2d ago

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered OUT NOW

Yep its a shadow drop. Out now on steam at least. No idea if its any good or not. At least the gfx are shiny. Never cared much for Oblivion back in the day. (Prefered Morrowind and Skyrim) but I might give this a try one day.

At least its going to feel like a whole new game for me if I get to it, since I played it so little back when I first tried it.

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Digital deluxe version has exclusive horse armor
- Crack is already out and propagating across the internet. It's up on private trackers right now. Check cs.rin.ru later today and I bet it'll be there.
  
  Edit: 13 minutes later, and it's there.

I just reinstalled the original and am modding it now because fuck playing it unmodded
- Can't imagine playing a Bethesda game without merging .esp files because I've already hit the 255 limit.
  
  You don't really need to do that anymore on Skyrim they merge small mods automatically and lots of mods don't even need esps anymore

Cool, how easy is it to pirate
- it's been cracked. the RUNE release is out, you can find it on 1337x or rutracker but ratios are gonna be nasty on public trackers at least for the next day or two. i'm grabbing it currently off a private tracker but even from there its slow as hell cause so many people want it. best bet might be to wait for fitgirl or DODI repack.
  
  The one good thing about bethsoft is their lax anti-piracy measures. Let's me try things before committing with a purchase in 10 years
- I've been meaning to ask. Is this community okay with piracy? Desperately need space to discuss stuff but it's been hard to find
  
  piracy is awesome and we encourage it unless you have the means to not do it (but also do it anyway because money is best spent elsewhere)
  
  Hexbear loves piracy
  
  this instance has more people who pirate than not

it's not the True Oblivion Experience if it doesn't have the item cloning bug
- If I can't crash my system by filling a room with a mountain of watermelons, I'm not interested

Skyblivion still looks better imo, there's not a brown overlay on everything, and it will be much easier to mod out of the box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwUibq6wBn4
- I honestly don't think Skyblivion will get finished now.
  
  Why do you say that? They're like 95% done.
- I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
  yewtu.be
  inv.nadeko.net
  yt.artemislena.eu
  piped.video

the only condition i have for playing this is that if must be woke as hell and full of DEI.
- Chuds are already malding because in character creation male/female has been changed to body type 1/2
  
  chuds are always malding call me when there's something new.
  
  someone already put up a mod on Nexus called "OG Body Type" to revert it to M/F 🙄
- :D
  
  woke as hell will download as soon as i can.

Get to the magic college n start handcraftin your own game-breaking spells. Also the assassins guild quests are good. Pretty meh otherwise

There doesn't appear to be an AI disclosure on the Steam page, which Steam requires for games with AI generated assets.
So I guess they probably didn't just run everything through some shitty "AI upscaler" and slap a $50 price tag on it.
- From what I can tell they just contracted a studio out of Singapore to handle it which seems to be the play nowadays for game remasters, hire a studio in Eastern EU or SEA to do all the labor and then rake in some nostalgia bucks.

Just a matter of time before we get Morrowind Remastered.
And, of course, the main dish: Skyrim Remastered Extreme U5 Edition.

Maybe I'll be able to play this for more than a few hours. The original was terrible

Did they change gameplay or is it just the same game with upscaled visuals?
- In a move that has baffled everyone, it's the original 2000's gamebryo engine handling game logic while all 3D visuals have been remade from scratch with UE5 as a graphics wrapper.
  They also changed some base combat mechanics to be less floaty, added hit reactions and FX, and added sprinting.
  It is a strange Frankenstein's monster that can load mods made for the original Oblivion game and runs pretty shite
- Per reddit:
  New voice acting (mixed in with original voices - each race has a unique voice now)
  New combat animations with hit feedback
  Sprinting system added
  Reworked third-person view (aim was to match Starfield's TPV)
  New levelling system (fusion of Oblivion + Skyrim...whatever that means)
  New interface (retains the general aesthetic of the original game's UI)
  New content with Deluxe Edition
  Every model/texture in the game has been remade by hand
  Remastered VFX and SFX, added effects for combat
  Uses Unreal Engine 5 for graphics, original engine for core gameplay systems.
  
  AFAIK, the new level up system just hands you a bunch of points you can distribute to your attributes freely. The old leveling system was one of the very few things I would mod away every time I played so I'm happy with the change.

Lol this is the first place I read of it while I was on break. My pc is too potato to run this, I don't have the space and I don't have the specs. I sort of want to see what skeletal system this thing is using, I'd guess its old Oblivion's system of nifs with just enough UE5 to make serious modding painful. They for sure reused some of OG Oblivion's attack animations. The lighting looks too grim for the land of happy potato people.
Anyway, modders for other retro communities remade their game for free using UE5, they remaster and charge, should have just upgraded the engine but that's #effort.
- from browsing the skyrimmods subreddit over the course of the day, people discovered that the remaster contains pretty much the same file structure and formats as used in the original, with plugins able to be loaded up and edited in the old Construction Set as well as TES4Edit. Saw one thread where a commenter mentioned that modders on Discord believe that meshes are "statically linked" or baked into the formids, as opposed to being linked at runtime or "dynamically linked". seems like mesh edits and animations could be the modding wall for the remaster if that's confirmed.

can't wait to get lost in the fucking maze that is oblivion gates
oh you're supposed to find this cave entrance that has no signifying features and blends into the mountain face and in a completely random inconspicuous location and you've been running around trying to get to the main tower for 1.5 hours?
great fucking game wooooooooooo
all snobby comments about oblivion aside, the dark brotherhood questline is the best questline in the ES series. bar none.

can someone explain to me how gamebryo and ue5 are involved? i thought you could only have one engine running a game so like what is it
- Gamebryo is being used for the game logic while Unreal for the actual game afaik.