Is stealth the way to go? Is RP'ing as a standard big sword knight a lot more difficult? Only gonna play this once so wouldn't mind recs or whatever on "builds" you've played with that are fun. Was told by older brother that stealth archer is ezmode so not that
every build becomes stealth archer eventually Trying my best to stay away from that with my build though
Yeah, trying to play more blade/magic, but it’s hard to get away from stealth archers in these games. I got the difficulty cranked up to.
My build is a Breton sneak nightblade type thing where I’m focusing on alteration and illusion magic and sneaking up on things to stab them in the back Forcing myself to not have any bows or arrows in my inventory so I feel no stealth archer temptation
I’m going to slog my way through as a Nord sword and board. Out of the 7 characters I have in ESO, Nord dragon knight tank is my favorite so I’m going to see how that translates. I’ve done everything else in Oblivion and Skyrim.
I never play stealth nor bow. Maybe I’ll try to focus on that, since it seems OP! I don’t care about difficulty in my old age. Give me easy.
I cranked the difficulty all the way up but got tired of every fight with even the most basic enemies lasting 3 or 4 minutes. I'll bump it back up after leveling some.
Got real high and spent almost 2 hours on the intro / character creation. Dark Elf. Blade / magic / stealth. got done and looked at my character attribute levels/boosts page and almost restarted immediately after I saw the attribute tiers. went into the city to try and sell all the shit from inventory to buy a couple new spells… bunny hopping everywhere to try and unlock the dodge ability in the athletics tree. Everybody wants to give me pennies on the dollar for my stuff. I lockpick one dudes room upstairs and take like 4 things bc he’s a broke ass shop keeper. guard waiting for me on the staircase when I leave the room. Great. No money and not going to jail. Thought “resist” could mean maybe using a Jedi mind trick or negotiate or something. Nah. Run out and am chased by 6-8 very strong guards. Go through 5-6 doors to see if I can find the exit. Too panicked to know where tf I was even going. Apprently was running in a square thru the same doors. Finally said fuck it kill me. Whatever. Turns out it auto saved everytime I went through a fucking door and all my save options to restart are during the motherfucking chase. Literally no way to reload pre-theft. ok so more cognizant fleeing and finally get out of the damn city. Still being chased. Swim across a moat. Followed by 5 guards across the bridge above. They won’t stop following me. guess I’m starting a new guy today
idk man I just escaped from prison and wasn't goin back is there any reason not to have a shield in your left hand. can you equip anything else to it?
Having a save just before you leave the sewers is still clutch folks already had to change my guy’s appearance
was in there for an hour+ as well, but found it worth it to grab the statue so now I can start The Collector quest.
look it up on the oblivion wiki or youtube. that's what I do when I enter into caves, ruins, castles, etc. that obviously have enemies, loot, and potential quests.
One thing that makes Oblivion better is that when you explore and find something cool you actually use it because you can’t just go craft the highest tier greatest version of everything. Therefore, every samey ass dungeon feels worthwhile
re-did my guy. didn't steal shit. meandered around the big city. made my way to some fort on the way to the monastery. killed some people inside and looted. go to exit the fort (it was very small). game freezes up on the loading screen trying to go back outside. NO SAVES SINCE THE PRISON GATE ONE Going to delete this goddamn game into oblivion
Yeah that heals all ills wrt lock picking but it makes me realize I never really learned how to pick locks
looked up tips on that one. one thing that I'm confident in. pop each one up a few times and get the pattern down. figure out when the biggest of the 3 unlock windows is for each slot. Been ezpz since then. One of the unlock windows is pretty slow
The writers at PC Gamer seem pissed off that this remaster even exists and keep writing snarky articles about it I need a new gaming news site
it’s a whole lot of “morrowind is still better” and how this isn’t as good as they would have wanted plus some hand wringing about how this isn’t fair to the skyblivion mod team as if there aren’t a million people who don’t have PCs who have every right to be excited about it
bethesda gave free remaster download codes to the entire slyblivion team and gave them reassurances they won’t shut the mod down and the PCgamer article about it still found a way to be whiny
Is there a setting I'm missing on xbox to bring out the colors in oblivion? Seems pretty washed out to me
God damnit. Someone mentioned this in another thread. I wish I didn’t know it existed. I’m fully hooked again. Lvl 10 Dark Elf working my way up the Dark Brotherhood to start. Playing a fully balanced character because in Oblivion we all turn into gods eventually.
I spent the entire night trying to murder an innocent, without getting arrested, to start the quest line. Think I’m level 8. Am I doing it wrong?
I don’t know who I killed or what I stole but within like an hour of leaving the sewers I got arrested with a 1000 coin bounty. What pissed me off if after I got let out of jail it took a ton of kill points away, -1 to -3 is six or so categories. I didn’t remember that being a thing. Cliffs? I’m having to warp to Stanky Steve or whoever that guy is to buy 30 each day. (I never play with the sound on so I’m awful at locks)