The one mechanic I hate the most in Oblivion is just how fanatical some of the guards and NPCs are in chasing you after committing some crime. Like, holy shit, you pick someone’s pocket in Leyawin, get caught, run out the gate, and a guard will chase you all the way to Anvil. There really should be some mechanic that once you’re a certain distance away from the scene of the crime, they stop following you. That’s what bounties should be for. Whenever I get far enough in a playthrough, I just start murdering guards and NPCs that refuse to fuck off.
Its hard to lose a guard that’s already seen you with stealth but when you’ve put enough distance between them so that you can stealth and stay completely still it drops pretty quickly, and then they head back to their routine.
Invisibility helps a lot, chameleon less so after being seen, but they just don’t really lose you if you never crouch back down after getting unseen.
Just make some chameleon armor. 4 of them will make 100% chameleon, which is better than invisibility as with chameleon you can do anything and still not get caught.
Well yeah but I’m ignoring things that would prevent guards from chasing you. Im talking about things that will get them to stop after they’ve started, specifically.
Meanwhile, right now, I’m like, “I didn’t commit those 58 homicides. It was the Grey Fox!”
Can’t believe he spent 200 years not murdering and then killed 300 guards in the span of a year.
Especially since there aren’t that many guards. He must’ve killed all the new recruits as they hired them or something. Strange.
The one mechanic I hate the most in Oblivion is just how fanatical some of the guards and NPCs are in chasing you after committing some crime. Like, holy shit, you pick someone’s pocket in Leyawin, get caught, run out the gate, and a guard will chase you all the way to Anvil. There really should be some mechanic that once you’re a certain distance away from the scene of the crime, they stop following you. That’s what bounties should be for. Whenever I get far enough in a playthrough, I just start murdering guards and NPCs that refuse to fuck off.
Just stealth once you’re properly out of sight.
Its hard to lose a guard that’s already seen you with stealth but when you’ve put enough distance between them so that you can stealth and stay completely still it drops pretty quickly, and then they head back to their routine.
Invisibility helps a lot, chameleon less so after being seen, but they just don’t really lose you if you never crouch back down after getting unseen.
Just make some chameleon armor. 4 of them will make 100% chameleon, which is better than invisibility as with chameleon you can do anything and still not get caught.
Well yeah but I’m ignoring things that would prevent guards from chasing you. Im talking about things that will get them to stop after they’ve started, specifically.