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But i am keeping the mod to edit the armor to my liking and no i am not uploading it i do have respect to the creator.
well that is my 2 cents.
I read somewhere that you want to be a game programmer well you are half way there yes only half way.
Spoilers so don't read if you're interested in playing the mod and wanted a spoiler-free review.
For starters, I don't get why they won't just straight up attack Amber Creek, but they go attack Borvald. I thought, 'oh maybe Amber Creek is just really strong.'
Later on, they attack Amber Creek and kidnap the Jarl's wife and child easily. Which is funny because every one of the Jarl's buddies didn't want to accompany you on the previous quest because they had to protect Amber Creek, and other varying reasons. So very clearly, they failed. Yet, somehow no one's died from this complete failure.
After that, we go rescue them and clear a WHOLE fort full of not one dozen, but DOZENS of enemy troops. Then we're confronted by Yngvarr and a measly dozen of troops. Agnar's just bending over backwards despite us fighting a whole fort. He just hands over the keys and completely invalidates all that work we've done up until this point. Okay, maybe we're all just tired, clearing that fort was no mere feat and we've been through some rough battles, but no. Yngvarr, alone, leaves with the keys and all his goons stay behind and attacks us. We manage to get through that COMPLETELY fine. No serious injuries, no deaths, completely unscathed and everyone's ready to confront Yngvarr after that. No fatigue at all. Agnar's wife and child are safe. It just really makes you think that there was no real threat and nothing to worry about and that Agnar begging Yngvarr not to hurt his family was pointless. We could've taken Yngvarr out right then and there and the story would be done.
There are a lot of games that make you collect these important items to stop the main antagonist and at the very end, despite your efforts, he gets them all. I don't necessarily hate it and I think it can be done right, but some stories make you really feel like you wasted your time and this story especially does that. The way Yngvarr got all the keys here is so unjustified considering we killed his entire entourage with no injuries.
I think it would've been better if there were deaths. At one point, the story has you pick between two options on who to follow. Imagine the impact you would feel if the group you didn't follow failed and died or at least one of them died at the hands of Yngvarr himself. They died because they didn't have your help, your actions led to this, Yngvarr's threat would be more intimidating. That would be far more interesting the Jarl (I forget who exactly said it) who said, oh it doesn't matter who you follow, one place just has more magical enemies and the other physical. Basically telling you that 'hey, your choice here ultimately doesn't matter in the grand scheme of this story and if you think it might've, you're wrong. You just get to pick what you fight.'
Overall, it just feels like your presence at Falskaar doesn't matter. Valfred could've escaped without your warning because your warning didn't matter. Agnar and co would've gotten the keys without you, etc. etc.
Falskaar is a beautiful, but sparsely populated, island full of bears, trolls, and spiders. There are some politics going on as well but it's mostly long walks through a land filled with bears, trolls, spiders, and not much else of interest. The lack of variety for random encounters may have been a result of entering the mod with a higher-level character, as the NPCs who would happily reward me with a hundred or so septims for completing their quest seemed oblivious to the fact that I had been slaying dragons mere hours before. The dungeons that do exist are clearly designed for a 'direct combat' sort of approach, and are frequently placed staring directly at the only entrance to their particular room. Unless you have an ample supply of potions of invisibility, any kind of stealth is basically going to be impossible. The number of escort missions is depressing, as is the tendency of the game to lock you out of progression until you've sat still for it's exposition.
It's probably not a bad mod, if you're interested in lore and immersion over gameplay, are low enough level that an endless army of bandits wearing fur armor sound intimidating rather than amusing, and don't particularly care about alchemy or stealth. Unfortunately I am none of those things, so I found this mod somewhat lacking.
So many "Bandits" that just kind of decided that now would be a good time to go out for a cigarette break or something, come upon them and they're just standing there talking to...no one.
Also just my opinion, but there are way too many urns, burial urns and chests scattered through the mod. I've always treated the chests etc as a nice little bonus but Jesus, how many "Flawless Diamonds" does Falskaar have just lying around?
One more and then I'll stop. Quest: Deliver Svea's armor to the black smith for repair, blacksmith says it'll take a couple of hours to repair the "quest" continues with "Wait a couple of hours for repair". What?