OBLIVION RAI

[Azan]

As many of you (should) know Oblivion is useing a new unheard of AI system, its RAI or Radiant AI.

From a programming view, each NPC has a set of certain variables, such as his/her schedule, class, and personality.

these variables will allow NPCs to go throught their life, sleep, go to a bar to drink and if they are social talk with friends, or if they are an angry person start fights easily.

A demo at E3 showed an old lady in a house with her dog, the dog was hungry so it started barking, the lady was old and tired, so she fed the dog, the dog continued barking so she cast paralyze on it because she happened to be mean too.

All the programming it took was pretty much this (allthough this is really basic)

Old Lady
Tired
Mean
Likes to use magic

Dog
Hungry
Easily upset
Likes to bark

thats it basicaly and everything that happened with the old lady and the dog was created in RAI, no scripting involved.

NPCs will have a ton of new animations for this such as drinking, sleeping (yes you can stab people in their sleep) etc. etc.

I personaly cant wait for Oblivion, and with the Editor im gonna make a town whith NPCs that are easily upset and mean, I can see it now.

PC goes up to a bar to ask the guy for a drink
"Hello can I have a drink?"
"I dont like your face, prepare to die"

and seeing as how NPCs will pick up weapons around them (the producer says that while he was playing a demo a skeleton picked up a sword on the ground so it could kill him faster) and anything can be used as a weapon (so far you can throw just about anything, including chairs) the bar keeper would probably start wipping bottles or something.

God I cant wait...

[Azan]

Completely new systems
New combat
New stealth
New magic

just the basics.
Combat is now much more interesting, you can do combos.

Stealth is now better, as hiding in shadows makes you harder to see, and also RAI will depends on what they are doing, such as a guard standing in a street, if he is just standing guard it will be easier to walk past unseen, but if he knows your there it will be much harder.

Magic is entirely redesigned, not much info released about it, as its supposed to be a suprise, telekenesis will be able to pick up objects and throw them at people, There will be a reanimate spell which brings a NPC back to life which he then becomes your slave.

Also all dialoge in the game is voice, everything is spoken, but there are subtitles like in morrowind.
more coming soon.

[Azan]

heres a link to a recent interview that just came out

www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=149722

(note you may have had to read other interviews to understand it better)

[Azan]

(sorry for the double posts but my modify isnt working)

Prison is new, your skills dont decrease but you have to stay in your cell you can walk around, and even try to escape.
There are many ways you can escape, such as pick pocketing a guard as he walks by, or beating up your bunk mate and then the guard will come in to see what happened etc. etc.

[Umbrafire]

lol, a somewhat decent game, Indiana Jones and the Emperors Tomb let you bust up tables, and then whip table legs lol

[Azan]

New realease for those mage types

Enchanting has been removed, enchanting is now a plus to joining the mages guild
Staffs are no longer a mellee weapon, they increase you magic power as they can shoot fireballs etc. and are much more useful to mages
THere will be an Arcane Library for when you join the mages guild, you can learn etc. etc.