Got oblivion downloading on steam, mods?

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Ive played oblivion through loads but never heavily modded, im not looking for a huge list, but just what you think are the essential mods for it, so far im getting OOO (the overhaul one), open cities, crowded cities, natural enviroments, and the UI mod.

Any other mods you consider essential?

thanks
 
If you're getting OOO theres also FCOM which is OOO plus Martigen's Monster Mod, Oblivion WarCry, and Francesco's Leveled Creatures-Items and supports other optional mods.
 
installed it with OOO, an LOD mod, natural enviroments, crowded cities, and a few more.

Seems a lot better, you can tell how much its aged even with mods it doesnt look great, but i love the game so much ill keep at it.
 
I can never get into Morrowind now... graphics grate on me a little but the gameplay of Oblivion just had so much more feel to it.

If you can get it working, FCOM is awesome, but it takes some serious dedication to download everything, find an install order off the net, install everything, then pray to god it works at the end of it all.
 
Some I use:

Quest Award Leveller - it annoyed me no end that stuff you get just stayed at the level you received them at and therefore made them useless later on.

Better Imperfect Water - the view distance underwater is a joke.

Quad Damage For Archers - I only use the 2x damage mod inside that zip. I loved playing an archer in Morrowind, but the archery damage is so weak in Oblivion, it made it almost pointless.

I don't think I used any other major mods as I like to keep the game as close to original creation as possible. The mods I use generally just fix, what I deem to be, flaws.
 
nitram100 said:
Bump for interest, about to play Oblivion myself for the first time and would love to know what mods are essential!

Cheers
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That's easy: none. The nearest thing to essential are mods are ones which a) shrink the UI, and b) modify the inventory system. There are a number of posters here who cannot tell the difference between "don't like" and "broken". They will give you endless lists of mods which alter just about everything in the game, none of which changes are necessary. The game isn't seriously bugged (one minor quest breaks if you don't follow instructions properly, that's about it), apart from the odd glitch on random games, which all games suffer from. (Edit: there is one serious bug if you install the original version of Shivering Isles and don't patch. It won't stop you completing the game, but it will be amazingly annoying.) Yes, the graphics have dated a bit, but graphical mods all require hugely powerful graphics cards and will slow the game down. The big game-play mods like OOO and MMM will change the game a LOT, but you need to understand that these mods are designed for long-term players who want a challenge. Virtually without exception they make the game much harder. They are not a good idea for people new to the game.

The best advice is: download the game and all the official plugins, and play it. Decide what you don't like and get a mod to fix it: there is almost certainly one out there. Leave the rest alone. Better yet, learn to mod the game yourself: it's not hard (even I can do it) and you learn a lot about the game and how much has to go into even the simplest bit of it. Ignore the people who tell you that this mod and that mod are "essential": particularly big mods like FCOM: because such people are talking nonsense. Those posters might like the result (if they can actually get it to work), but that doesn't mean that you will. Mod according to your tastes, not someone else's.


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I'd strongly recommend Mart's Monster Mod, even if you're playing for the first time. The wildlife in vanilla Oblivion is pretty stale. You can find a few monsters and such roaming about but considering the size of the world it's pretty empty. MMM adds a lot of monsters, in all shapes and sizes. It doesn't change the core gameplay like major overhaul mods (although it is included in FCOM), it just adds tonnes of diversity to the world. Well actually, it does make the game harder because you can run into monsters that are much higher level than you. The monsters don't automatically scale to your level like in the normal Oblivion. So it means you have to run away sometimes instead of being able to kill everything all the time.

Also a UI mod is definitely worth getting, the stock one is honestly awful.
 
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