Modding
Main category for posts about modding, on Windows or Steam Deck
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Mod review: Lucien
I'm done with Elessir's playthrough so that means I can finally do a review post of Lucien, the custom follower! Picoreview: highly recommended if you like customer followers in your Skyrim.
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Performance tip for Steam Deck players running Legacy of the Dragonborn
I was having some performance issues in my Legacy of the Dragonborn run in Skyrim on my Steam Deck, and I think I've solved them! This is a writeup of what I did, for the benefit of any other Deck players who might want to run Legacy.
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Getting up and running on the new Steam Deck
My overall impressions of the new OLED Steam Deck I've acquired (picoreview: overall splendid, especially improved Bluetooth). Reinstating all my previous games was easier than expected! This post goes into detail on how I reinstalled everything, and has my general impressions of the device as well.
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Skyrim updated, again, mods broke, again
Skyrim has dropped another new update, delivering some fixes to the Creations menu. So yep, my modded playthroughs sure are broken again! But I'm not very vexed about this, and here are my thoughts as to why. Call this a clement rather than a hot take, if you will.
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HOWTO: Patch FISSES in Vortex after recent Skyrim update
A walkthrough post for what I did to install an unofficial patches to FISSES, one of the mods I'm using in my modded playthroughs, which allows certain mods to have access to the file system so that you can save out settings for things like RaceMenu, A Matter of Time, and other mods you want to save custom configs for.
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Surprise, there’s a new Skyrim update!
Skyrim dropped a significant update! Critical mods are starting to catch up, but for now my major modded playthroughs are paused until everything updates. I'll be focusing on Finds-The-Way for a bit until that happens. Also: the update has NOT shown up on the Switch.
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Review of Moon and Star mod (non-spoiler version)
Spoiler-free review of the Moon and Star mod, which I'm running as part of Kendeshel's Legacy of the Dragonborn playthrough. Mostly enjoyed it, but found it kind of flimsy and too short. Not sorry I tried it, but not likely to play it again (though I reserve the right to change my mind here). Spoiler review to come with Kendeshel's next post.
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Making my first patch in xEdit
I interrupt my usual playthrough posts for some in-depth modding geekery, as I learned how to make my very first patch in xEdit! This let me correct a cell height problem that was causing a stupidly high number of dragon attacks in Solitude.
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Experiment: Trying to run Gate to Sovngarde
I was very intrigued by a huge Nexus Mods collection called Gate to Sovngarde, which has over 1,000 mods in it and does a major overhaul of how Skyrim works. However, nothing I have to game on is currently capable of fully running it! This is a writeup of my experiments with this, and includes a few screenshots taken while trying it on the Steam Deck.
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Review of Project AHO mod (non-spoiler version)
An almost entirely spoiler-free review of the Skyrim mod Project AHO. Includes one spoiler about the core idea of the mod, but no story specifics, because I want that in here as a content warning for benefit of other players. I have very mixed feelings--I liked some aspects of the mod a lot, and other aspects not so much. Two and a half stars out of five.