Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 22nd
GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 month ago
I decided I wanted to replay Skyrim so I went and downloaded a few mod packs from Wabbajack and played through the intro to Bleakfalls Barrow on each.
Nordic Souls is a 200GB pack that makes the game feel modern and look great! My poor 1060 struggled in some places but the world is gorgeous and the interface is much better. It has the quick loot feature from Fallout 4 and overall feels like a great pack if you want to replay Skyrim but want something that feels new. Also it comes with like 1000 hair styles.
I did have a bug that made my crosshair disappear while trying to be a stealth archer. I didn’t know how to fix it so that was frustrating. Also the map was a 2D paper map which didn’t have enough detail for my liking.
Then I tried out Legends of the Frost, which is closer to 40GB total and is a more tame pack that mostly fixes bugs and enhances the vanilla world. I added the quick loot mod and this is what I’ll be playing on, the performance is much smoother on my graphics card and I don’t really feel the need for all the extra content.
Nordic Souls is absolutely worth it if you’ve got the space though. There were more enemies wandering around Bleakfalls Barrow which made it a little harder, the refreshed map made it feel really fresh to explore (I was surprised at some of the differences in world props!), and it has a ton of new content in the form of quests, companions, locations, spells, weapons, armor, etc.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Never tried the modpack, always did my own. Which ends up playing more in the modmanager than the game, but the results are epic and exactly what I want.
Besides. You might wanna give ElderScrollsOnline a shot. Even if you hate MMOs. It’s a ton of ES, a bit of skyrim, and massive totally voiced content. Even some many good quests, not just the kill x of y and get back to do more of it.
Also it’s the most anti-social social game ever 😁 Yet still having a very mature and helpful community.
GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 month ago
That’s what I was trying to avoid! Nordic Souls adds so much littered around that it was a nice surprise and mostly something I’d play.
Does ESO have controller support? I’ve heard good things about it forever, just never played further than the (quite good) beta.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah sure, it’s a never ending story if you start to make your own modpack. Dunno if i would start again.
ESO does have controller support. Many ppl actually play with one on pc. However they manage that,i just suck with controllers. I only played the beta too for a bit and just tried again a few months ago. It really aged fine. With just a bit of effort (or spending bucks for shortcuts) you can be in the endgame very quickly. If one does desire to. Also, mods make it a lot better. There aren’t as many as for skyrim, but that’s good 😁
GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 month ago
I didn’t know ESO had mods, interesting! I’ll have to try it.
You’re right about the never-ending story, even with the pack I found I’ve gone and added a few 😆
Thanks for the info!