Best Skyrim Mods Thread

[GameHED]

I think the pc version deserves a dedicated thread for this particular subject so people who get the game later can find all the best stuff to add to the core of this hiking simulator by just find out from this one spot. If you don't like it go and make a skyrim index thread. There is a big enough fanbase for a game like this who can agree that playing without mods is considered playing a crap edition of the game.

Anyway there is an article on this subject so far:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/14/the-1 ... ds-so-far/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Post anything you find helpful to add on to the pc version or just what you think are the coolest things up till now.

[t0mby]

I'm using most of these texture mods.

Enhanced Night Sky

Enhanced Blood Textures

Moon replacer

Realistic Rain Ripples

Realistic Sun Glare

Blood Spatter options
Retrieve Arrows from Corpses
Longer Sprinting
Map Mod. Zoom all the way in if you want.

Modified Timescale
FXAA Injector. There are dozens of custom configs floating around in Skyrim Nexus. So if you're not happy with the config included just try one of the others.
No More Blocky Faces

Detailed Faces


Vurts better trees

HQ Eyes

HQ Furniture

Hi res Landscape textures

[t0mby]

That one I posted abouve, with the Moons, there are 25 options available. For my choice, instead of a Moon, I chose a blackhole. COmbined with the new astrological skybox, looks awesome.

Currently downloading this texture pack.


Skyrim HD - 2K textures. Actually makes a HUGE difference on the rocks

[cloud]

dammmmmmmmm! thanks for the heads up tomby dlin now!

[t0mby]

Don't forget to back up your textures folder first. I forgot and regret it now, not that anything has gone wrong, just nice to have something to fall back to.

[pilonv1]

Those new textures are fantastic.

[cloud]

If any has this on pc they NEED to install the texture pack and FXAA injector asap! Makes the game look a million times better!

[t0mby]

Here's another upgrade for ya.

Enhanced Blood Textures

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http://skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=711" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Only shadow fix that worked for me. Hope it works for some of you blokes that are having the same problem..

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http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/fi ... 36#content" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Better embers and smoke.

[t0mby]

trollface.jpg?

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=844






TROLLFACE.JPG!

[GameHED]

So anyone try out that kill kids/be kids mod?

Noticed there are no kids npc killing you though. I would like to see them try to put in a hobbit-like race of short humans which kills people by using a sling shot or something.

They would ride on the back of a wolf, and fire their shots then retreat so you can't chase them down.
Think of a mix of gollum from lord of the rings, with child link in zelda OOT, (slingshot) and a hobbit. (high resistance to magick, very high sneak skill)

If you wanted to play as one, you could customise him to look like Feral kid in mad max 2. You would have similar abilities to wood elf, but run faster and be much harder to hit. You would not ride a horse but use animals like wolf as your mount. This would not technically be a new race just a cross between a human/goblin. This is what happens when humans mate with them. They end up being some hybrid and now you are outcast thanks to your mixed genes. You must now wander outside cities feeding off animals and befriending them. Like blanka in street fighter, you only talk with grunts and you rely only on crafting from dead monsters that you killed to make your weapons. (ie monster hunter) Since you use rocks by throwing them you can do big damage to armored enemies, and your ability from living in the wild gives you resistance to poisons. The way to fight in dungeons is hit them and then retreat, and you lay traps on the ground like the kid in home alone. This is not the spell version of a trap but more like the monster hunter version of traps where you bind them into a spot for a long enough time to be able to hit them for free. Luring the prey into it and then while they are paralysed, getting close to do damage with melee. (you obtain poisons from giant spider venom, and this causes enemies to be paralysed fora few seconds when you apply it to your weapons).

"Hunter" would be a totally new class. But a hybrid race. The main skills is food, (because you hunted for it and you obtain more health eating raw things) and bonus damage to animals. (because you learn their weak points and kil them more efficiently than others, similar to ranger.)

Unlike the pure orcs who are the tank class who specialise in heavy armour and their strongholds, the goblin-human hybrid would be respected for speed and sneaking and survivalist skill in the wilds. The orc equivalent to the elves' "wild elves". This would be "wild orcs". Instead of bow and arrows that wood elves use, the "wild orcs" uses stones shot from slings or slingshots. (more primitive but higher damage which works better against armoured enemies with higher armour class)
The smaller size combined with decent strength = something that is equivalent to a dwarf and hobbit. Stealth in sneaking/hiding (hobbit) but toughness (dwarves have always been the stout warriors who wield axes in games) of the orcs who have been considered tank-like warriors in elder scrolls. If you combine high strength with small size yo get a sneaky, high-damage attacker who is self sufficient. (no blacksmithing; only crafting weapons from dead animals you hunted just like monster hunter. No mining materials either just using materials from animals/monsters only. You would be able to use them, just not have the intelligence to craft it, and no bonuses to damage using the smithed weapons over the crafted weapons made of the dead monsters' materials)

[GeneraL CyberFunK]

Seriously... do you even LIKE this game? You are forever fucking saying what you would have liked in it.

[GameHED]

Yeah I like it but I like also talking about the stuff it didn't get right.

In the past people did things like comaplain about animation and stuff. Now we have better animation.
In the past people complained about making the dungeon more interesting. Now we have improved dungeons.
In the past people were freaked out by how there was never any children in the world. Now we have children to show that tamriel is a realistic place.
In the past people complained about horse armour as dlc. Now we have them making good DLC for this game.


Now I am complaining about skills and interface for pc. And that if you could play as a new race, it might result in some interesting class for people who like roaming the wilderness more than the dungeons or towns.

Face it there will always be room for improvements. Doesn't mean people are not happy or buying these games still. Just that we think 5 years of development gives them plenty of time to address this stuff.

[Burnzoire]

It's bleeding obvious that GH has no grasp on things like scope, budgets, schedules, reality. He posts his ideas like he's a game designer God and Bethesda hadn't thought of it. In reality, these things end up on the cutting room floor, so to speak, to make room for the FUCKING TON OF CONTENT that made it into the game.

GH you're not achieving anything with your little rants. You're not helping the development of games by posting in some remote corner of the internet. Sure it might be fun to bounce ideas off other willing people, but all you're doing is flooding the forum with a monologue that no one cares about.


Wait what thread am I in? This applies to the OTHER skyrim thread too. Why is this crap happening in every thread?

[Vzzzbx]

It's like you're in the pub having a quiet night with your mates, and then some bloke sits down at your table and chucks horse shit at everyone.

[GeneraL CyberFunK]

Yeah I like it but I like also talking about the stuff it didn't get right.

In the past people did things like comaplain about animation and stuff. Now we have better animation.
In the past people complained about making the dungeon more interesting. Now we have improved dungeons.
In the past people were freaked out by how there was never any children in the world. Now we have children to show that tamriel is a realistic place.
In the past people complained about horse armour as dlc. Now we have them making good DLC for this game.


Now I am complaining about skills and interface for pc. And that if you could play as a new race, it might result in some interesting class for people who like roaming the wilderness more than the dungeons or towns.

Face it there will always be room for improvements. Doesn't mean people are not happy or buying these games still. Just that we think 5 years of development gives them plenty of time to address this stuff.

Heh... new word... COMAPLAIN - To complain someone into a coma. Sounds about right for GH.

It's like you're in the pub having a quiet night with your mates, and then some bloke sits down at your table and chucks horse shit at everyone.

I KNOW! Happens every time I go shopping too.

[BruceCamblzChin]

You weesh to comaplain? Que?

[t0mby]

Got some awesome spider web hi res texture in 4096. Download from here.

Here are some pics I took in my last game where there were a few creepy crawlies.

[GameHED]

It's bleeding obvious that GH has no grasp on things like scope, budgets, schedules, reality. He posts his ideas like he's a game designer God and Bethesda hadn't thought of it. In reality, these things end up on the cutting room floor, so to speak, to make room for the FUCKING TON OF CONTENT that made it into the game.

GH you're not achieving anything with your little rants. You're not helping the development of games by posting in some remote corner of the internet. Sure it might be fun to bounce ideas off other willing people, but all you're doing is flooding the forum with a monologue that no one cares about.


Wait what thread am I in? This applies to the OTHER skyrim thread too. Why is this crap happening in every thread?

LOL
You've never played previous games. Imagine if the next elder scrolls takes out sneaking skill and make it so there is not need to pickpocket because you just have stolen items appear in your inventory everyday.

This is like removing the dodging skill. It's getting out of hand and I am not a happy person in that part of the game. I am happy about what worked which is why I don't whine about other things. But removing skills is stupid and I hope they stop this nonsense of trying to dumb the game down more in future.
That still doesn't mean that overall I think the game is bad or worse than previous games, but rather that it could be even better when they don't ditch the features of previous games but instead expand on them so that they work in the newer games.

That's how you refine and improve a series. Not just ignoring the features altogether. If a cat person can climb, if a previous game allowed for acrobatics, then in order to improve on those features they should implement ways for you to have fun being those types of characters in all the newer games too. Not just the "3 archetypes". Diablo 2 didn't take out things. You had more options than previous games. It added new things. It got deeper. Why doesn't Elder Scrolls?

No one is immune. 5 years is a long time for a fan to wait. They should think now about deepening the games and expanding on what already was in previous titles not simplifying things. Anyone who plays these games knows this. Stop being a dick and disagreeing with an opinion that is shared by many fans of the ES games. And start learning. It's not about "being a god of design", it's about giving people as many options as they can to role play the type of character they imagined in their heads. This is the one unique thing about ES games that makes people care about them. You can't really do this with other games so by taking out these skills they force you to just be the obvious 3 archetypes or a mix of those 3 instead of looking outside those.

You don't care. WE DO. We don't care if you don't care. We care that they (those making the game) care about improving things. Otherwise we wouldn't whine about this shit at all or be making videos exposing the bad stuff so others who care about it can avoid buying the game.

Don't assume that this is some dark corner of the internet (not that it isn't but just saying...) or that what I say here isn't repeated in many other places. People who experience the game have had loads of experiences playing other RPG games and base decisions on whether to buy a game through recommendations of others who have similar taste as them. This is why when a guy whines about some shit I like to see for myself if it is true, then whine about it too. I have already told friend to not buy this game until bethesda patch it up. Unlike me they don't have the patience for this kind of thing and tend to wait before the dust has settled before buying a game. They care about polish unlike me who can still appreciate something that is rough around the edges. They don't tolerate bugs as well as me or poor interfaces.

So the faster they fix interfaces, and bugs, and patch and improve the game content, the more sales they will get from people who matter.

[Burnzoire]

Stop being a dick and disagreeing with an opinion

Nice one

I am a TES fan and I enjoy Skyrim more than Morrowwind and wayyy more than Oblivion. If the game wasn't good, if it weren't better than their previous titles then yeah you'd have a point in questioning their decisions. But when it's had rave reviews and has been FAR more successful than their older games? Maybe, juuuust maybe they know what they're doing and their angry little fanboys don't.

[BruceCamblzChin]

Fanboys dont know what they are talking about? YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

[GameHED]

Stop being a dick and disagreeing with an opinion

Nice one

I am a TES fan and I enjoy Skyrim more than Morrowwind and wayyy more than Oblivion. If the game wasn't good, if it weren't better than their previous titles then yeah you'd have a point in questioning their decisions. But when it's had rave reviews and has been FAR more successful than their older games? Maybe, juuuust maybe they know what they're doing and their angry little fanboys don't.

Ok then if you really love ES why assume other people with valid criticsm like bugs are not doing the right things mentioning them? Don't these guys just want the game to be better?

What difference does it make to you if a guy on the internet is angry that skyrim screws up the experience for him on ps3 or that people used to playing pc rpgs other than skyrim have to put up with bad interfaces whinge about it or post youtube videos demonstrating how the new one is crap?

We are not saying it's the end of the world. Just warning others to stay away if this bothers you enough. (which it won't if you are a fan where these things are not a deal breaker) You don't want the game to sell too well if it has bugs or feels unfinished or rushed.

Why care about how pissed off another guy is about skyrim?
It would be like me going into the sonic thread and saying how annoying everyone is for not accepting the opinion of those who think the new games are superior to the old games then telling all those others that you MUST NOT HATE it. When loads of people just think sega can do better and don't think the older ones are worse than newer ones.

That would be silly and you know it. After all aren't you all for making the games GOTY?

It can't be GOTY in the state it is in if certain flaws make it unplayable for people. Having a shit interface means a guy must wait 25 seconds to scroll through a list. That's not a 10 game imo. Maybe for others but we are not a hive mind. When people complain that the zelda controls are shit you never see others who disagree with those guys to stop trashing a thread. Insted those guys just say "we don't believe you because we had no problems getting used to it" and they both get on fine. No need to silence the complaints. Just provide good examples and proof of the claims like those on youtube have done with sykrim so that the people who made it can fix it and it can make more people happy.

[t0mby]

Nice, GH creates a thread specifically for Skyrim mods and ends up trashing this thread as well.