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At early levels, one or two hits can kill and the combat stays hard at Adept level up to about early 30ies levels. It doesn't add anything new, but basically makes loot unleveled and makes the level scaling much, much harder than in vanilla. So nowadays I use Skyrim Unleashed's NPC and item plug-ins. My biggest peeve with Skyrim, though, was loot scaling and how easy the game was (even though both issues were very much less annoying than in vanilla Oblivion).

The mod's been bashed in some places but in my experience it does work.

Contact me on my talk page or via PM.ДЇor AI, I use Duel. The reason I said USLEEP is overreaching is because it does more than just fix bugs, and therefore detracts from the base game experience.

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It seems to me the only one making pronouncements about what qualifies as 'vanilla-friendly' is you third party content mods are in no way vanilla and its a little ridiculous to claim so based on their subjective lore-friendliness. There's absolutely nothing wrong with looking for a base game experience, and adding mods (or even DLC) detracts from that. I'm not sure you know what that term means. It makes any quest where you have to talk to someone holed up in a locked house way less of a headache.

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The only mod I use that substantially changes gameplay is Simply Knock, which allows you to simply knock on locked doors and people may let you in. I did download a texture swapper called Skyrim HD because honestly the vanilla high-def graphics are great but I was blown away when I first tried the user-generated HD mods. Miscellaneous mods I've installed include Real Bears, Real Foxes, Real Wolves, Slof's Horses, &c to make the wildlife prettier, and Robert's Male and Female to make the PCs prettier.

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Other than that, I highly recommend Sky UI if you're a PC gamer because it makes the menus way less annoying, and A Matter Of Time because it's completely awesome, and when you're neck-deep in an immersive game world it's really handy having a real-world clock to remind you to get up and eat once in a while. For the sake of my own sanity, I needed that patch. In Helgen Keep there's a table that's halfway inside a book shelf which renders some loot impossible to acquire, and they have yet to fix it in any of the official updates. I do use the Unofficial Skyrim Patches because you'd be surprised what infuriating oversights the developers made on the initial release. I have a bunch downloaded but I never activate them. Makes me think Skyrim's original looks were in fact dictated by some combination of available time & money and not some vision the developer's had of what the game should look like. Looks like lots of visual bells and whistles are being added by the developer. If anyone wants to limit their 'vanilla' experience to a buggy game with lower resolution and limited to the elements the developers had the time and money to include, have at it but please stop with the pronouncements about what is or isn't 'vanilla'.Д®DIT And I completely forgot about the upcoming release of Skyrim Remastered. Extended but that's only because 1.I'm lazy and 2. Various mods, like aMidianBorn Book of Silence, continue to improve Skrim's textures.ДЄnd is there really an argument against fixing game bugs?

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It's my opinion that improving textures, fixing bugs or adding elements that fit Skyrim's lore are not unfriendly to a vanilla experience.ДЇor example, modding in the 'Death Star' for one of Skyrim's moons would be an element not in line with lore, adding some armors, like those in Immersive Armors, is.Д®ven Bethesda realized the need to upgrade textures and released a Hi-Res DLC.

I think it smacks of judgemental elitism.

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