There are video games that we could perfectly define as time sinks, or titles capable of taking the player and sucking him into an infinite vortex made up of always new contents, of things to explore, of experiments to be carried out. THE game as a service, the management, some types of RPGs and moba are videogame genres perfectly attributable to this category.
One of the most important video games, in terms of sales and commercial success, that we can find under this definition is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The title of Bethesda, as well as being re-released under virtually any type of console in a plethora of different versions and adaptations.
The PC version of the title, however, is the one that supports the greatest number of modifications created by the community, which has always been an essential part of the Elderscrollsian experience; since Morrowind the community of enthusiasts has made false papers to improve their title as possible, always succeeding where the software house did not arrive.
The best mods for Skyrim
With the arrival of Skyrim: Special Edition it is possible to apply some of the most important mods even on consoles; with this article you will find out what are some of the best choices to make.
Let's see together what are some of the best mods currently available on the well-known site NexusMods per quanto riguarda The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Sky UI, a new inventory for organization lovers
Now let's talk about what, in the opinion of the writer, is the most important mod of all for those who play on computers. Sky UI is a mod that significantly modifies the interface of the inventory and menus within the game, making them more mouse friendly than the original intentions of the developers.
This because Skyrim was born with the intention of being a multiplatform video game, perfectly suited to pads; its user interface was able to function decently on a television with joypad in hand but suffered from a certain woodiness with mouse and keyboard when forced to scroll through endless lists to find the piece of equipment you prefer.
Sky UI it abandons the scrolling element by element in order to switch to an interface more similar to that of the previous menus, with navigation between the tabs and different possibilities to reorder your inventory. If you want to have the most comfortable experience possible this is the mod for you.
Immersive Armors & Immersive Weapons, for the warrior who never has to ask
If you're looking for a way to add a whole host of new gear types to Skyrim, without having to break the suspension of disbelief by adding Wurstel-shaped swords or other similar ideas, Immersive Armors and Immersive Weapons is the pair of mods for you. These mods add a large number of weapons and armor to the game, all of them perfectly diegetic to the setting and statistically balanced compared to the other sidearms present in the video game.
Immersive Armor adds 55 new armor sets, reaching up to sixty if we include the variants of the pre-existing armor within the title; adds numerous new headdresses, 396 newly made shields and lots of small cosmetic items like earrings, scarves, eye patches and so on.
All these objects they can be crafted, enchanted, improved, enhanced and inserted into the game in a sensible and organic way, appearing as rewards for quests or as a treasure for solving some dungeons.
Very similar speech for Immersive Weapons, the mod in question adds more than 200 new weapons to the title, dividing the macro-categories of the base game into many new small classes of weapons that you can find written below in English.
All weapons are characterized by the following parameters:
- Damage = damage
- Reach = reach
- Speed ​​= attack speed
- Stagger = ability to stun
- weight = weight
The + and the - are there to indicate their characteristics compared to the original weapon.
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- Double Axe: +Damage, ++Stagger, ++Weight
- Halberd: +Reach, +Stagger
- Scythe: -Damage, +Speed, -Weight
- Spear: –Damage, ++Reach, ++Speed, –Stagger, –Weight
Daggers
- So much: +Damage, -Speed, +Weight
Broadswords
- Changdao: -Damage, -Reach, +Speed, -Weight
- Claymore: -Damage, -Reach, +Speed, -Weight
- Dadao: +Damage, -Reach, +Stagger, +Weight
- Daito: –Damage, -Reach, +Speed, -Stagger, -Weight
- Longsword: –Damage, –Reach, ++Speed, -Stagger, –Weight
- Nodashi: -Damage, -Reach, +Speed, -Stagger, -Weight
Clubs
- Club: -Damage, +Speed, –Stagger, -Weight
- War Pick: +Speed, -Stagger, -Weight
Spade
- Cutlass: -Reach
- Katana: +Reach, -Stagger
- Ninjato: -Damage, +Speed, –Stagger, -Weight
- To know: +Speed, -Stagger, -Weight
- Scimitar: -Reach, +Speed, -Stagger
- Wakizashi: -Damage, –Reach, ++Speed, *Stagger, –Weight
War hammers
- Battle Staff: -Damage, +Speed, -Stagger, -Weight
- Quarterstaff: –Damage, ++Speed, –Stagger, –Weight
These mods can even be customized through in game thanks to a MCM Menu (feature included in Sky UI), if you don't have this mod you can use a spell in your inventory that will give you access to a similar function.
To download the Immersive Armors mod
To download the Immersive Weapons mod
Alternate Start - Live Another Life, just cart give yourself a fresh start
Are you tired of reviewing the cart scene every time you feel like playing a new game Skyrim, Right?
Thanks to Alternate Start – Live Another Life it will be possible to change the beginning of the game with something more interesting. As human beings belonging to the category of gamers we are tired of always having to start our videogame life imprisoned somewhere, with death that breathes against us or with the tragedy behind us.
You want to start your Skyrim adventure as member of the Thalmor guards? You can.
You want to start your Skyrim adventure as member of the imperial troops stationed somewhere? You can.
You want to start your adventure like simple farmers in a peaceful place? You can.
Sky is the limit, as someone said.
Live Another Life allows the player to choose a race, a background, a starting point and to start from there, with consistent equipment and resources, his own path within the game world. With the succession of the various updates, the mod has been enriched with departures related to the contents of other mods, such as the aforementioned Legacy Of The Dragonborne.
To use this mod it is mandatory to have all the DLC (Dawnguard, Heartfire, Dragonborn) of the title, it is mandatory to have Skyrim patched to version 1.9.32.0.8 and it is recommended to also use the unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch.
Remember to enable subtitles to see your first quest within this new life.
Apocalypse - Magic Of Skyrim, to become more powerful than Gandalf
Are you tired of always playing the same wizard within Skyrim?
This is definitely the mod for you. With Apocalypse installed you can put your hand up 155 new spells (31 per school) and to use lots of new magical items with unique effects.
The mod inserts the spells into the game in a diegetic way, allowing them to be collected from corpses or purchased through the usual merchants. Each spell has a custom animation created for the occasion and is balanced against both the vanilla game and the more popular mods regarding difficulty scaling.
This mod allows the player to create a truly efficient character within the game without necessarily having to specialize in the schools of destruction or summoning. The mod is always configurable in the usual menu MCM, the same that is achieved through the use of Sky UI.
Spells are obviously also divided by character expertise for their school.
The school of alteration, for example, sees new spells capable of creating magnetic objects that attract enemies, spells capable of throwing opponents meters away based on their position in space, spells capable of highlighting the loot on the screen making it fluorescent.
The school of evocation instead he sees new spells that allow the player to summon a dremora assassin for any occasion or to throw any target into interdimensional space, forever disintegrating its essence and forever losing associated objects.
The school of destruction it has been enriched with spells capable of setting fire to entire groups of enemies, of techniques capable of unleashing all the elements together on the target, of summoning tornadoes, volcanoes and ball lightning on command; the elements have never been as tame as in this mod.
The school of illusion has from its magic able to deceive throngs of enemies at the same time making them attack each other or able to mentally dominate a single opponent until his death, making him fight on his side like a real slave.
The restaurant school has from its spells able to enhance its hero or to corrupt some types of enemies, taking care, in the meantime, the health points of their followers or their creatures. Some abilities are capable of doing non-elemental magical damage to targets hit.
Enderal: Forgotten Stories, another game
Now let's move on to the latest great mod for Skyrim.
To tell the truth, this is no longer a real mod as much as a separate game, which with Skyrim shares systems and the graphic layout. Enderal: Forgotten Stories is a total conversion for the popular title of Bethesda, set within a universe with an original story. The title presents an open world, made entirely by hand with different biomes that can be explored between deserts and jungles.
Enderal: Forgotten Stories he has a story dubbed in German and English with professional actors; the software house responsible for the project is SureAI, the same team behind another great total conversion made for the previous one Oblivion.
enderal it's free and can be played by anyone with an original copy of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (DLCs are not required). It is developed not commercially by SureAI, the same team behind the renowned Oblivion mod “Nehrim: At Fate´s Edge”, and several other projects.
From a purely playful point of view, the title has differences from the original, with survival mechanics, more difficult fights than average and a new skill system, revised through the presence of classes and special skills.
The most creative will also have the opportunity to buy and buy their own home, all for a game that lasts from thirty to one hundred hours; all for free.
The title is so great that it is available directly on Steam, give them links you find below. To be able to play it, you just need to have Skyrim installed.
Other crazy mods not to be missed
If this selection of the best mods for Skyrim does not satisfy your palate as a discerning gamer, know that there are still many more to discover. We had already talked about some of these over time, you can find them below:
- The Skyrim mod archive.
- One hundred new weapons in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Legacy Of The Dragonborn
- Skyrim more like The Sims?
- Explore Skyrim in peace