The core combat, magic and stealth systems play differently from the way they did ten years ago. Pretty much every part of the game has been altered into something that feels different from Skyrim’s 2011 form. After that, it's just a (relatively!) quick setup before the game is ready to start. Which means you might just be clicking on download buttons several hundred times over hours.

The catch is, the Skyrim Nexus doesn’t allow non-premium users to download mods without looking at ads. It translates into a whopping 300 gig download that takes minutes to start up.Īll it takes is downloading Wabbajack ( download here) onto your desktop and picking the modpack you want and following the instructions from there. Skyrimified, the Skyrim modpack I chose to install from Wabbajack has over 1000. The order in which the mods are loaded, the mods being incompatible, hardware issues or just plain bad luck can pose problems. Any number of things could stop the game from booting. Instead of actually spending time in the snowy north, modders are probably trying to figure out why their game isn’t working. Modding Skyrim is like a game unto itself.

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