The other thread on Oblivion was getting reeeeeally long, so I thought I’d ask my questions here:
Why can’t I wear clothes and armor at the same time? The NPCs seem to be able to do it, but I’m running around with only a curias and greaves to cover my shame.
I have a weapon that is supposed to absorb a lot of NPCs attributes. Am I only supposed to hit them with it once, and then kill them by another means (a spell), or do I need to keep hacking away with the sword until they’re dead to get the gains?
I’m Arch-Mage, so I get to use the apartment. I put some stuff in the dresser at the foot of my bed and the next time I went back, it was gone. Where would I find it?
4)I reached 100 in Alchemy, but on my skill screen, it shows a progress bar to the next level. Can you go higher than 100?
General X-Box 360 question: When I turn it on, nothing happens. I always have to turn it on at least twice, sometimes three or four times, before it comes on my TV. (The lights on the box flash, but I get no video or audio.)
As long as it’s charged you get absorb the attributes on a single hit for as long as it’s supposed to last. if you go to the rightmost icon in the attributes section of the tab menu you will see all current skill change effects.
Somebody didn’t listen to the guy when promoted to Archmage. You’re supposed talk to the chick in Alchemy section of the grounds. It’s not a normal chest.
No it can’t but you never know what they might decide to do with expansion.
The chests you don’t own refresh themselves periodically. As in, empty then refill with random items.
Despite that you are an arch mage, and you have access to the apartment, you don’t “own” the chest. The only ones you do own are in the houses you buy. I had the same problem at the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary. I lost a lot of good stuff, now I keep it all in my shack in the Imperial City Waterfront (it’s a hole, but it’s got storage room and only cost 2000 gold)
Yeah, it is. I must have confused it with Morrowind (which I was still playing until Oblivion came out.)
Couple of more questions:
What happens if your horse dies? I’m still riding Prior Marabel’s Paint Horse, seeing no reason to invest in another. Wolves and the like tend to attack the horse. Is there any way to check the horse’s health or to heal it? What happens if it dies?
What’s with the random fights that seem to break out around me? I entered the Fighter’s Guild yesterday and suddenly a guy named (Something) Black Nails started attacking guild members. They killed him, and I looted a Burma Castle key off of his body. Happens on the street occasionally, too. A fight will break out without warning or apparent cause, leaving a body on the street.
How can I tell the progress or gains from an “absorb (whatever)” spell? I see a glowing line connecting me with the person from which I’m absorbing the skill, but how do I know how much I’m getting?
If I have to leave the game, say to make dinner or something, can I set my character on sneak in front of a guard like you could in Morrowind and increase the skill while I’m gone? I’ve tried to do it twice, but both times when I came back the screen was dark and the game had locked up. (Had to reboot.)
If you look at your horse after it has been attacked you should see a health bar the same as the one you see when attacking an enemy. To heal the horse you need to have a ‘heal other’ spell. You can find them occationaly but the easiest way to get one is to make a heal spell that heals on target or on touch rather than on self.
I am guessing that the random fights are just part of the radiant AI, I run into them on occation as well. I suppose that some one just did something to piss some one else off. I’ve seen people be attacked for accidently hitting the wrong person during a fight for instance. Enemy comes into town, a group of people attack the enemy, some one misses enough times and hits another town person, once the enemy is dead they all gang up on the incompotent one.
To see what you have absorbed I believe that you go into your magic menu and they should be listed on the screen that shows what magic is currently effecting you.
It looks like this time you have to actually be moving for your sneak skill to go up so no more sitting in a corner and leveling while you do other things.
The AI appears to be capable of making “mistakes” as well ( possibly on purpose, thus the quotes ). I’ve started fights among enemies by shooting one with an arrow from sneak.
You have to buy a new horse. Each town has a stable offering horses with different qualities. The black horses of Chorral* are the fastest in the game. Other cities have horses with more hit points, and so forth.
*Or was it Cheydinhal? One of the two.
The Mythic Dawn cult that assassinated the emperor has put sleeper agents in all the towns in the game. At some point - possibly after you decipher the riddle from the various Mythic Dawn commentaries and attack their headquarters - these assassins will start gunning for you whenever you enter a town. Luckily for you, allied factions and town guards will help fight these guys for you.
Today I saw an odd one. Guards suddenly started running toward a civilian, and began attacking. (One yelled “Stop thief!” so it must have been a resisted arrest.) But then, the guards started fighting amongst themselves. Finally, Hernius Itus (sp?) was the only one left standing (I dealt with him during one of the quests-- it was the one about the corrupt watchman you have to gather evidence on) and he attacked me for no good reason. Bizarre.