Offical Patch comming and the new Downloads

[TheCrimsomBlade]

From The offical Forums and Pete Hines

Patch/Update
We are working on a patch/update for both the PC and Xbox 360. It will address a number of issues that we have found and ones that have been reported to us and confirmed. It is our plan to first release it as a beta patch for the PC when it has cleared our initial testing cycles internally. Since it’s a beta patch you should be aware that issues may come up that we haven’t found yet and we strongly recommend you backup save games and understand it may be necessary to reinstall the game when the final patch comes out.

We are also looking into the localization issues that have come up in Europe and are working to address some of those issues. A European Patch/Update will be available after the English versions.

We’re doing both of these things as fast as we can and will let everyone know as soon as they are available.

Downloadable Content
We have been working on downloadable content since we finished the game in February, and we continue to feel this is a great avenue for us to continue to add to the Oblivion experience.

We have already announced two of them:

The Orrery
The Orrery allows you to help the Mages Guild of Cyrodiil repair the Imperial Orrery, an ancient dwarven machine with mystical properties. Bandits have stolen a shipment of parts destined for the Arcane University; if you can return them, the Orrery will function once more.

Features

* A new, full-featured quest, including dialogue, journals, and rewards
* Access to the Imperial Orrery in the Arcane University, an incredible mechanical marvel
* New powers available for your character based on the phases of the moons


The Wizards Tower
Located high in the Jeral Mountains of Cyrodiil away from prying eyes, this Wizard's Tower, Frostcrag Spire, will become available. Packed with numerous useful enhancements, this structure will prove invaluable to magic-oriented characters.

Features

* A fully detailed tower for you to explore
* A breathtaking view of Cyrodiil from the highest point in the land
* Simple furnishings including a bed for leveling up
* An indoor botanical garden with over 130 specimens... including Oblivion-native herbs!
* Summon Atronach Familiars that obey your commands
* Instant teleports to every Mages Guild in Cyrodiil
* New Spell and Recharge vendor in the Imperial City
* Fully upgrade the furnishings in your lair to suit your needs
* Upgrade to a fully functional Enchanting and Spellmaking station with no need to join Mages Guild
* Upgrade to a laboratory that buffs your Alchemy skill


We hope to have The Orrery available for purchase next week. This plugin will cost 150pts on Xbox, and $1.89 on the PC. The Horse Armor Pack has been very popular, and exceeded what we thought it would sell. Despite that, we’re still trying to find the right spot, so we’re putting a much larger plugin out for less than the last one and we'll see what happens. Your feedback as we move forward in this is invaluable. Tell us what you want to see, how much of it, and what it might be worth to you. No, don’t say you want it free, because these plugins take a surprising amount of time to create, polish, and test (much more then Morrowind's).

Finally, thank you to everyone who has supported not just Oblivion, but Bethesda Softworks over the years. Oblivion has been a tremendous success for us, and we thank you all for making that happen. We hope we continue to earn your gaming time.

Pete (and Todd)

[SpiritWarrior]

Yeah, I had seen mention of this yesterday. Cheap plugins to be sure but it's just the fact of needing a method to purchase online that deters many people. Still, gotta hand it to them for at least bringing down the price.

I hope it will fix that horrible 'fast talking' issue I have with NPC's sometimes as I miss alot of the text and speech for quests when it happens and have to go looking in my log.

[JrKASperov]

Oh yeah, did we mention that horse armor plain sucked and the orrery isn't something to gawk at either? In stead of full-blown quest they could have said 'bland killthis-getthat quest without new dialogue and standard boring journal additions'

[Memnoch]

Has anyone been having something like a memory leak problem? Where the game starts getting slower and slower the longer you play it?

[SpiritWarrior]

Yes. I exit, wait, then reboot the game and take it from there. Theres a console command that frees up the cache so I hear but I have found that these manual commands forcing textures and data out only serve to make things worse or spawn errors. Nothing beats a fresh restart of the game. I hope the fix it too.

[Hivetyrant]

Ermm... I'm pretty sure this is old news, the Orrery has already been realeased... and as expected, it is crap

[Bozos of Bones]

Fifty Septims says we're gonna have to pay for it.

[TheCrimsomBlade]

Originally posted by Memnoch: Has anyone been having something like a memory leak problem? Where the game starts getting slower and slower the longer you play it?

SpiritWarrior has the best solution!!! I noticed this slow down after playing for better than 4 hours. When I came out of one of the Oblivion Gates just after closeing it. I was or my character was moving in S-L-O-W----M-O-T-I-O-N and I thought I had been hexed or hit by a spell and looked at the game clock speed and it was running real fast and the trouble shooter said "Game in loop suggest restart" on my game clock speed monitor. I saved the game and hit EXIT GAME then restarted and then I reopened the game I had just saved and everything was back to normal.
I also have been reading that if you turn off the footstep sounds in the game ini file this slow down will also be discontinued. I checked my ini file and found I already had the footsteps changed from =1 to =0 so I switched it back to =1, that didn't apear to be the slow down problem.

Notice that with the new patch comming they tell you to copy your save games file before you add the patch then uninstall the game and then reinstall and patch the game afterward then transfer the copied save game file back into the new save game file.
This sounds like it will be a very large Patch

[ 04-22-2006, 07:24 AM: Message edited by: TheCrimsomBlade ]

[Hivetyrant]

Originally posted by TheCrimsomBlade: quote: Originally posted by Memnoch: Has anyone been having something like a memory leak problem? Where the game starts getting slower and slower the longer you play it?

SpiritWarrior has the best solution!!! I noticed this slow down after playing for better than 4 hours. When I came out one of the Oblivion Gates just after closeing it I was, or my character was moving in S-L-O-W----M-O-T-I-O-N and I thought I had been hexed or hit by a spell and looked at the game clock speed and it was running real fast and the trouble shooter said "Game in loop suggest restart" on my game clock speed monitor. I saved the game and hit EXIT GAME then restarted and then I reopened the game I had just save and everything was back to normal.
I also have been reading that if you turn off the footstep sounds in the game ini file this slow down will also be discontinued. [/QUOTE]Hmm, I doubt it's related to hardware, as both you and I have high end systems, yet I don't encounter any slow down, even after 5+ hours of playing, could it be a game setting?

[Hivetyrant]

Originally posted by Bozos of Bones: Fifty Septims says we're gonna have to pay for it.

heheh, bet your right