majikmonkee Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 It's a symbolic thing like holy water. The heart doesn't beat but it presumably has control over the vampires life force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandsOfTime404 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Ahh, I see. I should take notes on this stuff haha. Already learned that the hearts don't beat (which I should've deduced by knowing they're undead, but whatever), and that the stake through the heart still kills them. We could always adopt the dreadful Twilight spin on it, though, where we have to brutally mangle them and burn the tiny bits of their miserable body. Then again, they sparkle... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WastelandAssassin Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 From a purely biological standpoint (I know, there are no real vampires, but still...) vampires are basically intelligent walking dead. In any mythology where vampires are acknowledged as undead, they generally lack a beating heart, so no respiration is occuring. Dead people don't require oxygen, and without a beating heart, even if you breathe, the air isn't doing any good, it's not being passed through your blood stream, it's just sitting in your lungs. So basically, what I'm trying to say is that vampires don't need to breathe above water, so there's no reason why being underwater should bother them... that is truethen again, i'm pretty sure that people in Oblivion don't see you as a vampirei mean, even with the creepy aging and all, you still look much more alive then an undead also, the vampires i know of (World Of Darkness vampires) have the ability to force their body to seem more human, thus requiring that they breath and allso a realistic non-breathing vampire would have been easy to spot among humans, thus you couldn't socialize at all (unless there are pro-vampire characters in Oblivion, that i don't know of :biggrin:) still, i think that this is one of many perks that could be introduced into the vampire aging system, but that would require working hard on it, and making it make sense (though there may be a vampirism overhaul that does this, not sure as i haven't tried any of them, as i just never played a vampire) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daledge Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 There's really a lot about vampires I didn't know. :rolleyes: Twilight sucks!.. :tongue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted1848331User Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 I hate playing a vampire. Whenever you want to get cured, the quest glitches/potion glitches, and then you're stuck a vampire or stuck with the vamp face :wallbash: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majikmonkee Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 I use the vile lair cure, so much easier. The vanilla cure us crap, takes so long and doesn't work without patching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandsOfTime404 Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Yeah. The Vile Lair cure is soooo much easier than the traditional way that I eeped a little the first time I discovered it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidbossVyers Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 I hate playing a vampire. Whenever you want to get cured, the quest glitches/potion glitches, and then you're stuck a vampire or stuck with the vamp face :wallbash:Mods, my friends. Mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandsOfTime404 Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 I hate playing a vampire. Whenever you want to get cured, the quest glitches/potion glitches, and then you're stuck a vampire or stuck with the vamp face :wallbash:Mods, my friends. Mods.If there's one that makes it so you never get the hideous face I'm all for it. That's really the only thing that bothers me. The rest I can live with, even the Sun Damage effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daledge Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 I absolutely hate Vampirism. :wallbash: P.S. HAPPY NEW YEAAR!!! (Not sure wher y'all are from but its just 2011 in Ireland. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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