Deleted2156094User Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 I've had this problem for a LONG time now, and it pisses me off. Whenever I kill living creatures, hostile or non-hostile, I'm never able to loot all the arrows back. Say I take 15 shots to kill a zombie. I can at most, retrieve only 5 arrows. And once I leave that loot menu, ALL the arrows disappear. I hate to keep going back to the store to buy arrows just for this purpose. I mean, HOW can you not pick up arrows after shoting them into a dead rat?! It's almost as stupid-sounding as being unable to pick up a freaking plant. That's why I have that 100% to extract ingredients mod. I'm not using any mods which change bows in any way, and even playing it vanilla, I still get that problem. If you need any more info, just tell me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WastelandAssassin Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 it's like this in the normal game, and it makes perfect sense basically, if you fight against someone with a shield, and you are using a giant hammer, it makes sense that after some successful hits, you will break his shieldall items are breakable in Oblivion (at least all armors and weapons), and arrows are the same for this matterif you think about archery with old style bows and arrows (non of the high tech bows and arrows of today), arrows would sometimes break when hitting the target, or while being extracted from a corpse also, when you loot a corpse of it's arrows, all the arrows that you see sticking out of it will disappearit's another part of the game itself as for plants, it's actually not stupid at allthink like you have to precisely cut a tiny part of a flower, without ruining itit's really not as easy as it sounds, especially since you don't have surgical equipment (i mean, you knives aren't exactly small.......) so, both of these things are like this in the original game, and i think that these are great immersion functions, as both makes senseyou may disagree with me on this, but it's just how the game works (at least you know that it's not because of a mod conflict or anything) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted2156094User Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 While I agree on the part with arrows being able to break, I also don't get how you can't actually loot them in general. If I were to pick up broken equipment from dead people, they'd be broken, but I could at least repair them. But I can't really argue with the way the game works... So that's all solved, but I still feel the need to nitpick about the plants bit. Plants are mostly for alchemical purposes. If you're going to use them for alchemy, why do you have to worry about failing to cut a bit of a plant? If you just need the seeds of a plant, I can understand. But if I need a whole plant, I don't have to worry about things like that... Well, I guess I can live with that, now that I have the mod. Thanks for your help. That's cleared out the confusion for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WastelandAssassin Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 i'm glad i was able to help and i get the need to nitpick, i feel the same need from time to time, but i guess i'm usually considering what logic may be behind the problematic part, and when i can't find any logic (and this happens from time to time), i just feel better, so i don't actually nitpick (not aloud, that is) so yeah, things don't always make sensebut then again, we have a game based around a gates to a plane of some sort of freaky hell, with some weird dinosaur malfunctions of creatures in itso i'm sure that we can forgive some minor lacks of realism :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hickory Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 I've had this problem for a LONG time now, and it pisses me off. Whenever I kill living creatures, hostile or non-hostile, I'm never able to loot all the arrows back. Say I take 15 shots to kill a zombie. I can at most, retrieve only 5 arrows. And once I leave that loot menu, ALL the arrows disappear. I hate to keep going back to the store to buy arrows just for this purpose. I mean, HOW can you not pick up arrows after shoting them into a dead rat?! It's almost as stupid-sounding as being unable to pick up a freaking plant. That's why I have that 100% to extract ingredients mod. I'm not using any mods which change bows in any way, and even playing it vanilla, I still get that problem. If you need any more info, just tell me You don't need a mod to set the percentage of harvesting or recovery of arrows. You can do it (set what percentage you want) with your Bashed Patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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