Mods are a double edged sword. One one hand they make the game playable, and way better than the original. On the other hand, you are NEVER done. You THINK you are done, but then something else always comes and you need to get that mod, but it conflicts with this other mod you forgot you even had... but you can't remove that mod because it's master to a mod you want to keep...
Yeah, what I do is track the new mods in nexus for my next savegame. And for conflicts, you can always learn to patch stuff, but is a bit (maybe a lot lol) more involved
You have to make a lot of lists and folders to keep track of your mods, they work hard to make your game look like a modern game, I can't complain about the complexity, they have 100 times more difficulty just to make crazy mods for us for free.
Only issue with Skypatcher is that it can potentially be very problematic with conflicts. You can't see what it changes in SSEEdit and if one of those changes happen to cause a CTD, it will not be easy to tell where the CTD is from. So basically sounds incredible until you dig just a bit under the surface.
I'm looking forward to seeing this mod progress so that the majority of popular mods are Skypatched. It just makes more sense for players to deal with one unified patching method so mods can work with each other, to which there is a dedicated bunch on the Discord that are doing their best to make that happen. As for CTD - I have had more without SkyPatcher as with. What this game really needs is not actually being developed, and that's a new engine. That would likely break every mod, so without Skypatcher and other mods that are designing ways for the engine to cope with ever more demanding mods, we're all going to struggle to constantly tweak mods and mod lists.
Hey Soft, i just wanted to say that i love your Combat Evolved SmoothCam preset, i've been using it for some time now and it has become my favorite preset by far, it makes my game look really cinematic, thank you!
The parallax in this video were next level, need a list for just parallax overhauls or the best combination of texture packs. Dumb question but…- do you have a list of texture mods used in this video?
skyrim 202x is the main and most popular overhaul, can cover almost every texture i think most in this video are from skurkbro, just search skurkbro in nexus but if you put in parallax into nexus search bar, mods that use parallax will all come up, then just browse, check images on mod page and build your texture mods in your list from there
It hurts me so much how painfully obvious the tiling is on some of the recent parallax terrain mods. They look really good when you don't notice it, but once you do, it's impossible to ignore. Had to uninstall Northern Roads and other similar mods with how often it was jumping out at me in certain areas. If only there was something we could do about it.
Thanks for filling the gap that brodual left for me. Your mods are clearly not randomly thrown together like so many other mod showcases. Much more curated and always all the good stuff and some gems.
For one, it's been covered extensively by literally every channel. Two, it's a cool gimmick, but it's not quite there yet. Carriages is still glitchy and not friendly with a lot of mods that edit roads or NPCs. Ships is much better, but smoother pathing is needed to get the Ships to not react in uncanny ways.
@@SoftGamingOfficialAnother banger, THANK YOU! You mentioned you use a controller, so do I. Could you share your controller mods and suggested set up?? Thanks again!
Add MCS Modular Clothing System to your review list. That mod needs more eyes. It might be the single greatest clothing and armor mod I've ever used. 30 hours in, I still haven't run out of new combinations and every time I come back, I find new pieces to mix and match.
Some nice mods in here SoftGaming. I'd be really interested to see a modlist from you with the new mods that are now available. Everything from the visuals, through combat, to FSMP, mods utilising Everglaid's SkyClimb, to immersion mods that add missing lore and a more natural interactions. Any chance we'll see that sometime soon?
Spell hotbar is good and works well, but given it's restricted by the engine to first equip before you can use, it can sometimes be a bit hit-and-miss in intense fights.
Could someone please explain how to use skypatcher? I've tried but I can't figure it out for the life of me. It was for the ISC mod - but it didn't distribute the sounds to the armor mods in my mod list.
As a controller user for pc, how do you set up yours or rather what controller do you use? Ive tried those kontrol to get more usage out of it and it never seems to work.
I also started modding quite recently, about 2 weeks now iirc, it really is addicting. I have never tried it before because I've been seeing posts that says modding is really hard and will take time to learn, though when I tried it, I managed to make it work first try, just followed a guide and it just went on from there
@@jeomi5692 it's one of those things that can be difficult but definitely doesn't have to be, depending on what you want to do and whether you're using tools that make sense to you.
@@diannalynnYT Welcome! And yeah, a lot of mods don't have any noticeable impact on performance. In my experience that's usually just visual mods, higher res textures and meshes, ENBs, that sort of thing.
@@CatHasOpinions734 yes I have found some very helpful videos for those looking for mods that don't require as much to run. Having a blast...most of the time, when not sressing it LOL But I'm just happy not to be the Dragonborn...again...and not to start off in Helgen, and to just have more freedom.
I don't know how to ask properly but I was hoping there was a mod for Xbox series x/s that lets you skip the deadric prince dialogues or bypass them altogether. Also I'm trying to be a good guy this go around and want the option not to have to harvest people's blood for the dragonscroll septimus guy...he's a weirdo and wish I could just persuade or intimidate him into telling me where the dragon scroll is
Can you tell me which mod are you using for that block sound? I install all the mods that you showcased in combat overhaul. But my block doesnt sound like that at all
Hello! i have a question, in your modlist, ¿the mods are they arranged in loading order? I don't have much of an idea how to organize mine, I would like to get an idea, or see where I can learn.
I installed all the UI&HUD mods from your mod list and now the game doesn't stop in the pause menu, which mod corresponds to this setting (it doesn't stop in the favorites quick menu either)?
@@SoftGamingOfficialfuncionó, muchas gracias. Another question, do any of those mods on your UI&HUD list modify the loading screens? I have the mod I installed "TESL Loading screens" but now the images do not appear.
So many mods and so little time . . . . and one poor tired old game to stuff them all into! What's a modder to do? And how exactly do we keep managing to do it???? The time truly has arrived when having a minimal Skyrim load order is pretty well impossible!!! . . . . and I LOVE it!!!
When I finally get my mods list almost done... then a new soft gaming video appears and I need to install more 15 mods. Thanks for all your work! P.S = 735 mods and more coming
Are you still using NAT ENB in this video? It looks more like Cabbage ENB. If so what are your lighting settings cuz NAT Doesn't look like that for me. Also the grass mod (its getting hard to keep up with all the grass combos.
@@SoftGamingOfficial cool I'll have to give it a shot again . I'm currently using the Cabbage version but it has issues with overly bright grass and a weird glossy effect on the character in certain lighting conditions that is really immersion breaking that has no fix according to the author but unfortunately that mod seemingly has the best exterior lighting
Spell hotbar is EXACTLY what I have been wishing skyrim had, this is awesome. I hate how Skyrim makes you use a free hand to cast spells, where as in Oblivion you could cast spells while two handing a weapon. Was much better in Oblivion imo
I need some help please, so I've seen you use a twinblade mod in some of your vids. Absolutely loved those anims so I went out of my way to download them myself, got all the mods ( and reqs) then I get problem 1. OAR doesn't like DAR, I do sme googling find out OAR is better version of DAR... I dissable DAR and get on w my life, I try the anims out, but they only show the first click of the animation and just repeat that over and over again, they don't go into the rest of it. It's like the string is cut off, help please. How do I fix?
Mods are a double edged sword. One one hand they make the game playable, and way better than the original. On the other hand, you are NEVER done. You THINK you are done, but then something else always comes and you need to get that mod, but it conflicts with this other mod you forgot you even had... but you can't remove that mod because it's master to a mod you want to keep...
Yeah, what I do is track the new mods in nexus for my next savegame. And for conflicts, you can always learn to patch stuff, but is a bit (maybe a lot lol) more involved
You have to make a lot of lists and folders to keep track of your mods, they work hard to make your game look like a modern game, I can't complain about the complexity, they have 100 times more difficulty just to make crazy mods for us for free.
Ill just install a few mods...
100 Gig of downloads later...
@@Turboginge Yup. Skyrim is like 12 gigs and I have 150 gigs of mods for it, and my list is LITE compared to some people.
Only issue with Skypatcher is that it can potentially be very problematic with conflicts. You can't see what it changes in SSEEdit and if one of those changes happen to cause a CTD, it will not be easy to tell where the CTD is from.
So basically sounds incredible until you dig just a bit under the surface.
same with SPID
I'm looking forward to seeing this mod progress so that the majority of popular mods are Skypatched. It just makes more sense for players to deal with one unified patching method so mods can work with each other, to which there is a dedicated bunch on the Discord that are doing their best to make that happen. As for CTD - I have had more without SkyPatcher as with. What this game really needs is not actually being developed, and that's a new engine. That would likely break every mod, so without Skypatcher and other mods that are designing ways for the engine to cope with ever more demanding mods, we're all going to struggle to constantly tweak mods and mod lists.
Hey Soft, i just wanted to say that i love your Combat Evolved SmoothCam preset, i've been using it for some time now and it has become my favorite preset by far, it makes my game look really cinematic, thank you!
Cheers man
The parallax in this video were next level, need a list for just parallax overhauls or the best combination of texture packs. Dumb question but…- do you have a list of texture mods used in this video?
skyrim 202x is the main and most popular overhaul, can cover almost every texture
i think most in this video are from skurkbro, just search skurkbro in nexus
but if you put in parallax into nexus search bar, mods that use parallax will all come up, then just browse, check images on mod page and build your texture mods in your list from there
It hurts me so much how painfully obvious the tiling is on some of the recent parallax terrain mods. They look really good when you don't notice it, but once you do, it's impossible to ignore. Had to uninstall Northern Roads and other similar mods with how often it was jumping out at me in certain areas. If only there was something we could do about it.
With Lightened Skyrim I have never seen any difference, but will install it on my current game to see if the latest version is any different.
Thanks for filling the gap that brodual left for me. Your mods are clearly not randomly thrown together like so many other mod showcases.
Much more curated and always all the good stuff and some gems.
Thanks mate! I really only showcase mods that I would enjoy and use myself
How is animated ships/ carriages not part of this?
I think it's because it's everywhere
I mean, we've got 5 modshowcase this week or wathever from ppl who do Skyrim mods videos, and animated ship was in 6 on them.
For one, it's been covered extensively by literally every channel.
Two, it's a cool gimmick, but it's not quite there yet. Carriages is still glitchy and not friendly with a lot of mods that edit roads or NPCs. Ships is much better, but smoother pathing is needed to get the Ships to not react in uncanny ways.
I tried them, ships was cool but carriages was very glitcy in my experience
@@SoftGamingOfficialAnother banger, THANK YOU! You mentioned you use a controller, so do I. Could you share your controller mods and suggested set up?? Thanks again!
Thanks for the showcase man. Hopefully you try the v2 updates for the landscape. :)
Add MCS Modular Clothing System to your review list. That mod needs more eyes.
It might be the single greatest clothing and armor mod I've ever used.
30 hours in, I still haven't run out of new combinations and every time I come back, I find new pieces to mix and match.
does it work for the newest version? Just saw that its last update was in December 2020
@@tobybll I'm not sure. I don't use the newer version of Skyrim
Thanks I'll check it out
Ambient sounds might be nice, I'll check it out
Some nice mods in here SoftGaming. I'd be really interested to see a modlist from you with the new mods that are now available. Everything from the visuals, through combat, to FSMP, mods utilising Everglaid's SkyClimb, to immersion mods that add missing lore and a more natural interactions. Any chance we'll see that sometime soon?
Spell hotbar is good and works well, but given it's restricted by the engine to first equip before you can use, it can sometimes be a bit hit-and-miss in intense fights.
Nice video, but what are the hair and beard mods called?
Seconded
Its called Valkyr HDT-SMP Hairstyles, by Fuse00
Beard is MAYBE from Beards of Power mod
@@jorgecardoso5863thank you friend
that hair is SO bouncy though. Shampoo commercial Dragonborn here we come!
Could someone please explain how to use skypatcher? I've tried but I can't figure it out for the life of me. It was for the ISC mod - but it didn't distribute the sounds to the armor mods in my mod list.
Skypatcher also makes batched patches obselete as it will automatically update leveled lists adding and removing mods from it
As a controller user for pc, how do you set up yours or rather what controller do you use? Ive tried those kontrol to get more usage out of it and it never seems to work.
I just use an Xbox controller
can you please share your modlist?
Which movement animation mod is used to showcase the viking armor mod?
Great video, really great suggestion! What hair mod are you using?
It's valkyr hairstyles
@@SoftGamingOfficial Thanks!
Ugh I just started modding this week. Had no clue how addicting it was.
I also started modding quite recently, about 2 weeks now iirc, it really is addicting.
I have never tried it before because I've been seeing posts that says modding is really hard and will take time to learn, though when I tried it, I managed to make it work first try, just followed a guide and it just went on from there
@@jeomi5692 I didn't think my cheap laptop would make it possible but it does!
@@jeomi5692 it's one of those things that can be difficult but definitely doesn't have to be, depending on what you want to do and whether you're using tools that make sense to you.
@@diannalynnYT Welcome! And yeah, a lot of mods don't have any noticeable impact on performance. In my experience that's usually just visual mods, higher res textures and meshes, ENBs, that sort of thing.
@@CatHasOpinions734 yes I have found some very helpful videos for those looking for mods that don't require as much to run. Having a blast...most of the time, when not sressing it LOL But I'm just happy not to be the Dragonborn...again...and not to start off in Helgen, and to just have more freedom.
I don't know how to ask properly but I was hoping there was a mod for Xbox series x/s that lets you skip the deadric prince dialogues or bypass them altogether. Also I'm trying to be a good guy this go around and want the option not to have to harvest people's blood for the dragonscroll septimus guy...he's a weirdo and wish I could just persuade or intimidate him into telling me where the dragon scroll is
I assume no animations for spell hotbar in 1st person(?)
yes, you can still use it but no animation
Not currently, kinda looks like a shout
dumb question here, what is the load order for getting those roads? do you need northern roads or just tomatokillz landscapes?
You need northern roads, then load tomato texture below it
Oh yes, it's time to walk slowly in the wilds at 30 FPS. Thanks CZcams!
About spell hotbar , can you hide the bar ?
Can you tell me which mod are you using for that block sound? I install all the mods that you showcased in combat overhaul. But my block doesnt sound like that at all
It's part of Valhalla combat,, you can adjust it in the MCM
@@SoftGamingOfficial thanks mate. btw you are my favorite skyrim content creator
Hello! i have a question, in your modlist, ¿the mods are they arranged in loading order? I don't have much of an idea how to organize mine, I would like to get an idea, or see where I can learn.
Yes they are in order. Although that is an older modlist of mine
@@SoftGamingOfficial yes i know, but i need a example to build my modlist (load order) and a lot off help haja
Great Job!!!
what lighting , enb and weather u using dude looks sooooooo good
Lux, NAT.ENB 3 and weather's
I installed all the UI&HUD mods from your mod list and now the game doesn't stop in the pause menu, which mod corresponds to this setting (it doesn't stop in the favorites quick menu either)?
That would be skyrim souls updated
@@SoftGamingOfficialfuncionó, muchas gracias. Another question, do any of those mods on your UI&HUD list modify the loading screens? I have the mod I installed "TESL Loading screens" but now the images do not appear.
@@CibereyeCh when you install Nordic UI dont select the loading screens option in the fomod
Do these mods work in the newest version v1.6.1179
Good morning sir I have a quick question for what ever reason my game is flicking do you know a fix to this?
What do you mean by flicking?
@@SoftGamingOfficial I mean when i go outside I see the tree's and flora flicker but when I go up close it stop's.
So many mods and so little time . . . . and one poor tired old game to stuff them all into!
What's a modder to do? And how exactly do we keep managing to do it????
The time truly has arrived when having a minimal Skyrim load order is pretty well impossible!!!
. . . . and I LOVE it!!!
When I finally get my mods list almost done... then a new soft gaming video appears and I need to install more 15 mods. Thanks for all your work!
P.S = 735 mods and more coming
Should do a post about skyvalor
Are you still using NAT ENB in this video? It looks more like Cabbage ENB. If so what are your lighting settings cuz NAT Doesn't look like that for me. Also the grass mod (its getting hard to keep up with all the grass combos.
It's is NAT.ENB 3 with the summer patch and just using Skoglendi for grass
@@SoftGamingOfficial does the summer patch just make it summer all the time or does it just make the sunny days brighter
@@Cwronaga216 it just makes sunny weather more common
@@SoftGamingOfficial cool I'll have to give it a shot again . I'm currently using the Cabbage version but it has issues with overly bright grass and a weird glossy effect on the character in certain lighting conditions that is really immersion breaking that has no fix according to the author but unfortunately that mod seemingly has the best exterior lighting
Are you using a reshade or is this just Nat enb out of the box?
Just NAT enb with the summer patch
whats that hair??
It's from the mod valkyr hairstyles
Pls do ur fully modlist❤
Do you know of any mods to make weapons or armor look polished or at least shiny?
Cube map mods will do that
@@SoftGamingOfficial alr, thanks 🙌
Which ENB are you using for this video?
NAT.ENB 3
@@SoftGamingOfficial Thank you and for your work
thx again for info.
the male character you are using in this video, what mod is that hair from?
Valkyr hairstyles
Sees new armor "converts to esl" downloads
May I ask what hair mod you using?
Valkyr hairstyles
Your body mod plllz
what do you use for load order ?
Just use Mod Organizer 2 and LOOT
Is the Viking collection on Xbox
Spell hotbar is EXACTLY what I have been wishing skyrim had, this is awesome. I hate how Skyrim makes you use a free hand to cast spells, where as in Oblivion you could cast spells while two handing a weapon. Was much better in Oblivion imo
0:12 what hair mod is this?
Valkyr hairstyles
@@SoftGamingOfficial thank u
I need some help please, so I've seen you use a twinblade mod in some of your vids. Absolutely loved those anims so I went out of my way to download them myself, got all the mods ( and reqs) then I get problem 1.
OAR doesn't like DAR, I do sme googling find out OAR is better version of DAR... I dissable DAR and get on w my life, I try the anims out, but they only show the first click of the animation and just repeat that over and over again, they don't go into the rest of it. It's like the string is cut off, help please. How do I fix?
You can't actually hear whales above water.
True lol didn't think about that
any update on the wabba list?
Body mod in the thumbnail pleaaase
Just vanilla body with Skysight skins
I have the rtx 3060 so that I can run 4k. Now I just need to spend $600 on an OLED Monitor 😑
I wish there was a SPID file for the Viking armors. For some reason I just can’t seem to figure out how to make my own
In fact Soft maybe you could make a SPID tutorial? Please 🙏 😅
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