torminater

Yeay! :-) Looks really good on the screenshots, will have to compare them in-game though.

For newcomers to the modding scene his videos are generally a good start. No one should rely solely on reviews from other people. I get your point, but it's not always easy for youtubers with a huge audience. If you really want to help him getting better at what he does, contact him in advance or post whilst he is livestreaming to give him hints for what he should look out.

Its skse.

New mod, very much needed. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/53546 Adds a stamina bar to the HUD which shows the horse stamina drain whilst "sprinting" on horseback. A skilled rider should be able to perceive whether his horse can keep going full speed or should slow down the pace to not kill itself.

That's exactly what I was looking for! It would be nice if your chance of disguise would be drastically reduced, if a dead body was found or a trap activated/sth stolen,... Anything that causes NPCs to be temporarily alerted. Also some mods create new factions or allow you to make your own faction. Those might need some support, if possible automated. Maybe also take a look at alternate start, since it makes you friendly with some factions at least at the start of the game. Also support/compatibility with Civil war overhaul should be ensured. He already makes use of some detection system. It would be a nice addition, that when using one or more equipment pieces of a faction which is hostile to another one, the latter are more hostile towards you (blades armor and thalmor) but if you wear full equipment or remain in their sight too long, they get immediately hostile. You'll need to have a look at the main quest where you infiltrate the thalmor embassy. If you could provide a stealth option for this quest, it'll need to be 100% working. Edit:had an extensive read of your mod page now. Some of the critique is already implemented. However it might be useful, if you add an option to perform a stealth attack with all bonuses without needing to attack in sneak mode if you successfully got close to a tricked member of a faction. (Assassins creed like)

Any less voluminous possibility that works as well?

No other book I'm looking more forward to than the next not yet released! :D

Unfortunately spotting even the least apparent issues is what modders do best...

This is actually a nice retexture! Does anybody here care to compare it to the current texture used by step?

Looking better and better! Now we just need to ensure that different combinations of gear won't cause obvious seams on wrists, feet and neck.

Looks pretty good, however I don't possess any ruined saves to test this tool anymore :-/

Well that's actually Oblivion in the picture isn't it?

That's what the mod author stated in the discussion thread. I'ld say, we'ld really need to check whether here's an improvement over current STEP before we consider using this mod instead of HQLOD etc.

Weird, maybe someone who designs custom armors may help?

Looks awesome!

Looks interesting. Gives the ladies a more mature and well-nourished look. At least that body type suits most of the NPC women best, since they are middle-aged and not all the type of a "Nordic Amazonian gym bunny".

I like CNHF 2.5 best as well. However, the Underwear could use a bit better model or texture work.

Skyrim almost goes MMORPG...

Well apparently vanilla resolution is 512² as well.

I needed to lower the distance settings with only STEP extended already , to get a rather good FPS. However, the only thing I changed in between the two testing runs, was to add SDO with all full settings in it's installer. Didn't change any ini settings. I didn't get any visible difference by adding SDO, but I did get that massive FPS drop. Probably because of the objects being force-loaded but still not rendered because of my distance settings.

Ok guys, I did a test with STEP Extended with/without SDO with full options just like I was asked to test. Since I cannot run Skyrim with STEP Extended with a the Ultra Preset from Skyrim Launcher, but have to tweak down distant detail and some visibility parameters, I didn't really benefit from the mod. TEST: FPS Morthal Swamp area from mountain looking down. STEP Extended without SDO: FPS 35 Average, not moving camera, down to 29 with camera movement. STEP Extended with SDO: FPS 16.5 Average, not moving camera, down to 12 with camera movement. So at least on my laptop this mod is a dealbreaker.

normally the follower horses should disappear after a while when you enter an interior.

Good idea

Good job, statmonster!

Awesome, I like it!