Immortal asian chicks?!

[Freelancer604]

Ok so I got "Hentai Mania" this week, and I really love all the cool stuff it brings to the game, as well as how misleading its name is. When used with "Deadly Reflex," it makes for some AWESOME gory anime-like dungeon crawling. The mod actually got me wanting to play through instances in this game again.

 

The mod basically repopulates over two dozen vanilla instances with members of a cult. This cult happens to only recruit hot asian women who wear petite dresses and schoolgirl outfits... not that theres anything wrong with that. But anyways, the mod is intended for the user to fight through the dungeons to a boss over and over for a chance at a good boss drop and a key to one of the more difficult dungeons. Like i said before, its fun, but much more so if you can decapatate everything on your way to the boss.

 

And thats where the problem comes from.. every cultist you decap respawns in a few days like they should.. but I cant HIT them. They can hit me just fine, but my sword and spells pass right through them... and my companions just stand still like im disturbed and fighting illusions something.

 

Getting past these "ghosts" is a pain, since i can only hit them with shield bash and it takes forever. The ones I kill normally without ciritcals spawn probperly and can be hit.

 

Anyone have a fix for this?

[Raestloz]

Fix :

Get a freakin' Silver Dagger

 

have you ever actually fought a wraith?

 

The name is not as misleading as it looks. All of those armors belong to Hentai, and the only one who'll actually go dungeon crawling for those armors are Hentai fans, or an unknowing curious cat

[Freelancer604]

No, they arnt "ghosts" like they have in the game.. they are respawns of the same thing, but bugged so that you cant hit them. With silver, spells, or anything at all.

[Sarya]

The problem seems to be more DR5 bug than HM. I can't offer you much theory here, but at least there are some ways to deal with it. It seems to happen mostly when opponents you killed through DR respawn.

 

First - avoid decapitating and the like. Shieldbash those already affected. Mostly fixes this and you can kill them again, though often it takes a real lot of hits and it's often dreadfully annoying to chase down witches to bash them. Some scripted ways to kill help, like a couple of vampire feeding spells from vampire overhauls. Also reflect damage/magic is quite useful, though those little witches can't be killed that way as they are immune to their magic damage type, hit you with physical attacks rarely and heal.

 

Also note, that affected opponents apparently can't summon. That can work as both a clue to their state, and some safety from their pets.

 

There's also a popular advice to change back to DR4 or disable it whatsoever, but it's not that troublesome, actually, at least when you already can defend yourself from them well.

[Freelancer604]

Thanks for the tips Sarya.

 

Is there a console command to reload the whole mod ingame or something?

 

The only true fix for this problem I found, (without having to make every bugged enemy duck to be attackable again) is to disable hentai mania, save, re-enable mod, then load he clean save. That brings all the witches and whatever back to normal.. but also DELETES all the loot id ever picked up in those instances.. which is even worse.

 

EDIT: I see lots of vids on youtube of ppl running this mod with DR5, and they are running the elite dugeons and decapping every single thing they see..

 

If theyd gotten that far that must mean theres a way!

[Sarya]

I actually heard that the same works with disabling DR5 and enabling back instead, though I didn't try it. And those people probably use older version.

[MichikoUnknownFox]

Make sure you're running the fix version of DR5 too, and that it loads near the end (if not dead last) in your load order. There was a problem with DR5 before the fix where decapitations in particular would cause weird bugs, one of which I've experienced would be the NPC respawning with two heads (one floating nearby), and sometimes becoming unhittable just like you described. I haven't noticed any such bugs anymore since I patched it with the hotfix.

 

Decapitating everything may be fun, but considering lowering the chances of decapitations and critical hits, just to play it safe and avoid bugs. Deadly Reflex is bound to have bugs, not just because of the complexity of Deadly Reflex itself, but limitations with Oblivion itself (as even a vanilla game with no mods or even mods that are just supposed to improve performance, remove bugs and reduce crashes can still have bugs and crash quite often). You might kill 100 NPCs in a dungeon only to realize that when you return to it that you can't kill them anymore.

 

Hope this helps.

[Freelancer604]

Hmm I applied the fix.

 

It seems to have fixed the problem with decapatating guards and essential npcs..... by making them impossible to decapatate or cut in half.

 

But the Hentai Mania mobs still get screwed up lol.

[MichikoUnknownFox]

Try clean saving then reinstalling the Hentai Mania mod. Make a back-up save too in case it doesn't fix anything, cuz you'll lose all your progress with the dungeons.