The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Chat Thread

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  Poisoned apples are retarded I spent two hours trying to kill someone with one and it never worked. : tyrelhill
  • how do you give someone a poisen apple : diub

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• yea, just cos u finish the main quest, u can still mess around and do all the guild quests : Mr_Matth_T

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• yea it usuall takes 11 days mate : Mr_Matth_T

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• just buy em : Polysorbate
• yea or just buy one and use the duplicate cheat : Mr_Matth_T

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• How would you turn it from day to night without time passing? Do you mean like, a console command? I feel... : Vincent Grayson

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  Doing lots of damage is a must, but for most missions there are bonuses for remaining undetected or not k... : -Panther-
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    And for reference I did the whole DB quest line with a stealth + marksmanship character. The missions wh... : -Panther-
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      Is it possible to do the DB quests with a pure mage? I don't think I can do stealth attacks (I literally ... : crummynz
      • It's possible to do all of them assuming you can dole out damage because at the end of the day, your job ... : -Panther-
• no mate im a theif and i pissed all over the db quests, you'll do fine. : Mr_Matth_T

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• no...i have the same problem when i go to FrostFire Glade... YOu lose health casue its really cold : stinker228

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  it's considered assault, I know from personal experience : Draugluin
  • Which do you prefer, chloroform or roofies? : buroja
• i paralyzed the guy at 7-11 and he couldn't call the police. : mallocated

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  you might be running out of fatigue : lord_omega
  • as far as i can tell, fatigue doesn't affect your running speed. he's probably near his max encumberment,... : mallocated
• hm.. you run a little slower with your weapon drawn.. that's the best i can think of. : lapskaus

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  i will be giving mine back in the future because if you keep it, it becomes weighted, thus becoming a rea : stgulik
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    whats a better sword to get anyways. : vosttok
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      i end up using custom made stuff at high level rather than any of the artifacts i have found. : stgulik
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        like what do you use ive heard that getting a deadric longsword or claymore with life steal is a good cho... : vosttok
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          the character that was my highest so far used a daedric longsword with a 17/17/17 cold/fire/electric ench... : stgulik
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            He may have meant soul trap, not absorb health. For instance my bow has 16/16/16 but also 2 second soul ... : DinK
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              the only thing i dont like about that is accidentally filling grand gems with lower souls, but i can see ... : stgulik
              • hehe it may be cheating but i just do the dupe trick and get a bunch of those refilling aylid stone thing... : vosttok
• The game crashes either way for me and a lot of other people, so I'm holding on to it but not completing ... : nudel

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  Go to a trainer ? : voodoochildtm
  • I'm poor :( : abrasion
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  there are spells under 25. like minor detect life from some store in bravil. : pyide
  • edgar's discount spells in imperial city sells either that or one other really low level spell. : slickdoody
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    i spammed the mess out of minor detect life : Clay
    • Hahahaah, so did I. : aaarrrgh
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      yep that's what i just did :( : abrasion
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        although i have no idea how to use this soul trap spell, i cast it and it fires some semi-transparent pur... : abrasion
        • http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Soul_Gem : pyide
        • In a nutshell: Kill it within the time limit of the soul trap spell (check spell info) and make sure you ... : 69shots
    • I created a practice spell that casts minimal detect life for 1 second. Has a mana cost of about 2. :) : Arcanum
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      yeah, it's relatively easy to get to 25 that way. though it leaves the question why they left no good way... : thebigbeefsandwich
      • I suppose you could just load up on already-filled soul gems in town, and use those to recharge your stuf... : five_percent
      • They provided those stones in the ruins which recharge all your weapons at once. I've got a collection of... : nudel
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  The Bound spells are under 25. : silent prophet
  • Oops, wrong school of magic. : silent prophet
• haha you said how the cock. funny man! : Reeves

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• That's like some foreign language you just wrote there. And I usually speak geek. : Albemuth

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• Your new primary goal: have fun! : Languid_Heap
• I spent about 3 hours just curing my vampirism. Garlic suddenly was impossible to find. : quietb0y

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  I personally believe there are better loot mods than the one you listed, PFM's Unoffical Item Rarity Patc... : cajuncook
  • Regarding item rarity, I just liked the idea of changing what monsters were spawning to fix the problem a... : Sapiens
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  Can you show me some screens of the BTmod? I kind like the stock UI for my pc and need some proof that th... : DM7
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    http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki/index.php/BTmod : Rice-Rocketeer
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      Ok I'm sold. Installing this won't mess with my saved games I hope. :P : DM7
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        It's not even an actual mod file (not an ESP/ESM), just some modified XML files that don't overwrite anyt... : Sapiens
        • That's very cool, I'll try it when I get home. Curse work for making me stay here! :D : DM7
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    One problem I find with BT mod is if I put something in the chest at my house I have to restart the game ... : tyrelhill
    • Odd, I've never had that problem. :o : Sapiens
    • Are you sure it's BTmod? If so, you should tell them about it, maybe send a savegame. : Kerath
    • I have this same problem, too. I just thought it was the game being wonky from having too many items in ... : buroja
• posting to mark this oblivion tweak thread easier to find later :) : smacknca
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  All In One Basement http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=352919 This oblivion mod... : tomwiththeweather
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    meh. Seems really gamey and hurts the feeling that this is a giant world. With many different locations. : cdbeckman
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      What do you mean? : tomwiththeweather
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        He means that it completely breaks immersion to walk into your basement in one house and be able to grab ... : SenorSpine
        • It's a magic basement...duh. : Kerath
      • I think on the line between convenience and realisim he falls on the side of the latter. : -Panther-
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  WTF is the Specular fix for? : Rotten Deadite
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    From the OP: "Fixes the crashes associated with incorrect specular lighting on some objects." : lechuck59
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      yeah does anyone have the forum post on the es site that describes some of these 'issues' that cuased the... : italiano3d
      • I wasn't affected; I think the Weynon Priory is the major culprit, so if you don't crash there, you're pr... : Kerath
• Tagged! : FatBaby
• Tagged : SilentDirge
• Tagged even tho I have 360 :/ : ashkie
• tagged for later tonight : cap n KRUNCH

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  the big hit on the cell loading is the density of grass. : italiano3d
  • makes no difference for me with grass on or off, that and trees seem to be the only thing that loads/stre... : pyide
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  I have my grids set to 9 and that takes care of most pop-in issues, but it also is a lot of data to load ... : DinK
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    i agree that one load for towns is better than more pauses, but i still get that now and then in anvil an... : pyide
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      Do you think they could load the necessary amount of data without chugging the graphics engine at all? I... : DinK
      • i don't know how this shit works at all. they probably couldn't do it without lowering the overall perfor... : pyide
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  on pop in, the game uses ZERO LOD models for objects! I couldn't believe that... but it looks like fans a... : thebigbeefsandwich
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    That'd be nice. I hate watching grass pop up. At least let it fade or something! : Rotten Deadite
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      grass fades with HDR : haccess
      • Well screw you and your damn Nvidia card :D : Rotten Deadite
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        WTF? What kind of non sense is that? So you either have AA or you have grass fading but you can't have bo... : pillzer
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          I've always been a fan of AA but for Oblivion I prefer HDR, since I can't have both. I'm not sure why it... : haccess
          • Yeah, that's weird. And I don't think a mod could fix that either. :/ : pillzer
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    riding horses too, or just walking? sometimes i barely notice it when walking, especially early in the... : pyide
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  I don't think I've ever noticed stuttering when walking around outside. I have 2gb of RAM tho. : crummynz
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    riding horses too, or just walking? sometimes i barely notice it when walking, especially early in the... : pyide
    • Good point, I don't often ride horses so I'm not sure. : crummynz
  • I notice it constantly with the same amount of ram. : abrasion
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  2 gigs of ram = No loading at all :) : Drewus
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    Funny, I have 2GB of ram yet I still have to load stuff. =P : DinK
    • Between outdoor cells my loading is instantaneous. The "loading" icon appears for less than a second. Thi... : Drewus
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  loading is really fast, but it is one of the immersion breaking things. and I pretty much hate going to t... : thebigbeefsandwich
  • How much ram do you have? : Drewus

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  I've tried for like an hour, nothing works. This makes me want to uninstall. >:( : SeaLlama
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    What do you mean by can't hit? : Kentor
    • When I attack him my attacks pass right through him like he was a ghost. Both magic and physical attacks... : SeaLlama
    • I even tried ~ "kill" and it said it couldn't find a target for the command :\ : SeaLlama
• I found taking him out was way to easy. Did you talk to him first. I snuck up on him with the intention : redmud

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• trust me it works very very good. : italiano3d
• i finished the thieves guild off before starting on dark brotherhood, and the thieves guild reward comes ... : smax
• 99% of the time I use the brotherhood robe and the grey fox mask believe me it's worth it. : quietb0y
• It's fucking amazing trust me. First, check it's stats. Second, when you commit a crime and then take : cdbeckman
• These other replies are all right. The awesome stats plus the whole dual identity thing are quite cool. ... : DinK
• Agreed, this is actually kinda cheese. A + 40 security ring would have been better. I've done some othe... : Freon
• Its amazing for dungeon crawls with the detect life and feather. It allows you to see everyone in the : Judecca

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  Looks like Skingrad. Maybe you checked at the wrong time of day? http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/i... : Nixx2004
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    That guy doesn't have a buy spell option for me :[ : cpnkegel
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      k that was weird. now I do. thx for the tip : cpnkegel
      • Yeah, they do that. He was probably on his lunch break or something. : Nixx2004
• Check the treasure chest you walked past to get to that room. It has a ranged spell scroll for you to... : Ebu

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• Tigers, bears, minotaurs, all beware of my awesome weeniness! I will crush you! : lonza
• I do the same thing. Except I hide right near the top of the stairs, just enough to shoot them but can s... : Edges
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  Meh, I had to conjure kite most of the time. Once you have Xivilai or Faded/Gloom Wraith depending on ... : Downforce
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    conjure kite? what's kite? : e v i l
    • to purposefully run away while doing damage : haccess
    • Imagine flying a kite, and the monster is the kite. : Ebu
• I just took out my sword and hacked the shit out of anything that came close. : Drewus
• I play an archer character and downloaded a few mods that improve Marksmanship and Sneak attacks. Shor... : SusanTD
• The only thing that matters at the end of the day is if you are standing alive or not. >=-) : heijinmaru

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• I take it you are not a stealth character? : Kentor
• Silver Long Sword + Frost Enchant = pwnage. : Clay
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  We melee-ers do just fine. http://server3.pictiger.com/img/213873/computer-games-and-screenshots/stick... : buroja
  • That's pretty badass. That would make a great character in a book - someone you just can't hit, because e... : five_percent
• You have pretty shitty gear for a level 17 character. I have better stuff at level 14 and I'm a thiefy ty... : yoonix
• I pretty much kick ass with a melee character. At level 11 I had 100 strength and endurance and had plent... : azshack

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• I found it to be more immersive than ocrina myself. How it lines up vs ocrina as one of the best all time... : italiano3d
• The funny thing is that 5 hours playing this game feels too short. You want to keep playing! : Krypt_
• Best thing is you havent even begun to scratch the content of this game. : johnny skidmarks
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  lol 5 hours is nothing man : kill9
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    I know, I spend that long in the options menu for most games - wtf : abrasion
    • well for most games maybe 5 hours is a lot, but that seems to be an absolute minimum when it comes to ES4 : kill9
• it reminds of OoT quite a bit too... except most of the storylines are wayyyyy darker heh. it's amazing h... : thebigbeefsandwich
• Five hours? You don't even have to pee yet. : freqq28
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  Wuss. I played it on day one until my computer exploded. No, really. Then I bought new parts, and kept... : Gauss
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    I played it until the cows came home, and when they did, I let them make a character. : SockMonkeh
    • The cows never visit any more. :( : UtilityMaximizer
• haha don't even compare it to OoT.. OoT is the worst zelda next to the ones made for the CDI system years... : grindking
• I think my first 2 nights playing this game was spent just wondering around town and trying to get a hand : TPSReport

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  you dont need to wear any special kinds of clothes, just bribe the guard and he'll let you in : acenine
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    it won't let me =-(. i get no options. : kbnerd
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      I just done this, I was wearing full armour. Glass body/legs, the DB hood, some fancy magic boots. : steve_o
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        well, evidently it forces you to wait before you can go in. after that you can just walk in if you are dr : kbnerd
        • When you go into the persuasion menu there's no option to bribe? According to this you want his dispos : Nixx2004
        • Sorry was meant to be reply to main thread, I didnt bribe :) just done as you said, waited then asked the... : steve_o

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  I think the bigger the spell you use, the bigger the spell you get : synaptic revolt
  • hang on what do you mean? i can cast a better level of shock on the pillar? : abrasion
• Quest rewards are stepped by the player level. If you're doing the quest at level 9, the reward won't be ... : Dante
• It's one of the two spells received from a quest, and they both are levelled to you. So, if you got a ... : Vincent Grayson
• When I got that spell it was like 95 damage with some small area effect and it cost like 800-some magicka... : DinK
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  I threw my largest shock at it and got 200 dmg / 1500 magika. I don't think I'll ever have that much magi... : cpnkegel
  • The magika requirements of a spell scale based upon your skill with the particular school. At 100 destru... : Kentor
• DOES NOT WORK if you don't give her the book it dosn't work : deadfish
• ok heres how if you messed it up:find erana or whatever her name is, she won't show up on teh quest log a : deadfish

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• http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=2189 : Nixx2004

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• loved that dungoun. So creepy. I was especially freaked out when I was fighting a fire atronach and a dre... : Fredrik S
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  Is this part of a quest? : Rotten Deadite
  • It's for one of the shrines. : 69shots

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  good job : Mondo
  • Thanks. Anyone else try it? : Nixx2004
• 57 downloads so far, not too bad. : Nixx2004
• I'll grab it, makes sense that they wouldn't be that heavy. : Matt Burris
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  you have way too much free time.. do some creative stuff instead of that crapo. : swebarb
  • Nice to hear some constructive criticism, for a change. : buroja
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    I always laugh when people post on a internet gaming site about a videogame that takes this long to play ... : kelerian
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      He's clearly a high-powered exec who has one of his assistants summarize what's going on the shack for hi... : -Panther-
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        The assisstant also plays Oblivion and turns in daily reports about the goings-on in Cyrodiil : Dante
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          "Sir, the shop-keep in 'A Fighting Chance' did not respond well to our jokes. Please advise." : -Panther-
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            "We keep hearing reports about this fighters guild, sir. Apparently its good work... if you have the ston... : crummynz
            • I see what you did there. : 69shots
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  Sweet. It would be cool but very-cheaty if someone made a mod where you could wear more than one ring per... : freshyk
  • I'd say anything <= 5 rings per hand wouldn't be too "cheatey" overpowering... maybe :) : -Panther-
• Anyone good at wiki editing? Trying to add it here: http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki/index.php/Ca : Nixx2004
• I tried it. It's all good! :) : Rice-Rocketeer

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  Race: wood elf Skills: marksman, sneak, security, restoration, blade, light armour + something of your... : trelain
  • If you want to "powergame" it (i.e, perfect build), you don't wan't to have all three of marksman, sneak ... : YamatoTwinkie
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  maybe: sign: the thief skills: alchemy, athletics, light armor, sneak, security, marksmanship + one... : needlez
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    I went Race: Wood Elf Sign: The Shadow Specializations: Agility and Speed Major Skills: Marksman, B... : johnny skidmarks
    • yeah, totally forgot about illusion : needlez
• From the strat guide: Pure stealth thief Female Khajiit Specalization: Stealth Class Attributes: ... : i_mon61
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  Agility is your primary marksman stat, so I'd suggest going with the Thief sign. Also, race plays a large... : Magus
  • lol I ran into a ghost with my marksman wood elf, and the only silver thing I had on me was a silver mace... : cdbeckman
• Wood Elf, Agent, Thief birth sign. : DinK

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  AFAIK that's not a bug? You left the scene before completing the combat? Clearing *all* enemies is OFT... : Downforce
  • Well, I should be able to come back and complete the quest, right? Or come back and have it reset? : crummynz
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  http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11912770 Sorry for your loss but you should have a 'hard save' more ... : Nixx2004
  • Well I'm level 8 now, so thats within your 4 levels spec... I think I level pretty slowly though. That... : crummynz
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  You could try to find the staff ID and use one of the console cheats to give it to yourself. I think p... : Beady
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    I can actually find the staff... its when I take it to the guy that he ignores me. Is there a way to f... : crummynz
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      caqs will complete all quest stages. Never used it before, but it should do the trick :p : Beady
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        What is "caqs"? : crummynz
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          Oh... complete all quest stages. Does this do all quests, or just one that I have selected? : crummynz
          • OK, looks like it completes every quest in the game. :( : crummynz
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  Bumping this in the minor hope that someone can help... : crummynz
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    the only thing i can think of would be to learn the cs =/ make a teleport to the island and have a respaw... : italiano3d
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      Well... thanks, italiano3d. Took me a bit of searching but I found the forums and registered and made a p... : crummynz
      • Update: Still stoked. WOOT : crummynz
• Had the same problem, actually thanks to a really cool battle that involved a chase over the cliff into t... : cdbeckman

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• Try getting a few invisibility/chameleon pots. : aeg1x
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  Touch of Rage, maybe? : Arcanum
  • that worked awesome and was highly entertaining! Thanks! : mankeroo
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  I just killed them all and went to jail. Got out of jail, and turned in the quest. Cost me a few points i... : Dante
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    I am trying to beat this w/o going to jail ever. : mankeroo
    • I haven't been to jail yet, even after I murdered the entire village of Hackdirt. :) It helps if you ... : Arcanum
• Paralyze. Done. : Kentor

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• I hear ya. I was thinking the same thing. Then I went into this random dungeon and found a silver war axe... : oatmela
• At your level, stay away from dungeons containing vampires, wraiths (if they even spawn for you, yet), an... : buroja

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• Have you gone into the basement of the boat and killed the big purple wraith? : helvetica
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  the reward is fucking awful anyway, but the key is on one of the ghosts i think : spdon
  • yeah i had to reload, their bodies had fallen through the cracks on the boat or something...thanks : mankeroo
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    I thought the reward was awesome, but I did it at lvl 2 heheh. : phokz
    • its strange that it doesnt scale. I did it at lvl 25 and I got something that even if it was worth 10 tim... : spdon
• Check the wraith you took care of just outside the door. It should be there, if I remember correctly. : Syixxs

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• I've been spouting this shit for months now developers need to support gamepads far far far fucking be... : abrasion
• i got that same problem with my vibrator : m4yhem
• Yes, it rumbles when you take damage etc. : nudel

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  here ya go http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11858245 : cptstern
  • That's just a savegame manager though. I want to edit the binary data in the savegame itself to change my... : DOOManiac
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  http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11906599 : NFXFSX
  • Any way to do this w/o resetting all your skill levels though? :/ : DOOManiac

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  re: security Absolutely worth it unless you get one item in the game there's a skeleton key which a : -Panther-
  • One item, or in my case, one spell :D Get your alteration skill to 75 and you can just create an "open ... : busdriver3030
  • and I should add, the quest to get this item isn't particularly hard either. : -Panther-
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  i went with atleration instead of security but i never really get to use it. i need to get some sweet unl... : spector
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    Alteration is one of the easiest skills to grind. Just make/buy a very cheap shield spell and activate i... : busdriver3030
    • do magic skills level solely based on how many spells you have cast or does the strength of the spell mat... : -Panther-
• In my opinion, hand to hand is not worth it. Use a weapon instead. : UtilityMaximizer
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  I'm playing a second character who is hand to hand now that my first (sneaky spell caster: all magic scho... : Kentor
  • Of course once that character reaches the 30+ level they'll probably be fairly similar to every other 30+ : Kentor

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  They claim the parallax mapping really helps the textures. Well that'd be something to check out. I won... : DinK
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    well he's making what were 512 textures into 2k textures heh. : italiano3d
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      I don't understand how you can start with a 512x512 texture and add more detail to it? : abrasion
      • He'd not really. It looks like he's creating entirely new textures that are similar to the old textures. : Arcanum
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  Damn. Very Nice! 10 bucks says that would make my X800 XL cry like baby jesus. : Athlon7
  • shhhhhh Bethesda might get ideas : cap n KRUNCH
• crikey! : Clay
• Ridiculous. I thought the textures were good to begin with, but I guess there is plenty of room for impro... : Commee
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  Now if only the people doing this were actual texture artists. It looks like poo. Sure, it's fairly high-... : beansniffles
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    I bet it tiles horribly also. If you saw some of those textures stretched out along a long flat area, it ... : beansniffles
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      So...you haven't actually tried them? Going "OMG this sucks!" without trying them seems a little unfair. : Arcanum
      • It's a texture. You don't really have to see it in motion. Look at this one: http://img404.imageshack... : beansniffles
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  link to mod? : cdbeckman
  • nm, I see it *hits head* : cdbeckman