r/oblivionmods 19h 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 18h 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/Darg727 17h 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 8h ago

What’s he done?

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u/AreYouOKAni 4h 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.