kerzain
5741
If you want to cheat, why install a third party mod? Why not just use console commands?
Aeon221
5742
What the fuck happened to that wolf in top left?
Let me guess, someone stole his sweet roll.
Razgon
5749
Thats why I love this place!
To be honest, I’ve been playing this on x-box for over a 100 hours now, and other then some flying mammots and one fall through a floor that looked solid enough, I haven’t experienced any problems? No freezes, no slowdowns, no (obvious) failures, nothing?
Reading this forums I’m actually glad I’m on console: I don’t have to worry so much about the patches fucking up an otherwise smoothrunning game…
Juste
5752
Same here. Level 45 with 40+ hours played. Not a single bug in sight so far.
After 60 hours on one character and ten hours on number two, I am probably about ready to call this one done, which is fine by me.
I would probably be playing more if magic wasn’t so damn fiddly. That favorites menu makes combat a slide show of switching spells and they take so long to happen that by the time I have buffed myself Lydia has probably killed everyone. Damage spells are great but at low level if you miss a few you are OOM and fucked unless you are also good with a weapon. That bugs me and makes me less inclined to push on.
Oh, and the interface is so minimal that even if I get the right spells in the right hands I often forget which blue blob in what hands means what spell which results in having to open the favorites menu yet again. Oh, and of course the left/right mouse button thing comes in to play - possibly made worse by being left handed.
Another annoyance: got a mask, put it on, now all my skill upgrades are to light armor, not heavy, which is what I wear on all other body parts. STOP HITTING MY FACE!
I’ve had a few lockups on the Xbox 360. Seemed to happen when i was spamming conjuration. Basically throwing a lot of work at the engine to make things happen. Screen would freeze and I’d need to do a hard reset (get up off my arse and hit the power button on the console). Never had anything like that on Oblivion (or any other xbox 360 game for that matter). But a couple of crashes in 50 hours ain’t too bad i guess.
130+ enjoyable hours on PC. I’ve experienced an occasional bug and glitch but nothing that provides more than mild irritation, which I get from some aspect of pretty much every game these days.
I stopped my CTDs early one by doing two things:
- NOT fucking with the ini files or installing early mods.
- Large Address Aware patch.
Edit: Make that three things; I also reduced my settings to High. I think the distance sliders, when set to ultra, were causing instabilities on my system.
“Ho ho ho, this fool thinks he’s well protected by his heavy armor but only wears a light mask on his face. Let’s hit him in the face!”
One thing I noticed - this game seems to be developing a nascent WoW problem for me. Specifically, my Not Quite Portable Hole That Looks Like a Chest is absolutely full of ingredients and ores and metals and all sorts of other crap that I now have to spend probably an hour or so turning into stuff to skill up. Which fills me with a really weird feeling, because I am totally amped to finish building my Exquisite Orcish set (dumb question - where the hell do I have to go to make Advanced Armors?) on the way to skilling up to Glass and Ebony, but on the other, that’s going to take some time, yo. And the sheer volume of potions that I have keistered because there’s no place to make and sell them where I don’t run the proprietor out of money long before I’m done. And my speech is going up really slow at this point, so I’m pretty sure I won’t be investing in anywhere for a while.
Also, Conjuration continues to be a hassle. Did the Galdur Amulet reunification event last night. Pretty sure I ran around in circles for at least fifteen minutes, splooging out fire dudes as they died. I’m at least a couple notches over 40, though, so at least I’m closing in on the goal. Maybe I’m supposed to be enchanting a whole lot more than I am (which I’m not, because WoW taught me that you only enchant keeper stuff, which I haven’t landed yet) - does Soul Trap give, like, hella experience or something?
candide
5759
What do you mean with advanced armors? You can create weapons and armor with the forge and then there’s a table somewhere next to the forge where you can improve said armor further (and another one for weapons). Also why are you skilling up to both glass and ebony? One is light armor, one is heavy armor. Are you the dude from the “I used to be a very indecisive person but I’m not so sure about that anymore” joke?
Enchanting is essential - soul trap belongs on a weapon specifically used to fill empty soul gems. You should enchant your armor with frost/fire/shock resist and your weapons with frost/fire/shock damage etc. At level 40 you should have tons of money so don’t worry about breaking stuff, you can always make/buy a new one. I’m at the point where I don’t even loot enemies or chests anymore because I have more money than I can spend and gear I can craft is better than what I can find anyway.
My favorite enchantment is Paralyze. There doesn’t seem to be any action of equal power – shield bashing and FUS RO DAH! just pushes mobs back but Paralyze actually drops them to the ground, and they have to slowly get up again after the paralysis has expired. Works even on giants, doesn’t use stamina like combat powers, doesn’t have a long countdown like shouts… perfect!
But yeah, enchanting is essential. I tried to get by for 20 levels as a warrior without doing enchanting and found the game excessively difficult on Adept. You just can’t replicate the huge bonuses enchantment gives you, unless maybe you get extremely lucky in the equipment you find.
