Prolific Skyrim YouTuber Bacon_ (of I like canines fame, amongst different movies) has uncovered an actual fan service change in Oblivion Remastered—one the place it is naturally exhausting to inform whether or not it was intentional or not. The sessionable Khajiiti stimulant, Skooma, has successfully gotten an enormous buff. The consequences of Skooma now stack as much as 22 instances as in comparison with the unique sport’s eight.
In Oblivion, the fantasy drug quickly boosts your velocity and energy, tanks your agility, and completely lowers your intelligence with every draught. The bonus is a large 60 factors (attributes have a cap of 100 when leveling, for context) and would stack as much as eight instances within the authentic Oblivion.
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Stacking eight Skoomas directly in Oblivion ’06 was a go-to speedrunning (and joke video) strat, with speedy gamers always slugging the narcotic to take care of working speeds practically 5 instances what you may handle by regular leveling. Bacon_’s discovery that the remaster lets us now stack Skooma as much as 22 instances, attaining a velocity stat of 1,320 (over 13x the authorized restrict) is an actual shocker.
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Bacon_ managed this with a master-level Alchemy rating of 100, which will increase what number of potions you may have energetic directly. There’s additionally a loophole in how the sport counts the potions you have drunk that Bacon_ takes benefit of: It seems Oblivion Remastered has a separate cap for potions drunk from the stock display screen, and ones imbibed by a hotkey.
After slugging 22 Skooms, Bacon_ was capable of dash from the Imperial Metropolis to Citadel Skingrad in beneath a minute, trying like One Punch Man’s Saitama on the observe the whole method.
Evaluating footage of 8 Skooms within the authentic sport to the remaster’s 22, the land velocity truly appears pretty comparable, however you’d get much more air from even a slight incline in traditional Oblivion, leading to enormous, map-clearing jumps.
I would chalk this as much as variations between how Unreal Engine 5 handles physics, versus the primordial Havok implementation of the unique. On the flip aspect, the 22 Skoom particular in Remastered appears to be like prefer it gives a much more controllable, usable kind of velocity with much less danger of loss of life.
It is hilarious in a vacuum, however permitting for extra Skooma directly looks like an actual deal with for the followers: Skooma has lengthy held this memetic attraction because the Elder Scrolls’ goofy fictional cat man narcotic that provides you the zoomies.
Elevating the cap could have even been an intentional alternative on the a part of Virtuous to maintain up with how way more sober and reasonable the Remaster’s physics are—Tamriel’s Skooma Federal Reserve has to decrease rates of interest and encourage Skooma inflation in response to market circumstances.
It will most likely even have loads of speedrun utility too—much less so for Oblivion’s blink and you will miss it any% the place Bacon_ himself took one of many first world information within the remaster final week, however extra for full primary quest or 100% runs that require extra schlepping across the map.
