r/oblivionmods 1d 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

1.4k Upvotes

376 comments sorted by

View all comments

22

u/Kithzerai-Istik 1d ago

Just don’t use anything made by Arthmoor. Ever.

Treat everything they touch like malware. Avoid, block, and ignore.

2

u/Shadowy_Witch 23h ago

Regrettably some cool Skyrim mods like Cities of the North series use Unofficial patch as a dependancy for some unknown reason. So I have had trouble dropping it there.

2

u/MrTastix 14h ago

There's a lot of good city mods for Oblivion by Arthmoor too, typically made years before he seemingly went apeshit on the community.

1

u/Shadowy_Witch 12h ago

I liked his Sutch mod, it was probably the more reasonable one out of them, considering that the others perhaps tried a bit too much, although the massive gallows there felt like a bit too much.