Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion

[Almor]

One other point I have with it is that the HAHA, me gots potions = win aspect is still there. Losing a fight? just pop a load of potions and you'll win. I've always thought they should implement a potion sytem like Blizzard's, i.e put potions on a cooldown so you can't just chug 20 at once.

This is what happens for me, about 5 potions is the most that can be taken at once, I think. I don't know how long it is before you can take more though.

I've levelled up a fair way and now everything I meet in Oblivion is some gigantic creature that batters me, and there are usually more than 1, so ... going to do some side quests for a while, get my magics working.

 

[Crispy]

Yeah, 5 potions at a time. I think if you level up your alchemy sklil, it lets you take more.

 

[bmd]

I have scans of the manual at work TJ. send me your email and I'll send em you tomorrow.

Lots of torrents here for Oblivion, including manual, full map, downloadable content and game guides.

Mods, not sure if it's ok to link to the torrent so feel free to delete if not.

 

[gaijingirl]

If this comes out the same time I have my finals then I am seriously screwed,


http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...3210/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_11_2/026-5430467-9138000


*salivates*

Is this a turn based strategy game as oppose to a real based strategy game? I don't really know what either of these things are.. nor do I care.. but gajinboy does - deeply, so it'd be handy to know if this is a potential gift for him.

Thanks

 

[Allan]

Is this a turn based strategy game as oppose to a real based strategy game? I don't really know what either of these things are.. nor do I care.. but gajinboy does - deeply, so it'd be handy to know if this is a potential gift for him.

Thanks

It's not a strategy game at all. It's virtual reality game where everything happens in real time and you view the world through the eyes of your character.

I'm just getting into it and it's offically "really cool".

 

[Crispy]

Is this a turn based strategy game as oppose to a real based strategy game? I don't really know what either of these things are.. nor do I care.. but gajinboy does - deeply, so it'd be handy to know if this is a potential gift for him.

Thanks

It is neither, by a long way

It's a role-playing game. You create a character and then go and save the world (or get sidetracked with all the other stuff you can do) - swords, magic, goblins, pickpockets, thieves, assassins, the list goes ON.

It's a big big game and he will still be playing it this time next year (if he gets into it). Needs a pretty chunky PC to run it too. A decent gaming PC from the last year or two will do.

 

[Dandred]

This gameis the best game I've ever played.......

This game just gets better and better, every task has about 10 other tasks around it that you can do.....I've never played a game like this before.

Morrowind was good, verry good , but this is amazing......

 

[Allan]

There's a whole landscape to explore. Which is nice.

 

[gaijingirl]

It is neither, by a long way

It's a role-playing game. You create a character and then go and save the world (or get sidetracked with all the other stuff you can do) - swords, magic, goblins, pickpockets, thieves, assassins, the list goes ON.

It's a big big game and he will still be playing it this time next year (if he gets into it). Needs a pretty chunky PC to run it too. A decent gaming PC from the last year or two will do.

Hmmm... tricky.... he does seem to spend inordinate amounts of time saving the world on his laptop

It's difficult - last year he purged himself and threw out all his games as he kept staying up really late playing them. Then he went out and bought a whole load more because his addiction is too strong.

What to do? How much is this game???

 

[LDR]

What to do? How much is this game???

If you buy it he'll love you forever. However, he won't have the time to show you that he loves you.

It's a tricky one alright.

 

[Allan]

How much is this game???

£24.99 from Play.com

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=PC&title=705016&pa=rnr

 

[gaijingirl]

If you buy it he'll love you forever. However, he won't have the time to show you that he loves you.

It's a tricky one alright.

He has vampire qualities - somehow he is able to stay up till 4 or 5am playing these games - or chess. It is a tricky one though - he gets completely addicted and then all upset at himself for spending so much time playing them.

I might buy it for him anyway - personally I think there are worse things to be addicted to...

 

[Crispy]

If you don't buy it for him, he'll just end up going to a street dealer. It's best if you, and he, knows exactly what you're getting into. Safest bet, really.

 

[gaijingirl]

If you don't buy it for him, he'll just end up going to a street dealer. It's best if you, and he, knows exactly what you're getting into. Safest bet, really.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

£24.99 from Play.com

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=PC&title=705016&pa=rnr

You can get it brand new on eBay for around £15-20 if you don't mind pissing about with bidding and waiting a bit for it arrive...

 

[fen_boy]

I have a technical question someone might be able to help with: When I turn down the music volume in Options nothing happens, it just keeps playing. And when someone speaks it's very, very broken up, like static. I have a Soundblaster Live! 5.1 so there shouldn't be any problems. Thanks.

I had a problem with broken sound when playing morrowind and it was because my dvd drive was stuck in PIO mode - there's instructions here on how to fix it.
If you just want to try the solution then right click this link and save then run the vbscript file it creates and reboot. I'd suggest you read up to check it's safe first, but it worked for me.

 

[fen_boy]

anyone else getting a stuttery intro cut scene?

My previous post might help with this.

 

[Allan]

I had a problem with broken sound when playing morrowind and it was because my dvd drive was stuck in PIO mode - there's instructions here on how to fix it.
If you just want to try the solution then right click this link and save then run the vbscript file it creates and reboot. I'd suggest you read up to check it's safe first, but it worked for me.

I'm not sure that this is the same problem as mine. I use a DVD image mounted in Daemon Tools so there's no DVD drive to come unstuck as such. I haven't had a recurrance of my sound problem since I ran the Technical Support option and turned down hardware acceleration.

 

[TeeJay]

So how do I use these "soul gems" then? And what about the various other gems? Also what do all those separate bits of 'potion making' equipment do? I'm a bit clueles about what level of x/y/z I need to use various magic spells ... I am more used to the BioWare style RPGs where everything is explained with the numbers and stats and levels.

I'm getting around this by just hitting things as hard as I can, although it took me a bit of time before I realised how to look at my stats and found out that I was actually more skilled in light armour than heavy (and therefore went and changed all my armour).

 

[Dandred]

So how do I use these "soul gems" then? And what about the various other gems? Also what do all those separate bits of 'potion making' equipment do? I'm a bit clueles about what level of x/y/z I need to use various magic spells ... I am more used to the BioWare style RPGs where everything is explained with the numbers and stats and levels.

I'm getting around this by just hitting things as hard as I can, although it took me a bit of time before I realised how to look at my stats and found out that I was actually more skilled in light armour than heavy (and therefore went and changed all my armour).

Here is a good place to find everything you need link

 

[Cid]

So how do I use these "soul gems" then? And what about the various other gems? Also what do all those separate bits of 'potion making' equipment do? I'm a bit clueles about what level of x/y/z I need to use various magic spells ... I am more used to the BioWare style RPGs where everything is explained with the numbers and stats and levels.

I'm getting around this by just hitting things as hard as I can, although it took me a bit of time before I realised how to look at my stats and found out that I was actually more skilled in light armour than heavy (and therefore went and changed all my armour).

RTFM

 

[Crispy]

Alchemy - Get the equipment (mortar & pestle, retort, calcinator, and um the other one) - don't worry about what they do, the higher quality the better)

Now select one of them in your inventory and you get the potion making screen. Add an ingredient. You will see as you scroll through your ingredients that they have different properties. What you want to do is choose two ingredients that have the same property (eg. restore health, fortify magicka) - If you do this right, then the right hand pane will say what sort of potion will result. Click create potion and you get one (and your alchemy level goes up)

As you get better at alchemy, your potions get stronger and you are allowed to see two, three, then four of the properties of the ingredients. This gives you more choice of ingredients, and at highest levels, some really cool potions that have multiple effects.

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ASoul gems have two purposes - recharging enchanted items and creating enchated items. To fill an empty soul gem, cast a soul trap spell on a monster (not a human) and then kill it before the spell wears off. I usually leave Soul Trap until just before they're dead. When they die, their soul is caught in the appropriately sized soul gem. Always carry a selection of sizes, so you don't accidentally fill eg. a Grand gem with a Petty soul. Human souls can only be trapped in Black soul gems (which can sometimes be found wherever you find necromancers)

To recharge an enchanted item, click a full soul gem - you get a list of your enchanted items and can click on any one to charge it. I forget how much charge each one does, but I do know Grand=1600 points.

To create an enchanted item, you must gain entrance to the Arcane University (join the mages guild and do the reccomendations) - there, at the praxographical center, use the altars to bind a soul gem to an item to create magic items. You can do anything you already know the magic for and the power is limited by your mysticism skill and your money (it can get pricey)

EDIT : And yeah, Read the manual - it's all in there

 

[poului]

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Started playing this last night.


Already addicted.




Been enjoying a lot of quests from the Thieves Guild and Fighters Guild. Am also ploughing through this rather random and bizarre "nirnroot" botanical quest that I got from randomly picking up a specimen in the lake. Anyone else come across it?

 

[Bob_the_lost]

Yeah, i'm doing the nirnroot quest on and off, the second mission is to do the exact same thing as the first one, but you need 20 plants instead of just 10.

 

[TeeJay]

RTFM

IDHAFM

 

[TeeJay]

Alchemy - Get the equipment (mortar & pestle, retort, calcinator, and um the other one) - don't worry about what they do, the higher quality the better)

Now select one of them in your inventory and you get the potion making screen. Add an ingredient. You will see as you scroll through your ingredients that they have different properties. What you want to do is choose two ingredients that have the same property (eg. restore health, fortify magicka) - If you do this right, then the right hand pane will say what sort of potion will result. Click create potion and you get one (and your alchemy level goes up)

As you get better at alchemy, your potions get stronger and you are allowed to see two, three, then four of the properties of the ingredients. This gives you more choice of ingredients, and at highest levels, some really cool potions that have multiple effects.

I've got that OK and have made stuff with my pestle and mortar. What I am wondering is what the retort, calcinator and other one do that is different from the p & m? Something about increasing positive or negative effects?

 

[Crispy]

Started playing this last night.


Already addicted.




Been enjoying a lot of quests from the Thieves Guild and Fighters Guild. Am also ploughing through this rather random and bizarre "nirnroot" botanical quest that I got from randomly picking up a specimen in the lake. Anyone else come across it?

Yeah. Talk to a mage's guild alchemist about it. You get a special potion in the end, and then you have to collect more if you want another one (except you need more and the potion's better)

 

[Allan]

DLTFM.

 

[Crispy]

I've got that OK and have made stuff with my pestle and mortar. What I am wondering is what the retort, calcinator and other one do that is different from the p & m? Something about increasing positive or negative effects?

One of them enhances positive effects, the other decreases negative effects (but not when you're making a poison) - don't worry about which ones are equipped, it's all automatic.

 

[TeeJay]

...To fill an empty soul gem, cast a soul trap spell on a monster (not a human) and then kill it before the spell wears off...

My next question is - what level stats do I need to be able to cast Soul Trap and where can I get it?

ok ok - I'm off to read the manual (or the website in fact). I like chatting about it here tho' and also I can't help reading a whole bunch of spoilers en route to finding what I want - like I did last night when I looked at the Oblivion wiki

It is kind of faster to ask people rather than read ten pages of stuff including stuff that you would have had fun discovering by trial and error - I usually try to work stuff out first and discover it and only go and ask people if that fails or takes too long.

I got a bit confused because I used a sigle ? stone from the first gate to enchant a sword then couldn't work out why I could do the same thing with a filled soul gem etc. I read the wiki last night so understand better what is going on with this.