Anybody here turn the difficulty up?

[spinksy]

Just a quick question - anyone here play Oblivion with the difficulty turned up?

 

I turned it up very slightly when playing on the xbox (i litterally mean a tiny tiny bit) and now i'm about to start a new game on my new pc with loads of mods on - i'm thinking i'd like the game to be quite abit harder so i'm going to whack the difficulty up to 3/4's of the way :teehee:

[Yamcakes]

I like turning the difficulty up to the max. I like to have long, epic fights. Unfortunately, for me to survive them I also have to turn on godmode. :'P

[LFact]

And at level 100(only with jail exploit or console command....) with max difficulty, you may find vanilla weapons are almost useless against goblin warlords...

[ArmeniusLOD]

On X360 I played at around 70%. With FCOM, though, I am playing at around 35% because of the fixed spawn rates. I just started out, though, only at level 3 right now. Probably going to go back to 50% soon.

[BFG99]

I always move the difficulty up 1 notch every time I level up. It works out pretty well because when I hit the maximum level of 51 (without using jail time or other such tricks), I also hit the maximum difficulty.

 

It can be quite a challenge. I have a full set of Perfect Madness Armor enchanted to 100% Resist Magic, the best version of the Escutcheon of Chorrol, a Ring of Vitality, a Necklace of Swords, and a custome enchanted longsword that doubles the damage it does with each hit...and I STILL find some battles to be tough.

[spinksy]

I always move the difficulty up 1 notch every time I level up. It works out pretty well because when I hit the maximum level of 51 (without using jail time or other such tricks), I also hit the maximum difficulty.

 

It can be quite a challenge. I have a full set of Perfect Madness Armor enchanted to 100% Resist Magic, the best version of the Escutcheon of Chorrol, a Ring of Vitality, a Necklace of Swords, and a custome enchanted longsword that doubles the damage it does with each hit...and I STILL find some battles to be tough.

 

 

thats actually a great idea - i might do that! :thumbsup:

[Selius]

the last time i maxed out the difficulty an imp one shotted me with fireball.

 

so that didnt last long.

[Ferryt]

I play the game at default difficulty and even then it's sometimes too difficult because my computer really wasn't designed to handle the load that Oblivion puts on it. Try fighting a enemy of roughly equal capability as your character when your fps is around 5 and you'll see what I mean, and there are places in the game where it turns into a slideshow for me. Maybe when I get a better computer I'll nudge the slider up every time I level up and see how that works. That's a great idea, BFG99.

 

What I won't do, though, is cheat (with Godmode or weapons/armor that are essentially cheat items) or turn the difficulty down from default, even if this means having to wade through some scenarios several times before I get it right.

[Chappi55]

I play at 25% of the difficulty. Maximum 50% when I feel tough. 100% is madness.

[iamsaige]

I turned it up the other day to see how hard it can get with a extended FCOM setup. It wasn't that it was harder, it just took forever to kill things... so yeah I think 50% is a good balance, at least for me.