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.
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.
Maybe I’ll be able to play this for more than a few hours. The original was terrible
125 gb???
devs dont want to optimize their games anymore, smh
all the specs from this Remaster is honestly too much; storage size, 32 GB RAM to run it comfortably, prob need high spec CPU and GPU as well…
Get to the magic college n start handcraftin your own game-breaking spells. Also the assassins guild quests are good. Pretty meh otherwise
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
It has been probably 5 years since I’ve really tried to get a play through going but I was mostly just making a bad joke.
Cool, how easy is it to pirate
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
this instance has more people who pirate than not
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)Fuck the
space and support cool indies if you can.That’s why the money is best spent elsewhere (stealing groceries)
Microsoft (who owns Bethesda) is on the BDS boycott list, so piracy is the correct move
Great! My current setup of Linux+Piracy has been hard to find support and community for. Glad to see at least the major part of the issue is a non issue here.
I really enjoyed my Linux setup (up until I realized that Ubuntu was really sucking and I needed to start over). Dunno what’s the slickest way to make pirated stuff work but I was using portproton back then
Ohh I found one. There’s a Linux repacker who does script installers that you just have to download and run. And it even creates an application shortcut. No other tweaking necessary as long as you’re using a distro that’s pretty up to date.
The downside is that there’s very few seeds so downloads might be slow. And since it’s one person, they don’t keep around all the games they’ve done, so when I get older games I sometimes have to just let the torrent be active in the background for some random seeder to show up days later.
The name is LinuxRulez.
Oh theres Linux repacks now?! Amazing. I’m mostly steamdeck now but if I can ever upgrade my PC I’ll be looking into this
Edit: or I guess the next time I wanna pirate on steamdeck lol
linux
piracy
Those are the magic words around here.
Shoutout to the one user who told me that suggesting people should switch to Linux was ableist lmao.
I managed to install Linux and i look at computers like they’re magic half of the time.
- Hexbear loves piracy
Love to hear it. I’ve been pirating pretty much everything for the past year and been hard to find discussions and community.
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
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.
I saw a Donkey from Shrek mount replacement mod, I’m sure there’s a way it just won’t be easy since TES4 modders aren’t familiar with UE5 and vice-versa, we’ll need a tool to make those talk to each other for ease of modding.
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.
Just a matter of time before we get Morrowind Remastered.
And, of course, the main dish: Skyrim Remastered Extreme U5 Edition.
I’ll probably get to this eventually if it is good. I just hope Expedition 33 is good and still does well with this competition.
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.
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
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.
Will prob. get it once the physical version’s out
