How do you make Skyrim ridiculously challenging?

[Roadhouse699]

So as we all know, Skyrim, as Bethesda released it in 2011 (and then a bunch of other times. Thanks, Todd), is one of those games where the player hardly faces any challenge whatsoever and essentially ascends to godhood - this is often justified through the idea that the Elder Scrolls is not about combat or survival, it's about roleplay and world exploration.

 

Some of us more masochistic folks, however, say, "f*** that, I want some Dark Souls-type s***." So we jack up the difficulty to Legendary, it's still easy. And that's why we have mods like the ones I want to talk about here. Everyone has a different way of making Skyrim a game where you get one-hitted by random-ass highwaymen - I'd like to see how other people do that.

 

Here's my list of difficulty mods:

1. Levelling Spell Power - Less Potions - Less Omnipotent Dragonborn by Yours Truly, which makes it significantly harder to fight mages, leads to less potions spawning in containers and thus making alchemy way more useful, and makes it so that warriors don't have the capabilities of novice mages and vice versa.

 

2. True Armor by Anubis22, which makes the functionality of weapons and armor much more realistic, and also requires you to use several different kinds of weapons or spells.

 

3. Loot And Degradation by Isoku, which makes enemies' weapons actually stack up to your own, and prevents getting 100 alchemy, 100 enchanting, and 100 smithing the be-all-end-all of the game.

 

4. Bring Your Silver by Alex9ndre, which makes silver weapons actually useful. And makes you feel like a Witcher.

 

5. Ordinator by EnaiSiaion, which is not necessarily a difficulty mod but does notably change the dynamic of gameplay.

 

6. Realistic Lighting Overhaul by Syndey666, which also isn't really difficulty-related but it does make fighting at night kind of annoying.

 

7. Realistic Needs and Diseases by CrEaToXx and Perseid9. You have to eat and drink now. Simple enough.

 

8. Campfire/Frostfall by Chesko. Now Winterhold sucks. Fun!

 

9. Climates of Tamriel by jjc71 which might not do anything significant on it's own, but combined with Frostfall it'll make life harder.

 

Skyrim is harder than a 20-year old virgin snorting viagra out of a high-end stripper's booty now it's so much fun.

Post your list here too!

Edited May 21, 2019 by Roadhouse699

[pcaviator]

Let's dial up the difficulty. I use these mods to make the game for difficult:

 

Scarcity (less loot)

Rarity (less gems)

You hunger (less food)

Skylock (realistically safe locks)

Realistic Lighting Overhaul (no dungeon lights - bring a torch)

Campfire / Frostfall