Specifications

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Increasing your Skills and Leveling Up
increasing skills
There are three ways to increase a skill:
1. Use it over and over. The lower the skill score, the easier it is to increase it by using it. It takes
much longer to raise a high skill by using it. Review your progress toward increasing a skill in
the Skills Display of the Stats Menu.
2. Buy training from another character. You can only train 5 skills points per level.
3. Learn more about the skill from special books.
raising your level
Increase the Major Skills associated with your class to raise your level. In order to raise
your level, you must improve any combination of your Major Skills by a total of 10 points.
Review your progress toward increasing your level in the Skills Display of the Stats Menu.
You will receive a message and an Icon will appear on the screen when you have raised your skills
enough to raise a level. You must use a bed to sleep and meditate on what you’ve learned in order
to increase your level.
When you raise a level, you are given an opportunity to increase three of your eight Attributes.
Certain attributes may receive a bonus modier, which is determined by which skills you have
increased since you last raised level. For example, if you improved several skills that have
Personality as a governing attribute, then you will see an appropriate bonus modier for
Personality. Whether a skill is Major or Minor does not affect the modier. In addition, when you
raise a level, your Health is increased by one-tenth of your Endurance.
Options and Preferences
You can access the Options Menu from the Main Menu when you load Oblivion or at any point
during the game, by pressing the START button. The Options Menu allows you to adjust your
gameplay, audio, video, and control settings, and gives you access to the Download option.
gaMeplay
Using this menu, you can adjust the Difculty slider and toggle certain features off or on, including:
General Subtitles, Dialogue Subtitles, Crosshair, Save on Rest, Save on Wait, and Save on Travel.
video
Adjust the Brightness slider with this menu. If you have certain TVs (e.g. DLP or LCD projection) or
play in a bright room we recommend increasing the brightness.
audio
Use this menu to adjust volume levels: Master, Voice, (Sound) Effects, Footsteps, and Music.
conTrols
In this menu you can adjust Vertical and Horizontal Sensitivity, and Invert the Y Axis. You can also
reassign the Action Mapping for the game’s controls.
Horses, Houses, Books, Containers
Horses
To ride a horse, activate it. Use the Left stick to steer the horse, and the Right stick to look around.
Activating a horse that does not belong to you is horse stealing, a serious crime. To purchase your own
horse, visit stables outside the towns. When you fast-travel to a city, your horse is left for you at the
local stable, just outside the city gates.
Houses For sale
Houses of varying qualities are for sale in each of the towns, and, once you own a house, you can also
purchase furnishings for that house from local merchants. To learn more about houses for sale, visit the
counts, countesses, or their agents in the town’s castle.
books and oTHer docuMenTs
When you pick up a book or document to read, you can put it back where you got it (select ‘Exit’)
or put it in your inventory (select ‘Take’). If a book is already in your inventory, navigate to it in your
Inventory Menu and press the
S
button to open it. Use the
Q
button and the
E
button to
ip back and forth through a book’s pages. Use Left stick or the
C
,
V
,
Z
,
X
buttons to scroll up
and down through a scroll’s text.
Special Skill Books improve your skills. Just opening these books produces a message indicating which
skill has improved. A book only improves a skill once; repeat readings have no effect.
conTainers
Containers include things like chests, sacks, crates, barrels, dead bodies, and more. To see what’s inside
a container, direct your Crosshair over the object so the Purse icon appears, then press the
S
button.
If the Purse icon is white, you’re free to take and use the contents of the container. If the Purse icon is
red, someone else owns the container, and taking anything from the container is stealing, and a crime
if you are detected. If the Purse icon is red, and the container is locked, any attempt to pick the lock is
stealing, and a crime if you are detected.
Take things one at a time from a container by pressing the
S
button. Scroll up and down in lists with
the Left stick or the
C
,
V
,
Z
,
X
buttons ; shift left and right through inventory tabs by moving the
Left stick or the
C
,
V
,
Z
,
X
buttons left and right. Press the
Q
button to display your own
inventory; press the
E
button to display the container’s inventory. Press the
F
button to take all
things in a container, and press the
A
button to exit a container. To place something in a container, press
the
Q
button to display your own inventory, and select an item to place it in the container.
Warning! Don’t leave things in containers you don’t own! They may not be there when you come
back for them!