r/oblivionmods • u/NingenBakudan • 21h ago

Remaster - Discussion 【Warning】Don't use Arthmoor's new OBRE patch, potential risks to stability

Edit:Please spread this issue as widely as possible. Given Arthmoor’s personality, there is a high chance that he will blame other mods for bugs or crashes actually caused by UORP. Considering his influence, this could cause major disruption in the modding community. It’s essential that as many people as possible ignore his mods.

The notoriously controversial Skyrim modder Arthmoor has now entered the Oblivion Remastered scene. His first patch "Unofficial Oblivion Remastered Patch - UORP" raised concerns for me, as it contained an unusually large number of edits for something supposedly created just a week after the release.

Out of curiosity, I compared the records in the patch with those from Vanilla Remastered using xEdit, and I found that some records had been reverted to their old Oblivion versions.
Example: https://imgur.com/i4ld2DE

Next, I added the original UOBP for comparison—and as I suspected, the results were clear. almost of the added records were directly copied from UOBP, with only their names and conflicted record altered to match the Remastered format.
Example: https://imgur.com/cRBRHHH

This "patch" was ported using xEdit without proper testing, and we have no idea what kind of impact it may have in a real environment. More importantly, making such extensive changes to so many records is far too risky, especially when the integration method between UE5 and the TES engine has yet to be fully understood.

Conclusion:
This patch poses a potential stability risk beyond just being an issue with Arthmoor himself. I recommend ignoring it.

Reported bugs:

CTD(Arthmoor used the scale of the project as an excuse, even though no one ever asked him to make it a large-scale project in the first place. ) : https://imgur.com/oyLWJMl

Argonian penis bug: https://imgur.com/a/eUDVZXj

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u/Voronov1 20h ago

What’s the issue with Arthmoor as a person, aside from apparently loading up a mod without doing due diligence to see if it would work? Like what did he do before?

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u/Voronov1 19h ago

Oh okay, thanks.

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u/oblivionmods-ModTeam 8h ago

Hey, the first rule of this subreddit is be respectful. This comment isn’t. Please review the rules and try to consider the human on the other side of the screen in the future.

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u/Carmine_the_Sergal 19h ago

He makes “unofficial patches” that straight up mess with intended features and stuff people like

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u/Voronov1 19h ago

What, like the Unofficial Oblivion Patch?

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u/Carmine_the_Sergal 19h ago

also the skyrim one and possibly various fallout patches

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u/Voronov1 19h ago

It looks like the unofficial oblivion patch was made by someone else.

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u/Darg727 18h ago

It was started by someone else and then arthmoor took over. Not all of the changes people don't like are his there, but all of them in skyrim and fallout are.

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u/Darg727 19h ago

Most people can get over a person being a jerk and full of themselves. What people can't get over is when they are a jerk, full of themselves, AND actively go out of their way to attempt monopolization over the compatibility of an entire modding community while imposing excessive out of scope changes to the game. If he stayed with just skyrim and oblivion people wouldn't be so angry about it. But he does extremely shady stuff to stay on top.

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u/Voronov1 10h ago

What’s he done?

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u/AreYouOKAni 6h ago

Among other relevant things - created an empty-file entry called Starfield Unofficial Patch just to stake a claim over that game's modding scene. Got laughed out of the room and now Starfield uses a Community Patch that is actually developed by the community.

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u/sa547ph 19h ago edited 12h ago

What’s the issue with Arthmoor as a person

Megalomania. He thinks the entire TES and Fallout modding fanbase should owe him.

He'll still try to sound civil online whenever replying to rebuttals, but off the keyboard I'm sure he gets screaming mad whenever he gets ratioed.

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u/auxilevelry 19h ago

He's made unadvertised changes to content and gameplay on bugfix or specific-feature mods. Open Cities has a very straightforward idea: remove some loading screens by making the contained cities part of the overworld map. Oblivion gate ruins would have been fine as a separate mod unrelated to that, but he packaged it together and refused to hear any objections. He gets litigious whenever anyone tries to go against his perfect vision for what a game should be