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You shouldn't have to blanket delete SFO (although that's the easiest way).. like others are saying, there's a lod issue somewhere. I've seen it before myself with ugly 2d ground plants, but not a whole tree.

lol.. it was a Madden tournament. Hardly represents anything about "violent games" anyways. The people blaming gamers just show how dense they are for going there.

Some of them have potential, but like all followers in general, I find them lacking. I wish Erandur was an actual healer, for example. The only follower I really like is Serana... but there's no male equivalent to her (and even she needs a few tweaks).

Light vs heavy armor "game rules" don't exactly exist. In fact, the series as a whole started off as a custom class type of game (and was so until Oblivion really). It still sort of is, even if it's not optimal. Hell, even the cover art Dovahkiin is some kind of hybrid rogue warrior. I get your point about the Blocking skill though... although I suppose they're just parrying. I think the Vigilants were basically modeled after D&D clerics.. who are usually mace wielders with a mix of light and heavy (or some kind of chain/medium).

Kind of wish RDO had an MCM. I usually don't say this, but that mod is kind of useless to me without it. I used to like the idea of randomly recruiting a Vigilant or something and roleplaying around it.

I think Trump is only interested in making money whether its for USA, Russia, himself, or for his love of asbestos/ coal/ steel/ St0rmy Daniels/ whatever he wants. At this time, Trump haven't execute any people for being inferior, Jew, gay, or disabled. No world war occurred. War costs money even Trump will probably avoid that. That's probably the most simple and level headed thing I've ever read about Trump lately. lol. It's not necessarily good or bad, but it at least stays on track on what we know he's clearly guilty of so far. Strangely, it was Bill Clinton of all people who was once praised for the same thing. He and his campaign manager James Carville had that famous quote: "It's the economy, stupid." This was the extent of the Democrat Party's focus at the time: They knew the bottom line of politics was ONLY the "economy, stupid". All other policy decisions flowed from that. Clinton even wanted to build a Wall himself! Now there's hand-wringing about every issue under the sun, how the world is imploding and the sky is falling for each one of them, and all of the ways (real or imagined) that someone isn't suitable to be in politics.. since it'll apparently destroy us all. edit: For the record, I actually voted for Hillary. So I'm not even pro-Trump. Even though I voted this way, I'm just a realist. Who the hell wants to be so sad and pissed off (let alone scared) all the time? Not me at least. I got over monsters under my bed when I was a toddler. Thanks. Secondly, I don't think the Democrats care anymore about these fundamentals (economy) and focus on moral issues because Political affiliation has become some bizarre replacement for Religion... some kind of body of thought that encompasses "all of one's life" apparently. Where Politics suddenly means everything to people. Except what's actually important (ahem.. the economy, stupid). If that's the case, that might be my last vote ever, if things turn out this way. I know where to find philosophy and morals elsewhere.. and it isn't politics. Politics was supposed to be a boring numbers game, and now it's ruined. Since people dropped good institutions or families, they want to look to Politics to fill the gap (those needs are always there.. even when you get rid of the institutions.. and now they're left with the most Souless thing to focus their attention on. It's sad to see). /rant off

This is news to me, but I tend to do this already just for the sake of neatness (at least mods with tons of loose files, like SMIM)... plus it allows me to customize configurations for later use. edit: Not sure what compression method I'm using now. I just use whatever is default in the CK.

I barely CTD on SE like I did Oldrim.. and it's always due to mods. The vanilla game itself is stable... but the more we add on to them, ya never know what'll happen. It becomes like a house of cards. lol

They never even intended anyone to play this long. And this is the longest TES has gone without a sequel, I think? From what I can tell from Todd's words here and there, they're finally building a new engine..which is why it's longer than usual. Anyhow, why are you talking about player retention, as if it was an MMO or FPS? The best they could hope for before release was along the lines of FO3's success.. which sold over 10 million (which was already more than other RPGs). That they tripled that was beyond anyone's expectations. And although Oblivion's modding community was big, they never expected Skyrim's to get as big as it is now. There's nothing like it in gaming history. Depending on modders wasn't part of some master plan. No one expected this. Yet, like any other single player game, people leave eventually. Not sure why you think they need to retain them somehow. I'm glad they don't. That's partly EA's problem now. Never happy with just making single player games.

More than you think, Skyrim had sold plenty of copies in consoles before mods got there and plenty of people dont mod skyrim on pc and play extensively. Afaik modding isnt as huge or vital as you seem to think. Quite simply, many people like skyrim more than you. That's a much better position.. I'd prefer if they just said it. I totally respect that. I just don't get this idea that Bethesda can't stand on their own or something.

I am not with you on this one. We are not supposed to compare modders to Bethesda. How much does Todd Howard make a year? How much does an individual employee make, from the coffee fetcher to the lead manager? They are getting paid well to work on this project. Granted, Bethesda is not nearly the worst company. We can't expect sex mods, funky outfits, light sabers from Bethesda, but things like Unofficial Patches should not exist. How many years since Dawnguard was launched? Vampire face bug is still there. Having Beyond Skyrim on par with Bethesda's content is like having a homeless kid on bicycle able to keep up with a guy on Porsche. Imagine what that kid can do if you give him a Porsche. It would be nice if Bethesda can hold their fort, to be on par with their peers, instead of expecting modders to keep them up there. Imagine without mod at all, how many of us here would have quit Skyrim after first year? What is there even to do? I would see myself playing Assassin Creed: Origins and Watch Dog 2. AC:O has a huge world and nothing to do, but the combat is way better, and I can climb. Watch Dog 2 is a more morally upgraded GTA. Big world, but just how many drive by shooting and running people over with cars until you get bored? But at least I can drive and shoot. In Skyrim... I have a horse with less stamina than my overweighed cousin, a dog and a follower. An extremely underwhelmed perk tree, and one big empty open world. I think without mods, I may hang out in Black Desert online :smile: Big open world, non-existence weak storyline, but lots to do. With all due respect to the Unofficial Patchers (both here and elsewhere), even those fixes aren't vital. I completed Skyrim long ago on a 360 once, without any mods, and it's roughly the same experience. It's not like one feels more Skyrim-like than the other. What I fell in love with was Bethesda's work first. And while I'm grateful to more bug fixes, some of them were so conditional that not everyone would see them. Some weren't bugs at all too.. like the infamous Necromage fix (a particular build for vampires that allowed damage stacking bonuses from different perk trees). The unofficial patch gimps them, as if this was an MMO and people compete for balancing. They're not solid themselves on these changes either. At one point, they even (correctly) reverted changes. I believe they let the Ebony blade allowed to be improved at forges for awhile. This was not a bug to begin with.. the Ebony blade was only meant to improved the way Mephala says it was. I also have minor nitpicks.. like changing certain NPC outfits to be leveled. Like default Jenassa always used to have Leather armor. Now she randomly changes, with like Studded pieces or even Imperial armor. Just no. Although I can't be entirely sure if it's USSEP that's doing this.. but it seems the case. You sound silly saying Bethesda can't hold their own. I think even the unofficial patchers would disagree. They're one of the most successful studios around... and that's almost purely doing RPGs... in a graveyard of RPG developers from the era they started in. All of those early 90s/00 devs were great too..but they're dead now (Black Isle, Troika, etc). Bethesda keeps trucking along. And they win over the mainstream in a way no other RPG developers does too. You talk as if they're amateurs or something, but they're huge. Skyrim has sold over 30 million copies. Mods aren't what did this: The majority of old Skyrim purchases were on the 360, without mods. And only Blizz, Nintendo, and Rockstar get these numbers. The average RPG maker is lucky to get 5 million at best. Not one Dragon Age ever cracked that number. Mass Effect barely did. Only the Witcher stuff is this good. On a sidenote, Bioware is about to go in that graveyard I mentioned too. It'll mostly be CDProjekt and Bethesda making AAA RPGs for awhile (in the West). This isn't what I'd like, but it seems to be going that way.

Hmm.. I only tested for a little bit, so I can't help. I played around and made a face and saved it's profile..but decided against it for now and went back to vanilla racemenu. On a sidenote: I never CTD'ed.. It's just that it counts the sliders differently than vanilla. Like the numbers are a little different counting from left to right. So it confuses me, since I tend to jot down my character faces using vanilla's slider system.

If it's something along the lines of Fallout Shelter (but more robust), I don't care about mods. I doubt it's going to be a "main" Fallout type of game. Starfield and TES6 are their next big projects. Not this. Either way, let the game even release before slamming it. Or at least a basic rundown of actual features. lol

Oh come on now. lol. I honestly don't see why people think Beth are lazy. And I honestly have yet to see one single mod bring something that was absolutely vital to a game. They enhance what's already there, and I'm grateful.. but they'd be nothing without the platform Bethesda already provides. Not the other way around. And don't get me started on quest modders specifically. It took this long just to get something on par with Beth with the Beyond Skyrim series. Most of the time someone said a quest mod was great, I have to wonder what they're drinking. So much is laughable and embarrassing. Beth's quests and characters may be sparse, but they're memorable. And at worst, meme worthy. I can't even say that about most modder quests. Needless to say, I'm stoked about TES6 :tongue:

You should! Skyrim needs more visual mods and ideas. Some of these authors seem to finally be slowing down a bit :)

Oh I can't deny foot prints or Wet n Cold. I just meant vanilla as far as general environmental looks. What I tend to mod now is either vanilla-ish or "should have been vanilla" lol.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. This is pretty great, especially for me who is a bit older and loves this older art style. I had no idea it'd be good. The name made it sound like Nickelodeon kid's show.

lol.. I don't. I've been playing for years, and mostly used ENBoost for Oldrim. Nothing on SE. I see even less need now. I do however use different environmental features and textures, but lately, I've even resorted back to vanilla from those! I've dropped things like Realistic Water and Better Dynamic Snow.. lets just say I'm doing a vanilla run (with visuals) and found a new appreciation for it. For those with Snow stuff definitely turn off the new Shaders though. Especially Better Dynamic Snow. Just saying.. I happen to like the new shader and general look of vanilla. It just doesn't play well with some things. It makes the snow of Skyrim hard and really freezing and almost blue-ish at times. Not fluffy or soft. And the glistening crystal effect stands out the best with Bethesda's textures. No one else is actually doing this, so it's offering a feature that makes it stand out. It's not just for non-ENB people. I only miss Better Dynamic Snow... since dynamic features are cooler in general. No Snow Under the Roof is also an awesome mod, but it's a freaking headache. These things require too many patches or either work in a limited number of spots.

The downside of Better Vampires is it then requires (last I checked) a bunch of feedings to power up and such. So there's a tradeoff with the extra features: It expects you to often use them. But if that's cool, there ya go.

I didn't say there is anything magical about crossbows. And I know there are different reasons for it's development in real life.. But I just mean that dwemer stuff is frowned on in general.. even their mundane stuff. Yet at the same time, there's a good reason for it ultimately. Nothing that truly represents the Dwemer was as simple as a crossbow. They were elves, with all of the magical trappings that conjures up. And they did plenty of things that had nothing to do with tech. Magical, telepathic, you name it. And all of their automatons (the robot things) are powered by soul gems. These were largely the enslaved Falmer they killed off to power their machines. Same as their ultimate creation, the Numidium.. powered by a God Level soul gem. You need to play Morrowind. The whole game is essentially about the abuse of Dwemer magic and how it destroyed their own and the Dunmer society. They are definitely the "egghead"/Reason based Race, but not in the real world sense. They knew Gods and magic existed. They simply had no restraints and fully acknowledged and USED these things. It's more like a mad scientist trope rather than scientist. If that makes sense.

I understand being kind and all, but this is truly weird.. and dangerous. It's bad enough that people aren't already in decent shape. But to willfully treat this like a good thing?! And again I say, not even the leftist of the left wing Euros think this way. It's not political. They maintain decent physical lifestyles, generally speaking. No, this is purely an American identity politics thing unfortunately. Left wing politics are keen on sensitivity training, but never before to spite itself and outright promote things that KILL off the human race. What the hell is the point of being sensitive when people can literally die from it? lol. Who is the actual sensitive one trying to save lives here? I'd say it's the doctors and health instructors in our lives.

Partly.. with the small stuff. Look at crossbows. Invented by the Dwemer, but became taboo because they were associated with them. Now in this era, it's the Dawnguard that rediscovered them and made it their specialty. But that's the small stuff. Most Dwemer stuff is magic and fueled by godly powers. The whole point of the Dwemer was to bypass the gods and they found a number of ways to get there. The Numidium was fueled by the Heart of Lorkhan. A literal body piece of a god. When that wasn't available, Tiber Septim managed to find an alternative: The Mantella.. which was partly fueled by Wulfharth.. and close to Lorkhan (long story). This is partly how Tiber Septim ending up taking Lorkhan's place in the pantheon - by "mantling" Lorkhan and becoming a god himself in the process: Talos. This was the intent of the Dwemer all along.. to be like Talos... but they killed themselves in the process. And then a human took their crap and managed to do it. He didn't just use "tech". Or this is how the Tribunal became gods. They stole the tools of Dwarven King Kagrenac and became gods that enslaved their people for centuries. They were not mere tech users. They were living gods and the story of Morrowind is about them, if you get around to it. Anything Dwemer requires an extraordinary story like this, I think. If it doesn't remain epic, it'll get overdone and spoil the whole setting. Like hearing a good song too many times and finally getting sick of it. :smile: I enjoyed speaking with you in the Lore thread, but this was the stuff I was hinting at: How most things Lorkhan related are at the center of TES history. It isn't that I want to see LESS Dwemer stuff personally. I just want the story to make it worth it. I don't want to see casual use of it or done in some buggy amateurish mess. Even the modder has to be a legend, like Trainwiz. lol. But preferably, I'd rather see Bethesda make a proper game or expansion about it.

RaceMenu already has an alpha port by the author. Google racemenu and GitHub and skse64plugins. The reason it CTD'ed is it needed to be built again, I think (it's not a typical mod, but requires dlls).

Favorite Pantheon member: Other! Lorkhan. That imposter Talos definitely doesn't count. Malacath funnily is my favorite "Daedric Prince" too.. even if he killed Lorkhan.

For some reason, I saw more airships pop up on Steam's mod list... but I'd generally not recommend that. Nexus is better.. barring a few mods. Mods are great.. I'm just saying it can get pretty silly. There's a reason why the whole story of Morrowind was about stopping the abuse of Dwemer tech and it's ill ramfications. It's more game breaking than skimpy bikini mods - because boobs don't make you godly. While in TES, the Dwemer tech is literally God-Mode. At least, that's what it's supposed to do. They're not supposed to be casual additions, but something godly and epic and worth telling a story over. Something so out of bounds that it killed off an entire race of it's own makers.. then empowered the Tribunal and Talos, making them the walking gods that they were. In Morrowind, even a Daedric prince is pissed off and becomes your main ally.. instead of the Divines in Oblivion or Skyrim. Which is to say, not even the Daedra want the Dwemer stuff spreading too much. lol. If you really want to see Dwemer stuff done impressively though, look no further than Trainwiz.. like his Blackreach or Wheels of Lull mods. They're full blown quests and not just airships.