Detect Life Enchant?

[SteveR1200S]

Am I crazy, or has this been nerfed? I swear I used to be able to see an entire dungeon of mobs in old Oblivion, now it caps at 20ft.

Using a filled black soul gem, which as far as my old brain remembers, should work.

[Dixon Sider]

If its capping at 20 ft but didnt in the past, my bet is on it being a bug. They seemed to want to make this game easier rather than harder across the board besides adding an extra difficulty setting.

Have you tried multiple pieces of gear with the enchantment?
Have you tried enchanting other armor pieces like head, body, ring, blah insteaf? I know in Morrowind, this would be the answer.
Maybe you remember it being a gear cast enchantment and not a constant effect enchantment? You can normally use cast enchantments a lot stronger than constant effects.

[SteveR1200S]

It's ok, 20 is and always was the cap with a grand soul.

I completely forgot about sigil stones, which is what you need to go above 20ft.

[Rakhuvar]

I'm using an early sigil stone, sometimes with a potion boosting the range. Spell IS nerfed in actual use.
Originally, detected things had a nice pink, *easy to see* aura around them.
Now, the French devs felt a sparkle would be cooler -- which makes it nearly impossible to see unless really dark. Plus, sometimes even in dark areas, it doesn't show at all unless the target is moving.

I played around with vid settings, hoping that boosting one of them might make the sparkle bigger or something. No luck. I hope someone makes a mod to restore the original behavior.

[godisgood_20]

Detect life is very hard to see. I turned my "Effects Quality" up and it made it more clear, but it's still very difficult. I am using a 180ft sigil stone enchant, and I just simply don't notice the effect at all unless I already know where the enemy is and I focus real hard to find the tiny pink sparkles. Old Oblivion I remember being able to see it easily.

[magne.moe]

Originally posted by godisgood_20:

Detect life is very hard to see. I turned my "Effects Quality" up and it made it more clear, but it's still very difficult. I am using a 180ft sigil stone enchant, and I just simply don't notice the effect at all unless I already know where the enemy is and I focus real hard to find the tiny pink sparkles. Old Oblivion I remember being able to see it easily.

Can confirm in OG its easy to see perhaps a bit hard outside in sunlight. You an also get some info about target like size and is sleeping, at closer range you can see if the uses robes / skirt or pants.