todd NOOOOO

HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

In my defense I picked up a cheap used VR headset and playing Skyrim in VR and holding all the sparkly spells in your hands is genuinely a pretty novel and magical experience

  • laziestflagellant [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    9 months ago

    These days all the cool kids download modpacks from Wabbajack, but it comes down to what you like about Skyrim and RPGs in general. Legacy of the Dragonborn adds a huge collection quest that you fill out as you go exploring, there are a lot of 3rd person combat overhauls that make the combat more dynamic and enemies less spongey, there’s huge dramatic quest mods (Vigilant and company) or even total conversions like Enderal. There’s also stuff like 3DNPCs and talkative companion mods if you just want more interesting characters to meet around Skyrim

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      In that case, can you recommend a modpack that fills these criteria:

      • Eliminates obvious dominant strategies (stealth archer, grinding smithing/alchemy for free levels)
      • Makes combat more interesting than “mash attack”
      • Gets rid of HP sponges, (but also doesn’t overcorrect into getting constantly one-shot)
      • Fixes XP curves (destruction levels way more slowly than any other combat skill for no clear reason)
      • Adds quests, ideally like the better questlines of the base game like the daedra questlines
      • Not a total conversion like Enderal
      • laziestflagellant [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Full disclosure but I’ve never played someone else’s modpack. I’ve downloaded multiple from Wabbajack but I’m so picky about everything in game that I immediately start ripping chunks out of it. But I do have some recs from the community.

        Not actually Wabbajack but Gate to Sovengarde is supposed to be easy to install and vanilla+ type. Pretty well tested and pretty stable, includes a lot of the dynamic world changing mods like Seasons and reclaiming locations after you clear out bandits and the like.

        Path of the Dovahkiin overhauls the game to be a more ARPG experience with a focus on character builds, dungeon crawling and looting.

        Living Skyrim and Wildlander are supposed to be increased difficulty immersive survival overhauls that probably aren’t to everyone’s taste.

        People who enjoy modding Skyrim into Dark Souls talk a lot about Nolvus, but learning that the modpack includes “Immersive Wenches” has made me slightly question its ‘ultimate lore friendly and immersive experience’ lol