Looking for a stable, immersive lore-friendly and overhauled gameplay

[Maniax2]

Hello there , gonna try yet another new game for the last time giving it a go to a "new skyrim experience" tried my best before and went to the limits of learning how to install , how to use patchers , how to use mod organizer and doing steady installs...but ive always end up in random CTD eventually most likely due to incompatibility (since ive gotten no slow downs or stutterness...) so i wanna go safe now and maybe try a mod pack that has been rigorously tested for no crashes that contains mod packs that include what i listed in the title...

 

ive taken STEP core and works great but im looking something either with STEP core + stable mod pack or just stable mod pack...

 

the type of things im looking forward in this stable mod pack mostly if you can advice one:

 

-known to be stable without ctd (biggest immersive break to me)

-Lore friendly

-has hardcore gameplay mechanics (overhauls i guess)

-that adds a sizeable amount of npcs everywhere

-mainly to play dawnguard - dragonborn quest lines...

-preferably if it could let me use ULO fxaa , Climates of tamriel and ELFX and Either Expanded Towns and Cities or Towns and villages enhanced...and flora overhaul - bigger trees - lush grass n trees and grass on steroids and Elysium Estate(all this << optional)

 

so...known any mod pack that is been tested before known for its stability most similar to what i ask :o?

Edited December 19, 2013 by Maniax2

[chanchan05]

You mean Requiem or SkyRe? Those two are compatible with the mods you mentioned. Adding NPCs would be something else, like Immersive Towns, or Populated Towns and Villages. Or maybe Inconsequential NPCs and Interesting NPCs.

[Maniax2]

You mean Requiem or SkyRe? Those two are compatible with the mods you mentioned. Adding NPCs would be something else, like Immersive Towns, or Populated Towns and Villages. Or maybe Inconsequential NPCs and Interesting NPCs.

 

yeah those two work as overhauls , as well the other mods you mentioned (maybe), thing is i am looking for a mod pack with much more mods (if possible some of this included) that is known to be stable.

Edited December 19, 2013 by Maniax2

[smedennils]

I guess this is what you are looking for?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/11/?

[Maniax2]

I guess this is what you are looking for?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/11/?

 

i mentioned that i already have step core (which is more of a bug fixing enhancement mod combo with some lil features), but it doesnt have any combat overhauls or increased npcs and cities enhancements in their revisions, and i remember i added some of this to step and it ctd so it has to be a known stable mod pack similar to what im looking, either step core + mod pack or just a mod pack by itself...

Edited December 19, 2013 by Maniax2

[ArtMurder]

There aren't really any "mod packs" on the nexus, that's not really how this site works... I can tell you for a hardcore gameplay mechanics, and a totally different feel for skyrim, and combat itself, Requiem is a great overhaul. I can tell you that most mods don't work with Requiem, but the ones that do work very well with it. I personally suggest Frostfall, Immersive Creatures, Immersive Armors, Immersive Weapons, Locational Damage, Dynamic Things, and Revenge of the Enemies for even more insaneness. Some of these needs patches, and all of these together might be to much for you.

[chanchan05]

Oh, you mean like a set of mods? No doesn't work that way. Just add the mods you feel like you want to add. It's more of leave to the user's preference and PC capability to mix and match. You can ask for how others did their mod-builds and try to emulate them I suppose.

[Maniax2]

Ty artmurder for that listing of mods hopefully that mix dont bring any conflicts although you mentioned "and all of these together might be to much for you" to difficult you mean? my last mod pack had all this just using skyre instead of requiem and my comp was super stable when it came to fps , script lag times and no stutter. problem last time was random ctds that broke my game...

 

 

Oh, you mean like a set of mods? No doesn't work that way. Just add the mods you feel like you want to add. It's more of leave to the user's preference and PC capability to mix and match. You can ask for how others did their mod-builds and try to emulate them I suppose.

 

yeah im not looking exactly for a one file mod pack but mostly a listing of mods with some directions to which patch and which version they got that they are sure it didnt create any conflict or engine overload...im looking forward to max 100 mods if possible, but just asking if someone had a listing of many that go along to what i desire and could share it , this way id know that its stable.

Edited December 20, 2013 by Maniax2

[ArtMurder]

all of the mods I listed are stable and compatible (with the right patches) And Requiem is much harder then SkyRe! More more immersive and realistic too. seach the word 'requiem" for some of the patches and options you will need, I personally use the reweighted potions and "hard times" options. YOu can also greatly mod the difficulty of requim in game, in fact it has about 30~50 things you can turn on/off and turn up/down, including damage delt and dmaage inflicted, I suggest keeping these at the same amount, but you can crank them both up to say, 200%, and battles become super intense as it only takes one or two hits to kill you, but if you block and dodge you can kill 5 enemies in a row without taking a single hit. As long as your aren't fighting the undead... haha! Which reminds me, you might want to avoid combining it with Immersive Creatures if the idea of your gaming being full of insanely powerful undead enemies upsets you. Undead tombs become an endless nightmare of countless horrible horrible enemies, all of which you are pretty much helpless against without being level 35, with specialized silver or fire damage weapons, plenty of heavy armor, and a couple dozen torches. I once tried to run through one, just to snag some item and the end, I was maybe level 9 and was just barely strong enough to even kill the weakest draugr with my giant warhammer. I got all the way to the final chamber, it was maybe, 100 yards across, about 1/10th the length of the entire dungeon. There was probably a total of... 25 druagr in there? including one that looked like the god of death himself that blinded in with the darkness of the room to spring out and 1-hit me with his giant scythe. it was like some kind of nightmare. lol I couldn't imagine actually trying to FIGHT them! I couldn't even run through them!

[ArtMurder]

Here, I'll give you my L/O so you can get a general idea of a good requiem modset. I personally use Warbugs paper map with the no cursor option and iHUD to disable the compass/crosshair/enemy stats.

 

Also, long last smelters or a similar mod is a most for s smith in requiem, especially if your use RND and Frostfall, it makes going to another city just to smelt some ingots a PAIN and it's dumb that cities like Solitude don't have a smelter when there are bandit camps with smelters!

 

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