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A place to discuss everything Elder Scrolls

>What's your favorite game in The Elder Scrolls series?

>Tell us about your current/past playthroughs, favorite quests and guilds, favorite character builds
>What's your style of play?
>Post your favorite memes and artwork
>Post game screenshots
>Recommend favorite mods

Previous lost in /m/assacre >>157373

No. 225172

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Someone in video game thread asked about Skyrim mods so I'll post a few of my faves

Armours and clothing
>Anything by OperatorCactus / skyrimfuckery
Downloads in the sidebar, pics in the blog
https://skyrimfuckery.tumblr.com/
>Book of UUNP with non-skimpy patch
Original mod is full of coomerism, but it also has quite a few nice more covered ones for females (the mod is not fitted for vanilla body, you need UNP body to use it, or CBBE/other and a patch)
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/7505
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/23719
>Sleek Wolf Armour
Makes the wolf armour the companions wear a bit sleeker & removes boob plates from females https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/44812
>aMidianBorn Book of Silence
Textures, there might be better more modern ones but I love the black elven armour, won't play without it https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/35382

Hair
>Vanilla hair remake
Makes the vanilla hair meshes more detailed and modern, also an option for physics https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/63979
>Salt and Wind retextures for vanilla hair
Smoother textures for vanilla hair, without being too shiny https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/45147
>Natural Hair colors
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/46299

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I hope all of you have given Morrowind and its expansions a try
>playing Tribunal
>doing some sidequest in the caves under the city
>at some point have to kill a lich who's creating a plague
>I'm lvl 80+, got glass armor and enchantments up the ass, my spear of bitter mercy does so much damage I instakill ash vampires with a single stealth attack
>got so much health and healing jewelry I no longer use health potions
>"This is going to be easy"
>finally I get to the lich, Gedna Relvel
>rush to her and hit her straight in the face
>it does 1 pixel of damage
>she fireballs me, lose 3/4 of my health
>I retreat, she's faster than me and blows me up
>wtf
>turns out in the base game her stats are gimped because lol bethesda code, but the unofficial patch I used fixes it and gives her 800 times more health and stats
Ended up killing her by gobbling down 30 health potions and jumping around to dodge her fireballs, took about 15 minutes but it was the best fight I've had in all of TES

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>>225172

NPC overhauls
If you have overlapping ones, you can use EasyNPC (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/52313) and/or your mod organizer's (I recommend Mod Organizer 2) load order to choose what face to use
>RS Children
Begone potatoes https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2650
>Male NPC overhaul
Kinda samefacey but idc https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/25450
>Everything by Pandorable
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/41216925?tab=user+files
>Kalilies NPCs
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/30247
>Mai'q the Alfiq
VERY important, makes the big cat man into a small cat man https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/69095

Companions
>Khajiit Alfiq
Adds new small cats all over Skyrim, also changes the courier into a cat https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/39297
>Lucien
A voiced companion with a quest and a fuckton of dialogue https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20035
>Interesting NPCs
A huge amount of companions, many of which also have quests and commentary for the vanilla quests etc https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/29194
>Remiel
A dwemer scholar lady https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/51874
I use appearance mods for all of them, if you check the "required files" drop down menu you see what files are dependent of that mod/modify it
>Nether's Follower Framework
Allows you to have multiple followers and manage other stuff

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>>225177
Damn, I admit I just TGM'd my way through Morrowinds main quest and some of the side quests just to experince the story, but I obviously missed a fuckton by basically skipping combat. Maybe I'll need to give it another try.

No. 225180

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Nexus waifus be like

No. 225184

>>225179
Most people's first playthrough on Morrowind is about rushing the main quest because the game is ugly as sin, I did my second playthrough with (most of) these QOL mods and nearly 100%d the game because it just became much more enjoyable
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2208675449

No. 225195

>>225184
Oh shit thanks nonita, I'll check that out

No. 225214

>>225184
Am I the only person in the world who likes vanilla graphics? Especially the people look wayyy better than that better bodies shit.i feel like so much charm is lost in most graphic overhauls.

No. 225224

>>225172
thank you so much

No. 225226

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Blocks your path

No. 225245

I thought about making a new ES thread but didn't think anyone would care. Nice to see it again.

I recently tried to play Oblivion on steam. Surprisingly my Xbox controller works with it but it is kind of glitchy which is really annoying.

No. 225246

>>225214
I'm fine with the original models because the weird way they look contributes to the foreign atmosphere of the game, but the original textures are so low res that you can count the pixels on them, and get really ugly when you wield a weapon. That's why I have 0 qualms about high res texture mods
>>225226
I'm glad all I had to do was to give him a little kiss

No. 225257

>>225246
Lucky… he made me get naked and show him my scaly lizard lips

No. 225376

>>225177
The expansions are so badly balanced and bizarrely uneven in terms of content and locations, but that kind of adds to their charm. I really liked that one Dunmer in Mournhold that is just shouting the plot of Oblviion.

No. 225407

>>225178
Oops, forgor link for NFF https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/55653

Continuing my mods rec spamming again

Textures
I would first download a huge texture overhaul (like Pfushers, Noble or Skyland, comparison in vidrel by some nice lady), then start pathing in models and textures you like better, there are a lot of creators texturing every single minuscule thing in game with the power of pure autism, bless them. Some creators;
>ElSopa
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/6960827?tab=user+files
>winedave
I LOVE his landscapes & shore textures, so pretty https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/52194591?tab=user+files
>Gamwich
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/5712421?tab=user+files
>johnskyrim
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/3165110?tab=user+files
>artbymari
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/19071859?tab=user+files
>Rally
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/39335975?tab=user+files
>Kajuan
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/6781714?tab=user+files
>PraedythXVI
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/15641579?tab=user+files
>clevercharff
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/81408168?tab=user+files
>IWantATardis
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/5790589?tab=user+files

Also, mods the edit only textures can be used without problems between different Skyrims (LE & SE), so be sure to check the other games Nexus pages too, you might find some gems.

Models
>SMIM and fixes
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/659
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/44388
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/55543
>High Poly Project
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12029
>Everything by wSkeever
I especially recommend "Assorted Mesh Fixes" https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/7064860?tab=user+files
>raiserfx's model/texture mods
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/2141127?tab=user+files

There's so goddamn many good mesh/texture mods made in the almost 11 years this game has been out it would be impossible to list them all. If it exists, there is a retexture for it.

No. 225436

>>225376
Bloodmoon was the worst one. Barely adds anything in terms of plot unlike Tribunal, the new map is just a murder island where you can't walk 5 meters without being rushed by 10 wolves, 3 smurfs on boars and spriggans which you have to each murder thrice to make them extra obnoxious. Werewolf powers you get are useless, and getting lycanthropy is useless because you can get a ring that gives exactly the same effects without downsides
Saddest thing is that Bloodmoon was the point where Bethesda completely departed from the Morrowind atmosphere and started doing regular fantasy games with nothing mystic or strange in it. There was a single creature that wasn't original in Vvardenfell, the rat. From Bloodmoon on you now get wolves, bears, boars, caves full of zombies/draugrs, and plots where no one is creepily seductive and nobody betrays you

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>>225436
The tone change from Morrowind to Oblivion is INSANE. The drug fuelled lore and plot, unique world. Then Oblivion comes with moonfaces and generic fantasy forests and HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE HIGH ELVES npc conversations.

I'm so angry they chose Hammerfell (and High Rock? I can't remember) for the next game. God what I would give for Valenwood, Elsweyr or Black Marsh.

No. 225455

>>225439
My fav part in Morrowind was all the mysteries, conspiracies and secrets in it that you had to uncover
>the meaning behind the 36 sermons of vivec
>the disappearance of the dwarves
>how did nerevar die?
>the 26 threads of the webspinner
>the 32 museum artifacts
>the 10 propylon indices
>the two creature merchants
>the twin lanterns
>the few daedra shrines that actually allow you to communicate with the daedra
>a random person may not know much about a subject, but if you find an expert NPC you'll unlock many more conversation subjects
>finding out which quests are more profitable by betraying the quest giver
>finding out the best way to use transports, mark, recall, divine intervention and almsivi intervention to reach any town in 1 minute
>the camonna tong's links to the fighter's guild and house hlaalu
>the three vampire clans you can actually join
If you had 2005 internet it could take a thousand hours and multiple playthroughs to uncover all of this. Meanwhile Oblivion has birthsign stones and a phantom mudcrab, and everything else will be indicated to you by markers and helpful NPCs

No. 225461

>>225455
And the most important secret:
You can kill Vivec before you get wraithguard and still finish the main quest by having the last dwarf jury-rig an unfinished wraithguard, which makes you lose 200 hp permanently

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>>225407
Environment
>Myrkvior
Trees and other flora https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/28406
And an addon https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/44600
>Simply Bigger Trees
Makes the trees bigger, makes the forests so much more stunning https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/5281
>Folkvangr
Grass mod https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/44899

Cities and villages
>Cities of the North series
Adds unique architecture to the minor cities https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/19519279?tab=user+files
>JK's city & interior overhauls
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/1305814?tab=user+files
>Dawn of Skyrim
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/9074
>Solitude Expansion
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8
>The Great Cities series
I don't use this currently myself but afaik it is liked by many people https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20272
>Expanded Towns and Cities
My favourite village mod from LE, it's not complete on SE but I still love it https://www.afkmods.com/index.php?/files/file/2377-expanded-towns-and-cities-sse/
>Quaint Raven Rock
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20851

Remember to use patches when using multiple overlapping city mods, and check the "required files" for fixes like navmesh issues and cleaned plugins

Player homes
>Elianora's Breezehome
I love the dedicated quest item displays and the attention to detail. Check her other houses out too. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2829
>ak0d's player homes
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/40406455?tab=user+files
>Build your Hearthfire homes with gold
I'm lazy kek https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/41586

There's so many nice player homes available, for every taste imaginable. Even ones with husbandos chilling naked in a hot tub if that's what you like kek

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>>225466
Quests
>Legacy of the Dragonborn
The reason my autistic completionist ass is so into this game still https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/11802
>Project AHO
Adventure in a deep underground dunmer settlement. BEAUTIFUL visuals https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/15996
>Carved Brink
More beautiful underground vistas, this time goblins
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/24351
>VIGILANT
I have not played it yet myself actually, but I have only heard good things https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/11849
>Beyond Skyrim: Bruma
Visit Bruma from Oblivion again! https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/10917
>Alternate Start
Check out add ons for this too, especially the Relic Hunter one if you play with LOTD https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/272/?

No. 225472

>>225439
This made me so mad too, but I guess since they destroyed the gameplay anyway I can’t be too mad anymore. Morrowind was so alien yet familiar and beautiful and felt like real fantasy. I don’t want to eat carrots and live in a western cottage I want to eat ash yams and live in a mushroom or a giant crab.

No. 225509

>>225439
Ugh I fucking love Morrowwind, so much replayability and so much lore, I wish Elder Scrolls would be that creative again this new game is probably going to suck I am going to cry what if it has they/thems?? Would they??

No. 225517

>>225509
Has Bethesda been very "woke"? I don't remember any big things, even if Fallout is the favourite of trannies. Post something LGBTBBQ related on Nexus and you get bashed lmao

No. 225518

>>225517
And of course Nexus is not to tied to Bethesda in any way, but it tells something about the fanbase

No. 225520

Ahhhh this is all making me want to upgrade my config. Sadly, my GTX 1060 is getting too old for all these mods, i want all of them but i know i'll end up at 20FPS just standing still if i download them. I've tried modding the game before and there's so many beautiful mods i always go overboard and realize my GPU can't handle it. Doesn't help that Skyrim is so ugly even for its time to be honest.

It's time for a 30 series… But then i need to also upgrade my processor, at least. Shit, i was the dumb one who asked for mods but i can't even use most of them, kek. Thank you so much for sharing your favorites though, i love you so much!

No. 225523

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Turns out the best Morrowind official art isn't even in the game… spoiler for foul murder
>>225509
>>225517
You could play as gay/bisexual characters in New Vegas (but Bethesda didn't write it) and there's gay marriage in Skyrim, but they don't seem willing to go further. Bethesda knows they don't have to be original to make big bucks, and they'd much rather let the tranny modders make dickgirls than risk losing a big part of their fanbase

No. 225693

Skyrim graphics are and always have been ugly as hell, particularly the people and most egregiously the women. It is uglier than Daggerfall, Morrowind, and even Oblivion.

No. 225695

Why are there no male high elves in Skyrim available for marriage. Waaaah

No. 225702

>>225693
I don't know, Oblivion is pretty bad

No. 225703

>>225693
And why is the default female orc pornified?

No. 225733

>>225702
I always say this: Skyrim characters look like raisins. Oblivion characters look like potatoes. I'll stick with potatoes, I think

No. 225755

>>225703
You'd better post a screen because I have no idea what you mean

No. 225758

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>>225695
I know! That's why I love Interesting NPCs and Rumarin. He has so much dialogue & is marriable. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/29194

>>225172
Just downloaded a couple bandit/forsworn armor mash ups, they have a couple revealing ones but they are equally revealing for both sexes
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/66673
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/72350

No. 225790

>>225407
>>225471
>>225172
based modanons, thanks a lot for posting your faves! Makes me want to start up a freshly modded skyrim again.
What are your opinions regarding the pros and cons of LE and SE nowadays? I remember discourse about different performance results with enb for example
>>225520
I have a similar problem lol, while I have a 970 that still holds up I definitely have to update my rig one day because as >>225693 said, default skirym looks like shit and needs to be intensively modded to become beautiful. I want to run all the 4/8k textures and good meshes with nice enb fx without having a significant framerate loss.
>>225758
cute and handsome if modded hehe one of the best npc mods up until today for real.

If anyone wants, I can post a doc with links and a list of faves since I have spent a lot of time with this as well.

No. 225813

>>225790
Oh please do nonna!

No. 225831

>>225790
Seconding the other nonnie, please post your faves! I'm the nonna with the 1060 but i love to see what you nonnas fav mods are, i discover so much. It's fun.

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>>225790
>What are your opinions regarding the pros and cons of LE and SE nowadays?
Imo SE runs better, I have not looked back since I switched. SE runs 64 bit and also has .esl mod files which do not count toward the 255 .esp limit, so you can have more mods.

Oh no, I forgot I had started the "M'rissi Tail of Troubles" mod like a hundred hours ago. I finally realized I have to save her from a prison, there was a time limit I was not aware of, and when I got there she was turned into stone/dead ahhh. It's a bit badly voice acted silly mod of a catgirl all furry scrotes want to fuck but I still feel sad boo hoo. I appreaciate you can actually get bad endings though!

No. 226054

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Do you read the in-game books? What are those you like? I've read all of them at work, my personal favorites are the ones with Decumus Scotti: A Dance in Fire and The Argonian Account

No. 226089

>>225520
Just to tempt you some more, I recently got a 3080 and can run the heaviest ENBs at solid 60fps (…on a 1080dp monitor but I'm not a monitor slob, I'm just tired of worrying about ENB performance).
>>225157
Confession: I'm trying to make my own OC husbando in this game, I even picked out a voice actor and am trying to find as many clips of his voice so I can put it through that AI voice mod to make him say whatever I want to.

No. 226110

>>226054
Is that the Berenzia one that got censored past Morrowind because of barbed khajit penis?

No. 226250

>>226110
Yes it is!
For some reason it wasn't censored in french versions of morrowind so 14 yo me learned very early about Khajiit dicks

No. 227073

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No. 227102

>>227073
Why is the left one holding a whoopee cushion

No. 227202

Am I the only one who feels like the stormcloaks can go fuck themselves? Where were you when the imperials were destroying everyone else’s culture and religion? Oh, up the imperials ass??? Kys. And Skyrim seems to be especially scrotal as far as dialogue and female characters go.

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Not me using the console command every 10min to edit the hairstyle of my character, choosing between one of the 876 hairstyles the mod i've installed offers.

This mod is a blessing and a curse, i can't focus on playing i have to see how she looks in game with every hairstyle, ugh, so dumb.

The mod in question is KS Hairdos SSE if anyone's wondering, here:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6817

No. 227751

>>227202
Secessionists tend to fight only for their lands

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Anyone else play ESO? I got it when it was in beta in 2014 but never really played it, now I started again a couple weeks ago and I like it!

No. 231268

>>227747
she look like a bratz doll

No. 231273

>>231268
nta but is it a bad thing

No. 234063

>>225439
Is there a place where I can read up on the stuff on this iceberg?

No. 236969

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I love bosmers as a race they can go from goofballs (like Fargoth and adoring fan) to cannibalistic feral beast creatures, but I hate that their concept was "women are all gorgeous waifus and men are ugly fucks", I'm glad that it's one of those Michael Kirkbride's ideas they never used I saw a version of this concept art with notes before, but now I can't find it, but oh well. This is literally imaginary world let women be feral

No. 236975

>>227202
The Stormcloaks are just nationalists. And yes, nords tend to be scrote-y, there is evidence in this in the other games like in Oblivion where it is implied that Nords "marry" by just kidnapping women.

No. 236987


No. 237000

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Very demented theory but I think Barenziah was inspired by Theodora I (T1) and Theodora the Armenian (T2), two byzantine empresses
>before becoming queen/empress Barenziah and T1 had a disreputable profession (thief/prostitute)
>they got married to an emperor (Justinian)/emperor's best general (Symmachus) who started life as a peasant
"Symmachus" ends like "Belisarius", who was emperor Justinian's best general and as famous as the emperor. IRL T1 and Belisarius didn't date, the writer just merged Belisarius and Justinian to make a better story
>their husbands had to face an important riot, had the possibility to flee, but ultimately decided to stay for the good of the country
The difference being Symmachus died in the riot, Justinian didn't
>they both had a slanderous biography made by a scribe who worked for them (The secret history/The real Barenziah), balanced by an official proper biography
>the names of the scribes sound the same (Procopius/Plitinius)
>just like T2, her husband died early and she ruled alone waiting for her child (Michael III/Helseth) to be of age, said child proving to be quite the plotter and fond of using assassins to murder those who wouldn't let him rule as he pleased (Theoktistos/the Nerevarine)
>just like T2, she named her daughter after her husband's mother
The pieces fit…

No. 237027

>>236969
This is the same series that has lizard people with titties, soooo

(I do love Bosmer and Argonians though)

No. 237035

>>237027
I'm just a sperg and I hate when I have to face scrotery even in my dumb fantasy world. Can't even watch lore video without some soyboy being a sexist pig (yes I talk about camelworks)
>>237000
ooh I like this theory. This all could be coincidental, but bethesda went wild with Morrowind in comparison to Oblivion and Skyrim, so who knows

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>>236969
Speaking of egregious scrotery, why tf is she wearing a fur bikini when she lives in a cave in the mountains. Let Girls Be Cosy And Practical 2k22

>>226089
I admire your dedication, please let us know how it goes

No. 237069

>>237000
Probably true and if so, that's awesome
>>237065
true, it's such an uninspired look. I guess since the Forsworn seem like a lazy allegory for native americans, they have to wear skimpy clothes like how the most basic of southern and tropical native americans look in art, or in pornos. Imagine they actually dressed like wendigos with proper large skulls on their head instead. All of them.

No. 242157

https://youtu.be/bUX3u1iD0jM
Idk what will come out of this in the future, but it was interesting to see a Morrowind interior go through a revamp like this(learn2embed)

No. 242158

>>242157
sa sorry for not embedding I haven't posted on lolcow in months…

No. 242164

>>242158
You literally just put the video link to the field that says "Youtube", it cannot get more simple

No. 242181

>>231263
ESOfag here, nonna! I like it too. In a way, it's just a generic cookie-cutter MMO but I think the universe and lore help keep it interesting.

No. 242500

What's your guys' favorite faction in Skyrim? I think mine is the Theives Guild. I think it has the richest storyline. Second is probably the vampires I guess.

No. 243232

>>225831
super late since i’ve not as terminally online anymore, but ata >>225790 and I wanted to mention that I just finished modding a new SE session after days of work! I’ll hope I can post my faves soon, I just want to make sure to not recommend shit mods since I’m trying out a lot of new stuff. Anyway I was looking for that one blog (eskyrim) where shitloads of armor and clothing mods were compiled just to see that the guy who ran it made it locked behind a paywall. I was searching for alternatives and found the modbooru, which is nice but 90% coomer stuff and I’m pretty sure it’s missing some really good ones. does anyone know of other good armor mod blogs? I’m pretty out of touch
>>231263
>>242181
I used to play it a lot for a while. I got so much stuff that was hard to grind for but somehow I stopped playing idk. It’s true it’s a super generic mmo but I liked the huge amount of lore and stupid side quests as well as the fact that you can go nuts with styling and roleplaying ( if you ignore the main questline. ) I do not like that everyone is the literal chosen one, wish you could be just some generic peasant or something but well. almost everyone runs around there looking like some overstyled donutsteel character lol while I love to make themed characters who fit neat into the world. I also loved how the ingame economy had a weird life of its own. I actually considered playing it again this winter! It’s also a very pretty game if you use LUT and reshade smaa because the default antialiasing is abysmal, or at least it used to be.
>>242500
Thieves guild as well.

No. 243247

>>242500
easily the dark brotherhood since theyre the only faction where every member has new unique dialogue for every quest youre given. ill be bummed as hell if that doesnt become the standard in tes6

No. 250629

Is anyone else here a mod maker? Got any stories about tinkering with the game yourself? I've been working on a custom male follower mod and keep thinking about sharing my progress somewhere, maybe even the mod itself because I know straight female players are starved for good male NPCs. Because of the kind of content that is I don't really want to share it on male/tranny dominated modding discords, it's definitely a 'by women, for women' thing. I also live under a rock and don't know what's a good social media to post to, I guess I'm going with Tumblr and Twitter just to get proof my stuff exists outside of my hard drive. Does anyone still post game screenshots and the like to DeviantArt???

No. 250972

the anniversary upgrade is half off on steam, ngl thinking of buying it

No. 251990

>>250972
I caved and got it a few months ago, it’s actually been super fun. I enjoy all the new CC content like fishing and the cool houses. Apparently there are issues running mods with it, but I’ve only encountered a few minor problems that I was able to work around. Worth the buy if it’s on sale.

No. 252029

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>>243232
>be me
>spend hours modding skyrim into near perfection while keeping a playable fps rate with over 200 mods
>decide to remove all creation club content from the AE update for better compability and performance
>start to play, fucking finally everything looks beautiful and runs smooth
>take a break and come back later to see that bethesda just gifted us with another mandatory update via steam
>>250629
no idea on most of this but I would suggest tumblr, you can edit your posts and choose layout I think its better than twitter for this. I am getting into 3D and would love to make custom armors anyone got some good tutorials on how to implement them into the game? It must be relatively easy seeing the many armor ports.

No. 253041

>>252029
Not sure if this suffice but here, i used to use this tutorial back in the days but it's been around for years so I'm not sure if it still holds up? Yeah, porting is pretty easy if you know your blender basic though! Just extract the armor model and fit it into Skyrim with blender, best of luck to you nona!

http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Creating_an_armour_for_Skyrim._Part_1

In another topic, would you nonas indulge in my autism and share your favorite armor mod for Skyrim?

No. 254129

>>252029
That pic is diabolical, my thoughts exactly on these updates. I recently watched a documentary made by the former team that worked on Skyrim, I thought it was insightful because even though it's such a buggy game they really seemed to pour their love into it and I'm convinced whoever is told to update the game now are just a skeleton crew to keep reminding us Skyim exists and they don't care about it at all. The consequence being that they introduce even more bugs because they didn't create it (see: one of the updates corrupted two textures somehow that makes you crash upon viewing them, meaning potentially any file in the game is botched and we just haven't discovered it yet).

About the armor, I don't know anything about making 3D assets but the part where you set up the objects for them in the CK is relatively easy. You can just copy and paste an existing armor to be your template and reroute the meshes to be your custom ones. It can also be done in xEdit if you don't want to touch the CK.

No. 256757

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About ten years after finishing Oblivion for the first time I'm playing it again with all DLC, seeing Kirkbride's books in Knights of the Nine reminded me of how different Oblivion could have been if he had been kept as art director

No. 256769

>>254129
Can you link the documentary? This sounds very interesting

No. 259948

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I just started building homes with Hearthfire and I am so obsessive about it, I love it. GET ME MORE LOGS AND CLAY!!! I started with Windstad Manor and chose the greenhouse, kitchen, and alchemy tower.

No. 259950

oh my flipping god there is a elder scroll forum?!

>>259948
It’s really fun, try to get as much iron as possible if you plan on furnishings your own homes. I love lakeview manner.

No. 259954

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I adore Halloween, so about a year ago, I made a special Halloween-themed character. I customized the fuck out of her, she's a witch in the "Wizard of Oz" sense. I'd downloaded some Halloween decor mods, a custom spell that lets you throw exploding, laughing pumpkins, a shack out in the swamps that sells Halloween goodies and armor, and my vampire boyfriendo follower. Our gimmick was we could only roam around during nighttime. I forgot to play her this year, but there's still time left before the year is out. Picrel is boyfriendo in the swamp shack.

No. 259960

>>259954
Aw, nona, this is so cute. I want to do more fun, roleplaying like this.

No. 259962

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>>259960
Aww, thank you. Honestly, the best way to come up with good roleplaying is download a silly mod and see where it takes you. Picrel is one of my other characters. I downloaded a flower crown mod and everything just spiraled out of control.

No. 260005

>>256757
Here you go. After watching this I can no longer agree that the game is so flawed purely because they were 'lazy' or 'didn't care'. Whatever team is pushing these recent updates clearly aren't the same people.

No. 260023

>>260005
Hey I know that guy! He streams on Twitch!

No. 260211

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>>260005
>recent updates
In the base game, the major city of Dawnstar is a big as Morrowind's shittiest fisherman village. Even if the devs are talented and passionate it doesn't mean anything if their management doesn't care

No. 263564

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I got my sister hooked on Skyrim for the first time ever this month and it's so cute to see her get obsessed with it.

No. 263606

>>260211
does it say in some lore book that dawnstar is supposed to be a "major city", because it not being walled always signalled to me its on par with shitty places like rorikstead. winterhold is supposed to have been a major city before the collapse and they didnt even try with regards to making it believable, but id never heard dawnstar described as major

No. 263701

>>263606
I thought it was because it's a port city so deals in a lot of trade making it more important

No. 263703

I agree with everyone that RPGs are becoming less difficult and complex to appeal to the mainstream but holy shit. I fucking suck at oblivion.
I always knew I was a mediocre gamer but I don't mind because I'm pretty casual. Only skyrim has made me to want to play other es games, mainly morrowind and oblivion, but with how ass I am at oblivion I dont think its possible. I've been playing for hours spread out over several days and it feels like I'm crawling. I'm still at level two. I tried to go into that vampire cave for azura and kept getting slaughtered by the entryway vampire. And the damn oblivion gates are to oblivion as the dragons are to skyrim. Every time I turn a corner a fucking new one pops up.
And as superficial as it sounds I'm really turned off on playing because of how ugly everyone is. The humans look decent but the fucking dark elves are a damn disgrace. Its whiny as fuck but I wished the elves (especially dunmer) looked as how they look in skyrim. The elves look like humans cosplaying elves.
I'm still going to try to play it, the storyline is far better than skyrim imo. And as pathetic as it sounds I like Martin septim because I find his voice attractive. Makes me sad hes going to die.

No. 263705

>>225214
I do for the models, npcs and player character. I can understand graphical overhauls to the environment to make it more immersive, but I generally like people to stay the same. Mods make them feel very out of place.

No. 264688

>>263703
Oh man I remember having sexual fantasies about Martin Septim because of his voice. Sean Bean has one of the sexiest voices ever.

I used to love Oblivion but after playing so much Skyrim I have trouble going back to it. Mostly because it's harder, and because of the ugly people like you said. It definitely has more of an 'rpg' feel if that makes sense, and Skyrim is more of an action game. I really want to play and beat it again someday though.

No. 264710

>>264688
I think this mod helps with the uggo faces a LOT, but it might not be to everyone's tasted of course https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/44676

No. 266392

So I played The Blades for the first time, after meaning to play it forever. I only played for about an hour, I think it's cool that this game is free but I'm probably not going to continue playing it. It feels like a weird unfinished proto version of Skyrim. Also I don't like that you can't jump or swing your sword without a target. I'm impressed that this game is on Android though.

Also I really wish Oblivion and Morrowind were on Switch.

No. 266399

anon from the dumbass shit thread whose wedding anniversary corresponds with the date skyrim begins, someone cool asked some follow-up questions so i was gonna answer over here:

>what kind of build do you play

right now im flipping back and forth between a warhammer-wielding orc named bat, and a book-obsessed breton mage named faustine babin

>also WHO DO YOU MARRY IN-GAME???

my orc is married to marcurio because that is the gayest mage i have ever seen. idk who my female character will marry, i wish nazir was an option, his voice is so nice

>one last thing, my fiance and i are planning our wedding in the summer-fall and now i realized i can have a skyrim day too…i won't steal your vibe though lol

i mean if you want to have that little nerdy element w/o having a whole themed wedding choosing a date with a hidden significance is a great choice i think. my husband actually introduced me to skyrim so i love that our anniversary lines up like it does, but at the time we only chose the 17th cause we got married in 2017

No. 266400

>>266392
i would kill to play oblivion on switch. or any fallout game, but itll never happen. i cant imagine tes6 will come to whatever current Nintendo console either, they just didnt want to be left out as the only platform you couldnt play skyrim on. i cant believe the switch eventually got the anniversary update either, they didnt have to do that

No. 269062

this year I'm gonna play and beat morrowind, I swear to it

No. 269076

Skyblivion trailer just got released

No. 284025

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I'd like to thank the nona who recommended Legacy of the Dragonborn in a previous thread, I installed it and have since been very obsessed with it… collection gameplay really does hit the spot

No. 284046

>>284025
nice haul nonnie!

No. 284047

>>263703
How are you on level 2 closing Oblivion gates and doing Azura's quest? I don't think Oblivion is hard, I just think you need to prioritize easier quests first, and grind a little. What's your build? You might need to learn some spells, even if just for the benefits, like chameleon and detect spells, or even a simple summoning spell for when you close Oblivion gates (I speedrun them and rarely attack anything unless I want to). Also jump everywhere you go so you level up your acrobatics and can run and jump very far. I know it's a three month old post but I hope you read this. You probably are already good at the game kek

No. 289133

I hate Todd's completionist mindset so much. I just know that in TES6 you'll once again be able to become an archmage without knowing a single spell.

No. 296401

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Not sure which thread to use.

I recently started playing Morrowind. I have about 10 hours on record. It's ridiculously hard lol but I'm getting better at it.

I also started replaying Skyrim. I've spent 6000+ hours playing this game already (yes, I know) but most of that was probably in the first 5-6 years the game was released. I recently started playing it on my switch which I kind of hate because of the small screen but the only other way I can play is on my laptop which will only last playing Skryim for about an hour.

I honestly hate how much fun I'm having. I feel like the most basic bitch ever to still have fun playing vanilla skyrim after 6000+ hours of gameplay. That being said for years I tried to play it and and I'd immediately get bored so I don't why the spark was just relit for me recently. I can tell they've added/changed a lot of things over the years, like making the game somewhat harder. I'm definitely leveling up a lot slower than I did the first time I played this game.

Also on all my previous playthroughs I'd play a mage type character and use all my perks for magic skills. I've been trying to rely more on weapons and potions instead of just magic even though it's tempting to just use spells for everything.

No. 296404

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>>296401
Morrowind is amazing. Have you got horribly lost yet while trying to look for a family tomb for a quest? Or had a vast line of cliff racers attacking you one by one? That's all the bad stuff I can think of. I love Morrowind, I semi-recently started it and have around 75 hours in it. I'm not finished it, but I'm close. What house are you going to join?

No. 296407

>>296404
I have no idea what house I'm gonna join yet, honestly I've just been trying to level up so I don't die instantly every time I get into a fight. I keep getting stuck on these little side quests like the one where the lady wants you to find the dark elf who robbed her because she has the hots for him, or the one with the naked nord who claimed the mage lady robbed him. currently I'm lost looking for some lady's husband who got attacked by nix hounds. at one point I wandered into a cave where there were vampires and I had to reload from an earlier save when I realized there was no way I was getting out alive. and I've been randomly attacked by cliff racers more than once lol

No. 296410

>>296407
Have you been jumping everywhere you go? That will help you increase acrobatics. Yeah the side quests are interesting sometimes, I do like the one with the lady and the robber. Why are you stuck on them though?

No. 296411

>>296410
I have been doing that, the only thing is it drains my stamina/fatigue which is bad if I run into an enemy, so I jump everywhere then 'wait' for an hour to regenerate it. I'm stuck on the nix hound one because I can't find her husband anywhere

No. 296426

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>>296411
I hate getting stuck just looking for random shit. I dunno why but I never remember my stamina effecting me much, though I barely know how to combat in this game besides spam sword and spam spell. My spell of choice is Righteousness, yeah maybe I should upgrade but then I find I don't have the mana. I want to use fireball more but leveling that is so tedious

No. 296643

I will fully admit I used God Mode on Morrowind cause I'm lazy. Still haven't beat Solthseim after all these years though.

No. 296765

>>296643
It's more interesting to play through now, as the first iteration of the sort of MQ that appeared in the future games. Especially uncanny with the skyrim-like setting.

No. 299222

still binge playing skyrim, I decided to put it on expert mode (was previously playing it on adept). it's a little bit harder, I've been having to rely on potions a lot more. I had to use a paralysis potion (which I try not to do because it feels like cheating) just to take out a bandit leader. I'm on level 43 and just did blackreach, I usually exploit the wooden plate glitch at the tower of mzark so that I don't have to do blackreach (it gets tedious on every playthrough) but I was like nah I should do it. I swear, finding fucking 30 nirnroots is harder than anything else down there

No. 307438

I'm getting the itch to play Skyrim again and resurrect my gigastacy Nord dragonborn. I love roleplaying and adding bits to her lore. Slowly going from making a meagre living as a blacksmith, to taking on a few mercenary jobs to help locals, to travelling Skyrim by horseback in search of honest work and finally deciding to reclaim the motherland as a Stormcloak. Sometimes I tell myself I'm gonna play as a different race and a different faction, but I can't help it. 'ate the empire, 'ate the elves, 'ate the companion furfags, simple as.

No. 307464

Is Skyrim a good game to start in 2023? I've never played it despite being a huge Dark Souls/Lord of the Rings fan so I wonder

No. 307483

>>307464
Yeah it's a fun game, but it is really nothing like Dark Souls or Lord of the Rings beyond superficial fantasy aesthetics.

No. 307488

>>307464
If you liked those games a lot for the combat you won't find it in Skyrim because the combat is much cruder and simpler. You can use a wabbajack mod list to skip the endless searching and downloading mods part (something that describes itself as vanilla plus might be the more well-rounded way to start out) if you still want to play to see what the immersion and roleplaying parts are like. I think the best anyone can do with the combat part by adding mods is using magic mods that expand what's possible with magic through all the level tiers

No. 307579

>>307483
>>307488
I'm aware it's not really combat but more roleplay based and since I like that kind of aesthetic, I was curious about it. I heard you need alot of mods to better your game experience, is that true?

No. 307644

>>307579
I'd say yes since even if someone skips over any visual and weather enhancement mods, there's several bug fix and quality of life mods that make the game better to play. And there's several dialogue/follower/quest mods that add a touch of polish or expand variety to what's already there.
iirc if you go the wabbajack route to more quickly mod the game, a modpack like nordic souls is one example of vanilla plus style that's more strict about trying to stay true to the base of the game with added variety and enhancements. Lostlegacy is a mod list example of allowing power levels and scaling to get wackier and is aimed to be more exaggerated high fantasy. It also includes legacy of the dragonborn for people who want an expansion and display for the collecting artifacts part of the game. Someone can also look at these lists and pick out only the essentials of what they personally want for a lighter mod list and download the mods themselves from nexus

No. 308418

>>284047
Actually im not good at the game yet because my sister fucking FRIED our xbox 360. Now I have to start from point zero. But only when I find a way to play the damn game again. Yeah, I'll have to play around with what quests to do. I tried to do a stupid ghost quest but unlike skyrim where you can just hack at everything ghosts aren't susceptible to physical damage, so I only had a shitty fireball spell to fight them with. Honestly though that makes so much damn sense why did they make you able to physically hit spiritual beings in skyrim that's so stupid. I remember sniping the wisps with arrows.

No. 347968

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I hate what scrotes do to serana. She’s my favorite Skyrim character, but her male fans are so damn creepy. Half the time, they’re not even attracted to Skyrim Serana, but the modded out version of her with a smooth face, fat tits, and some fuckass overrendered hairstyle, I’m sick of it, this is not my Serana!!! They don’t even like Serana as a character, they just like her clothes and the fact she’s one of the few followers with a personality. The fact she’s one of the only followers that you can’t marry, and who actively rejects the player, but when moids install the “marry serana” or any other sex mod, it feels so disrespectful, considering what she went through to become a daughter of coldharbour. Fuck moids, the only appropriate spouse for serana would be a woman with low libido, so they don’t make her uncomfortable with advancements

No. 347975

>>347968
Skyrim nexus mods and their comments blackpilled me on men and their true nature when I was a teen kek. They don't even enjoy video games they just play them to either be upset (in the case of LoL and DarkSouls) or horny. The funny part is they can't even make characters look good without making them look like uncanny troon fantasy avatars, like shit youd see in Second Life. Sad toddlers with too much makeup on skinny big booba bodies. I could instantly clock which screenshots are made by women vs men.

No. 347984

>>347975
I play on Xbox, and it’s virtually impossible to find a beauty mod that doesn’t drastically alter the appearance of every woman. Even the old women have supermodel faces with perfectly styled hair and hourglass waists. It’s basically a meme in elder scrolls spaces to go “skyrim burns when I boot up my 3000 sex mods” and it’s insane how that’s not a joke for some people

No. 348132

>>347968
Christ, she looks like a twelve-year-old.

No. 348971

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>til Barenziah was 16 years old when Tiber Septim raped and impregnated her

This makes me hate him even more. I already didn’t like him because he had an affair and forced her to abort their baby, but she was SIXTEEN!!!! Dunmer age way differently too, so in her race, her sexual maturity was probably the equivalent of a human 12 year old, it was written that she was the youngest dunmer to get pregnant. I’m on the Thalmors side now, I’d also outlaw the worship of a rapist.

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No. 357040

>>348971
Based, fuck Tiber Septim.
>>357038
Dumb meme, sorry

No. 357072

not sure if it's been asked before but can you PLEASE recommend some cute male follower mods. the nexus page is infested with big titty anime girls and other scrote-tier fetishized women

No. 357134

>>357072
I'm assuming you mean totally new unique followers that have a decent amount of dialogue? The main ones I've used so far are Kaidan 2 paired with a face replacement (but I don't remember which one I picked)
>Rebuilt and expanded, this romantic follower features over 1200 lines of dialogue, custom home, and mini quests.
and Xelzaz (scholarly argonian mage)
>Xelzaz is a Custom Fully Voiced Argonian Lawman of House Telvanni with ~7250 lines. He is on his way to Rivenspire in High Rock, having traveled all the way from Port Telvannis in Morrowind. Xelzaz has just arrived in Skyrim and is looking for a traveling companion. In return he will keep you company, cook you warm meals and brew powerful potions.
and a bit of Nebarra (sarcastic high elf) because he has dialogue with Xelzaz
>Nebarra is a Lore-Friendly, Story-Aware, Custom-Voiced Follower with over 1,600+ lines of dialogue and his own Personal Quest. An Aldmeri Veteran of the Great War, Nebarra has traveled to Skyrim and become a Mercenary-for-Hire. Surly, opinionated, and morally gray, Nebarra lends biting humor, battle stories, and his sword-arm to your adventures.

I don't know if my opinion can be trusted on quality of mod voice acting since honestly I don't really weigh that kind of thing much when it comes to Skyrim, but these 3 were decent enough imo, Xelzaz in particular.

No. 357223

I'm playing through the vampire quest line again since the last time I did that it was years ago. I'm in the soul cairn and omg I hate it. It's cool for like 5 minutes but after that it's miserable. I'm doing the quest where where you have to collect Jiubs opus and it's such a pain in the ass



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