The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Chat Thread

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• I use normal weapons most of the time, and only use the magic ones when I'm fighting an enemy that I know... : ]aratex[
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  Depends on the weapon. I got an early magic weapon (Blackwater Blade) that decreases enemies fatigue by... : sevogajre
  • where did u get this black water blade , give us good-ish location please :) : MurDa02
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  Some weapons only have 3 charges, some have 60. The 3 charge weapons are pretty useless, but the ones wi... : slickdoody
  • Exactly. I use one-handed blades, so I can burn through 60 charges in 3 or 4 fights. I kinda wonder if ... : Arcanum
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    Quick side question: How do you activate the charges, or is it automatic? : trOmblyj
    • Depends on the weapon/item. If it's "on hit", it activates every time you hit someone. If its "on use" ... : Arcanum
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  dont you get free charges once you get all the recommendations from the mages guild halls? Thats the onl... : conandan
  • Dunno, haven't gotten that far. I don't think so? What I care about is the spellcrafting and enchanting... : Arcanum
  • you don't. : alexthegreat2
  • Not that I'm aware of, but you do get to make your own spells, and place your own enchantments on stuff. : genom
• I've found more than enough occupied soulgems to keep mine charged. : Kerath
• I haven't found any that are really worth their weight compared to normal weapons. I also burn through t... : Krypt_

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  I dwarf must always be a bastard, but a bastard need not be a dwarf. : SockMonkeh
  • god damnit i fucked it up : SockMonkeh
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  I think a TC/mod focused on a bit of the north, the wall, and beyond would be so bad ass. all of west... : pyide
  • I have been thinking the same thing. If I knew how to mod I'd be all over it. : Groucho
• Hell yeah. This game often makes me think of how I imagined a lot of things in those books. Bruma is mo... : Krypt_
• goddamn we're some huge nerds. I thought the exact same thing while playing Sat. evening. : ariakaz
• Screw that. The elven ruins could be in Middle Earth for as much as they match up. LOTR MOD Also, : Ebu
• This game is already heavily inspired by it i find. Small wonder though. : Neech
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  Omg I was thinking the same thing...I'm finishing a clash of kings now...holy sh-- :) : adhy
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    Imagine going up against Gregor Clegane in the Arena? OMFG chills : IgnoramusSA
    • I wonder if you could create a character with half a burned face like Sandor? : Groucho

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  there's an ini edit that'll let you set it to never bring up the slider effectively. Have to look for it... : Draugluin
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    well shit, now I can't find it. I wanted to apply it myself :( : Draugluin
    • bump? : Draugluin

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• "Go an ditch the infection." As if it's something you go to the local clinic for. :) : Arcanum
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  I'm pretty sure there are no vampire specific quest (none are mentioned in the strategy guide). "Ditching... : i_mon61
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    i have about 8 grand soulgems in my inventory I think, they are all over the place (there are about 3 in ... : spdon
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      Nope. If you do want to get rid of vampirism and haven't "found" the quest yet, go to a church and ask s... : i_mon61
      • do they have to be empty? somehow I found some with souls already in them : Draugluin
• A female vampire tried to suck my blood last night, but I didn't let her. I said, "Here, polish my spear... : Matt Burris

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  if you already have a conjurer spell just cast it repeatedly. : kbnerd
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    i don't and the only one i can buy is turn undead, wtf ? : abrasion
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      different towns have entirely different spell lists you can buy. i would suggest trying a different town. : kbnerd
      • nah i am into this bound dagger thing, pretty sex and it's conjury : : abrasion
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  Get the Skeleton or Scamp summons, and just cast 'em over and over. (Scamp only lasts 10s, so you can cas... : genom
  • that's the problem - you need 25, i had 21. : abrasion
• summon undead turn undead turn undead turn undead turn undead holy fuck. : tomatoactivator

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  I had a rat try to bite my face last night, so I punched it in the fucking head : sigpro
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    Then your Argonian keeled over dead, right? ;P : genom
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      huh what? I'm in like the first hour of the game : sigpro
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        you probably haven't gotten to the Argonian holocaust : haccess
        • nope last thing I did was I killed some shaman troll/orge/orc thing that tried to shoot me with lightning : sigpro
• Mage battles are the best. I'm in the sewers and come across a den of goblins. From my dark corner I po... : Rich McNinch
• i walked onto the pirate ship in the imperial city, the pirate chick got out her weapon and started runni... : pixxelpimp
• I was swimming around in the waters near Weye and had just finished up a quest. I came across some temple... : Languid_Heap

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  I can only imagine. I take it the game is very GPU dependant, eh? : Fredrik S
  • Yeah. I have a pretty nice setup (except for the old video card I guess) and I could only run at 800x600 ... : 69shots
• Nothing wrong with an epenis bro. I'm enjoying mine too :) =) x1900xt =) : jodiuh
• I wish I didn't have to buy a new motherbaord and PC to upgrade... :( : Priest77
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  Running 1920 * 1200 - Dell 24 Widescreen... This game is amazing.... : Hugh G Wrecksion
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    What card are you using to run at that resolution? : Priest77
    • Yeah, I'd like to know. I'm Considering the 2407 (if ever released), but I barely get by at 1680x1050. : jodiuh
    • I have a 512MB 7900GTX OC'd that I was running 1920x1200 and it seemed alright, but I went to 1680x1050 t... : Tripps
• yup, I'm using an X1900 at only 1280x1024 (LCD) and it's fantastic. I love setting everything higher tha... : DinK
• hah, enjoy it man, the least $500 should buy you is an e-penis post on the shack :) : -Panther-
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  I'm hoping my x1800xt can do max with ini tweaks on 1280x1024, but if not I'm willing to settle for 1024x... : cajuncook
  • Depends on how shader heavy this game is. My X1900 is kinda the same except for like 3x the shader power... : DinK
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  Yeah I'm really enjoying my 800x600 with everything off (shoot me). : Ben Barker
  • My laptop can't even do 640x480 very well (~30fps on a good day) with everything turned off. X300 128MB ... : guido anchovy
• This doesnt bode well for my 6800GT! If I upgade ill prolly just get a 7900GT or a used 7800 GT tho. : nukewinter
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  i still wondering if I should just get an 360 or a 7900gt? Ugh the 360 has so much more value. : tension
  • A 7900gt would run oblivion at good frame rates at 1280x1024 with bloom and 2xaa (or HDR if you choose). ... : shred.
  • I had the same problem, I feel stupid buying an exorbitant piece of hardware for one game (no offense to ... : -Panther-
• I run pretty smooth with most of the goodies on with my 6800 Ultra at native res on my Dell 2001 lcd thin... : Darynth

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  Travelling down the roads and coming across random battles is so awesome. Earlier I was exploring around ... : moogle
  • I tried to save a unicorn from minotaurs in the great forest and he ends up attacking me : Mondo
  • This is by far the most retarded one Two imperial forresters just loading each other up with arrows in... : Mondo
• Holy sh**, I vote this funniest post of the night, no, week! It's the commentary that killed me. :) : timaste
• Should've shot him with your peeeump cane, imo. :< Still kinda funny that you beat him down with your ... : Eej
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  haha nice.. too bad i no longer face imps now that im at level 10 :( : ballystix
  • how do you heal horses? : odin318

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  is that the 1st gate? : ariakaz
  • Yup. Figured everyone was past it and just missed it, since it is the very first part of the main quest. : cdbeckman
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  Cue post from extremely over zealous spoiler tag nazis about how ZOMG SPOILER I DIDN'T KONW THERE WAS LAV : slickdoody
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    Thought about spoilering it, but meh no quests were spoiled and it's in the very beginning of the game. I... : cdbeckman
    • Common sense doesn't stop the spoiler tag nazis. :) : slickdoody
• lol, i thought the same thing. graphics look way better on my 360 though. : bozer
• OMGZ ANAKIN BECOMES DARTH VADER : Cold Hate / Warm Blo

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  100? Crap. Is it worth it? I haven't even gotten 10 yet, so I'm not sure what the potion even does. : Rich McNinch
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    Its a really powerul potion that boosts a lot of your stats : mmt681
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      How long does it last? : giroml
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        it better be permanent. : lightly inclined
        • thats what im thinking....if not that quest can fuck itself hard in the ear. : klearlyunseen
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  I'm on the gather 40 part now. Don't know if I'm going to continue, not a very fun quest. : tree8
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    I think its meant to be more of a passive quest, like finding random packages around Liberty City. : Rich McNinch
    • thats how im playing it as picking up when i see them along the way. : italiano3d
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  damn, aren't a lot of them hidden in people's houses. I swiped one from the alchemy store in Imperial Ci... : ariakaz
  • I found one in a house so far, and it's a house you could easily miss going into. Not sure how to say it : nudel
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  do they respawn? i actually gave 2 away to a merchant one time without realizing it. : pyide
  • there are more then 100 in the game world, don't worry : mikage
  • Yes they do respawn, after like 3 months gametime. : giroml
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  I should clarify that the 100 number I stated was the combined amount for the whole quest. The final part... : mmt681
  • i've found 10, turned those in, found 20, turned those in, now have to find 30.. after i find 30, am i go... : grindking
• I don't know if I'll do the full quest, but I have used the second part of it as an excuse to wander up t... : Dslyecxi
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  Nirnroot Quest Details: "Completing" the Nirnroot quest consists of collecting 100 total Nirnroots. T : buroja
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    Good info! I'm not sure it's worth it if the potion is so limited in duration and you can't keep buying m : nudel
    • Yes, good info that only we madmen still burning the midnight Oblivion oil shall see, eh? I'm on the ver... : buroja
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      Wha? Where is this ingredient duplicator? : giroml
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        All I know was what I put in the spoiler tags. (You know how to use them right? :( ) : nudel
        • My mistake. : giroml
    • You can not use it to duplicate nirnroots. You get access to it by becoming the head of the mage guild. : Umbr
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    So you only get a potion? one use only? : abrasion
    • yeah, seems like a pretty weak reward even if the potions are decent. : -Panther-

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  Hey, fuck it, we don't need to spoiler anything now! Wheeee! : Dslyecxi
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    uh oh, you can become the head of the theives guild, WHOWOULDATHUNKIT!!! : patdoody
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      I wouldn't have. :( : mulu
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        it's certainly not something that is intuitive since this is pretty much the first game ever where it hap... : kbnerd
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          appart from morrowind.... : spdon
          • LOL, you guys have got to fucking be kidding, that's hardly a spoiler, the manual points it out in a coup... : Farbauti
  • They said in all of the preview interviews and stuff that you could become the head of all the guilds sim... : malevolence
• I had to quit yesterday in the middle of the last quest. That's a long-ass dungeon crawl when you're tryi : reign27
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  damn, could a mod plz delete this thread. christ. : headless
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    iawtp. : silent prophet
    • ditto : ZeroSignal
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    Are you fucking kidding me? Isn't it understood that one facet of the base concept of a "faction" entity ... : rgoer
    • It is a spolier no matter how you slice it. : Merconium
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    I'm pretty sure that becomeing the head of any guild is in the loading screen tooltips. I cannot underst... : slickdoody
    • "Before we accept you into the guild, we have one last question: Where do you see yourself in five years... : Rich McNinch

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  just uncrouch then crouch again. : kbnerd
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    I don't think that does it. Not once you've been spotted, even if you "hide" behind a wall or something.... : ezanga
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      I hate how once you've been seen you can run to the other side of the planet and they can just home in on... : gegtik
      • As your stealth skill increases you get better at it. Mine is an 82 right now, and I can take a stealth ... : trOmblyj

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• There are approximately a metric fuckton of Oblivion gates. : Dslyecxi
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  There are a small number of main-quest related gates, but lots and lots of random ones. : genom
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    I've been playing for 12 hours or so, and haven't seen a single oblivion gate. I'm at level 6. : DarkFriend
    • They show up during the main quest. : Rich McNinch
• I read in a book somewhere in game that there are 24 gates i believe, but have only found ~6. I wish i r... : headless

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• There's some good stuff in conjuration, but I agree. : Rich McNinch
• thats why its all about the PC version.... user-made MODS!!!!! : pixxelpimp
• For everything, there is a cost. Communion with the dead stains the soul. It is indelible. : Kerath
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  I want an undead army to raze the imperial city Evil Dead style! Make it happen mod makers! : quietb0y
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    There should be an Army of Darkness spell like in Gothic. : Kerath
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      Though at this point I would settle for Coast Guard of Darkness. Stupid low conjuration skill. : Kerath
      • Canadian Navy of Darkness? : genom

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  Levels aren't based off how much stuff you kill, but rather how many skill points you gain in the "major"... : genom
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    ahhh...so if i just go out and constantly use my bow skills, killing anything that moves out in the fores... : get_navi
    • Yes, also sneak everywhere you go, as when you are sneaking when people or creatures are nearby you are i... : invisible_kid
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      Unfortunately, although it'd definitely raise your Marksmanship (and thus your bow damage), you still nee... : genom
      • Kiting! I just run my ass backwards and shoot them until they die. : invisible_kid

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  For Soul Trap, goto the Imperial City. Goto the market square, there is a cheap spell vendor. Get Detect ... : DrZettl
  • So which one do you buy for the conjuration? This is the only gripe I have with the game. I had to "cheez... : bozer
• What is your skill at? : Umbr
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  Mine is at like 18, I can't do shit. All spells seem to require at least 25, and I'm not sure I want to s... : Kerath
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    I'm in your boat too :( Someone give us a low cost conj spell! :D : headless
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      apparently there are only 5 conjuration spells for novices: Bound Boots Bound Dagger Bound Gauntlets... : haccess
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        What does that stuff do anyway? Bound boots/dagger and the rest. Im confused, hold me. : bozer
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          They summon the item for your use, so you can wear normal clothes and be able to carry a ton of loot, and... : Awun
          • except it doesn't last nearly long enough to be good for that : alexthegreat2
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            So you can leave your armor and weapons someplace else far away, and then summon them when you get to a d... : bozer
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              no, something different - I think the only real use would be to summon a better weapon if yours sucks. T... : alexthegreat2
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                Wonder if you can create a multiple-effect version at the University? Or better yet, enchant a ring with... : genom
                • you can only put one enchantment on an item : alexthegreat2
            • it creates spell-armor that overrides your current armor/weapons. : gegtik
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  conjure dagger; hit T to wait for 1 hour (disintegrates dagger); repeat ad nauseum : gegtik
  • Just lower a summoned weapon and it should go away. At least I think that's how it works. : Wyeth
• Once per day? I can conjure my Skelly every 20 seconds...my Scamp every 10... : genom
• conjuer skeleton > turn undead > turn undead > turn undead x 100 : tomatoactivator

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  It's not mentioned in the index of the 367 pages strategy guide, so I'm guessing the answer is "no". : i_mon61
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    This makes me sad. Hmm. I wonder how hard it would be to mod.... New skill: Necromancy. Allows the... : Arcanum
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      This would kick so much ass. Instead of "just" killing the idiots that piss me off (I'm looking at you, : genom
      • There is a way in the game to do that. But it only lasts for 60 seconds :( : alexthegreat2

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• also, where is the best place to buy conjuration spells? I read on the tips that Chorrol Mages' Guild sol... : trelain
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  Maybe find a nice staff that does lots of magic damage? : flox
  • I'll leave that to silly men in beards. Actually the real reason is I stupidly saved right during battle. : trelain
  • i got a sweet goblin staff, with 20 shock points :) Its worth almost 10 grand, but i cant sell it for mor... : Kn4w
• just hit him alot. I got by with 2 healing potions and a bow... silver arrows w/ poison FTW. Keep movin... : headless
• You don't need silver to damage him, so if you've got a better ordinary weapon, use that. : Arcanum

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  You have to join the thief guild, then you can sell it to your "fence". When you start out your only fenc... : i_mon61
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    k, thanks. I didn't want to leave imperial city yet :( : kevp
    • Just use fast-travel to get there, find him with your map (you'll have a quest called "independant thieve... : reign27
• Apperently the Thieves Guild has merchants that will buy stolen goods. Or more directly: Join the Thi : Awun

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  Actually it did remind me a bit of Ultima IX. Especially the way you can sit down on any chair :) oh and ... : sethmarc
  • the whole idea of RAI reminds me of ultima 6 and 7 : alexthegreat2

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• If you really want to you could just focus on the main story and not bother with anything else and have y... : Krypt_
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  maybe if you explained why it wouldn't work for you, we could be of some help? : Clay
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    Mainly because Im usually not a fan of interacting with AI, and in open-ended games there is usually litt... : johnny skidmarks
    • well oblivion has both. i plan on doing the main story and then going nuts with all the little quests on ... : Clay
    • Even in a MMO you're interacting with A.I. - every game you play you're interacting with A.I. So I don't... : Matt Burris
    • Motivation ? Any other game seems pale in comparison after playing this game... i loved baldurs gate... : voodoochildtm
    • I would think that it is not the open-endedness of the MMOs that force you to interact with other players... : Awun
  • Oblivion has both. Thats the beauty of it. Its the best Adventure, Sneak, Role - Playing game and a few h... : Neech
• i was definitely on the fence, i bought it, and im decently amused by it. the thing is, its REALLY ope... : virus
• You may still like this game. See, you can do all kinds of random stuff all over a huge world. However,... : DinK
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  The only RPG I've ever enjoyed in the past is fallout, and this game has blown me away. It's a melee, thi... : cdbeckman
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    I have really high hopes for Fallout 3 with Bethesda at the helm. : genom
    • A' fucking men. : cdbeckman
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  I've never played an RPG ever. This is THE BEST game of all time from ANY genre. Its totally amazing if y... : DarkFriend
  • you dont need that amazing a machine to run this actualy, im on rec specs (except I have a 6600GT) and it... : spdon

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  I don't think it's really a bug. One of several posts from HardOCP explaining it: "As per the thread ... : Priest77
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    dunno, mine stopped at 41, i've payed for training for 10 levels to 51, and it still won't move. : pyide
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      Can't you only buy five levels of training per level? : Priest77
      • yeah, i did 5 long ago after it stopped, and just did 5 more right now to test (this was like 8 levels ag... : pyide
  • i'm just gonna let it slide for now and see if it comes back like it did w/ some people. but if it's n... : pyide
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    Someone else says you can only advance by training and not by using the skill... Gah, I hope it isn't ... : nudel
    • Actually, looks like they're wrong and it does indeed start advancing again: http://www.elderscrolls.c... : nudel
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  Sounds like this hit me, I did the Hackdirt quest and my Mercantile hasn't raised in quite some time *... : Gauss
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    Check that, after selling several thousand gold worth of potions in one transaction, it bumped up a point... : Gauss
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      It doesn't really halt it, after reading the forums what happens is it raises your skill by said level, h... : giroml
      • I disagree, I've been stuck at the same skill level for nearly 10 levels, and I'm CONSTANTLY selling and ... : slickdoody
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  Looks like in the main quest if you keep Baurus alive in the sewers he will meet you again at Cloud Rule : Rich McNinch
  • Baurus died and I returned his sword to Jauffrey. When he said they will hang his sword in the Great Hall : sethmarc
  • Giroml is right, at least for this quest, in that I did not seem to increase my skill until an invisible ... : Rich McNinch
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  GAH! I've made 10 different posts about how to skillup mercantile and always get the same response. This... : slickdoody
  • No wonder I can't get my armorer skill up. :( : guido anchovy

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• you need at least 2k for a house. : kbnerd
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  if you do a lot of damage: clear some dungeons and sell the loot if you're a thief: hit the imperial cit... : -Panther-
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    and besides, at level 2 you should be broke. you're supposed to have crap skills and crap gear, it'll mak... : -Panther-
    • Kids these days! No appreciation for hard work! Back in my day, I had to hike through the snow, uphill ... : Arcanum
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  alchemy. grab every piece of bread, apple, any kind of food. make potions and then sell them to merchants... : hobosapien
  • Second'd. If you're just getting started, run around the Imperial City, and loot all the boxes, barrels, : genom
• go through the arena ... theres $$ : mankeroo
• Join all the guilds. You can take their stuff for free and sell it. : Kerath
• guilds have free stuff and they pay a lot of money for completed quests, im not sure if the money scales ... : spdon
• Alchemy is good because it'll keep you from levelling artificially without finding Equipment in dungeons.... : headless
• I made tons of money by joining the mages guild and selling all the alchemy apparatus'. Since you are in... : belal

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• no, but sometimes, they just vanish. i can hear their footsteps and see their shadows sometimes, but they... : lightly inclined
• I tried that one a few times, I think their AI just leans twards, them wanting to be dead. : Ratalon
• Isn't that because his brother is dead? : i_mon61

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• the far right section/tab of the magic menu will tell you your diseases/buffs/debuffs/etc : pyide
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  Don't you get these bad dreams when you sleep, with "vampire attributes added" at the top of the screen? : i_mon61
  • yeah you always should get those, unless you just have the disease in its early stages at which you are n... : spdon

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  yes. but usually you have to be quite far from your target and have some cover betwixt you and your targe... : kbnerd
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    i think when you become journeyman at marksman you can zoom in, i do it all the time now and get 3 or 4 s... : grindking
    • ah!! i am getting close to journeyman (i think) but i haven't reached it yet. : kbnerd
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  It's pretty funny. I can go into stealth, and throw fireballs at some people from a distance, and as lon... : megarust32
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    this works? i had assumed that doing that would would just lead to getting caught and losing my sneak att... : kbnerd
    • It doesn't always work. But I've done it more than a handful of times now, i'll test more tommorow. : megarust32
• I was running around up north in an elven ruin with my LVL 10 Thief-like (custom) character last night an... : MalteseGoat
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  I was running around up north in an elven ruin with my LVL 10 Thief-like (custom) character last night an... : MalteseGoat
  • Same here. It's getting a bit boring. : i_mon61
• Calm. Illusion school. You can calm some monsters, sneak again, and perform a second/third/fourth/lolyurd... : Gauss
• I can land multiple stealth hits from point blank range in darker areas without spells. You can critical... : Kentor
• get illusion to 50 and use invisibility during battle. mages guild: I made a 5second invis I can use d : Draugluin

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  Yes, you have to murder someone to get into the Brotherhood, and you have to murder for the Brotherhood : reign27
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    so I'll start losing favor with the nine divines, right? : ariakaz
    • If you're talking about when you use the altars at various temples, I've heard that depends only on your : reign27
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  I got an invite and I havent killed anyone BUT, i did become Grand Champion at the Arena. Its a totally l... : mankeroo
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    did you do the quest for the gray prince? It counts as murdering an innocent when he doesnt fight back af... : spdon
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      goddamnit! ugh i hope that doesnt come back to haunt me? I will say I was able to pray at a chapel afterw... : mankeroo
      • the game doesnt really punish you much for small infractions like that, im a vampire and i still recieve ... : spdon
    • plus, what else are you supposed to do when you're locked in the arena with him? : mankeroo

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  Should've called PETA : abrasion
  • post of loling +5 : spdon
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  That happened to me yesterday. I was in some cave in the far north and come back out to find some troll h... : malevolence
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    where do you buy horses? i haven't found a stables that lets you yet. : kbnerd
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      you can buy one in Cheydinhal at the stables west of town but it costs quite a it. Just steal one when n... : geneshifter
      • Hey, at least he lived well. I lost my horse for a few hours yesterday. Took a lot of walking around to f... : DarkFriend
      • you can get a free horse from cloud ruler temple There is at least 1 in there you can take. : spdon
• i walked into the fighters guild lol and needless to say a certain npc that has to be in the game for a s... : italiano3d

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• dungeons, forts and elven ruins? : ariakaz
• dungeons crawls? they don't go 'alright guys it's late, lets sleep!' go hunt : mikage
• clean out a dungeon? look for an oblivion gate? i'm sure there are some people out there still awake to g... : pyide
• Get the portable bedroll mod. It should really have been in the game somehow. : osiris_brad
• There are over 200 dungeons in the world - some really big. : EvilDolemite
• If you're in a town waiting for things to open find a fire, jump around in it, then heal yourself. Work : Nixx2004
• you lawful types are so boring. =\ : lightly inclined
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  yeah dude just go outside. after dark in the city as that character type you do as other citizens do. pr... : kainen1
  • You can meet some interesting people at night. I love to walk around in the night, as the sounds of the c... : DarkFriend

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  iMinGrassSize=130 (default 80) fGrassEndDistance=8000.0000 (default whatever you set in game) f... : sethmarc
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    Thanks! : Halen
    • The two distance settings just go by the slider btw. I think the 8000/7000 is the max slider difference.... : DinK
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    the iMinGrassSize tweak made the outside supersmooth for me. I set it pretty high (160) and there's some ... : Fredrik S
    • I know, it did the same for me. remember to use iMaxGrassTypesPerTexure=4 To increase unique grass... : sethmarc
  • thanks for reposting this link. I saw it yesterday and I lost track of it. :) : slickdoody

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• They will be available later on, that's all I'm gonna say. : shredomatic

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• they shall live forever!! muah ah ah ah ah ah ah!! : kbnerd

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  Do you have a friend with a 360 that you could test it on? Any other games acting up? Hows the heat s... : Judicus
  • Only happening with oblivion. I have burnout revenge, pgr3 and GRAW as well. I'm not getting any disc r... : yautja
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  have you set your xbox vid refresh to PAL60 in the dashboard settings? Oblivion was stuttering alot o... : patdoody
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    hmm i dont think i have. I couldnt see that option, i'll check again. : yautja
    • Set it to SD mode then the option appears. Then set it back to HD mode. THere is a switch on the video ... : chazums

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• You playing it on your 360 or the PC? : abrasion
• How far are you in the main quest? At a certain point, a LOT of them become available. Cloud Ruler Templ : genom

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  I swear to god, half of the people in these threads couldn't spoiler something right if their lives depen... : Dslyecxi
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    seriously, how are we supposed to know whether to click or not? i think some training is in order. : kbnerd
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      should we just say the mission title from now on? : sKetchflow
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        That works nicely. ie: "Hey guys, I just got to the Dark Brotherhood quest called "Blah blah blah" (ab : Dslyecxi
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          sorry about my earlier one - maybe more :( - that was guilty of this too, although I don't think my spoil... : sKetchflow
          • Oh no, your earlier one (as I said here: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11875058 ) was totally fine. I... : Dslyecxi
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    Common sense would dictate that if you haven't completed the entire line you should not read it...that se... : sinclair4217
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      See: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11875047 ps, thanks a bunch buddy. : Dslyecxi
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        Sorry you got spoiled, but I didn't spoil you, you did it to yourself. The spoiler tags where in place, e... : sinclair4217
        • Your totally inept usage of spoiler tags caused a person who was TRYING TO HELP YOU to have part of the D... : Dslyecxi
    • it's so obvious to you but makes no sense to anyone else thus common sense would dictate that using a spo... : kbnerd
    • Common sense dictates that if you put the name of the quest before the spoiler tag then people who have d... : nudel
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  Nope you have too. I also never found the one, but I have my suspicions about one. : graceofdragons
  • Who do you think it was? : Dslyecxi
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  the chests don't have anything about the traitor, only thing I noticed is that the khajit started to budd : sKetchflow
  • That little bastard suffered the most. Bought 2 arrows of cleansing and cleansed his kitty ass! : quietb0y

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  no cure potions or scrolls or churches? if you've got the disease but aren't an actual vampire yet all of... : kbnerd
  • I hadn't even realised I was afflicted, then I leveled to 7 and I was drinking my fill as I thought I sle... : Judicus
  • Where I can find something to cure me in Imperial City ? : Mercador

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  I personally use a mod that is out that makes everysingle modifier a 5 when you level up, so long as you'... : SusanTD
  • That's tempting...Does it make things too easy? I mostly get 2 for my skills when I level and I can kill... : Nixx2004
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    Anyone know where this mod is? : Nixx2004
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      Found this one which might be it: http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=1924 Bit more complex tha... : Nixx2004
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        Here it is http://files.filefront.com/plus5alwaysesp/;4919583;;/fileinfo.html : giroml
        • Cool, thanks. : Nixx2004
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  I don't understand how to get 5's, can someone explain the mechanic to me, or point me to where someone e... : SeaLlama
  • Multiplier for a stat = Number of skill gains for skills related to that stat for that level / 2 So, ... : ]aratex[