The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Player Continues Bethesda Tradition and Spends 7 Hours Lining Up Books for In-Game Dominoes

Veteran Oblivion fans mightiness retrieve Domino Days, during which players would usage the game’s physics strategy to make a concatenation absorption of falling objects. It went connected to go a Bethesda contented that was continued with 2023’s Starfield and its much precocious physics.

Now, with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, that contented lives on, with 1 subordinate spending 7 hours lining up books to get the Dominoes concatenation absorption conscionable right.

Redditor Muaxh03 uploaded the video beneath showing their work. We spot the books dilatory autumn and sound the pursuing publication successful a satisfying fashion.

Muaxh03 said they did not usage mods to spot the books, alternatively placed them 1 by one, which sounds peculiarly grueling. They admit to spawning the books, however. The full process took 7 hours.

“... astir each clip I loaded the prevention thing broke, it was not reliable truthful yes I had to woody with books falling oregon glitching astir of the time, that's wherefore you tin spot immoderate desynchronizing connected the books, immoderate autumn slower oregon faster,” Muaxh03 explained.

NPCs were disabled, of course: “I would suffer my caput if determination was NPCs walking around,” Muaxh03 said.

While this effort is simply a bully commencement for Oblivion Remastered Dominoes, erstwhile efforts successful past Bethesda games were much elaborate and progressive varied objects. But playing astir with books successful Oblivion, adjacent Oblivion Remastered, is simply a batch harder than you mightiness deliberation due to the fact that you can’t rotate and spot objects successful Oblivion successful the aforesaid mode you tin successful Starfield oregon Skyrim.

“I spent the archetypal 1-2 hours trying to larn however to spot them good, aft that the stairs took 2-3 hours due to the fact that each clip I tested it, it gave maine antithetic results, each clip I loaded the prevention thing broke,” Muaxh03 said.

Reaction from Oblivion players has been universally positive, with a premix of disbelief astatine the time, effort, and patience that went into placing the books truthful precisely successful a crippled arsenic fiddly arsenic Oblivion.

What next? “Cool present capable a bookcase!” joked 1 player. “I would sooner combat a deity successful hand-to-hand combat unarmed. Last clip I tried to enactment a publication backmost the full country ended up successful shambles — SHAMBLES!”

Oblivion Remastered, developed by remake specializer Virtuos utilizing Unreal Engine 5, has a agelong database of ocular and diagnostic improvements. It runs astatine 4K solution and 60 frames per second, arsenic you'd expect, but different changes are much meaningful. Everything from the leveling systems to quality creation, and combat animations to in-game menus person been improved. Meanwhile, there's tons of caller dialogue, a due third-person view, and caller articulator sync technology. The changes are going down good with fans, immoderate of whom judge Oblivion Remastered would beryllium much accurately described arsenic a remake. Bethesda, however, has explained wherefore it went down the remaster route.

Now the crippled is retired successful the wild, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered players are informing newcomers to bash Kvatch earlier the level scaling makes it an implicit nightmare. We’ve besides got a study connected a subordinate who managed to flight the confines of Cyrodiil to research Valenwood, Skyrim, and adjacent Hammerfell, the rumored mounting of The Elder Scrolls VI.

And beryllium definite to cheque retired our broad usher to everything you'll find successful Oblivion Remastered, including an expansive Interactive Map, implicit Walkthroughs for the Main Questline and each Guild Quest, How to Build the Perfect Character, Things to Do First, each PC Cheat Code, and overmuch more.

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