Mr_Bungle
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Do yourself a huge favor and install Sky UI. The UI QoL changes are worth it and it comes in many flavors.
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Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
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Do yourself a huge favor and install Sky UI. The UI QoL changes are worth it and it comes in many flavors.
Lambourne
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The merchant gold always worked that way in Oblivion, it's just the highest they'll do in a single transaction. You can boost their gold with mercantile skill later to get them to buy higher priced items.
Couple more things:
Do the speechcraft thing on merchants that don't like you very much to get better prices. It's been made a bit easier in the remaster (it will be color coded after the first round)
You can no longer effectively train by casting super low level spells over and over, but skills go up a lot quicker with normal spell use.
Cheapest way to get a house in spoiler
Go to anvil, go to the inn, talk to Velwyn Benirus. He will sell you a house for 5000 gold. You need to finish the quest he gives to fully unlock and equip the house. Make sure you have either a magic or silver weapon or fire damage spell.
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Vorph
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Spend just a little more and get Frostcrag first imo. Way better house, and that goes triple if you'll be using magic a lot.
Vorph
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Yeah the Game Pass version got fucked up with the useless patch they pushed out on Friday.
I used this mod to fix it without having to mess with the console:
Upscaling Fix for Gamepass Version
This mod restores FSR3 upscaling and Frame Generation when the in-game graphics menu is broken in Gamepass Version
www.nexusmods.com
You'd have to edit the file to turn off FSR3 and enable DLSS instead. By default, it fixes some other stuff like turning off film grain and chromatic abomination too.
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Uriel
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This is a simple engine.ini addition that makes the lighting look a lot nicer imo.
www.nexusmods.com
This is the method I've figured out as well. While holding W, if it's not time to click it you'll see the pin dropping down repeatedly. When it's ready to lock in, you'll see it stay up at the top pretty much as you're holding W. Seems to be a guaranteed way to pick locks and not waste lockpicks.
Lumen Remastered
Drastically improve Lumen shadows by reducing Skylight intensity. Zero performance impact!
www.nexusmods.com
This is the method I've figured out as well. While holding W, if it's not time to click it you'll see the pin dropping down repeatedly. When it's ready to lock in, you'll see it stay up at the top pretty much as you're holding W. Seems to be a guaranteed way to pick locks and not waste lockpicks.
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Caliane
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oh shit, that looks amazing. the problem with stuff like that though... looks fantastic in screenshots, but Im not sure I actually want to play with realistic shadows like that.This is a simple engine.ini addition that makes the lighting look a lot nicer imo.
Lumen Remastered
Drastically improve Lumen shadows by reducing Skylight intensity. Zero performance impact!
This is method I've figured out as well. While holding W, if it's not time to click it you'll see the pin dropping down repeatedly. When it's ready to lock in, you'll see it stay up at the top pretty much as you're holding W. Seems to be a guaranteed way to pick locks and not waste lockpicks.
its kind of the same problem with some of the actual spells in game. nighteye. makes everything visible! but greyscale... why.. Light. stupid orb of light rotating around you, interfering with vision. also, harsh reflections... detect life. darkens everything so you can see the feint outlines..
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I've never painted potatoes for Easter, do you peel them first, or what?
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Vorph
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I tried it and it's actually really good in game too. Using it with the default values and with hardware Lumen set to High; shadows during the day aren't a problem at all and nights are reasonably dark without it being impossible to get around.
You can always adjust the SkylightIntensityMultiplier and Sky.Mid values if it's too dark on your monitor which might be useful for people with OLEDs.
Caliane
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yeah, giving it a shot. I had to do it twice for some reason.
[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings] <-- this vanished the first time. like, pasted it all in, under the other settings. loaded up. no visual change. closed the game. opened up the .ini again, and that line was gone. had to paste it back in and save again.
game downloaded an update the first load as well. not sure if that was related.
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Vorph
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Yeah, you definitely need to mark any files you edit as read-only for that reason. Engine.ini, plugins.txt, etc.
I got that update a couple hours too after closing the game to make a quick change... Can't launch the game without updating, and I get this message when it tries to download:
Restarting did absolutely nothing of course.
Edit: Finally fixed it by removing all the stuff I added to Paks and Data directories, as well as making a copy of my engine.ini and restoring the default one without a read-only tag. Then copied everything back and it's working ok like before.
Can't even see patch notes anywhere either. FSR/DLSS settings are fixed in game, but no clue if they took care of obnoxious bugs like the alchemy crash.
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Caliane
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A couple more notes.
Light spells not working. dunno if this is vid card related. but, I found often light spells don't work in first and over the shoulder 3rd person. but, scrolling out to the furthest back 3rd person position, pops it into effect. at which point, now I can swap back into 1st person, or over the shoulder third.
(pretty important when using the skylight fix, as all the interiors are also super dark. and shaded. ha.)
is speed good or not? speed as an attribute is pretty weak. its like, you have a base move speed of 300, and start with 40 speed. which gives you a move speed of like 320.. even 100 speed is like a move speed of 350. but I mean, more is better then less...
magicka regen in the remaster appears to be wholly based on wisdom. total magicka is not a factor. (in the original stacking max magicka increased regen more then wisdom.)
Light spells not working. dunno if this is vid card related. but, I found often light spells don't work in first and over the shoulder 3rd person. but, scrolling out to the furthest back 3rd person position, pops it into effect. at which point, now I can swap back into 1st person, or over the shoulder third.
(pretty important when using the skylight fix, as all the interiors are also super dark. and shaded. ha.)
is speed good or not? speed as an attribute is pretty weak. its like, you have a base move speed of 300, and start with 40 speed. which gives you a move speed of like 320.. even 100 speed is like a move speed of 350. but I mean, more is better then less...
magicka regen in the remaster appears to be wholly based on wisdom. total magicka is not a factor. (in the original stacking max magicka increased regen more then wisdom.)
Caliane
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I'm also still not seeing the "skrym is dumbed down" argument. as far as i can tell, Skyrim really is just a near universal improvement on all fronts.
pretty sure "repeatative caves" as an accusation at skyrim, but they are even more so here. theres way less discoveries and storytelling in the random caves and forts I've explored so far.
That itself. caves, forts, ayleid ruins. over and over.
Skryim POI were also more diverse.
and they seem to just be scattered periodically. gently rolling hills. not the "real" geography of skyim, with switchbacks, and other interesting geography.
skyrims guild quests did suck balls. don't get me wrong on that one.. do seem more coherent so far here.
pretty sure "repeatative caves" as an accusation at skyrim, but they are even more so here. theres way less discoveries and storytelling in the random caves and forts I've explored so far.
That itself. caves, forts, ayleid ruins. over and over.
Skryim POI were also more diverse.
and they seem to just be scattered periodically. gently rolling hills. not the "real" geography of skyim, with switchbacks, and other interesting geography.
skyrims guild quests did suck balls. don't get me wrong on that one.. do seem more coherent so far here.
Tuco
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Agreed with this. Oblivion was a more dumbed down Morrowind with quest markers, easier fast travel and less ridiculous combat system. Skyrim didn't really dumb things down further.