Difficulty doesn't make sense

[LiterallyJustAWolf]

Adept is WAY too easy. But Expert is WAY too... difficult? I'm not even sure that's the right word. Because the challenge doesn't come from mechanical depth, it stems from a frankly frustratingly boring combat design. Enemies on Expert have SOOO much health. I'm level 12, almost 80 skill in blades, and using a fairly decent weapon (elven short sword) and it still takes me 25-30 hits to kill... a timber wolf. God forbid you fight more than one enemy at a time too, or else you're probably just screwed, unless you can find a way to cheese the system.

Which is the only "skilled" aspect of Expert difficulty, if you can even call it skill. Finding ways to exploit the poor AI pathing and decision making (not judging) is really my only way to beat enemies on Expert most of the time, because trying to do a straight fight will almost always end with my stamina running out before their health bar does. Like in the arena, I've gotten to grand champion, and my only method to win was basically to circle around the pillars in such a manner that the AI couldn't reliably hit me, which gave me enough time to heal... over the course of multiple minutes. Because it doesn't feel like spell efficiency levels with the difficulty system either. I'm over level 50 in healing and really don't heal much, even with major restoration.

So... does anyone else feel like difficulty is skewed? Honestly, I'm thinking of lowering the difficulty. Generally I enjoy playing my games at high difficulties for the challenge, but honestly, the difficulty slider feels more like a "Tedium" slider. But... Adept feels way to easy. On expert it takes me around 10-15 minutes to whittle an Arena opponent down, and take time to heal. On Adept, it takes 1 minute. That's a major discrepancy.

[frank teh bunny]

uninstall and refund if you can, dont bother with the nexus mods to make something playable. It wont be fixed, it wont be patched. Bethesda is just trash in the modern era. Really saddening that this is the state of what was a good game.

[Todrick Howard Sr.]

You can fix it with mods or wait for the patch

[Honey Bun]

None of the modes are hard enough

[Alucard †]

There is no Difficulty slider bar anymore?

[Arkanis]

i downloaded this

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/58

[Mortilla]

Originally posted by Todrick Howard Sr.:

You can fix it with mods or wait for the patch

This isn't getting fixed. It is very much in sync with the original jank that was in the original game, which is clearly what they were going for.

[Todrick Howard Sr.]

Originally posted by Alucard †:

There is no Difficulty slider bar anymore?

They went the Skyrim route and did 5 preset difficulties like adept, expert, master etc. the only issue is that they totally screwed up the numbers so it goes from adept (damage taken 1x damage given 1x) goes straight to damage taken 3x damage given 0.6x for expert. Which is ridiculous

[KAZOO]

Originally posted by Mortilla:

Originally posted by Todrick Howard Sr.:

You can fix it with mods or wait for the patch

This isn't getting fixed. It is very much in sync with the original jank that was in the original game, which is clearly what they were going for.

HA, you act like that's a bad thing. You know, if it wasn't like the original people would have complained about that. So it's always complaining, no matter what kind of remaster they bring out. People are ALWAYS salty.

[Dailao]

Originally posted by LiterallyJustAWolf:

Difficulty doesn't make sense
Adept is WAY too easy. But Expert is WAY too... difficult? I'm not even sure that's the right word. Because the challenge doesn't come from mechanical depth, it stems from a frankly frustratingly boring combat design. Enemies on Expert have SOOO much health.

This is just how I remember it to be honest.

[frank teh bunny]

Originally posted by KAZOO:

Originally posted by Mortilla:

This isn't getting fixed. It is very much in sync with the original jank that was in the original game, which is clearly what they were going for.

HA, you act like that's a bad thing. You know, if it wasn't like the original people would have complained about that. So it's always complaining, no matter what kind of remaster they bring out. People are ALWAYS salty.

brainwashed gamer. People are too lax about accepting mediocrity in 2025.

[KAZOO]

Originally posted by frank teh bunny:

Originally posted by KAZOO:

HA, you act like that's a bad thing. You know, if it wasn't like the original people would have complained about that. So it's always complaining, no matter what kind of remaster they bring out. People are ALWAYS salty.

brainwashed gamer. People are too lax about accepting mediocrity in 2025.

You just proved my point. Hilarious.

[Deviant]

go on nexus and download a mod it fixes a difficulity otherwise it was unplayable on vanilla becuz the expert was way too hard and impossible and adept was way too easy the mod on nexus fixes it completely now i can play on master and its difficult but doable

[Mortilla]

Originally posted by KAZOO:

HA, you act like that's a bad thing. You know, if it wasn't like the original people would have complained about that. So it's always complaining, no matter what kind of remaster they bring out. People are ALWAYS salty.

Eh, I'm just relaying what is true.

I like that they kept the original game, at its core, more or less intact. Sure, I would go for a full remake, but as a fan, it feels good to be back. :)

[Videogame Jukebox]

Welcome to how games used to be.

[Todrick Howard Sr.]

Originally posted by KAZOO:

Originally posted by Mortilla:

This isn't getting fixed. It is very much in sync with the original jank that was in the original game, which is clearly what they were going for.

HA, you act like that's a bad thing. You know, if it wasn't like the original people would have complained about that. So it's always complaining, no matter what kind of remaster they bring out. People are ALWAYS salty.

Brother I am enjoying the remaster but the difficulty settings are inexcusably bad. I disagree with the other guy saying they won’t patch it (I think they will) but the difficulty was done very poorly