The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Originally Posted by Gechmir

How do you join the Blades?! =OOO I wanna do it. I'm in the middle of Dark Brotherhood missions. God are there a lot.

Well when I took

Spoiler:

The Emperor's son to the Cloud Temple, you had the option of Joining the Blades at that time, IIRC. It might have been after a couple more missions, but it was fairly early in the game.

The only downside to the GREAT equipment that you can recieve from there is that its not sellable, meaning a Gold Value of 0... but those Akivari swords sure do thier job well!

Alright, well now I'll see if I can join the thieve's guild and see what happens.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Ok I have a problem, I asked on other boards, but no one responded. If someone coudl try exactly what I did and see what happens I would appreciate it.

Basically I am in Chorral. I pickpocketed a key from FIRE AND STEEL, her name is rasheda. So I could get into her place at night and steal shit while she is asleep. Also I did the same thing for the locked doors in the Chorral Chapel.

However, the problem is when the door is locked at night at FIRE AND STEEL, it wont open. ANd i have the key on me. It says RASHEDAS key. Also I have the key for locked Chapel Undercroft that I stole of the main church head and those doors dont open. WTF is going on. And what is the point of pickpocketing keys if they dont work.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I have a question as well.

You can't get daedric armor until you are level 20+. Supposedly, when you get higher levels, items in caves, dungeons, etc all get better.

So does that mean if you loot a bunch of caves on level 5 and get iron armor and stuff, that you'll miss out on daedric armor when you turn level 20+?

Does it work that way? Something about that sounds off, so I'm thinking that can't be right, but I'm not sure.

I don't want to loot any caves yet knowing that if I wait until level 20+ I could loot much better items.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

This is going to sound really retarded, but how do you just stuff? Like say you accidentally stole from someone, and you want to drop it. Or say you want to put your sword on display or something.

FELIPE NO

just drop stuff? Don' know what you are playing on, but just press x in the inverntory to drop or hit the left shoulder button to hold it out in front of your face and then you can move it around like that. However, with the physics in this game, I have a hard time standing things up or not knocking other stuff over when moving something.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by DragoonKain

I have a question as well.

You can't get daedric armor until you are level 20+. Supposedly, when you get higher levels, items in caves, dungeons, etc all get better.

So does that mean if you loot a bunch of caves on level 5 and get iron armor and stuff, that you'll miss out on daedric armor when you turn level 20+?

Does it work that way? Something about that sounds off, so I'm thinking that can't be right, but I'm not sure.

I don't want to loot any caves yet knowing that if I wait until level 20+ I could loot much better items.

I'm just speculating here, but since plants grow back their contents in a couple months, my guess is that dungeons get re-inhabited and refitted with loot after some time.

EDIT: Yeah, this is the case. I revisited a camp and found a new, higher level mob and some loot.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah, Bethesda already said all dungeons and bandits and such respawn. Have fun killing pretty much whatever you want, since guards/bandits/etc are infinite and so is loot.

I do hope they get a patch out sometime, though... this game dips pretty bad and I have a pretty good idea of why it does it. I imagine in a week or so there will be a patch to fix the issue so FPS might stay a little more consistant. Tired of looking one way and having an NPC walk by and my FPS drop from 60 to 35 or some crap like that. Terribly annoying.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

So, what class have you guys been playing with?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Lukage

There's a few confirmed exploits, one where you can pick up 8g off a body over and over and over...and another regarding stealing from stores in broad daylight.

Then there are of course cheats. Just play it through legit first before you cheatzors.

Aww c'mon abusing bugs was freaking fun on the last version. And yes I play legitly, but only abuses bugs when I am bored.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Trigunnerz

This is going to sound really retarded, but how do you just stuff? Like say you accidentally stole from someone, and you want to drop it. Or say you want to put your sword on display or something.

Using 'Z'.

How ya doing, buddy?

I bought this game yesterday and payed an insane amount of money for it(60USD). Now I only hope my Geforce FX 440 can support this game's graphics, and my P4 is 2.53ghz >_>.

I don't know what class I want to be. In morrowind I was a mage, and then I restarted and played thief alittle. I might try making a custom class. It will cool to be face to face with

Spoiler:

Uriel Septim VII.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Winter Storm

I bought this game yesterday and payed an insane amount of money for it(60USD). Now I only hope my Geforce FX 440 can support this game's graphics, and my P4 is 2.53ghz >_>.

I don't know what class I want to be. In morrowind I was a mage, and then I restarted and played thief alittle. I might try making a custom class. It will cool to be face to face with

Spoiler:

Uriel Septim VII.

If you spent time reading the requirements, you would find out the card is supported >.>

FELIPE NO

Well yea I read that it said FX series but you know my card is old as hell. :P

Longest install ever~

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Forsety

I do hope they get a patch out sometime, though... this game dips pretty bad and I have a pretty good idea of why it does it. I imagine in a week or so there will be a patch to fix the issue so FPS might stay a little more consistant. Tired of looking one way and having an NPC walk by and my FPS drop from 60 to 35 or some crap like that. Terribly annoying.

How is that even noticable?

Try being on my system, where it drops from 22 fps to 6 fps if there's a few goblins and warriors onscreen.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Winter Storm

Well yea I read that it said FX series but you know my card is old as hell. :P

Longest install ever~

Ever install WoW? THAT's the longest install ever.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Installed everything, updated my drivers for my card, and you know what? "Oblivion has encountered an error and needs to be closed".

Time to go poke around and see what's wrong.

Well here's my problem. I can't read XD. My card is Geforce4 MX 440 with AGP8X - 64MB. Aka unsupported whee time to buy new one monday.

How ya doing, buddy?

After Dark Brotherhood Quests (ending of them):

NOOOO!!! ;___;
WHY DID LUCIEN HAVE TO DIE?! My favorite character in the game thus far, bar none. When I headed to the farmhouse and found him strung up and slaughtered like a pig, I was really upset... Damn it all >__< Might go back someday and wipe out the whole Dark Brotherhood. Or at least my assistant. Damn broad was happy about killing him...

Where can you buy lockpicks? Only a few NPCs held them that I recall (merchant for Dark Brotherhood). Any others? I really need some >_>;

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

So no one can help me huh? Yah right -_-

I was speaking idiomatically.

Just a guess BZ, but what actually makes the doors unlockable might be an event you unlock which opens the door.

Like them giving you their key or allowing you access to their house.

I'm not sure though.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by JUST DECLARED WAR

For store investments I think you need to be journeyman in mercantile.

You need Expert, not Journeyman.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by JazzFlight

How is that even noticable?

Try being on my system, where it drops from 22 fps to 6 fps if there's a few goblins and warriors onscreen.

When your frame rate drops by half you feel a stutter. I know 35 isn't a bad FPS when it's consistant but dropping from 60 to 30~35 over and over is.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I'm finally playing the game and I'm at the point where I get to choose my class. I chose my birthsign as the Thief. In hindsight I'm thinking that might not have been such a great idea . . . I'm a dark elf and plan to go your a sword fighter that backs up his martial prowess with magic. So far I was thinking of making the following skills major:

Alchemy
Alteration
Blade
Destruction
Illusion
Marksman
Restoration

Also. why do I have five kajillion FFDshow audio decoders open in my system tray while Oblivion is running?

Is their a command to display FPS?

Is there a way to change your appearance after starting the game? I just downloaded some new eye mods and I really want to change my Dark Elf's eyes.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Wow this game is so amazing! and I thought that I couldn't really enjoy the graphic, but i'm happy that I can run it with evrything at max with 2xAA (except HDR which my video card don't support)

now I just finish the crypt(sp?) just after the sewer, my frame rate is good well for me it's good ^^ there some time that there a little freeze here and there but nothing really to bother... even in outdoor it still ok. I'll just wait till i'm in a city to see how it goes and i'll ajust the setting with that ^^

but wow very fun game (but the character are really ugly >.>)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

This game is so freaking amazing, it has more than exceeded my expectations already. After playing about 17 hours in the last three days it has really grown on me. I really like how Bethesda has enhanced the character growth system and added benefits for having your various skills at a certain level as it adds so much more depth to training your character. I also really like the ability to add poison to your weapons. Granted it is only good for one strike, but if used strategically (like apply a paralysis potion to your sword) it will give you a major advantage over foes stronger than you, especially when you combine it with the 2x or 4x sneak bonus.

There is only one thing that annoys me however, the fact that invisible NPCs/enemies and certain types of magic animation (Alteration I think) will bring my FPS to 0. I don't know if its just a memory leak or if they use some really GPU intensive method to do both of that, but it has prevented me from attempting one quest so far (Allswell). Everything else though runs at a very smooth 30-40 fps, even when I’m in a bit town or fighting multiple people (like a necromancer and his undead minions.)

Most amazing jew boots

Is it true the enemies level up with you as you level? Because I've noticed no matter what level I am against enemies they're just as strong.

Which has me worried because that would mean I should get the game over with before I'm too high. Otherwise I'll get my ass handed to me.

How ya doing, buddy?