.pathos
07-Apr-21 01:56 AM
tbh to become decent at modding bethesda games you have to either dedicate a few-months-to-a-year amount of time to learning the science, or you have to be with the game from the start and learn the strats as they come out
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The second one is so much easier, but the first is still very doable
It just requires a lot of self research
and a complete lack of handholding from a lot of mod developers 'cause they know the expectation from 90% of mod installs, but if the player doesn't, then you don't really know what to do and no one really tells you what you should do except in a few obscure guides that are almost as hard to find(the good ones) as just figuring out modding on your own, and usually they only cover the subset of mods that they choose too. Modding is both an art and a science, but mostly a science. And if you don't know the rules for how the game loads each file, and how it processes each mod, then you're going to have a lot harder of a time modding imo.
But
There's also modpacks
Incase you don't want to learn but still want a ultra-modded experience in Skyrim
Just go find a modpack you like, and build off that as a base. And copy your skyrim directory and keep a backup of it somewhere so you don't have to wait to redownload it if you accidently fuck up your install and have to restart from scratch
I'd recommend doing that when adding new mods to a stable loadorder as well
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like it can work just peachy
or it can corrupt a save and it's really a coin toss as to which
and well, that starts to take up a lot of space unfortunately, but it's the safest way to mod for beginners
and tbh a ultra modded skyrim directory ends up being around 200-250GB anyway
(at least that's how most of mine end up whenever I'm done)