Now this is cool. Oblivion Remastered hasn’t been out all that long at all, and a couple of modders have already figured out how to add an Elden Ring-style player message system to it, so you can leave notes across Cyrodiil for other folks to read.
Arguably a bit immersion-breaking, sure, but I’d say something that fits pretty damn perfectly with Oblivion’s already unhinged persona and the litany of meta reasons that already play into why we all find it so hilarious and charming.
The mod’s even got a cool name: ‘Ghosts of Tamriel’. It’s the work of modders Yamashi and Jay-jay, with the former being one of the key figures behind both the Skyrim Together project that somehow got online multiplayer working for that game, as well as the architect of Cyberpunk 2077’s ‘Cyber Engine Tweaks’ – an essential work that’s likely the first thing you grab whenever you go to mod CD Projekt’s Keanu Reeves brain-share sim.
Using all of that experience and the Oblivion Remastered script extender, they’ve taken just a week and a bit to put together this Oblivion mod that lets you “share wisdom in game with other players via interactable messages”. You’ll need an online connection to allow folks to come across what you write, but the process of actually leaving these little notes sounds as simple as you’d hope.
You just find the spot you’d like to leave your message, press your right control key to open up a screen that’ll bring up a bit of parchment for you to type your message – say ‘STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM’ – then click the send button that pops up, or cancel if you decide you want to keep your musings to yourself.
Other players who encounter your message will see it as a floating Welkynd Stone that they can interact with to read like any other note in the game.
“We use your character’s name in addition to your message,” Yamashi wrote, “None of the data sent to the server is logged, it only exists in memory for the lifetime of the message, after that it disappears forever. If you see something you don’t like, downvote it and hide it, we don’t moderate content and don’t know who sent what!”
It’s worth noting in terms of that last part, it’s also worth noting that you’ve got the option to upvote messages you do like, and that messages will disappear if they receive too many downvotes or just naturally expire if they go 24 hours without getting a fresh upvote. Finally, message stones can be hidden after interacting with them, taking care of scenarios in which you don’t want to see them or one is getting in the way of your character interacting with another object in the world.
Will you be giving Ghosts of the past a go? Let us know below, and make sure to keep checking out our coverage of interesting Oblivion Remastered mods, as well as our array of useful guides that can help both newbies and veterans in need of a refresher.
