Respawning daedra from the Oblivion gates attack the nearest town. This gives you a strong incentive to close the Oblivion gates or complete the main quest.
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Mod: Oblivion Crisis 1_1 Game: TES IV: Oblivion Requirements: A powerful computer, lest you have lag. Author: David Brasher Release Date: 4/17/11 ************************************************************************ CONTENTS ************************************************************************ 1. Information on the Mod 2. Installation 3. Version History 4. Conflicts, Known Issues, and Troubleshooting 5. Copy Status and Credits ************************************************************************ 1. INFORMATION ON THE MOD ************************************************************************ In this mod, respawning daedra from the Oblivion gates attack the nearest town. This gives you a strong incentive to close the Oblivion gates or complete the main quest.
Have you ever thought, "Oblivion Crisis? What is the big deal? The gates don't even open if I don't play the main quest. If I do play the main quest, then the Oblivion gates are just mainly there as scenery. The daedra mostly don't invade Tamriel. They just hang around by their gates. If I leave them alone, they will leave me alone, and everyone else too. Sure, they really did a number on Kvatch, but then is it like they ran out of steam and don't have the strength or will to attack any more cities. (Unless you play through the main quest to get to the points where they attack Bruma and then the Imperial City.)" So the Oblivion Crisis can come across as seeming rather lame or weak.
This mod seeks to change this, and perhaps succeeds too well. It ended up being an apocalyptic mod which can decimate the civilian population of Cyrodiil. The unleveled respawning daedra walk from their Oblivion gates to the nearest town and start attacking people. When they die, they respawn after three days at their gates again and walk to town again for more destruction. They attack all the major towns and a lot of the small villages too.
The towns have put extra guards into position to try to hold back the invasion. The Imperial City has the best defenses and suffers the fewest civilian casualties. The people in the other towns are angry that the Empire is concentrating its resources on defending the Imperial City and abandoning everyone else to their fate.
The Oblivion gates in this mod start opening near the beginning of the game, right after character generation. So you do not need to go to Kvatch to start seeing a lot of action. The daedra are not leveled, and players of all levels will encounter everything from Stunted Scamps and Clannfear Runts to Spider Daedra and Xivilai. (If you are level 1 and you see a Xivilai, it might be wise to run away.)
Each Oblivion gate has between one and four daedra that respawn at it and attack towns. The typical gate just has one such daedra associated with it. If you close an Oblivion gate, the daedra associated with it will be disabled and will no longer attack towns. They will not come back, even if the gate reopens.
When you beat the main quest, all the daedra added by this mod will be disabled.
So if you want the Oblivion Crisis to be a truly meaningful and terrifying thing, then this might be a good mod for you. ************************************************************************ 2. Installation ************************************************************************ Make several copies of your savegame before installing this mod. Use of this mod can cause extensive casualties among the civilians of the towns. If you decide you don't want to continue playing this mod, you will be glad you have the back-up so you can return to a point before the daedra attacked and killed so many people.
Extract (decompress) the .esp file to your Oblivion directory, the default is: C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Data\ Mark the box next to the "Oblivion Crisis" plugin.
Alternately, extract someplace else. Then move the esp. and sound files to Oblivion\Data.
Uninstallation: Deactivate and remove the .esp. All the daedra which attack towns will be removed when you do this. The people the daedra killed when the mod was active will remain dead unless those people are of the respawning sort. The Oblivion gates you closed while playing this mod will remain closed. ************************************************************************ 3. Version History ************************************************************************ V 1.1 4/17/11 Rebalanced so that there are more high-level guards in cities to fight against the unleveled daedra hordes. V 1.0 4/6/11Initial Release. ************************************************************************ 4. Conflicts, Known Issues, and Troubleshooting ************************************************************************ Conflicts with "Vampire Hunting - Order of the Virtuous Blood." The cause has not been determined for sure. The symptoms are random CTDs on game load while both mods are active. It is currently thought that the problem might be system overload - too many actors with AI packages and too much scripting.
This mod is rather resource-intensive with all those additional actors with low-level processing, with scripts and AI. If this mod causes excessive lag or CTDs on your computer with the mods you are running, then you should discontinue use of it.
The Oblivion game engine does not always handle actor AI too well. You may, on a random basis, see daedra travel unrealistically fast from their gates to their attack targets. Likewise, you may see them get lost or distracted and take too long to travel or even see them not traveling at all.
Here is a console code that might be of interest to you:
SetStage AAOCOblivionCrisisDebug 5
This console code is in no way required for playing the mod, but if you wish to use it, it will start a quest which places map markers on all the daedra added by this mod all across the entire map. (It is a rather scary sight.) This map has some limitations. It shows present locations of all the mod-added daedra, whether living, dead, or disabled, but does not differentiate between these categories.
If you locate a bug, contact David Brasher on TES Nexus so that the situation can be examined so that the bug can hopefully be fixed. ************************************************************************ 5. Copy Status and Credits ************************************************************************ Credits: Bethesda for making the game in an open format anyone can mod.
Copy Status: Public Domain with proper attribution and courtesy notification. Abiding by that, feel free to modify this, share this, or use it in whole or in part in another mod. ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************