Immersive Patrols adds a reasonable amount of Stormcloak, Thalmor, Imperial and Dawnguard patrols to Skyrim and Skaal, Reaver and Riekling patrols to Solstheim. These patrols often cross paths with each other or the player creating new encounters or unexpected aid. It also includes small Civil War battles and some non-Khajiit Caravans.
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Improved Owata's lacking alchemy inventory as suggested by Teabag86.
Removed a battle near the town Gavrostead added by the mod Gavrostead.
Caravan NPCs are no longer only killable by the player.
Minimum Level of all NPCs increased to 20 so the player has more time to intervene.
Stormcloaks can now wield 2H weapons again (Stormcloaks buffed).
Version 2.2.2
-Moved 2 battles away from Barleydark Farm and Frost River Farm added by the mod "Cutting Room Floor."
-Removed Stormcloak Soldier's ability to spawn with 2H weapons for improved balance with combat mods.
-Battle NPCs will no longer fight eachother for items dropped by the player.
Version 2.2.0
-Moved Battles back to fields and out of forts.
-Players will no longer be attacked for belonging to the Vampire Lord or Werewolf factions outside of Transformations.
-Fixed missing enable parent on a Dawnguard unit (found by user TeaBag86).
Version 2.1.0
-The mod is now compatible with Open Cities. Previously patrols from Immersive Patrols would very rarely roam into towns and cities when the player was also in the same cell with a patrol at a fork in a road.
-Dawnguard patrols within this mod will now only exist after reconstruction of Fort Dawnguard has begun.
-Completing the Civil War main story quest will disable all patrol and battle NPCs (including Thalmor) of the losing faction.
-Destroying the remaining enemy camps after the Civil War quest is complete will completely disable all Civil War NPCs, effectively ending the Civil War within this mod.
-Battles have been moved directly to forts (see description for locations) to avoid navmesh issues. The forts selected were chosen primarily to avoid quests.
-Bandits and extra Redoran guard have been removed. There are mods that do Bandits better and Redoran guards are supposed to be few in number.
-Stormcloaks can no longer spawn with mages and Imperials have a very, very small chance of spawning as a mage.
-Removed all "Use Opposite Gender Animations" flags from female NPCs.
-Many, many small tweaks. NPC faces, cell usage, AI Packages after battles, that sort of thing.
2.1.0 is an updated version of Immersive Patrols SE. Going to continue work here for the time being.
Enable parents were used to toggle NPCs without scripting. It's the same solution I used to add lighting to Hearthfire homes without deleting the original light sources.
Civil War soldiers will attack the player on sight if they are in the in the opposing faction, help the player if they are in the same faction and ignore the player if they are neutral.
Civil War soldiers can tell if the player is a Stormcloack, Imperial or even Thalmor if a mod makes the player a Thalmor with the correct vanilla faction.
All toggles are retroactive. If you've already progressed the Dawnguard questline for example, Dawnguard patrols will begin immediately after installing the mod.
Version 2.0.3
Small update to fix remaining issues, mostly making Frost Flow lighthouse usable again.
-The battle in the Pale no longer exists to fix a quest location breaking bug. Removed all form data related to the battle in the Pale.
-NPCs in this mod will no longer occupy Frost Flow Lighthouse.
-Thalmor with bows will now use them.
-All NPCs in this mod will now recognize the player in Werewolf and Vampire form even when using the Vanilla versions of the mod or suffering regular vampire sickness.
-There are a few new versions as requested. DLC and Vanilla Civil War Overhaul compatible versions most notably. DLC and Vanilla Aggressive and Unagressive versions and DLC and Vanilla Aggressive and Unaggressive versions with only patrols (no battles).
Version 2.0.1
-Fixed a mismatched voice on 2 female Redguard Imperial soldiers.
-All females use female animations. Hard to notice since I don't use any animation mods, reguardless, it has been fixed.
-Changed Civil War class types for better mana scaling. Magic wielding NPCs will now have a better balance between magic and CQC.
-Mages will now immediately switch to their melee weapons when out of mana and will balance the two thereafter. No more punching mages when OOM or exclusive weapon wielding.
-Fixed a bug where 3 stormcloak leaders would spawn as a weapon on the ground instead of, you know, a person.
-Fixed a bug where the Stormcloaks and Thalmor at Weynon Stones were unable to see eachother as enemies.
-Fixed a bug where attacking patrols infront of allied vanilla npcs would put you in perpetual hate by everyone in that faction... my bad there.
Version 2.0
-Merged all plugins. After uploading the merged installer, unique downloads surpassed the modular version in a month. I didn't want to leave vanilla users high and dry but the merged plugin is so much easier and fun to update. Here's hoping you guys bought them in the recent Steam sales.
-42 unique NPCs have been added to the spawn list for Stormcloaks and Imperials. Both the small patrols and large battles use these thanks to the merger and fights are completely random now.
-Traveling merchants each have a unique merchant faction and unique inventory. No more magically shared gold or stock.
-Every patrol uses a custom marker for travel including the Travelers as requested. No more references to chairs or tables in Inns. Went to great lengths to ensure not a single vanilla object was referenced for the 2.0 release.
-Manually removed the 4 Vampire records that showed up in tes5edit.
-Removed all unused forms and disabled all reference to removed NPCs and AI packages from earlier versions.
-Added a couple more NPCs to existing battles and redirected a few patrols so we can all rest easier using the aggressive version. See map for Military Patrols and Battles.
-Disabled mercenaries temporarily.
-Minor factions are being reworked.
Immersive Patrols adds a reasonable amount of Stormcloak, Thalmor, Imperial and Dawnguard patrols to Skyrim and a few Skaal, Reaver and Riekling patrols to Solstheim. These patrols often cross paths with each other or the player creating new encounters or unexpected aid. It also includes small Civil War battles and some basic non-Khajiit Caravans who travel freely between the major cities (excluding Winterhold).
Dawnguard patrols within this mod will only exist after reconstruction of Fort Dawnguard has begun.
Completing the Civil War quest will disable all patrol and battle NPCs (including Thalmor) of the losing faction. Destroying the remaining enemy camps after the Civil War quest is completed will completely disable all Civil War NPCs, effectively ending the Civil War within this mod.
=====What you need to Know=====
Civil War NPCs in this mod will attack you on sight depending on your allegiance. Does not use scripts. Feel free to install and uninstall worry free. TES5edit cleaned every iteration, no matter how small the change. All NPCs respawn besides Caravan NPCs. Can be placed anywhere in your load order (except below water mods). No Vampires, Werewolves, Khajiit caravans or bandits are included in this mod. All enemies scale but only through stats/player level. You can now use this mod with Open Cities.
=====Know Issues=====
If you join a Civil War faction THEN switch factions during the MSQ (Jagged Crown) or by the use of a mod you must uninstall Immersive Patrols, save the game without it installed and then reinstall Immersive Patrols for that change to take effect immediately.
