ModsMods are the golden heart of Bethesda games. Morrowind had thousands of community-made mods. Not all great, of course, and most are to taste, but there were those that became essential for a more enjoyable or balanced gameplay experience.Oblivion is no different. There are already a swag of excellent mods available, and Atomic recommends the following: TOP: Original murky water. ABOVE: New improved modded water!We don’t want to favour any particular mod mirror, they all do a good job, so we’ll link the original threads.Remove the ‘Loading..’ and other annoying text promptshttp://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=296108Enable a PC-centric UI over the Xbox 360 designed UIhttp://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=300177Much better waterhttp://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=1830Combined Sneak-Eye Mover & Cross-hair size reducerhttp://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=291984Vagabond's Better Gold v1.0http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=289942&hlTextureFreak's timemod v1.1http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=285644Tandem's slower leveling 1.1http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=289263Brighter torcheshttp://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=295952Arrow velocity 1.0http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=280550Arcane velocity 1.0http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=288962Passive beastshttp://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=296125Portable bedroll 1.1http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=284956Improved huntinghttp://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=301008Better chase camerahttp://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=295459Spookier dungeon musichttp://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=299901Better Beast TongueA Wood Elf natural ability that works as expected – made by Atomic’s Editor!http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=289133Place all mod .esp files into your Games\Oblivion\Data directory and then select ‘Data Files’ from the Oblivion launcher to enable them.Be aware as you explore the modding community that some mods may change game data in a way that breaks your saves, so always play with them in a sandbox first.
Issue: 137 | June, 2012