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chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

If a person put's as much effort into ironing out BethBugs from those games as Arthmoor does, I can't imagine them not being a crazy piece of poo poo such as Arthmoor is.

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chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

KakerMix posted:

It's no excuse, he sucks mondo big time for trying to enforce how people mod their single player game.

I don't disagree. I'm just saying in a parallel universe where it's another modder than Arthmoor, they'd probably be a shitheel too. I rarely use the unofficial patches because I rarely noticed bugs unless I'm specifically looking out for them.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

How are Immersive Armors/Immersive Weapons now for Skyrim SE? Last time I used either was back in Oldrim probably in the 2012-2013 time frame and both created some issues in the levelled lists that I can't remember. Are they still the go-to for additional weapon/armor variety in the game? And are there any complete texture packs that do the Neural AI upscaling that Oblivion and Morrowind have?

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

I've been reading about some newish mod called Legacy of the Dragonborn. Is this a cool and fun mod to drop in the middle of my game? I'm fairly lightly modded and only just started this character.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Do I need to do some weird Wrye Mash magic to merge those weapons and armor into my levelled lists, or do the mods take care of that already? I'm pretty much over doing crazy mod setups. I like to add a few choice things here in there, keep it low maintenance, and just play the game. TIA!

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

My favorite time with the Skyrim intro was when I installed an "Immersive Carriages" mod (don't remember the name.) It somehow hosed with the physics of the carriages and the carriage in the intro would constantly get stuck on poo poo, bounce and flip, or just rocket into the sky dropping everyone on the ground. It was bananas.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Schadenboner posted:

Which is a shame because if it’s the mod I’m thinking of it really did a lot of great work making the carriages work better. Like: do you really want to schlep all the way out to loving Rorikstead? Especially since the yellow flower mod makes it the closest place to Whiterun and Lakeview Lodge to find them.

It was a good mod, but I've never been a fan of installing script heavy mods mid game-save, so while the obvious fix was to only check the ESP after the introduction, my mod neurosis prevented me from doing as such.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Average Bear posted:

Try loverslab.com for all your sex mod needs. I recommend DarkDemon67's Wetter Dragon Pussies and TwitterSloth's Immersive Bandit Anuses (2k if you have enough VRAM). Not sure how to help with your other problem.

Edit: just saw you edited your post out, nevermind

2K anuses are a waste of resources. Even the larger ones are too small for that level of texture fidelity to matter. Unless your playing your Skyrim porn fantasy on a huge TV or projector, then you'll want to dial up the anal graphics.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Average Bear posted:

Sometimes you wanna TCL and see the nipple textures up close.

Yea, true enough. Also forgot about Skyrim VR. That's probably where the best bandit-anal action would be anyway.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Cat Mattress posted:

you're probably joking but still, :yikes:

I'm kidding! I've never played Skyrim VR!

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

papa horny michael posted:

How come the nexus keeps track of every mod you've downloaded over the lifetime of your account, but is unable to see the current downloaded mods from the client you use?

How do you define what's "currently downloaded" and where is the Nexus supposed to look? If you download mods to a folder manually and don't use a mod manager, for example, how would the Nexus know it's current without scanning your hard drive?

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

A.o.D. posted:

I'm holding out for 4k textures and a physics engine that you don't have to do from a sketchy Chinese forum.

Lover's Lab has a very good reputation among the perv-nerds who make up many of Skyrim's fans. The number one place for jiggle physics and 4K butts.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

bony tony posted:

Longstride is essential if you want to run around without a horse. Combine with Mystic Wind for infinite mana.

Isn't running (especially sprinting) already as fast as horses?

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Speaking of Skyrim mods, what's Wildcat like? I've got most of the mods of that modding dude, but am wary of actually using a combat mod since I don't want combat to become a slog.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Average Bear posted:

It actually makes combat much faster. I think I use Smilodon, which is his more lightweight version that is more seamless into the vanilla combat. I haven't played vanilla combat in a while but I like what it does. Combine it with Realistic Ragdolls and Force highest settings and it makes smacking hordes of skeletons pretty fun.

Noted, I'll check that out. I've been avoid physics mods for the longest time because the last one I tried had some weird bugs that broke the game. Not even sure that was Skyrim though, might've been Oblivion.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Average Bear posted:

The only thing any physics mod will break is the opening cutscene, which you should be skipping with mods. Trust me, blasting necromancers into the horizon with Ice Spike never gets old.

Thinking about it, I think that's what it was actually. The intro was breaking and I had to uninstall. And then I hate installing mods on a game-in-progress because of how delicate Skyrim's scripting is. Is Wildcat or Smilodon safe to drop into an on-going game?

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Average Bear posted:

Yes, both mods have config menus to start and stop them at will.

Perfect, thank you! I'll probably drop that in tonight and see how it goes. Are there any mods that do things like increase run/walk speed or jump height with either perks or raising Stamina? One side effect of removing attributes is that I can't see my character being able to do things like jump higher or run faster and that was part of the fun of character growth. At least more Stamina gives you more carry weight.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

I’m using Ordinator so I’ll take a loo through the perks. Was Sperg ever updated for SE?

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Average Bear posted:

Yes it was. I personally don't use it because I remember it being too much like vanilla. IDK if that's actually the case or it's a false memory thing.

It was my favorite game play overhaul of all the available ones back in the day, but I can’t even remember what all it did. But yea, it was basically Vanilla+ and it rocked.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Average Bear posted:

My stats say I opened 2000 containers this playthrough. Imagine watching that little opening animation that many times. Thanks quickloot!

There's a quickloot mod for Skyrim now? I have it for Morrowind and I did not know that Skyrim had one. I wish to download and install it.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever


Awesome, thanks!

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

AngryRobotsInc posted:

I was being sarcastic. I actually think Morrowind has aged pretty badly, and that a lot of people have some serious rose tinted glasses for it. :ssh:

As for dungeons, do you have any mods for them that you particularly like? I've tried out a few, but it's been a while and I forget what they were, but most were pretty enh. I was trying to find more puzzle based ones, but everything I tried was either Babby's First Puzzle or obtuse moon logic.

What about those of us who still actively play Morrowind. It’s mechanics were always janky, but I far prefer Morrowind to Oblivion/Skyrim. Not just the narrative or world building either, I actually prefer the gameplay.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Having recently done that tower/dragon quest with Arthmoor's dumb dragon voice, I didn't think that scene was nearly as bad as it was made out to be. It's super quick and the VA isn't as bad as folks make it out to be. I mean it's definitely not good. But the idea that someone would take the time to mod that out says more to me about that particular modder than any of the goofy poo poo Arthmoor gets up to.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Agents are GO! posted:

Enai also has a new perk overhaul out, called Vokrii, I'm using it on my current playthrough but I'm only level 6.

Is Vokrii a replacement for Ordinator, a side grade, or to be used in conjunction? I like his mods. His mods make my Skyrim feel better about itself.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Skwirl posted:

It's a replacement, a much more low key overhaul of the perk system that's supposed to resemble vanilla more closely.

Ok, I actually prefer Ordinator then, as it does more "cool poo poo" than vanilla. I assume Mr ModMan will then be supporting both mods, me hope?

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

If I haven't played Skyrim since I beat it at launch what are the essential mods to get

What do you not like/want to change? Necessity usually says unofficial patches/DLC stuff first. One mod I can no longer do without is ELFX. It makes the lighting SO MUCH BETTER. I don't use any other lighting or weather mod, just that.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

My dream Elder Scrolls levelling system is a system where we have individual perk trees just like Skyrim, but each tree is a class from the older games instead of a skill. So a knight tree, thief tree, scout tree, battlemage tree, and so on. And each tree's perks can be mixed and matched together to form the ideal class, ideally with zero "+5% to make biscuits" skills. This system is basically a mix of what Skyrim has now with the Grim Dawn/Titan Quest system of levelling up. Then bring back attributes and just gives us, say 5 pts to distribute every level so folks aren't "gaming" what skills they use. Then you need to be able to track a lot more behaviors of the character to determine where invisible points are gathered so you can level up. Or just use experience pts. Maybe make it so if you pickpocket someone, you raise a "thief" point, and enough points and you can take a new perk in that tree. Breaking into someone's house at night? Points in the Burglar tree. Manage to block a blow with your shield while wearing Iron or Steel heavy armor? Point in the Knight or Crusader tree. poo poo like that. You can do a lot with a system that rewards player action and also rewards diversity.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Midig posted:

Just found the most amazing water mod for ENB!!

http://enbseries.enbdev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6480

Can't believe I have not seen it before! Might even use it to replace RW2!!

BTW if you download the wavy waters version, it doesn't give you the original ESP. for some reason, which will cause CTD, drag and drop the original Water for ENB.esp in the folder after install.

That looks gorgeous! I reckon it needs ENB to work? I’m not a big fan of ENBs anymore, are they’re any that will not change the lighting or add effects and I can just use the water?

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Skwirl posted:

Set ES6 in Hammerfell and we'll never have to hear from Arthamor again.

Bullshit, his first unofficial patch will make every body more light skinned and he’ll throw a fit if anyone says anything.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Alchenar posted:

Sorry, me again, troubleshooting: the player character makes no vocal sounds. I.e. everything else seems fine, but I'm not getting my Fus Ro Dahs or any grunts or anything on swinging weapons.

Any ideas? Still just running SkyUI and the Unofficial Patch. Some people apparently think this is a cause of not being on the C: drive? (that would be strange, but I've given up second guessing some of the reasons bugs manifest in some games)

e: holy poo poo it really is because Skyrim hates being on anything other than the boot drive. what the gently caress bethesda how does that even happen

I’ve never installed Skyrim on the boot drive and haven’t had that issue.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Commander Keene posted:

Oh good, that would do so much to make Morrowind playable. RNG hit rates work in a turn-based RPG, not so much in an action-RPG. Does it affect casting too, or just melee?

All you'd really need to do after that is so something about the abysmally slow walking speed, which you can do without mods. Maybe do something to handle the loading of cells more seamlessly.

I still think Morrowind has the best combat system. You can actually feel your character getting better, instead of always hitting damage sponges forever. It’s still not a “good combat system” be neither is Oblivion’s or Skyrim’s and it’s better than that.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Whenever playing Morrowind, make a point to walk everywhere and only run if I need to get away. The game is just too pretty to speed by all of it. I like the sedate pace of the game and usually install mods to make running drain fatigue in both Oblivion and Skyrim.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

OpenMW would’ve been much more awesome 10+ years ago, but with the unofficial and code patch’s, the original engine can now run just fine with a bevy of graphical additions and shaders. It’s the way to go.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Alchenar posted:

Guess which games company put a patch out for a 7 year old game that broke SKSE?

SKSE is already updated. Just download the new version and keep playing. I just did it last night.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever


I still don't fully understand what this mod does and I'm at work, so I can't view those links or anything. Is it a large quest mod or sumthin?

Edit: Actually it looks like I can access the LotD wiki and it appears to be somethin akin to the Archeologists guild mod from Oblivion.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

I'm gonna have to check it out then. My current Skyrim SE setup is a very basic one with the DLC, the ELFX lighting overhaul (I can't play without this, it's too drat good) and the Enai Saeion dude's perk and magic overhauls. Oh, and that one that adds Bruma or something. Imma check it out.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Gyshall posted:

Are there any mods that make equipment more like RDR2? Where I can only carry a single or limited number of weapons of each type?

Bonus points if there is a weapon wheel

You could probably make a super rough and quick one by just drastically reducing carry weight?

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Rinkles posted:

how risky would a mid playthrough switch from ordinator to vokrii be (after resetting perks)?

If they’re just perk overhauls, it should be fine. Worst case scenario is you lose/gain a few perk points?

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

I haven't used MO2, but I've used MO. If MO2 does the same "virtual skyrim directory magic" that MO did, then having MO2 installed directly into the Skyrim folder might cause it to break. At least I'd think it would? Doesn't MO2, like MO, create a virtual version of the Skyrim folder, and it won't "see" anything that isn't specifically specified in MO? I'm probably over thinking it and maybe it's fine.

And per the above user, having a Skyrim folder inside of Skyrim likely means a mod wasn't installed at the right directory level, and could cause anything from that mod to not work, to breaking every other mod, depending on how it's all setup.

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chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

While there's pros and cons to both, I'm not of the mind that Mod Organizer is the best mod utility to start with. I think it's a bit better down the road when you've hit the limits and problems of the more basic mod tools that just dump poo poo directly into data files. If you're not fairly familiar with how the folder structure works in Skyrim, or how MO works its magic, then when it doesn't work you won't know why. I'm sure that's a minority opinion, but I stand by it. If you know and understand how it works, then of course it's the better option, but if you're coming from the console modding scene, or never modded before, I think it's versatility is lost because it obscures the mod loading mechanics a bit.

chaosapiant fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Jan 8, 2020

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