Lore-friendly modding in Skyrim!

• Akemii wrote on 2012-10-06 02:45
  Guys this thread is about ME and I can't MOD
• Excalibur wrote on 2012-10-06 02:48

  Quote from Akemii;959926:

  Guys this thread is about ME and I can't MOD

  
  
  What are you talking about? We suggested that you use Nexus Mod Manager. :V
• Bakuryu wrote on 2012-10-06 12:52

  Quote from Excalibur;959924:

  Oh, how so? Maybe the experience with damage sponges is different for you.

  
  What do you mean with damage sponges D:, as in hard to kill? I haven't had that experience, stuff feels more realistic in a way.
  Stuff makes more sense, arrows are deadly against unarmored and light armored opponents, same for swords, heavy armor is what you'd expect, basically deflecting your arrows unless you are an awesome marskman (hence aiming at unprotected areas), for melee weapons maces are your best bet against them, it still very doable with swords if perked, thanks to their speed, and if they are really experienced (the heavy armored enemy) then you have to try and manage to get a power attack in (or use poisons) to do something against them because their defenses are really high.
  And of course all is the same for you, if you are unarmored, arrows are deadly and you have to be careful, I try to kill archers as quickly as possible with my bow before engaging in close combat. Blocking is a must heavy, light or unarmored, and with a couple of perks into blocking you block almost all damage (all with shields I think), which is another thing enemies do, but breaking their block with some tactical workarounds is not that hard.
  Another factor that might make enemies seem like "damage sponges" is the removal of leveled list, the first dungeon (Barrows) for example, is quite challenging because you have really strong Draugrs, and DUDE, it's what I'd expect from ancient UNDEAD nords. It still didn't take that long to kill them.
  
  

  Quote from Akemii;959926:

  Guys this thread is about ME and I can't MOD

  
  Thread's title says different 8D
  But insrssnesandstuff, we already told you what to do, and you didn't give us much more info about what's the problem D:
  
  Use NMM, tick the mods you want there, forget about the game's launcher, it's useless. (I haven't opened that thing since like I first got the game back when it released.)
• Excalibur wrote on 2012-10-06 13:03

  Quote from Bakuryu;960057:

  What do you mean with damage sponges D:, as in hard to kill? I haven't had that experience, stuff feels more realistic in a way.
  Stuff makes more sense, arrows are deadly against unarmored and light armored opponents, same for swords, heavy armor is what you'd expect, basically deflecting your arrows unless you are an awesome marskman (hence aiming at unprotected areas), for melee weapons maces are your best bet against them, it still very doable with swords if perked, thanks to their speed, and if they are really experienced (the heavy armored enemy) then you have to try and manage to get a power attack in (or use poisons) to do something against them because their defenses are really high.
  And of course all is the same for you, if you are unarmored, arrows are deadly and you have to be careful, I try to kill archers as quickly as possible with my bow before engaging in close combat. Blocking is a must heavy, light or unarmored, and with a couple of perks into blocking you block almost all damage (all with shields I think), which is another thing enemies do, but breaking their block with some tactical workarounds is not that hard.
  Another factor that might make enemies seem like "damage sponges" is the removal of leveled list, the first dungeon (Barrows) for example, is quite challenging because you have really strong Draugrs, and DUDE, it's what I'd expect from ancient UNDEAD nords. It still didn't take that long to kill them.
  
  
  Thread's title says different 8D
  But insrssnesandstuff, we already told you what to do, and you didn't give us much more info about what's the problem D:
  
  Use NMM, tick the mods you want there, forget about the game's launcher, it's useless. (I haven't opened that thing since like I first got the game back when it released.)

  
  
  Hm, I'll try that as soon as I get a new PC to run Skyrim. Though due to the way the monsters are leveled, I doubt that I'll be able to use it with some of my favorite mods such as the Skyrim Monster Mod (lore friendly version), hmmm.
  
  Edit:
  

  Telekinetic Nova (Alteration, 75): Breaks the bones of anything nearby and sends it flying through the air.

  
  Holyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshit I hope it really doesn't do that, since it would be plain OP, guess it wouldn't work on ghosts and stuff, RIGHT?
• Akemii wrote on 2012-10-08 15:05
  I'm not sure if you're dumb or what Tim, but I have already said I am infact using NMM. The mods are all installed, but when I check plugins which is required for them to work, they don't stay after the game is launched. Legit. What the fuck.
• paladin wrote on 2012-10-08 18:57

  Quote from Akemii;960906:

  I'm not sure if you're dumb or what Tim, but I have already said I am infact using NMM. The mods are all installed, but when I check plugins which is required for them to work, they don't stay after the game is launched. Legit. What the fuck.

  
  
  Are you fully patched?
• Akemii wrote on 2012-10-08 18:58

  Quote from paladin;960975:

  Are you fully patched?

  
  
  no it's pirated
• Shanghai wrote on 2012-10-09 01:33

  Quote from Akemii;960976:

  no it's pirated

  
  
  Update to 1.6 or something higher, most mods are compatible up to that point. I'm sure there's several places you could look for cracked updates.
• Akemii wrote on 2012-10-09 01:58

  Quote from Shanghai;961112:

  Update to 1.6 or something higher, most mods are compatible up to that point. I'm sure there's several places you could look for cracked updates.

  
  
  Been trying. Demonoid was my safe-haven, everything is so shady.
  
  If I DL the current update, you think it would update it with all the requirements or do I need to do it in order?
• Shanghai wrote on 2012-10-09 02:02

  Quote from Akemii;961117:

  Been trying. Demonoid was my safe-haven, everything is so shady.
  
  If I DL the current update, you think it would update it with all the requirements or do I need to do it in order?

  
  
  All the requirements? You mean the mods? First of all, make a back-up of your saves so they don't get corrupted or something. They're in your My Documents/My Games/Skyrim/Saves. Uninstall all the mods in your manager even if they don't seem to work in your Skyrim game. Find an update, try to install it to your Skyrim folder, and test it with your save files to see if something goes awry. After that's done and it seems stable, go back to your Nexus Mod manager and re-install mods, preferably bit by bit to make sure nothing goes wrong. If all goes well, then they SHOULD be working. I don't know. My Skyrim's at 1.5 something and can run most mods fine, except for the official Bethesda ones like Dawnguard or Hearthfire.
• Akemii wrote on 2012-10-09 02:16
  [Image: http://puu.sh/1cS9c]

  
  
  installed it, still not highlighted.
  
  ALso now it's telling me this:
  
  

  [Image: http://puu.sh/1cSm5]

  
  
  because my Skyrim is now on the desktop, but I already rescanned and updated NMM so i dont know what the hell it is talking about.
• Shanghai wrote on 2012-10-09 02:28

  Quote from Akemii;961128:

  [Image: http://puu.sh/1cS9c]

  
  
  installed it, still not highlighted.
  
  ALso now it's telling me this:
  
  

  [Image: http://puu.sh/1cSm5]

  
  
  because my Skyrim is now on the desktop, but I already rescanned and updated NMM so i dont know what the hell it is talking about.

  
  
  I don't know what's up your Skyrim.esm but that's probably bad if the base game is screwing up. To activate Data Files, you gotta go into your SkyrimPrefs folder which is located in the same place your Saves are : C:\Users\Your User\Documents\My Games\Skyrim. Then enable that highlighted selection by replacing the 0 in it with 1 like so in the bottom image.
  
  

  [Image: http://puu.sh/1cSB1]
• Akemii wrote on 2012-10-09 02:33
  [Image: http://puu.sh/1cSFo]

  
  
  been done. :U
• Shanghai wrote on 2012-10-09 02:38

  Quote from Akemii;961147:

  [Image: http://puu.sh/1cSFo]

  
  
  been done. :U

  
  
  Then I have no idea on what's going on.
• Akemii wrote on 2012-10-09 02:51
  that is what im saying like man what the hell why