User:Dreadflopp/mmo SkyrimGameplayandSkillrebalance

Brief description: This pack will rebalance the game and make it fun at all levels, up to level 100 and beyond. It fits both new and experienced players. Pre-installation texts: Template:Notice Small

Skyrim Gameplay Rebalance

What to expect from the pack:

Big parts of this pack was done by Garfink. Big thanks to him. The aim of Skyrim Gameplay Rebalance is to rebalance Skyrim's difficulty without making enemies into health-sinks. This is achieved by adjusting sizes of mobs, increasing spawn points, the types of spawns, giving more potions, magicks and perks to the NPCs, improving their AI and allowing NPCs to use enchantments, all the while not nerfing the hero. There are also mods that add gameplay functionality featured in this pack. This pack was balanced by Garfink. Garfinks rebalancing was in my opinion focused on a hardcore player and with all mods recommended by him the game was impossible for me to play. I am more of a casual player. Even so, many people will enjoy the full experience of this pack. I have split the pack into two parts where the second part is only installed by experienced hardcore players.

Pre-Installation Setup:

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This pach is fully compatible with both STEP: Core and STEP: Extended.

Other packs

This pack is compatible with all the packs listed above. If you use more than this pack you need to build your own patch to be used with the original STEP: Core/Extended patch. More information about that can be found here

Post-installation config:

Casual

A better gameplay experience

The following mods are recommend for both casual and hardcore players. If you are not installing the hardcore mods the recommended in game difficulty setting is Adept but that can be lowered if the game is to hard for you.

Skyrim Immersive Creatures

Description: Adds dozens of new creatures
Author: lifestorock
Special Instructions: From the main installer choose:

• Main
• DLC2
• Revenge of the enemies patch (if you use Revenge of the enemies)

Smarter Combat Music

Description: Stops music from alerting the player of unseen enemies.
Author: Verteiron
Optionals: None.

Loot and Degradation

Description: Tempered weapons and armors degrades to their initial state over time and use Author: Isoku
Optionals: None.

NPC Knockout Overhaul

Description: NPCs in bleed out can be knocked out. You can make stealth knockouts.
Author: Sevencardz and Noobzor
Optionals: None.
Special Instructions: The menu of this mod that pops up if you select a knocked out NPC doesn't work with the radial menu from Extensible Follower Framework.

Dodge Mod

Description: This mod allows the player to make short, quick movements to dodge the attacks of opponents.
Author: Borgut1337
Optionals: None.

High Level Enemies - SIC Edition

Description: Lets enemies continue to level up to provide challange to players at higher levels
Author: Dalquist
Optionals: Install High level enemies Falskaar if you use Faslkaar.
Special Instructions: If you use Morrowloot, install High Level Enemies - SIC Edition - Morrowloot Support from here and let this mods plugin overwrite the one from High level enemies - SIC Edition.

Endgame NPC Overhaul

Description: This mod will add perks to vanilla and DLC's followers accordingly with their original fight style and class and they will now level along with the player
Author: Xannon98
Optionals: None.
Special Instructions: Install legendary version.
This mods makes changes to vanilla NPCs. It will therefore overwrite followers mods that changes vanilla followers or makes vanilla NPCs into followers. Solved by loading this mod before them.

Deadly Dragons

Description: Overhauls the games dragons and adds new dragon types.
Author: 3JIou, Redshift
Optionals: None.

Better Stealth AI for Followers

Description: Better Stealth AI for Followers
Author: kryptopyr, nbtc971
Optionals: None.

Toxicity - A Witcher-like Toxicity System

Description: Adds a dynamic toxicity system that effectively limits the number of potions the player can ingest in a given amount of time.
Author: BralorMarr
Optionals: None.

Immersive Potions

Description: All instant restoration potions (Health, Stamina and Magicka) now work over a five second duration
Author: Nastakanoth
Optionals: None.
Special Instructions: TTRSO users: Needs to be loaded after TTRSO, which it is if you are using LOOT. Overwrites one alchemy perk of TTRSO and reverts it to vanilla.

Hardcore

A tougher gameplay experience

The following mods should be installed by hardcore players only since they raise the difficulty of the game quite a bit. If you are installing these mods the recommended in game difficulty setting is Novice.

High level enemies - Hardcore

Description: Install a hardcore setting for High level enemies.
Author: Dalquist
Optionals: Install the optional High Level Enemies - Hardcore only. We use the main file from High Level Enemies - SIC Edition installed earlier.

Dragon Combat Overhaul

Description: Overhauls dragon combat.
Author: ApolloDown
Optionals: None.
Special instructions: This mod has a conflict with No spinning death animation. This is solved by not installing the merged version of no spinning death animation. An alternative, if you want, is to load dragon combat overhaul after no spinning death animation. Install the Dragon combat overhaul patch from the main Audio Overhaul for Skyrim installer

Extended Encounters

Description: Extended Encounters adds new types of random encounters to Skyrim.
Author: Jonx0r
Optionals: None.

Duel - Combat Realism

Description: Overhauls combat
Author: Gabriel Mailhot as LogRaam
Optionals: None.
Special Instructions:
TES5Edit Cleaning Required: (Cleaning Guide)

• Duel - Combat Realism.esp

Revenge of the Enemies

Description: Adds skills and magic to enemies and make them act more intelligently.
Author: MyEvergreenHometown
Optionals: None.

ASIS

Description: NPCs will use potions, spells from mods, perks from mods and will spawn in bigger groups. This program is setup through a patcher later. Install the mod like any other mod now.
Author: The ASIS Team
Optionals: None.

ASIS Improved INI Files

Description: Improved .ini files for ASIS.
Author: EggOver1979
Optionals: None.

DFB - Random Encounter

Description: This mod adds 230 new spawn points into the wilderness of Skyrim.
Author: Darkfirebird, lifestorock
Optionals: None.

Post-Installation Configuration

LOOT rules

• Check that you load High Level Enemies - Hardcore.esp after Rebirth Monster.esp (it should do this by default)
• Load Endgame NPC Overhaul.esp before any follower mods and after any multi-management follower mods plugins (like UFO/EFF)
• Load Rebirth Monster.esp after High Level Enemies - SIC.esp

ASIS

If you have installed the hardcore mods you have ASIS installed. Just like Dual Sheath Redux this mod features a patcher. To make sure both patchers are executed in the right order, we install SUM.

• Download and install SUM
• Add executables for SUM.

Click on the data tab on the right side of Mod Organizer
Expand SkyProc Patchers
Expand SUM
Right click SUM.jar, choose Add as executable
Click OK

• Run the SUM dynamic patch through MO. Make sure all patchers you use are ticked. Click on SUM options [open]. Make sure everything is Unticked. Click on patcher list [open] to return. Click on settings after every patcher and set them up using the following settings:
• ASIS - Make sure only the following is ticked:

Increased Spawns
Automatic Perks
Automatic Spells
Customized AI
NPC potions [NPC Potions defaut number of potions 2, chance per potion 5]
NPC enchantment fix

Click open at Increases spawns. Change the settings as follows if you use High level enemies hardcore:

50
100
10
2
0
0
0
0
0
0

Use interior spwans
Reduce interior Spawn chance 2

If you do not use High level enemies hardcore, you can turn up the spawn settings a little:

50
100
10
10
3
2
0
0
0
0

Use interior spawns
Reduce interior Spawn chance 2

• Dual Sheath Redux
  

Use settings from STEP (if any) or any pack that you uses that change these

FNIS, Bashed patch, Dual Sheath Redux

Make a habit of always rebuilding the bashed patch, running FNIS and Dual Sheath Redux after you have installed/uninstalled mods.

MCM Settings

To make it more user friendly, here is a collection of all in-game settings, MCM settings and console commands in a goggle doc to make it easy to view them on your phone: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-FjQl0COAjeZRrXe6MG_sEpt198aVmmEmTSvikA2Dek/edit?usp=sharing
Please take a glance at all MCM configurable mods that you use. There are several settings and tweaks you might want to use that I haven't brought up due to it not being important to what we intend to do with this pack.

Thanks

This pack used to be a part of a bigger pack that I developed with the help of Nicopad and Garfink. Big thanks to them.

Changelog

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