Skyrim Remastered essential mods

Was looking through my mods on Skyrim and got to thinking about mods that are going to kinda kill it for me if they do not make the transfer over to the Remastered Edition in October. I play with a LOT of mods, but I narrowed it down to these essentials that I simply need to have in the Remastered edition, or something that preforms the same functions.

Absolute Musts:

• SkyUI
• Categorized Favorites Menu
• Pick Up Books
• Dynamic Timescale
• Winter is Coming and Cloaks of Skyrim
• Convenient Horses
• Follower Trap Safety
• General Stores (and assorted individual plugins for it)
• Forgotten Magic
• Utopolysts Item Sorting
• Run For Your Lives and When Vampires Attack
• Immersive Armor and Weapons
• Shezeries Hearthfire Kitchens
• Bandolier (or any other form of backpack etc. with a carry weight bonus)
  

Would really like to have, but can live without:

• A Matter of Time
• Quality World Map
• Point the Way
  
• Trotting Horse (specifically the Slof version, that replaces the canter, I don’t like the more popular one that replaces the walk)
• Footprints
• Player Headtracking
• VioLens
• Automatic Variants
• Climates of Tamriel  plus Enhanced Lights and FX (though, I could see many of their features included in a remastered version)
• Wet and Cold
• Birds of Skyrim
• Frostfall
• Realistic Needs and Diseases
• Auto Unequp Ammo
  
• Book Covers of Skyrim
• Locational Damage
• Left Hand Rings
• Give a Dog a Home  
  

And if i want to be able to play my character Aleddor, i will need Better Vampires and the Snow Elf playable race. His adventures are done, but it WAS a very fun playthrough, which i wouldn’t mind having another go at after i am done with my Illusion Mage, which i was partway through the game with and plan on restarting once the remaster hits.

There are also some texture mods that I use, but I am GUESSING the remaster will make those obsolete, similar to how Climates of Tamriel and Enhanced Lights and FX may be obsolete. I may also want to be using my usual ENB, but I am assuming that will be less of an issue than mods.

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It’s begun

I just downloaded 5 mods for Fallout 4.

Lowered Weapons  - because I don’t want my huge ass Sniper Laser rifle filling up a quarter of the screen all the time

Darker Nights - Because Bethesda ALWAYS makes their nights (and dungeons) too bright. They include things like flashlights, night vision, light spells etc. but nothing is ever dark enough to NEED them. I want to need them. Just gotta wait for the darker dungeons mod that will follow in time.

Full Dialogue Interface - Because I want a better idea of what my character will say.

Value Per Weight indicator - So i know what to sell vs scrap or drop

And the big one, that prompted me to get me to the Nexus and download mods:

Craftable Ammo - Because I have a laser sniper rifle that I LOVE, but getting ammo is a bitch, and i just found a Gamma Gun that will be even MORE of a bitch to get ammo for, but plays right into my perk choices (I have 9 Intelligence, I have that power armor/rad weapons dealing double damage perk) and I am RPing as an inventor.

Just so you know where this is headed, I am a mod addict. My Skyrim has hundreds of active mods, as well as an ENB. I can not imagine playing without Frostfall or Realistic Needs and Diseases and so on, and I eagerly await similar mods to those for Fallout 4. I am holding off on the ENB for now, though. I want to see more of how Bethesda envisioned the game, and I actually quite like the look of Vanilla anyway, some outrageous bloom aside. But I am keeping my eye on this one: http://ift.tt/1MwXWVO?

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More Skyrim screenshots with Loki! not really a lot to say. I...

More Skyrim screenshots with Loki! not really a lot to say. I started building one of the Hearthfire houses, I chose to go with Heljarchen Hall partly because it was the only one i hadn’t yet used as a main house, but also because Winstead Manor (despite being my favorite location) was right out because I have Frostfall and I am not playing a snow elf vampire that is completely oblivious to the cold, and Heljarchen Hall is right at the point where the temperatures get tolerable, and it also sits right between two giant camps, which seemed fitting for Loki. so far i have the main hall and the back wing (alchemy tower) constructed and most of the indoor furnishings. need more lumber and iron to finish the rest, also goat horns so i can add more lights. It of course uses my very favorite Hearthfire mod, Shezries Kitchens. which turns the useless back room into an adorable little kitchen, so you can use the east wing for something else, I’m leaning towards library.

Besides that I just did your usual dungeon crawling and fought a dragon that attacked Dawnstar. That thing killed 5 guards. Luckily I have the Run for Your Lives mod, so no townsfolk were killed. I had much fun using the Meteor Shower spell from Forgotten Magic against the dragon, you can see it about to get hit in the head with some meteors in one of the screenshots. Of all the magic mods I have tried, Forgotten Magic is definitely the best, imo. On the subject of mods, I have been a longtime fans of W.A.T.E.R. (now only available as part of that compilation as far as i can tell) for, well, the water in the game, but saw that Realistic Water Two had become quite popular, and decided to give it a try. I normally try to only talk about mods i like, but…. NOT impressed with Realistic Water. In the screenshots above, at the very bottom, the one on the left is Realistic Water, the one on the right is W.A.T.E.R. after i put it back. I think it’s plainly obvious which one looks the best. Both mods add waves along the coast if you have Dragonborn, but Realistic Water made no effort to colour match the waves and the ocean textures, and while some of it is that the first screenshot was taken in the middle of a bright day, and the second was taken around sunset, the colours in Realistic Water were kinda gaudy in comparison, and the textures had more obvious tiling. Went back to W.A.T.E.R.

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As I was going through Meridia’s shrine today, I came across a...

Ah, adventures with Loki begin! I am using Skyrim Unbound, so I...

Lookit this mod! Look at it! Ok, it looks a bit glitchy, but...

Lookit this mod! Look at it! Ok, it looks a bit glitchy, but still… I am so downloading this shit and playing as Loki. I’m gonna have 4 of the spells set to fixed forms, I’m thinking fox, horse, giant, and…. i dunno… wolf? fish? spider? an the 5th, that will be the fun one. I will use it to infiltrate enemy factions by disguising myself as them, then wreaking havoc with illusion magic. I may post my playtime on Twitch.

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