#How can I start modding Oblivion in 2024?

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olive raptor
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Frostmorne?

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OOOOO i know

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my defacto house

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if that's not your bag, try this

earnest tartan
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I will check them out later, i was gonna put some hours this morning into Oblivion, but life hits and responsibilities are always moved up on my list of things I do for the day.

earnest tartan
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Someone on reddit dm'd me saying " if you're looking for the best boob physics, i recommend....." And i could not stop laughing 💀

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People really play Oblivion for body mods? OBLIVION?!??

junior gyro
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im not playing the game for bodymods per se, but some eyecandy is always welcome kekw

earnest tartan
junior gyro
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kekw

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thats why i make custom versions of certain armors with higher stats so i can have a pretty character in a skimpy armor that can take a swing or 12

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for instance, i have a pretty skimpy and "nice" looking replacer for Golden Saint armor that made a copy of, changed it to be Light Armor instead of Heavy and just raised the armor value a bit and made it lighter overall so i got some revealing armor with decent stats. if i want to go bit nuts, i can put any enchantment on it i want and if i want to be really silly, make it have insane armorvalue(which is basically cheating)

earnest tartan
junior gyro
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why play skyrim when all the same tweaks can be done in oblivion(+ oblivion has stuff skyrim doesnt)

earnest tartan
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Oblivion is too stiff to my liking and the camera being set to seeing your characters back all the time isnt for me when it comes to wanting to see their looks from time to time

elfin hamlet
earnest tartan
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Thats if you stop entirely. With weapon ready or not. When i move I wanted to be able to look around my surroundings without the whole figure moving with the camera. I know I'm asking a lot, but im not tripping

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It is what it is

junior gyro
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that is one of the reasons i got NorthernUI and camera set to Free Cam so i can keep my character running in one direction while looking at another

earnest tartan
junior gyro
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kekw

earnest tartan
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Question 1, how do i make a saved copy of the game in case i mess it up

Question 2, how would i implement NorthernUi manually

Question 3, how would I erase all previous traces of the previous data from the ui i currently have installed

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Feel free to respond slowly, im currently doing something else

junior gyro
earnest tartan
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God forbid i know what to read when looking for that ui's files

junior gyro
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thats why you open the zip so you got something to refer to

earnest tartan
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Ah, makes sense

junior gyro
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what ever files you see in the zip, you remove from the gamefolders

earnest tartan
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Working on it rn

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Wish me luck

earnest tartan
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Ima need to re-input the OG text it had before I adjust it

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game crashed when i tried continuing

earnest tartan
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idk how to change the ini font with bethini, all it did was show me DarN ini stuff which i erased

junior gyro
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Just delete the existing one, the game generates a new one automatically

earnest tartan
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Ahh

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Interesting

junior gyro
earnest tartan
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Documents > Oblivion.ini

Had me scroll down to font, i deleted the old font and put down the Normal font the modding page had me copy and paste

junior gyro
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Yee

earnest tartan
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But you said the game auto makes it

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I just gotta delete that stuff, correct?

junior gyro
earnest tartan
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Also idk if i did the installation correctly, but i dropped the mod into my data folder, and i read the folders, and placed each in their appropriate spot

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Was that the way to go?

junior gyro
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As long as it asked to replace, its correct

earnest tartan
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Believe it or not there wasn't anything it replaced which concerned me

junior gyro
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When you delete the oblivion.ini, run game once, close it and redo your settings with beth ini

earnest tartan
# earnest tartan

Also this, plus game crashing, im thinking it might be the old ini font thats causing it

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Will check rn

junior gyro
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Considering the game takes like 4gb as vanilla, redownloading the game and reinstalling your mods shouldnt be too hard nor take that long(incase you somehow managed to mess it up, + your saves are in a different location so those arent lost either)

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But this time you just yeet northernui in there instead of darnui(and you dont need to do any file diddlery with NUI so i think its even easier than darn by a lot)

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And your modlist for sure is smaller than mine so that makes it even easier if reinstalling the game becomes the only option

earnest tartan
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Game supposed to be white screened with no audio?

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Okay im dumb

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Theres audio

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menu screen is white

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is that the ai?

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UI

junior gyro
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no, something is deffo messed up

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i'd reinstall the game just in case

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the main menu should have the usual background vid instead of being white and your inventory shouldnt look like that

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this is how it should look(i got a different background vid and oblivion theme on NUI so it looks bit different from the default)

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earnest tartan
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Yeahhh ill delete it and start from square one again tonight

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You have a guide on how to delete everything?;

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Man

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Modding

junior gyro
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then you just yeet mods in there like you have done earlier

earnest tartan
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Sick

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Should be smoother experience since i have an idea noe

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Now**

junior gyro
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yes

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should go much smoother now

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and i presume you got all the mods you had in some folder so you dont have to re download everything

earnest tartan
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Shiii

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You presume wrong

junior gyro
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well, thats your f'up, i did say to have the mods somewhere incase this(or something similar) happens kekw

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tho in nexus you do have a mod dl history thing so finding all the mods should go quickly

earnest tartan
earnest tartan
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the time is nigh

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time to scroll from the top and start from square one

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@junior gyro before i install any texture mods, you recommend any specific ones?

earnest tartan
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Okay

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Oblivion wont run

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Not gonna lie im very close to giving up

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Its been a week long debugging session

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Been having only a few hours to do things, i work and have college

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Nevermind

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Had to use LOOT

earnest tartan
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did the whole HGEC convo disappear??

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cant seem to find the files i specifically dragged and dropped

earnest tartan
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Its all working so far

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Turns out i actually need OBMM to install the QTP3

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Ah, just had to browse and find the non OMOD version

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Everything has been reinstalled and working optimal

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Just northern UI being the only mod i have yet to install

junior gyro
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as long as you got SkyBSA, texturemods will work

earnest tartan
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yessir

junior gyro
earnest tartan
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northern UI

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different beast i do not want to tackle

junior gyro
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care to elaborate a bit on that?

earnest tartan
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feeling too lazy to read through all the files again for the 10th time

junior gyro
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its literally a drag&drop in the simplest terms

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readme's are good to have, but not something you absolutely have to read. most of the mods just require a bit of common sense to be installed

earnest tartan
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yeah i read all the readmes in every mod i reinstalled today

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thats how i got everything to work

junior gyro
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i read only one readme out of the 50 or so mods i have, cuz the folder structure was bit odd

earnest tartan
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but northernUI was the mod that had me doing everything again

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so im not trying to do another debugging session

junior gyro
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that was only because you had darnui in the game

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now you dont have it so i dont see why you cannot just manually install it

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i just drag&drop the folders to data and it works right away

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in short, i think your approach to modding is the thing that either makes it hard for you or sways you off from installing something that is as easy to install as skybsa

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sometimes things go wrong, even if you follow a readme

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its just part of the experience

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but the good part regarding oblivion modding is that the game is just a 4gb download so redoing the install is much easier and quicker than on some other games

earnest tartan
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i lied

junior gyro
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for instance, Fallout4 is 37gb without the hd textures so redoing that is a pain compared to oblivion just due to the size of the game and the possible time spent just downloading it

junior gyro
earnest tartan
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confirming that the menu looks like that ?

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the start menu

junior gyro
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yea, looks good to me

earnest tartan
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and stars

junior gyro
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was about to mention that

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i got a different menu background(can be found in nexus)

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i can link you the page

earnest tartan
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its fine

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man

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woke up at 10

junior gyro
earnest tartan
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started the reinstalling process at 10:30

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its currently 2:16

junior gyro
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but its done now and you get to enjoy the game now

earnest tartan
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Modding is such a pain'

junior gyro
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it is, but its rewarding when everything works and you get to just play the game

earnest tartan
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yeah

junior gyro
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i've spent +100h just modding oblivion and only now started to properly play it as my modlist is ready and my tweaks are done

earnest tartan
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aside from that, i made sure every file was clean

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deleted bloat files, made sure i saved the zipped variants in a special oblivion folder

junior gyro
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out of that 195h, 120 has been just fiddling and tweaking mods

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i do got plenty mor ehours on a pirated copy, but a legit one is so much better

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and i got countless hours on x360 version

earnest tartan
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i think my dog saw my oblivion character, lil bro started humping the air

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nasty.

junior gyro
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😂

earnest tartan
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i was hoping that the Dragons dogma modding community was a bit more "exciting"

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but its all just visuals, textures, and combat tweaks

junior gyro
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yee

earnest tartan
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there are no

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armors and weapons mods

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to stylize my arison, which kind of sucks since most armors imo are unappealing

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on top of terrible stats to equipment

junior gyro
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yea, that kinda takes some of the appeal out of the game

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while tes games have almost anything you can think of

earnest tartan
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unfortunate

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is it becasue capcom never released a modding tool kit? and it has to be online?

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I wonder how many poor pc souls have seen my pawn where no armor since I have a mod that lets me use any vocation related armor on any vocation lmao

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wear***

earnest tartan
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@junior gyro

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Issues with facial features not moving on an npc?

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When they're speaking

earnest tartan
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Demon has abandoned me

junior gyro
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Hmm 🤔

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I have not encountered that before

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Is it every npc or occasional?

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Could you list the mods you have installed

earnest tartan
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Basically that golden elf set i showed the other day

junior gyro
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is it a replacer or a separate set?

earnest tartan
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Quite literally adds two armor sets and doesn't touch anything else

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.esp file

junior gyro
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It might have something in the esp itself that messes up some mod loading before it

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To an extent, its not uncommon that some mod would include some unnecessary edits and i have a hunch that could be the case in this situation

crisp fiber
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I dunno about oblivion but with Skyrim load orders I don’t use LOOT bc it’s too general, I typically use ssedit to see which mods are overwriting which and using that info I organise my load order

earnest tartan
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The overhaul for all faces

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Said that issue might occur

olive raptor
junior gyro
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hmm, odd if oco affects the facial animations, havent had that occur on my game. try to reinstalloco to see if that would alleviate the issue

junior gyro
earnest tartan
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Im not tripping about it honestly

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If anything i skip the dialogue

junior gyro
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yee, journal has all the info you need

earnest tartan
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Any good armor mods?