@BrennonIsMilak Жыл бұрын

I love the idea of the feeble traveling merchant, but I feel like you could make it a little easier on yourself. Legendary is hard enough already without making it so you're essentially helpless in combat. Since it's a no exploits run, I'd go for at least being able to use any clothing as long as it doesn't actually give armor, and possibly limiting weapons to just daggers or maybe anything under 10 base damage or something like that. Either way I think it would be interesting to start with a lower difficulty challenge and do a series of you just making it harder and harder.

@neoqwerty Жыл бұрын

This actually gave me a lot of perspective on what a normal mortal's life is like in Skyrim. Thank you, SpiffingBrit, for giving me writing perspective.

@Olav_Hansen Жыл бұрын

Ideas for the next attempt: -get yourself blessings that are not gear dependent -in the first town, there is this really easy "lovers quarrel" quest, if you finish it you get yourself a really talented archer follower. Besides that, I recommend power leveling stealth and illusion magic. You cast muffle on yourself, then invisibility, and then you can complete dungeons without even being attacked. The secondary benefit of powerleveling illusion, is that as soon as you fear being spotted, you can cast calm or fear, or make them fight eachother. Essentially it's perfect for infiltration missions where you don't want to attack people.

@jezzbanger Жыл бұрын

Then get Transmute Ore

@randot6675 Жыл бұрын

All paths lead back to stealth archer. Truly a Todd Howard experience.

@keithknechtel7460 Жыл бұрын

This series just earned you a second cup of tea and a like. Cheers.

@eppuddlesreyes2348 Жыл бұрын

Spiff darn you!!! Got me scratching my Skyrim itch I haven’t scratched in over a year!!! 😅 good on ya!!! And great video thank you for all your content

@EgXP Жыл бұрын

Loved the part where Skyrim said "it's Todding time" and Todded all over Spiff's game, truly one of the videos of all time.

@coldReactive Жыл бұрын

Spiff: Can't cut wood. Logging Saw: Am I a joke to you?

@ScarcelyLucky Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see a lot more of this. Like a regular series of this.

@TheRenofox Жыл бұрын

I love underpowered challenges like this, and would definitely like to see you try again.

@ChulioRCHulio Жыл бұрын

Skyrim:"So you gonna play the game the intendet way and plan ahead?" The Spiffing Brit:"That´s the neat part - you don´t"

@Robosium Жыл бұрын

5:04 vegetable soup is friggin op in skyrim, if you ever use a shield or lots of power attacks the vegetable stew lets you keep doing those indefinently

@poilboiler Жыл бұрын

It is the power of VEGETABLES!

@ClassicMagicMan Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Vegetable Soup is actually worth going out of your way to make; it regenerates 1 stamina per second throughout its duration. The reason why this is OP is that blocking and power attacking only require you to have gas in the tank to get started, regardless of how much is actually used for the action. In other words, indefinite blocking and power attacking. 1 each of Cabbage, Potato, Tomato, and Leek. ID code F431E

@Robosium Жыл бұрын

@@ClassicMagicMan venison stew also gives the same effects but required salt and venison which are way more annoying to get

@ClassicMagicMan Жыл бұрын

@@Robosium True. Though finding Leeks is its own little misery, isn't it?

@whiteboyfrik5864 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video, drama, action, stealing from other, had it all. Looking forward to the 2nd part

@Drakienoto Жыл бұрын

I've enjoyed this, and would certainly love to see you take another crack at it. Perhaps The adventures of Legless' cousin, Arms Arenought

@skippykishi7851 Жыл бұрын

Spiff, I would definitely like to see more of this challenge. You made me actually want to try legendary survival mode as well. Thanks!

@resileaf9501 Жыл бұрын

It just goes to show how fun Skyrim is despite its shortcomings that you can genuinely have fun trying to complete a survival challenge.

@Hadvar Жыл бұрын

what shortcomings?

@GeorgeMonet Жыл бұрын

Skyrim is an amazing game as a whole. The only people who don't consider it one of the best games ever made are the idiots who think Dark Souls games are great and think Skyrim is bad just because it doesn't have the same combat mechanics and combat focus Dark Souls has. And no, I am not strawmanning the Skyrim critics, that is their actual argument you can find time and time again just by looking at their arguments whenever they post them.

@rjhstuffs Жыл бұрын

I loved this video! Maybe next time you could try power-leveling conjuration and alteration, I've done a similar challenge like this with some friends and those two schools have the best early-game spells by far.

@johnrafferty4364 5 ай бұрын

This was surprisingly entertaining I would definitely watch you doing another one

@rythepineappleguy3160 Жыл бұрын

I'd love to watch this as a series. Seems like a true challenge

@koalakaio Жыл бұрын

Survival mode is definitely the best way to experience Skyrim. It forces you to utilize so many more aspects of the game that you would otherwise skip over and, without fast travel, you often need to make efficient use of things in the immediate area since you can't bounce around the map as easily. I personally like to add mods that make the economy more expensive and realistic as well.

@berrysilver494 Жыл бұрын

I almost exclusively play Legendary Survival, and funnily enough I also usually don't wear armor (got bored once and tried mage armor + melee weapons build and actually really liked it), so I relate to this video maybe a little more than I should... 😅

@McDiezel079 Жыл бұрын

its a real shame toddy boy didn't lean into the world living aspect like the earlier ES games, imgaine how deep it could be by now.

@octogen1282 Жыл бұрын

For me, the best thing about survival mode is actually the fact that there is no passive health regen. Healing and avoiding damage becomes so much more meaningful when you can't just take a small break between combats and be in top shape all the time.

@sircrashtonii9718 Жыл бұрын

This is a really cool idea! I would love to see more!!!

@Ceevro Жыл бұрын

This was legit. This is the hardest way to play Skyrim I've seen. TBH, the no-weapons/no-armour additions...I don't think they make it much harder! You did better than I would have! Absolutely give it another go!