How the ♥♥♥♥ do I mod

[Havoc XL]

For years I’ve been trying to figure out how to mod and for most games Vortex works fine but for SOME ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ REASON oblivion decides it doesn’t want to work. I’m trying to install Oblivion XP along with a couple other small change mods like a better blood texture and all that and I’ve gotten the blood to work once or twice but NEVER anything else. I’ve installed OMM and Wrye Bash, neither function correctly. OBSE seems to be not installed despite me installing it 3 times. And I have no idea how to manually mod. I looked on OXP’s nexus page and it’s talking about some ♥♥♥♥ like archives and UIs and a lot of words with “darn” in it and I have NO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ IDEA what any of that ♥♥♥♥ means. It might as well be talking about quantum physics. How the ♥♥♥♥ do I get this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game playable. Please help

[theo]

Sorry but LOL

[Vnuk]

Git gud.

[CHASE6]

It’s playable vanilla. Vortex wasn’t designed to accommodate file structure that a lot of mods from the first decade of this millennium. If you want to mod it, I’d suggest doing manual install. Some practice will get you used to placing mod folders into the correct game folders. Some mods are only in omod, so you may want to get OBMM and sort load order with LOOT. Modding Oblivion is complicated and you shouldn’t expect to nail it on the first try. I’m sure it took all of us a long time to get it right.

[Havoc XL]

Originally posted by CHASE6:

It’s playable vanilla. Vortex wasn’t designed to accommodate file structure that a lot of mods from the first decade of this millennium. If you want to mod it, I’d suggest doing manual install. Some practice will get you used to placing mod folders into the correct game folders. Some mods are only in omod, so you may want to get OBMM and sort load order with LOOT. Modding Oblivion is complicated and you shouldn’t expect to nail it on the first try. I’m sure it took all of us a long time to get it right.

What’s Omod and how do I download it? And for me it’s not playable vanilla. I can’t stand that leveling system and the psychic guards, I’m like 10 hours in and still at level 3. I feel underpowered and unable to fight basically anything where in other Bethesda games I’d be approaching level 10 at this point. I’m using console commands way too much, I don’t like cheating but sometimes I feel like I almost have to or I’d be stuck on one human enemy for an hour like a souls boss.

[CHASE6]

Originally posted by Havoc XL:

Originally posted by CHASE6:

It’s playable vanilla. Vortex wasn’t designed to accommodate file structure that a lot of mods from the first decade of this millennium. If you want to mod it, I’d suggest doing manual install. Some practice will get you used to placing mod folders into the correct game folders. Some mods are only in omod, so you may want to get OBMM and sort load order with LOOT. Modding Oblivion is complicated and you shouldn’t expect to nail it on the first try. I’m sure it took all of us a long time to get it right.

What’s Omod and how do I download it?

Omods are mods packaged specifically for OBMM. So if a mod is only omod format then you need OBMM. I don’t use wrye bash so I don’t know if it can process omods or not.

[Havoc XL]

Originally posted by Szariq:

Git gud.

I’m not a gamer dude, I like playing RPGS for the adventure and story and to create character arcs for who I play as, I mod games so I can actually stand to play them otherwise I’d get bored within an hour. I’ve beaten less than 50 games in my life.

[CHASE6]

Originally posted by Havoc XL:

Originally posted by CHASE6:

It’s playable vanilla. Vortex wasn’t designed to accommodate file structure that a lot of mods from the first decade of this millennium. If you want to mod it, I’d suggest doing manual install. Some practice will get you used to placing mod folders into the correct game folders. Some mods are only in omod, so you may want to get OBMM and sort load order with LOOT. Modding Oblivion is complicated and you shouldn’t expect to nail it on the first try. I’m sure it took all of us a long time to get it right.

What’s Omod and how do I download it? And for me it’s not playable vanilla. I can’t stand that leveling system and the psychic guards, I’m like 10 hours in and still at level 3. I feel underpowered and unable to fight basically anything where in other Bethesda games I’d be approaching level 10 at this point. I’m using console commands way too much, I don’t like cheating but sometimes I feel like I almost have to or I’d be stuck on one human enemy for an hour like a souls boss.

As far as difficulty, it’s a joke. Even at max level, middle difficulty is a slog and wast of time. I suggest start the game with difficulty at 2. Every time you level, increase it by 2. Then you will be at mid difficulty by level 25 and you should be strong enough for it not to totally suck. But you can increase by 1 so that you will be at middle difficulty by level 50. Lots of options.

[Havoc XL]

Originally posted by CHASE6:

Originally posted by Havoc XL:

What’s Omod and how do I download it? And for me it’s not playable vanilla. I can’t stand that leveling system and the psychic guards, I’m like 10 hours in and still at level 3. I feel underpowered and unable to fight basically anything where in other Bethesda games I’d be approaching level 10 at this point. I’m using console commands way too much, I don’t like cheating but sometimes I feel like I almost have to or I’d be stuck on one human enemy for an hour like a souls boss.

As far as difficulty, it’s a joke. Even at max level, middle difficulty is a slog and wast of time. I suggest start the game with difficulty at 2. Every time you level, increase it by 2. Then you will be at mid difficulty by level 25 and you should be strong enough for it not to totally suck. But you can increase by 1 so that you will be at middle difficulty by level 50. Lots of options.

I did start the difficulty higher than I normally go because I’m a Bethesda veteran but it does feel a little too much, if mods don’t work I guess I can just tone it down. It’s also the fact that most enemies can heal for some reason which I’ve never seen in a game before and it’s so annoying because they seem to heal their entire health bar while my magic heals like 5 points of health but takes 15 magic points. The jump from other Bethesda games to oblivion is pure alien.

[CHASE6]

I get it. But no shame in it.

[WhateverWorks]

This is an extremely easy game to mod, though it does involve trial and error if you're using more than a dozen or so. OMM is the way to go for modding Oblivion. As others have probably said, newer mod managers don't do so well with some Oblivion mods. Manual or OMM is the way to go.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3059604604
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3070267241
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3133694732
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3133659439

It's quite nice and still decent looking for how old it is, if you get everything set up just right. Also, .omods are a file type that OMM uses. You can use OMM to make your own .omod files from archived downloads on the nexus. I run about 70 mods total, but they're all combined into about 12 custom .omods I made to simplify the installation process.

[13TES]

Originally posted by WhateverWorks:

This is an extremely easy game to mod, though it does involve trial and error if you're using more than a dozen or so. OMM is the way to go for modding Oblivion. As others have probably said, newer mod managers don't do so well with some Oblivion mods. Manual or OMM is the way to go.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3059604604
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3070267241
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3133694732
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3133659439

It's quite nice and still decent looking for how old it is, if you get everything set up just right. Also, .omods are a file type that OMM uses. You can use OMM to make your own .omod files from archived downloads on the nexus. I run about 70 mods total, but they're all combined into about 12 custom .omods I made to simplify the installation process.

Any recommandations for easy to install a quality of life, gameplay and moderate graphic mod (collection)?
Preferably not needing more than 2-3 hours of modding and so on.

Thank you in advance!

Cheers

[WhateverWorks]

Added, easier to send links and troubleshoot things via pm. It really matters how much you've played the game before, in terms of what you might or might not want to change. But there are definitely QoL mods that don't change anything about the gameplay itself.

[13TES]

Thanks for the response. My started playthrough was 5-9 years ago.

Not interested in a challenge (hard difficulty) and more importantly spending hours with modding.

It's really more about quality of life things and a more pleasing/smooth gameplay. Getting a bit nicer graphics would be cool too.

Many thanks in advance!

[Уединение]

I used to be really bad with computers also had a friend manually install lithans nature of the beast for me cuz couldn't figure it out. The tools you need are MO2 and Wrye bash. I will walk you through modding any mod you want.

[Havoc XL]

Originally posted by Snow:

I used to be really bad with computers also had a friend manually install lithans nature of the beast for me cuz couldn't figure it out. The tools you need are MO2 and Wrye bash. I will walk you through modding any mod you want.

Really all I want is Oblivion XP, I would like a blood mod but that’s just a texture and I think I can figure that out since I’ve gotten it to work a few times, but the leveling is DISGUSTING to me in this game, oh and no psychic guards would be nice