Thinking of playing Oblivion again. What mods are the best in

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Get Better Cities and Unique Landscapes, they're essentials. Get graphic mods, obviously.
Honestly Oblivion doesn't need a lot of mods to make it playable, get an overhaul or something and a mod that improves dungeons and removes the weird level scaling.

Avoid non-creature companion mods, most of them have cringeworthy writing, voice acting and dialogue

Monetizing this thread.

Is there a mod that adds hidden stuff to find all over the gameworld? It's what I loved most about Morrowind, was how you could actually just find things pretty much randomly.

are there any loli rape dungeon mods?

Is Fcom still the best overhaul or theres something better?

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>>376737429
I was looking in the archives to copypaste the answer I gave a couple of days ago, and found this much better answer by someone else, so here you go:

Absolutely indisputably essential
>OBSE
>Unofficial Patches for base game and SI
>Darnified UI or Dark Darn, whichever you prefer

Pretty damn important for anyone
>Oblivion reloaded
>Stutter remover (OBSE plugin)
>Lowpoly grass (free performance)
>Operation optimization (more of the same)

Beginner-friendly gameplay improvements that you want unless you like getting pissed off at vanilla bullshit
>Realistic leveling OR Oblivion XP
>Oscuro's overhaul and/or Maskar's overhaul
>Vanilla combat enhanced

Textures (generally safe on any modern system)
>Quarl's redimized textures+ Bomret's SI
>Really textured normalmaps
>Improved trees and flora
>OCO v1 or v2 depending on preference

Cool things added to the game with little to no conflicts
>Unique Landscapes
>Animated window lighting system
>Better dungeons
>Weather all natural

Framerate raping, but cool mods to use at your own risk
>Better Cities
>Immersive interiors
>RAEVWD + tes4lodgen

>>376737429
http://demwaifus.blogspot.com/search/label/Oblivion

>>376737429
www.tesgeneral.com/oblivion-guide
This is nice guide. Outside of the quality of life shit I would personally recommend Vanilla Combat Enhanced and Francesco's mod as bare essentials. The latter is modular and its core files tweak the level scaling to not make it retarded which is something you want to have.

>>376737916
>Oscuro's overhaul and/or Maskar's overhaul
I would say these two change too much if you're aiming for more or less "vanilla without Bethesda's stupid shit" experience.

>>376737823
OOO adds special NPCs with unique items scattered through the map and in dungeons.

>>376737916
>>Really textured normalmaps
Terrible recommendation. RTNM is only good for very certain objects, most of them look awful.

Rast is pretty decent but the lowpoly/optimization mods are redundant and you're missing some quality of life stuff.

What are the best loli mods?

i decided to play the morrowind,oblivion and skyrim in order, finished morrowind, i even started one of the expansions (can't remember which) but was thinking of playing oblivion next. any suggestions for skills?

>>376738406
>lowpoly/optimization mods are redundant
Why?

http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/29942/?

This one's a must imo

I hope you know how to use WryBash outside of just pressing bashed patch and hoping it works.

>>376738295
OOO also adds bosses to bandit factions scattered thru the world that drops unique shit and are hard as fuck

>>376738456
Lockpick is mostly useless, Speechcraft is useless, Mercantile is useless, Sneak can easily be substituted with Illusion.
Light Armor only starts getting good at high levels BUT you will go fast in it. Hand to Hand isn't very viable at high levels.
Illusion is OP as fuck, Restoration and Destruction are good but are a bitch to level, Mysticism is a meme except for soul trap, Conjuration is okay, Alteration has some very useful utility spells.
Otherwise pick what you want.

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>>376738570
>WILLINGLY switching to over the shoulder consoleshit view in a PC game

>>376738560
Because it's not 2007 anymore.

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>>376738570
>how can I make my experience more CINEMATIC

>>376737429
The gay text based prostitution mod is really good.

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I would recommend the /vg/ thread but that place filled with autism

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Make sure you get the Mannimarco Revisted mod, it fixes the Mage's Guild's shitty final quest and actually makes it cool and gives you an actual boss fight with Mannimarco.

>>376739360
Are there visual changes?

>>376738985
thanks anon, but why is lockpick mostly useless?
was going to go with some sort of light armor/long blade/magic type character.
not sure which magics, usually i go for restoration,destruction, soul trap and enchanting or whatever

>>376739360
Not him but I just want to say something.

You have to use low-poly stuff because the problem is that the game is 32bit and DX9 which means it is unable to use multiple CPU-cores and can not make use of more than 4gigs of RAM (and if on Win8/10, only 4 gigs of VRAM aswell) so you can have the strongest computer ever but the game engine can only handle so much.

>>376741240

One of the daedric prince quests gives you an unbreakable lockpick that pretty much let's you bruteforce your way through the lockpick minigame.

>>376741310
I know but it still doesn't help anything. Even back when we had early quad cores all those mods became redundant.

The grass one does look differently though so maybe you'd use it for graphics.

>>376741240
In addition to >>376741356, the ONLY effect of the lockpicking skill is to make the mini-game easier as you advance it. Once you get used to it and familiarize yourself with the sound cues you can pick every single lock in the game with virtually no chance of failure regardless of skill level.

Why are so many people obsessed with user made bullshit mods, they're never as good as the original content.

100% original, every time, master race, the pure race if you will.

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>>376737429
>What mods are the best in the year 2017?
It's not like we're getting anything new, everybody has moved on to Skyrim modding, which stagnated as well, just check its TesNexus, waifus everywhere.

Quest mods are absolutely based and I'm forcing this claim any chance I get
>Lost Spires
>Golden Crest
>Windfall
>Daggerfall Memories: Cybiades
>Kragenir's Death Quest
>Heart of the Dead
>Bartholm
etc.

Elsweyr: Deserts of Anequina is among the best mods out there, really well done, although never completely finished
>>376740662
This too

>>376741240
Spellsword build is generally the most fun one in Oblivion so that's a good choice. Dunmer is basically tailor-made for that playstyle.
Restoration and Destruction are good choices to pick as major skills as well because they will still get leveled extremely slowly. I would also strongly recommend picking Illusion or at the very least leveling it well because it has the best spells in the game period:
>invisibility
>chameleon (it's supposed to augment your sneak except at 100% level you're literally undetectable by anyone and it cannot be broken by attacking or interacting with anything)
>command creature/humanoid spells
>frenzy
>>376741356
Basically this but if you're not retarded, any lock can be picked with enough patience even without the skeleton key.

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>>376737429
I got your back OP:
https://pastebin.com/75fzM5te

Most complete guide with step-by-step explanations.

Requires at least a semi-decent setup.

>>376741823
Because Vanilla Oblivion is an honestly shitty game.
The level scaling alone ruin it.

Are there any Oblivion mods that change the level up system to something like the one found in New Vegas? Or one that makes dungeons/ruins/etc. not have shit loot and fixes the stupid level scaling on enemies?

>>376742057
Vanilla Oblivion is in Far Cry 2 or Stalker category: it's a good game in theory but some design decisions just ruin it. Good thing all three have mods to fix that.
Have fun fixing something what's garbage at its core, like Skyrim

>>376741823
>they're never as good as the original content.
lol

>>376742000
>Most complete guide
No that would be >>376738062
This is step-by-step though.

>>376742239
>something like the one found in New Vegas
Oblivion XP or Realistic Leveling if you're not a fucking homosexual.
>Or one that makes dungeons/ruins/etc. not have shit loot and fixes the stupid level scaling on enemies
Oscuro's/Francesco's overhauls.

>>376741240
Since you're coming from Morrowind, also keep in mind that in Oblivion the entire world stays paused while you're picking locks no matter how many times you try and fail. So despite the fact that it added NPCs schedules and made shopkeepers follow you around when you break line of sight, investing in the skill even if just to be able to pick locks faster won't actually help you avoid detection like it does against the patrolling npcs and guards in Morrowind. The minigame basically replaces the character skill entirely, and the only reason to train it is if you're really bad at it as a player.

>>376742407
Can I par those overhauls down to just being level scaling/loot fixes?

I basically just want to play Vanilla Oblivion but with how New Vegas handled some stuff thrown in.

>>376742820
Oblivion XP is the closest you can get to New Vegas style leveling but TES is not Fallout and I personally like the way of your skills leveling up when you actually use them.

And yes, install Francesco's mod, everything besides the core level scaling fix is completely optional, even the loot table improvements.

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>>376741910
>Golden Crest mod will never get a sequel where you become a Pirate Lord and take down the Sea Creature

Feels bad man

>>376742820
Unfortunately a level scaling fix necessarily means altering almost all of the content of the game, since level scaling is Oblivion's core design principle. That said, "Francesco's leveled creatures and items" is the most lightweight option to fix this. You can install it without the extra creatures or items or anything, and in effect it will make Oblivion's leveled lists more random. Now there's a chance you could encounter enemies weaker or stronger than you rather than always matched to your level, and the loot will no longer scale so strictly either. It's the best compromise available if you want to "keep it vanilla" but also "fix the level scaling".

>>376743041
>>376743451
Thanks anons

>>376737429
Obviously titties mods are essential. Don't forget to get a proper skeleton if you go for the bouncy option.

As far as combat mods go, Deadly Reflex is a better choice than Unnecessary Violence, even though the latter is more popular. Just don't get the version with a messed up first person camera, I can't remember which one was it

>>376737823
There's a mod that adds collectible cards

>>376738191
bullslhit

games unplayable without one of these

Are there any combat mods that just add new weapon varieties? Crossbows, spears, scythes, etc?

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i need to play oblivion again

what would be the best ENB mod?

>>376743451
It also makes some of the areas like Imperial Reserve or Nibenay Basin spawn higher-leveled creatures on average. There has been some decent thought put into it.

Is there a skeleton fix that you can use to keep weapons from floating when you kill a npc?

>>376743967
Yea, but they're not very good since the engine doesnt support extra Animations for new weapons. A Spears will still be held and swung like a sword

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>>376737429
OOO, OOO extended+ OOO SI. All Natural, Unique Landmarks or whatever use Oblivion Reloaded with Stutter Remover.

Also all the rape/anime mods you can muster.

>>376737916
PCB Mods are an absolute must, they reduced crashing for me to once every hour or so, over the half hour before using one.

>>376744436
Well that's disappointing, I knew that was the case back around 2010 but I was hoping a workaround or fix had been found since then.

>>376744667
just type pcb in the console

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>>376740167

>>376744436
>, but they're not very good since the engine doesnt support extra Animations for new weapons.
There's a mod for this.

>>376744071
they're all not very good for actually playing the game.

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>>376744484
Also get the Monstergirl mod off LL. Enjoy fighting giant heaven statues and drow.

>>376741356
>>376741790
>>376741971
>>376742565
ok, thanks

>>376745168
>Requires beautiful people
Nah I'm good.

>>376744905
It can break the game if you do it during gameplay, and it would get tiresome having to type it in every cell change manually anyway.

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>>376745259
If you don't like NPC changes you can only let the BP shit affect the new enemies, I use XEOSP++ for NPCs as it is.

>>376741240
>>376741356
Lockpicking is entirely based on the skill of the player so raising your skill makes no difference as you can pick any lock at any level. Lockpicks themselves are easy to find

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Get the Dwemer Airship mod, you get your own flying airship after a short quest that also serves as a portable home. It has a few bugs like how sometimes the camera has a weird angle when piloting the ship or when you stop flying and get off the pilot seat sometimes you end up on the ground falling through the ship.

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You are NOT playing as an elf, Anon, are you?

>>376745789
do nine-fearing bretons count as elves?

>>376745356
The mods will break your game by clearing when it shouldn't, causing a crash. If you type it you'll usually do it when nothing is happening(when you should do it).

>>376745869
No. Orcs do, however.

>>376745664
You don't need need lockpicks or a good security level when alteration exists. Its easy and fast to master if you switch spell casting to space bar and leave a weight on it to train by repeatably casting a low costing spell. You can then make a custom spell that can open very hard locks and the only doors you'll have to worry about are the ones that need a key.

So, how did Nickies story end? I kinda missed it

>>376737823
idk if there's one for oblivion, but Skyrim has morrowloot. try searching for an oblivion version

>>376745789
Is this guy a real character? i thought the anti-elf crusader was just a meme.

I'm playing this for the first time and really having fun

>>376746082
t. Umaril

>>376741910
What level should one be to start doing these?

>>376746163
Aren't 8 of the nine divines elven? How can you be a divine crusader and hate elves? Evil elves, sure, but all elves?

Something I'm confused about is that in 3 and 4 all guards are imperials but apparently it was nords who found the 4rd(current) empire? I'm so confused.

>>376746082
Did you play the fucking DLC? Guy went on a Doomguy level knife ear extermination after that one fag killed his boipussi lover.

>>376746665
DLC for which game? I usually only do quest added by Mods. I also have a problem of adding too many mods that add instability and making me unable to fully complete the games.

>>376746635
What? They're comatose et'ada and don't have a race like that.

>>376746960
What are you, an elf or something? You sure seem that retarded.

>>376747176
Usually an khajiit or a Breton.

>>376746635
They aren't a race, they are the planets you see in the sky at night, but they aren't really planets but a pocket dimension that look like planets.

>>376747040
>>376747403
Interesting. But I could had sworn I read something about elves being their direct descendants (explaining their superiority complex). I also remember reading a book in skyrim about how there is another conitent full of lizard, tiger, monkey and dragon people who want to invade Tamerial but are too busy dealing with infighting. If Tamerial is only one continent what is the planet called and what does it look like?

>>376747867
Akavir is the second continent. Nirn (literally Arena because the first game was called Arena, geddit?) is the planet's name.

>>376746269
I'd say at least 10, but it depends on a mod. Read descriptions

>>376747867
The real reason they haven't invaded is because the Neravarine is in Akivir fucking their shit up

>>376747867

Just altmer propaganda anon ignore it

Is the MMO good? I know it rapes the lore but I want to play a WoW clone (actual WoW has a guy who plays on a tablet as the lead gameplay designer) and want to have some sandbox-ish elements. And I heard the MMO has territory control and other cool player driven dynamic stuff like that.

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>Really want a new TES game
>Know Todd will somehow find a way to dumb it down even more than Fallout 4

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>>376749402
Perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.

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>>376749608
this fuck

>Spend 6 hours setting up mods
>play game 1 hour
>get bored

it's called the TES cycle.

>>376737429
don't bother, it's garbage

>>376741910
I just downloaded and installed the Elsweyr mod, is the game supposed to crash when putting on the straw hat you buy from a merchant in Rimmen? I also installed the texture file so wearing modded clothing shouldn't be making the game crash.

This game had the best thieve's guild quests of any game.