What mods and why

[Doctor RAGE]

Hi everybody, i'm new here and i was looking at the oblivion nexus for mods for when i get the game for my new pc

what i wanted to know is what mods do people on the forum think i should download first?

i've looked at the top 100, but what do you people like? and please say why i should download them.

 

thanks :thanks:

(i have played this game lots before and i know how to install some mods on games aswell)

[ptbptb]

Hi everybody, i'm new here and i was looking at the oblivion nexus for mods for when i get the game for my new pc

what i wanted to know is what mods do people on the forum think i should download first?

i've looked at the top 100, but what do you people like? and please say why i should download them.

 

First utilities:

 

Oblivion mod manager

Oblivion Script Extender (OBSE)

Better Oblivion Sorting Software (BOSS)

Fast Exit

Windom Earle's Oblivion Crash Prevention System

Game Booster

 

Second bug-fixes:

 

Unofficial Oblivion Patch

Unofficial Oblivion Patch Hotfix v323a

Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch

Unofficial Official Mods Patch

 

Third performance enhancers (not Viagra):

 

Operation Optimization

LowPoly Grass

Short Grass V3

 

You may be OK without them if you have a nice graphics card (= 512MB or 1GB graphic memory)

 

Fourth basic useful mods:

 

SM Plugin Refurbish

Robert's female bodies compendium

Robert's Male Body v5 Beta

Vanity Camera Smoother

Birthsigns Expanded

Super Hotkeys

Map Marker Overhaul

Bag of Holding

BTmod

MiniMap - HUD Element

 

Your mileage may vary on these.

 

Fifth stuff that's nice, but not essential:

 

Slof's Oblivion Better Beasts

Slof's Khajiit Retexture

Khajiit Auto Night-Eye

Less Predictable Respawn

Crowded Roads Revisited

Stylish Jump - Animation Replacer

Brandon's Misc Rebalance

Better Imperfect Water

NF's Kvatch Guard Tweak

Mr_Siika's farm animals

Cover Yourself

Thievery in the Imperial City

See You Sleep

Oblivion Sound Sets

All +5 Attribute Modifiers

Stealth Overhaul

SmarterTimescale

Hurt Me Traps and Hurt Me Bad Traps

Sensual Walks for Female NPCs

Loading Screens Themed Replacer

Loading Screens Themed AddOn

 

Check out the above and see if any suit you.

 

IMPORTANT INSTALLATION NOTES

Make sure you have the latest official version of Oblivion (1.2.0416)

Don't install them all at once (you can probably do the utilities and bug fixes at once but should leave a while between the rest to check for crashes and see whether you like them).

If you use Operation Optimization you should probably install it as the very first mod (before the bug fixes).

[Megatarius]

1. OOO. Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul. The changes will not be that noticeable at first, but trust me, they're there, and they're awesome.

 

Or you could get FCOM, which is a combination of Francesco's Leveled Creatures and Items, OOO, Martigen's Monster Mod, and War Cry. I just use OOO.

 

 

2. 3rd Person Animations in 1st Person View. You'll know how stupid Oblivion's 1st Person is if you grew up on games like Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. Yes, it's true. Old games from the 90's totally spank Oblivion's 1st Person.

 

You could also get Immersive First Person, but it's a bit too buggy for my taste. If you have an Nvidia card, expect Black Screen City. It is cool though.

 

 

3. Better Music System. The music in this game is awesome. But it was programmed terribly. This fixes it, and allows for music in other locations as well, such as, oh, I don't know, the actual Oblivion Realm!

 

Side777 was kind enough to point me towards a version not on this site that's upgraded. It might be on Planet Elder Scrolls. Google Better Music System perhaps? It's out there. You can disable battle music entirely!!!!! As well as have music tracks for a lot more stuff, including the f-ing Oblivion Realms, the namesake of the game!

 

 

4. Deadly Reflex. Chopping off heads, hands, more combat moves, it actually makes fighting fun!!!

 

I had to stop using it because it constantly resets my .ini file. Nobody can or wants to help me with this problem, so I had to stop using it.

 

It also conflicts with 3rd Person Animation in 1st Person View because the new skeleton in that mods bugs when you do a certain move. You'll have to make a choice. I made mine and never really looked back, too much.

 

 

5. Unnecessary Violence. Isn't supposed to work with Deadly Reflex but it can if you tweak it enough. I don't know how, but I know people on here have done it.

 

It also might conflict with 3rd Person Animation in 1st Person View. I haven't tried it because of that.

 

 

6. Supreme Magicka. Fire, Ice, and Lightening actually do more than just damage with fancy graphics. Telekenisis isn't stupid. A host of other changes.

 

There might be a bug that causes your character to flash pick and play a sound effect every few seconds. I don't know why it's happening to me yet, but as usual, I run into problems nobody else has, so you probably don't have to worry about it. :thumbsup:

 

(It was Reneer's Corpse Mod.)

 

 

7. Midas Magic. All new spells that don't affect the regular ones.

 

Not to mention a bad-ass hood in Midas' upstairs closet that contains a black mesh over your face so your face is hidden. Very nice looking.

 

 

8. Better Cities. The cities are just as empty, yes, but damn if they don't actually look good now!

 

You can also get Crowded Cities to make things actually feel real, but be careful because it can slow down your FPS really bad. There's also Crowded Roads.

 

 

9. Arrive by Ship. It's a quick way to start off the game if you're sick of the tutorial dungeon. Play the real start first though.

 

 

10. Hoarfrost Castle. Very nice mod with a new home, a downright bad-ass Lovecraftian dungeon quest to obtain it, and other quests to improve it, including the ability to generate funds from it, GTA style.

 

 

11. A Bloody Mess. It's simple. You get covered in blood. It even lowers your personality until you wash it off.

 

A few problems:

A few alpha channel issues with some of the blood on your hair having white blocks around it sometimes.

You appear a little too white in fog if there's any blood on you.

It's only on you, not other characters.

Lowered personality rating WILL bug out your mercantile skill if you try to buy anything bloody.

It might bug out in the Oblivion Realm and disappear, but it's technically still on you, so you better wash up anyway before buying anything.

If it disappears, you might just want to save a new file, exit, uncheck all the esp's and esm's of it, load again, save, exit, and recheck them. Should be fine then.

 

Small prices to pay, all of them. Trust me.

 

 

12. Body Replacers. I use Robert's Male and Female replacers, nude versions for both sexes. It really depends on the kinds of things you want to wear. Robert's bodies are UV-Mapped differently than the two popular HGEC and Exnem Eye Candy bodies. Some things will look really strange if not meant for Robert's. If you don't care, then I say Robert's still, because it's just a better modeled and textured human form. Once again, a fan is more talented than the paid "professional".

 

 

13. Oblivion Mod Manager (OBMM) so you can set your load order. Very important sometimes. Oblivion Script Extender (OBSE) is also required for a lot of these mods.

 

There's also Wrye Bash, which I'm not very familiar with really, but it does have the ability to copy a character face from one save game to another, which is very useful if you want to restart.

[Doctor RAGE]

wow those look fantastic, i'll download all of those for it

also off topic, i'm seeing the words "vanilla Oblivion" on here alot.. what does that mean

vanilla as in.. plain?.. just Oblivion with no DLC?

[Coenraad]

I use some mods to make the females look better.

I use HGEC's version of Exnems full female eyecandy body. And i have the Eyecandy pack, wich adds a store in The iperial city, where they selel all the gear and weapons in that pack (it's 50 mods combined). Also use some Hentai stuff with the HGEC body.

And i use ITV's high ressolution face textures, wich makes the faces look a whole lot better.

I like the Eyecandy/Esnem/HGEC stuff better then the Robert stuff, simply due to the fact that there is more available.

[Doctor RAGE]

1. OOO. Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul

Or you could get FCOM

2. 3rd Person Animations

3. Better Music System

4. Deadly Reflex

5. Unnecessary Violence

6. Supreme Magicka

(It was Reneer's Corpse Mod

7. Midas Magic.

8. Better CitiesCrowded Cities

9. Arrive by Ship

10. Hoarfrost CastleA Bloody Mess

12. Body Replacers

13. Oblivion Mod Manager (OBMM)

Oblivion Script Extender (OBSE)

Wrye Bash

 

i've seen a few of them allready and they all look badass

can you post links? :thumbsup:

[ptbptb]

i'm seeing the words "vanilla Oblivion" on here alot.. what does that mean

vanilla as in.. plain?.. just Oblivion with no DLC?

 

Pretty much. Not 'no DLC' so much as 'no mods'.

[Doctor RAGE]

Pretty much. Not 'no DLC' so much as 'no mods'.

 

oh good, cos i thought it was some master mod that no one ever talks about and is a closely guarded secret :sweat:

[Megatarius]

OOO

http://www.oscurogamedesign.com/down-game-ooo-high.html

 

FCOM

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=12249

 

3rd Person Animations in 1st Person View

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=18617

 

Immersive First Person

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=20891

 

Better Music System

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=26892

 

Deadly Reflex

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8273

 

Unnecessary Violence

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=24936

 

Supreme Magicka

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=12466

 

Midas Magic

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=9562

 

Better Cities

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16513

 

Crowded Cities

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6665

 

Crowded Roads

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=20575

 

Alternate Starts

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View...tail&id=822

 

Hoarfrost Castle

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=14714

 

A Bloody Mess

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11182

 

Roberts Male and Female

Male http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=25365

Female http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=15624

 

Oblivion Mod Manager (OBMM)

http://timeslip.chorrol.com/obmm_download.html

 

Oblivion Script Extender (OBSE)

http://obse.silverlock.org/

 

Wrye Bash

http://www.wryemusings.com/

[Jenrai]

5. Unnecessary Violence. Isn't supposed to work with Deadly Reflex but it can if you tweak it enough. I don't know how, but I know people on here have done it.

 

It also might conflict with 3rd Person Animation in 1st Person View. I haven't tried it because of that.

 

Actually, it IS supposed to work with DR... but UV is still in release B1, and therefore isn't perfect. I love this mod... and as a little bit of a script writer myself (not quite in Hex's league, I'd be the first to admit that) I appreciate the amount of planning, thought, testing and general work that must have gone into this so far, and I'm awaiting the next release with heavily baited breath. As I am the next release of DR (come back horse combat! :) )

Other than that I agree with much of the above. One word of warning about the crash prevention system - as great as it is (and it is) if you have more than a couple of warnings in a few minutes, save and quit, then reload... yes it prevents crashes, but it breaks other things to do so, and can seriously bug your game. I've not seen any broken saves from it yet, and like I said, it really works, but just bare that in mind.

 

~Jenrai~