Forget the Daedric horrors that roam the wilds of Cyrodiil, for the greatest enemy you will face in Oblivion Remastered It's excessive burden, known as Encumbrance. As in many RPGs, maximum burden indicates when your inventory is full, limiting your movement speed and restricting other essential abilities. This is especially annoying in the early hours of an adventure, when your drive to pick up everything you find is slowed by your low maximum carry weight.
Fortunately, there are several ways to increase your carrying capacity in Oblivion Remastered without having to resort to unauthorized mods or console codes (although these options are available for PC players). Read on to find out how to master your carry weight and avoid encumbrance warnings in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered 🛡️🎮.
What is Encumbrance in Oblivion Remastered and how to remove it?
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As you may already know, the excessive load (Encumbrance) It represents the maximum weight you can carry. You can check your Encumbrance status in the inventory menu, and when you're carrying too much weight, a warning icon will appear next to your health and vitality bars.
When you are over your carrying capacity in Oblivion Remastered, you will be unable to perform actions such as running, sprinting, jumping, dodging, performing power attacks, shield dashes, or fast traveling. To remove the overcharge status and regain these abilities, you will need to learn how to let go objects in Oblivion Remastered, find where to store your items, or sell what you're carrying. Remember that to sell stolen items, you'll need to find special merchants in Oblivion. Another solution is to find a horse or use certain spells, which I'll explain later.
Oblivion Remastered: How to Increase Your Carrying Capacity and Avoid Overcharging
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Below are the best ways to increase your maximum carry weight in Oblivion Remastered and avoid the fatal overload:
Increases your Strength attribute
When learning How to level up in Oblivion Remastered, one of the challenges will be to assign virtue points to specific attributes. Strength is the only attribute that permanently increases your carrying capacity.The greater your strength, the more items you can carry before becoming overloaded.
Use potions and spells to temporarily enhance the charge
The Strengthening Potion (Potion of Fortify Strength), an Apprentice-level restoration item, increases your Strength by at least 5 points for 90 seconds. You can purchase these potions at the Great Chapel of Stendarr in Chorrol or create them with alchemy. Additionally, if you specialize in enchanting, you can add this effect to your armor at the Altars of Enchantment.
Another option is to use the Potion of Feather or related spells from the Alteration school, which decrease your effective load, allowing you to temporarily carry more weight. These spells—such as Burden Relief, Light Burden, Pack Mule, or Beast of Burden—can be purchased from Mages Guild merchants in major cities and can be stacked.
Console command to modify the load (PC)
While not recommended for those looking for an authentic experience, you can use console commands to modify your carry weight. The command is player.forceav encumbrance -X, where X is the extra amount you want to add. Note that using this command will disable achievements for that game session until you load a saved game.
If you're not interested in learning these Mages Guild spells, why not find out how to join the Dark Brotherhood in Oblivion Remastered? It won't solve your loading problems, but it's guaranteed to be fun. 🔥
