IVmM7 Posted July 15, 2014 Posted July 15, 2014 (edited) I find Skyrim's silly console-geared hotkey system unplayable, especially as a mage using a bunch of spell mods. So here's my question: what hotkey mods do people use? Are people playing mages with Apocalypse spells and not using a hotkey mod? Isn't pausing combat to go to the favorites menu all the time agonizing and immersion breaking? More Hotkeys Please is no longer being developed (and prone to script lag, in my experience), Grimy Utilities is amazing but doesn't do as much as I'd want my hotkey mod to do and I don't want to use script dragon. I think I'm just going to use Grimy for now and settle for adding an increased magicka cost for insta-casting. There was a mod for Oblivion that gave you a modifiable matrix of hotkeys up to 4x8 or something, which you could set to do virtually anything from any key, plus modifier keys. That would be ideal, but I'll settle for way less. Huge thanks in advance; this is the keystone in the arch that hold up the cathedral that is my amazing Skyrim experience. EDIT: Sorry, should I have posted this in the mod detectives thread? I didn't realize what that was... Edited July 15, 2014 by IVmM7
RealAntithesis Posted July 23, 2014 Posted July 23, 2014 (edited) I used to use More Hotkeys Please, but I found it problematic - it wouldn't work sometimes. And it couldn't equip items with their enchantments (a new patched version does however, with the latest SKSE version). Then I tried Hotkeys++, which was better (and felt faster to use), but started causing the game to crash out with particular slot / Hotkey combinations, which was a bit of a game breaker. I also tried Loadout, which was ok, but only had limited Hotkeys to use and was intended only for complete equipment sets. These are all good mods, but didn't work how I wanted them to (plus I'm not sure if they're being updated much these days). Then I decided to just script my own, the advantage being it works the way I want it to work with the flexibility to equip and use sets of anything (including spells, powers and shouts, scrolls, potions, food, ingredients, obviously weapons, armour etc and the ability to daisy chain Hotkeys together, or walk through potions/scrolls etc looking for an available item to activate (eg arrange potions from best to least or vice versa)) as well as allowing any key combined with any modifier keys. Anyway, I've gotten a little carried away with it. I might release it on the Nexus when I finish, but it's still a work in progress. Edited July 23, 2014 by ajhubble
Mookeylama Posted July 23, 2014 Posted July 23, 2014 please release it^ lol. it sounds great, and i've not found anything i like
RealAntithesis Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 (edited) Now released (well actually, last October, but better replying late than never): http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/59171/?tab=1&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fskyrim%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D59171%26preview%3D&pUp=1 Version 1.4 to be released soon :) Edited December 2, 2014 by RealAntithesis
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