Well I have to say Oblivion had been one of the best games I'd played in recently memory - great story, funny, and super open ended. I've now realised that this open ended game has a huge problem - it hasn't been properly bug tested.
I'm going to keep this as unspecific and spoiler free as possible. I was doing the Mage's Guild initiation where you have to obtain a recommendation from every Guild head in each city in Cyrodil. Fine. I'd gotten 3/5 and moved onto the 4th in Cheydenhal. Basically this involves going down a well to retrieve an item.
Problem is I needed to use a spell that needs 25 alteration to go under the water long enough. No problem I thought - I'll just play other missions and train up my Alteration and come back to this one later. As it turns out that was a huge mistake.
So off I went, gaining two levels and amassing 3hrs of play time (that's 3hrs of play time, not time I spent playing the game - think about twice that of actual time spent in game). Finally I had another item that would mean I didn't have to use alteration... Head back down to the well and guess what... The item isn't there. The green map marker is, but the item itself isn't there. So I tried going back a few saves.... I had to go back 25 save games to get to a point where the 'item' was there and that was back when I was first given the quest.
So I've lost about 3-4 dungeons, 3 fighter's guild quests, about 3 random quests and all the weapons/potions/experience and items I've found between then and now and also gone from Level 7 to Level 5.
I've tried everything I can think of to rescue it. I've cleared the cache, tried loading at different points before I had certain items, loading the game that has the item, then my latest save and it still won't work.
Anyone have any ideas?
I'm completely gutted, I'd finally gotten some good weapons, and had reached a good level where battles seemed more skill than luck. I just can't believe they didn't catch this bug.
If anyone can fix this for me I'll be extremely grateful.
Pete
I'm going to keep this as unspecific and spoiler free as possible. I was doing the Mage's Guild initiation where you have to obtain a recommendation from every Guild head in each city in Cyrodil. Fine. I'd gotten 3/5 and moved onto the 4th in Cheydenhal. Basically this involves going down a well to retrieve an item.
Problem is I needed to use a spell that needs 25 alteration to go under the water long enough. No problem I thought - I'll just play other missions and train up my Alteration and come back to this one later. As it turns out that was a huge mistake.
So off I went, gaining two levels and amassing 3hrs of play time (that's 3hrs of play time, not time I spent playing the game - think about twice that of actual time spent in game). Finally I had another item that would mean I didn't have to use alteration... Head back down to the well and guess what... The item isn't there. The green map marker is, but the item itself isn't there. So I tried going back a few saves.... I had to go back 25 save games to get to a point where the 'item' was there and that was back when I was first given the quest.
So I've lost about 3-4 dungeons, 3 fighter's guild quests, about 3 random quests and all the weapons/potions/experience and items I've found between then and now and also gone from Level 7 to Level 5.
I've tried everything I can think of to rescue it. I've cleared the cache, tried loading at different points before I had certain items, loading the game that has the item, then my latest save and it still won't work.
Anyone have any ideas?
I'm completely gutted, I'd finally gotten some good weapons, and had reached a good level where battles seemed more skill than luck. I just can't believe they didn't catch this bug.
If anyone can fix this for me I'll be extremely grateful.
Pete
I'm just gutted and really don't feel like playing through all that again as exactly the same thing could happen again.
) so i'll try and make sure i do this one sharpish.