Best sneaking mod?

[Gareee]

Hey guys. We have duel and stealth skills rebalanced, but my sneaking is still way too good. characters walk right past us while sneaking, without seeing us.

 

I had hoped both these mods might cure that, and while it helps once we are detected, they still don't really correct the main issue.

 

Is there a mod which just improves detection when they are literally on top of you and you should be seen?

 

[GrimyBunyip]

you could always use SkyTweak and change the detection settings yourself.

[StormWalker183]

T3nd0s Skyrim Redone rewrites the role light and LOS plays in sneaking. I'd thoroughly recommend it. Another mod that tweaks those same factors is Path of Shadows (although it's a bit out-dated).

[Gareee]

I'll look into both. Are there any conflicts with what we already are using? Legendary level now does give me a good challenge with regualr fights and difficulty, but of course if I can sneak up on them and stick em with a few arrows first that reduces that difficulty significantly.

 

Skytweak does look exactly what I need.. I can just change the sneak values, and disable the rest. Still need to look at redone though.

 

Many thanks! I googled several time sin the last few months, and never really found anything useful.

Edited March 24, 2013 by Gareee

[StormWalker183]

SkyRe will conflict with Stealth Skills Rebalanced as it overhauls most aspects of the game, including perk trees. You could simply place SSR lower in your load order, and theoretically it should overwrite SkyRe, but there are always risks when it comes to conflicting mods. (I personally recommend just switching over to SkyRe altogether, but I might be a bit biased.) As for Duel, you can disable the SkyRe combat module and the two will get along perfectly fine.

The nice thing about SkyRe is that it makes for more realistic combat by increasing armor values and damage - heavy armor will protect much more against arrows while getting struck wearing no armor is a quick way of signing your death warrant. I play with SkyRe on legendary difficulty and find that I have to bring along companions (mod advertisement: Cerwiden and Vilja are great :P) in order to survive, as I turn into a glass cannon. You'll also want to take a close look at the SkyRe perk trees, because all of them have been overhauled, and Pickpocket and Lockpicking have been merged into a single tree. And returning to the topic of sneaking, SkyRe includes Sneak Tools, which adds extremely useful arrow variants such as rope (climbable) arrows, water arrows (to quench fires and bathe the area in darkness), and noisemaker arrows (to attract/distract the enemy).

Edited March 25, 2013 by StormWalker183

[Gareee]

I ended up installing skyre, and disabling everything except the sneaking portion. I did a little test play, and things appear to be working as I'd hoped they might. I stumbled across a bandit camp, and they promptly handed my my @$$.

 

I reloaded, and snuck up on them, and they did appear to be able to detect me much more than they could normally.

 

My big beef is more when you are sneaking, and someone walks right next to you and still does not detect you. I would think at a certain proximity, and detection would hit 100%, unless you were using some invisibility.