SkyrimSE:2.0.0/changelog

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SkyrimSE:2.0.0/changelog

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What's New

New Direction
Step Guides are taking a new direction. Please read the article to understand how future Guides will be handled and released.

A New Prerequisite
A new Guide as been created that is meant for users to follow prior to any of our Gaming Guides. This new guide is the System Setup Guide. Users should visit there and complete it before completing any Gaming Guide by Step.

Changelog Format
We've updated the formatting of our changelogs to improve readability, group like-changes together, and include more information about changes made. We hope these updates will help to improve workflow by section for users updating!

Improved Guide Workflow

Many steps were taken to improve the our guide workflow. As a result, the flow of the Gaming Guides have been completely rebuilt. A great deal of consideration was taken of the workflow from the user's perspective. Thus, the Gaming Guides have been restructured for a start to finish experience; whereas, previous versions of Step Modding Guides had users jumping back and forth too often.

New Mod Groups
STEP Skyrim SE and the other new guides to follow have new "Mod Groups" based on standardized categories that minimize conflict resolution while maximizing differentiation. Compared to previous guides, this restructure greatly improves mod list organization while also reducing the need to hide individual mod assets, thus, improving workflow and reducing user error from missed steps.

Expandable Instructions
Users no longer have to leave the Guide page to view detailed mod instructions! We have rebuilt our mod tables to incorporate expandable rows for any mods with detailed instruction. This update drastically improves workflow and makes it far easier for users to install our Guides.

Cleanup
As part of the flow change and a desire to reduce information that should be centralized, we've pulled several of the setup steps out of the Guides, and moved them to the new System Setup Guide. Users are required to complete this new guide before completing any Gaming Guide. The remainder of the detailed instructions within Guides are now hidden by spoilers. This cleans up content and helps users to focus on one thing at a time. To reveal the instructions, users simply need to click the spoiler to expand it.

Removals
To reduce user steps and simplify our Guides, the LOOT Rules from previous Step Modding Guides have been removed. Our CR Patches are now entirely designed around a LOOT-sorted plugin order. Now users simply need to accept a default LOOT plugin order and our patches take care of the rest.

Wrye Bash has also been removed from the our Guides. Our CR Patches now serve this content in place of the Bashed Patches. Along with it, all Compilation files have taken an arrow to the knee! While it may save time by not having to download and install the mods the Compilations held, it also hinders customization, mod endorsements, and adds to maintenance overhead to the Guides. Therefore, Step will no longer provide compilation files/packs with our Guides. As such, any mods from the Compilations have been re-added to the Guides.

Release Changes

The below changes are listed for the Beta Guide users. These changes have happened between v0.3.0b and v1.0.0. All other users can consider this to be the initial public release of the SE Guide.

Guide Changes

The Tool Installation section of the Guide and associated content has been relocated to the System Setup Guide. Once two Guides were set up and running, we saw that this information was essentially being duplicated. Part of the v3.0 release was to streamline this type of information, therefore, removing it from the Guides and placing it on the Setup Guide was a decision to continue the v3.0 streamlining. The Guides now only include Tool Setup because the setup steps will differ from game to game.

The xEdit Output mod from the Beta version has been reintroduced. This is to capture and support xEdit Cache files, as well as, plugin backups. This change affects the MO Profile Setup and Tool Setup instructions.

The additional following changes were made:

• A general review and further cleanup of the Guide has been completed (formatting, grammar, clarification of directions, etc.)
• Updated xLODGen settings to clean up most the z-fighting (flickering) along the banks and shores in the distance.
• Added additional instructions to both initial BethINI setup and the optional post setup.
• Removed instructions for cleaning the vanilla master files.

Users should revisit these areas.

Mod List Changes

Legend

Added | new mod added to the Guide this release.

Incorporated | mod was incorporated into one of the Guide patches. Users should remove these mods.

Moved | mod was moved to a new Mod Group.

Updated | mod instructions were updated.

Dropped / Replaced | mod was removed from Guide. Users should remove these mods.

Resources

Added

• Spell Perk Item Distributor

Foundational Mods

Updated

• Majestic Mountains | Update instructions to merge the LOD Pack.

Audiovisual - Animations & Effects

Added

• XP32 Maximum Skeleton SE - Fixed Scripts

Updated

• XP32 Maximum Skeleton SE | Added a "safe-for-work" download link.

Audiovisual - Models & Textures

Added

• A Quality World Map
• 3D Junipers - Trees and Berries
• 3D Snowberries
• 3D Snowberries HD Texture Option

Dropped / Replaced

• Gold Septim - Coins Retex | Dropped. Textures aren't a good fit for Guide.
• Greatsword Sheaths and Scabbards Redux SE | Only 7 files remained from this mod; therefore, it has been dropped.

Updated

• AMidianBorn Book of Silence | Removed Creatures file from the instructions as it's now fully covered by other mods.
• Bellyaches Animal and Creature Pack | Re-added Deer to the installation since MM Elks never made the official release.
• Dragonbone Mastery | Updated instructions to better fit with Better Shaped Weapons.

Character Appearance

Updated

• Tempered Skins for Females | Added a "safe-for-work" download link. Installer is still NSFW.
• Tempered Skins for Males | Added a "safe-for-work" download link. Installer is still NSFW.

Fixes

Added

• Battle-Ready Candlelight Fixes

Moved

• SSE Engine Fixes | Relocated to Resources to ensure an early installation.

Dropped

• 1st Person Candlelight Fix | Replaced by Battle-Ready Candlelight Fixes.
• Modern Brawl Bug Fix | Included in Vokrii - Minimalistic Perks of Skyrim.

Gameplay - AI & Combat

Added

• Simple Offence Suppression

Updated

• Faction Fixes SE | Updated installation instructions.

Gameplay - Economy & Item Balance

Moved

• Weapons Armor Clothing and Clutter Fixes | Relocated to Gameplay-General for better categorization.

Gameplay - Skills & Perks

Added

• Enemy (R)Evolution of Skyrim
• FIZZLE
• Odin - Skyrim Magic Overhaul
• Vokrii - Minimalistic Perks of Skyrim

User Interface

Added

• More Informative Console

Locations

Added

• Snowy Roads for Snowy Regions

Patches

Dropped / Replaced

• Realistic Water Two SE Patch Hub | Dropped. Patch is no longer required.

Updated

• Kryptopyrs Patch Hub | Changed instructions to download individual patches.

• Step SkyrimSE CR Patch | Renamed for consistency. Also incorporated the following:
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• Step_SkyrimSE_LW_Patch | Renamed for consistency. Also incorporated the following:
  • Fixed white lights from Lanterns of Skyrim.

Post-Release Changes

Any changes made to the live Guide before another release is committed. These changes will be moved to the upper section during the next release to ensure they are not missed.