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Yeah. I think we rolled that into the new Skyrim general thread. Feel free to post them here though!
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Scyantific posted:Generally speaking, you'll want to do your first Skyrim run with as few mods as possible, that way you know exactly what you want to change about the game. Thank you for this, I added most of these and a few of Gopher's recommendations. They all worked pretty much perfectly and I'm several hours in and enjoying it immensely! Thanks!
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A character concept I've wanted to try a few times, but never quite gotten around to doing, is an unarmed and unarmoured adventurer. Walk into a ruin with nothing but the clothes on my back and a knife, and when trouble starts, wham, summon a lackey, armour spell, bound weapon and shield. SPERG makes this concept work even better with its improvements to bound weapons, wards and the Alteration perk that boosts armour spells if unarmoured. I'll get around to it if I can find a suitably adventurer-looking clothing set somewhere - not a fan of robes on a not-pure-mage type, and the Nexus's output in regards to custom clothing is... eurgh.
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Hey guys, I picked up Skyrim a few days ago during the Steam sale. Enjoying the hell out of it so far and got a few mods like SkyUI, Morrowloot and Aethernautics installed. Now, a fiend of mine has linked me to the following modpack suggesting that it would be right up my alley: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/41087/?tab=2&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fskyrim%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D41087&pUp=1 Looking at it so far, I'd say he's right. It sounds like a blast, especially for someone like me who really likes to get into character when playing. Thing is, it's a huge and ambitious looking mod and I wanted to ask if you guys have any experience with it and can tell me if it's complete poo poo or not before I go screwing around with my game files.
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Dr Snofeld posted:A character concept I've wanted to try a few times, but never quite gotten around to doing, is an unarmed and unarmoured adventurer. Walk into a ruin with nothing but the clothes on my back and a knife, and when trouble starts, wham, summon a lackey, armour spell, bound weapon and shield. SPERG makes this concept work even better with its improvements to bound weapons, wards and the Alteration perk that boosts armour spells if unarmoured. I'll get around to it if I can find a suitably adventurer-looking clothing set somewhere - not a fan of robes on a not-pure-mage type, and the Nexus's output in regards to custom clothing is... eurgh. I'm running a character like that and it is pretty fun. I can't say enough good things about SPERG.
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Dr Snofeld posted:A character concept I've wanted to try a few times, but never quite gotten around to doing, is an unarmed and unarmoured adventurer. Walk into a ruin with nothing but the clothes on my back and a knife, and when trouble starts, wham, summon a lackey, armour spell, bound weapon and shield. SPERG makes this concept work even better with its improvements to bound weapons, wards and the Alteration perk that boosts armour spells if unarmoured. Tarq posted:I'm running a character like that and it is pretty fun. I can't say enough good things about SPERG. You know, I once tried to run something like this in vanilla and got completely destroyed in like 5 minutes, but since I just finished downloading skyrim (again) and just got SPERG, I think I may give this another try. I'm still running through recommended mods and installing stuff, but I'll give it a try as soon as I'm happy with my mod loadout. Speaking of, is there a torrent for TPC? The one linked in the OP is not working.
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Dec 9, 2013 15:14
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Edmond Dantes posted:You know, I once tried to run something like this in vanilla and got completely destroyed in like 5 minutes, but since I just finished downloading skyrim (again) and just got SPERG, I think I may give this another try. That sort of play style is very possible, just make sure you spend your initial little bit of gold on conjuration and illusion spells. Fury + Sneak is basically the I Win button for levels 1-10. Speaking of no armor playthroughs, can anyone recommend some warm-looking clothing mods? I have Immersive Armors of course, but everything that looks warm in there is light or heavy.
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Dec 9, 2013 15:26
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Started experimenting with these mods finally, mainly for making the graphics all pretty. I have two computers, one with a 660 Ti and 2 gigs of VRAM, and one a 560 Ti with 1 gig, and the performance difference between them is nuts, I think due to the VRAM gap. A full install of the texture pack combiner with CoT and Project ENB with everything turned on works OK-ish on the 660 (although frame rate gets in the low 20s/teens so I'll definitely have to turn off some features) but it just tanks horribly on the 560 with 1fps a lot of the time. Even after replacing textures with lower-quality variants I still had disappearing textures and 1fps frame rates at parts. At least those single frames per second look nice. I'm looking forward to the next non-online Elder Scrolls game to see how far the base game takes things, and then see how far the graphics modders ramp that up.
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Dec 9, 2013 15:41
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kedo posted:That sort of play style is very possible, just make sure you spend your initial little bit of gold on conjuration and illusion spells. Fury + Sneak is basically the I Win button for levels 1-10.  Quick question about the mod organizer, after installing the mod and checking it on the left panel, do I need to fiddle with the "Plugins" tab? Because there's a whole lot of unchecked stuff in there. Also, is there a way to just let the program do an "automatic load order" in there? So far the only change I've made was put Static Mesh at the top because the game was crashing, but everything else pretty much loads in the order I downloaded the mod.
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Dec 9, 2013 16:06
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Edmond Dantes posted:You know, I once tried to run something like this in vanilla and got completely destroyed in like 5 minutes, but since I just finished downloading skyrim (again) and just got SPERG, I think I may give this another try. The trick to making this work is getting Alteration high enough to use the good armor spells and to get the perk that multiplies the bonus and makes the armor spells permanent. I cheated a bit and used heavy armor for the first few levels so I could absorb some hits, but by the time I finished the mage guild quests I was rocking the Archmage cloth with no armor.
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Edmond Dantes posted:Also, is there a way to just let the program do an "automatic load order" in there? So far the only change I've made was put Static Mesh at the top because the game was crashing, but everything else pretty much loads in the order I downloaded the mod. Download BOSS (linked in the OP) and run that. It downloads a master mod list, which is ordered for maximum compatability, and sorts your mods based on that. In almost every circumstance it will do the trick. Works for Oblivion, Fallout 3 and New Vegas too.
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Edmond Dantes posted:Quick question about the mod organizer, after installing the mod and checking it on the left panel, do I need to fiddle with the "Plugins" tab? Because there's a whole lot of unchecked stuff in there. Yes you need to activate them on the right side too. The left side is what MO shows to skyrim, the right side is what skyrim loads.
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Dr Snofeld posted:Download BOSS (linked in the OP) and run that. It downloads a master mod list, which is ordered for maximum compatability, and sorts your mods based on that. In almost every circumstance it will do the trick. Works for Oblivion, Fallout 3 and New Vegas too. Cheers, I'll give that a try. /edit: I ran BOSS and it sorted the .esp .esm files on the right (plugins tab), but the mod list on the left was unaffected, should it have been? LtSmash posted:Yes you need to activate them on the right side too. The left side is what MO shows to skyrim, the right side is what skyrim loads. Yeah, it actually did that on its own, when I went to enable the ones that hadn't been enabled already, it was because I needed base files (mostly DLC, some other mod compatibility ones). Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Dec 9, 2013 |
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What do I have to change in the MO shortcut for BOSS to have it sort for Skyrim every time, instead of asking for New Vegas/Fallout3/Oblivion? Also I was poking around in the enb INI files and found some things related to borderless fullscreen windowed mode - is this the best method for that? Right now I'm using OneTweak or something that does the same thing.
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Dec 9, 2013 17:55
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Edmond Dantes posted:Cheers, I'll give that a try. It's the order of the plugins that's important, since it's those that Skyrim actually reads. The .fomod (or whatever it is for Skyrim) files are more like installers for mods.
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Edmond Dantes posted:Cheers, I'll give that a try. The order on the left side mostly matters if you have multiple texture / sound / mesh mods. One example of an exception is that you want to have SPERG after the Uncapper if you want to use SPERG's uncapper settings, but in general things that add new things or change game settings don't overwrite each other's files and the ordering is handled with BOSS.
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Dr Snofeld posted:It's the order of the plugins that's important, since it's those that Skyrim actually reads. The .fomod (or whatever it is for Skyrim) files are more like installers for mods. Hamburger Test posted:The order on the left side mostly matters if you have multiple texture / sound / mesh mods. One example of an exception is that you want to have SPERG after the Uncapper if you want to use SPERG's uncapper settings, but in general things that add new things or change game settings don't overwrite each other's files and the ordering is handled with BOSS. Thanks again, I think I managed to get most of what I wanted working, I'll double check the uncapper/sperg thing so I don't end up utterly overpowered, and it looks like I'm having a bit of an issue with the "dagger hip sheathe" animation; and then... I guess then I'll just play the game. 
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Edmond Dantes posted:Thanks again, I think I managed to get most of what I wanted working, I'll double check the uncapper/sperg thing so I don't end up utterly overpowered, and it looks like I'm having a bit of an issue with the "dagger hip sheathe" animation; and then... I guess then I'll just play the game. If that lightning bolt is not present then where that mod is on the left side shouldn't matter.
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Absolutely not  You don't get to play the game until you break scripts so hard it crashes every ten minutes. Then back to playing with mods to fix it.
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Dec 9, 2013 19:12
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Threep posted:Assuming you've sorted the left side for priority, the thing to watch out for is a lightning bolt icon by the mod's name in the left pane. Yeah, I noticed that but I have no idea which mods shouls "overwrite" others, apart from the SPERG/uncap one (which I read here), so I just leave BOSS to do its work; so far it seems to be working. Strategic Tea posted:Absolutely not I'll get it to work perfectly, then uninstall and do the same with Morrowind. 
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Could anyone throw this mod from the OP up on hosting somewhere? Weather Patch for CoT - Fog and Overcast Weathers Specifically, the version that's compatible with Supreme Storms. The author has it hidden, saying he's updating it, which is a great reason to hide it boy howdy.  \/\/\/ 
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Dec 9, 2013 20:07
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Does anyone have a spare Weather Patch for CoT - Fog and Overcast Weathers laying around and are willing to rehost it? The nexus link for it is down. Edit: beaten by a minute
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So y'all know any mods that make being a vampire/vampire lord better? Because it's fun and all, but being a vampire doesn't do much for ya.
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The two big vampire mods are Better Vampires and Belua Sanguinare Revisited. Between the two, Belua Sanguinare is more hardcore; it's supposed to make being a vampire a game unto itself. Better Vampires is more casual and just adds some cool stuff. Both let you actually be damaged by the sun instead of just taking a hit to your attributes and losing regeneration. They also allow you to reverse the progression system so that you actually get stronger the more you feed, which I definitely prefer. Royal Bloodline is another mod specifically for the Vampire Lord form. I haven't tried it, so I can't make any judgement, but it's got a lot of endorsements and it looks like it adds a lot of stuff. Apparently it also allows you to actually fly, instead of just hovering six inches above the ground. The creator of Better Vampires also released a compatibility patch for it. Also, if you think it's stupid that Vampire Lords take fall damage when flying, there's a mod called No Flying Fall Damage that fixes that. Edit: Forgot a few things. You'll probably also want the Vampire Lord Collision Fix, which shrinks the VL model slightly so that you don't get stuck on doorways and such. There's also Vampire Lords can Loot and Activate, but I think that functionality might already be included in the two overhauls. Praetorian Mage fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Dec 10, 2013 |
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Is there a vampire mod like that werewolf one that supposedly had the condition spreading among people like a virus and tracked infected NPCs and dispatched hunters and stuff or was that not great anyway? Ok. vv Super No Vacancy fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Dec 10, 2013 |
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I don't like alternate form things at all. They just feel weird and the forced third person really puts me off.
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So is there a hidden gem of a draw/attack animation fix for bows? The hunched over forward janky bow animations are killing me here. I'm stuck using a crossbow on my archer because I can't stand how awkward bows look.
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Luceo posted:Could anyone throw this mod from the OP up on hosting somewhere? Weather Patch for CoT - Fog and Overcast Weathers Specifically, the version that's compatible with Supreme Storms. Looks like it is back up and now supersedes those other patches that were floating around, good on the authors of this mod 
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Gyshall posted:Looks like it is back up and now supersedes those other patches that were floating around, good on the authors of this mod Great, thanks!
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Gyshall posted:Looks like it is back up and now supersedes those other patches that were floating around, good on the authors of this mod Ok this looks hella awesome. What's your setup?
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I assume this the thread to ask this. I just got this for free a few days ago and I've already ran into an annoying graphics problem. I'm just playing it pure vanilla even without the HD pack. The issue I'm having is all the torches in the opening catacombs have this staticy snow around them. I nuked all the graphics to the lowest I can in the options and its still there. I actually had a similar lighting problem in Dishonored but there was an option to disable it so the snow disappeared, is there anyway to do the same for Skyrim or I am just boned?
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Accordion Man posted:I assume this the thread to ask this. I just got this for free a few days ago and I've already ran into an annoying graphics problem. I'm just playing it pure vanilla even without the HD pack. The issue I'm having is all the torches in the opening catacombs have this staticy snow around them. I nuked all the graphics to the lowest I can in the options and its still there. I actually had a similar lighting problem in Dishonored but there was an option to disable it so the snow disappeared, is there anyway to do the same for Skyrim or I am just boned? You got a screenshot? Also please post your system specs, it might be a GPU issue. Mod Talk: Have some Horker Weapons Definitely gonna give these a whirl, considering I have over 500 Horker Tusks sitting in my craft chest.
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Is there a way within MO to have multiple values in a particular mod's INI? It seems to track Skyrim.ini between profiles, but not e.g. SKSE_Elys_Uncapper.ini. Can I install a duplicate of a mod safely, and enable different versions in different profiles? Is that the only or best way to accomplish this?
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kaschei posted:Is there a way within MO to have multiple values in a particular mod's INI? It seems to track Skyrim.ini between profiles, but not e.g. SKSE_Elys_Uncapper.ini. The best thing I can suggest is making a separate INI file for each different profile and activate the proper one per profile. Other than that I'm not too sure.
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How... do I do that? I've been rightclicking things in the data tab looking for anything promising and that's about the limit of my familiarity with MO. edit: also if it's possible to choose a profile and execute SKSE through a MO shortcut that would be super to know kaschei fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Dec 10, 2013 |
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Installing a duplicate of the mod works fine for this. Just name it something different. Alternatively, create a new mod and put the .ini file in the proper location in its folder, then activate both mods for one profile and only the original for the other. I'm not sure if this works with the Uncapper, though. Edit: There's no reason to do this for SKSE_Elys_Uncapper.ini, though. Just create duplicates of the Uncapper with different ini files, as it's a just a tiny SKSE plugin. Liberatore fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Dec 10, 2013 |
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Scyantific posted:Ok this looks hella awesome. What's your setup? Not mine, but that is right from the COT patches page. I think that is the "Fog" preset.
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Is there a consensus on the best "drastically changes the game" mod? After my first play through, I still have the itch for more Skyrim but I want something very different than what I just did. Is there any mods/few mod combos that give you a very different experience going through?
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Baldbeard posted:Is there a consensus on the best "drastically changes the game" mod? After my first play through, I still have the itch for more Skyrim but I want something very different than what I just did. Is there any mods/few mod combos that give you a very different experience going through? A good combination of Frostfall, Sperg, and Realistic needs & diseases might be right up your ally.
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