Exploits

[VirusType2]

This is an exploit thread. If you have found an exploit you can post it in this thread.

:dork: An exploit is a part in the game where you can take advantage of a bug or loop-hole in the game to cheat. If - once you learn of this exploit, you expect that you will use it to cheat and don't want to - but you can't help yourself, then you should leave this thread now.



I have accidentally discovered a Sneak Skill up Exploit/Cheat:





The first Dark Brotherhood quest tells you to go to the Inn of Ill Omen and murder Rufio. If you hit caps lock to make sure your character is walking, place your character in sneak mode, face a wall and press the Q button, you can gain as many sneak levels as you want. I think this guy sleeps forever. Important: If you want to get a x5 bonus, don't get anymore than 10 sneak skill ups. After you do, you can go and play the game, doing whatever else you have to do to level up, get the x5 bonus and go back to Rufio and sneak for 10 more sneak levels. I don't recommend that you sneak for more than 10 sneak skill levels or else you might do it so much that you cannot get any bonus to agility anymore when leveling up.

This is a cheat. A huge exploit. Don't forget you are cheating so If I were you - so you don't ruin your character and make him/her an unfamiliar gay overly good cheat character, I wouldn't get too many skill ups. I got 6 I think - enough to put my sneak at 50. A journeyman, so now I can sneak effectively even in my heavy armor boots. It's just an easy way for me, because sneak doesn't level up for me very fast and It's boring sneaking around caves. I'd rather set it to auto-run and go make a sandwich.

It's possible you could get your sneak to 100 there, but like I said, don't blame me if you ruin your character and wish you didn't. You might have to avoid his schedule - it didn't seem like he would ever wake up though, but if he does you will have to sneak out before he wakes up and come back teh next night or something. If you killed him already, then I guess you can't do this can you?

 

[sinkoman]

You don't have to do it with Rufio you know. You just have to enter sneak mode and find a little corner where nobody can see you.

I've done it a few times while I went to go take a dump. Only gotten one skill up because of it though. Getting to 100 naturally is easier imho.

 

[VirusType2]

They probably should not have included an auto-run button. The determined will stick a matchbook in the keyboard to hold down the walk key anyway though.

They could have given a certain amount of sneak skill for each enemy. So you can only increase your skill once per enemy... or something. Thats more work for Bethesda though.

I guess they figured if you want to cheat that bad, just type in the console.

It took me to level 30 to realize you have to walk while sneaking to increase your skill so I figured I was due some. At least for my character I have to walk. And as you said before, my character is insanely slow :/

Walking + sneaking = a tank not really even moving.

 

[Unfocused]

Your +5 won't be wasted, the skill points you get above +5 will go to your next level. This is not Morrowind

 

[Darkwolf]

A bug I found just then, I got a dwarven helm, and put it on thinking it would remove my imperial horseman helm BUT IT DIDNT!

See pic, I think it looks fairly cool, so far it's worked with every helm. If you wear a helm then put the Dwarf one on, the original doesnt unequip, so you get the armour and magical bonuses of both.

 

[VirusType2]

Your +5 won't be wasted, the skill points you get above +5 will go to your next level. This is not Morrowind

Oh, OK. Noted. Good to know.

A bug I found just then, I got a dwarven helm, and put it on thinking it would remove my imperial horseman helm BUT IT DIDNT!

See pic, I think it looks fairly cool, so far it's worked with every helm. If you wear a helm then put the Dwarf one on, the original doesnt unequip, so you get the armour and magical bonuses of both.

Thats a pretty good exploit. I have a dwarven helm and an ebony helm. I'll have to see how they look at least. This is a pretty big cheat as well, if you enchant both especially.

This would be great if you wanted a slight advantage, and especially in the arena where you can only wear a helmet, gloves, and a weapon because they require you to wear Roman gladiator-era armor and sandals

 

[VictimOfScience]

The sneak one is great, but not if you want other attribute points when you level-up. If you only care about getting your sneak ability score higher, then autorun in a corner near a stationary person, but where thay can't see you and you will be at 100 in no time (or at least in a day or two of leaving it and going to work or something). I prefer levelling-up by increasing a bunch of skills rather than just one, though, because you get more points to divvy-up in a wider variety of attributes.

There was also the selling equipment while on horseback exploit that nets you cash and you still have your weapon or whatever. Might be fixed with a patch though now.

The helmet one is news to me! That sounds great, if unrealistic and dumb-looking. The enchanment factor will rule though! I am still looking for a way to enchant wearable equipment with more than one spell--any word on that???

 

[VirusType2]

The sneak one is great, but not if you want other attribute points when you level-up.

I prefer levelling-up by increasing a bunch of skills rather than just one, though, because you get more points to divvy-up in a wider variety of attributes.

Sneak isn't one of my major skills so I'll still be able to get bonuses to my other attributes right?

I think that if sneak was one of your major skills then you could actually level up from sneaking, and therefore you would get x5 to sneak only. But since sneak is a minor skill for me, then sneak skill ups don't cause me to level up, so I can still get x2 or x3's to my other skills. Right?

Unfocused says that if you were to skill up Sneak 30 times, each x5 would be carried over until the next time you level up.


I'll find out here once I level up again tomorrow. I went ahead and got 10 sneak skill ups so I can get a x5 bonus to sneak(i think thats how it works) then I should be able to get x2 (the usual for me) to 2 other stats when I level up.


BTW I kind-of like the stacked helmet exploit. It's unique looking. I'm not really happy with the way the helmets look in this game. I'll probably just make some black armor mods and stuff for this game eventually. It should be fairly easy.

 

[Direwolf]

A really cheesy exploit is to find something in a shop that you want. Then you whack and nudge it until its out of sight of the shopkeeper. And then you just pick it up.

 

[sinkoman]

They probably should not have included an auto-run button. The determined will stick a matchbook in the keyboard to hold down the walk key anyway though.

They could have given a certain amount of sneak skill for each enemy. So you can only increase your skill once per enemy... or something. Thats more work for Bethesda though.

I guess they figured if you want to cheat that bad, just type in the console.

It took me to level 30 to realize you have to walk while sneaking to increase your skill so I figured I was due some. At least for my character I have to walk. And as you said before, my character is insanely slow :/

Walking + sneaking = a tank not really even moving.

Lol, I move almost just as fast sneaking as I do running. That is, running while sneaking.

And no, I sneak around town with run all the time when i'm pickpocketing people. I've gotten a bucketload of my points from that.

 

[Pesmerga]

If you don't play this game, you'll lead a much more productive life.

 

[VictimOfScience]

If you don't play this game, you'll lead a much more productive life.

It really depends on your definition of a productive life. If its to get the best character(s) in Oblivion, then this is the best way to do it obviously. Duh!

Virus, Sneak was a major skill of mine, so that is in fact where I was coming from. But I also frankly think it should be somewhere in everyone's major skillset, but to each his/her own. Its just so amazingly helpful and fun and to level up whilst sneaking/pickpocketing/assassinating/etc, that's just icing on the cake.

I don't think you even get 2 points for other things if you don't use them, at least in part, to level up, but I could be mistaken. From what I have seen, you only get points to give yourself in something if you use that something. So if you fight a lot, you will get to raise your strength or endurance if you run a lot. Stuff like that. I am still not 100% clear on any of this though--there are so many variables!! Great great game...

 

[CptStern]

If you don't play this game, you'll lead a much more productive life.

yes well most of us reading this thread just lost .045 of a second reading your post ...if we all put you on ignore we'll lead a much more productive life ...who's with me?

 

[VictimOfScience]

yes well most of us reading this thread just lost .045 of a second reading your post ...if we all put you on ignore we'll lead a much more productive life ...who's with me?

Me! Posts like that are useless and annoying. He could've at least mentioned an exploit he read about or even just made up for pete's sake!! Oh well. It is the internet after all....

 

[CptStern]

it's all that pesmerga does these days: troll