The Elderscrolls IV: Oblivion-tråden

This plugin changes the way that TES IV: Oblivion plays in several areas. The main focus is to change the aspects of the game that condition its content to progressively appear trough time invested in playing. "Scaling" is the term commonly used to name this concept. Essentially what it means is that the player unlocks higher difficulty enemies, higher quality items and higher level quests through the process of "leveling."

Leveling is a common feature of RPGs, whereby the abilities and characteristics of the player's character are upgraded and also measured in easily quatifiable segments. Levels represent ranks of specialization and expertise in those abilities and skills that the game assigns to a given type of Player Character (PC) In this system, a PC of lvl 1 is weaker than a PC of lvl 10, for example.

TES IV: Oblivion reveals new content to the PCs as their level increases. Thus, level acts as a hard-cap below which specified items, quests, creatures and so forth can appear in the game world. Anything that is specified to belong above the PCs' level does not appear in the game world until the PCs reach the appropriate level threshold.

Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul seeks to erode the hard-caps placed on the possibility of encountering content in the game world. Essentially, it makes almost all content available at any given time. The hierarchy of item quality, quest and creature difficulty is preserved by balancing the difficulty in acquiring, completing and defeating them, respectively. The result is a world with less boundaries, more diverse and mysterious, where excelling in exploration, skill, wit and resourcefulness leads to higher kinds of rewards for the effort spent in attaining them. The world does not reward you, or place difficulty against you, solely based on chance or a solidified scale based on level, which tends to equate to how much time you have invested in the game. Now you can experience at any time the thrill of facing almost unsurmountable odds and receiving a well deserved reward for your courage and skill.

Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul also adds many new things to the game world, ranging from new creatures and NPCs, to new sets of armors and even new text books. The addition of all of these actors and objects are carefully balanced against the original design of TES IV: Oblivion, as well as attempting to fit within the Lore of the TES series as much as possible. Many of these new additions are product of the modding community of texture and model artists, programmers and other miscellaneous roles. I am very grateful for their work and for featuring it within the world of Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul.

Finally, this plug-in balances many smaller and less sweeping aspects of TES IV: Oblivion's gameplay. These changes affect things as diverse as combat AI, previously lackluster skills, character birthsigns, quest difficulty design, random bug fixes and enhanced functionality. As always, the detailed readme files inside the uploaded files contain very specific and extense information detailing the extent and nature of all changes.

Jag hade väntat mig någon form av "epic boss fight", men det var ju ingenting ens i närheten. Det enda som hände var ju att man sprang in i Temple of the One och vips så var det slut. Blev ganska ledsen när jag förstod att jag inte själv skulle få slåss mot Mehrunes Dagon, något som jag kallt räknat med från början.

Sen är armorn man får som belöning också värdelös.

När man gör Paradise-questen hör man ju hela tiden Mankar Camoran snacka över en. Sen säger han att Tamriel i själva verket inte är något annat en ett Plane of Oblivion som övertagits från sin Daedric prince. Är detta sant, eller är det meningen att man ska ta de som att han försöker störa en och inte talar sanning. När jag hörde det kändes det ganska omvälvande och jag trodde att nästan hela spelet efter skulle handla om det, men så blev det ju inte.