*official* Oblivion Thread, opinions?

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: hwan
Guys,

Need your advice for a newbie. I just got out of the sewer and to the market district and all the shops are locked Where can I pick up some side quest to advance my skills?

Thanks,

wait until 8:00 AM for the shops to open

talk to people to get quests.

 

[hwan]

*smacks head*

Thank you

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: hwan
Guys,

Need your advice for a newbie. I just got out of the sewer and to the market district and all the shops are locked Where can I pick up some side quest to advance my skills?

Thanks,

the shops are only open from 8am to 8pm. you can see the shopowners leave when they close up. At 8am the doors are no longer locked.

 

[rise]

theres a lady on one of the boats, the one all the way to the right looking at the water. she'll give you job inside the boat. but theres not much happening on the waterfront, for my character anyway.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
Anyone found a decent source of lockpicks yet?

I've seen plenty around, but for like 6g each... yikes!

look in barrels, sacks, crates and chests. There are a lot of free ones laying around.

 

[Zeeky Boogy Doog]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: gersson
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player.additem 00000F X

x equals amount.

i thought it was seven zeroes? 0000000f

according to the bethesda forums the 0's are unnecessary, so you could just put F. Haven't used any cheats yet to verify, but thats what someone(s) said.

 

[mordantmonkey]

great game. much closer to morrowind than i would have liked. but it is a sequel (not in storyline though), so it's to be expected. Still quests are much more interesting and of course eyecandy is always nice.
I played this decently on a 9800pro (opty146@2.4, 2GB OCZ plat.) on extremely low settings 800*600. then got my 7900gt, now playing 12*9 all options on full. except grass shadows, can't see them anyway. a few random crashes but nothing that really cripples the game. just save fairly often. i expect a patch to fix what little issues i have.

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: hwan
Guys,

Need your advice for a newbie. I just got out of the sewer and to the market district and all the shops are locked Where can I pick up some side quest to advance my skills?

Thanks,

You'll run into quests all over the place just by talking to people. I resisted arrest many times and killed the guards trying to arrest me, and eventually the dark brotherhood contacted me to join their guild.

Just play the game, steal things, etc and you will most definitely find quests I've got so many going right now that I don't know where to start. and they aren't even part of the main quest.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

I spent about 4 hours playing Friday night, about 3 Saturday, and another 3 or 4 on Sunday. Amazing game. I could never get into Morrowind because of the obscureness of the primary quest, but I've been drilling through the quest in Oblivion fairly quickly I think, although that may be a bad thing, since I'm a lot farther along than people I talk to on IRC who are levels 8-15, and I'm still only level 3, so I guess I'll have to start taking on some side quests and visit the arena.

Specs:

Opteron 146 @ 2.8GHz
2GB RAM
DFI Lanparty Ultra-D
eVGA Geforce 7800GT

The graphics are stunning. The game put me at ultra high settings at 1024x768, but I bumped it up to 1280x1024, which is the max on my 19" LCD, and it runs great. The UI is a little overly large, no doubt due to a direct conversion over from the XBox 360, and I've had a few annoying issues that were due to the Radiant AI not responding the way it should have (rode my horse into Anvil, left it on the boardwalk to go into the castle, came back, jumped back on, and was arrested...figures), otherwise, I'm thrilled with this game and play to play it as long as it will hold my interest, which hasn't been an issue so far.

The sheer size of the map is stunning, and it takes a long time to run from one point to another, which makes the instant travel option a godsend. I've found probably a dozen random ruins and dungeons just running places for quests I have. The game is massive, there's no doubt about that. I'm sure for a pretty casual gamer like me, it will last at least 4-5 months before I start getting tired of it, and with a bunch of mods already starting to come out, probably not even then.

I'm getting an Option 165 tomorrow to replace my 146. Be interesting to see if I notice anything, of course the 165 probably won't run at 2.8GHz like my 146 does, so I might not be able to make a valid comparison.

 

[everman]

I love it. I've had 2 crashes, no other problems. Performance is ok for my craptastic system. I think taking out oblivion gates is kinda easy though.

 

[AdamSnow]

So I got converted to a vampire... and so far I can only tell that it sucks... Having to feed and everything...

Is there any reason to be a vampire, or should I just go get the cure?

 

[AmigaMan]

Just wanted to say that it runs fine on my Inspiron 9200 with 1.8Ghz Pentium M, 2GB RAM, and ATI 9700 128MB video. I've got it set to 800x600 with distant rendering turned on and medium textures. I've got the fade options at around the middle setting and water rippling turned on. Everything else is off or near the bottom. I feel it's very playable at these settings and even with about 5 NPC's I didn't notice a slowdown. I'm going to try turning it up to 1024x768 and tomorrow and see how well it plays.

 

[MustangSVT]

Finally got it.

outdoor fps is around 10~30 depedning where I am. If I am near a castle, than its low 10s..

but , because I want to run it at native LCD res , its running 1280x1024 w HDR. Most settings are at max. Texture at high. I guess ill try tweaking it somewhat when I get a chance.
For some reason, turning shadow on or off makes only 1fram difference.

specs below with 2gig pc3200 ram.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
Anyone found a decent source of lockpicks yet?

I've seen plenty around, but for like 6g each... yikes!

look in barrels, sacks, crates and chests. There are a lot of free ones laying around.

or just F5 - pick, pick, pick *FAIL*

. . . F9 - Pick, pick, pick, pick *Success*






it is REALLY easy to pick locks . . . . practice and you will never need to buy one.
:thumbsup:

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

Originally posted by: lozina
Ok, after playing almost non-stop since the game came out I have to say I really love it and am having a blast. There are too many good things to say about it so instead let me list a few disappointments...

1. The stores don't actually have their goods! In Morrowind, whatever a store sold was actually inside the store. In Oblivion every store has the items they sold in a chest or container which is outside the bounds of the actually store, so basically they are completely inaccessible. So a thief is not able to steal anything a store is selling. One easy fix but a bit tedious is to just go into the editor and move all the chests back int the store. So that's not so bad.

2. The game relies heavily on adjusting itself to your level. So a store will eventually get better items as you get higher level but also the NPCs you fight and monsters you fight will actually be higher level as well. So in some respects I actually find myself avoiding levelling up because everything just gets harder, and if you dont just concentrate on like one combat skill or one magic skill when you do levle up then everything is gonna whoop your ass. Forget about levelling off of skills like speechcraft- you'll end up frustrated as the fights become way too hard. One exploit they introduced by this is now you can put all you essentially combat skills and/or magic skills as minor skills, and leave the skills you are LEAST likely to ever raise as your major skills. So now you can improve your character and making him more powerful WITHOUT levelling up and the monsters/NPCs wont level up either. <Nelson> Ha ha! </Nelson>

Sadly this is true. I've been leveling up a bit too fast, from 14 to 20 today and I'm finding that I have to keep bumping down the difficulty slider, now between 55-60%, whereas earlier I had little trouble with 70-75%

The monsters are strangely balanced as well. Bears and mountain lions are tough and Dremora fighters usually go down in 3-4 hits.

 

[Whitecloak]

where can I join the fighter's guild? I have finished the Arena quest and am about midway through the main quest.

 

[Bullhonkie]

Pretty decent Oblivion tweak guide going on here with both visual and performance tweaks:

Optimising Oblivion

The soup fix is awesome provided your system can handle it.

 

[Mem]

So I got converted to a vampire... and so far I can only tell that it sucks... Having to feed and everything...

Is there any reason to be a vampire, or should I just go get the cure?

It is down to you if you want to stay a vampire or not,if you want the cure, spoiler guide below,yes I got the cure after a long 12 hours of playing .


Spoiler Vampire cure guide.

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: Mem

So I got converted to a vampire... and so far I can only tell that it sucks... Having to feed and everything...

Is there any reason to be a vampire, or should I just go get the cure?

It is down to you if you want to stay a vampire or not,if you want the cure, spoiler guide below,yes I got the cure after a long 12 hours of playing .


Spoiler Vampire cure guide.

whats the good part about being a vampire?

 

[Mem]

whats the good part about being a vampire?

Vampire stats and special abilities.

 

[AmigaMan]

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: Mem

So I got converted to a vampire... and so far I can only tell that it sucks... Having to feed and everything...

Is there any reason to be a vampire, or should I just go get the cure?

It is down to you if you want to stay a vampire or not,if you want the cure, spoiler guide below,yes I got the cure after a long 12 hours of playing .


Spoiler Vampire cure guide.

whats the good part about being a vampire?

Ok, hand in your geek/nerd card....you never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Angel? What's NOT to like about being a vampire (besides the blood drinking and daylight phobia)? It's like being a super-geek AND you get chicks!

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: AmigaMan

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: Mem

So I got converted to a vampire... and so far I can only tell that it sucks... Having to feed and everything...

Is there any reason to be a vampire, or should I just go get the cure?

It is down to you if you want to stay a vampire or not,if you want the cure, spoiler guide below,yes I got the cure after a long 12 hours of playing .


Spoiler Vampire cure guide.

whats the good part about being a vampire?

Ok, hand in your geek/nerd card....you never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Angel? What's NOT to like about being a vampire (besides the blood drinking and daylight phobia)? It's like being a super-geek AND you get chicks!

hehe, whats not to like? the lack of sunlight, the constant crawings

 

[AdamSnow]

I think I'm going to convert back... I dont know what the special abilities and stuff are, so really it's just a pain in the ass for me to have to feed all the time, and avoid sunlight...

 

[Mem]

Ok, hand in your geek/nerd card....you never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Angel? What's NOT to like about being a vampire (besides the blood drinking and daylight phobia)? It's like being a super-geek AND you get chicks!

LOL...buffy has nothing to do with vampires in the true sense,it is tv series for teenagers that dont have a GF ,infact buffy the series insults what a true vampire should be .

 

[Mem]

Anybody else having some bug problems with Nvidia graphics card and HDR enabled?....ie with NPC dialogue with the screen going black,especially in the arena section.

It got so annoying I had to disable HDR.