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In a unique example, the Full Motion Video cutscene [[Oblivion:Final Cutscene Skip|can be skipped]] by minimizing the game and reopening it on PC.
In a unique example, the Full Motion Video cutscene [[Oblivion:Final Cutscene Skip|can be skipped]] by minimizing the game and reopening it on PC.
Activating [[Oblivion:Player Superposition|Player Superposition]] while moving and then activating a shrine, you can freely walk around while the cutscene plays. Currently there is no known way to be able to interact with things during this, but at the very least the player can start moving towards nearby objectives such as [[Oblivion:Greater Powers|Heaven Stones]] or the first quest target in the case of quests like [[Oblivion:Molag Bal|Molag Bal]]. This is the most promising lead we have so far in finding a way to reliably skip these cutscenes.


==Languages==
==Languages==
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If you are playing on the Steam version of the game, languages are selected via Language tab under the the Properties option for the game within Steam.
If you are playing on the Steam version of the game, languages are selected via Language tab under the the Properties option for the game within Steam.
Spanish and Italian use English audio files with appropriate subtitles.


==Cutscene List==
==Cutscene List==
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| ✘ || Free Movement || Vampire Cure || Count's wife dies || None || || || ||  ||  
| ✘ || Free Movement || Vampire Cure || Count's wife dies || None || || || ||  ||  
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| || Disable Controls || Corruption and Conscience || Aldos' argument with the guard || None || || || ||  ||  
| || Disable Controls || Corruption and Conscience || Aldos' argument with the guard || Cast Frenzy on Aldos and have any NPC kill him to advance the quest past the cutscene stage. || || || ||  ||  
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Honor Thy Mother || Night Mother gets attacked || None (Quicksave/Quickload takes longer sometimes) || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Honor Thy Mother || Night Mother gets attacked || None (Quicksave/Quickload takes longer sometimes) || || || || ||  
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || May the Best Thief Win || Opening Instructions || Quicksave/Quickload to advance dialog. || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || May the Best Thief Win || Opening Instructions || Quicksave/Quickload to advance dialog. || || || || ||  
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| ✘ || Free Movement || The Killing Field || Goblin Fight Prep || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Free Movement || The Killing Field || Goblin Fight Prep || None || || || || ||
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Sheogorath || Prophecy || None || || || || ||  
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| || Disable Controls || Sheogorath || Prophecy || None || || || || ||  
| || Free Movement || Weynon Priory || Martin's Cloud Ruler Temple Speech || Fast traveling away and back skips the cutscene. || || || || ||  
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| ✘ || Free Movement || Weynon Priory || Martin's Cloud Ruler Temple Speech || Finish Clavicus Vile while the cutscene is advancing. || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Light the Dragonfires || Martin's final fight || None || || || || ||  
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| || Disable Controls || Light the Dragonfires || Martin's final fight || None || || || || ||  
| || Full Motion Video || Light the Dragonfires || Full Motion Video ending || Alt+Tab out/into the game. || || || || ||  
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| || Full Motion Video || Light the Dragonfires || Full Motion Video ending || Alt+Tab out/into the game. || || || || ||  
| || Disable Controls || Caught in the Hunt || Kurdan kills Aleron || None || || || || ||  
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Caught in the Hunt || Kurdan kills Aleron || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Azura || Shrine start || None || 45s || 45s || 45s || 45s || 45s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Azura || Shrine start || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Azura || Shrine end || None || 22s || 22s || 21s || 20s || 22s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Azura || Shrine end || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Boethia || Shrine start || None || 36s || 36s || 31s || 31s || 36s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Boethia || Shrine start || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Boethia || Shrine end || None || 17s || 17s || 15s || 16s || 17s
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| || Disable Controls || Boethia || Shrine end || None || || || || ||  
| || Disable Controls || Clavicus Vile || Shrine start || Acquiring Umbra before starting the quest and talking to the butt of the dog statue skips this cutscene. || 32s || 32s || 39s || 42s || 32s
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| ✔ || Disable Controls || Clavicus Vile || Shrine start || Acquiring Umbra before starting the quest and talking to the butt of the dog statue skips this cutscene. || || || || ||  
| ✔ || Disable Controls || Clavicus Vile || Shrine end || Acquiring Umbra before starting the quest and talking to the butt of the dog statue skips this cutscene. || 26s || 26s || 31s || 32s || 26s
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| || Disable Controls || Clavicus Vile || Shrine end || Acquiring Umbra before starting the quest and talking to the butt of the dog statue skips this cutscene. || || || || ||  
| || Disable Controls || Hermaeus Mora || Shrine start || None || 51s || 51s || 33s || 37s || 51s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Hermaeus Mora || Shrine start || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Hermaeus Mora || Shrine end || None || 32s || 32s || 19s || 20s || 32s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Hermaeus Mora || Shrine end || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Hircine || Shrine start || None || 31s || 31s || 38s || 32s || 31s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Hircine || Shrine start || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Hircine || Shrine end || None || 25s || 25s || 26s || 25s || 25s
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| || Disable Controls || Hircine || Shrine end || None || || || || ||  
| || Disable Controls || Malacath || Shrine start || Sequence break past the first cutscene via freeing the Ogres in Bleak Mine. || 44s || 44s || 44s || 43s || 44s
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| || Disable Controls || Malacath || Shrine start || Sequence break past the first cutscene via freeing the Ogres in Bleak Mine. || || || || ||  
| || Disable Controls || Malacath || Shrine end || None || 28s || 28s || 30s || 24s || 28s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Malacath || Shrine end || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Mephala || Shrine start || None || 34s || 34s || 44s || 49s || 34s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Meridia || Shrine start || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Mephala || Shrine end || None || 10s || 10s || 16s || 15s || 10s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Meridia || Shrine end || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Meridia || Shrine start || None || 51s || 51s || 55s || 57s || 51s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Molag Bal || Shrine start || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Meridia || Shrine end || None || 14s || 14s || 13s || 16s || 14s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Molag Bal || Shrine end || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Molag Bal || Shrine start || None || 45s || 45s || 36s || 43s || 45s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Namira || Shrine start || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Molag Bal || Shrine end || None || 24s || 24s || 22s || 24s || 24s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Namira || Shrine end || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Namira || Shrine start || None || 51s || 51s || 37s || 47s || 51s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Nocturnal || Shrine start || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Namira || Shrine end || None || 17s || 17s || 13s || 15s || 17s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Nocturnal || Shrine end || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Nocturnal || Shrine start || None || 64s || 64s || 41s || 42s || 64s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Peryite || Shrine start || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Nocturnal || Shrine end || None || 28s || 28s || 18s || 18s || 28s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Peryite || Shrine end || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Peryite || Shrine start || None || 63s || 63s || 46s || 54s || 63s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Sanguine || Shrine start || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Peryite || Shrine end || None || 22s || 22s || 18s || 22s || 22s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Sanguine || Shrine end || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Sanguine || Shrine start || None || 60s || 60s || 51s || 55s || 60s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Sheogorath || Shrine start || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Sanguine || Shrine end || None || 25s || 25s || 24s || 21s || 25s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Sheogorath || Shrine end || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Sheogorath || Shrine start || None || 58s || 58s || 0s || 0s || 58s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Vaermina || Shrine start || None || || || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Sheogorath || Shrine end || None || 13s || 13s || 0s || 0s || 13s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Vaermina || Shrine end || None || ||  || || ||  
| ✘ || Disable Controls || Vaermina || Shrine start || None || 69s || 69s || 55s || 58s || 69s
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| ✘ || Disable Controls || Vaermina || Shrine end || None || 24s || 24s || 16s || 19s || 24s
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| ✘ || Free Movement || Tutorial || Birthsign "he must help us" part || None || ||  || || ||
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| ✔ || Disable Controls || Tutorial || Emperor assassination || Clipping out of bounds to kill the Mythic Dawn agent early skips this. || ||  || || ||
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| ✔ || Disable Controls || Tutorial || "Stand back prisoner" sequence || Clipping out of bounds to get out of your cell skips this. || ||  || || ||
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| ✔ || Free Movement || Tutorial || Valen Dreth banter and approaching guards. || Clipping out of bounds to get out of your cell skips this. || ||  || || ||  
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{| class="wikitable"
|+ Daedric Shrine Cutscene Totals
! !! English !! Spanish !! French !! German !! Italian
|-
| Without Skips || 1061s || 1061s || 877s || 922s || 1061s
|-
| With Skips || 959s || 959s || 763s || 805s || 959s
|}
|}
* Sheogorath's Shivering Isles updated voice lines for his quest are not present in French and German.
* The length of the Sheogorath prophecy cutscene seems to vary depending on the weather when the cutscene begins.

Latest revision as of 01:50, 4 April 2023

Cutscenes are parts of quests where the game forces the player to wait for a pre-programmed sequence of events to occur before they can progress. Ideally we will want to find ways to skip cutscenes entirely via glitches or sequence breaks in quests or at least speed up each cutscene in the game.

Mechanics

Although much more research will need to be done, currently cutscenes appear to be handled in three main ways:

  1. Disable Controls: Some cutscenes completely disable the player's ability to move and interact with things and others allow the player to move around.
  2. Free Movement: Some cutscenes allow the player to move around but still have predetermined events that need to occur.
  3. Full Motion Video: One cutscene is a full motion video that requires the player to watch the whole video before returning to the game.

Cutscenes appear to work based on some combination of a series of timers as well as logic checks for when certain NPC interactions have occurred. Daedric shrine quests are a simple example of a cutscene. They disable the player's controls and then cycle through a series of audio clips of the statue talking, then enable the player's controls again once the list of audio files has played. The Audio Source Glitch showcases how this works, since these cutscenes advance instantly if the sound files are prevented from playing in the first place. It appears that in some situations, Quicksaving/Quickloading can advance dialog faster as well, although some quests actually take longer when this is done.

Disable Controls cutscenes have a unique way to skip them by using Load Warping to perform Cutscene Overlapping, allowing the player to regain controls during the cutscene.

Free Movement cutscenes are hard to determine how to skip given how each one seems to be programmed differently, so the current strategy is to find other objectives to achieve during these cutscenes.

In a unique example, the Full Motion Video cutscene can be skipped by minimizing the game and reopening it on PC.

Activating Player Superposition while moving and then activating a shrine, you can freely walk around while the cutscene plays. Currently there is no known way to be able to interact with things during this, but at the very least the player can start moving towards nearby objectives such as Heaven Stones or the first quest target in the case of quests like Molag Bal. This is the most promising lead we have so far in finding a way to reliably skip these cutscenes.

Languages

Oblivion has five languages that can be chosen:

  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Italian

Due to the way some cutscenes work, different languages take different amounts of time for each cutscene, which means technically time can be saved by simply playing on another language. We will be compiling the time it takes for all cutscenes to play out for each language in order to determine the ideal language option for the run.

If you are playing on the Steam version of the game, languages are selected via Language tab under the the Properties option for the game within Steam.

Spanish and Italian use English audio files with appropriate subtitles.

Cutscene List

This list is not fully cataloged yet.

Here is a list of the cutscenes in the game, along with any skips and language data we have compiled:

Skip Type Quest Cutscene Current Strat English Spanish French German Italian
Disable Controls The Ultimate Heist The Stranger meets the Countess Quicksave/Quickload to advance dialog.
Free Movement Defense of Bruma Martin's Bruma Speech None
Free Movement Where Spirits Have Lease Skeleton's first speech None
Free Movement Where Spirits Have Lease Skeleton's second speech None
Free Movement Vampire Cure Count's wife dies None
Disable Controls Corruption and Conscience Aldos' argument with the guard Cast Frenzy on Aldos and have any NPC kill him to advance the quest past the cutscene stage.
Disable Controls Honor Thy Mother Night Mother gets attacked None (Quicksave/Quickload takes longer sometimes)
Disable Controls Infiltration Recruitment speech Quicksave/Quickload to advance dialog.
Disable Controls May the Best Thief Win Opening Instructions Quicksave/Quickload to advance dialog.
Free Movement The Killing Field Goblin Fight Prep None
Disable Controls Sheogorath Prophecy None
Free Movement Weynon Priory Martin's Cloud Ruler Temple Speech Fast traveling away and back skips the cutscene.
Disable Controls Light the Dragonfires Martin's final fight None
Full Motion Video Light the Dragonfires Full Motion Video ending Alt+Tab out/into the game.
Disable Controls Caught in the Hunt Kurdan kills Aleron None
Disable Controls Azura Shrine start None 45s 45s 45s 45s 45s
Disable Controls Azura Shrine end None 22s 22s 21s 20s 22s
Disable Controls Boethia Shrine start None 36s 36s 31s 31s 36s
Disable Controls Boethia Shrine end None 17s 17s 15s 16s 17s
Disable Controls Clavicus Vile Shrine start Acquiring Umbra before starting the quest and talking to the butt of the dog statue skips this cutscene. 32s 32s 39s 42s 32s
Disable Controls Clavicus Vile Shrine end Acquiring Umbra before starting the quest and talking to the butt of the dog statue skips this cutscene. 26s 26s 31s 32s 26s
Disable Controls Hermaeus Mora Shrine start None 51s 51s 33s 37s 51s
Disable Controls Hermaeus Mora Shrine end None 32s 32s 19s 20s 32s
Disable Controls Hircine Shrine start None 31s 31s 38s 32s 31s
Disable Controls Hircine Shrine end None 25s 25s 26s 25s 25s
Disable Controls Malacath Shrine start Sequence break past the first cutscene via freeing the Ogres in Bleak Mine. 44s 44s 44s 43s 44s
Disable Controls Malacath Shrine end None 28s 28s 30s 24s 28s
Disable Controls Mephala Shrine start None 34s 34s 44s 49s 34s
Disable Controls Mephala Shrine end None 10s 10s 16s 15s 10s
Disable Controls Meridia Shrine start None 51s 51s 55s 57s 51s
Disable Controls Meridia Shrine end None 14s 14s 13s 16s 14s
Disable Controls Molag Bal Shrine start None 45s 45s 36s 43s 45s
Disable Controls Molag Bal Shrine end None 24s 24s 22s 24s 24s
Disable Controls Namira Shrine start None 51s 51s 37s 47s 51s
Disable Controls Namira Shrine end None 17s 17s 13s 15s 17s
Disable Controls Nocturnal Shrine start None 64s 64s 41s 42s 64s
Disable Controls Nocturnal Shrine end None 28s 28s 18s 18s 28s
Disable Controls Peryite Shrine start None 63s 63s 46s 54s 63s
Disable Controls Peryite Shrine end None 22s 22s 18s 22s 22s
Disable Controls Sanguine Shrine start None 60s 60s 51s 55s 60s
Disable Controls Sanguine Shrine end None 25s 25s 24s 21s 25s
Disable Controls Sheogorath Shrine start None 58s 58s 0s 0s 58s
Disable Controls Sheogorath Shrine end None 13s 13s 0s 0s 13s
Disable Controls Vaermina Shrine start None 69s 69s 55s 58s 69s
Disable Controls Vaermina Shrine end None 24s 24s 16s 19s 24s
Free Movement Tutorial Birthsign "he must help us" part None
Disable Controls Tutorial Emperor assassination Clipping out of bounds to kill the Mythic Dawn agent early skips this.
Disable Controls Tutorial "Stand back prisoner" sequence Clipping out of bounds to get out of your cell skips this.
Free Movement Tutorial Valen Dreth banter and approaching guards. Clipping out of bounds to get out of your cell skips this.
Daedric Shrine Cutscene Totals
English Spanish French German Italian
Without Skips 1061s 1061s 877s 922s 1061s
With Skips 959s 959s 763s 805s 959s
  • Sheogorath's Shivering Isles updated voice lines for his quest are not present in French and German.
  • The length of the Sheogorath prophecy cutscene seems to vary depending on the weather when the cutscene begins.