Skyblivion may not be released until 2025, but there’s something to keep you busy in the meantime. We streamed a 4-hour gameplay demo and Q&A session showing the current state of the game.
While sporting various costumes such as guard uniforms and glass armor, they roamed many recognizable parts of Oblivion and undertook several side quests. If you remember searching for potatoes or helping the Leyawiin guards track down skooma dealers, those errands are still here. The tour also visits more exotic locations like the Peryite Kingdom, where the Plague Daedric Prince sends you to retrieve the souls of his followers.
This is one area that has been overhauled rather than faithfully recreated. In its original incarnation, Peryite’s realm looked like every other Oblivion Gate, all red skies and lava. Here rendered into a morbid green more suitable for the Lord of copious pus and copious vomit.
Other highlighted changes include a boss fight with Mannimarco, the necromancer you face at the end of Oblivion’s overwhelming Mages Guild story. Usually he’s an easily defeated elf hanging out in Echo Caverns. You can summon exploding skeletons that run and explode.
Modders say other events that should feel more important than they did have been rewritten as well. This is because most areas do not yet have a NavMesh in place, and the NPCs have no instructions telling them which parts of the world they can walk on. However, if you want to see a static wolf killed where you’re standing with a flaming sword, you’re in for a treat.
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