InDarkestNight

I can't remember the last time I had a good experience with this game or with this community. I'm sick of getting into debates with white supremacists and every form of denialist, which this game draws due to it letting you join a white supremacist faction. Honestly, I wasn't too happy about trying to make money on youtube with this game, because honestly, due to the types of people it attracts, I genuinely believe this game just needs to die and be forgotten. I kept playing anyway though, trying to get amusement out of this game again. In the process, I've dealt with trolls on here, people gaslighting me on what I needed to do to upgrade my computer, and now I've been treated like garbage because I can't handle most mods. I don't mind the occasional mod being difficult, you want that fine. What I was upset at was how every creature and quest mod is designed like this, preventing access to people like me. I even had someone here berate me for sucking and openly declaring he hoped mod authors kept doing this just so people like me can't enjoy their mods. That's like an art museum not installing a ramp just so people in wheelchairs can't enter the museum. Being unable to do certain things means you don't deserve happiness? Wtf? I even made a post here hoping to get advice on how to handle these mods, but it was locked immediately and I was berated for asking. I know it came up in my other threads, but none of them was the focus of that. I wanted something dedicated where I would only get such responses. I've decided I'm fed up with it all. I can't play any creature or quests or new lands mods, which means I hardly have any mods at all I can enjoy. I've already uninstalled the game. Why play the same damn game over and over when all you can really install is graphics mods? Besides, I'm sick of dealing with the community. Every form of extremist flocks to this game and I'm sick of dealing with it all. I've been mistreated by freaking ABLISTS for complaining how I couldn't enjoy seemingly any mods. I even made a post requesting accessibility mods, and it got deleted right away. Despite this site's rhetoric, its obvious that in reality they support extremism. I see no point in posting here anymore, no point in even trying to download anything else, and I don't see the point in even trying to play the game again. After my experience here, honestly I'm reluctant to even download mods for any other game. Screw this, I just can't take it anymore. I'm only posting this so people will be aware of the type of treatment I've received you. You believe non-white people are equal to whites, you will only find unbridled seething hatred in this community anywhere on the internet. You acknowledge that Trump lost, same story. You suffer from a disability, you are NOT welcome on the nexus. You'll be stalked here, gaslighted, harrassed by seemingly everyone. Its just not worth it to be part of this community. Of course, given how the mods have treated me lately I'm certain this is going to be removed. Why would they tolerate something like this? THEY MAY AS WELL HAVE TOLD ME I WAS SUB-HUMAN JUST BECAUSE I CAN'T PLAY DARK SOULS AND I KNOW IT. So bye, this will be my last post, and last time I log on to the nexus or even access the site for the forseeable future. Hopefully at least a few others will see this and be able to avoid the misery this site has given me. Bye.

I don't see how it can be done. Most can one-shot you even if you have the most defenses you can get (heavy armor, block, restoration, even that's not enough). To add insult to injury, even if something doesn't hit you all that hard they still take several minutes to beat down. I've tried spells, weapons, and stealth. Nothing gives me nearly enough damage. What are you supposed to do against enemies like this? Even if they can't kill me, I don't enjoy sitting there spam-clicking an enemy for minutes on end just to get them to drop. I didn't enjoy it the one time I tried to play on legendary, and I don't enjoy it when I'm playing on freaking adept. What are you supposed to do here? Why do they make enemies so strong that everything you can do isn't enough? I don't get the appeal of this stupid garbage. I want to play with quest mods, creature mods, but I can't because I'm not a f*#@ing pro that can handle buffed creatures.

Okay, what the crap? Decided to find the stats for these skeletons added by Helgen reborn. After failing to find any in the dungeon (what, do they not spawn when combat ai is disabled????), I had to spawn them in after running into several spoilers trying to find them in the stupid embershard dungeon. I found, to my shock, that the skeletons are level 24 and have over 300 hp! They're stronger than that giant frostbite spider at the start of the dungeon! What the crap? The skeletons added by my other quest mods aren't nearly as powerful. They're either my level or lower, and none have higher than 150 hp. No wonder I can't handle those skeletons; they have twice my hp and they spawn another enemy when they die! What the crap is this? This isn't even line with my other quest mods! This is beyond dark souls difficult! The mod pages recommends you start the quest at level 20, but looking at it I don't think it would make much of a difference. I mean, you're swarmed by enemies with stats comparable to a boss monster! What the crap is this? Guess I should only do mod quests when I'm super high level. However, what am I supposed to do until then? Trudge through the vanilla game until I get to the end game and then start doing the interesting stuff? This is dumb. Why should I bother giving these mods another chance? The quest mods aren't doable until you're an end-game character, and the monsters added by SiC make it impossible for you to survive the early game! This is so stupid. f*#@ quest mods and creature mods forever. This leaves me with virtually nothing, but so what I clearly can't play these mods anyway. They need an accessibillity patch for people like me who can't play dark souls (HOW MANY TIMES MUST I STATE THAT BEFORE PEOPLE GET IT IN THEIR HEAD I CANT PLAY DARKSOULS I CANT PLAY DARKSOULS I CANT PLAY DARKOULS). How about we make mods with accessibility in mind? What, is this community bigoted towards disabled people? Granted, I'm not technically disabled, but nobody seems to give two shits about anyone who isn't the best of the best. Besides, let's be real, what's 'fun' about hacking at an enemy for minutes on end? Some enemies are so op I can't even see their hp going down because they have so much stinking health! What's fun about that? Even if you're invincible, trying to kill enemies like that is just lame. There's a reason why skyrim wasn't designed like that. Its because it sucks! So yeah, until the community starts making ACCESSIBLE mods, I'm stuck playing without quest mods or creature mods of any sort. Maybe I'll use the models from various creature mods someday and make my own creature compiliation filled with creatures that are 100% like vanilla creatures but with a different model. Then I can enjoy them.

This has gone off topic. My question was what types of mods could I use, since I can't handle any mod that adds new enemies? I can't run any creature mods, and no quest mods. What else am I supposed to do? Just play with survival and graphics mods? I guess follower mods are fine, but I've never really found a use for them since I mostly play mages and stealth builds, both of which are NOT follower friendly. Maybe I need to start playing builds that do work with followers, but that just seems to be so limited. Guess I'll be looking over Fudgemuppet's warrior builds to try and find something. edit: Well, decided to do a search for everything that isn't a creature mod, follower mod, dungeon, quest, or new lands mod. This left me with nothing but survival mods, graphics mods, equipment, and overhauls. How is any of this going to make playing through the same damned quests yet again any more enjoyable? Can I just play with nothing simply because no one makes creature mods that are in line with vanilla? I can't handle that, so how am I supposed to use anything? Am I just not allowed to play Skyrim anymore? Its starting to look like that. Like I've said, not everyone is a f*#@ing pro. Not everyone could seriously compete in an esport. Why not make mods for people like me who couldn't survive dark souls for even a single second?

Your car analogy isn't the same thing. Breaking the game with mods is your fault yes, but that's not what's happening here. What bethesda is doing is equivalent to a car company breaking into your garage and sabotaging your car so it either won't accept certain parts anymore, or just stopping it from working all together (a common complaint around the time the last update came out, and one that persisted for MONTHS after people foolishly bought the full AE and found the game wouldn't boot at all mods or not). This is vandalism, sabotage. Also, since when does a company 'own' products that they've sold? Used to be, if you bought something, you could do whatever the hell you wanted with it. You bought a table, you could use it for whatever you deemed fit, you could re-paint, decorate it, or even tear it down for parts. Games were similar. You bought a cart, you could do whatever the hell you wanted with it and the company couldn't do a damned thing (well, unless you count that time Nintendo rigged a donkey kong game to delete its own data if you tried to use a gameshark on it, without ANY warning that could happen, causing people to lose a game they paid hard money for because they did something they had no idea would destroy it). Granted, this isn't unique to bethesda. Seemingly every game today is getting updated until it dies. Terraria for instance bears practically no resemblence to the game it was at launch. Hell, with the last update they even upped the difficulty, making it impossible for people like me to even play the game outside of its equivalent to creative mode. This is why I don't have any games other than Skyrim. I own dozens on steam, but they were all turned into games that I never would've bought due to updates. Its a rampant problem called 'death by update'. Why are we not allowed to just enjoy our games? Why do companies have to act like every game is a live service game that will only be playable as long as they allow it? I don't play games like that for that very reason, but it seems you can't escape that even with games that don't have an online component. Programs today are just as worthless as World of Warcraft is, or any other dead MMO. Its sickening and I'm getting beyond sick of companies tearing things away from me that I bought from them. Was my money and reviews not good enough for them? Are we not allowed to own anything anymore? Do we live in a Georgian economy where you can only rent things? That's not capitalism, that's an entirely different economic system that never worked! We're not a capitalist society anymore, at least when it comes to digital products. America isn't america anymore. Corruption is rampant, we're not capitalist, we're not even really a democracy anymore. And I'm not just talking about gerrymandering here. Politicians are nothing but puppets following the orders of oil companies, and sometimes other companies that give them 'donations'. Our government acts like freaking China. Our rights are being taken away every single day. We live in a totalitarian nation, and this isn't nearly as bad as it can get. I don't even feel safe having internet access anymore, BECAUSE I DON'T TRUST OUR GOVERNMENT TO KNOW EVEN THE MOST BANAL FACT ABOUT ME. I don't even vote anymore BECAUSE I DON'T WANT THEM TO KNOW MY POLITICAL ALIGNMENT. I simply don't see how they could be trusted with that information, regardless of which side you fall on. I could write a book about everything going wrong. Point is, even in gaming we can't find an escape from all of this? Must the bullshit this country has become be shoved into our faces 24/7? Can't we have any release? Do we have to run off into the woods and spend our lives hunting in a cheap shack just so we can be free and live in peace again? This whole country's going to hell and I'm beyond sick of having to face every waking second of my life. Can't I at least forget it about while I'm playing some stupid game? Why the hell not? Why??????

I'm not suffering from any glitches (unless maybe I'm experiencing ones that buff enemies), and I already know how to make super long mod orders. If this isn't normal, then why are enemies so op? Also, I did try to make a paladin build that used one-handed to deal with these mods. It made no difference. My damage wasn't any better, and even with heavy armor and block things from SiC and Skyrim Underground could still one-shot me. I didn't try that with helgen reborn though (I was trying to find a build that could handle the monsters added by those two mods, I switched to testing out quest mods because I was sick of trying to find a way to survive against SiC). However, I'm suffering the same problems I did with Skyrim Underground. Things are just as strong as those things. I'm level 16 btw, and I even grinded conjuration for a bit so I could get a frost atrnoach to tank. That doesn't help one bit though. The narrow passage ways obviously don't accommodate a frost atronach well. Also, I'm using firebolt against these things, and I have one rank of the fire damage perk, plus potions that buff my destruction by 30%. I have no problem at all against vanilla enemies. Modded enemies are the only things giving me problems. Also, as I stated, I'm not a good player and never have been. Maybe you simply can't tell the difference because all these enemies are easy to you. To me, the difference is more obvious than the sun. I can't help that I suck. Why would you think I would mention 'accessibility'? I have thought in the past that I need to just quit action games and stick to turn-based strategy games. None exist anymore though, and trying to play the Civ games again I came to the realiziation that they're more about rng than strategy. I don't care to play those anymore at all, and they're the only non-action games still being made. I do know there's been complaints for years about how turn-based rpgs aren't be made anymore. For many people in the past, those were the only types of games they could play. Now I'm thinking I'm part of that crowd too. Modded Skyrim simply isn't a game for someone like me who could never handle Dark Souls for even a second. Honestly, I've been afraid about posting videos of me playing this game on youtube; people would probably ridicule how cartoonishly bad I am. Besides, I don't see how I could make videos of me doing this relic hunter challenge. I mean, how can I do it when I can't even freaking complete it? I can barely even survive to level 10, and even when I do get past that it doesn't help (I'm level 16 right now to give you an idea). I just suck and I can't help it. I've always sucked, there's only been a handful of games I've ever been able to complete in my life. Skyrim is a game I've completed yes, but most mods are not. As for SE, I refuse to play that because I like mods and I despise beyond all imaginging the cc garbage that bethesda has force-installed into the game. Normally you would get tossed in prison if you do something like that, and they did this to millions of people are no one gives two shits! Wtf? I can't help that the world is f*#@ing crazy and keeps getting more insane. Can't we even game without having crimes committed against us? Seriously? Is there no release from the bullshit this worthless country has become? Is every single part of our culture nothing but abuse and atrocities? Can't anything go f*#@ing right? I need to either just stop modding this game, or stick to making my own games. Thinking I really need to do the latter if I do want to 'mod'.

I did think about installing mods to make the game easier. However, I know nothing about that so I wouldn't know how to do it. Besides, it would put the vanilla questions out of wack with everything added by mods. I did use to change the difficulty slider, but that causes all manner of glitches so I'm not really willing to do it anymore. Why do all mod authors do this without exception? Its preventing people like me from enjoying their mods! in the case of Helgen Reborn, it doesn't really help much. Its dungeons are nothing but narrow tunnels which just makes dealing with its enemies even harder (why add f*#@ing skeletons that take 20 hits to kill that then respawn as another enemy that takes 20 hits to kill too? wtf? I just turned off the game in the middle of the dungeon because I got sick of sitting their spam clicking for minutes on end for every single enemy). As if the narrow passages aren't bad enough, you're forced to take a worthless follower with you in those areas. Either they're behind you and can't do s#*!, or they're in front of you making it so you can't do anything at all. Wtf? I'm not too impressed with the muffled audio quality of the voice acting. Why does this mod get rated so highly? Brodual listed it once as the best quest mod ever made. I don't see that. Yeah, its surprisingly amusing watching Helgen get rebuilt, but that's literally the only thing I've enjoyed so far. If I had xEdit working, I would actually open up these mods and set everything's stats to vanilla. Playing these mods, I've realized I don't want anything with even so much as a stat change. Everything has to be a 100% reskin of a vanilla creature, with the exactly same abilities and numbers, not one thing changed. Guess if I want that, I'll just have to take all these creature mods I have and use the models to make my own that's to my liking. Doesn't help me with the Relic Hunter challenge though. I have to play with Immersive Creatures and Skyrim Underground to complete it, and ontop of that I would need to play with all these stupid quest mods I'm trying to play for the first time. Does no one care about accessibility? How can people enjoy their mods when they can't handle them? What am I supposed to do? Turn the game down to novice whenever I have to fight an enemy one of these mods adds? Don't think it would make that much difference; they're equivalent to playing on legendary. Turning the difficulty down to novice would probably only put them around expert.

Seriously, no suggestions? No one even telling me that I should stop modding this game? I can't play with any creature mods, dungeon mods, new lands mods, quest mods, I've never been able to stand even vanilla followers so no follower mods, and I can't even run an ENB due to playing on linux. What is left? Overhaul and magic mods that break your game? I used to make load orders with over 200 plugins, but now I can't even make one with a dozen? What am I supposed to do? Just quit Skyrim and let it finally die?

I'm getting sick of getting my ass kicked by enemies added by mods. I can't play with any creature mod, or any quest mod. Even freaking Helgen Reborn is impossible for me. It doesn't add new enemies as best as I can tell, but it does add an ungodly number of them to various vanilla dungeons. How am I supposed to handle that? I just can't kill anything fast enough. Doesn't help that I chose to go mage due to some of my other quest lines, so I keep getting slaughtered by anything that gets into melee range. It seems that I can't use any mods at all. What am I supposed to use? I can't play quest mods or creature mods. What, am I supposed to just keep playing through the same vanilla questlines over and over with just graphics mods and game-breaking 'overhauls'? Why does every mod author assume every player can play f*#@ing dark souls? NOT EVERYONE IS A f*#@ING PRO PLAYER. MAKE MODS FOR PEOPLE THAT AREN'T f*#@ING GODS YOU BIGOTS. I admit, maybe I'm just getting sick of playing the same game over and over. The reason I do that though is because I have no other games. I did in the past, but they were all taken from me through forced updates. Skyrim LE is all I have left. I refuse to buy new games too because who the hell in their right mind would buy something that they know is going to be DESTROYED BY ITS CREATORS. Maybe when updates are finally classified as VIRUSES like they should be. They destroy your programs, disrupt your work, lead to endless frustration. isn't that what the definition of a virus is? What if someone deleted a document or picture on your computer? Or some other file? Or a program you yourself wrote? How is that any different from what 'updates' are now? Sorry, I'm just having a shitty time with this game and I'm getting beyond sick of not being able to do a damned thing about it. I can't play with mods, I can't play any other game. What type of mods can someone WHO ISN'T A f*#@ING GOD play? Like I said, it seems I'm stuck with just graphics mods. Who would play with just that? I've done every quest more times than I can count, the same with every possible build in this game, and I have nothing else to go and play for a while. I either play this, or I don't play anything at all. I have quit this thing for months at a time. And what was I playing instead? NOTHING BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING AND HAVEN'T FOR YEARS AND YEARS NOW. Maybe I need to get back onto making games for myself. Sadly, what I have made doesn't work right on linux and there's not a damned thing I can about it. I thought I could keep my programs with linux and not have to deal with windows stupid s#*! anymore. Was I wrong? Should I just abandon computers completely? They aren't worth s#*! anymore, and they just keep getting worse. For example, I recently had an experience with windows 11. Our internet has been lagging really bad for months now. Yesterday we finally found the answer; it wasn't the cables, there wasn't a damned thing wrong with them. The problem was WINDOWS 11 WAS EATING UP OUR ENTIRE BANDWIDTH 24/7 WITH ITS STUPID ONEDRIVE PROGRAM. So yeah, windows 11 on ONE computer rendered every other computer inoperable. Wtf? Thank god I don't have windows anymore. Of course, that hasn't saved me fully from modern tech. For a while I was looking into retrocomputer, seriously, BECAUSE I'M SO BEYOND SICK OF WHAT MODERN COMPUTERS HAVE BECOME. I despise them, they're all nothing but worthless little pieces of garbage, and I'm sick of trying to get these stupid hunks of junk to work. What help if their RELIABILITY WASN'T GOING DOWN DAY BY DAY EVER SINCE THE 2000S. f*#@ modern computers, f*#@ modern tech. I genuinely can't hope for the internet to die. And yes, that's going to happen, just ask anyone who works in tech. You won't find a single optimistic soul. These things can burn in hell for all I care at this point. Death to the internet, death to modern computers. Death to everything tech has become.

This run, I'm not even trying to do that! I'm just trying to complete the questline so I can see it in its entirity for once. Yes, I've never completed the questline. For comprehension, I've only gotten to the part with the redguard 2 maybe 3 times. Why do I keep failing to get that far? Glitches, incompatibilities, my build not turning out. This one time I rushed the museum by filling the armory completely at the start. Seriously. I did that because I was annoyed with the questline assuming I had done that regardless of whether or not I had. This caused the game to skip over an early quest, after that it never progressed no matter how much I filled the museum. Apparently you cannot do the quests out of order. Lesson learned. As for ironbind burrow, I did re-try it and complete it, and managed to dodge the ending of its infamous quest at least. Still don't like I had to do it though, or that I'll eventually have to do various other quests I don't like. Right now though I'm mainly trying to play through all my quest mods for the first time. I wasn't initially planning on even installing LotD this run, but I decided to anyway since it is technically a quest mod. I am having an issue though filling the museum due to my character concept. There's just not too many vanilla quests that make sense for him (mainly due to his build). Either way, I'm past that part, so now I can worry about finding 3 more items just so I can start the next part section of the LotD quest. Amusingly btw, I'm having issues with carry weight even though I'm a cloth-wearing mage with the freaking steed stone! Guess there's no such thing as enough carry weight with this mod.

I've never made it very far in that quest for a variety of reasons. Now I'm attempting it yet again. Honestly though, I'm getting sick of this mod. Its dominated every playthrough I've done for over 5 years now. I'm starting to feel like I haven't played the game in forever. I'm sick of testing mods, sick of testing builds, sick of restarting due all manner of issues. Besides, the mod has always required me to make decisions in the game I've never liked to make. A good example of this is the infamous Ironbind Barrow quest. I've always found that quest highly depressing and I prefer to avoid it. I went there for another quest which apparently requires you to go through that damned barrow. I tried to just run past the npcs hoping that would let me skip the quest, but it did not. They ran through and slaughtered everything. To add insult to injury, at the end an enemy raised the final boss. I died as a consequence, and because I was trying to get it over with as fast as possible, my last save was at the start of that vile dungeon. I loaded an auto-save on the opposite side of the map and made a hard save. I will not be returning there, for any of the items in there. This is far from the only example of such things either, and its not even the first that comes to mind! I miss playing with Frostfall and Skytest. I've been wanting to try Last Seed but have never gotten an opportunity to. I want to play Skyrim again. Of course, I don't even know if I could play with frostfall again without weather occlusion. Last time I used those mods was probably in 2017 ot 2018, the last time I played s#*! edition. I used to use a mod called Real Shelter, but that mod no longer works due to it being abandoned. Why oh why does no one fix that? Why does everyone insist on focusing on a garbage game that's been rendered unmoddable? I won't even play that thing vanilla anymore BECAUSE VANILLA DOES NOT EXIST. I don't want that cc s#*! in my game, I never did, and I will never play a single second with any of them installed. s#*! edition is dead to me, why does everyone ignore that? How many mod authors even actually play the game? I've heard its rare. Why don't they stop and actually try to play the game? See the game for themselves that they're trying to mod? Maybe then they'll come to their senses and start supporting the real Skyrim again. Off-topic, sorry. Not that I'm expecting to get any replies anyway given how rarely I do on this site, especially on the LE page here. Why am I even still trying to play this mod? Because I'm a completionist? Because I don't like being defeated? Because I'm sick of playing through the same quests over and over? It may help if I had another game, but I do not because all others I've owned were either scams or torn from me due to updates like s#*! edition. I hate all of modern technology. I don't even like the idea of trying to make money on youtube, but what choice do I have? Seriously? Besides, I never really liked the idea of making money off of Skyrim anyway. I want to play it, I don't want it to be my job. I've already had to borrow money though in preparation for this, so its too late me to back out now. Anyway, maybe I need to just abandon this mod. Delete all the files for it I've ever downloaded, block the mod authors, and never ever think about it again. Its ruined the game for me. Maybe its time I accept defeat and throw this stupid worthless mod in the garbage where it belongs.

Regarding using graphics mods with non-graphics mods, it would seem most youtubers do in fact do that. In particular, playing LotD without ANY graphics mods for the first time, I've been shocked by how different the npcs look. I never would've suspected that, playing the mod myself nor seeing other people play it on youtube. Also, most re-textures do change up the aesthetic quite a bit. Armor retextures are infamous for this, which is quite annoying. Virtually all skin mods do the same thing. I mean, playing without my graphics mods now my game barely looks the same, and I wasn't even using any head replacers (though I was using quite a few mods to keep my elves from looking like Klingons, which would probably explain why Auryen looked so different). One major problem I'm having though, is that I play LE. I've only posted in the SE board because the LE board doesn't get much attention. Besides, most things that could be said here would be applicable to both games anyway. Point is, my game doesn't look too stellar without upgrades. Also I've been thinking I may have to somehow disguise that I play LE, because I'm afraid this may turn people off. Of course, there's another problem in that LE versions of mods are often several versions behind their SE counterparts. I was thinking I was going to have to specialize in telling people how to run this game on linux, or with crappy computers. Though I was contemplating BRIEFLY returning to SE to play v5 of LotD at some point. Does that thing even work anymore after the recent update? I have seen a lot of people complaining about how no mods work anymore. Regarding playing on LE, both MxR and Sinitar play on LE and they get away with it. So maybe I don't have to worry about it? Though its obvious they're both running a lot of graphics mods. Also, MxR has been around since long before SE, so his fans are probably used to it. Besides, I can't upgrade my graphics much; you can't run ENBs on linux for instance. I couldn't run them without too much an fps hit anyway though. I was looking into upgrading my computer to fix this, but I've since lost interest in due to me finding out that I can't run ENBs regardless of my performance anyway. So I'm stuck with my old methods of retextures, smim, and lighting mods (though there's not much available for LE, you really only have a choice between ELFX and RLO, that's it, no Lux or ELE or anything else). And yes, that's another reason why I'm thinking about making videos recommending 'budget' graphics mods. I was also thinking of making install guides all the stuff you need, though I would have to figure out how to uninstall all my stuff if I want to showcase how to install it in a video. Yeah, I have a lot to think about regarding this.

Its an infamous problem that npcs don't either run or walk at the same speed as the player. It makes following them rather annoying. There are mods that adjust the speed of npcs to match the player, but this causes issues with them missing spots they're supposed to be (Faralda comes to mind, with such a mod installed she won't light all the beacons along the bridge to the CoW due to her miscalulating how far she's moved due to the adjusted move speed). So why not do it the other way around and adjust the player's speed to match other npcs? It would have the same effect as changing the speed of npcs, but without the resulting compatibility issues.

I've never seen enchanted shoes in my game (that wasn't armor anyway). Also, I rarely wear armor as a mage. Old habit from Oblivion I guess, where armor reduced your spell magnitude far too much. Yeah, its not necessary in Skyrim, but there is just too many robes with enchants that you can't replicate. Besides, I've found it hard to play as a mage without the enchants from robes. You just run out of magicka too fast when you have no regen and no cost reduction.

Skyrim has an engine limitation that all creatures can't have unique skeletons or animations. Its why all creature mods are just re-skins of vanilla creatures. Clearly bethesda doesn't suffer from this limit. The Beyond Skyrim project has also found a work around, though they haven't shared any of these creatures with the public for some strange reason. They did release the giant snail models, but they set them to use horker animations for some reason. This is obvious when you look at their videos showing it, compared to how they move in Skyrim. Point I'm trying to make is that it wouldn't be possible to import Fallout's creatures into Skyrim. The models could be re-used, but they would have to be rigged to a skeleton/animation set that came with Skyrim. Ghouls for instance would probably move and behave like draugr and skeletons. Deathclaws would probably behave just like werewolves, including roaring when they spawn in. Honestly the only things that could be imported are models. Nothing else could be carried over. Also, I believe I have seen some fallout mods imported to Skyrim, though these mostly consist of clothing mods. I think a weather mod or something did get ported or re-made though, no idea which one it is though. Oh, and just because the two games were made with the creation kit doesn't mean its the same version. They've been updating this engine for decades now. Just look at morrowind. It was made with a far older version of the same program. Just see how different it is under the hood. Even its console commands, which are literally the language the game is programed in, are often completely different.