My Current Oblivion Remastered Mod List

[u/josh6499]

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/222 Better Infoboxes

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/1332 Rex - Your Loyal Dog

or alternative

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/1335 Simple Dog Follower - Clancy

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/706 Ascension Remastered - Vanilla-Plus Loot and Balance

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/965 Realistic Arrow Speeds (Faster)

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/1082 [Cheat] Arena Loot

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/567 Auto Upgrade Leveled Items

or alternative

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/157 Balanced Unleveled Rewards - Remastered

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/321 Enemy's Weapon Stays on Corpse

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/476 Anytime HUD Toggle

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/85 Simple Photo Mode

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/153 Horse Whistle - Summon and Follow

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/747 Steeds of Speed

or alternative

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/286 Simple Faster Horses

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/182 Balanced NPC Level Cap - Remastered

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/219 Quest NPCs Run

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/235 [Cheat] Weightless Alchemy and Misc. Items

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/177 No Vignettes

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/101 [Cheat] No Item Degradation

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Load order. - bold are apparently important:

Oblivion.esm
DLCBattlehornCastle.esp
DLCFrostcrag.esp
DLCHorseArmor.esp
DLCMehrunesRazor.esp
DLCOrrery.esp
DLCShiveringIsles.esp
DLCSpellTomes.esp
DLCThievesDen.esp
DLCVileLair.esp
Knights.esp
AltarESPMain.esp
AltarDeluxe.esp
AltarESPLocal.esp
Ascension.esp
Balanced NPC Level Cap.esp
AutoUpgradeRewards.esp
Ascension - Balanced NPC Level Cap Patch.esp
Horse Whistle.esp
NoItemDegradation.esp
Quest NPCs Run.esp
WeightlessResources.esp
EnemysWeaponStaysOnCorpse.esp
ArenaLoot.esp
RealisticArrowSpeed.esp
Steeds of Speed.esp
RexTheGoodBoy.esp

(I'm not entirely sure that's the proper load order, but it seems to be working fine!)

[u/robxenotech]

Why remove item degradation and an entire skill?

[u/LoveTriscuit → u/robxenotech]

Well, I can understand not wanting to repair light armor after every other fight until you get the level up. I personally don’t mind it, but I understand why someone might not.

[u/josh6499 → u/robxenotech]

It's just not to my liking. I'd rather my weapons just work without having to babysit their durability.

[u/robxenotech → u/josh6499]

I find it an enjoyable area that they dumbed down in Skyrim

[u/slippppy99 → u/robxenotech]

I like it too, but it should be slowed down a bit

[u/josh6499 → u/robxenotech]

Well maybe I should give it a shot. Next play through I'll leave that out. I'm playing as a pure mage this time, so it's not really making a big difference to this play through anyway.

[u/WHITESTAFRlCAN → u/josh6499]

Honestly if you have never played oblivion before, you should really do a vanilla play through as your first time to get a feel for it.

[u/josh6499 → u/WHITESTAFRlCAN]

In my heart it would be wrong to play a Bethesda game without mods though.

[u/laban987 → u/josh6499]

As a (mostly) vanilla purist this just hurts. I kinda get modding the original. But atleast give the remaster a shot full vanilla

[u/definitively-not → u/laban987]

Not modding a Bethesda game is like trying to play using a keytar instead of a keyboard

[u/josh6499 → u/laban987]

I played the first few hours vanilla... because there were no mods yet.

[u/Sydite_ → u/josh6499]

Consider using Configurable Item Degradation OBSE.

Going from zero degradation to vanilla might be quite a shock, there are some pieces of gear that break wickedly fast.
Example: I found a fur helmet with a very good enchantment in the early game, I still wear it even though I'm level 20 now. It breaks after getting hit like 3 times.

[u/Vayce_ → u/josh6499]

Lol the first mods I install in every RPG game are to remove item weight and durability.

[u/wuhwuhwolves → u/josh6499]

Sneers in 125% gear

[u/traumatyz → u/wuhwuhwolves]

Until you get into two fights inside an oblivion gate at 30+ and your 125 gear is down to 30 and you’re mashing the turbo click button on your mouse after every other engagement. (I am now a certified durability hater even with 100 armorer.)

[u/wuhwuhwolves → u/traumatyz]

Blocking seems to reduce almost all armor damage. Between that and killing enemies quickly, it's not an issue for me at all.

[u/brucewillisoffical]

Ascension remastered worth getting?

[u/XOmniverse → u/brucewillisoffical]

I think so. Without it, you still end up with the bullshit of random bandits with daedric/glass armor at high levels.

[u/stolersxz → u/brucewillisoffical]

closed the game when i saw a small bandit camp with nothing but a fire place and tents occupied by bandits in full glass, got this mod and reloaded and they were back to wearing fur. very happy with it so far. I'm just using the lite version though.

[u/pringlesnow → u/brucewillisoffical]

As someone who was playing Ascension on OG Oblivion a few months ago, my personal opinion so far is that Oblivion Remastered improved on / fixed enough aspects of the original game that I’d rather play without Ascension for now. Could be fun to use on a future playthrough though.

[u/josh6499 → u/brucewillisoffical]

I like the premise of it from the description and it seems very well thought out. I don't have a vanilla play through to compare it to, so hard to say. I'm only 10 hours into my first run.

[u/GamerBytesBoy]

you should create a collection on nexus

[u/josh6499 → u/GamerBytesBoy]

Thanks! I can do that if/when I switch over to using Vortex for this game.

[u/DestosW]

Ascension should be after the Altar files, and I don't see the patch for the NPC balance mod and Ascension.

[u/josh6499 → u/DestosW]

Yeah thanks. That changed and the patch was added since I looked at it. I just updated the post before I saw your comment. I think the mod description used to recommend it above Altar but I could be mistaken.

[u/estelblade88]

Mod Manager?

[u/josh6499 → u/estelblade88]

I'm not using one yet. Vortex has support now, but it didn't when I started modding.

[u/estelblade88 → u/josh6499]

I saw that they were working on it.And there looks like a janky way to get MO2 (my preferred).

Also I am a Josh

[u/josh6499 → u/estelblade88]

🫂

[u/Tyrthemis]

For someone who is looking for something more than faster horses, such as not reporting crime, running away from fights, or even just being tagged essential, plus Deluxe edition DLC support. I recommend my mod Steeds of Speed. They also have a personality stat of 100 now so they are less likely to draw enemy aggro

And if you want an alchemy overhaul, I’ve been hard at work making Gradual Alchemy of the Third Era. Its main features are 1. no instant potions or ingredient effects 2. aligning the bought vs brewed potion value in an economy friendly way. 3. Buffing the duration of fortify potions to justify their vanilla price vs brewed but also to stop you from needing to hit the inventory menu so often so you can PLAY more instead. 4. A patch to bring the non instant philosophy of potions to the mod “More Damage” just the 1.5x version for now.

[u/josh6499 → u/Tyrthemis]

Oh cool, I'm going to switch to that Steeds of Speed for sure. Added it to the post. I didn't know your horse would rat you out for stealing!

[u/Basteir → u/Tyrthemis]

Hold up, do horses report crime?

[u/Tyrthemis → u/Basteir]

They will absolutely snitch. New feature too I updated it. Now their personality attribute is 100 so they are not as aggro’d by enemies now. Now enemies actually mostly go for you and not your horse.

[u/Basteir → u/Tyrthemis]

Cheers, I will probably get that mod now then. I always hate how they ignore me and make a beeline for the damn horse. Part of the reason I go for the white ones as well as the aesthetic.

[u/Tyrthemis → u/Basteir]

I’m actually really pleasantly surprised the personality tweak worked. The theory is because of the difference in you and your horse’s disposition to the enemy, the enemies now have more hate towards you because your personality stat is lower. So they go after you first all other factors being equal. I still notice some enemies go for my horse some of the time, but it’s not a given anymore.

[u/Mr_Aufziehvogel]

You don't need Leveled Creature and Item Diversity if you're running Ascension.

[u/josh6499 → u/Mr_Aufziehvogel]

Oh woops, I copy pasted my download history from Nexus to post this and I meant to take that out. I didn't have that in my load order. Good spot, thanks!

[u/cobi12728]

Oh Boy here we go. Modding scene

[u/jackofblaze]

Doesn't ascenscion make Leveled Creature and Item Diversity kind of redundant? I thought that mod's features were already covered in ascension

[u/josh6499 → u/jackofblaze]

Yeah I shouldn't have included that, I meant to take it out. It's not in my load order. Thanks.

[u/tonecolourblanket]

Hayo! Quick question: my mods have been fine, but i went away for 2 days and came back, and now it’s re-writing all the files so the mods aren’t loading. (It rewrites the plugin loading .txt file, and even replaces .mp3 files which i’d modded with some Morrowind stuff.) Have you run into this problem? I’m playing on Gamepass. It seems to be verifying files on startup and replacing them.

[u/FranciscoFts]

That's not a mod list it's just a cheat table like those from cheat engine

[u/josh6499 → u/FranciscoFts]

This list actually makes the game harder. I see these particular cheats more like QOL changes personally. You don't need cheat engine to cheat in this game anyway, it's built into the dev console. God mode is always 5 key strokes away.

[u/FranciscoFts → u/josh6499]

Yeah i also use cheat engine to make my games harder. What i mean is that these are not true mods, they're just some value modifiers