Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

[PeteJ]

Been doing a few shrine quests today, and am now pretty much god-like thanks to the goodies in my inventory.

I picked up some arrows which did some sort of fire explosion, it was like a nuke going off! I only had three, but everything near just died (and was thrown across the screen), even I got badly damaged! I have similar ones for Ice and Spark, which I'll probably keep

[ascender]

Just closed my first Oblivion gate. Totally blew my mind. I can safely say I've not played a game that's had this sort of effect on me since HL2.

[Concept]

Any word on when there's a 360 patch due for this? I want to get back into it.

[erhgiez]

People have been saying that there is no good loot at the beginning but i have found some really expensive stuff in the first few levels, primarilly a goblin staff (with an actual goblins head on the top) worth 8000 (20 shock dmg, 111 charges), this was a god send at level 2, are there any good bits lying around elsewhere?

[MartyG]

Never found anything like that earlier on - but dungeons are littered with similar things after level 20.

Concept - no word on patch release, only that it will be released to the PC community first as a beta before it goes to the 360 ( official forums ).

[Concept]

Cheers.

[Sane]

A patch? Are there any big, gamebreaking bugs I should be aware of? I'm level 7 now and haven't done much of the story yet, so please tell me if there's anything I should avoid doing.

[El Leone]

well if you become a vampire, try and find the cure before completing the main quest.

[Uli]

well if you become a vampire, try and find the cure before completing the main quest.

why is that? is the game going to crash or even not completable?

[Kevvy Metal]

Any word on when there's a 360 patch due for this? I want to get back into it.

Dude, it ain't THAT bad. I doubt any patch will fix the out door streaming problems. With the ocationaly clearing of the hard drive and keeping the no. of save games to a minimum, it run acceptibly well IMO, i've played it for 70 hrs and it only crash once cuz i got stuck on a rock.

It's gotta be ur 360 dude.

[Concept]

Dude, it ain't THAT bad. I doubt any patch will fix the out door streaming problems. With the ocationaly clearing of the hard drive and keeping the no. of save games to a minimum, it run acceptibly well IMO, i've played it for 70 hrs and it only crash once cuz i got stuck on a rock.

It's gotta be ur 360 dude.

Not on about the streaming problems. Crashing is my main concern. Five times in 100 hours was too much - high standards maybe, but I don't like playing games under the constant threat of hanging - it's a barrier to immersion, as were the other engine glitches. Anyway... been over this. Marty answered my question, so I'll continue waiting and re-enter the thread when a patch has been released.

[Sane]

Dude, it ain't THAT bad. I doubt any patch will fix the out door streaming problems. With the ocationaly clearing of the hard drive and keeping the no. of save games to a minimum, it run acceptibly well IMO, i've played it for 70 hrs and it only crash once cuz i got stuck on a rock.

It's gotta be ur 360 dude.

Does having fewer save files really make a difference? Because I'm making it a point to have as many as possible in case I need to roll back to an earlier one.

[PeteJ]

It was mentioned earlier that there is a bug in the Fighter Guild which means one of the quests cannot be completed - I'm going through this at the moment, is there anything I can do to prevent the bug?

RE amount of saves - I've noticed a performance increase since deleting a load of saves, but to be honest it probably makes very little difference.

[El Leone]

why is that? is the game going to crash or even not completable?

Dunno, All I know is that if you do, the person will ask you to find the ingreidents and once yer do and go back to her, it won't show up on the subject list and you can't make any progress.

[flutey]

It was mentioned earlier that there is a bug in the Fighter Guild which means one of the quests cannot be completed - I'm going through this at the moment, is there anything I can do to prevent the bug?

RE amount of saves - I've noticed a performance increase since deleting a load of saves, but to be honest it probably makes very little difference.

I've played through the fighters guild quests and gone through them all. I don't recall anything that made me feel stuck or couldn't complete one. I think I read about one of them causing a stat freeze or something.