someguy

This really got my attention, so i looked into the sound file. Actually, what Arthmoor wrote about the uskp file, is true for the sound-fixes too. There is only one real fix in it (elks using horse footsteps). The rest are aesthetical changes that sometimes might be good, sometimens not, and some of them are breaking parts of the game sound.. And it does NOT add new or missing sounds.. *edit except some of the banners If you want further explanaiton on what he did, just ask. but the text might get long... I'm asking myself when i see mods like this, why these people are making their own mods instead of reporting the bugs to the uskp-team.. the latter would be imho more wise. (I'll report this elk thingy btw)

well, it changes everything^^ but it doesn't conflict. Most of the important changes are global ones. it's like deadly combat is changing armor rating without touching any armor-record, but a little more complex. sos needs a patch because it's editing acoustic spaces. (those tell the cells which reverb and ambient sounds to use... the reverb mod edits the reverb, sos the ambient sounds..) it has nothing to do with the sounds themselves. With CoT-Sounds(!) the issues is more common: to be able to offer new sliders, i have to "reroute" sound descriptors to new sound categorys, because bethesda really made a little mess on these.. to make it simple, if there is a slider, and a mod adds new(!) sounds that should fit in, it's sounds won't be controlled by the slider by default. BUT: 99,9% of mods don't add new sounds, and if they do it doesn't mean patching is necessary (these could have no slider at all). and if sounds get overwritten by other mods, it's not that worse.. the mods changes on sound descriptors are not far from vanilla, so it might never be heard.. actually, i don't know of any other mods that need a patch, besides SkyMoMod(i'm still using an old version, but i'll take this as an example): the bear puppies are using the same sounds as the big ones, so screaming small bears are too loud compared to the rest. the mod makes this effect more obvious, because the difference on volume and distance is more based on the animals size then on..., is it based on anything in vanilla? and the new spiders from this mod are all using the footstep samples of giant(!) frostbite spiders.. but issues like these are not my responsibility.. and other mods like SkyBirds have well done audio that works perfect with my mod. for the number of plugins: this will change in the near future. but this mod is an ongoing project, it was easier to work with seperate files. (btw, wrye bash is able to merge some of the plugins..) and some people still prefer to use single features of the mod. and i don't make frequent updates because i only upload new versions when some part is finished and tested.. hope this helps with some of the questions the author