Oblivion Remastered Player Loses 87-Hour Save File in the…

Summary

A player lost their 87-hour save file in Oblivion Remastered due to a deadly item mistake.
The player ended up in a Poisoned Apple death loop due to a series of unfortunate events.
Soft-locks in games like Oblivion Remastered are rare but can lead to save file loss.

An Oblivion Remastered player has managed to lose their 87-hour save file in the most heartbreaking way imaginable. After making a deadly mistake, this Oblivion Remastered player could only watch as their character perished over and over again.

The unique sandbox of games like Oblivion Remastered means that there are inevitably ways for players to get soft-locked out of the game. It's never intentional, of course, and the game generally does a good job of putting barriers in place to ensure this doesn't happen to most players. Making quest-essential Oblivion Remastered NPCs unkillable is one way, for example. However, there will be occasional situations where a perfectly unfortunate chain of events will occur that can lead to players losing their save files in strange ways. It's gutting to have it happen, especially given the length of Oblivion Remastered, but it's so rare that it won't be a problem for most.

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Redditor ViolentBreeze was one such player, sharing their story with the game's community online. According to the user, they accidentally ate a Poisoned Apple in Oblivion Remastered after playing for 87 hours. This item consistently damages the player if eaten until they die, and there's nothing to be done about it. At first, ViolentBreeze thought they were being harmed by a regular poison status effect, and continued playing while being harmed. Only after progressing through several auto-save points did they realize what was actually causing the damage. By this point, it was too late, with all their saves now after the Poisoned Apple had taken effect, ultimately killing their long-term playthrough.

Oblivion Remastered Player Loses 87-Hour Playthrough to Poisoned Apple Death Loop

As they're playing through the game on Xbox, console commands aren't an option. Naturally, several players in the thread were quick to offer potential solutions, although none have worked for the player thus far. One suggestion that they haven't replied to yet involved using the Xbox cross-save function to load up the game on PC, at which point they would then be able to use Oblivion Remastered console commands to remove the status effect. Hopefully, they do find something that works, as having to watch their character in a permanent Poisoned Apple death loop is a tragic way to lose a save file.

This particular situation isn't a bug, per se, making it difficult to fix this kind of thing in future updates. There are some Oblivion Remastered bugs that can ruin a playthrough which hopefully Bethesda and Virtuos will look to fix going forward. At the moment, it remains unclear how much post-launch support the game will receive, although patches are relatively frequent for now.

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