What should i do?

[TonyM16]

Hey all, I have a strange question, i haven't played Skyrim in ages i think its been months maybe even a year , not sure.Last time i played, i hadn't completed the game yet, or even tried dragonborn, but i do have all the expansions installed. I looked over my mod list and i have about 15 mods installed like erso and high level enemies.Alot of the mods are probably old now. I do remember how ever i put alot in to my game, i had alot of things maxed out (some by cheating, i gave myself all the perks, unlimited carry weight and loads of gold, kinda made myself to Op so i had to find difficulty increasing mods, and finding the sweet spot of challenge was very hard, i either made it too easy or too hard, made worse by the fact that so many different enemies ).

 

My last save game has me in place i dont remember what i was doing. skyrim can get complicated at the best of times, and as its been so long since i last played , its a bit overwhelming to get back in to it.

 

My question is, what would you suggest i do? shall i restart the game, with no mods at all, and slowly add dthem back in? or should i just try and power through ?I want the best enjoyment from the game with the least amount of mods. has this happened to anyone else?is there an easy way to find the sweet spot of difficulty now?

 

Shall i just start from scratch again ?I think what im really asking is what would you do?

 

Thanks.

[chanchan05]

Restart the game, and update the mods and remove any that's outdated (assuming you also patched the game to latest version).

[kleinstaff]

when i restarted a few months again i basicly reinstalled the whole game from start

I already had a good idea what mods i wanted and made a mist

so after installing the whole game started with the basics like SKE skyui and some of the performance enchaters like the ctd and memory boost and so forth

it doesn't take long to install those

 

most of your old mods probably have a more uptodate version anyway

 

[Rennn]

I'm not saying you have to do the same thing I did...

 

But when I last stopped playing Skyrim for a long time and then started again, I deleted absolutely everything and started over on a new installation.

[ponyboy10]

I would restart with a new character. Since you're not sure about all the mods anymore, maybe make a list (I think NMM will let you export), and then remove all but the ones you want to keep. This way if you feel like going back to a previous save, you can at least figure out what you need. If you're using NMM, there's also a function to update all the mods, but I think you still have to download and install them yourself.

 

Fwiw, I just recently did this. I made a character last year, played for a few months, and then stopped playing Skyrim until almost a year later (sacrilege, i know!). Considering I stopped for a reason last time, I went ahead and made a new character. Something about this one must have stuck, because I powered through the main quest.

 

I would also recommend not overpowering yourself so much, too. The game can get boring if you just one-hit everything, and a lot of the fun is the progression, and gaining new abilities and gear.

[TonyM16]

ye restarting was my instinct too, thanks all.

[ponyboy10]

Have fun! I got super addicted to Skyrim after starting my new character, and had him up to the same level as my old one within a week (CCO probably helped as well as skipping some of the dialog and side-quests I already went through).