HereticGuy
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Improving Skyrim / Recommended Mods thread (Mostly about Requiem)
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Do you know any mod that causes enemies to get lightly staggered when they get hit by normal attacks besides the Flinch mod? This one doesn't seem to work for AE for me 
Or anything that makes hitting palpable would be appreciated. Tk Hit Stop doesn't seem to work either with AE.
Or anything that makes hitting palpable would be appreciated. Tk Hit Stop doesn't seem to work either with AE.
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Do you know any mod that causes enemies to get lightly staggered when they get hit by normal attacks besides the Flinch mod? This one doesn't seem to work for AE for me
Or anything that makes hitting palpable would be appreciated. Tk Hit Stop doesn't seem to work either with AE.
That Perkus Maxumis mod I mentioned does this with ranged bows, crossbows and two-handed I think. You also pick perks that give you items in your crafting list that allows you to craft either a silent "backstabbing" crossbow or a heavier arbalist type one. Some other interesting perks in there like disarm shield and all that.
It also allows traps and caltrops, etc in the "wilderness lore" tree. But I haven't messed about with this stuff too much yet.
I'm still trying to work out the damage values in this game. Currently level 87, 1200 HP, 600 AC, playing on Master difficulty and got 1-shot again when I started trying to level up melee.
I forgot to change the difficulty settings from my last run years ago, and just remembered the retardation they came up with to make the game
That goes only for ranged, if I understood correctly. Good one, but what I'd like to see is something like: you hit, the enemy flinches. In melee. So that the combat feels like one is actually hitting something, not just hacking some paper. But anyway, thanks for taking the time to answer and all the additional info.Do you know any mod that causes enemies to get lightly staggered when they get hit by normal attacks besides the Flinch mod? This one doesn't seem to work for AE for me
Or anything that makes hitting palpable would be appreciated. Tk Hit Stop doesn't seem to work either with AE.
That Perkus Maxumis mod I mentioned does this with ranged bows, crossbows and two-handed I think. You also pick perks that give you items in your crafting list that allows you to craft either a silent "backstabbing" crossbow or a heavier arbalist type one. Some other interesting perks in there like disarm shield and all that.
It also allows traps and caltrops, etc in the "wilderness lore" tree. But I haven't messed about with this stuff too much yet.
I'm still trying to work out the damage values in this game. Currently level 87, 1200 HP, 600 AC, playing on Master difficulty and got 1-shot again when I started trying to level up melee.
I forgot to change the difficulty settings from my last run years ago, and just remembered the retardation they came up with to make the gamemore stupidharder. And I don't think I've ever found an article that can properly explain damage values in detail and with numbers.
Fyi, I think I've found one - Precision. It doesn't provide the right feeling in the default, but the direction is there. I'm trying to understand it better, it's got zillions of options :D
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Nikanuur Yeah I'm currently doing a ranged build, and only glanced at two-handed weapons so mentioned it without going into detail. Here's the readme for 1handed weapons (I don't know how to hide this behind a spoiler box to save space):
Perks [Light Weaponry]
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Light Weapon Combat (0/40)
1- Weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" deal 15% more damage. Weapons covered by "Heavy Weaponry" deal 5% more damage.
2- Weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" deal 35% more damage. Weapons covered by "Heavy Weaponry" deal 15% more damage.
Blunt Impact (25/50)
1- Sideways power attacks with blunt weapons disorient the target for 10 seconds.
2- Sideways power attacks with blunt weapons disorient the target for 20 seconds.
[COMBAT HIT SPELL priority 1]
Weapon attacks performed by disoriented targets have a 30% chance to deal 10% damage only.
Clear Cut (25/50)
1- Critical hit chance for blades is increased by 5%, critical hit damage for blades is increased by 40%.
2- Critical hit chance for blades is increased by 10%, critical hit damage for blades is increased by 80%.
Piercing Thrust (25/50)
1- Piercing Weapons ignore 35% armor against targets that don't have a heavy cuirass or shield equipped.
2- Piercing Weapons ignore 50% armor against targets that don't have a heavy cuirass equipped.
Blindside (45/65)
1- Piercing and blade weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" deal 25% more damage when attacking the enemy's back within a 80 degree angle.
2- Piercing and blade weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" deal 35% more damage when attacking the enemy's back within a 120 degree angle.
Penetrate (60)
1- Blocked power attacks with piercing and blunt weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" reduce
the target's armor values by 200 for 5 seconds.
Dervish (60)
1- Piercing and blunt weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" cause the attack target to fall to the
ground, if they land a regular (non-power attack) hit while the target is attacking.
[COMBAT HIT SPELL priority 2]
Blood Price (80)
1- Piercing weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" deal 30% more damage against bleeding targets. The
bleed rank of all piercing weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" increases by 1.
To Black (80)
1- Forward power attacks with blunt weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" strike any target not wearing
heavy or light head armor down. If the target is wearing head armor, it is instead disoriented for
60 seconds. Only works while the attacker's stamina is above 50%.
[COMBAT HIT SPELL priority 1]
Rising Wings (80)
1- Unblocked regular attacks with blade weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" increase your attack
and movement speed by 3% for 4 seconds. Stacks with itself.
Mastery: Combat Sense (95)
1- Ability that automatically activates once hitting someone with a weapon, once every 60 seconds. Lasts 10 seconds. When active, time is slowed down by 25% and and movement speed is increased by 25%.
Light Weapon Handling (20)
1- Power attacks with weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" consume 20% less Stamina. Unlocks "decapitation" kill moves.
Critical Charge (25)
1- Unlocks running power attack for weapons covered by "Light Weaponry". Running power attacks gain a 100% chance to cause a critical hit with +50% critical damage.
Proficient Strikes (30)
1- When performing power attacks, the debuff rank of any weapon covered by "Light Weaponry" is increased by 1.
Skilled Slashes (45)
1- When performing power attacks, the bleed rank of any weapon covered by "Light Weaponry" is increased by 1.
Dual Wield (20/40)
1- Negates damage malus for dual wielding. (*)
2- Increases attack speed and damage while dual wielding by 10%.
(*) In PerMa, dual wielding without this perk reduces damage by 30%.
Elemental Twister (35)
1- While dual wielding, sttack speed is increased by 5% and fire, frost and shock damage is increased by 25%.
Savage Storm (55)
1- While dual wielding, standing power attacks hit all targets in front of you.
Counter (70)
1- While dual wielding, initiating an attack makes you invulnerable to weapon damage for
0.4 seconds.
So the modder has included daze attacks and knockdown attacks, and also time-slowing in between power attacks, blocks, and counter attacks that deal more damage, etc. He also did abilities that can be toggled with armour feats, like sacrificing AC for more damage for example.
Edit: THink this is a documentation page listing all feats: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=415362261
Perks [Light Weaponry]
===============-------
Light Weapon Combat (0/40)
1- Weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" deal 15% more damage. Weapons covered by "Heavy Weaponry" deal 5% more damage.
2- Weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" deal 35% more damage. Weapons covered by "Heavy Weaponry" deal 15% more damage.
Blunt Impact (25/50)
1- Sideways power attacks with blunt weapons disorient the target for 10 seconds.
2- Sideways power attacks with blunt weapons disorient the target for 20 seconds.
[COMBAT HIT SPELL priority 1]
Weapon attacks performed by disoriented targets have a 30% chance to deal 10% damage only.
Clear Cut (25/50)
1- Critical hit chance for blades is increased by 5%, critical hit damage for blades is increased by 40%.
2- Critical hit chance for blades is increased by 10%, critical hit damage for blades is increased by 80%.
Piercing Thrust (25/50)
1- Piercing Weapons ignore 35% armor against targets that don't have a heavy cuirass or shield equipped.
2- Piercing Weapons ignore 50% armor against targets that don't have a heavy cuirass equipped.
Blindside (45/65)
1- Piercing and blade weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" deal 25% more damage when attacking the enemy's back within a 80 degree angle.
2- Piercing and blade weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" deal 35% more damage when attacking the enemy's back within a 120 degree angle.
Penetrate (60)
1- Blocked power attacks with piercing and blunt weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" reduce
the target's armor values by 200 for 5 seconds.
Dervish (60)
1- Piercing and blunt weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" cause the attack target to fall to the
ground, if they land a regular (non-power attack) hit while the target is attacking.
[COMBAT HIT SPELL priority 2]
Blood Price (80)
1- Piercing weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" deal 30% more damage against bleeding targets. The
bleed rank of all piercing weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" increases by 1.
To Black (80)
1- Forward power attacks with blunt weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" strike any target not wearing
heavy or light head armor down. If the target is wearing head armor, it is instead disoriented for
60 seconds. Only works while the attacker's stamina is above 50%.
[COMBAT HIT SPELL priority 1]
Rising Wings (80)
1- Unblocked regular attacks with blade weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" increase your attack
and movement speed by 3% for 4 seconds. Stacks with itself.
Mastery: Combat Sense (95)
1- Ability that automatically activates once hitting someone with a weapon, once every 60 seconds. Lasts 10 seconds. When active, time is slowed down by 25% and and movement speed is increased by 25%.
Light Weapon Handling (20)
1- Power attacks with weapons covered by "Light Weaponry" consume 20% less Stamina. Unlocks "decapitation" kill moves.
Critical Charge (25)
1- Unlocks running power attack for weapons covered by "Light Weaponry". Running power attacks gain a 100% chance to cause a critical hit with +50% critical damage.
Proficient Strikes (30)
1- When performing power attacks, the debuff rank of any weapon covered by "Light Weaponry" is increased by 1.
Skilled Slashes (45)
1- When performing power attacks, the bleed rank of any weapon covered by "Light Weaponry" is increased by 1.
Dual Wield (20/40)
1- Negates damage malus for dual wielding. (*)
2- Increases attack speed and damage while dual wielding by 10%.
(*) In PerMa, dual wielding without this perk reduces damage by 30%.
Elemental Twister (35)
1- While dual wielding, sttack speed is increased by 5% and fire, frost and shock damage is increased by 25%.
Savage Storm (55)
1- While dual wielding, standing power attacks hit all targets in front of you.
Counter (70)
1- While dual wielding, initiating an attack makes you invulnerable to weapon damage for
0.4 seconds.
So the modder has included daze attacks and knockdown attacks, and also time-slowing in between power attacks, blocks, and counter attacks that deal more damage, etc. He also did abilities that can be toggled with armour feats, like sacrificing AC for more damage for example.
Edit: THink this is a documentation page listing all feats: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=415362261
HumanTotemPole
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No joke the 2 best options for a modded Skyrim playthrough literally are Reqiuem-based survival or porno-power fantasy.
Survival setups address Skyrim's fundamental crapness as an RPG by lending the journey meaning via challenging traversal of the gameworld (as Grunker has summarised very well before in this thread) whereas the porno setups work by leaning into it.
Given that Skyrim is a campy pastiche of a cRPG in the same way porn movies tend to be campy pastiches of actual movies why not fully commit to the bit? Squash mooks fuck bitches ignore dialogue. More entertaining that way.
Utgard-Loki
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instead of making modding skyrim easier, wabbajack just gave every retard that spends 4 hours a day downloading 8k pube textures a way to share their autism with other people. i just looked at a dozen lists, not a single one was under 100gb in size, one of them even had the audacity of being 350gb. that is basically half the fucking nexus models and texture category, goddamn. 
Quoting myself:
Requiem and complementary mods, don't get carried away and it'll be fine.
Requiem and complementary mods, don't get carried away and it'll be fine.
Well, I've been hit by the autism rating already, so I might as well re-quote my final Requiem modlist too.
Nowadays, this is truly minimal. But I feel like nothing else is needed.
It might need some "curating": at the time I made it a few modfixes hadn't been ported for instance so I made without them (not that I noticed).
Oh, and DynDOLOD is worth the (all in all, minor) hassle.
If *I* notice it, you can believe it.
Nowadays, this is truly minimal. But I feel like nothing else is needed.
It might need some "curating": at the time I made it a few modfixes hadn't been ported for instance so I made without them (not that I noticed).
Oh, and DynDOLOD is worth the (all in all, minor) hassle.
If *I* notice it, you can believe it.
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BruceVC
Magister
Looks like a good list to compliment Requiem , not many mods though?
Any adult mods in that list?
Less is more
The goal was indeed to cover the few things not handled by Requiem, add some decent graphical improvement and easy of use mods, and that's it.
Oh, and a few "expanded roleplaying options" for a handful of key quests.
XP32 maximum skeleton SSE, technically, because it's required for adult mods and maybe has some content of its own.
But it also required for FK's Diverse Racial Skeletons, which I wanted to install for improved immersion.
Other than that, no.
I may have browsed a few for the hell of it, but this remains unconfirmed.
No, seriously. That's the list
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So the bloodmoon werewolf mod is fun. You get bonuses in combat, magic, or rogue depending on what you pick. Given by feeding. It kinda takes the monotony out of gaining them in the vanilla fashion.
Then mod giving me the most trouble is 'Warzones' but I wouldn't play this game without it. You get huge battles playing out all over skyrim, and later in the game it's much more dramatic when you take over forts for whatever side you picked. Trick is to work out the highest number of npcs allocated to battles based on PC and mods for multiple cores and ram (assuming they work) as cloak and weapon mods get loaded onto the npcs, causing ctd.
If I hadn't increased the level cap (elys uncapper I think) I would have hit a wall by now. Level 100 and not enough perks to go round. But when I become a vampire lord (there's a mod allowing that & Werewolf) and increase in vampire ranks with the better vampires mod, you get perks for diaberie and per feeding. Also with the deadly dragons mod you can convert souls for perks.
Edit: Also the Ultimate Witcher mod is good. The witcher contracts don't work for me, but finding witcher enemies in Skyrim is nice, and the modder scattered dead witchers and their gear here and there. Some familiar weapons and armour pop up. Just a shame I can't seem to improve them. Modder also added witcher signs.
Then mod giving me the most trouble is 'Warzones' but I wouldn't play this game without it. You get huge battles playing out all over skyrim, and later in the game it's much more dramatic when you take over forts for whatever side you picked. Trick is to work out the highest number of npcs allocated to battles based on PC and mods for multiple cores and ram (assuming they work) as cloak and weapon mods get loaded onto the npcs, causing ctd.
If I hadn't increased the level cap (elys uncapper I think) I would have hit a wall by now. Level 100 and not enough perks to go round. But when I become a vampire lord (there's a mod allowing that & Werewolf) and increase in vampire ranks with the better vampires mod, you get perks for diaberie and per feeding. Also with the deadly dragons mod you can convert souls for perks.
Edit: Also the Ultimate Witcher mod is good. The witcher contracts don't work for me, but finding witcher enemies in Skyrim is nice, and the modder scattered dead witchers and their gear here and there. Some familiar weapons and armour pop up. Just a shame I can't seem to improve them. Modder also added witcher signs.
MadMaxHellfire
Arcane
fuck you todd.
i spent the whole evening downloading and installing the right mods. just the bare essential minimum, less than 40. i jump through endless loops and in the end the game starts, and works too. but somehow requiem misses some files because it needs another suppelementary installation after being installed (yes, the retardation radiates from this), so i go there and jump through more endless loops, and in the end... it doesn't work. it says it misses some files which are exactly where it's looking for them. no help from retardit either, literally, two hours and no answer.
edit: i'm actually being downvoted on retardit for describing my situation and asking for help. please putin, kill us all.
i spent the whole evening downloading and installing the right mods. just the bare essential minimum, less than 40. i jump through endless loops and in the end the game starts, and works too. but somehow requiem misses some files because it needs another suppelementary installation after being installed (yes, the retardation radiates from this), so i go there and jump through more endless loops, and in the end... it doesn't work. it says it misses some files which are exactly where it's looking for them. no help from retardit either, literally, two hours and no answer.
edit: i'm actually being downvoted on retardit for describing my situation and asking for help. please putin, kill us all.
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MadMaxHellfire
Arcane
can its installation be furtherly tweaked? i don't want to begin without stuff like "live another life", "hunterborn", "frostfall" or "immersive [whatever]".
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what the fucking fuck of the king of fucks.
You’ll need a few things before we begin. Please ensure that you have:
- At least 135GB* of free space
MadMaxHellfire
Arcane
no, it doesn't help, because i can't even install the mod. it just doesn't work.
MadMaxHellfire
Arcane
FUCKING YES.
the game works perfectly, as i already stated, it's reqtificator which doesn't work.
the game works perfectly, as i already stated, it's reqtificator which doesn't work.
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MadMaxHellfire I feel your pain. I just don't entirely believe people who say they have hundreds of gigs of mods and the game works perfectly. I've got about 20 or so and most are QOL ones, and a bug has just crept up on me where spells fire backwards in first person.
I dimly remember this from my last playthrough years ago, and I think I have to restart. Can't find any mention of it on the net. Reminds me why I only played this once.
I dimly remember this from my last playthrough years ago, and I think I have to restart. Can't find any mention of it on the net. Reminds me why I only played this once.
well sorry for trying to help.
I'm just saying, Requiem is played by lots of people, and everyone installs it just fine. It might be that you're doing something wrong.
Perhaps even a silly thing, like not granting permissions to the Reqtificator, or something.
I honestly haven't had things like that since quite a while.
The occasional crash still happens though.
That does happen yes.
MadMaxHellfire
Arcane
i always work in super-duper-administrator modes. and i thought of that too.
but mine is not an in-game bug, it's the mod itself which refuses to act properly despite all its needs being fulfilled, and with only a bunch of mods installed which are fully compatible. in fact the game starts and works fine without requiem. but i don't want the vanilla experience. do you know any other overhaul, possibly without level scaling?
Yosharian
Arcane
This is why you install curated modlists, that have an autistic genius in charge of bug fixing and an army of playtesters finding them all before you even hit the install button
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Yes and no. Yes in that you can try, no in that if you do try, and shit doesn't work, don't even think about asking the Wildlander team for any help.
Those guys are VERY pedantic. And probably autistic.
A few hopefully helpful notes about Wildlander and things I did to improve it/tweak to my tastes:
- The default FOV is something like 105 degrees. I have no idea why they chose that; it's very fish-eyed, distractingly so. You can go into the Mod Configuration menu and alter the default FOV under Customizable Camera. I found that 78 degrees was perfect for me, but you have to hit the TAB button for it to take effect, yes, every time you load a save game. This also helps to improve your framerate in the game, btw.
- In the Wildlander launcher menu, it turns out that currently the "High" and "Ultra" graphics presets are identical. In other words, lowering it from the default "Ultra" to "High" doesn't do jack shit. It was an oversight on their part and they're going to fix it with their next patch. For now go here if you want the corrected settings. <-- I don't have the link yet but I'll update this post as soon as I find it.
- I like lowering the Look Sensitivity in the main Skyrim settings, down to one above the lowest (one notch to the right of the farthest left-hand setting). This combined with the corrected FOV, above, seems perfect to me.
- Make certain you read the entire wiki guide located here. I can't stress this enough. There's a lot of important info in there, including a handy keyboard shortcut guide that you can print.
I'd be happy to offer any other tips for anyone who's interested since I've gotten used to the game by now.
Edit: Apparently the fix for the graphical presets mentioned above are coming in about a week from the time of this edit.
- The default FOV is something like 105 degrees. I have no idea why they chose that; it's very fish-eyed, distractingly so. You can go into the Mod Configuration menu and alter the default FOV under Customizable Camera. I found that 78 degrees was perfect for me, but you have to hit the TAB button for it to take effect, yes, every time you load a save game. This also helps to improve your framerate in the game, btw.
- In the Wildlander launcher menu, it turns out that currently the "High" and "Ultra" graphics presets are identical. In other words, lowering it from the default "Ultra" to "High" doesn't do jack shit. It was an oversight on their part and they're going to fix it with their next patch. For now go here if you want the corrected settings. <-- I don't have the link yet but I'll update this post as soon as I find it.
- I like lowering the Look Sensitivity in the main Skyrim settings, down to one above the lowest (one notch to the right of the farthest left-hand setting). This combined with the corrected FOV, above, seems perfect to me.
- Make certain you read the entire wiki guide located here. I can't stress this enough. There's a lot of important info in there, including a handy keyboard shortcut guide that you can print.
I'd be happy to offer any other tips for anyone who's interested since I've gotten used to the game by now.
Edit: Apparently the fix for the graphical presets mentioned above are coming in about a week from the time of this edit.
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