No mods, his game is on Xbox. Anyways, this is going to be my thing with him from now on: I'll be watching to see if he yawns after a certain amount of time.

This post has been edited by Renee: May 31 2015, 07:05 PM

That is so interesting! Until you brought this up I had no idea that was a vanilla idle for characters, I thought only NPC's did it!

My Redguard kept doing it, that's the part that was so weird. He kept stifling his yawn every 15 seconds or so. Never noticed anything like it. If it had happened in one of my PC games, chances are I would have assumed "ah, that's just some mod".

That is so amazing! I wonder now what the conditions are for that yawn idle to play (like you mentioned, lack of sleep - or like Acadian said, maybe must be sitting?) I'll try to remember to check it out next time I'm in the CS.

I'm really glad you mentioned this, because I had no idea about it!

I am just discovering the awesomeness of the Acrobatics skill. This is one of those skills which has never gotten very high as I've gamed on consoles, mostly because my characters only jump when they absolutely have to. And it's rare they take a tumble from any sort of distance. None of my console games ever lasted longer than 350 hours, so unless I sat there and spammed jumping over and over again, this skill barely broke over Apprentice in most cases.

But Lady Saga's PC game is somewhere over 450 hours, and she jumps around quite a lot; she's supposed to have been some sort of dancer before becoming an adventurer. She's unafraid to jump from (let's say) a high ledge to a lower one, halfway across a room. And as her Acrobatics is finally past Journeyman, I'm finding that her jumping skills are getting to be downright Mario-ish. It's really fun!

This post has been edited by Renee: Jun 5 2015, 01:35 PM

I love jumping around in Oblivion. I like jumping from one rock to another, and seeing how far I can get without touching the ground. Or jumping up on the stone fences, and leaping from one of those little square sections that stick up from the rest of the wall to the next. You can get like a superhero, and even change direction mid-jump.

Like a cat! (or maybe I should say like a Khajiit!)

Okay - I just discovered a fairly simple thing in this game that I'd never known before.

You know those big falling blade traps in Ayleid ruins? The things like enormous rusty razor blades on chains that periodically fall, then winch back up, then fall again?

I never knew until just the other day that it's possible to jump over one of them while it's down. I've always gotten past them by waiting until they're winched all the way up, then going underneath quickly before they can fall. But the other day, I ran into one that was over an elevated section that had collapsed, so there was no way to run underneath it, so, on a whim, I tried jumping over it instead, and it worked like a charm.

All the time I've wasted over the years standing there, waiting for a blade to winch up so I could duck under it...

Nice to see you again gp'r!

Don't you take damage from the blades when you jump over them? I seem to recall taking damage when I just bumped up against them when they are down.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 23 2015, 04:10 AM

Aww dang! Yes, we can jump over those, this is true. You have to be careful though. If you do it wrong (if you run towards one but don't press jump soon enough) your character can wind up taking some damage.

ninja'd by SubRosa But like I was saying, if you do it right, you won't take damage.

This post has been edited by Renee: Aug 23 2015, 04:03 AM

Here's an odd one. (Well, I'm sure it's been noted before, but it's new to me.) I'm having to redo my installation from scratch (Ugh. Don't ask.), so watching the installation screenshots go by, I just realised that the Kvatch one has a guard riding a horse - inside the city. Suggests they maybe meant to make Kvatch an open city at one time. (I think this, like the other installation shots, also appears as a loading screen, but I hadn't noticed it there.)

whoa I'll have to check that out.

In the vanilla game, there are sometimes horse sound-effects (sounds of hooves on cobblestones) but no actual horses. So yeah, maybe they meant for towns to be open, but since that wasn't going to happen, best they could do was some sound-effects.

Think I've got some oddities happening because I'm in the middle of a slow reinstall. I just encountered First Mate Malvulis wandering up to the Talos Plaza gate. She wandered over and, instead of the usual threats, sang me a cute little song about a Redguard Pirate. (I decided not to talk to her in case she got all nasty again, perhaps she's actually a nice enough person if not stuck on that dockside.)

But there's no AI for this. Looking in the CS, poor Malvulis has no AI other than hanging around within a couple of hundred units of the docks. And UESP does say she has that song, but I've never heard her sing it, and can't find it referenced in the CS. (Can't be my Idle Dialogues mod, or UESP wouldn't list it. And I haven't fired up any Imperial City mods yet.)

Bit of waste really, now I think of it. Oblivion could use a few more songs, doesn't even make the most of the ones it's got.

Malvulis did that to me once too! I had set up some chairs, tables, and food outside my IC Waterfront shack, and she wandered over and sang to me! It was one of those AWESOME game moments!!!!

Brill, it's likely just not one of my mods being a bit odd then. Weird, though, I still can't see any AI packages or scripts that could make her do that. Sometimes I think the game engine is haunted...

Her wandering further than her spot is something like Count Skingrad's wandering into caves and as far as Bravil - it is like their wander package glitches its boundaries or something (or maybe has no boundaries).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxmhFIGTplE




Er, notice he is also outside in daylight?










This post has been edited by mALX: Sep 5 2015, 04:05 PM

Wow, how neat! I can't say I've ever heard her do anything but taunt any of mine, Taunting, insulting, I had no idea she sings.

I wonder if that's a disposition thing?

I have had her sing, taunt, and insult me, so its not disposition! (That's my love life... )

My spouse must get around,

All pirates died quite early in Lothran´s game so no one can sing anymore...