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What Mod could you not play Oblivion without?
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cookies2461
, Aug 01 2010 11:10 PM
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#1
Posted 01 August 2010 - 11:10 PM
cookies2461
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Simple Question that I'm curious what others would say. Mine would be Realistic Leveling. I can't stand the Vanilla leveling system. What's yours other than customrace fix, OBSE, and Oblivion patches?
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Posted 02 August 2010 - 12:23 AM
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I guess I'd have to say lost spires. It's a whole new level of brilliance. All the lore for the towers civilisations. Then twisted plot, the amazing scenes. The connection to the characters. The deep personalities, and the clever way things work. It's just an amazing blend of everything you need in a story. Unique scenes, fantastic lore, Plot and entrigue, and truly unique characters.
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Posted 02 August 2010 - 01:35 AM
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I've got several.
Mart's Monster Mod as the primary overhaul that I use.
The Lost Spires, Gates of Aesgaard I and II, Kvatch Rebuilt, and Ruined Tail's Tale as far as major mods go.
Qarl's Texture Pack 3 - Redimized, Bomret's SI textures, UFF Clothing and Armor, and Robert's Female and Male bodies for texture or mesh enhancers.
Realistic Fatigue and a mod I made myself (Swap Broken Armor and Weapons, and Item Health Scales Enchantments) to make equipment health have more of an impact, make enchantment strength dependent on armor/weapon health, and replace broken armor or weapons during combat.
Enhanced Daedric Invasion, Knights of the White Stallion, and Lost Paladins of the Divine to complete the package.
All told, I'm 540 hours into my current character and haven't even finished the main quest yet. It's awesome.
Mart's Monster Mod as the primary overhaul that I use.
The Lost Spires, Gates of Aesgaard I and II, Kvatch Rebuilt, and Ruined Tail's Tale as far as major mods go.
Qarl's Texture Pack 3 - Redimized, Bomret's SI textures, UFF Clothing and Armor, and Robert's Female and Male bodies for texture or mesh enhancers.
Realistic Fatigue and a mod I made myself (Swap Broken Armor and Weapons, and Item Health Scales Enchantments) to make equipment health have more of an impact, make enchantment strength dependent on armor/weapon health, and replace broken armor or weapons during combat.
Enhanced Daedric Invasion, Knights of the White Stallion, and Lost Paladins of the Divine to complete the package.
All told, I'm 540 hours into my current character and haven't even finished the main quest yet. It's awesome.
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Posted 02 August 2010 - 01:40 AM
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Im in over 1250 hours (yes i have no life during the summer) and here are some :
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Assassins Creed Gear by Nexon
Assassins Creed 2 Ezios Gear Revisited
Kvatch Rebuilt
Running4covers Welkynd Armors
That ayleid weaponry one
The Welkynd sword (it started the ayleid weaponry one)
Honor of Assassins (the poses)
DMC Sylish
DLC Shivering Isles
DLC Knights of the Nine
SovVm
Akatosh Mounts
Frostcrag Reborn
to name a few.
OOO
Assassins Creed Gear by Nexon
Assassins Creed 2 Ezios Gear Revisited
Kvatch Rebuilt
Running4covers Welkynd Armors
That ayleid weaponry one
The Welkynd sword (it started the ayleid weaponry one)
Honor of Assassins (the poses)
DMC Sylish
DLC Shivering Isles
DLC Knights of the Nine
SovVm
Akatosh Mounts
Frostcrag Reborn
to name a few.
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Posted 02 August 2010 - 03:01 AM
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I can't list them off the top of my head quickly enough. The first that comes to mind is the UOP, then BC, then ULs, the AmpolX's textures, COBL, OOO, MMM, RBP, Ren's elves, Enayla's Face Textures, IFT, Fast Exit, OSR, Pluggy, Enhanced Economy, Dark UI, Atmospheric Dark UI loading screens, many of AlienSlof's mods, Progress, nGCD, SM Encumbrance & Fatigue, Harvest Flora, Detailed Terrain, Blood & Mud, SM Plugin Refurbishes, Choices & Concequences, Immersive Intervace... I do not play with many mods I do not love.
I narrowed the list down to my near essentials (missing Fast Exit, Pluggy, Elys' USV, Elys' Uncapper, Fast Exit 2)
Why play with mods you do not love? They eat away at your performance, haha...
I narrowed the list down to my near essentials (missing Fast Exit, Pluggy, Elys' USV, Elys' Uncapper, Fast Exit 2)
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Why play with mods you do not love? They eat away at your performance, haha...
#6
Posted 02 August 2010 - 08:38 AM
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Well if I have to pick just one it would be Unique Landscapes. It makes an incredible difference to the environmental variety of the game; more like real countryside, rather than a big park..
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Posted 03 August 2010 - 02:25 PM
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Alternative Start is definetely the most important mod for me, because I don't like to run through the tutorial every time I make a new character.
Edit: But if I was allowed to have just one, it would probably be Better Hand to Hand Combat.
Edit: But if I was allowed to have just one, it would probably be Better Hand to Hand Combat.
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Posted 03 August 2010 - 04:16 PM
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UOP, All Natural, COBL, IFT, Enayla's Face Textures, UFF body, UFF Daedric Tattoos, UFF Ranger Armour, many of Slof's mods, Talk With Your Hands, Look Here You, Get Wet, QTPIII, Darnified UI, Deadly Reflex, Harvest Flora/Containers, Personality Idles, Enhanced Quest Roleplaying, Fran's Leveled Creatures/Items, 300 Lore Dialogue, my PC's custom race I made (woo 
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Those are my essentials Most other mods are extra clothing, my Dremora companions, pose mods, and my Daedric homes
) Those are my essentials
Most other mods are extra clothing, my Dremora companions, pose mods, and my Daedric homes
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Posted 03 August 2010 - 10:22 PM
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Never tell me the odds!
If I had to choose just one mod, only one... wow. I think I'd go with my overhaul mod, Francesco's. It fixes so many things that I find annoying about the vanilla game. Let's assume that overhauls (Fran's, OOO, FCOM) don't count for this, though. So, aside from overhauls, the UOP, and Fast Exit...
It's still a tough choice! I'm going to say it's a toss-up between Enhanced Weather and L.A.M.E. The actual weather system I don't give a fig about; it's the darker nights that I would choose EW for. In vanilla Oblivion there seems to be very little point to nighttime since it doesn't, um, get dark. You can see just as well at night without requiring any kind of torch or light spell. That's probably my biggest pet hate if we eliminate the ones that Fran's solves.
Coming in a close second is the fact that in vanilla, your spells last about 10 seconds each, quite literally. As the readme for LAME puts it: "I'm going into a dungeon, so to prepare myself I'll cast light, shield, and ease bur... wait, why has light already ended?" It's moronic. Nearly all the magic system mods fix that problem so it doesn't matter all too much which one; I happen to like the combo of LAME and Supreme Magicka, but if I could only use one I'd pick LAME.
I'm kinda amused when people say they "couldn't play without" something like a facial texture replacer. I use those, of course, along with HGEC and TNR and other such graphical improvers, but they're just icing on an already well-decorated cake. The graphics in vanilla Oblivion are already gorgeous. My must-have mods are things that improve actual gameplay, or fix problems that I feel Bethesda ought to have addressed but didn't.
It's still a tough choice! I'm going to say it's a toss-up between Enhanced Weather and L.A.M.E. The actual weather system I don't give a fig about; it's the darker nights that I would choose EW for. In vanilla Oblivion there seems to be very little point to nighttime since it doesn't, um, get dark. You can see just as well at night without requiring any kind of torch or light spell. That's probably my biggest pet hate if we eliminate the ones that Fran's solves.
Coming in a close second is the fact that in vanilla, your spells last about 10 seconds each, quite literally. As the readme for LAME puts it: "I'm going into a dungeon, so to prepare myself I'll cast light, shield, and ease bur... wait, why has light already ended?" It's moronic. Nearly all the magic system mods fix that problem so it doesn't matter all too much which one; I happen to like the combo of LAME and Supreme Magicka, but if I could only use one I'd pick LAME.
I'm kinda amused when people say they "couldn't play without" something like a facial texture replacer. I use those, of course, along with HGEC and TNR and other such graphical improvers, but they're just icing on an already well-decorated cake. The graphics in vanilla Oblivion are already gorgeous. My must-have mods are things that improve actual gameplay, or fix problems that I feel Bethesda ought to have addressed but didn't.
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