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by Vook
Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:40 am
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: vampire face bug question
Replies: 5
Views: 1974

AFAIR it was in 'glitches' and the fix was save-quit-start-load.
by Vook
Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:39 am
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: Bodies under the bridge
Replies: 6
Views: 2324

http://i11.tinypic.com/35lgojl.jpg

The bridge failed to load and you're presented with the simplified LOD image instead - and it's not material, you fall through it.

It was funny as I was riding the horse with seriously fortified speed (as usually), barely fitting in the road turn before Weye ...
by Vook
Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:39 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: Enchanted items
Replies: 7
Views: 2170

You "bump" a thread by posting to it anything, say, the word "bump" and it brings it back to the top of the list of threads. You can do this if you didn't get an answer to your question or something like that, and the thread is falling off the first page. This way you bring your thread back into ...
by Vook
Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:50 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: King of Miscarcand in ANVIL!!!
Replies: 3
Views: 1227

If you didn't kill him at first, well, poor tormented soul follows you all over the Tamriel and tries to catch up with you wherever you go. Feel lucky he didn't appear somewhere up the White Tower, or somewhere in Oblivion or such. :)

Put him to well deserved rest, or keep tormenting him and say ...
by Vook
Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:46 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: Enchanted items
Replies: 7
Views: 2170

You can't unenchant items. Just discard/sell them and get new ones.
There are tricks to delete spells by editing some .ini file but there is no plain in-game way to delete them. If you really really hate living with them I may look it up for you.
by Vook
Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:22 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: Namira Shrine
Replies: 7
Views: 1800

If you don't want to cheat, remember you can use healing spells on allies and enemies equally without changing their stance. Just load, try again, heal the attackers as they fight.
by Vook
Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:11 am
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: Kvatch gate - can't beat it - help requested
Replies: 19
Views: 4473

Exactly.
You can play a great thief quite carelessly if you picked, say, barbarian as your class. Or a battlemage. Or a wizard. NOT a thief/assassin/agent.
by Vook
Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:19 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: Kvatch gate - can't beat it - help requested
Replies: 19
Views: 4473

Re: Thief not deadly? Hmm?

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974 Damage!

And I'm only level 20! I love my bow.
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I bet you were getting 5/5/1 or 5/5/5 efficient levelling with all these 20 levels. What if you were gaining 2/2/1 or 2/2/2? And you were carefully avoiding overlevelling? Taking care to gain at least 30 skill points per level? And got ...
by Vook
Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:44 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: plot question: how did beating Merunes help?
Replies: 3
Views: 1377

I understood it differently. The amulet, the emperor, the dragonfires were a seal of union between Alessia and Akatosh, a thin barrier between the worlds of humans and daedra maintained by Akatosh [ ref ] so that Daedra wouldn't invade but humans could tap into Daedra powers.

With summoning Akatosh ...
by Vook
Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:31 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: Kvatch gate - can't beat it - help requested
Replies: 19
Views: 4473

Maybe it's your deceptive genius, maybe not... I know what I went through playing the game for the first time, when I overlevelled with stealth-based skills to level 15 or so. I'm certainly sour about these events and long period of pleasant (and difficult) gameplay didn't change that.

The problem ...
by Vook
Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:23 am
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: Kvatch gate - can't beat it - help requested
Replies: 19
Views: 4473

Sure if you decide to play as a fighter or a mage or a battlemage, you can get far with plain normal levelling. If you try a thief, assassin, agent, or one of dozen other such professions, you soon find out you're screwed.
by Vook
Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:06 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: How many levels?
Replies: 14
Views: 3821

Actually level IS bad when high. Just not as bad as around 10-20. The The good loot is useless as you have about the best equipment you can and more of the same stuff doesn't help, the enemies get harder though remain beatable, and generally there is no purpose playing more - in Final Fantasy 7 you ...
by Vook
Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:00 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: wtf?
Replies: 13
Views: 3593

the latter. I stand next to the container, pick everything up, make the potions without moving, dump whatever leftover ingredients and alchemy equipment I have into the container, drop most of personal weaponry and armour, cast feather spells and go sell enough to be able to walk on my own again ...
by Vook
Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:55 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: Kvatch gate - can't beat it - help requested
Replies: 19
Views: 4473

Gaining levels was about the worst you could do :)
Read up on "efficient levelling" to see what you lost. Then pull the slider or start from scratch.

("difficulty" slider in options)
by Vook
Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:47 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: Skingrad castle crash
Replies: 2
Views: 2459

re-enable specular lighting in the .ini :)
by Vook
Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:03 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: wtf?
Replies: 13
Views: 3593

Sure I do train some heavy armour, block and armourer, have some iron armour just for that, but honestly, I don't care and my max HP isn't all that high. A job of alchemist means I can always quaff 2-4 restore health potions (10pts for 20s each?) and start exchanging blows with the enemy. No power ...
by Vook
Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:52 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: How many levels?
Replies: 14
Views: 3821

Yep, except highest threshold of levelled items is 40 or so. by 30 or so you can max out all your attributes exccept of luck. By 42 you can max out all attributes including luck. Before 52 you have all your skills maxed out. The random loot doesn't get better, the only parameter rising is health ...
by Vook
Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:14 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: wtf?
Replies: 13
Views: 3593

you don't need lots of -different- ingredients :) Just 2 kinds.

Though more may cause more lag - I'm not sure, my alchemy sessions are always HUGE. I gather lots of ingredients, when I pick them all up, my encumberance goes to like 2500, then after creating the basic essentials (like another 200 ...
by Vook
Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:53 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: How many levels?
Replies: 14
Views: 3821

jeff wrote:There is one benifit, as you gain more health with each level.
What for?
I meant "real benefit", not higher numbers ;)
by Vook
Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:51 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: Spell Absorption
Replies: 12
Views: 3334

Nope. Spell absorbtion absorbs magicka from spells from external sources. A spell "on self" won't work, but summon a ghost, punch it and make it attack you with spells and it will work.
I think it's capped at 85% but I'm not sure.
by Vook
Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:01 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: How many levels?
Replies: 14
Views: 3821

yep, jail can theoretically do this. Practically there's no profit whatsoever.
by Vook
Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:58 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: wtf?
Replies: 13
Views: 3593

Nope. I managed to produce other potions with wrong names this way though. If I produce lots of potion that takes 3 or more ingredients, say restore health and fatigue and it's to be called "restore health+', and I run out of an ingredient that gives the restore health effect, one of the resulting ...
by Vook
Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:55 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: wtf?
Replies: 13
Views: 3593

Not only I can sell it, I made it from thin air :) I had like 60 tomatos, 60 grapes and made 60 restore fatigue potions, plus this one :)
by Vook
Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:52 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: 360 Oblivion Download Problem, Input Wanted...
Replies: 1
Views: 1673

Anti-piracy protection I guess. If you took your whole xbox, it might have worked. Thank over-zealous intelectual property rights activists at Microsoft.
by Vook
Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:20 pm
Forum: Oblivion
Topic: wtf?
Replies: 13
Views: 3593

I have a potion called "Name Potion". Created when I ran out of ingredients but was making potions very fast. It has no effects listed, no effect if used (just vanishes), it weights 0.1 and is worth 37 gold.