#Jester Things

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slate dock
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The closer you are to rested, the quieter the sound.

floral hazel
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Though now that I think about it, for this special condition, some shader might be necessary

slate dock
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Note that you need a gender check, at least.

floral hazel
floral hazel
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If perms are open

prisma rapids
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Yeah I know people would always turn off the solthas shaders in the combat pack

slate dock
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I keep some of them. Not for magicka.

slate dock
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Soulless Summons Dialogue Fix released

New addition to the Jester Stash.

This mod fixes a minor inconsistency between Telvanni dialogue in "strong souls" topic when using a mod which makes souls of summoned creatures worthless. Dialogue was changed in order to take that into account. Also, two unique NPCs who have things to say on this topic now have unique dialogue entries, with some helpful but immersive gameplay tips and lore-inspired flavour from Darkest Darkness.

prisma rapids
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Ohh this is such a nice subtle addition

bronze saddle
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Yeah that's badass. It seems low-key but it's low-key genius, takes a good combo of exp/skill/atr to be able to pull off abs

slate dock
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I remember someone making a patch for this long long time ago (obv with a bit different dialogue), but I don't know where the hell it is. May be buried somewhere in Oldwind or maybe some patch hub or reupload page on Nexus I don't know about.

bronze saddle
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Some mods are like that. Up until recently I had a mod installed that added holiday based dialogue to NPCs but now can't find it anywhere yagrwut

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bronze saddle
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I know it's funny I tried to link it when you were first talking about it but realized I can't even find it on my own install anymore 😅

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It was relatively bare bones compared to what you've said already anyway

slate dock
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sometimes I think we lost part of MW (Oldwind) history

bronze saddle
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Yeah

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It's kinda sad

slate dock
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it's crazy that this can happen in 21st century

bronze saddle
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Yeah we are moving so fast can't stop to pick up some things 🤷

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There is still a lot of older things on personal storage sites that show up sometimes. Little hidden goldmines. Some new repo will probably get made at some point

slate dock
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would be good

bronze saddle
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Yeah cant trust it all to nexus

slate dock
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you can't trust Nexus with a simple upload

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virus scanning may take hours

bronze saddle
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Haha yeah it's pretty rough sometimes

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How do you defend against enshittification? Diversify the network I guess is the only way

slate dock
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btw how would you go about it if you wanted to give it a go? Check the mod and provide potential suggestions to the author? Use open perms to create a different version? Or start from scratch?

bronze saddle
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Probably Blurp's shield surfing code would be a good place to start? 🧐 That's all about momentum, I would love to expand on my silly mollython mod with more dynamic falling over

prisma rapids
bronze saddle
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I hope they get it right. I need I catch up on some anime

slate dock
bronze saddle
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Probably going to say something along the lines of "perms are open" doitswit

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Im joke but there were a lot of ideas left on the table about expanding the mechanic

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I'm waiting until I have some cool feedback anims before bringing it up again. But tbfab its some very pretty code that's fun to look at

slate dock
near orchid
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You both know me so well 36vehks

olive vault
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@slate dock what is your opinion on the morrowind extended cut mod on nexus?

near orchid
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I like 36 a lot, and the camonna tong stuff is interesting but I haven't gotten really deep into it. It makes the main quest super long, so I don't think I'll replay it for a while. Tons and tons of content and I haven't really seen most of it

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It's all really high quality

olive vault
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Thanks, sounds like its a pretty solid all in one option

olive vault
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Why is creature tweaks archived?

prisma rapids
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floral hazel
olive vault
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Is the CO.RE (comprehensive rebalance) mod any good in your opinion? I agree with that other guy that said your and mym’s rebalances seem to align with what I’m looking to set up

slate dock
# olive vault Is the CO.RE (comprehensive rebalance) mod any good in your opinion? I agree wit...

There are some good ideas there, but many of the things it does are covered by other mods already. High travel cost, no backwards running etc. is sth that HBFS deals with. Paused menus is done by several mods. For resting and waiting, you may check Wake Up as it does many interesting things and decide what you prefer.

The mod has modular elements, so I guess you can pick and choose.

Some things are a matter of preference. For example, setting enchant recharge rate literally to 0 might be more challenging than having some recharge over time, but personally, I'm not a fan of literally forcing the player to engage with soul trapping and recharging mechanics. It also impacts the way you view magic items (more will be treated as junk) and Enchant skill (it impacts charge per use/strike so it gets an indirect boost with no recharge over time and it's already a strong skill). So while I think that slower recharge-over-time is great (and many mods do this including HBFS in its optional module), no recharge at all is not.

An alternative would be some combo of no recharge over time and recharging added as NPC service, with at least 2 mods adding this. It sounds interesting, but I have no experience with it yet, so don't know how it affects gameplay flow.

olive vault
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Gotcha that makes sense. It does already overlap with some mods I am going to use as well as you pointed out

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What about the armor rebalances it does?

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Is that good in your opinion / already covered by generally used mods?

slate dock
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I think it's not covered by mods I use. As for alternatives, kildozery has a mod for Evasion, so maybe compare what you like. I haven't tried it out yet, but it's popular and recent.

olive vault
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Thanks!

slate dock
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I thought it was some error, but it seems to be good 😄 . So now there are no adverts? Cool. I have no idea how most of this Nexus stuff works.

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fast basalt
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Congratulations

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Although - they should've made this banner a bit less scary doitswit

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bronze saddle
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Someone did a big armor rebalance recently. I forget if it made it to nexus or not but it look pretty good

bronze saddle
slate dock
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always encouraging if people vibe with rebalancers/difficulty increasers and immersion stuff and it's mostly what I'm doing

bronze saddle
fast basalt
bronze saddle
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Yeah that's it, you had a look?

coral agate
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congrats, that Menacing Creatures mod definitelly doing numbers dabgothur (and rightfully so)

fast basalt
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I haven't had time to properly play the game recently, but a short look - looked good

bronze saddle
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Yeah same here

fast basalt
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Looks like it's not on nexus yet

bronze saddle
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It's extensive at least which is important part because consistency is the thing that's missing most

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fast basalt
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It is opinionated, but I like the approach @nocturne rain has taken. With light armor being basically "clothing" and medium heavy getting rebalanced

coral agate
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wait they removed light armor armor ratings...? 🤔

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(or just made it ultra low pbly)

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ooooh glass armor is medium now

bronze saddle
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Iirc they wanted medium to be more of a thing

coral agate
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interesting 🧐

bronze saddle
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Yeah

coral agate
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wait chitin too lol

bronze saddle
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Still have to try it but it's an interesting idea

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Yeah basically decoupling "armor" from "light"

coral agate
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yup

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only "pelts" are light armor now

slate dock
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not a fan tbh. It doesn't always fit the design intent.

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light armor in TES doesn't have to mean shit armor

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and medium is a thing in the base game. It's often just heavy but with a bit less weight and comparable AR, sometimes even better esp when AR/weight ratio are considered.

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Orcish outperform most armors, for example, until you reach the insane tiers like Ebony etc.

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Dreugh, Indoril, Adamantium are all good

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and there are special (and very good) stuff like Stalhrim and Royal Guard as well

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one of the best if not the best in-game armor artifacts - Ebony Mail - is actually medium armor

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so I'm not sure I would say that medium armor is bad or sth

coral agate
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its definitelly not bad since PTR imo

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took a while but we got there

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faaar from bad

bronze saddle
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No that's not what I said, it's more of the idea that medium armor is "armor" and then heavy and light are specialized variants. I'm not explaining it well but it wasn't that medium is bad

coral agate
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yeah yeah, I don't think the mod is trying to adjust balance imo

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just bring another approach/perspective, "change how the game is played" if that makes sense

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coral agate
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coral agate
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true true

bronze saddle
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TR drip is hard to fault

slate dock
# coral agate congrats, that Menacing Creatures mod definitelly doing numbers <:dabgothur:1150...

happy with the comments and endorsements I've received for that mod. Those are also better measures than pure downloads as the count can be misleading depending on the mod type, number of updates, inclusion on modlists etc.

Also, mods like Menacing Creatures are one of my favourite things to do. I switch between dialogue/immersion mode and challenging stuff mode, but when sth affects so many creatures, it's quite high impact for gameplay, and that's quite exciting.

bronze saddle
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Yeah I kwym, I'm eager to get back to doing some creature animation fixes. I really want to learn how the attack range and hit boxes work

nocturne rain
coral agate
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(I remember feeling some of the TR creatures being underwhelming, now that is fixed)

slate dock
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I hope that MOMW ones will get a hardcore section one day

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because a lot of stuff could be added there

coral agate
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it doesn't feel hardcore imo

fast basalt
coral agate
# coral agate it doesn't feel hardcore imo

it fits right at home with a huge expansive open world + slowed down levelling + higher faction requirements + improved enemy AI (and sure a few hardcore tweaks here and there -but I don't call these "hardcore", I call them "vanilla exploit" fixes 😅 )

nocturne rain
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So far i quite like pairing it with the evasion mod that one guy made

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I might just nuke unarmoured a la what you did with block and just have the mod be the unarmoured skill

slate dock
# coral agate it fits right at home with a huge expansive open world + slowed down levelling +...

Yes, I know what you mean. I don't consider it a "hardcore" mod myself at all. There are many things which could be done to make the gamer harder that I'm not doing there, e.g. increasing most health pools, but this isn't my goal and we have global tools like HBFS for stuff like that if sb wants. However, reading various questions and responses on some Discord threads, sometimes people are used to some aspects of Vanilla and complain when sth becomes more difficult than it was due to some stuff on the modlists. Not that I care, but modlist authors do, and that's fine. I mean, each modlist is like a certain set of choices. They should be different from each other.

flat hawk
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