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Friday Fun Thread for April 25, 2025

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I tried The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered for a couple hours last night. It's pretty good. A lot more comprehensive than I anticipated when the "rumor"/leak came out a week earlier; having seen numerous terrible remasters from various companies. I actually like how they handled the (non)marketing and release of this game. Instead of letting (rightly) disgruntled buyers of Starfield poison the discussion about the upcoming next game for months or years, they just worked quietly, then announced and released the game on the very same day.

It runs pretty badly though. I need DLSS Performance mode on my 5090 to get a good framerate in 4k. And there's no HDR for some reason. And the FOV slider doesn't go high enough to undo the eternal shittiness of the Unreal Engine camera. Then there's the incredible blandness of the main quest and the world design, where the 'imperial city' and other towns don't do justice to the lore in the least. And obviously no depth or real choice to the dialogues, ever. No amount of Lumen raytracing can help with those things. Oh well. It's Elder Scrolls. Take the good with the bad.

In any case I intend to have some fun with the game. I picked a Dunmer from Vvardenfell as my character. He's a custom class "battlemage" of sorts. I intend to use blades and destruction magic.

Do any of you have fun character/build/roleplay ideas for how you'll spend your time in Tamriel? What will you be playing over the next week?

Wouldn't mind hearing about builds/ideas/tips for Cyberpunk 2077, btw. I went into CP2077 blind and it's pretty cool. Great graphics. I hope I'll be able to buy property in the game. That dingy building you start out in sucks!

I hope you are jumping everywhere like a good TES player should. I don't think they rebalanced sneak very well when they sped up the movement mechanics - sneaking is still shit when you are low in stealth and you'll easily get spotted, but the extra speed of your character means when you stand behind a column near a rat or the like and tap directions so you move a fraction you build up stealth a lot faster than you used to, so you can easily clear 30 stealth before you have finished the tutorial.

Edit - also I went with my standard TES build since morrowind - Breton race of course (I'm racist), key attributes intelligence and willpower, sign of the atronach (broken as hell in this game) with major skills - blades (short blades previously), alchemy, stealth, destruction, mysticism, armourer and light armour. The class is called a gigolo, naturally.

Stealth archer was kind of the ultimate build for Skyrim. I played oblivion so long ago, and before the internet was where I went for all gaming info.

Is there an ultimate build for oblivion?

Wouldn't mind hearing about builds/ideas/tips for Cyberpunk 2077, btw. I went into CP2077 blind and it's pretty cool.

Knives, knives and more knives.

If you have three punknives, you can throw them all and the first one will return by the time you're ready to throw a fourth (at T5 with some perks, you can do it with two knives instead). They're silent, can be made nonlethal, don't need ammo, and can even attack in melee in a pinch.

The tutorial dungeon on Master is... certainly an experience, I wonder if the goblin witch is even beatable by non-bretons. The balance is hilariously retarded on this difficulty, I actually struggled against regular rats/goblins until I picked my class and now a basic summon is outputting like 10x my damage. I actually kind of like how gigajuiced the enemies are but I think I need some mod so Conjuration doesn't completely trivialize the game, I like playing summoners.

Wouldn't mind hearing about builds/ideas/tips for Cyberpunk 2077, btw.

Netrunner battlemage is the funniest shit I've ever played, stealth archering pales in comparison. It's just weak and clunky enough in the beginning that you have to actually use your brain wrinkles and explore what hacking can do (like distraction or remote detonation), and midgame onwards you can straight murder entire packs with contagious/AOE hacks. Peak l33t h4x0r fantasy, especially with how many ways there are to fuck with enemies (blind, disarm, power word: kys, etc).

I've been playing oblivion on difficulty 4/5. I wanted the game not to be completely trivial. But I think I'd lose any fight that wasn't 1v1. I don't really like how much hp and fatigue I lose by blocking attacks. I've died a handful of times in my 3 hours of playing, due to sudden high dmg attacks. My restoration spell isn't good enough. Even a mudcrab got the better of me once. Skill issue. :) Another one infected me with "swamp fever" early in the game, which I later found out reduced my strength and endurance by 10. You have to go into the menu and find active effects to see these things. It's been too long since I played ES. I should figure out where I can learn some destruction spells. That's one of my major skills and I haven't used it yet.

L33t h4x0r in 2077 sounds like it could be fun. I'll look into it next time I play.

I’ve played it for a few hours until Expedition 33 took over my time.

I’m unsure if I’ll finish it but I decided to play an archer which I’ve never done but it’s FUN.

If it’s just nostalgia talking I’ll only put a few more hours into it so tbd.

I decided to play an archer which I’ve never done

Amazing you didn't do a stealth archer like literally every other human. These games poisoned me into picking this archetype in almost EVERY videogame RPG, and most tabletop ones. It's sick, actually.

Heh, everyone ends up a stealth archer at some point in these games! :) The initial multiple x damage shot is too seductive.

Last I heard about it, the poor performance is due to the Original engine to the game still being in the background and using the UE 5 for the updating of graphics and what not.

A neat explanation. Too neat. When have UE games ever run well?

well, that was what I heard by hearsay as the reason for the game still being highly moddable. I would assume all the flaws in UE 5 become exacerbated once it has to interact with another game engine jury rigged to it.

I’ve only seen stuff online, but I’m not a fan of the color changes. The super white marble of the ruins and the general dreamlike quality were important to the aesthetic, because the game is magical, it’s not realistic. The game is dreamlike, the intended playstyle is that you are doing while awake the things you would do in a dream, essentially: walking around, exploring absurd things. Theres a quest within Oblivion that is a microcosm of the game itself: you see an oversaturated painting in a house and enter into the painting. If you add too much detail in nature, too much accuracy, it actually takes you out of the dreamy reverie which is Oblivion (imho)

Should be easy enough to mod.

There's already visual tweaks mods out there to do exactly what's being mentioned here.

Of course if they bury gender labels as a feature they'll be banned from Nexus within minutes, so don't rely on them but...

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