Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

**BenGerman** · 04-21-2013, 07:05 PM

Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Originally posted by goh

You do realize the PC version of Fallout 3...a 5 year old game...looks like this?:

I know, I know. I'm not much of a PC gamer, sue me. It's not that I haven't tried yet, either.

If the Steam Box comes in at a good price, I'll be all over that.

**Mike3207** · 04-21-2013, 09:09 PM

Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

I was expecting wolves and bears when I went up the path to High Hrothgar-not expecting a Dragon.

Also-my wife Brelyna summoned a Frost Atranach to take out a wolf while I was hiring my steward-coolest thing ever. My house at Lakeview will be in good hands if anything happens to my steward.

**JWR3232** · 04-21-2013, 11:09 PM

So this weekend I decided to do my first Skyrim PC play through (beat game on Xbox when it originally came out got a gaming pc last summer). I spent many hours this weeken downloading, installing, testing and sorting load orders of 55+ mods. Game is amazing in looks, feel and gameplay now. I'm most excited to try out moon path to Elswrey story mod to see what that looks like. Played about 5 hours today decided to do able nord stormcloak basic i know but I have done a argonian Mage on Xbox. Needless to say I'm hooked again after logging numerous hours on Xbox.

Now the bad news. I have 3 weeks left in the semester with 3 finials and a research paper due after that so getting hooked on Skyrim right now wasn't my smartest move.

**Bellsprout** · 04-21-2013, 11:23 PM

Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Just punched a chicken to death for the first time.

Now I feel like an *******.

**ubernoob** · 04-22-2013, 01:48 AM

Originally posted by Dayman

Just punched a chicken to death for the first time.

Now I feel like an *******.

Should have choked it.

**Fresh Tendrils** · 04-22-2013, 10:41 AM

Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Originally posted by Dayman

Just punched a chicken to death for the first time.

Now I feel like an *******.

Chicken Chaser /FableSpeak.

**Mike3207** · 04-25-2013, 06:16 PM

Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

The GOTY edition is now out-they're calling it Legendary. It comes with the 1.9 update and all 3 DLC.

**Bellsprout** · 04-25-2013, 06:19 PM

There's literally no reason for me to buy that, right? I have all the DLC.

**LambertandHam** · 04-25-2013, 06:49 PM

Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Originally posted by mrs844224

The GOTY edition is now out-they're calling it Legendary. It comes with the 1.9 update and all 3 DLC.

That was a quick turn around.

Originally posted by Dayman

There's literally no reason for me to buy that, right? I have all the DLC.

Unless you like collecting boxes.

**Mike3207** · 04-25-2013, 09:02 PM

Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

My mistake, they only announced it. It'll be coming out June 4 in the US and June 7 for the European territories. It was on one of the Bioware blogs and mentioned on the forums.

**Cod** · 04-25-2013, 11:12 PM

Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

I just started another play through as a Redguard. Wondering why didn't go this route sooner since I love going one-handed, mage on people! Redguard meets all my strengths. Any of y'all done / doing a Redguard play through?

**R1zzo23** · 04-26-2013, 10:26 AM

Originally posted by JWR3232

I spent many hours this weeken downloading, installing, testing and sorting load orders of 55+ mods. Game is amazing in looks, feel and gameplay now. I'm most excited to try out moon path to Elswrey story mod to see what that looks like.

Would you care to share which ones you are using? I'm interested in replaying this game with some mods and looking to make it the best play through as possible.

**JWR3232** · 04-26-2013, 01:55 PM

Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[quote=rhs_rizzo;2044958566]

Originally posted by JWR3232

I spent many hours this weeken downloading, installing, testing and sorting load orders of 55+ mods. Game is amazing in looks, feel and gameplay now. I'm most excited to try out moon path to Elswrey story mod to see what that looks like./QUOTE]

Would you care to share which ones you are using? I'm interested in replaying this game with some mods and looking to make it the best play through as possible.

Id be happy to. Depending on how powerful your PC you may not want everything i have. Most mods require SKSE and some require SKYUI. All mods I'm using are on the Skyrim Nexus. Currently I'm using:

Spoiler

Of course use Nexus mod Manager, BOSS and if your not sure about how to what to do with these check out this YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/GophersVids/videos?view=1&flow=grid

This guy really helped me when I first started modding Fallout 3 he has guides on how to mod (and recommended mods) for Fallout 3, New Vegas and Skyrim

101Bugs Low Res: basically adds more bugs
A Quality World Map (clear map clouds, add roads and high resolution map)
A Thinner Compass
Achieve that! (adds achievements that add bonuses to your character can be toggled on or off)
Acquisitive Soul gems (helps NOT put petty souls in say a black soul gem)
Adal Matar: The Lost Stronghold (quest mod)
Amidian born Book of silence armors, unique items and weapons (re-textures vanilla armor, weapons and some unique items)
Auto unequipped arrows
Balanced Magic
Birds of skyrim low res (adds pigeons and other birds that will walk on the ground in cities)
Brawl Bugs patch(some of these mods recommend this because apparently some mods can turn brawls into real fights and this fixes that)
Burn Freeze Shock Effects (adds more effects from magic such as burned corpses)
Casual bow animations (instead of when you bow is equied your character wont stand there in a combat stance bow will be more relaxed when not shooting)
Categorized Favorites menu (goes hand in hand with SKYUI expands the favorites menu to make it easier to use on a pc)
Cloaks of Skyrim (adds capes, and cloaks to game)
Convenient Horses (gives your followers horses and makes horses faster and easier to control)
Custom Skeleton Replacers 65 (moves arrow quivers instead of on back to sideways on waist, i got this because i have a mod that adds backpack this way you can see both easier)
Dawngaurd-Jiubs Opus quest Markers (haven't played dawngaurd yet but apparently this marks location of a quest item similar to the No stone unturned quest)
Dead spell impacts
Enhanced Blood textures (makes blood soooo much better)
Enhanced Lights and FX (for interiors makes the lighting much more realistic)
Fall of the space core! (only one from steam workshop) (Adds portal 2 core fairly hilarious)
Follower Trap safety (so your dumb companions wont run over a trap and get you killed...)
Footprints (adds....footprints)
Get Snowy (characters in the game will now have snow on them )
Guard dialogue overhaul
Immerse Armors and Weapons (2 separate mods) (adds 20+ armor sets and over 200+ weapons)
Improved combat sounds
Into the Depths (quest mod)
Lanterns of skyrim all in one
Midas Magic (adds tons of new spells)
Moonpath to Elsweyr (quest mod)
Move it Dammit! (make your followers move when they trap you in a small space)
Nightingale Prime HD Leather Version (improves the look of that armor set)
Project Reality- Climates of Tamriel (a complete weather and graphic overhaul combined with some of the other mods on my list make the game look BEAUTIFUL)
Pure Waters (install after project reality) (best looking water mod IMO)
The fifth gate (quest mod)
Real Ice (improves look of ice)
Realistic ragdolls and force (guys hit by an arrow wont fly back 50ft anymore)
Realistic smoke and embers (makes fires look great)
Recruit more Blades-SkyhaventempleEnhanced (can recruit 30 blades, fix up SHT and adds a fix for the Paarthunax quest)
Sharlikrans compatibility patches (not sure if needed but apparently helps certain mods work better together)
Skill interface retexture
Skybrids (adds more flying birds)
Skyrim Flora overhaul
Skyrim HD 2k Textures (retextures the whole game i use the light version and it looks great)
SkyTest (adds realistic animals and predators)
SKYUI (a must have)
SkSE(must have)
South dragon bridge (quest mod)
Static mesh improvement mod
Stone of Barenziah quest markers (don't have to Google all of there locations now)
The Aldmeri domain (quest)
The Cyrodill frontier (quest)
the dance of death (mod that allows configuration of kill cams)
Ultimate follower overhaul (can have 15 followers they can level with you and more)
Unique booze bottles (alcohol has real labels and such)
Unoffical Skyrim, Dawngaurd, dragonborn, hearthfire and High Resolution patches (must haves fixes many bugs in the game)
Wet and cold (characters will drip water after swimming)
Winter is coming (adds fur cloaks a patch mod is needed with cloaks of skyrim)
Wyrmstooth (quest)
Xenius character enhancement (fixes some graphic issues with characters and more)

I started out with more but weeded these out.

Spoiler

Vilja (companion really nice but audio quality bugged the hell out of me)
Lush Trees and grass (dropped me about 10-15 fps
Frostfall & Realistic needs and desires (two really good mods but for me to much managing)
Warzones (hurt my fps and i fight enough in the wilds w/o even more war)

There was more but i honestly have forgotten them but if you go to Nexus look at most popular any you see that wasn't listed I probably had

Hope this helped you pick out some good ones!

**R1zzo23** · 04-26-2013, 02:08 PM

Thanks for that list. I'll be sure to check out all of them and see how they work with my rig. Is there a certain order I need to install them in or does it not matter?

**Cod** · 04-26-2013, 04:13 PM

Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[QUOTE=JWR3232;2044959120]

Originally posted by rhs_rizzo

Id be happy to. Depending on how powerful your PC you may not want everything i have. Most mods require SKSE and some require SKYUI. All mods I'm using are on the Skyrim Nexus. Currently I'm using:

Spoiler

Of course use Nexus mod Manager, BOSS and if your not sure about how to what to do with these check out this YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/GophersVids/videos?view=1&flow=grid

This guy really helped me when I first started modding Fallout 3 he has guides on how to mod (and recommended mods) for Fallout 3, New Vegas and Skyrim

101Bugs Low Res: basically adds more bugs
A Quality World Map (clear map clouds, add roads and high resolution map)
A Thinner Compass
Achieve that! (adds achievements that add bonuses to your character can be toggled on or off)
Acquisitive Soul gems (helps NOT put petty souls in say a black soul gem)
Adal Matar: The Lost Stronghold (quest mod)
Amidian born Book of silence armors, unique items and weapons (re-textures vanilla armor, weapons and some unique items)
Auto unequipped arrows
Balanced Magic
Birds of skyrim low res (adds pigeons and other birds that will walk on the ground in cities)
Brawl Bugs patch(some of these mods recommend this because apparently some mods can turn brawls into real fights and this fixes that)
Burn Freeze Shock Effects (adds more effects from magic such as burned corpses)
Casual bow animations (instead of when you bow is equied your character wont stand there in a combat stance bow will be more relaxed when not shooting)
Categorized Favorites menu (goes hand in hand with SKYUI expands the favorites menu to make it easier to use on a pc)
Cloaks of Skyrim (adds capes, and cloaks to game)
Convenient Horses (gives your followers horses and makes horses faster and easier to control)
Custom Skeleton Replacers 65 (moves arrow quivers instead of on back to sideways on waist, i got this because i have a mod that adds backpack this way you can see both easier)
Dawngaurd-Jiubs Opus quest Markers (haven't played dawngaurd yet but apparently this marks location of a quest item similar to the No stone unturned quest)
Dead spell impacts
Enhanced Blood textures (makes blood soooo much better)
Enhanced Lights and FX (for interiors makes the lighting much more realistic)
Fall of the space core! (only one from steam workshop) (Adds portal 2 core fairly hilarious)
Follower Trap safety (so your dumb companions wont run over a trap and get you killed...)
Footprints (adds....footprints)
Get Snowy (characters in the game will now have snow on them )
Guard dialogue overhaul
Immerse Armors and Weapons (2 separate mods) (adds 20+ armor sets and over 200+ weapons)
Improved combat sounds
Into the Depths (quest mod)
Lanterns of skyrim all in one
Midas Magic (adds tons of new spells)
Moonpath to Elsweyr (quest mod)
Move it Dammit! (make your followers move when they trap you in a small space)
Nightingale Prime HD Leather Version (improves the look of that armor set)
Project Reality- Climates of Tamriel (a complete weather and graphic overhaul combined with some of the other mods on my list make the game look BEAUTIFUL)
Pure Waters (install after project reality) (best looking water mod IMO)
The fifth gate (quest mod)
Real Ice (improves look of ice)
Realistic ragdolls and force (guys hit by an arrow wont fly back 50ft anymore)
Realistic smoke and embers (makes fires look great)
Recruit more Blades-SkyhaventempleEnhanced (can recruit 30 blades, fix up SHT and adds a fix for the Paarthunax quest)
Sharlikrans compatibility patches (not sure if needed but apparently helps certain mods work better together)
Skill interface retexture
Skybrids (adds more flying birds)
Skyrim Flora overhaul
Skyrim HD 2k Textures (retextures the whole game i use the light version and it looks great)
SkyTest (adds realistic animals and predators)
SKYUI (a must have)
SkSE(must have)
South dragon bridge (quest mod)
Static mesh improvement mod
Stone of Barenziah quest markers (don't have to Google all of there locations now)
The Aldmeri domain (quest)
The Cyrodill frontier (quest)
the dance of death (mod that allows configuration of kill cams)
Ultimate follower overhaul (can have 15 followers they can level with you and more)
Unique booze bottles (alcohol has real labels and such)
Unoffical Skyrim, Dawngaurd, dragonborn, hearthfire and High Resolution patches (must haves fixes many bugs in the game)
Wet and cold (characters will drip water after swimming)
Winter is coming (adds fur cloaks a patch mod is needed with cloaks of skyrim)
Wyrmstooth (quest)
Xenius character enhancement (fixes some graphic issues with characters and more)

I started out with more but weeded these out.

Spoiler

Vilja (companion really nice but audio quality bugged the hell out of me)
Lush Trees and grass (dropped me about 10-15 fps
Frostfall & Realistic needs and desires (two really good mods but for me to much managing)
Warzones (hurt my fps and i fight enough in the wilds w/o even more war)

There was more but i honestly have forgotten them but if you go to Nexus look at most popular any you see that wasn't listed I probably had

Hope this helped you pick out some good ones!

Skyrim 2K doesn't cover any textures from the DLCs, unless something changed recently. If you want the most up-to-date textures, you'll have to use Serious HD. Also, just my opinion, there are much better textures than what 2k offers (SRO, Tobes, etc.). Skyrim 2k was the first texture revamp, so that's probably why it gets all the love. I believe the game looks better if you use specific mods for specific textures such as HD Linens, Tobes furniture, etc..

Also, you should always clean any mods that haven't been cleaned. This can be done with TESVEdit (download from Nexus). Unclean mods mean crashes are more likely...and that's not good.

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