anybody have any particularly interesting custom classes?
so far I've created like a ranger, a paladin and a mage-thief. Pretty sweet dudes.
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
edited August 2010
I made what I'd call a Ranger using the ranger mod for Oblivion... I don't remember the skills, but it was along the lines of stealth, marksman, alchemy, athletics, and some other stuff. The Ranger mod is what made it, though. Adding in an animal companion and all of the ranger spells/abilities (or along those lines) from 3E made it amusing.
i've always loved mage-thief type dealios. i think i'll make another but have a different idea in mind... man bumping this thread always makes me go "jam son i should start that game up again (and actually finish it)". i always get to the oblivion gates and kind of peter off just messing around.
i am also considering just clearing everything i have oblivion-wise (it is a mess of mods nowadays) and start fresh with new, updated mods.
is there anything that improves the idea of poisoned items? it was cool but it felt tougher than i wanted it to be to get any poisons, really. guess it just took high alchemy to see multiple effects.
i've always loved mage-thief type dealios. i think i'll make another but have a different idea in mind... man bumping this thread always makes me go "jam son i should start that game up again (and actually finish it)". i always get to the oblivion gates and kind of peter off just messing around.
i am also considering just clearing everything i have oblivion-wise (it is a mess of mods nowadays) and start fresh with new, updated mods.
is there anything that improves the idea of poisoned items? it was cool but it felt tougher than i wanted it to be to get any poisons, really. guess it just took high alchemy to see multiple effects.
I've tried it myself, making poisons stronger and more varied, but it's kind of hard-coded. So your options are to do something illegal and summon the Bethesda assassins, or have to download a massive sized mod to alter every single poison. And it would only then affect the ones built into vanilla.
I wish more people would read the pinned topics on TESNexus. Now that Oblivion is out for cheap, the forums are getting flooded with topics of "i just bought this and i want to install mods how?". There's a post for that three inches up the screen!
I'm playing through Oblivion with the intent of really 'finishing' it this time. Wondering at what level the highest armor types and enemies become available?
Just checking the CS now.. Daedric is the most powerful. The armor starts dropping at around 20 and weapons around 22.
I got Daggerfall (Andyfall) running in DOSbox on my Macbook Pro. Frame rate seems to tank occasionally (tips?). More worrying: I made a High Elf with Absorbs Magic. The second door I opened revealed an imp that killed me instantly with what looked like Fire. Clearly I misunderstood something here.
I'm playing through Oblivion with the intent of really 'finishing' it this time. Wondering at what level the highest armor types and enemies become available? Essentially, what's a good time to intentionally slow my progress to avoid being crushed by the scaling?
Glass/Daedric appears at 20, which is also the level required for the last 3 Daedric shrine quests, so that's the magic number.
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My Daggerfall knowledge is a bit rusty, but "Magic" in the context of "Absorbs Magic" would absorb stuff like debilitating spells that do things like damage stats and health. Anything that doesn't have an element attached to it.
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i am also considering just clearing everything i have oblivion-wise (it is a mess of mods nowadays) and start fresh with new, updated mods.
I am doing exactly this. Almost feels mandatory if I go for months without touching the game.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited August 2010
I finally got a perfectly working FCOM installation a few months back. I am now terrified to ever try any other mods, or update any of the ones I have, lest it all go tits up again.
Okay, looks like I managed to screw something up. Redownloading the game from steam gave me all my old conflicting mods back. How do I go about getting a fresh version of Oblivion?
My characters are all kind of weak feeling so I look at some faqs as to how to develop a powerful character and now i just.... ugh the leveling system is kind of .... fucking stupid?
Okay, looks like I managed to screw something up. Redownloading the game from steam gave me all my old conflicting mods back. How do I go about getting a fresh version of Oblivion?
I don't have any past experience with it, but I assume the process would be to delete the game through steam (right click the game on library and click 'Delete Local Content...'), then go to your steamapps\common folder (probably something like "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\"), and delete the oblivion folder there. Then go to your windows My Games folder and delete/back up whatever you want there (probably not necessary, but eh, might as well be thorough). Then download the game again.
My characters are all kind of weak feeling so I look at some faqs as to how to develop a powerful character and now i just.... ugh the leveling system is kind of .... fucking stupid?
Yeah, it's definitely not for everyone. There are a bunch of mods out there that change it, though. One of the spoilers in the OP contains links to some of the more popular ones for Oblivion. For Morrowind, I tend to use Madd Leveler, and Galsiah's Character Development is also pretty popular.
Okay, looks like I managed to screw something up. Redownloading the game from steam gave me all my old conflicting mods back. How do I go about getting a fresh version of Oblivion?
I don't have any past experience with it, but I assume the process would be to delete the game through steam (right click the game on library and click 'Delete Local Content...'), then go to your steamapps\common folder (probably something like "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\"), and delete the oblivion folder there. Then go to your windows My Games folder and delete/back up whatever you want there (probably not necessary, but eh, might as well be thorough). Then download the game again.
The same also happens if you installed it from the disk, the uninstallers don't just delete the entire folder, its only what was installed by them, so anything you've added into the folder will remain.
Okay, looks like I managed to screw something up. Redownloading the game from steam gave me all my old conflicting mods back. How do I go about getting a fresh version of Oblivion?
I don't have any past experience with it, but I assume the process would be to delete the game through steam (right click the game on library and click 'Delete Local Content...'), then go to your steamapps\common folder (probably something like "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\"), and delete the oblivion folder there. Then go to your windows My Games folder and delete/back up whatever you want there (probably not necessary, but eh, might as well be thorough). Then download the game again.
My characters are all kind of weak feeling so I look at some faqs as to how to develop a powerful character and now i just.... ugh the leveling system is kind of .... fucking stupid?
Yeah, it's definitely not for everyone. There are a bunch of mods out there that change it, though. One of the spoilers in the OP contains links to some of the more popular ones for Oblivion. For Morrowind, I tend to use Madd Leveler, and Galsiah's Character Development is also pretty popular.
it just seems against the spirit of the game. Here let me plan my guy out from the begining, find a dude to hit me until block levels up so many times, while this levels up so many times then go sleep s.o I can get the +5 points to those stats instead of just stuff you use more getting stronger organically.
and I'm currently playing on xbox so I can't correct this with mods.
Little tip for those with ATI/AMD cards and Oblivion. You can enable HDR and use anti-aliasing at the same time.
What you need to do is (of course) have HDR enabled in the game, but in catalyst control center (or ati tray tools or whatever you use) force the antialiasing level you want and set the Catalyst AI to standard (it's called low in ATT). This will enable the chuck tweak, ATI implemented this around the 6.7 drivers iirc.
The only downside that I know of is that if someone is using chameleon/invisibility the distortion effect of the character can still be seen if they go behind a wall. (i've no idea if ATI are aware of this)
Also, if you want relatively responsive mouse control using ati tray tools you can set the flip queue size to 0 or 1 to get rid of the input lag (called render ahead frames in nvidia parlance).
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
So, uh, I didn't really pay attention to this thread for awhile, so I left the"Oblivion and Morrowind are on sale!" title up for much longer than the sale lasted. Hopefully this new title makes up for it. Otherwise I'll take suggestions.
My Daggerfall knowledge is a bit rusty, but "Magic" in the context of "Absorbs Magic" would absorb stuff like debilitating spells that do things like damage stats and health. Anything that doesn't have an element attached to it.
Seems reasonable! I guess my next question is, what do I do about imps in the starting dungeon?
Daggerfall's a decent game to play, see what it's all about for historic context and see what it did right and wrong compared to later Bethsoft games, tool around a bit, and then put it down and never touch it again.
I say this as someone who has probably put more hours into Daggerfall and Morrowind than any other game by a very wide margin. Considering I've played mostly MMOs for the past twelve years, that's saying a bit.
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Save, reload, and hope to god you got the ebony dagger as your starting item (and if you didn't, consider restarting for it).
Don't need to hope, just choose the Ebony Dagger as the item you saved from your childhood, or were given as a gift, or however the question was phrased.
I'm doing the thieves guild after doing the mages guild.
Then I have to go and steal something from the arch mage.
Me.
I have to go steal something from myself for the thieves guild quest. I wasnt even recognized as the Arch Mage, even though at that point I was wearing the Arch Mage robes and hood. and had a student mage following me
I think its kind of absurd that I can't use the fact that I'm the Grey Fox, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Arch Mage, and Master of the Fighters Guild anywhere in the main quest.
Like, I wish during allies for Bruma I could also call upon the fighters guild as master, and the mages as Arch Mage, to bolster the defense.
Have there been any noise about a new elder scrolls game lately? You know they've got to be working on one... Hopefully one closer to Morrowind than Oblivion personally...
I think its kind of absurd that I can't use the fact that I'm the Grey Fox, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Arch Mage, and Master of the Fighters Guild anywhere in the main quest.
Like, I wish during allies for Bruma I could also call upon the fighters guild as master, and the mages as Arch Mage, to bolster the defense.
I never liked how self contained the quest lines were. You can kind of tell they were developed without much consideration for each other.
Have there been any noise about a new elder scrolls game lately? You know they've got to be working on one... Hopefully one closer to Morrowind than Oblivion personally...
Could be announced today actually. Right before E3 bethesda said it was more likely that they would announce their next project at Quake Con than E3. I am hoping we get an announcement for elderscrolls 5 today.
I think its kind of absurd that I can't use the fact that I'm the Grey Fox, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Arch Mage, and Master of the Fighters Guild anywhere in the main quest.
Like, I wish during allies for Bruma I could also call upon the fighters guild as master, and the mages as Arch Mage, to bolster the defense.
I never liked how self contained the quest lines were. You can kind of tell they were developed without much consideration for each other.
Like i said earlier, one thieves guild quest has you stealing from the arch mage..which was me since i did that quest first. Would have been nice if it would have acknowledged that I was the Arch-Mage and instead ask me to just SAY something was stolen.
I think its kind of absurd that I can't use the fact that I'm the Grey Fox, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Arch Mage, and Master of the Fighters Guild anywhere in the main quest.
Like, I wish during allies for Bruma I could also call upon the fighters guild as master, and the mages as Arch Mage, to bolster the defense.
I never liked how self contained the quest lines were. You can kind of tell they were developed without much consideration for each other.
Like i said earlier, one thieves guild quest has you stealing from the arch mage..which was me since i did that quest first. Would have been nice if it would have acknowledged that I was the Arch-Mage and instead ask me to just SAY something was stolen.
You also have to bust into the palace even if you could have just waltzed in because you are the fucking Arch-Mage, leader of the Fighter's Guild, arena champion, and savior of the city.
Could be announced today actually. Right before E3 bethesda said it was more likely that they would announce their next project at Quake Con than E3. I am hoping we get an announcement for elderscrolls 5 today.
There's also a quake con sale on steam right now that includes the previous elder scrolls games.
I think its kind of absurd that I can't use the fact that I'm the Grey Fox, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Arch Mage, and Master of the Fighters Guild anywhere in the main quest.
Like, I wish during allies for Bruma I could also call upon the fighters guild as master, and the mages as Arch Mage, to bolster the defense.
I never liked how self contained the quest lines were. You can kind of tell they were developed without much consideration for each other.
Like i said earlier, one thieves guild quest has you stealing from the arch mage..which was me since i did that quest first. Would have been nice if it would have acknowledged that I was the Arch-Mage and instead ask me to just SAY something was stolen.
You also have to bust into the palace even if you could have just waltzed in because you are the fucking Arch-Mage, leader of the Fighter's Guild, arena champion, and savior of the city.
well I can see that sort of, since you are breaking in to steal the elder scroll.
and walking in as champion of cyrodill going I need to see th elder scroll, then it going missing afterwards would probably be a bad thing
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if they actually make the 5th one an mmo like there seems to be rumors, how will the community fix everything wrong in their game for them by modding like in the other ones?!
It had better not be a mmo. There are more than enough mmos out there. I hope they are using the rage engine. Gamebryo is kinda the suck to be honest and it is time for something new.
It had better not be a mmo. There are more than enough mmos out there. I hope they are using the rage engine. Gamebryo is kinda the suck to be honest and it is time for something new.
Please no, not another mmo. Enough with the mmo's, I am sick to death of the damn mmo's.
If they want to do an mmo separate to a normal elder scrolls like Square does with Final Fantasy I'd be perfectly happy. But if they went and said "yep, Elder Scrolls 5.. it's an mmo! Surprise!" then i'd be pretty peeved.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
I grabbed the deluxe edition off the Steam sale, since I only ever bought the base game (boxed version). Should I bother with FCOM at all or just go with Francesco's? FCOM seems like a giant pain in the ass. I believe I tried to get it working before but eventually just went with Francesco's.
1) I forgot how difficult it was to make your character not look retarded. Every race seems to have caveman lips and/or old woman's face. Hopefully Bethesda spends a little more time on the face textures in 5.
2) Apparently my existing FCOM installation files won't work with the new installation, no matter how hard I try. Did anyone ever get the mod authors to play nice so that the FCOM author could release a complete mod, or do you still have to dig up old versions of like 5 mods to get it to work? Because, seriously? Fuck ever going through that again.
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so far I've created like a ranger, a paladin and a mage-thief. Pretty sweet dudes.
i am also considering just clearing everything i have oblivion-wise (it is a mess of mods nowadays) and start fresh with new, updated mods.
is there anything that improves the idea of poisoned items? it was cool but it felt tougher than i wanted it to be to get any poisons, really. guess it just took high alchemy to see multiple effects.
I've tried it myself, making poisons stronger and more varied, but it's kind of hard-coded. So your options are to do something illegal and summon the Bethesda assassins, or have to download a massive sized mod to alter every single poison. And it would only then affect the ones built into vanilla.
I wish more people would read the pinned topics on TESNexus. Now that Oblivion is out for cheap, the forums are getting flooded with topics of "i just bought this and i want to install mods how?". There's a post for that three inches up the screen!
Just checking the CS now.. Daedric is the most powerful. The armor starts dropping at around 20 and weapons around 22.
Glass/Daedric appears at 20, which is also the level required for the last 3 Daedric shrine quests, so that's the magic number.
3DS Code: 5043-2172-1361
Xbone Tag: Salal al Din
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
I am doing exactly this. Almost feels mandatory if I go for months without touching the game.
I don't have any past experience with it, but I assume the process would be to delete the game through steam (right click the game on library and click 'Delete Local Content...'), then go to your steamapps\common folder (probably something like "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\"), and delete the oblivion folder there. Then go to your windows My Games folder and delete/back up whatever you want there (probably not necessary, but eh, might as well be thorough). Then download the game again.
Yeah, it's definitely not for everyone. There are a bunch of mods out there that change it, though. One of the spoilers in the OP contains links to some of the more popular ones for Oblivion. For Morrowind, I tend to use Madd Leveler, and Galsiah's Character Development is also pretty popular.
The same also happens if you installed it from the disk, the uninstallers don't just delete the entire folder, its only what was installed by them, so anything you've added into the folder will remain.
it just seems against the spirit of the game. Here let me plan my guy out from the begining, find a dude to hit me until block levels up so many times, while this levels up so many times then go sleep s.o I can get the +5 points to those stats instead of just stuff you use more getting stronger organically.
and I'm currently playing on xbox so I can't correct this with mods.
What you need to do is (of course) have HDR enabled in the game, but in catalyst control center (or ati tray tools or whatever you use) force the antialiasing level you want and set the Catalyst AI to standard (it's called low in ATT). This will enable the chuck tweak, ATI implemented this around the 6.7 drivers iirc.
The only downside that I know of is that if someone is using chameleon/invisibility the distortion effect of the character can still be seen if they go behind a wall. (i've no idea if ATI are aware of this)
Also, if you want relatively responsive mouse control using ati tray tools you can set the flip queue size to 0 or 1 to get rid of the input lag (called render ahead frames in nvidia parlance).
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
Seems reasonable! I guess my next question is, what do I do about imps in the starting dungeon?
Daggerfall's a decent game to play, see what it's all about for historic context and see what it did right and wrong compared to later Bethsoft games, tool around a bit, and then put it down and never touch it again.
I say this as someone who has probably put more hours into Daggerfall and Morrowind than any other game by a very wide margin. Considering I've played mostly MMOs for the past twelve years, that's saying a bit.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Don't need to hope, just choose the Ebony Dagger as the item you saved from your childhood, or were given as a gift, or however the question was phrased.
Then I have to go and steal something from the arch mage.
Me.
I have to go steal something from myself for the thieves guild quest. I wasnt even recognized as the Arch Mage, even though at that point I was wearing the Arch Mage robes and hood. and had a student mage following me
Oh well.
Offer ends 9AM Pacific time it says
Like, I wish during allies for Bruma I could also call upon the fighters guild as master, and the mages as Arch Mage, to bolster the defense.
I am a freaking nerd.
I never liked how self contained the quest lines were. You can kind of tell they were developed without much consideration for each other.
Could be announced today actually. Right before E3 bethesda said it was more likely that they would announce their next project at Quake Con than E3. I am hoping we get an announcement for elderscrolls 5 today.
Like i said earlier, one thieves guild quest has you stealing from the arch mage..which was me since i did that quest first. Would have been nice if it would have acknowledged that I was the Arch-Mage and instead ask me to just SAY something was stolen.
You also have to bust into the palace even if you could have just waltzed in because you are the fucking Arch-Mage, leader of the Fighter's Guild, arena champion, and savior of the city.
There's also a quake con sale on steam right now that includes the previous elder scrolls games.
well I can see that sort of, since you are breaking in to steal the elder scroll.
and walking in as champion of cyrodill going I need to see th elder scroll, then it going missing afterwards would probably be a bad thing
Please no, not another mmo. Enough with the mmo's, I am sick to death of the damn mmo's.
If they want to do an mmo separate to a normal elder scrolls like Square does with Final Fantasy I'd be perfectly happy. But if they went and said "yep, Elder Scrolls 5.. it's an mmo! Surprise!" then i'd be pretty peeved.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
So far I've downloaded the following mods:
Better Cities 4.6
Open Better Cities
Natural Environments
Unique Landscape Compilation
Alternative Start
Tamriel NPCs Revamped
Tamriel NPCs Revamped - Shivering Isles
Tamriel Travelers
Deadly Reflux Combat Moves
Symphony of Violence
DarNified UI
Elven Map Redux
Ren's Beauty Pack
Companion - Neeshka
Companion - Vilja
FCOM
Obscuro's Oblivion Overhaul
Francesco's
Mart's Mutant Mod
Warcry
Browsing the Nexus looking for mods is daunting. I think I've grabbed the cream of the crop, though, or have I missed some good ones?
1) I forgot how difficult it was to make your character not look retarded. Every race seems to have caveman lips and/or old woman's face. Hopefully Bethesda spends a little more time on the face textures in 5.
2) Apparently my existing FCOM installation files won't work with the new installation, no matter how hard I try. Did anyone ever get the mod authors to play nice so that the FCOM author could release a complete mod, or do you still have to dig up old versions of like 5 mods to get it to work? Because, seriously? Fuck ever going through that again.