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I recently started a "throw in a bunch of mods and welcome to hell" playthrough of Skyrim and... oof. I had some thoughts! Best mod of the game: Clockwork. Good poo poo end to end. Technically impressive, nothing ever broke for me, great atmosphere. Would recommend without reservation. graynull posted:I recently played through Gray Cowl of Nocturnal as part of Lexy's Modlist... no disrespect to its creator, but goddamn it was not a pleasant experience. Started out decently, until it spits you out into the desert. Then just goes drastically downhill, and the end was just... I'm not doing that again. If I want the item I'll just console it in and pretend it was all a dream. loving same, holy god. Although the beginning bothered me. The dungeon seemed to require a lot more walking to get anything done than was necessary, and one of the choices of Blades to be nostalgic about was completely inexplicable. Screw Baurus, says the modder, let's bring in the one guy who you never get dialog with, he just always says he's busy even if he's sitting around! I did get a laugh out of the guy with the Italian(?) accent trying to do a stereotypical Middle-Eastern accent. I have never wanted to harm someone more in my life, though, when the NPC near the end started walking down a hall and into a large room and I realized... oh, I have to follow him across the room, too! I have never walked down so many pointless halls in my life as I did in that mod. By the end, I was begging for it to just end, not have me pointlessly walk through Akavir for no reason and oh yeah, escort quest NPC to the docks, why not, WHY, WHY DO THIS. I nearly cried with relief when I saw credits. Credit where it's due, there is a specific daedric lord voiced VERY well. However, he's written so badly I skipped through as much of him as I could. And the flood of spiders coming out of the tomb walls effect was effective. nine-gear crow posted:Helgen Reborn's got a lot of charm to it that outweighs its negatives too, I find. That one guy's voice actor and the fact that a lot of it wildly drags out way longer than it should sorta ruin it for me. You know the one. The one that sounds like a really aggressive Ahnold impersonation. And to be specific, the arena sequence is pointless and irritating and too long. Some of the dungeons are also too long. Far too little of the dialog is skippable because it's a scene between multiple people. Also the waifu is... weird. Like okay, you can marry one of the characters, fine, but it's weird how she goes out of her way to specifically introduce herself and point out that she's a follower, oh and she's wearing that tiny outfit Aela wears. Just weird. Tools of Kagrenac was irritating. The final areas are excessively long walks with nothing much to do in them. The plot is basically "try to do this thing that you are told very clearly not to do by many people with no opportunity to do anything but follow along without just not continuing the quest." I wouldn't have been so mad in it if not for the deeply irritating maze ruin that includes a large underwater section full of slaughterfish who jammed me into a corner in a way that meant I couldn't move or do anything. The Forgotten City was... a problem, frankly. The stuff from the standalone game they have coming up sounded much better, but let's just say there was some problematic poo poo in the mod. Homophobia that felt weird for the setting was one big thing. It's really clear it wasn't made for Skyrim's setting. But there's also a sideplot where a gay man is getting death threats from some other guy and you threaten him into stopping by saying you'll magically turn him into the gay guy's sex slave. And in the good ending, they end up in a romantic relationship.  The premise was also underutilized and underexplored, but I really checked out a bit after that sidequest.Artifacts: Tournament of Ten Bloods is pretty short, combat-heavy. There are some difficult fights, but my only real problem was that the initial dragon was a LITTLE glitchy. He did not want to land anywhere near me for the end of the fight, so I ran all over the mountain a lot. Otherwise, short and sweet and kinda intense. Would recommend. The Brotherhood of Old was... a confusing experience. On the one hand, it wasn't as bad as I expected. Pretty good Nazir and Babette voices. Night Mother's not bad either. A little weird that Cicero was left out altogether, but I guess he could easily be dead at that point. There were characters with "funny" quirks that weren't any worse than Cicero, much to my surprise. Those are usually the worst. But it also was just jerking off Lucien LaChance in a really weird-rear end way. There's some weird OC do not steal descendant of his who is a girl you can marry, but even that wasn't as bad as I expected. She even looked pretty much like a normal NPC. Also the plot was weird as hell, and I honestly think the mod would have been better off without it. It's even optional in the end and nobody is that bothered if you don't go through with it. Just deeply strange. And there were other deeply strange moments where you had opportunities to be merciful for some reason? Like yeah, choices, sure, but there's no consequences for not killing your target and that's weird. Or they'd just leave out a thing you could have said to solve something like... Okay, example: Guy wants brother saved from jail. Wants everyone else there killed for a bonus, no witnesses. There's a complication even he doesn't know about : Brother is in jail to get his girlfriend out. You somehow do not have the choice to go "We killed everyone except the person your brother got arrested to save. He threatened to try to kill us if we killed her, and I don't think you'd have wanted us to murder your brother while saving him." You just lie about it and say you killed them all or lie and say it was frantic and one person got away. On the other hand, the modder needs a quest marker/explanation intervention. I have literally no idea why I killed the first target. I genuinely thought I missed something, went back, did it again, still could not figure it out at all. There is more than one place where I had no idea what the hell was even going on, and there were several spots that were begging for a quest marker. Like look, the sanctuary is a relatively big place and Babette wanders. You want me to talk to her? put a drat marker over her head. There was more than one spot where the quest should have at least updated to say what was going on, but it did not, so again, I SORTA wasn't sure what even just happened. There was a part that wanted you to follow an orc from loving Morthal to Markarth. Luckily, he mentioned where he was going so I could fast travel there and wait, but they REALLY should have just put a marker in Markarth and had me meet him there. (I say this, but meeting someone at a city also broke catastrophically for me) Then I had to walk all the way to a relatively nearby dungeon with him, all of this with basically no explanation. The worst part is that it broke the living poo poo out of everything. The OC girl's hairstyle, an inoffensive ponytail, somehow gave her greyface no matter how facegen was done. One of the new NPCs started a riot in Markarth and killed every single guard there, and this wasn't intended. I hadn't even joined the Brotherhood yet. He's also visibly way out of place in Markarth, wearing daedric gauntlets and boots and a robe. I was told to meet two people in Morthal and only one showed up and had no dialog. I didn't know this was broken until later because I got sucked into a different quest before I could get there. Part of one of the goddamn SIDEquests in it breaks the literal main quest. Tried to kill a target in the Thalmor Embassy during the main quest there. Should work, right? SUPER WRONG, nobody involved in that main quest will spawn with it active. One of the sidequests caused, without warning, all Solitude guards to want to murder me on sight. The sidequest chain ended in the biggest meh I've ever seen. There are a myriad of nasty bugs and completely fragile sequences of events. They will not be fixed, because according to the modder, they are not the mod's fault, they are yours, so screw off, I guess.  Fun gem of the game: Blackreach Railroad. That end boss didn't path well at all and was a bit glitchy, but I thoroughly enjoyed every second of that mod anyway. I also am enjoying my train hat for train people, like myself. Related, but the mod that adds Dwemer spectres is great. It integrates seamlessly and functions very well. I had a deeply weird moment in Finding Mercer's first dungeon, a Dwemer ruin, where the bedrooms and such were populated by normal spectres and tonal architects and such but there were guard spectres and robots in the hallways. The positioning seemed so intentional I checked to see if the mod used spectres specifically. It did not. It just worked that way. Following Mercer is solid, by the way. It's just dungeony stuff, but the dungeons are nice! My favorite's this ice tunnel dungeon which had skeletons and stuff embedded in the walls, like one really giant skeleton you could only see bits of as the tunnel wound around. They integrate cleanly with the rest of the game, too. That first Dwemer ruin was pretty cool too, because there were places where the falmer and dwemer had clearly clashed. 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Lt. Lizard posted:Having this kind of frank, informal review of a bunch of big story mods and their various flaws is pretty helpful, thanks! I'm glad it helps somebody! I kinda ended up doing it because all the reviews I was seeing of all of these mods were super glowing and void of ANY detail. They just kinda read like someone watched a trailer for a movie and reviewed it from that. There were also some reviews that just said to play the mod instead of a corresponding bit of official CC because it was automatically better. Sure, Tools of Kagrenac is free, but I bet the CC version doesn't have that goddamn underwater maze bit. And I'll wager the CC Gray Cowl doesn't make me walk, not run or jog, WALK the length of that entire cavern the skeletal dragon inhabits in that one Mage's Guild quest. I wasn't wanting a step by step or anything, but "I had opinions about parts of the mod" didn't seem like a high bar to clear.
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Orange Crush Rush posted:Has anyone had something like this video happen, where suddenly you start drawing your bow in ultra slow motion: This might help: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/32859
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unimportantguy posted:Is Vilja well regarded? I really liked Lucien and Inigo but didn't enjoy having Vilja around. She is written in a way that made her seem both self-centered and clingy. My experience was I picked her up, traveled around with her for a short while, and ended up leaving her back at the Bannered Mare and then never interacting with her again. "Well-regarded" is one of those things that just means nothing in Skyrim mods in general. All the mods I tried were well-regarded and some of them were absolute hell. She's extremely popular. Personally, I can't stand her, and it's not just because I hate the voice acting of everybody the mod adds. On that note, I'm starting Skyrim over again. Know why? The loving Brotherhood of Old mod left just... wreckage throughout all my save files. I had to burn them to get rid of it.
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Aw, I didn't know that. That's nice!
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Berke Negri posted:dawnguard is pretty great when you recontextualize it as the a-team in TES, its very dumb and mostly about kicking rear end The Dawnguard side is enjoyable if you play it like the anti-vampire A-Team. I dislike the vampire side because everyone's a backstabbing dickbag, but I guess it does make sense. Having the anti-vampire A-Team is just more fun even if it is stupid. Lunchmeat Larry posted:but why do they e.g. block out the sun now. They... don't, the bow does that. They just said how to do it.
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Rainbow Knight posted:Armored trolls are pretty cool imo I like their dogs, too.  Actually, speaking of, there's a mod that lets your family adopt the huskies or the grave dogs! https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/35241
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Looks like The Forgotten City mod is getting a stand alone thing on Steam I hope they remove the creepy side-bit with the gay guy and the homophobe.
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Pontificating rear end posted:This is a good NPC facial Overhaul, tweaked vanilla faces, uses Apachii hair for variety which is nice One day, Apachii hair will be dead, and I will dance on its loving grave. How many loving games has that hair been imported through since it started off in like... what, Sims 2? How long will its corpse be dragged along before it is allowed to die? Chomp8645 posted:Oh yikes. Well, I'd say you've got four basic options. This is assuming that everything else is set up correctly, it's Program Files that is causing the problem, and Program Files is causing only this problem. Which... are not easy to take as givens. What about trying Nemesis? I haven't been through the guide yet, but from what I can tell, most mods Nexus-side have started at least putting in options for it. It seems extremely easy to go from one to the other.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Interesting NPCs overall has pretty good VA I think, especially the "major" followers. There are standout exceptions, like that one cleric who sounds like someone told him his voice needed to be softer and lower in pitch and so he did that with his voice... but like he's not a professional voice actor, so you have someone mumbling constantly now.
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chaosapiant posted:Speaking of “cities” is the Forgotten City mod worth scoping out? I heard it’s good and while I have over 1,000 hours in Skyrim, those hours are all prior to The Witcher 3 coming out. What's your opinion on deeply uncomfortable sidequests involving homophobia, threats of gay rape, and "oh the homophobic bully realizes he's gay so now he and the victim are in love"? nine-gear crow posted:The full stand alone remake of The Forgotten City is due out later this year, so I wonder if having its own or at least a better engine than what Skyrim was running on would facilitate better ending/story experience, especially since it's not having to compete with whatever the rest of your mod loadout is now. A lot of the mod felt weird because it didn't feel like it belonged in Skyrim at all. They tried for some Real World Issues that are just kinda weird in Skyrim.
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...Also the way the mod works, that doesn't even work because killing anybody will reset the story.  And it felt really heavy on edgelord. Give a drug addict drugs for information! There's a mentally ill guy being generally abused! Cannibals! Racism! (I know Skyrim has that, but it feels like real world racism, not Skyrim racism, if that makes sense? It was an Imperial/Redguard couple who were discriminated against because of miscegenation basically) There's a rape dungeon! I really wanted to like it based on the interesting premise, but the content of the actual mod ended up being a hard pass for me. Midnight Voyager fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Nov 24, 2020 |
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https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/42441 The madman, they did it, they actually did it. They actually fixed greyface/brownface/etc.
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nine-gear crow posted:Arthmoor will be Forever Mad about Skyrim mods. There's a replacement that just came out for Provincial Courier Service actually! https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/40709
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Also I goddamn hate that one quest about the king whatever, it has the worst ending and I feel dumber for having done it. I install it anyway because I like many of the characters and quests that AREN'T that one.
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Magmarashi posted:Christ that required mods list Uh. I'm reasonably sure those aren't required. They're just mods that there are patches for.
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That's why I'm never playing Helgen Reborn again. Aside from being utterly unable to take that one voice actor seriously, I distinctly remember getting halfway through a dungeon and thinking "How have I not finished this two times over by now?!"
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Zeron posted:The collecting and museum part are great. When I used it, like every time I swung by to drop some stuff off though there'd be a new annoying quest I'd have to do before I could use the museum at all. That annoyed me quite a bit. There's a mod that ups the number of stuff you need before a new quest happens, it might be advisable in this case. EDIT: Found it! https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/44923 Midnight Voyager fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Mar 22, 2021 |
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Funky See Funky Do posted:What's so good about this Legacy of the Dragonborn thing makes it the top quest mod on SE? Is the story compelling and well done or is it just collecting poo poo for a museum and people love that for some reason? Do you like finding things and putting them in displays instead of just selling it or tossing it in a box? Does that scratch an itch in your brain? Do shelves full of stuff you found give you a sense of satisfaction? It's great for that, if you've got that type of brain. (I do.) Otherwise: The quests and voice acting are fine, all of the tech is extremely competent, and it fits in neatly with the rest of the game. If you've played the game several times, it's new stuff to run into. Probably not worth it if you're not into that kind of collection thing, though.
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If you want a mod like his courier service mod, there is also an alternative available: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/40709 It's even in the same spot for compatibility with things that have patches for Arthmoor's.
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nine-gear crow posted:Well, with XVASynth now being a thing it's probably only a matter of time before someone does a proper "DOVAKIIN?! NOOOOOOOO!" with the 'real' dragon voice instead of... whatever that is in USSEP. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/51904?tab=posts This exists. He speaks in dragon most of the time so like... you can just grab the VA from another language and it works fine. Some of them even yell "DOVAHKIIN? NOOO" at the end
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Skwirl posted:That stand alone game based on the Skyrim Forgotten City mod is out. "He hate crimed me because he loved me!"
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unimportantguy posted:Wait what? I definitely don't remember that. There's a guy who's leaving threats for the gay guy. You make him stop by saying you'll mind control him into being the gay guy's sex slave if he doesn't. At the very end, when you talk to them, they are a couple.
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Strategic Tea posted:lol the RPS review said it had a well written exploration of queer self-hate which I assume was referring to that yikes
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nine-gear crow posted:Provincial Courier Service > Skald's Mail Don't forget Better Courier. It's basically a perfect replacement if all you want is Provincial Mail Without Arthmoor. His office is even in the same spot, so mods that avoid it for compatibility reasons will still work just fine, and even compatibility patches that don't rely on the ESP and just move stuff away work. (Also, it's compatible with Skald's Mail, so por que no los dos, etc) Gonkish posted:I think that was more of an attempt at a "Look at how much I make from modding" flex than "I am unemployed"... but it's Arthmoor so I wouldn't blame employers for dumping him at the drop of a hat. The man is the avatar of every whiny, entitled dipshit that has ever lived. He's previously bitched about how criminally underpaid he is for his mods, so probably not a brag. Also, he is on welfare. Yes, he has bitched about welfare's existence and how Obama was ending the world or whatever, he is not a consistent man. Midnight Voyager fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Aug 9, 2021 |
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Speaking of mod lists.Artifacts of Skyrim posted:I DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION TO USE MY MODS IN ANY COLLECTIONS. I wouldn't care (and, in fact, would be happy to see such a system) if I was left in control of my work, but the nexus has made other arrangements. If I see that any one of my mods has been used in a collection I will cease updating or releasing any mods on this platform. Please respect my wishes in this matter. Until such a time as the nexus revokes their recent anti-modder policies my mods are off limits for collections.
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Thumbtacks posted:There's a very good reason mod creators really don't like the nexus I like it fine! ...I pay no attention to the mod forums and I don't do stupid poo poo. Works great.
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Agents are GO! posted:Does anyone have a link to the essay TheDarkOne posted when the Nexus got rid of numbered mod ratings, where he wrote that giving a low score was equivalent to trolling? https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/265363-on-the-internet-trolls-and-finally-creating-an-effective-rating-syst/
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Rinkles posted:yikes, just well, go on, don't just give us a taste, track it all in here! Or awesome/awful mods if you don't wanna poop up this thread. IIRC he did LOSE HIS poo poo when NovaJam did a video on Dwemertech, come to think of it. Like gave him poo poo about it in the patch notes of his mod and wrote an article about it. Well, I found something from three months ag- OH JESUS https://teddit.ggc-project.de/r/skyrimmods/comments/nv1hhz/enaisiaon_arguing_for_bombing_immigrant_boats_in Midnight Voyager fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Sep 6, 2021 |
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Head Hit Keyboard posted:Wait are we talking about the stuff that came up last year or did something new happen? I don't know, first guy was vagueposting so I went to Google and this is all I found. I either forgot it or missed it when it happened.
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Remember the Forgotten City mod? with the weird side-plot about the death-threat-sending homophobic guy actually being gay and into the guy he was threatening? Glanced through reviews for their full game, and I'm not sure "homophobic until he gets a magical arthritis cure and then is a nice guy" is better
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Agents are GO! posted:Fun fact, without mods, the number of enchantments that NPCs can actually make use of is tiny. This is true, the armor might have not done poo poo LOL
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The Gadfly posted:Nexus turning a profit is a problem because it pushes the hobby of modding from a focus of just sharing mods with the community, to a profit-driven endeavour, which the ToS of the game it's indirectly profiting from seeked to stop in the first place. er, does it? You can upload and download poo poo there for free. I do it all the time. It's very convenient. Their making a profit doesn't really affect my modding habits. Bethesda opened the floodgates of paid modder bullshit, and rear end in a top hat single modders have been begging for it too. Arthmoor, for example, thinks he should be showered in money for it. Midnight Voyager fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Oct 8, 2021 |
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docbeard posted:Unrelated: Cities of the North - Falkreath is now out, looks like as of yesterday. nine-gear crow, wasn't this the last of the big non-Arthmoor city/town overhauls that was in the works? The ETAC person is back too and updating, so not quite.
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nine-gear crow posted:Nice! Their work was really good too. Hopefully they'll be able to better integrate it into the city and town mods that have cropped up over their hiatus, because I really like that "best of all worlds" feeling. It makes Skyrim seem larger and more expansive. Plus ETAC is the only town mod that touches Darkwater Crossing anymore in a significant way since Arthmoor ripped all his lovely town mods down in a huff. It also has Rorikstead covered too, which is nice because I think The Great Town of Rorikstead relies too much on reused Whiterun assets, so a subtler approach is nicer. If not them, I'm sure someone else will have a shot at city mod patches. I always loved their Darkwater Crossing, too, like it actually made Derkeethus feel like part of the settlement instead of tacked on.
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Gonkish posted:Man, Cities of the North Falkreath is super pretty. I'm waiting on the patch for JK's Skyrim for it before I start a new (billionth) game, but just wandering around after teleporting myself there with console magic is dope. The lack of generic farmhouses just makes it feel so much more alive. I think it's their best one yet, I love the look of those buildings.
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Rinkles posted:technically, LE still has more mods But they're generally pretty easy to convert, if LE has something SE doesn't.
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