You know how the largest oblivion battles were pretty small? : V

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:54 am

Well, i want to know cause i hated how small oblivion's most epic battles were.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:47 pm

I think the biggest battle will involve 2. My character and Alduin xD. But all kidding aside it will probably be very similar to Oblivion seeing as though we are still on the same consoles.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:31 am

I dont think it will be able to handle much more than 25

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:30 am

Around 25 will be the sweet spot. Although with waves of enemies and reinforcements, there could be hundreds of corpses on the battlefield

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:05 am

Seems 25 is popular. I thought back to the fight outside of Bruma. There were what, 2 guards per town + some Blades there? So 12-15 about on your side, then the enemy came in waves of around 8 or so I think.

Given that one of the reasons BGS put forward for merging top&bottom into just 'armour' was so they can get more on the field, it may be fair to expect 30ish on screen. But I would probably say closer to 25 than 40.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:37 am

Around 25 will be the sweet spot. Although with waves of enemies and reinforcements, there could be hundreds of corpses on the battlefield

Corpses slow the game down just as much as live enemies do.I know this because while playing in a modded battle, I had to disable NPCs even after they were dead to bring my PC back up to speed.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:14 am

I hope 60-90 That will be soooo epic!!

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:50 am

Corpses slow the game down just as much as live enemies do.I know this because while playing in a modded battle, I had to disable NPCs even after they were dead to bring my PC back up to speed.

True, but we don't know how Skyrim actually runs yet, but you are probably right.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:49 am

Well when they confirmed achievements there were a few when you capture a fort and a city so i think theres gonna be like 50 man battles!

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:02 pm

I want 1 MILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But that won't happen until these battle happen in real life XD

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:27 am

im going to go with 25 also. In oblivion the battle of bruma had at least 13 + you on your side. there was deffinately more than 13 on the Deadra side.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:22 am

Seems like you could get entire towns to fight against a dragon... leaving it with tons of people...

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:31 pm

Probably 16-25. However, if we're really lucky, could be more, but DEFINITELY no more than 40.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:16 pm

The achievement where you take one city or another depending on who you've sided with... i'd imagine at least 50 people would be involved with such a thing.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:56 am

Dynast Warriors: Tamriel. If only...

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:54 am

You know how they fused the cuirass and greaves in Skyrim into one item? A benefit of this is less separate processed items and thus the ability to put more characters on the screen.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:37 am

I think 14 or less... I'd love a 5000 man epic war but it would never happen :-P

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:54 pm

I hope they dont try another "epic battle" and just leave it to what they are good at.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:31 am

My largest Oblivion battle was 15 NPCs (Allies) and me and I'd have to guess that there would be around 3-5 or more Daedra coming out of the 3 Gates at Bruma at a time. When they were slain, most of their bodies disappeared as did any unnamed NPC. I thought it was pretty hectic. I'd expect something more in Skyrim but maybe not that much more. It uses a lot of resources.

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» Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:44 pm

16 before the AI processing starts to hog the cpu, of course this depends very much on the power of the cpu, someone could correct me on this, but as far as I'm aware the creation engine is still single threaded.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:20 am

Around 14 people i think , 25 is really a lot,.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:40 am

I think the biggest battle will involve 2. My character and Alduin xD. But all kidding aside it will probably be very similar to Oblivion seeing as though we are still on the same consoles.

Wasn't the engine limiting it and not consoles??

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:46 am

16 before the AI processing starts to hog the cpu, of course this depends very much on the power of the cpu, someone could correct me on this, but as far as I'm aware the creation engine is still single threaded.

What is this, I don't even.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:19 am

I thought the best battles in OB were the ones that involved your character and 1 big, bad enemy. My computer can't take anymore than 8.

» Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:58 am

I could never get into Oblivion's battles, I was always afraid of hitting one of my allies