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Been a good six months, feeling the itch. Anything good come out in the past year or so? Running the unofficial patches, some graphical stuff, SPERG, Apocalypse, Trade and Barter, some bandit and patrols mods, Hothtrooper's armor and some weapon stuff. Really would like a better weapons mod in particular, a lot of them are kind of ugly. I also had Mazz's End last time but I recall it giving me some horrendous slowdown, so I might just drop that. Shame, it was cool. Are there any fun or interesting mods I should look at this time around? I'd like to shake things up again.
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If you're looking for a good house mod, I got my Fyr Manor Fixes released, so Fyr manor behaves as advertised. Quest wise the only thing I can think of is moon and star which is fairly short, but decent.
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Apr 27, 2016 04:45
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what are some good combat mods? Preferably something that makes the combat more than just button mashing, but not an overcomplicated mess. Basically, not dark souls.
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I just finished Moon and Star. It's not bad but just sortof vanilla. The voice acting is all-around decent to good, I liked Little Vivec and its characters, the riddles were nice, and technically its all good. It's just that everything is so... safe. There's enough fetch and FedEx quests in the main game, I'm not installing quest mods to get more of those. Feels like they could've done so much more with all those voice actors rather than to just fill Little Vivec with flavour lines and misc quests. The nostalgia bit was nice though. On the other hand, I just started Wheels of Lull and drat. I've only been murdering ghosts (and a boss ghost!) in a mine and talking to some...'people' down...somewhere, but it all feels more grand, more weird, more fun. Are all of Trainwiz' mods like that? Cause then I need all of Trainwiz' mods. TeenageArchipelago posted:what are some good combat mods? Preferably something that makes the combat more than just button mashing, but not an overcomplicated mess. Basically, not dark souls. I've been using Combat Evolved together with Deadly Combat and Deadly Dragons. It takes some time getting used to at first because you'll be really wanting to either dodge or block attacks so as not to die, but it's a lot better than the default LARP behaviour where both parties whack at each other with huge cotton swabs. When I first started I had to switch down to apprentice/adept. It might get a bit frustrating against say mages when you don't have a lot of magic resistance, or against particularly strong opponents like my first Old Orc on the side of the road or when higher level enemy spawn kicks in, but having to avoid a few enemies or having to really go all out with scrolls, potions, poisons and abilities makes it feel a lot more rewarding. Edit: And by dodging I mean just walking around and timing enemy swings. The big guys with two-handed weapons always have a long wind-up and cooldown, something I never cared to notice when I played vanilla. Enemies with one-handers are generally too fast for stuff like that though. Fleve fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Apr 27, 2016 |
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Apr 27, 2016 12:42
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Fleve posted:On the other hand, I just started Wheels of Lull and drat. I've only been murdering ghosts (and a boss ghost!) in a mine and talking to some...'people' down...somewhere, but it all feels more grand, more weird, more fun. Are all of Trainwiz' mods like that? Cause then I need all of Trainwiz' mods. The absolute best Trainwiz mod was made for Morrowind, but it is heartily recommended.
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Apr 27, 2016 13:00
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Are there any mods that give magic more impulse? I kind of wanna be rolling around knockin' poo poo over with explosive spells and what not.
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Apr 27, 2016 15:01
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Fleve posted:I just finished Moon and Star. It's not bad but just sortof vanilla. The voice acting is all-around decent to good, I liked Little Vivec and its characters, the riddles were nice, and technically its all good. It's just that everything is so... safe. There's enough fetch and FedEx quests in the main game, I'm not installing quest mods to get more of those. Feels like they could've done so much more with all those voice actors rather than to just fill Little Vivec with flavour lines and misc quests. The nostalgia bit was nice though. Yes, they are. It's Aethernautics, Brhuce Hammar: Legacy, Lost Wonders of Mzark, Blackreach Railroad, Dwemer Spectres, and Fyr Manor (don't neglect to grab the fix mod I made for Fyr Manor.) Even his follower mod (Brhuce Hammar: Legacy) and his house mod (Fyr Manor) have that weird majesty. Brhuce has several neat quests involved, while Fyr Manor has you exploring all over to activate the various rooms.
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Apr 27, 2016 15:16
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Trainwiz is loving excellent and is the kind of modder I want to be when I grow up. Wasn't Morrowloot him as well?
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Apr 27, 2016 15:36
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Agents are GO! posted:Yes, they are. It's Aethernautics, Brhuce Hammar: Legacy, Lost Wonders of Mzark, Blackreach Railroad, Dwemer Spectres, and Fyr Manor (don't neglect to grab the fix mod I made for Fyr Manor.) Even his follower mod (Brhuce Hammar: Legacy) and his house mod (Fyr Manor) have that weird majesty. Brhuce has several neat quests involved, while Fyr Manor has you exploring all over to activate the various rooms. Thanks, I installed the lot of them. I already looked at some of them earlier it seems and then didn't install them cause of the weirdness factor, but playing through Wheels of Lull has me convinced that that's perfectly fine and exactly what I didn't know I wanted. Before I got my hands on them I thought they'd be jarring. Now I can't wait to toy around with harquebuses and jump around in puddles of space-time continuum or whatever he's concocted.
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Apr 27, 2016 16:14
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Well, sounds like I'm grabbing all of Trainwiz's stuff tonight.
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Apr 27, 2016 16:16
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Yeah, he did the original Morrowloot. He also made World Eater Beater, a complete overhaul of the Alduin fight (warning: may kill your music permanently after the fight) and this follower (warning: may result in random wolves getting very mad about elves). (Trainwiz is loving awesome, but if he has one weakness, it's that his code-fu isn't always up to snuff).
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Apr 27, 2016 16:20
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NuclearPotato posted:(warning: may result in random wolves getting very mad about elves).
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Apr 27, 2016 16:46
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Quick Question: I use NMM, have installed SKSE, and have my original Skyrim shortcut all on my desktop. If I want to just launch into the game, with my mods, which shortcut do I use? Do I launch through NMM everytime? I don't like all these superfluous icons on my desktop.
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Apr 27, 2016 17:00
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Blimpkin posted:Quick Question: I use NMM, have installed SKSE, and have my original Skyrim shortcut all on my desktop. If I want to just launch into the game, with my mods, which shortcut do I use? Do I launch through NMM everytime? I don't like all these superfluous icons on my desktop. As long as you launch sks_loader.exe, it should be good. NMM is just a package manager, it doesn't virtualize its Skyrim data folder like MO does.
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Apr 27, 2016 17:17
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Question regarding AA: I remember reading somewhere that Skyrim's in-game AA is poo poo, and that I should use ENB's or my graphics card's AA instead. Is this true? Which one is better, ENB's or the card's? I'm using ENB just for ENBoost, do ENB's AA settings still affect the game in this case?
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Apr 27, 2016 18:43
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Edmond Dantes posted:Question regarding AA: I can't say anything definite on that, but I have a feeling that it might depend on what graphics card you're using, so it might be a good idea to post what model it is, just in case it turns out to be relevant.
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Apr 27, 2016 20:03
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I just use the in-game FXAA. Good enough for me.
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Apr 27, 2016 20:07
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ThaumPenguin posted:I can't say anything definite on that, but I have a feeling that it might depend on what graphics card you're using, so it might be a good idea to post what model it is, just in case it turns out to be relevant. It's a 970gtx
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Apr 27, 2016 20:07
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Edmond Dantes posted:Question regarding AA: if you have a 970 take the easy way out and just find a high quality vanilla ENB, yes they exist
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Mortimer posted:if you have a 970 take the easy way out and just find a high quality vanilla ENB, yes they exist Why you lie to me, bro? I went and tried one out:  (it was a mask png on the root dir, but why the hell do they pack it in in the first place?!)
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It's been about a year and FO4 isn't as replayable as I'd like, so I'm reinstalling Skyrim. Thinking about doing a Forsworn playthru. Anybody have any good mods they'd recommend for such a venture?
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-Fish- posted:It's been about a year and FO4 isn't as replayable as I'd like, so I'm reinstalling Skyrim. Thinking about doing a Forsworn playthru. Anybody have any good mods they'd recommend for such a venture? I'm glad you asked! I find that whole faction really interesting, so two of the better mods that I have made myself are heavily Forsworn-centered. One is Blood and Silver - Cidhna Mine Expanded which improves the climax of the Markarth questline regardless of whether you side with the Forsworn, but it's way more fun if you do. The Forsworn jailbreak scene turns into all-out war. For a Forsworn playthrough it would be cool to start in (or near) Markarth, run the questline and join up with the Forsworn rebellion in-character at the end of the quest. This also adds a couple of bonus followers who will look cool in Forsworn armor. And then there's Female Forsworn Briarhearts which is not as shallow as it may appear. This has a lot of cool extra features like the ability to recruit a badass Forsworn Briarheart follower and the added ability to "craft" a wearable Briarheart body (at a hagraven altar) and either play as a Briarheart (male or female) or turn another follower into one. It also offers improved meshes for the original male Briarheart body and the briar heart clutter item, with a pulsing "heartbeat" glow effect that you really need to see in-game to fully appreciate. lovely gif preview:  Get yo black magic on.
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-Fish- posted:It's been about a year and FO4 isn't as replayable as I'd like, so I'm reinstalling Skyrim. Thinking about doing a Forsworn playthru. Anybody have any good mods they'd recommend for such a venture? There's always A Forsworn Story!  Link is NSFW, in case you haven't guessed. NuclearPotato fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Apr 28, 2016 |
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NuclearPotato posted:Yeah, he did the original Morrowloot. He also made World Eater Beater, a complete overhaul of the Alduin fight (warning: may kill your music permanently after the fight)
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Maera Sior posted:Is it recommended to do it when you've done everything else in the game, or is that only an occasional bug? Not sure, but I'd probably save loading it up until you reach Sovengard, just in case.
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That's actually wrong, the bug is just that he forgot to remove his music from playing, and it was pretty easily fixed with a console command, and I believe it's fixed in the newest version anyway.
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-Fish- posted:It's been about a year and FO4 isn't as replayable as I'd like, so I'm reinstalling Skyrim. Thinking about doing a Forsworn playthru. Anybody have any good mods they'd recommend for such a venture? Alternate Start - Live Another Life lets you start as a Forsworn. Breton only. I do know that one camp will be friendly to you. Not sure about other ones, or if a guard will spot you and try to kill you.
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also if you don't like LAL or want a less structured alternative start Skyrim Unbound lets you pick a faction to belong to and Forsworn is one of the options. Fair warning I haven't played with that much, have only tried it as an Imperial and got kinda tired of being attacked unexpectedly, so I have no idea how the Forsworn option works out but you can switch it off if it's a hassle.
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I'm having a weird issue with the MCM. Menus keep loading slowly or not loading at all, or the menu won't appear to respond (though if I close and reopen it, it'll show any changes I made by clicking so I guess it's technically working?). I originally thought More Hotkeys Please was the culprit, as it always occured near instantly when going into its menu. I tried both AH hotkeys and going without any hotkey mods, but it still happens. Am I missing something obvious? Load Order: code:Grey Elephants fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Apr 29, 2016 |
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Grey Elephants posted:I'm having a weird issue with the MCM. Menus keep loading slowly or not loading at all, or the menu won't appear to respond (though if I close and reopen it, it'll show any changes I made by clicking so I guess it's technically working?). I originally thought More Hotkeys Please was the culprit, as it always occured near instantly when going into its menu. I tried both AH hotkeys and going without any hotkey mods, but it still happens. Am I missing something obvious? SkyUI is slightly buggy. Sometimes it just won't show when you change a menu, but if you go out to the main game then back into the MCM, most times it will show up. I did spot a couple of things with your mod list regardless that you might want to take a look at. The improved shouts are not required at all with Thunderchild. Thunderchild includes the buffs to shouts. Also there is a Thunderchild compatibility patch with Wyrmstooth. There is a SPERG compatibility patch for Apocalypse magic. Convenient Horses has basically been replaced by Immersive Horses. BUT it's not a required switch. Since you're using Civil War Overhaul and Immersive Patrols, you should use one of the Civil War Overhaul specific Immersive Patrols .esp files, if you're not using one anyways. GET RID OF AMAZING FOLLOWER TWEAKS. You are using EFF. You have two things touching the exact same system. Basically EFF is trying to control followers while AFT is as well. That will cause issues.
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TeenageArchipelago posted:what are some good combat mods? Preferably something that makes the combat more than just button mashing, but not an overcomplicated mess. Basically, not dark souls.
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Recommendations on mods to turn Skyrim into a full winter wonderland? I was using a CoT mod that did it but I'm tired of needing a drat patch mod for everything, and Enhanced Landscapes requires you to download even more mods along with a bunch of TESVedits to make it work even if you don't care about seeing way out into the distance or something. I just want Skyrim to be covered in eternal winter. 
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IAmTheRad posted:GET RID OF AMAZING FOLLOWER TWEAKS. You are using EFF. You have two things touching the exact same system. Basically EFF is trying to control followers while AFT is as well. That will cause issues. Alternately, get rid of EFF. But if you do keep AFT, it needs to be last in your order, or else it won't work right. It's kind of a pain that way, but I find it to be worth it.
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Gorgar posted:Alternately, get rid of EFF. But if you do keep AFT, it needs to be last in your order, or else it won't work right. It's kind of a pain that way, but I find it to be worth it. My problem with AFT and EFF is what they do to companion dialogue and interaction. The UI and menu system is really clogged and seemingly complex. I would like talking to my followers to remain at least a little similar. Similar to the Ask Followers their Skills mod (whatever it is called). Perhaps Something like the follower wheel from new Vegas? Does anyone know of any like this? I want simplicity in use and features, as in not a lot of new things added other than stat checking and some other quality of life stuff like stealth improvement... I've looked around a lot but could use some advice. What do you prefer? Thanks in advance Truecon420 fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Apr 29, 2016 |
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Truecon420 posted:My problem with AFT and EFF is what they do to companion dialogue and interaction. The UI and menu system is really clogged and seemingly complex. I would like talking to my followers to remain at least a little similar. Similar to the Ask Followers their Skills mod (whatever it is called). Perhaps Something like the follower wheel from new Vegas? ... EFF has a new vegas style companion wheel, that's why I use it.
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Agents are GO! posted:... EFF has a new vegas style companion wheel, that's why I use it. Oh perfect, thanks. Hope it's compatable with Followers Can Relax
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Truecon420 posted:Oh perfect, thanks. Hope it's compatable with Followers Can Relax you shouldn't need it, EFF has a relax command and your follower will chill out and sandbox in the area.
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This is super cliche I know and a ton of people hate them, but are there any good talking swords mods for Skyrim? I don't trust any of the reviews. Oblivion had a pretty good one if I remember right, and it had a really cool quest tracking it down. I know about Lilacor but that looks like the worst quest in history, especially since the entire reason I love skyrim is because of the quest markers since I normally get lost easily in 3d games like this. Washout fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Apr 29, 2016 |
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Lilarcor is the greatest talking sword in the history of talking swords, which makes it all the worse that the mod is so bad. I wouldn't mind knowing if there were any good ones myself.
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