Dead Ends!!

[Petriesh]

Anyone else experiencing dead ends to quests in Oblivion?
I have a number of quests, where I get to a certain point and then there's nothing, no follow through arrow to say where the next part is.
I have looked on internet for the various quests and any bugs but none relate to mine.
Also, I have some quests where I get so far into them then hit a dead end when I have to 'extract' information out of an NPC, where the NPC doesn't like me enough or something.
Have at least 3 or 4 quests like this.
Its kinda disheartening as I cant progress thru quite a few quests.
Have played this game way back on release and have also played ALOT of skyrim and most other Bethesda games.
If anyone knows of fix for this I would be greatfull
Cheers

[Apocalypse]

I've never had this problem with any quests tbh, It would probably be easier to help if you state the specific quests.
But in the cases where the problem is a NPC keeping info from you, you can just use the persuasion minigame, bribe them or use spells like charm on them. When they reach a certain disposition they will tell you everything they know. If you buy/make different charm spells you can stack the effects.
But with the persuasion minigame with the right technique you can get them to max disposition possible at that moment in like 30 seconds

[The Fonze]

it would help to know the quests cause if your coming off Skyrim or this is your first time playing Oblivion or any older rpg youll not be accustomed to looking around first.

Theres a few quests that give you a location to search in which case the arrow will waypoint you to a dungeon or house and the green arrow will be at the door.

Some quests, you gotta wait for an npc to be at a specific spot or you have to follow an npc either seen ir unseen.

often the npcs dialogue wont activate. usually cleaning mods, restarting the game, or reloading the area fixes this issue.

[theo]

Try reading quests instead of relying on arrow markers

[Petriesh]

Originally posted by theo:

Try reading quests instead of relying on arrow markers

If you read my post I have looked on internet and have found that those particular quests DO have arrow markers.
I allways read quests FYI

Originally posted by The Fonze:

it would help to know the quests cause if your coming off Skyrim or this is your first time playing Oblivion or any older rpg youll not be accustomed to looking around first.

Theres a few quests that give you a location to search in which case the arrow will waypoint you to a dungeon or house and the green arrow will be at the door.

Some quests, you gotta wait for an npc to be at a specific spot or you have to follow an npc either seen ir unseen.

often the npcs dialogue wont activate. usually cleaning mods, restarting the game, or reloading the area fixes this issue.

As stated in my post, I played Oblivion when it launched all those years ago , and I said that i have may hours on skyrim.
So I havnt just came from skyrim

Originally posted by Apocalypse:

I've never had this problem with any quests tbh, It would probably be easier to help if you state the specific quests.
But in the cases where the problem is a NPC keeping info from you, you can just use the persuasion minigame, bribe them or use spells like charm on them. When they reach a certain disposition they will tell you everything they know. If you buy/make different charm spells you can stack the effects.
But with the persuasion minigame with the right technique you can get them to max disposition possible at that moment in like 30 seconds

Thankyou for your helpful post, I have since found that alot of these 'Dead End' quests of mine did require me to Bribe said NPC
Still some other quests that are bugged tho
Cheers

[Dallas S]

Originally posted by theo:

Try reading quests instead of relying on arrow markers

Quest arrows were a mistake. "But the quest arrow doesn't say anything about bribing someone!"

This is an example of how Bethesda caters to the lowest common denominator and removed disposition altogether for Skyrim, cus Talos forbid an NPC not like the player and require persuasion or bribing!

Oblivion was even crafted in a way that it is impossible to fail anything or lock yourself out of anything, and yet apparently that wasn't enough.