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Weird shit in random Oblivion test area

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Yea so I don't want to like keep making threads about the same concept but I feel like this development was significant enough to justify it. Consider this to be a little addendum to my "Exploring the end of Oblivion's playable area" group of threads. If you don't know what those are, I'll post some screenshots. I wasn't planning on making another, but...

Long story short, I had this ordeal with a corrupted clone I made of my Oblivion character, and I couldn't permanently kill him because he respawns, so I did that glitch where if you delete the Wizard's Tower DLC while you're in it, you get teleported to a Bethesda test cell. The plan was to kill him there and leave the test cell, then re-install the DLC so he can never escape.

Well I killed him there, but before I fast travelled out of the test cell I decided to explore the terrain a bit. It's an outdoor area set in Bruma-like environment with some houses around it, but past that it's a flat, brown plain. At least, that's what it's like at first.

Continuing further out yielded a bunch of utterly featureless terrain. Like, smooth hills and mountains. I kept running for a few minutes. Notably on my map it didn't look like I was moving at all, or at least I was barely moving...

And then I came upon a cabin. Like, a small cabin, in between these featureless mountains. Just lying there, in this random Bethesda test cell.

What the fuck is going on? Why did Bethesda / Todd put all this shit in the game? Whose cabin is it supposed to be? I want to keep looking around, but adding this to the water squares and random mountains I found in the last endeavor, I'm really starting to question Bethesda's sanity.
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Bethesda used a proceduraly generated system to make the world. It probably just glitched since your so far outside the play area and made this random shit.
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>>378447919
>Bethesda used a proceduraly generated system to make the world

I dont think speed tree counts m8
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>>378447919
I get that for the mountains and shit, but how would that make a cabin?
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I missed you my Nickies man.

Have a bump.
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Other pic from the test cell, does the sky continue underground in this game or something?
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Ay, I missed the last stream. How far did you make it outside of OB's map?
Also, have you considered asking somebody on OB's dev team about all this shit?
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>>378447194
Well the only way to find out is by going inside right Nickies?

But I mean if your in the test cell still I would be careful with that clone.
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>>378449372
I made it to basically the end. I managed to measure the sides in terms of seconds ran at max speed. Once I passed a certain point my body mass-scattered and the game crashes.
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>>378449570
Damn, you officially archived CHIM.
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>>378449529
The door's locked. I guess I should say blocked, because there's no option at all to open it.

>>378449874
This is what 1st person looked like near the end, with those dangly bits teleporting around the screen with jerks.
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>>378447194

It's common as fuck for random areas/objects/assets to end up outside the map and never get tidied up.

How new are you to games?
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>>378450161
That's not outside the map. That's outside the map in a test cell...
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I bumped the original Nickies thread, when it was on page 9 with 0 replies
I feel awful
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>>378450336

And?
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>>378450852
Why do you hate nickies but like Pannenkoek?
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>>378447194
youz a couple years late boyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyItK3MTwyw
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>>378450005
>The door's locked.
What a shame.
Probably nothing else out there right?

>>378448661
What do you mean?
Skyboxes usually cover everywhere
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>>378451656
Seems kinda mediocre honestly, the video paints like 300 speed as impressive and just says "there's shit here" without investigating.

>>378451095
Don't you think it's more odd for shit like this to be in a test cell where it will never be used instead of the actual game's worldspace?

>>378450852
You were the guy who said "spooky....."? Well I guess I should thank you.
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>>378452202

>Don't you think it's more odd for shit like this to be in a test cell where it will never be used instead of the actual game's worldspace?

Fuck no, that's exactly what i'd expect in a test cell and pretty boring by comparison with what most test levels contain.
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>>378452178
Aren't skyboxes shaped like semi-spheres? That's what I know from a few other games.

>>378452912
I get what you mean when talking about the actual testing area. This is miles outside of it.
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archive of old threads and/or streams?
first im hearing of this, bit curious
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>>378453704
What do you want to see? The out of Oblivion's main map stuff?
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Oh... It's you again.
I told you before, Nickies. Do not attempt to go any further. There are things Man was not meant to know.


>>378453704
http://nickies.wikia.com/wiki/Nickies
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>>378453546
>Aren't skyboxes shaped like semi-spheres?
Depends on the game.

Some are literal boxes.
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>>378454203
pretty much, yeah. just like shit i'd have no chance of seeing on my own.

>>378454212
>entire wikia
cool, thanks
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So, any of you got some links for Rule 34 fingerplay bowser twins ?
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>>378454414
Well whaddya know, Twitch deleted the previous broadcasts. That's what I get for not subscribing or whatever. Only one recent stream still exists on my twitch channel, JinjaBaker45.

There's a bunch of highlights from the amazing stream saved as memes or screenshots but they're very scattered.
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>>378454810
>Well whaddya know, Twitch deleted the previous broadcasts. That's what I get for not subscribing or whatever.
well fuck. there goes my comfy shit to fall asleep to plans.

ill check out the highlights tho, thanks.
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>>378455237
Sorry about that, the closest thing to it would be an archive of the concurrent thread, here:

https://yuki.la/v/375437745
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>>378453704
https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/371752853/#371752853
Here's the thread that started it all. Read it. All of it.
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Since it's really not difficult to do on PC, I could boot up the game and stream a quick run to the end again if you people want to see it.
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Inside that cabin lies the end the world on all levels both virtual and physical.
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Wait a sec, can't I boot up the PC version and explore the test cell faster that way anyway?
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Throwback
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>>378448047
>I dont think speed tree counts m8

It wasn't just SpeedTree, although they left unchecked several areas because they ran out of time and thus had trees floating in the middle of the sky. The dungeons and a fair portion of the wilderness were procedural generated - something they stopped doing, or at least claimed to stop doing, in Skyrim.
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this is todd's palace
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Looking through a list of Oblivion test cells, there's a few called Toddland. Did he seriously name shit after himself?
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>>378459710
TURN
BACK
THIS
INSTANT
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>>378459636
If Todd was a Persona 5 villain, what would his Palace be?
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Ok, fuck it, I'm gonna stream this shit in like 45 minutes. There's so much hidden shit in this game, I'm gonna get to the bottom of it.
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>>378460304
A unholy cathedral that has every bug from every game he worked on as shadows
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>>378452202
>You were the guy who said "spooky....."?
Yes
I feel guilty of this autism
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>>378460618
>Shadow Todd turns into Oogie Boogie from Nightmare Before Christmas
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>>378460732
Look on the bright side, there was that one McDonalds pasta on the OG thread that was funny.
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Post more screenshots
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>>378460104
NOT SO FAST

TWO-PREORDERS PER CUSTOMER, TODD? I DON'T THINK SO
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>>378462307
Sorry for a lack of updates, try to keep the thread alive until I can start streaming in like 15 min.

Pic related is when I almost reached the moon.
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bump, for interest
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>>378463283
>almost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFTgkibl7DU
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>people told nickies it would never end he would be running forever

Apologize
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Ok, gonna start streaming now. Let me just get set up. Twitch name is JinjaBaker45, I'll start with running to the end of the map quickly again as a warm up.
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>>378464704
Fucking hell, give me like a minute to sort out my shitty stream software. I blame Todd desu.
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>>378459058
None of the dungeons were procedurally generated they hired 1 guy to make them all. It's why they're shit
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>>378465239
hurry up you fat fuck
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RIP Nickies
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Stream's up you plebs
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IT'S UP

https www.twitch tv jinjabaker45

https www.twitch tv jinjabaker45

https www.twitch tv jinjabaker45
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Is this what Chim is like?
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get in
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What the fuck just happened?
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Nickies commanded me to bump the thread
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>>378467567

>-Love, Todd
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>>378467567
>Love, Todd
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AUTISM
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Do you archive these I need a screenshot of Anor Londo imperial edition
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>>378466315
What am I looking at?
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>that zombie in the room upstairs by itself in the middle of nowhere in todd's testchamber
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>>378462352
Whats with this meme? Did colbert sperg out on tv?
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>a single room floating in a black, infinite void
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wtf this room
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>>378447194
>trying to create a creepy pasta this hard
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holy fucking shit THIS IS WHAT TODD WAS HIDING THAT DEMONIC FUCK
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>comfy oblivion OST playing all distorted
>the fucking void room
PANIC
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jesus christ
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god damn
these threads are proof this place is infested with 13yo
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>>378469576
What's wrong with this thread?
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>>378469576
This.
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>>378469576

What 13 y/o remembers oblivion? lmfao
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>>378469835
Unless there's something I'm missing, hasn't Nickies just created all this shit himself to ruse people into thinking this is in the game?
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>>378470043

He's just exploring test areas. I mean, everything he's shown has a fairly practical and understandable purpose for a game designer testing out things. It's just fun realizing that it's also kinda creepy outside of that context.
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>test character named kill me
what did they mean with that?
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Nickies, my man! I missed you!
rule 34 fingerplay bowser twins
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>WHOA DEV TEST AREAS MY GAME IS HAUNTED GUYS
>WOW RUNNING OUT OF THE MAP IS SOOO TRIPPY XD
these threads are cringy as fuck.
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>>378470191
That fucking room with corrupted clones though. The pic above doesn't do it justice.
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>>378470685
Here's another view. It was funner watching it live, my guess is it's testing swimming animations for each race
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>npc called test guy
>is a girl
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>>378470506
Just because your old, boring and jaded doesnt mean everyone here is. Sit in the corner and shut up old man
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>>378470506

You can't deny that test areas are interesting to see, at least.
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>>378470871
The way he just suddenly appeared in a completely pitch black void, and the prompt said "Corrupted clone" as if there was just one in front of him. And then he used the light spell which revealed dozens of demonic slaves. Shit was terrifying
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Care to explain this, Todd?
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>>378468954
yeah
every time his show is on
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Wtf!?
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>>378472809
STOP.

SEARCHING.


NOW.
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>>378472928
WHAT ARE YOU HIDING TODD?

WHAT'S DOWN THERE?
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>>378447919
The game doesn't procedurally generate map in real time. It has a static map that was partially procedurally generated during development.
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>this thread
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>>378472928
ANSWER ME TODD

IS THERE SOMETHING, DEEP DOWN THERE, YOU DON'T WANT TO SHOW TO US?
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this is bizarre as hell
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OP YOU N

EED TO STOP
RI

GHT NOW
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We've reached the part of Todd's brain that controls his emotions.
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>>378473098
>>378473934

Listen here tough guys.

Right now you're on my good side, but with the way things are going you're about to get on my bad side.

You do not want to get on my bad side.

So just lay off. There's absolutely, literally, nothing inside any of my secret test chambers or outside the map. They're just game code and asset tests, nothing else.

So stop, turn around, and never bother wasting your time searching through my test areas ever again. Then can get along and you can stay on my good side. However if you do not do this, there will be severe consequences that are out of my control. I won't warn you again.
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>>378448661
That's pretty aesthetic.
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>>378449570
What are mods essential for oblivion? Oblivion newbie here
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>>378474631
answer me this todd, why some NPC have your voice inside this world?
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YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR

THERE'S NO GOING BACK NOW
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>>378475127
>the secret harem
>the secret MEN harem
>that room where you drink blood
>some NPC have Todd voice

todd, how many secret are you hiding from us?
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>>378475256
Keep going and find out.
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>NPCs have Todd's voice

This can't be fucking real
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What did I miss?
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>>378476204
Some pretty spooky shit, NPC's with todds voice, todds female and male harems, and the corrupted clones
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>>378476543
well fuck
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>>378476614
35:45 on the stream from 2 hours ago, if you have the heart for it
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>>378476689
Thanks Anon, I'll check it out.
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>>378447194
Have you actually drawn a map of the area outside the game? This would be interesting to see the real scale when overlaid with the real map of Oblivion. You should map the area you are and then draw it on top of the real area map. This way we will see what is really going on.

Not sure about it but maybe there's some kind of mapping mod available as well to make it easier.
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>>378476902
Also not sure about it but I think the game stores all the assets outside the gaming area somewhere. So this is maybe why you are discovering new stuff floating there.

But if this all makes sense you should be able to find an area which has every object in the game in a grid like formation or something.
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>Oblivion Brawl
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Huge oblivion monster party happening right now. Skeltals are teaming
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>>378477564
SKELETONS FOR THE WIN
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>>378459058
Completely untrue.
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>>378469576
I think the overall disinterest in this thread seems to indicate otherwise.
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>>378478104
Most are posting in the stream now
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It's real people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbHpLfMGk0
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todd is not happy about what we discovered down there
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>those dead bodies floating in the abyss
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>>378447194
Holy shit you really did end up finding something
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>>378479729
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MADNESS
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I can't help but feel like test maps in the game would've been fully explained well before now.
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>>378481502
There are brief descriptions on them on UESP, but in terms of video coverage it seems all there is are some YouTube videos with less than 100 views exploring some of them. I mean the todd voice samples the other anon posted only have a few thousand views.
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>it's another haunted game episode
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Aren't you the pathetic, delusional faggot who thinks Bungie and 343 stole your ideas in the Halo games? And that Arkane stole all your ideas to make Dishonored?
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>>378483317
Never heard of the second, 1st was a joke using a friend's site and copy + pasted shit pal
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>>378480073
Beauty, pure beauty.
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>>378468954
Its litterally his new show format.
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>>378470506
whoa something outside of anime waifu shit and console war bait threads, how awful

fuck off
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3 months later and Nickies actually finds something
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Stream just ended, what highlights should I save?
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>>378474125
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>>378447194
>Tripfag
>Leddit phrasing
>blog post
Just kill yourself
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>>378486315
>Tripfag
I really hope you're baiting nigga
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[twitch site]/videos/148160765

Best part of the stream imo
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Wow great thread OP! Reminded me of something that happened to me in Oblivion a few months ago:

So in Oblivion there's an item called the Skull of Corruption, which you can use to clone NPCs. Using a glitch, you can use it to permanently clone yourself.
When I discovered this glitch online, I had already played Oblivion to exhaustion. My character, Nickies, a Breton battlemage, was nigh-invulnerable, and had spells that could one hit Minotaurs. It was pretty crazy, but it got boring fast. I decided the only challenge left was to fight a version of myself, a permanent clone, a "Nickies Black," if you will.

So I did the glitch, purposefully not wearing my best gear as to make sure I can still win, but couldn't immediately kill the clone because his (my) healing spells were too potent. So, I left and returned, to see what would happen to him.

He had changed his equipment loadout to that of my own, real character's, including all my OP shit. Now I actually couldn't kill him...
Not only that, but he started upchucking a creepy mix of faction dialogue I haven't heard before, like "I'm sworn to die, are you?" and "The training of thousands has passed through me!"

Sometimes he would use my invisibility spells and flee, and I'd have to find him again. One time I found an entire town murdered, with him nearby. I even got bounties when I swore I didn't commit any crimes. Once I led him over a bayou to an underwater DLC home I had, and he equipped my waterwalking boots to easily keep pace - then, when I fled underwater, he swam under with me despite wearing said boots!

Other oddities include his Luck seemingly being higher for everything he did compared to my own, and being able to summon two things at once (which was actually IMPOSSIBLE in Oblivion).
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>>378486196
How does this relate?
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>>378489606
her name is Yeri
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>>378489849
Oh well whaddya know

Anyone wanna update the wiki?
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