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4/23/2006 12:24:36 PM

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"fantasy or not, games that you kill ppl in 1 hit generally get boring. work for it."

who said anything about killing someone in one hit? x2 damage does not mean it will kill them in one hit

4/23/2006 12:25:33 PM

To go along with the essential mods above, I couldn't live without this one.

BT-Mod:

Changes the user interface a lot. Makes font much smaller, so you can see 12 items/spells/etc on a page instead of just 6

Increases the size of the map and quest tabs (and a couple others), to go all the way across the screen, makes it much easier. Adds actual numbers to the percentage bars in the game. Gives you a bar showing the health of your weapon, so you can see when it is getting near breaking. does various other stuff as well.


homepage - http://btmod.beider.org/
Download site, screenshots here too - http://gamingtown.net/oblivion-mods/96-rel-btmod-v2-20-a.html

4/23/2006 12:46:45 PM

^ o damn that's awesome. i'm gonna load that up right now on mine.

4/23/2006 1:20:59 PM

Quote :

""fantasy or not, games that you kill ppl in 1 hit generally get boring. work for it." "

perfect dark 0.. and it rocks.

[Edited on April 23, 2006 at 2:10 PM. Reason : .]

4/23/2006 2:09:55 PM

i would like to see a much more violent and physically accurate model of people hacking each other with swords.

like...instead of one hit kills, make it maybe one or two, but on th killiing blow, the sword/axe/mace whatever could do some serious physics-model damage to the character...like chop off an arm or smash a head. And since it would be easier to kill people, they should just make larger numbers of enemies and make it more of a challenge of blocking/critical attacks (decapitations/sword thrusts). Thus, a visually appealling (and changing as there could be 100's of ways to dismember/critically hit an adversary) and challenging game.

I could see this being a very good feudal japan/samurai-ish type game

/nerd-off

4/23/2006 7:59:30 PM

Just curious, but how would you handle something like...say, your right arm getting lopped off during the first 5 minutes of the game?

Just stick it out for the next 75+ hours of the game as a lefty? Have "limb merchants" in every town that give you bionic replacements?

I'm all for more realism in games, but there's something to be said for not having 10,000 enemies running around that can all be taken out with one swipe of the sword. But hey, maybe that's just me.

4/24/2006 12:35:45 AM

limb merchants.

heh.

4/24/2006 8:40:31 AM

htat last mod mango talks about does sound good. the map and weapon dmg are kind of annoying.

Quote :

"who said anything about killing someone in one hit? x2 damage does not mean it will kill them in one hit"

they were talking about doubling arrow dmg's which already have bonuses. with a sneak attack arrow you can kill plenty of monsters in 1 hit and many others with just a few.

that said having to fight more than 3 monsters at once is pretty annoying already in this game since your swing can be blocked by any of them that it goes through (and thus fuck you up).

4/24/2006 9:10:24 AM

Alright, I just bought the game. Looking forward to installing it soon, preferably after exams are done.

Are they going to move this thread to Entertainment as well?

4/24/2006 1:20:09 PM

well you would die, of course. The rules would be different regarding the player character as situations like you mentioned wouldnt be playable.

4/24/2006 3:12:07 PM

level 13 and climbing

still doin all the side stuff and on my last guild. i saved the thieves guild to last for some real fun.

4/27/2006 10:40:04 AM

i'm only level 24

i am, however, wearing level 10 glass armor (plus rings, necklace, whatever) that gives me a total of +55 fortify health, +35 fortify endurance, +40 fortify magicka, and i use a level 10 daedric bow with 30pts shock damage or a elven longsword with 100% weakness to fire and 30pts fire damage

i feel kinda cheap though...i realy enjoy running into a place, casting a faded wraith (i would like a storm atronach, but eh), then going invisible and watching as everyone gets spanked by my conjuration...but i suppose that as long i enjoy myself, it doesn't matter whether it's cheap or not

4/27/2006 10:57:59 AM

OK

I am screwed

I am level 14 and I went back to the main storyline to clear out kvatch after closing the gate and WOW. Once you come out from under the church I get comepletely obliterated. As in I cant kill 1 thing before everyone is dead. I think I literally cant complete the main quest.

[Edited on May 6, 2006 at 12:58 PM. Reason : df]

5/6/2006 12:58:26 PM

shrug, everyone talks about beating the game at higher lvls being hard. you probably just gimped your character somehow. my warrior beat the game at lvl 28 or so. admittedly i did kvatch at lvl 5 or so, but you have to do a ton of oblivion gates and the like later on.

[Edited on May 6, 2006 at 1:01 PM. Reason : and all i gotta say is...imperial dragon armor, what a joke]

[Edited on May 6, 2006 at 1:07 PM. Reason : not that 28 is super high, but i did most of the main quest at 20+]

5/6/2006 1:00:09 PM

if you don't get +5 on 3 stats everytime you level, then the game is going to get harder as you level, because enemies level as you do. That might be why some people are getting screwed on the main quest

5/6/2006 1:22:06 PM

i just restarted as a warrior

had the same trouble some of you are having, that I didn't start the main quest till around lvl 36 or so. I could beat it, but I had to summon a creature and go invisible and just watch it fight, and that was only fun for so long.

5/6/2006 1:22:11 PM

i never got over +3 cuz im so varied and i didnt make my stats easy to control (cuz i dont care)

[Edited on May 6, 2006 at 1:25 PM. Reason : hardest parts for me were like 5-10, after lvl 10 it got really easy as a warrior]

[Edited on May 6, 2006 at 1:27 PM. Reason : it is almost too easy as teh warrior, though alchemy helps even if you dont use a ton of poisons]

5/6/2006 1:24:26 PM

So has anyone found any really cool stuff to wear? Yesterday I got this ring of perfection. It gives you +10 in all your major attributes. I also found a necklace to wear that gives me +33% reflective damage. I have another ring that sends back 20% reflective damage. So basically when I wear them both I reflect 53% of the damage inflicted on me back to the person that dealt it. I can go into battles and win just by standing there. It's quite badass.

5/6/2006 3:45:01 PM

i like having atronach + rings from the end. ive got like 65-70% spell absorbtion and 30 reflect. i decided to wear a ring of sheild instead of one that reflects dmg, so using the 18% sheild (plus im a nord so i can get that extra 30 or so shield each day).

[Edited on May 6, 2006 at 3:54 PM. Reason : but i havent gotten anything all that crazy]

5/6/2006 3:54:37 PM

So if anyone was worried about waiting too long to finish the game, I'd say it's not something you have to worry about. I tried to close an oblivion gate around level 25 and had my ass handed to me on a platter. So I just went and did just about every other mission I could find and now I'm a level 35. I tried to close an oblivion gate this afternoon and it is now a cakewalk. Of course I do have all the aforementioned garb on, so I'm sure that helps.

The only downside, if you can call it that, is I can only carry 780 lbs of stuff so I'm constantly having to leave behind full suits of daedric armor (valued at ~10,000 gold) and daedric weapons. It sucks when you leave a room and have 75,000 worth of armor and weapons just lying on the ground cause you can't carry it all. Then again I have about 75,000 gold and another 300,000 worth of weapons and armor in one of my houses and I've bought everything there is to buy in the game. I guess at this point money has just become useless.

5/7/2006 12:47:09 AM

I am an assasin. I dont see how I can get past that part unless I find an invisibility scroll or some such thing. And my only armor is the stuff you get from the dark brotherhood when you join. I havent found any armor that I think is any better.

5/7/2006 10:13:22 AM

remake a warrior aaron, it is your only hope!!!!

i was carying 150lbs of daedra hearts and didnt even realize it. was wondering why i couldnt carry anything.

5/7/2006 10:45:03 AM

I made a warrior, but made the mistake of going with the Atronach sign, thinking I would be a fighter and never really need magic. The random spell absorption is nice, but I have to constantly use magic potions if I ever want to heal myself. Oh well, it's nice to just be able to fight something instead of running around casting spells like an idiot.

5/7/2006 12:11:21 PM

I haven't cast a single spell in the entire game. It's totally possible to play as a pure warrior.

5/7/2006 12:19:36 PM

Well what I cant get past isnt the main quest, just a side quest to clear out kvatch.

Question: HOW THE FUCK do you get souls into a soul gem?!?!!?!??!!!?
I assume it is possible.....bah

5/7/2006 2:20:50 PM

game got really boring, oblivion gates were just the same old same old routine, i was a rogue, decked out in full speed/agility stats, ran so fast, everytime i went to close a portal, i just ran up to the crystal, hit it, and boom, gate closed

sucks to be a rogue in the late game, towards the end, half the quests you do are escort quests and as a rogue, your main source of attack is by sneaking up and attacking, not this mindless swinging of swords with the other 10 stupid npc's

paradise was cool, the ending was a good cinematic, but it sucked to play a rogue for the end game

if you get bored of closing those oblivion gates, just run past everything and hit the sigil stone. don't forget to heal yourself and check random chests n shit along the way since they pause the game.

or if you encounter a mob that's too difficult, fine a door that zones you in and out, zone in, back up, the mob spawns with it's back to you, chop it once, use the door again, repeat til it's dead

i don't think i played the game correctly

5/7/2006 2:36:28 PM

didn't see it posted, and all of you have probably gotten it already, but i thought i'd post for those who hadn't - patch 1.1.425

http://static.bethsoft.com/Oblivion_v1.1BetaEnglish.exe

(i waited too long to do the cheydinhal recommendation, and vidkun's body was gone, so i was kind of stuck...patch fixes it, along with a couple of other things )

5/7/2006 4:43:08 PM

How do I put that on my Xbox 360?

5/7/2006 5:27:33 PM

shrug i also was a warrior with sign of the atronach. id use healing just to patch up a little bit when i couldnt rest. if you do alchemy you can make restore health potions, but most time you can find somewhere to rest and it is no big deal. if you NEED healing then you're doing something wrong as a warrior (save for a very few instances).

[Edited on May 7, 2006 at 5:42 PM. Reason : the 8 oblivion gates was really boring i thought, i ran up about 2 of um, but i spread um out a bit]

5/7/2006 5:42:03 PM

8? I thought there were 16. I closed the kovach one and 3 yesterday. I would be closing more now but I'm sitting here watching gephelps get his ass handed to him by level 1 imps.

5/7/2006 5:57:59 PM

^^^So the patch is compatible with old save games?

Good news!

5/7/2006 5:58:39 PM

well theres a bunch, but you only HAVE to close like 8 or so for the entire game. the rest are just out there if you want um.

[Edited on May 7, 2006 at 6:02 PM. Reason : one for each city - imperial + final, so i guess 9]

5/7/2006 6:01:30 PM

^^ yeah, it worked fine with my old saved games, my no-cd patch, and my mods...however, the vidkun issue isn't resolved (though it's supposed to be)

5/7/2006 6:24:09 PM

I just got a really really nice horse...

and it "went unconscious" 10 minutes later, and I don't think you can revive them

5/7/2006 10:40:10 PM

^ bought it or got it from lachance?

i don't know about horses that you buy...but if it's shadowmere, then yeah, he goes unconscious after he gets the crap beat out of him...he'll wake up eventually

5/8/2006 9:13:29 AM

oh he does? Do I have to go back to the place that happened, or will he start following me around again? It was during the first drop that I had to go all the way north

5/8/2006 10:23:36 AM

that was a hassle, but I got him back. He wasn't at the original place, or where he was "killed", but I downloaded a "horse whistle" mod that would call him back, and I went to the Fort where I got him, and by using that, somehow he spawned, a paint horse spawned, and a unicorn spawned. The unicorn kept trying to kill both horses and my ass as well. So I had to kill the unicorn, get back to town, and then uninstall the mod (cause it would make the horse constantly follow you, like within a foot)

5/9/2006 10:06:16 AM

^ i don't know if we're talking about the same mod, but i have one called (i think) "call steed"...it gives you the "horse whisperer" lesser power which lets you set up to 3 horses and call them with a spell cast...i haven't had any problem with it

5/9/2006 10:14:41 AM

Alright, just started playing ESIV, and I'm pretty impressed so far. I just got out of the Imperial Dungeon and it's night. I walked to a couple of "places" and all the people I've met so far have been hostile. Is there anyone in the world that just wants to chat?

FYI: I'm dressed in plain clothes and I'm not running around with my weapons in equipped.

5/9/2006 10:38:16 PM

how do you mean hostile??? some characters if they are important wont talk to you until its time but pretty much anyone in the imperial city should talk to you and give you info. Unless you were like me and got bit my a vampire at like level two or three. I forgot but it didn't even affect me until i leveled up If I had only known about it before hand...curses.

5/10/2006 12:05:23 AM

Anyone I approach proceeds to pull out their bow and/or sword and try to attack me

5/10/2006 12:08:03 AM

try actually going to a town. bring up your world map, and click on some town location. try the imperial city for starts, or wenyon priory near chorrol. interesting people to talk to in most towns.

5/10/2006 12:19:52 AM

yeah, you're probably going to the random places around the map, where most of the time people are trying to attack you. Just fast travel to a town and you can actually get some conversation going.

5/10/2006 1:36:44 AM

this is a technical question and since it was moved i'm not starting a thread in tech talk.

i recently reformatted my desktop (what i use to game) and now i've noticed in my oblivion gameplay, the framerates slow down to a crawl at certain points of the game; i'm talkin about 4-5 fps but then will eventually return to about 50fps. when i played this game b4 reformatting i never experienced this slowdown at these random spots. what is going on? i have all updated drivers for my vid card, installed the patch and still have these issues. i even OCed my vid card a bit thinkin that would help but still nothing. anyone else experience these problems?

Athlon64 3200+
1.5GB PC3200 Corsair XMS RAM
128MB eVGA GeForce6800 Vid Card

5/15/2006 4:20:06 PM

^ You should upgrade to the 6800GS. 128MB probably wont cut it for you.

My PC is running 3200+ and a gig of RAM as well, but with that card the game runs pretty smoothly.

[Edited on May 15, 2006 at 10:37 PM. Reason : /]

5/15/2006 10:35:46 PM

all my other games run fabulously with this card so i know the card isnt the issue, it's just with Oblivion in random spots and i dont understand what it is. i never had this problem b4 reformatting and just have no idea what the issue is.

5/15/2006 10:56:55 PM

it happens to me sometimes too

5/15/2006 11:00:09 PM

wtf?

after doing the pale pass quest, i can't find shadowmere ANYWHERE, and EVERYWHERE i go, when i try to do something, it says "you can't do XXXX with enemies nearby"...i can be in a town, in the imperial city, in the wilderness, it doesn't matter

i have no curses, afflictions, spells on me - nothing, so i can't figure out what it is...i tried praying at a church altar, but since i'm the head of the dark brotherhood and thieves guild, it tells me i'm too evil or some such nonsense...wtf

5/16/2006 11:12:38 AM

yeah that happened to me one time when I was in the sewers underneath imperial city and I backtracked to the city without killing all the guys in the sewers. It wouldn't let me rest until I went back in the sewers and killed all the creatures down there. If you can remember the last place you were fighting creatures, try and go back there and kill everything and see if that triggers the end of the "battle" you're stuck in.

5/16/2006 2:36:30 PM