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Working on a new one as we speak. I'm hoping to get it out this week, but if not then definitely by next week!

Well... to be brutally honest I cut one section where I completely lost my temper lol, but that was it. Thankfully it was gone by the next morning. Still ended up getting pretty sick and I'm only just getting to where I can be on mic again bc my voice was toast, but thankfully I had a lot of footage to edit so I could work on things and there shouldn't be any schedule slippage.

@@LunastraVids I may have mentioned it before, but your voice with the sunless (not gonna abreviate THAT game name) background music is a soothing velvet blanket on my shriveled heart, so I can watch the same video multiple times, cause I always drift off into a daze of contentment :3

I'd say yes, overall people make the leveling problem into a bigger deal than it actually is. However, this character had one of the best bows and light armor sets plus the Mundane Ring and Spellbreaker by the end, which really helps. So you can mess up your leveling *or* use sub-par gear. Messing up both of those things, which is very possible for new players, will make things difficult.

@@LunastraVids mundane ring is guranteed, btw in your video you were suprised that you can't wear two - thats the case with every item in game but obviously it only applies only tonon unique rings, and if your character used EVERYTHING at their disposal like enchants pre made pots scrolls and poisons then i bet you could even run through max difficulty that way. Your bow was nothing super special and you didnt even fish for the UBER magical arrows. Source: i play just like that, not on max tho - usually something like 80%ish

I hope so too! Leveling as a Bad Class is at 452 Likes at the time I'm writing this, so it's super close!

@LunastraVids I am gonna have to make so many accounts to boost that up. I need to see it.

I think Agility and Personality both suffer from some changes between Oblivion and Morrowind. In Morrowind, raising NPC disposition with speechcraft was a dice roll based on current disposition and character skill, so having high Personality for decent disposition out the gate could be useful. Agility played a big role in non-magic combat because high Agility meant you would hit more often, especially if your weapon skills weren't great, because that had dice rolls too. Since Oblivion got rid of those dice rolls without adding anything else for those Attributes to do, they became fairly useless in Oblivion.

I do start skipping repeated sections, but I try to read out anything new at least once. Now if I could stop stumbling over my words, lol

Yeah, I couldn't believe my luck when I landed that attack AND got the paralysis!

Fair point, I'll look around for something to make graphs in the future for stuff like that. I was working off a google spreadsheet that would have been tricky to read but maybe I could've done something with that.

@@LunastraVids You can find plenty of Graph/Char makers online, so I don't think it would be to complicated. Good Luck

I'm open to doing a stats start at 1 run at some point, but I'd need to use console commands so it's going to have to wait until I get Oblivion set up and halfway stable on PC.

I am considering a Skooma challenge that would be pretty similar!

There is an Oblivion Character Generator on the nexus. It doesn't need the PC version of the game because it just picks your character creation options and it's up to you to input them, kinda like I did here but all in one click.

Oof. Glad I've never played that one then. I tend to avoid mobile and browser games on the assumption they'll be filled with microtransaction bs like that

Honestly I could see some Captains going for the trade if not having a soul also dulls fear, considering the stuff we run into.

Part of the issue in this episode was that I had moved my mic stand when cleaning and didn't get it positioned properly until part way through the session. But yeah, a better pop filter would probably help too - I'll look into it.

@@LunastraVids at some point I thunked you used a headset-mic, but a moved setup will do that... part 2 had similar issues, but I assume that was one recording session? aaanyway, just started to watch your aliens dd playlist and while I can't influence monetization: curse away, m'lady! ;)

@@FulloutPostal Yeah, the first 6 episodes are all one session. Probably would've been more but I was developing a nasty head cold and verging on a migraine. So that last episode might be a bit... grumpy. I'm better now so I'm going to record more Sunless Sea soon, once I'm done with my current challenge run!

@@LunastraVids as someone who's experienced migraines myself (including going to the ER to get *proper* iv painmeds), you made it through the horrible designdecisions of aliens dd, I believe in you to make it through a head-splitting, hair-pulling episode of insufferable pain :3

@@FulloutPostal Thankfully migraines are rare for me and they've never been bad enough to send me to the ER. I only get them if allergies, the weather, and illnesses like head colds conspire against me. I have other unexplained chronic pain but I am so glad the migraines aren't common. And I swear the most infuriating part of Aliens dd is that it is so close to actually being good, but some of the design decisions, especially later in the game, were far too stupid to ignore.

It's on the list - I just have more nostalgia for this one and wanted to show it first. I'm not sure what the 'end' of this LP will be - I want at least one captain to reach their goal, I think.

To be honest the only thing that was really irritating me about the combat were the random one-shots the enemies got on us from time to time. But there are definitely some issues/things the game doesn't explain well.

@@LunastraVids thats true - after many hours in, for me personally, only 4 signs exist - because you need PhD. in esoterics to understand where Yrden spawns, how much damage it deals and which enemies will be damaged (tried it few times, felt extremely inconsistent, gave up on it - repeat the cycle ad infinium). The oneshots are kind of weird and monster dependant. Who gave You the most problems? For me, kikimoras were awful (insta death on normal/hard if the "pain" modifier procs). On the other hand, its a fair price to pay when we have broken builds (maxed igni and intellect stat with Tawny Owl - 360° aoe that deals 80 base damage, causes "pain" and "burn" effects WHILE being spammable, quick styles being unblockable by anyone - high level quick styles have about 80% stagger even on strength based enemies like vampires). Its a beautiful mess that would benefit from a remake similarly to Gothic.

@@matejbosela9093 I remember also heavily leaning on Signs during my first playthrough - Igni can be insane when upgraded, as you said. Never bothered with Axii or Yrden. For the one-shots Barghests, Drowners, and bandits, particularly dagger wielding ones, gave me the most problems. Kikimores didn't cause too many issues, but that may have been because for this run I just kept Quen up almost constantly and used Devil's Puffballs by the time they showed up. I'm planning to do more challenge runs of this game that'll touch on more build options, but I agree this beautiful mess could really benefit from a remake.

I made sure the stories were up to date before we started!

Yep! The Backlogs introduced me to challenge running games, and as far as I know he's never mentioned wanting to run the Witcher series so I figured this was a safe homage.

@@LunastraVids Ah, it was not meant as an admonishment. Just acknowledging the connection, just as you did at the start of the video. On a humorous note, are you still part of the firebomb academy or have you graduated?

@@Nathan_Moor Still part of it - I watch his videos and streams regularly, although not on this account.

For 2007 with what I assume was a pretty limited budget it's not too bad, what really gets me are the animations - they are VERY stiff and sometimes characters look off in random directions during conversations.

That and lore reasons of nearly dying from the Path of Grasses trial since the potions were NEVER meant to be used on human, much less mortal children. Flippin' Elder races like high elves rigging the game...

He looks great there, lore friendly Geralt unlike the buff daddy from the 3rd witcher

@@XSilver_WaterX Interesting. I REALLY need to get around to reading the books at some point!

@@LunastraVids Have you ever done mod special challenges? Like beating Oblivion with all fixs and expansions but no armor and any/all spells, I think that the fan made Lunatic class?

Yeah, I usually play with survival mods so my character actually has to eat and sleep, and I still have to remind myself in the unmodded game just waiting instead of finding a bed is fine lol

@@LunastraVids which survival mods do you use? I've been interested in the idea but can't decide which to implement

@@Encephalophage for Oblivion, Basic Primary Needs. It does require some setup especially if you want to get it working with the HUD Status Bars mod but it works really well! It can also be integrated with certain Vampire and Werewolf mods. Unfortunately I've never found a Hypo/Hyperthermia mod I've liked for Oblivion, so that's about as far as my survival setup goes for it.

I would do that if he followed the player beyond the immediate area around Skingrad, but sadly the Wayshrine outside the Derelict Mine is about as far as he'll go. A lot of characters in Fallout 3 and New Vegas *will* follow the player everywhere, but Nerbit has already done runs being chased by them and while they're fun I don't think I could add much to them if I repeated them.

@@LunastraVids Myvryna Arano will begin hunting down the player after you've been released from a jail sentence. I'm not sure how waiting/sleeping/fast traveling interact with her, but according to UESP she will not follow into the Shivering Isles. I think she'll follow into Oblivion Gates, but that would need testing. So at minimum, no Thieves Guild, and if staying true to the challenge of being followed, no Shivering Isles either. It might also void any separate world-space quests as well; Through A Nightmare Darkly, Unexpected Journey, and Boethia. With Paradise being the obvious exception.

I'm planning to do solo runs of this game where only one party member is allowed to fight, including one with Crazy Pizza! Atsuma will just standby every round since he can't be removed from the party.