I tried the first one once just to see what it was like with a character I didn't really intend on keeping. I couldn't bring myself to kill that poor sleeping old guy.
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I tried the first one once just to see what it was like with a character I didn't really intend on keeping. I couldn't bring myself to kill that poor sleeping old guy.
If you talk to him you will learn that he has done something pretty bad. How bad you don't know, but he isn't innocent.
I have only just reached a mission where people are definately innocent. An that is pretty far along.
There is one a bit earlier where people might be innocent, but they are said to have offended the contractor pretty badly.
The DB missions are the best by far... I love them! They are deep and rich, complex and pretty open.
So far, there was only one DB mission that I really didnt feel good about carrying out... I dont wanna ruin it for anyone, so I wont say what it was- but I actually had to stop and think about whether I wanted to do it or not.
The only DB mission I had problems with was the one outside Bruma, after you begin working for the Speaker directly ... the one on the small farm.
Not that I had much trouble ... you just chant the money mantra until the feeling goes away.
My money mantra goes like this.
"I'm off to loot the ayleids, to the ayleid temples I go!"
That's the one... If you talk to Target 1 it gets even worse. I haven't done it yet, preferring to look out the other targets first, but just haven' gotten around to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keba
Just got this today for my birthday, I *think* I've just finished the tutorial, I've jsut beat up some goblins and rats and met up again with the Emporer guy, then I quickly saved and had to go to dinner. So not sure if that is the end of the tut...
Well anyway I've gone for a good ol' brute force Redguard and I chose that he was "born under the sign of the warrior" w/e that does lol, but anyway I'm going for a nice big honking tank of a guy :2thumbsup:
What sort of things should I be picking up? Because I've got [blip!] loads of rat meat and pick locks atm lol. As well as a leather shield, the katanga sword from the deas guard, bow n arrows etc. Just need some tips of what to drop what to take :)
Only problem with game so far is when I first ran it I had xfire running, it first of all showed me the list of contacts online, jsut flickered up in game, did the a couple more times then minimised, then minimised a min or two later, then just CTDd, then I ran without xfire and it played fine. :idea2: Thoughts?
Oh and final thing, I'm currently running automatic settings "medium" apparently, but I'd really like to anti alias, how many FPSs will I lose if I do this? I'm already runninfg FSAutoStart which closes like 10 processes, sets Blivvy to high priority, defrags my memory etc in an attempt for more fps, in the tunnels there was no lag.
I AA in Rome but blatantly this is more of a hog than rome lol.:sweatdrop:
Not sure what to tell you for the system specs. Just that from my experience anti-aliasing doesn't look as good as just leaving it on the hdr/bloom lighting.
As far as loot goes. Pick up anything and everything with low weight, and pick and choose high weight items based on their value or your preference to whether or not you want to use them....hmm..arrows are your best friend early on, even for non archer characters. :2thumbsup: You score 40 arrows through a dungeon run and you've got 40 gold..unlike trying to sell probably 4 or 5 leather cuirasses for the same amount, and at an enormously higher cost to your weight limit.
What major skills did you pick? Or did you not pick them yet?
I've had Mr. Tibilicus giving me some tips lol.
I first of all switched to a Nord, only took 2 secs as a I had a saved game, Tib said theyre more rounded. I'm currently in anvil and in mage/fighters guilds. Tried to kill some stranger in an abandoned house to get in DB, but failed and got sent to jail lol. Where can I get some decent armour? Currently got the stuff Joffre (sp) gives you form his chest.
You need to level up a bit before you actually get a hold of anything decent. Level 10-12 will usually have you start seeing mithril in shops or dead bandits, if you use light. Dwemer armor if you use heavy. Before that, it's all leather and steel.
Ok thanks for help. I was going to just have a wander around today, not bother with quests too much. Mayabe even head to imperial city for my first taste of the arena :)
hey could anyone recommend a longish and fun quest that isn't part of the main guilds (since i've done them) and also what do people put together to get the 'best' potions for use? i'm a khajiit with dreadlocks just because i thought it looked so cool :laugh4: and i haven't done any of the main quest apart from up to finding baurus in that pub... i can't be bothered and since the side quests seem more fun i have been going for them instead
I suppose the search for the Akaviri stronghold would work ... it is the only fairly long non-guild quest I can think of now. It fires when you buy the house in Bruma (I think) ... anyway, the duchess wants you to find an Akaviri artefact. It's more of a convoluted test of finding your way around the mountains using terrain features (as a rule of thumb, I don't use the directional thingy), but the end of it is entertaining.
The sidequest that stood out the most for me was Shadow over Hackdirt. Talk to Dar-Mar in Chorrol or just explore around the town until you find a distinctly unfriendly village (Hackdirt).
I just got into the thieves guild, and while I was at it I ended up killing someone which got me into the DB :)
I want to do the DB quest, first one is to kill a guy north of Bravil or Bruma, can't remember which atm. But tib was talking about poisons and stuff to kill him, but when I try to use my poisons before it says "poison fine steel longsword" which is my current weapon. So how do you actually poison somebody?
To my knowledge you can only apply poisons to weapons and then hit people with them, the poison transfers instantly, or a spell that poisons the target. If I'm wrong, someone let me know.
Ah ok thanks mate, sorry for all the questions, but theres just so much to this :D
No problem, it's a big game, and there's a lot to learn and discover. :2thumbsup:
Once you are in the DB you can buy deadly poisoned apples - if you didnt notice the NPC's are scripted to eat once in a while and they will sit down at a table and eat the food in the bowls - place one of these apples in the bowl and the eater will die when consuming the apple - enjoy :skull:
Poision apples? Im sure some one aid take aay all the food froma characters house and jsut leave an apple. Eventually there meant to eat it and die. :P
Interesting, I didn't know about that.
I'm not a fan of the knight's quests though. The lleyawin knights order I mean. I was given the oppertunity to join, but it just seems like it's really cheesy, especially the intro quest just to get introduced to the order with the orc who thinks she's a knight.
Yeah, I did that one by mistake. Slightly reduced my evilness points a bit, I thought, and I decided I wasn't going to be no count's lame assed knight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucjan
What was really funny though was the next quest I did was the Deadra quest where you have to cast the spell to make the countess of leyawins dinner party nudist. Which, as you may know, turns all the guards in the castle hostile as soon as you cast it. As I legged it out through the hall what should I see but my orc Knight "buddy", who I had already decided was not going on any more quests with me and who was just hanging around in the castle, getting hammered by a load of castle guards as a result. Just as I made the door she went down.
Sithis would be proud of me...
What about the "Hunter's Run"?Quote:
Originally Posted by GiantMonkeyMan
Here is a pretty comprehensive list of some great mods for Oblivion.
Im running about 10 mods in total right now and the end result is, imo, a much fuller game experience. I'd definitely recommend "natural faces" and "natural environments" as they both make the game look much better. Natural faces quadruples the size of human race face textures (from 128x128 to 512x512) with not real performance hit that Ive noticed. "Generic faces" also works well with this one imo- since it lets you reset the face sliders all to 0 before making any changes. Natural environments looks very nice as well, but I do think you lose a few frames in performance due to everything it adds.
I'm also giving Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul a whirl. You can download a trailer for the mod here if you want to get an idea of what it's likebefore you try it. I havent played enough of it to form my own opinion yet- but it looks interesting.
That was a fun mission...Quote:
Originally Posted by English assassin
When I did it, I failed ther first cast and only managed to hit the countess. But since I was hidden in the shadows, she believed it was her servant (tall woman standing behind her), so she got up and began to beat her up. I mean she really gave her a hiding. The others got up at that an began to beat the countess, and duringthe confusion I cast the speel again and got the result I needed.
As I fled I saw guards chasing the countess around the castle, clearly intent on killing her. Oh yeah... I was evil and had great fun.
:2thumbsup: Hahaha, awesome way to frame the nobility.
Yeah... I could hardly believe my luck. It was so fun to hear the countess yell curses at the poor servant (she is that female advisor or something, one you would believe was trusted), and that woman's screams for help and eventual surrender (she had been beaten so badly that she yeilded).
lol, that is such an awesome story.
:dizzy2: Thats a bit of a surprise too, I can't say I've ever seen the computer yield, they usually just run away.
I didn't like it too much when I played it. The side quests were poor, some of the gameplay was redundant and stupid (persuasion minigame, anyone?), there's some graphical weirdness and laziness (the poor and disjointed display of distant terrain, door entrance/exit), only bows for ranged conventional weapons (the arrow physics weren't quite as amazing as Bethesda indicated, or sufficiently so to justify the lack of other such weapons).
However, it beats most games out there. I probably will buy it once I get a better PC. I found aimlessly wandering around to be by far the greatest gameplay experience available in the game.