I hardly ever used magic projectiles in Oblivion. Being a console player (for the most part) it's very difficult to hit a moving target with a slow moving projectile. I think magic projectiles should be replaced with a sort of magic which is like a bullet(I know a bullet is a projectile). Or even just add an alternative that takes more magicka to use. When a bullet is shot over a short range it hits near instantly after it is shot. This spell would act similarly where you point at your target, cast, and it instantly hits your target. Of course the enemies will have the same ability, so avoiding an incoming magic attack will become impossible(Unless the AI has a percent possibility it will miss). I think this would make silence and resist magic more important. Overall, I think it would make the magic system more useful. Do you agree?

P.S. Before anyone starts with the anti-console talk. I have played through Oblivion on PC and the projectiles where relatively hard to use(to me, I don't play on the PC often). oh and bow & arrow is almost useless as well because of how many arrows it takes to kill an enemy. I would like crossbows which would act similar to the spell I mentioned above and are more powerful than a bow. If they're crossbows in skyrim which shoot bolts quickly(It would be to a bow like a sniper rifle is to a rifle in single shot mode)(powerful but shoots very slowly) I'd be very happy. I just want a ranged weapon/magic that can be effective as a primary weapon, but is still fun. I found it boring to just run backwards firing 10 times with a bow/magic missile to kill an enemy. I know making the projectile faster won't help with that. I don't know how they will fix the AI so the player can't just backpedal. Maybe, a warp spell or enemies will stun you with magic or blind you with dirt for a short time.

No, just no.

Edit: If that's how it was, why have touch spells?

You just need to lead your shots, aim where they're going to be, not where they are. I didn't have any problems using a bow or magic in Oblivion on my X-bawx.

Ever thought of using AOE spells not hard to create or buy or use and yes there are touch spells too, or my favorite get em mad and running at you they always make a beline straight for ya lol easy to hot then run backwards while droppin spells at em .

There are many mods out there that can increase the speed of your magic projectiles and arrows. I think it would strip TES of some of it's good qualities to take away ranged spells, after all how do you hit a target that is really far away from you with magic? If you used these instant hit spells you propose you would still have to set range scripts and everything.

The target has to be within a certian range.

If it's instant, why not just use the target spell, not the touch one?

If you had these instant hit spells, that would mean the baddies would have them too, and we would die many times. Honestly, the spell speed has never been an issue for me. The modders will be happy to fix the projectile speed if you like. Perhaps that could be a perk with higher level spells - a bit of auto tracking fire balls or something...

...what? When an enemy is running towards you, you can run backwards and fire 'em as much as you want!

I don't get the problem... but things like homing spells would be very cool.

Not really

Even though spells were kinda slow so were enemy movements so it was pretty even. It really wasn't all that difficult to hit a moving target.

You will be able to hit that target at range. You took my example of the bullet too literal. I used that to describe how the spell would hit instantly. Bullets shot at targets at a long range will take a moment to hit, that's why I specified it was a close range shot. Oh and console players don't have access to mods

no way. i've never had a problem with hitting targets.

I want slow, and fast (but not too fast-bulletlike) spells.

Best if you could change their speed when you make them.

I like that idea' but beth would prob balance it so it take so much magic I prob would never use it.

A big no. Spells aren't bullets. Neither are arrows.
Arrows can be pretty fast if you are an expert Marksman but it still takes a second or two to reach your target.
Do you even realize how weird it would look if a big fireball flew by 500 times faster than everything else?
Someone else posted here... you're supposed to time your shots and casts. Obviously.

If you don't like it, don't use it.
You got a good point that they were too slow in vanilla, but you exaggerate the solution like 100 times.

I firmly believe that Bethesda will do as they've done before, with the exception that they, this time, hopefully will make things A BIT faster (say like 30-60%? instead of your 5000%).

Uhm no, it's not hard to hit with the PC, at all... so hell no.

These polls get more useless day by day :thumbsdown:

This is T ES, not COD. Their initials don't even have any of the same letters.

It's magic. It's fantasy. Not real

Really? Don't have to be a [censored] bag. I usually play on a console. I use a gamepad. Oblivion has no aim tug. Not to mention the very X, Y ness of the way the look movement is.

The ........ on target spell is the projectile spell.

Funny you say that because if the look movement and speed in the console version of oblivion was anything like COD's I might be ok with slow moving projectiles.

I would like magic missles that have a lock on as in most scifi books they always are represented as nearly impossible to avoid tho they are also usually represented as doing very little damage also.

Magic Missile is the only spell that should be lock-on.

That's good idea. Maybe it just knocks done an opponent, which leaves them open to an attack with a conventional magic missle with no lock that does more damage.