vdragonlance
Limp Gawd
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Finally picked up the GOTY edition today (played the hell out of the 360 version, though) and was wondering what are some good mods for it?
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Absolutely.A full Oblivion install is one of the more intricate and complicated things to install in modern gaming.
Wow actually sounds like it's worth playing now. Those were all of my major complaints. Auto leveling mobs is for the serious loss. My only other gripe would be your 'Captain Planet' like character where you have all powers of all classes. I may just make an exception for this mod.The best mod for Oblivion is OOO:
http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=3953
This adds a lot of action to an otherwise stark game world, with new added regional big monsters random NPCs on their own quests/hunts, and entirely new random dungeons and loot. There are more spells, enemies don't drop glass weapons on a dime at mid-levels, and they removed the annoying auto-leveling of enemies.
They changed the main quest so that also does not level. They targeted the difficulty for around level 25 - this means you're forced to explore, level-up and and do side quests before you're ever able to take on the main quest. I always thought it was silly that you could go into the first Oblivion gate at level 1, and actually survive.
I'll be eyeballing this thread later. Every time I tried to re-play Oblivion to finally finish it, I either completely trashed my install with mod chaos or I just gave up after seeing how many mods there are that do similar things.
Wow actually sounds like it's worth playing now. Those were all of my major complaints. Auto leveling mobs is for the serious loss. My only other gripe would be your 'Captain Planet' like character where you have all powers of all classes. I may just make an exception for this mod.
Does it fix the bugs that are supposedly in this game or do you still need to get a mod to fix bugs?
A full Oblivion install is one of the more intricate and complicated things to install in modern gaming. I usually have several false starts whenever I do it.
Patches and bug fixes:
1. Install Oblivion
2. Install Shivering Isles (if you have it)
3. Install official Shivering Isles 1.2.0416 patch if you have SI, otherwise install the Oblivion 1.2.0416 patch. Install only one or the other, not both. Official patches found here. You absolutely MUST do this to avoid serious game-breaking bugs.
4. Install Knights Of The Nine (if you have it). KotN includes all but one of the Official DLC mods.
5. Install The Fighter's Stronghold Official Mod (if you have it). This is the last Official DLC mod.
6. Install Unofficial Oblivion Patch 3.2.0
7. Install Unofficial Official Mods Patch v15 (if you have #4 and/or #5)
8. Install Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch 1.4.0 (if you have SI).
After that, install mods. Especially:
Redimized Qarl's Texture Pack 3 (also get its patch from the same page)
A highly optimized version of Qarl's Texture Pack 3, which looks just as good but consumes a lot less texture memory. The original QTP3 remains one of the biggest texture memory hogs ever; when used with other big mods, I was able to exceed 1GB of texture memory used, which made even my 768MB 8800GTX choke.
Bomret's Texture Pack for Shivering Isles - the same guy who did Redimized Qarl's did the same thing for Shivering Isles!
OBMM is very helpful for switching mods in and out when experimenting.
OBSE is required for some of the more useful mods - one of the best is Keychain.
Dark UI 2.40 - awesome alternative dark-colored user interface.
UESP Oblivion Wiki is just an extremely useful web page. In particular check out the Quests page.
Holy Jesus, now I feel the forces of darkness telling me I must find my copy of Oblivion and install it.
Help me brothers!!!!
What ever became of unique landscapes ? Or whatever it was called. It divided the world up into more unique ecosystems. Like there were 2 different kinds of swamp and several more varieties of forest. It shook the visuals up a bit. I had it running on top of Oscuro and it started crashing a lot and my save got corrupted.
Do not become like me and get so obsessed with mods you do not even play the game.
I do not even want to admit this, but I have never played a character past ~lvl13, either because I did not have the hardware to run the game properly or did not feel I had enough mods to give me the desired effect I was seeking, or ocassionally did not care for my characters looks or spec.
I am sitting down today with the intention of creating a new character, but I still want a few more mods
Cannot decide if I should get the Unique Landscape package or play w/o it my first time through, also unsure if I would want a leveling mod (AF Leveling or Kobu's Character Advancement System). Also considering Midas Magic/ Deadly Reflex... sigh
Any advice for me regarding UniqueLandscaps/ AF Levelnig and Midas Majic, ect?
Also I saw a package that included OOO and three other "must have mods" the other day and now cannot find the link.
Is this what you are talking about? Sounds badass, might have to use it after I play through the gameI forget the name, but the one where you can summon a dragon and ride it! Now that was very awesome!
Thanks for the helpUnique landscapes would be good if you're paying attention to what other mods might conflict with it.
btw, if you find your character ugly, just use console(~) enableracemenu to modify the face then save before are done. Load your save and you won't lose stats.