Hello all! I'm afraid I don't frequent these forums very often, so I hope this is in the right forum.
Recently, ICAIO updated to 2.5.1. Now, I know that 2.5 requires a new game, and I'm okay with that; I've barely gotten started in my newest save. However, I like to use STEP Extended in conjunction with a lot of other non-STEP mods--appearance changers, ENBs, etc. Usually when I update STEP, I like to wipe my mod slate clean to make sure I'm doing everything correctly. But I'm hesitant to start my load order from scratch because of all the tinkering I did this time around to make my game exactly how I wanted it; for example, modifying Purity in TES5Edit to work with Realistic Water, or removing characters from one NPC overhaul mod so they don't overwrite another, and so on. I (very stupidly) forgot to track the Nexus STEP page, and so the appearance of the Compilation patches has caught me off-guard--I last updated STEP with a very late-stage 2.2.9.1 and added ICAIO and USLEEP on my own, along with a handful of the texture mods from 2.2.9.2 that ended up in the Nexus hot files.
What would be the best method for switching to an updated 2.2.9.2 without having to redo my load order from scratch? Right now, I'm thinking of copying my current load order to a new profile, making sure the INI matches up properly, checking for and/or updating any new 2.2.9.2 mods, and then looking at the changelog and removing mods as needed before installing the STEP Compilation patches (which I think are going to update soon anyways because of the 2.5.1 ICAIO update?). Does that sound feasible? Or am I just complicating things?
As an aside, is STEP 2.3 going to release soon? Should I hold off on updating 2.2.9.2 in favor of 2.3?
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whiskeyii
Hello all! I'm afraid I don't frequent these forums very often, so I hope this is in the right forum.
Recently, ICAIO updated to 2.5.1. Now, I know that 2.5 requires a new game, and I'm okay with that; I've barely gotten started in my newest save. However, I like to use STEP Extended in conjunction with a lot of other non-STEP mods--appearance changers, ENBs, etc. Usually when I update STEP, I like to wipe my mod slate clean to make sure I'm doing everything correctly. But I'm hesitant to start my load order from scratch because of all the tinkering I did this time around to make my game exactly how I wanted it; for example, modifying Purity in TES5Edit to work with Realistic Water, or removing characters from one NPC overhaul mod so they don't overwrite another, and so on. I (very stupidly) forgot to track the Nexus STEP page, and so the appearance of the Compilation patches has caught me off-guard--I last updated STEP with a very late-stage 2.2.9.1 and added ICAIO and USLEEP on my own, along with a handful of the texture mods from 2.2.9.2 that ended up in the Nexus hot files.
What would be the best method for switching to an updated 2.2.9.2 without having to redo my load order from scratch? Right now, I'm thinking of copying my current load order to a new profile, making sure the INI matches up properly, checking for and/or updating any new 2.2.9.2 mods, and then looking at the changelog and removing mods as needed before installing the STEP Compilation patches (which I think are going to update soon anyways because of the 2.5.1 ICAIO update?). Does that sound feasible? Or am I just complicating things?
As an aside, is STEP 2.3 going to release soon? Should I hold off on updating 2.2.9.2 in favor of 2.3?
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