The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[FreeKnight]

I never did copy saved games over the SE. Decided that I liked the game enough to start again so I did a while back. Left it again (as I often do with Skyrim) and now it has sucked me back in for some more Skyrim playtime! :biggrin:

I have less mods installed on SE than I did the original, about 65 right now I would say, but I was wondering about whether or not any of you clean mods?

What I mean by that is I use Nexus Mod Manager to get the mods and LOOT to manage the load order and conflicts. LOOT will frequently report that a mod has issues: dirty entries, other problems, etc. and links to a cleaning guide. Cleaning doesn't look hard but is a bit involved for sure.

I've never cleaned a mod in original or SE, and seem to have no issues as long as I manage the load order and the incompatibilities. Have I just been lucky? Do you guys clean the mods to get rid of the issues identified in LOOT?

Definitely worth cleaning mods as long as you actually look at what the edits are. 90% of the time they were just dirty edits or minor issues and a quick clean with TESVEdit fixed them. Just make sure you read the mod page and readme's as a couple of mods have errors/edits that show up in TESVEdit but if you actually clean them they may break the mod.

If you read the pages, clean away, if you don't just leave it to Mod Organizer/Wrye Bash etc as you might bork a mod.

Once the next gen of cards come out I'll pick up Skyrim again. I never did go through Faalskar or Wormtooth. Can't remember if I did the forgotten city though.

 

[Lysrin]

OK thanks FreeKnight. I'll have a look.

There's also the whole Bruma (sp?) expansion mod that is pretty huge too I believe. I have it installed but no where near needing extra content yet even though I have played several times. I've never come close to finishing it, whatever that means in this case

 

[FreeKnight]

Thread Necromancy! (but on topic).

Gave the much advertised on YT and reddit modlist Nolvus a go and.... ehhhhhhh. It does an amazing job of choosing pretty scenery, grass and vegetation mods. Good choices on some of the town mods too.

Downside is that it's way too 'ultra pretty' on the NPCs (especially jarring on the men, but also on the women). I 'm fine with some NPCs looking like models, and certainly Bethesda's stock faces were junk, but a Stormcloak prisoner shouldn't look like the inspiration for Zoolander.
Some of the women and companions are outright ludicrous, anime-weabo types. Like 'enhancements' that would surely result in a crippled back.

Gear choices are a bit mixed. Some good, some silly (anime scythe type stuff). I've modified their list a bit, but I think I'm going to pull it and do a separate build pulling their landscapes and environments, but using stuff more like the choices from Lexy's LOTD list for gear and face overhauls.

 

[SugarJ]

Screenshot of the mods would be appropriate for discussion.

 

[FreeKnight]

Screenshot of the mods would be appropriate for discussion.

Good point, I've pulled some of the worst offender mods and modified the patches, but I'll do some before and after shots once I have time tomorrow.

 

[Lysrin]

Thread Necromancy! (but on topic).

Gave the much advertised on YT and reddit modlist Nolvus a go and.... ehhhhhhh. It does an amazing job of choosing pretty scenery, grass and vegetation mods. Good choices on some of the town mods too.

Downside is that it's way too 'ultra pretty' on the NPCs (especially jarring on the men, but also on the women). I 'm fine with some NPCs looking like models, and certainly Bethesda's stock faces were junk, but a Stormcloak prisoner shouldn't look like the inspiration for Zoolander.
Some of the women and companions are outright ludicrous, anime-weabo types. Like 'enhancements' that would surely result in a crippled back.

Gear choices are a bit mixed. Some good, some silly (anime scythe type stuff). I've modified their list a bit, but I think I'm going to pull it and do a separate build pulling their landscapes and environments, but using stuff more like the choices from Lexy's LOTD list for gear and face overhauls.

It does seem by times that the body mods are done by pubescent 12 year old boys...

 

[FreeKnight]

So to add some discussion, here's the stock game on Ultra at 3440x1440 vs Nolvus Ultra at the same resolution. Photos have been resized by 50% for the forum's sake. I didn't adjust the ENB brightness so it's a tad too bright in the daytime on the stock Nolvus.

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Bleak Falls Barrow View Stock
vs Nolvus

Overall improvement. No complaints here.

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Riverwood Entrance (at different weather/time unfortunately)
Stock

Nolvus

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First Imperial prison march
Stock
Nolvus

Notice he's a little too 'pertay' for a prisoner. I do like that the swords in Novlus are a lot thinner and less larpy than the originals from oldrim.

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Purple Mountain Flower
Stock
Nolvus

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Whiterun Entrance
Stock

Nolvus


Definitely a lot more going on. More detail, shadows, etc.

 

[FreeKnight]

Camilla from Riverwood Traders
Stock

For being one of the 'beauties' in the game. She's pretty rough stock

Nolvus

Generally an improvement. A little doll like, but not over the top.

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Idolaf Battle-born
Stock

Nolvus



Wayyyy to pretty and overdone. Also an example of much worse armor design in the modpack IMO.

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Jorrvaskr (Nolvus Only)

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Ulfric and Garm (Windhelm Castle) in Nolvus Only;

Garm is especially off-putting. He's a grizzled old soldier and they really botched the NPC redesign.

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The modpack also includes 'wenches of skyrim' which seems to add a lot of overdone female NPCs to taverns. Theses are some of the less overt ones. Not irredeemable, but I didn't scour for the worse ones.



Overall it's a good pack, if demanding, but the men seem a little off, there's a lot of mods I'd prune too. Going to have to look at the Lexy's list and see what I think of some of their NPC reworks and get rid of some of the armor replacers in this one.

 

[Lysrin]

Agree with your assessment. I will admit I would take the modded Camilla over the stock! lol

Always amazes me though how good modders can make this game look. It'll likely have to go back on my PC again one of these days.

 

[Bond007]

Looks great (an amazing mod). It does seem like quite a bit is over-brightened though.