Haha. God hates you. I rock skeletons up down and back.

Really? Couldn't you just run past them?

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Haha. God hates you. I rock skeletons up down and back. :D[/QUOTE]


They hate me.

Has anyone played an atronarch yet? I'm having touble understanding how I'm supposed to recharge my magicka. I wish they would tell you these things.

Spell absorption.

This game has THE BEST ragdoll's ever.

I've been luring things up hills, and into the mountains, just so I can watch them roll down the hill.

Also..

What's up with the unicorn?

I was being chased by a guard, and it just runs up and impales him. And then it chases me FOREVER.

So I ran inside an inn, slept, and when I came back out it was just sitting there. And then I rode it. Holy crap it's fast!

Did it have rainbows?

Here's a shot of Ragdoll in action :p

If you fail me Donny, you'll be sleeping with the goblins.

Ragdolls don't clip through each other? <3! This game is looking so fantastic.

Yeah, but 80% of your sword will still phase right through a solid wall.

Really? I haven't noticed that happening. I'll have to check.

Sorry if this has been asked, but where can i buy lock picks = ( I need them badly!

Fences for cheap. 5/piece.

There's some lady in the imperial city, as well as a locksmith there, too.

Ignore Kirby, and join the thieves guild. Then buy them from Ongar. He's the man, he just wants to sleep all the time. Almost like me. (sleep and video games... and women would be nice too)

[QUOTE=Kieran Horn]Really? I haven't noticed that happening. I'll have to check.[/QUOTE]

3rd person with your sword wielded.

3rd person isn't exactly meant for gameplay...to be honest, 3rd person is only meant for horseback riding and showing off your character.

Bla bla blahh........

They included it for a reason, and that is because people want choices.

I am aware Bethesda intends the game to be played in the first person, but they included options for people with different tastes. I'm always in 3rd person unless I need to pick up an item or aim a spell.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]3rd person isn't exactly meant for gameplay...to be honest, 3rd person is only meant for horseback riding and showing off your character.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I always liked 3rd person for melee fighting.

Blah blah blah? I didn't exactly respond to your post with "Blah blah blah I'm freelancer I'm stupid". It's not asking for much to ask you to give me the respect I give you.

And that's your problem that you're in 3rd person. Not to mention there's bugs much worse than a small clipping issue.

I, too, will disagree on the 3rd person is bad point. I will even say that third-person is essential. NWN would not go well if it were 1st person only. Ocarina of Time would not go well in 1st person only. In fact, I imagine most RPGs having difficulties 1st person only.

Blood never gets on my sword.

You're a vampire right? Vampires are like cats. They don't get dirty.

Blood never got on my sword before that either.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Blah blah blah? I didn't exactly respond to your post with "Blah blah blah I'm freelancer I'm stupid". It's not asking for much to ask you to give me the respect I give you.

And that's your problem that you're in 3rd person. Not to mention there's bugs much worse than a small clipping issue.[/QUOTE]

lmfao man.. you've got major problems.

Can I join mulitple guilds? Right now I'm in the thieves guild (as an avid Hillsfar player from days gone by, what else would I be? (oh and let's not forget Thief)), and I wouldn't mind being a mage as well. I keep getting offers to join the fighter's guild, so I imagine so?

Also, is there any kind of cavalry ability? Having to get off your horse to fight is kind of lame.

Oh, I'll also point out that, although the sneaking/thieving system isn't BAD once you get used to it, it is nowhere near as good as Thief. I'm not asking for much - just the ability to hide in the dark (better implemented) and be able to steal without being in "sneak" mode (i.e. as long as no one sees you or infers that you stole goods, e.g. they turn away, turn back and a goblet is gone).

Also, what's up with the lack of wildlife? Why is it that in RPGs it seems (and granted, I haven't played that many) all wild animals are completely hostile? It's not difficult to write basic instinctual animal AI that has needs such as hunger, territory, etc. Approach a timberwolf in his den, he'll attack you. It's still that they just run after you after spotting you 50 feet away.

Don't get me wrong, I love this game, but I see all these small things that would have taken not much effort or time to correct, it's rather annoying. And it's not just this game. It's the fact that each new generation of games that SHOULD be offering these features, doesn't.

I see more deer than wolves....

Oh, and I saw a butterfly once!

Uch, I'll only be getting oblivion in about four weeks probably. I changed my mind - I want to pass my exams but that means no Oblivion

You know that sidious guy? Well he says another thing that is very sidious-esque. Major spoiler though.

He kind of says "Wipe them out. All of them." Before he sends you to purge your sanctuary of your fellow assassins. It made me sad, my fellow assassins were more friendly to me than anyone else in the whole game. Except for maybe Captain Picard.

I'm almost always in 3rd person view. The only time I go into 1st person is when I have to pick up small items, or use arrows and attack spells, which isn't often. And, now that I've just made a mage, I'll be teaching myself to aim spells in 3rd person, too. I'm already pretty good with it.

Why anyone would like playing a TES game in 3rd person is beyond me.

I tweaked the decal stuff in my ini, now I almost always have blood on my sword during the game. And everything is bloodied. Just takes some more juice out of your gpu.

Tweak :

fDecalLifetime=100.0000
(originally set at 10, so blood disappears also right away when its on your blade, now it stays a while)

iMaxDecalsPerFrame=99
I think its originally set at 15, at 99 blood gets all over the ground, on characters and swords almost instantly during a fight.

bDecalsOnSkinnedGeometry=1
This was set to 1 by default for me anyways, just make sure its on. It allows blood on textured models like creatures, swords, shields, character.


Note : Make sure to edit the ini in my documents/my games/oblivion/oblivion.ini, not oblivion_default.ini in the game install dir. (make a back up of the original ini before you mod it). Again, this takes some more juice out of the gpu, make sure it can handle it!

I can see a lot more than you without having to swing around like a paranoid person every other second.

Through and through, while Bethesda offered the 3rd person view, the game is meant to be played in 1st person, so you cannot blame them for not polishing it. You can argue for days and nights and months that 3rd person view is better or not, and I myself use first person view 50% of the time (I use 1st for combat, spell and picking up stuff), BUT ultimatly, the devs have said time and time again that the game was meant to be played in first person view.

If you want to complain about third person view, complain that there is no diagonal movement animation (strafe+foward). :p

I know the feeling....why I am still reading this thread which makes me want it more I don't know...

Thanks dude!

Any other cool tweaks I should be knowing about?

You have the ATI card right?

I have a 7800GTX.

Thank you

Yea, ati x1900.

There are tweaks to fix that disgusting LOD on the distant terrain texture, but it causes some slightly messed up water reflections and a wierd hopping bug every once in a while.

One that is fun is setting the following to 1 (0 by default

bUseWaterReflectionsMisc=0
bUseWaterReflectionsStatics=0
bUseWaterReflectionsTrees=0
bUseWaterReflectionsActors=0

Allows actors and vegetation to reflect in the water.


For grass draw distance :

[Grass]
iMinGrassSize=80
fGrassEndDistance=8000.0000
fGrassStartFadeDistance=7000.0000

The above are the default maximum. I personally increased it to 10000 and 9000. Note that some of the settings are reset next time you go in the video options so stay out of them. :p

I want to ask, do you get pop ups on grass, and when a new cell loads (loading area...) things pop up all around. I'm trying to figure out if its my cpu or gpu or if its normal and I'm the only one annoyed by it.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Thank you[/QUOTE]

My pleasure! :p

Yeah, even without those settings things just pop up when I load a new cell.