The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Update 1.2 Quietly Closes the Door on Dark Brotherhood Lore Blunder

Bethesda has softly fixed a doorway successful The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered that had near Dark Brotherhood lore fans scratching their heads.

Warning! Potential spoilers for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered follow.

Let’s formed our minds backmost to April and the hugely palmy merchandise of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. Soon aft launch, players of the original, much-loved open-world role-playing crippled noticed the doorway to the Dark Brotherhood’s Cheydinhal sanctuary entranceway was inexplicably changed successful a mode that broke the lore.

The doorway successful question is astatine the centre of an iconic infinitesimal successful Oblivion, 1 players who took connected the fantabulous Dark Brotherhood quest volition astir apt retrieve well. In the archetypal Oblivion, the glowing doorway has a dense temper aesthetic and a alleviation showing the Night Mother (who members of the assassination-obsessed Dark Brotherhood worship) murdering 5 children. The Oblivion Remastered mentation of this doorway has nary glow, is airy connected ambiance and, weirdly, has 2 other children.

You tin spot a examination with accompanying ailment successful the reddit station from alvaro-elite, below:

The Elder Scrolls lore fans were speedy to constituent retired that the summation of 2 kids connected the alleviation makes nary consciousness fixed what we cognize astir the communicative of the Night Mother. This infinitesimal successful clip is meant to correspond the Night Mother’s murdering of the 5 children she conceived with Sithis, the Elder Scrolls deity who represents emptiness and the Void. As the communicative goes, the Night Mother is murdered by the locals for sidesplitting her kids, which turns her into the immortal Night Mother successful the archetypal place. In fact, successful Oblivion, the Night Mother’s tomb includes skeletal remains of 1 big and 5 children, reinforcing this lore.

Fans had wondered whether Bethesda and developer Virtuos would spot Oblivion Remastered to alteration the doorway to beryllium lore compliant, and truthful it has proved. As noticed by PC Gamer, with the caller merchandise of Update 1.2 successful Steam beta form, those who person opted successful to trial the spot present person a lore-compliant doorway with 5 children, alternatively than 7 successful the relief. Strangely, this alteration isn’t successful the officially released spot notes, below.

The anticipation is this caller doorway is what Oblivion Remastered volition see crossed the committee erstwhile Update 1.2 launches fully.

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered update 1.2 spot notes:

SETTINGS CHANGES

• We’ve added further trouble settings to let players to further tune their “Player Combat Damage” & “Enemy Combat Damage”. Players tin present prime from “Novice”, “Apprentice”, “Adept”, “Journeyman”, “Expert”, and “Master” options successful the Gameplay menu. We anticipation the “Journeyman” setting, specifically, volition enactment arsenic a amended span betwixt “Adept” and “Expert” for players.

UI

• Fixed representation markers disappearing
• Fixed missing punctuation successful Simplified Chinese text
• Fixed “Toggle All” fastener connected Map surface to enactment arsenic a 'Hold'
• Various fixes to localized text
• Fixed controller issues successful Spell making menu
• Fixed menus being cropped incorrectly successful 1280x1024
• Fixed the incorrect subordinate stance successful the inventory paper aft accelerated travel
• Fixed rebinding keys for Lock Picking
• Fixed keybinds not updating successful AZERTY
• Fixed brushed fastener with controller successful Enchanting menu
• Fixed stats not updating erstwhile equipping enchanted items
• Fixed a quality tegument glitch erstwhile closing the inventory menu

CRASHES

• Fixed crashes that could hap portion warring Jyggalag
• Fixed crashing erstwhile sidesplitting a paralyzed NPC with an arrow
• Fixed crashing erstwhile paralyzing an already-paralyzed NPC
• Fixed crashing successful Spellmaking paper erstwhile rapidly removing & implementing effects
• Fixed assorted GPU crashes
• Fixed crashes that could hap during car saves

AUDIO

• Fixed underwater SFX persisting aft leaving exiting water
• Fixed missing ambient SFX successful Shivering Isles

QUESTS

• Fixed NPCs floating aft being knocked down during Priory of the Nine quest
• Fixed crashing erstwhile entering Flooded Mine during Final Justice quest
• Fixed pathing for Shaleez successful Flooded Mine during Final Justice quest
• Fixed crashing erstwhile opening Gate to The Fringe during Retaking the Fringe quest
• Fixed mages loading without apparel successful Fort Ontus during The Necromancer's Amulet quest
• Fixed NPC pathing issues successful Gardens of Flesh and Bone during ‘Through the Fringe of Madness’ quest
• Fixed missing VFX during the closing of the Great Gate
• Fixed Ilav Dralgoner's missing facial animation during ‘Saving Time Itself’ quest
• Fixed Sir Thredet's code during ‘Umaril the Unfeathered’ quest
• Fixed NPC pathing issues during ‘Baiting the Trap’ quest
• Fixed Obelisk Crystals spawning disconnected during ‘Baiting the Trap’ quest
• Fixed clang astatine extremity of ‘Through a Nightmare, Darkly’ quest
• Fixed partition crumbling successful Malada during ‘Nothing You Can Possess' quest
• Fixed misaligned nutrient astatine the Castle Leyawiin County Hall meal enactment during ‘Sanguine’ quest
• Fixed an contented with visibility of ghosts during ‘Ghosts of Vitharn’
• Fixed cutscene not playing during ‘Light the Dragonfires’
• Fixed missing textures successful Cropsford Campsite aft finishing ‘Goblin Trouble’

PERFORMANCE

• Fixed framework complaint driblet successful Deepscorn Hollow
• Fixed framework complaint drops successful Black Rock Caverns
• Fixed framework complaint driblet betwixt Skingrad and Skingrad Castle
• Fixed framework complaint driblet southbound of Bravil Castle courtyard
• Reduced the frequence of hitches successful the unfastened world.
• General improvements to framework clip successful galore locations.
• Optimize updating of quality attachments.
• Optimize rendering of h2o volumes successful the unfastened world.
• Optimize light/shadow updates successful respective lairs.
• Optimize waterfall particle FX and rendering.
• Optimize the upwind system.
• Optimize quality animation system.

GAMEPLAY

• Fixed subordinate quality tallness scaling
• Fixed armor items hiding Argonian and Khajiit tails
• Fixed dilatory camera question erstwhile initiating NPC dialogue
• Fixed brushed fastener erstwhile a subordinate with a precocious bounty goes to jail
• Fixed Orrery animations
• Fixed physics bug with floating necklaces
• Fixed vampire sleeping animations
• Fixed NPC beards not pursuing facial animation.
• Fixed shade NPCs being wholly invisible
• Fixed missing animation erstwhile talking to Shamada successful Leyawiin
• Fixed occasional precise agelong load times erstwhile accelerated traveling
• Fixed missing facial animation for Snak gra-Bura
• Fixed falling unconscious successful h2o preventing subordinate from getting up
• Fixed NPCs losing collision erstwhile swimming
• Fixed NPCs stopping combat erstwhile subordinate is blocking
• Fixed pistillate Dremora teeth clipping
• Fixed brushed fastener aft choosing subordinate class
• Fixed Amber weapons clipping successful archetypal idiosyncratic view
• Fixed vines clipping into columns
• Fixed helmets clipping into subordinate character's head
• Fixed missing textures connected Daedric statues
• Fixed duplicated pages betwixt Oghma Infinium and Mysterium Xarxes

SYSTEM

• Fixed flickering shadows erstwhile utilizing XeSS Upscaling
• Fixed rubric decently restarting aft purchasing the Deluxe Upgrade connected PC
• Fixed settings decently migrating betwixt PC and XBOX
• Fixed h2o disappearing aft accelerated travel
• Fixed cursor slowdown erstwhile enabling precocious framework complaint V-Sync
• Fixed shaders not preloading owed to unreality prevention replication
• Fixed agelong blackout during loading screens
• Fixed upwind VFX flashing portion outside
• Fixed question blur artifacts portion successful the Oblivion Plane
• Fixed NPCs not obeying the Wait enactment from the player

This update volition beryllium successful the Steam Beta. If you would similar to opt successful to the The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Beta update, delight travel these instructions:

1. Open your Steam Library and navigate to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

2. Right click connected "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered" and prime "Properties"

3. In the caller properties pop-up window, prime "Betas"

4. In the beta driblet down to opt into, prime "[beta]"5. Wait for app to download caller physique and launch.

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