SKYRIM: hotkey/quickly switch weapon/spells
by wicca on , under Spells That Work
It really is quite simple to do. Go into your menu and choose either weapons or magic. Then uncover a weapon or magic spell. When you uncover the spell look in the bottom left corner of your screen and see what button the “Preferred” choice is assigned to. When you know what button the favored button is assigned to go ahead an tap that button to assign your spell or weapon to your favorites. When the weapon or spell is on your preferred list leave your menu and go back into the standard game. There you will press your “FAVORITES MENU” button. On the Pc edition it really is “Q”. This will bring up a small menu list in the bottom left corner. Here you can assign which weapons/spells you’d like to hotkey. By pressing numbers on either your numpad or classic “!@#$ %^&*()” keys you can assign which keys belong to which weapons/spells. When you are accomplished assigning the hotkeys. Exit the favored menu and test your hotkeys by pressing your assigned hotkeys. It really should operate and if so congratulations! This game is now 10X much more enjoyable!
Video Rating: four / five
February 11th, 2012 on 6:42 am
@YamiHoOu all you need to do is go into settings then controls, once you’re there scroll down until you find toggle POV change that to the f key and it should work it worked for me
February 11th, 2012 on 6:45 am
Uhm, how to dual wield 2 different daggers? I have blade of woe and I think it was elven dagger, I can’t dual wield them anyhow using any instructions regarding favoriting. :/
February 11th, 2012 on 7:43 am
only problem is i have fast healing one the right d-pad, and i want to be able to switch out my main hand for fast healing. problem is, it switches my shield out instead. any ideas on how to get it to switch the item in the right hand?
February 11th, 2012 on 8:15 am
cheers, really helpful vids without the attitude. sweet!
February 11th, 2012 on 8:45 am
Skyrim is hard helpppp????
February 11th, 2012 on 9:08 am
the way you can duel wield is if you have 2 of the same thing first you equip it to your right hand next while still in the menu you equip it to your left (i do not now if this works for pc cuz i have PlayStation)
February 11th, 2012 on 9:35 am
@datswaggaful yea you press ‘y’ to favourite
February 11th, 2012 on 9:52 am
Can anyone tell me why I can’t favourite anything? I’m on the PC and I press F and nothing happens at all, so I went to the help section in the menu and it said to press T, but that only charges weapons! I’m so confused, do I have some kind of glitch, I googled it and couldn’t find anything related to my problem.
It’s so frustrating!!
February 11th, 2012 on 10:26 am
if u use a xbox you also can favorite a weapon and stuff. On xbox u can open the favorite list by pressing the ‘up’ arrow, this works also very fast and easy.
(sorry for the bad english)
February 11th, 2012 on 10:57 am
my god I wished the game had this, thank you so much!
February 11th, 2012 on 11:35 am
@datswaggaful no its for PC only bro sorry
February 11th, 2012 on 11:40 am
does it work on xbox?
February 11th, 2012 on 12:18 pm
Ah thank you! I didn’t even know you can hotkey! lol
February 11th, 2012 on 12:35 pm
Its up on ps3 dad, just hit triangle when in magic menu
February 11th, 2012 on 12:55 pm
@ismaelkf Well xbox controller on pc is the same as just playing xbox(except it is on the pc ofc..). I think you can only do this with a keyboard if i am not mistaking, but you can try.
February 11th, 2012 on 1:53 pm
how do you do that on pc with xbox controller?
Thanks.
February 11th, 2012 on 2:39 pm
Um…. How do i get the close wounds spell
February 11th, 2012 on 3:27 pm
@MrHamsterpower yes sorry i didn’t mean that , the thing is that the animation of the spells does not appear in the hand , it takes a while for it to appear and for the spell to make any effect unless i pause the game and then it appears so it only happens with the fast switching method (1 , 2 ,3 ,4 , ….) thanks anyways.
February 11th, 2012 on 4:05 pm
@erne57 powers are run by magica it regenerates like your health the spells dont wont work if your magica is low spells have certain costs of magica some alot some low like novice spells
February 11th, 2012 on 4:28 pm
something wierd its happening to me , when i try to do this my spells won’t show , the hand is there and the animation of the spells works too but it won’t do anything , unless i wait a few second for the spell to show in my hands , its really annoying actually , does some1 know how to fix this?
February 11th, 2012 on 5:25 pm
Thanks for the video. Like you said, the game is now 10x better.
ps : i saw on the internet that you can favorite dual weapons, but i am not 100% sure, looking around yet.
February 11th, 2012 on 5:39 pm
@EwanMands you push left d pad for 1 and left for 2