dlc: yes or no?

[mancika]

I have just finished vanilla. I got quite a lot of weapons armor added and/or modded (others' and selfmade), i modified game globals added a couple of game objects here and there.

 

Now i have the problem. I'd like to see the dlc contents but i dont want to lose my work, at least most of it. And after years of modding games i learned to hate patches.... How could i solve this?

 

I know it largely depends what i did and what not. What i want to have at least are custom weapons and armor, vendors that ive made so far.. Game globals can easily be modified again, vanilla items also. Any advice appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Fonger]

what makes you suspect that adding the official DLC will make any current game content - modded or otherwise - vanish

 

 

with the obvious exception of - play after main quest - style mods

[mancika]

Its not about vanishing.

 

The game must be patched for the DLCs. Patches change scripts variables world objects and god knows what. If the game is modded there will be a mess of things as with every game i had to do.

 

Things added to the game are mostly okay. But things changed that where originally ingame for example followers with modded dialogues (karma check...) may end up in neverending crashes and mostly u wont tell what caused the crashes. Thats why i am asking what is to expect if i patch the game from people who already have experience with this.

[mancika]

What i am interested in is what to disable or where to use caution before proceeding with patches and dlc.

[Fonger]

1 - patch game to 1.7 anyway

 

2 - caution - disable things that obviously interact

 

like the previously mention obvious item.

[Tertisentar]

's far as I'm aware, the DLC's interact only slightly with stuff from the vanilla game, and as I'm assuming you made a plugin file yourself your changes will always overwrite those made by patching. If they exist, they are only very minor and from what I grasped from how they're made, should not interfere with the general gameplay.

 

Safest thing you can do is back up your current saves/homemade patches/full mod list. Then patch and play, and if it somehow crashes your game reinstall and present the problems that arise :-/

 

Or wait for expert advice :teehee:

[ghostfc3s]

99.9% of what you modded will still work, if you change your load order so that your mod that changes world variables and stock companions load last. Your .ESP was save every file and variable you touched in it and change it back to it what you had. Even if the patch changed it to something else as long is it is last in your load order it SHOULD still work. Script changes and variables will not have changed to much from Stock tho, more you change the more you can break from a dev point of view.