{"id":27061,"date":"2011-11-23T11:50:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T09:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=27061"},"modified":"2011-11-23T11:59:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T09:59:12","slug":"skyrim-has-more-of-tamriel-beyond-its-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/27061-skyrim-has-more-of-tamriel-beyond-its-borders","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim has more of Tamriel beyond its borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to huge playable maps in games like Skyrim or Fallout, gamers will always undoubtedly try and \u201cpush the boundaries\u201d &#8211; so to speak &#8211; in exploring as far out as they possibly can.<\/p>\n<p>Developers, of course, have their limits, and usually quickly introduce us to impassable mountains or, more shoddily, the dreaded \u201cinvisible wall of obvious restriction\u201d \u2013 but that\u2019s never stopped gamers before.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, one gamer in particular happened across some interesting scenery in his boundary-pushing explorations, coming across a small path on the south-eastern section of the map that looked particularly inviting.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the path lead right up to an open archway &#8211; which was layered with the aforementioned invisible wall, preventing him from exploring further.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Morrowind-Archway.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27069 alignnone\" title=\"Skyrim Morrowind Archway\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Morrowind-Archway.png\" alt=\"Skyrim Morrowind Archway\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Morrowind-Archway.png 500w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Morrowind-Archway-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Morrowind-Archway-250x156.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enabling the no-clip console command (ie. HAX) he pushed on further, and lo and behold \u2013 he found Morrowind, Red Mountain and all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Morrowind-Island.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Skyrim Morrowind Island\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Morrowind-Island-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Skyrim Morrowind Island\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Morrowind-Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Skyrim Morrowind Map\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Morrowind-Map-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Skyrim Morrowind Map\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The further he pushed out, the worse the textures got and the less like Skyrim it looked, but the land mass was definitely there. Further exploration further south also revealed Cyrodiil, and what appears to be the White Gold Tower in the Imperial City.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Cyrodiil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27075\" title=\"Skyrim Cyrodiil\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Cyrodiil-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Skyrim Cyrodiil\" width=\"295\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Cyrodiil-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Cyrodiil-250x156.jpg 250w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Cyrodiil.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Cyrodiil-Oblivion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27077\" title=\"Skyrim Cyrodiil Oblivion\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Cyrodiil-Oblivion-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Skyrim Cyrodiil Oblivion\" width=\"295\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Cyrodiil-Oblivion-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-Cyrodiil-Oblivion-250x156.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While both land masses aren\u2019t exact replicas, there\u2019s no mistaking that they\u2019re the actual areas (and 200 years have passed, so it\u2019s not a far stretch to think that the land could have changed in that time) \u2013 but the real question is: why are they there?<\/p>\n<p>Skyrim\u2019s world map opts for a more \u2018real\u2019 representation of the game world \u2013 but the overview map doesn\u2019t allow you to look as far south as Cyrodiil anyway, so it can\u2019t be that, could it?<\/p>\n<p>Another theory pegs the reasoning as possible DLC for Skyrim that will see you return to those provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The internet also says it could maybe be there for the modding community to use, or simply Bethesda trolling those who would seek to use the console commands to break their creative intentions.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, MyGaming\u2019s stance is \u201ctime will tell\u201d \u2013 meanwhile, we\u2019ll sit back, collectively stroke our beards and go \u201ciiiiiiinteresting\u201d. [James: I&#8217;m the only one with a beard around here, and none of you can collectively stroke it!]<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Tumblr\" href=\"http:\/\/ppsh-41.tumblr.com\/post\/13145143504\/entire-tamriel-landmass-built-into-skyrim\">Tumblr<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudimentary Morrowind and Cyrodiil provinces are accessible with a bit of hax &#8211; what does it mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":27079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[859,857,861,69,169],"class_list":["post-27061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-cyrodiil","tag-hax","tag-morrowind","tag-skyrim","tag-the-elder-scrolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27081,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27061\/revisions\/27081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}