RubyZeronyka
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- Jul 26, 2020
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Actually for Skyrim I used the old Nexus Mod Manager lol. I thought on switching to Vortex since is basically NMM 2.0 but that would require me to basically reinstall things all over again and for that I'll rather do it on SE instead. Never used Mod Organizer so no idea how to operate on that D:That would be real sweet, having a person who's modded a particular game before as mentor or guide is something I didn't have with Fallout, so it took me months to get a working setup going. I really may try my hand at Skyrim soon if I have that kinda support. So I may come back at you when I really go for it. Thanks.
And I don't really care if LE or AE/SE, I need to start somewhere, right? Once I get the hang of it again, I may switch, see what the differences really are. But before that, but I need to completely re-learn XEdit/Gamebryo modding after an almost 3-year long hiatus.
But come to think of it, what mod manager you use? Please say MO2, not Vortex...I'm MO2 for life, Vortex's mod sorting mechanic is like this big, strange tentacle monster that messes with my load order at every step.
And for now, BotN still has me captivated anyway. Still trying to breed Pride's uber-demonette, and some tiny bees & giant ork ladies for my own pleasureAnd I actually got a working, complete version of Subverse still to check out, took only 6 hours to download with my snail internet connection
. Only played an hour and a half or so yesterday, seems pretty cool, just not sure if it's worth the almost 70gig it takes up on my drive - especially compared to a working, kinked-out & hoochyfied Skyrim setup
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For the other games I do use Vortex, tho I half install them through Vortex, half manually, depending on the mod. One thing that helped me a lot were the extra tools of modding like Loot to set the load order correctly (mind you that some would still require you to manually set them in a specific position like SkyFem that requires is ESP to be the last loaded). For starters I'll say download the game and install it 100% fresh, without any mods, configs, anything. Preferibly on a specific separate folder so you are sure that the game is truly vanilla. And from there.... It really depends how crazy you wanna go with modding. I consider myself kinda crazy on that aspect, yet I see some people's Skyrim builds and they overhauled literally EVERYTHING like shadings and stuff and I'm yet to dive into those XD
But yeah, I get what you mean. My build in LE was one I had to make from scratch pretty much, having to reinstall the game a bunch of times until I got to the point I am so.... The first attempts at modding without a guide can be tricky and even with a guide, depending on the game and the things you wanna change it can be tricky x_x
About BotN.... Frankly is one of those games that I used to love in the past but it's gradually annoying me to the point of killing my drive to play it, even if the additions of the most recent updates have made it a lot more attractive to play than before. Is like.... There's about 10 pros but about 100 cons and at some point you just start loosing interest. Specially when you realize that with modded Skyrim you can get a similar experience with a ton more options than having a prebaked one that in one specific aspect or maybe two/three might be superior but on the everything else falls astronomically flat :/