WAC - Integration

Introduction

Have you ever heard the story of WAC the Oblivion Overhaul? It's not the story modders will tell you...

WAC is a mod that adds tons of new content to Oblivion, and quite a quality one. Unfortunately, WAC is also... broken. It has never left a beta state, and has numerous issues. It also changes more that you probably want - including landscape alterations that need patches, bearded NPCs that look weird with OCOv2, lore unfriendly creatures, and so on. Which is a shame because author clearly put a lot of love into these new creatures and items, these are very beautiful and detailed. But to get them in your game, you need to install numerous fixes, and even then it's a mess. For example, Skingrad Guards will have broken helmet models. It feels like it was never properly playtested.

Maskar's Oblivion Overhaul proposes a different approach - you don't need to mess with all those things, and MOO will simply use WAC's resources. But I found this solution still far from ideal, partly because balance-wise WAC is a complete mess. And partly because I want to see packs of beavers in the rivers.

When I've started digging into WAC to simply tweak some stuff, I've quickly realized that it needs some radical balance changes. Many of the values were completely random - boots that protect better than Daedric Cuirass, sometimes completely random weight values (gauntlets that have weight of 30), and so on. I've decided to be a madman and clean all this mess up. Why? Because it feels really bad to see such a mod die in obscurity.

And yes, it is somewhat done and should be playable! Keep in mind that WAC is still being WAC and some of the models might be glitchy. For instance, I had to remove two Steel Cuirass variants because I've encountered a weird lighting bug.

What exactly is done?

• []Clothing - 95%

  []Armor - 90%

  []Weapons - 25%

  []Creatures - 55%

  All of the mentioned above are added to the game, both via leveled lists and (hopefully) compatible manual edits. For creatures, many new spawns have been placed.

  Note: this is relevant for the 0. 42 version. Dispensation's updated version may have more content.

  Long answer:

  I've fixed and integrated almost everything of value when it comes to armor and clothing. This means 70+ pieces of clothing and over 200 pieces of armor. Many of these are variants, but they do look well! They provide a great variety that could be amazing for roleplaying, while more varied environment will make the game feel richer. I only wish some of the items were less broken - unfortunately, had to omit barbarian-styled "armor" for now, because it does not work with female characters. I might come back to it later.

  These items