Unoffical Patches Game Balance

[jannimanni]

Hello all,

 

due to a rather stupid fail i lost my savegames. I also had to reinstall the game from Steam an applied the Unoffical Patches (Oblivion, SI, Mods) for the first time. I installed nothing else.

 

Now the game feels somehow easier than before, i just completed the Siege of Kvatch (now lvl 6). Is this just a wrong impression? Or does the patch change the game balance as well? Of course i am playing a bit "better", but it is wierd anyhow, e.g. two guards in Kvatch survived the whole battle following me. Enemies seem to be going down faster and to do less damage and so on.

 

I read most of the changes the Patches apply, but i found nothing pointing to a change in the game balance.

 

It would be great to know more about that. Thank you in advance :)

[MShoap13]

A lot of the perceived difficulty of an area is due to the level you are when you first attempt it. Doing Kvatch at level 2 is much much easier than trying it at level 15. On the other hand, by 25 you generally have decent enough equipment that it takes some of the sting out of the game.

 

I'm pretty confident the UOP and it's associated files change nothing as far as game balance and level scaling. (Save for fixing errors present in Vanilla Oblivion 1.2.0416)

 

Ex.: "Common Ring of Blah" generally had higher stats than "High Level Ring of Blah".