switch back to MO2 question (please read)

[papakat420]

a little history first....i learned how to mod on console and the only LO support we had was master files went to the top and everything else was left up to you to get working and solve conflicts. granted its nothing like PC and with vastly more mods to choose from it gets alot more difficult. with that being said ive been trying out Vortex and to be honestly it make absolutely no sense to me. im just wondering if its worth going back to MO2 --- its alot easier for me to understand and use plus i have over 200 mods and feel like i have better control --- or is it gonna die out and not be usable in the future with new tech coming out? Should i stick with Vortex and try to figure it out ? i know its a question thats asked all the time but im not looking for tech answers specifically just player opinion and preference's to help me make a better decision is all.

[anjenthedog]

Quick background: Very recently retired physicist, engineer, and programmer.

Skyrim 1.5.97 with 473 current active mods, 518 in total.

 

For all the crap Vortex gets from certain quarters, and aside from the learning curve for using it (and "Kiosk" style UI), I've found it rather easy to use, almost "point and shoot"

 

I don't have to piss around with Loot. If there's a contention it doesn't handle quietly on its own, Vortex alerts me and offers me suggested resolution (the correct one btw) in almost every single case, it handles FNIS processing in the background, and it offers alerts for Nexus derived mod updates as well as a way to record where files came from outside the Nexis/Vortex linkage. My background is physics, engineering and programming. Decades of it. This made a recreational pursuit of this game possible. If it were any more complicated to do all the work involved in making this game function properly, I'd have walked away from it entirely.

 

The only area I see as a potential win for MO2 over Vortex is in manually assigning mod stacking (separate to, although correlated with load order), which apparently Vortex also deals with, afaik using "groups", but tbh, I haven't put in the mental energy to learning it.

 

Oh, and one more little annoyance...the messages that sometimes come up during deployment about "changes made outside vortex" followed by two obtuse solutions (save and restore) that are, IMO, a total hit or miss due to their weak, code-comment-shorthand explanations.

 

But each to his/her own.

[Ondrea]

Honestly, it's personal preference and what you're used to or comfortable with. I like MO2 because I have more control. Certain mods I move manually in Skyrim and don't want to have to do that in a roundabout way. For FO4 I don't use LOOT at all so need to be able to quickly manually move everything using Bethesda's own load order guidelines. It does what I need it to do very well so no need to change.

 

Everything new has a learning curve. If you think you might want to use the mod collection feature, it might be worth going through that and sticking with Vortex. Any new features that Nexus introduces may only work with that.

[papakat420]

thanks for the answers. sorry it took long to reply but ive been figuring out how to fix skyrim without having to use console commands and such and i did THANK GOD!!!!! simple 5 minute fix. i think ill switch to MO2 sounds more of what im used to and watching a few more videos MO2 is alot easier to navigate and the LOOT reports really help alot plus you can edit .INI straight from MO2 page without alot of hassle.