Before reporting bugs please read over the description page thoroughly. The most common issue will most likely be NPC's appearing with no armor. Better Bards removes Aia's hood, Better Companions removes Njada's helmet, Better Mages removes all three of the student followers hoods, and Better Thieves removes Karliah's hood. These changes will usually not go into effect without starting a new game. It is simple enough to fix by just giving the follower in question some armor to wear should you not want to start a new save.
After adding Augmented Flames and Intense Flames with the supplement perks in illusion/restoration to make it worthwhile I ran a test of Hroki in Kolskegger Mine and she had the briarheart boss cowering in the first volley and dead within seconds. Even without that help she would still out perform almost any vanilla mage follower as her spell list had nothing to add to it for fire based magic or alteration protective spells. She does tend to heal herself as a last resort but, when the briarheart summoned a flame atronach she was on it with her dagger without hitting a miss - well done MK!
But her hair looks so nice, who cares right? Chalk it up to being a typical blonde. =P If I play test anymore I'll grab her and bring her along to see how shes doing.
Though I don't think I say it, these follower mods are geared toward mods that overhaul the games difficulty, like SkyRe, etc. I have the SkyRe enemy AI/combat plugins so some of the followers may indeed seem a little OP in a vanilla game.
I use Improved Combat AI which con dragons, chalk it up to running into too many glamazon mods that were a disaster under the hood. And yes Hroki has lovely locks but, I tend to look for what can the follower do rather than how nicely they would make in a window display e.g. I've seen dozens of mods to improve Aela's looks but, if she can't hit the broad side of whiterun's wall then she's not much of a follower.. As before under the hood there's not much I can do to improve here so that's a compliment! Also RDO by Clouded Truth is a decent work around to some of the more stubborn followers *cough* Sapphire *cough*
It looks really good. I'm using Better Bards & would consider Hirelings, Housecarls & Maidens but I consider Sokkvabekk's Ginger Lydia & hrk 1025's Mjoll must-haves for my game. Is it possible to overwrite HH&M w/ these? The rest of your guild members look awesome as well. Thanks.
Answered: yes - all this & a bag of chicks. Well done.
I would think so, theoretically. It cannot hurt to try. Just back up your saves. Now... some changes for both my mod and the other mods may not go into effect unless you start a new game, so be mindful that may be necessary to ensure there are no inconsistencies. The other mods would have to be placed lower than my mods in your load order, of course.
Sorry for the late reply, Sapphire had a vanilla quest that was removed from the base game I believe. Her dialogue is not complete and making her a recruitable follower from the start was something I decided against. I did raise her stats and tweaked her class and skills just like all of the other members of the thieves guild however. I did this for Dirge also (fyi), in case you want him as a follower.
In other words, these two characters (Sapphire and Dirge) are set up as followers but do not start the game with "player faction" high enough to recruit them (i have my reasons, i just forgot them). If you want Sapphire and Dirge just open the console and target them then type "setrelationshiprank player 4" without the parenthesis and they will become recruitable.
very nice! great work. love your photos too. the first 4. how did you get that look? thick black lines and contrast. looks almost cell shaded. is that ENB, texture replacers, or photo manipulation?
No, sadly my pc is to crummy to run ENB. =P No photo manipulation just an eye for lighting. I try to find just the right spots and times of day to screenshot.
Have you tried RealVisionENB available here http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/30936//? has performance versions that might, paired with Boris' included enboost feature, be less of a drag on your system. It's made to work with realistic Lighting Overhaul also available here http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/30450 that is intended to be performance friendly.
It would be a shame for your beautiful genetically modified organisms to be denied high quality lighting, although your screenshots look great regardless, just sayin.
Thanks for your great work, made my skyrimming much more pleasing to the eye.
Yea I suppose I could, I think there is a way to merge them with tesedit somehow. I can look into it but the whole idea was to make it modular because there are a lot of other mods out there and I didn't want it to conflict. Really there are only 5 esp's, the optional ones are "very" optional, heh. Better Bards is the one you might want the most, it received the most attention and gives you 12 extra "competent" followers. Just try it out. =) I will check on making a merged esp and upload it as an optional file perhaps?
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Though I don't think I say it, these follower mods are geared toward mods that overhaul the games difficulty, like SkyRe, etc. I have the SkyRe enemy AI/combat plugins so some of the followers may indeed seem a little OP in a vanilla game.
I'll ask your forgiveness now if you have already, I haven't played either using your mod.
Is it possible to overwrite HH&M w/ these?
The rest of your guild members look awesome as well.
Thanks.
Answered: yes - all this & a bag of chicks. Well done.
In other words, these two characters (Sapphire and Dirge) are set up as followers but do not start the game with "player faction" high enough to recruit them (i have my reasons, i just forgot them). If you want Sapphire and Dirge just open the console and target them then type "setrelationshiprank player 4" without the parenthesis and they will become recruitable.
It would be a shame for your beautiful genetically modified organisms to be denied high quality lighting, although your screenshots look great regardless, just sayin.
Thanks for your great work, made my skyrimming much more pleasing to the eye.
Yea, he was hanging out in the room so I was like ok lets get the old man in the picture to i guess.
is it possible to combine all of them together?
I already have to many esp files
Make all in one esp as main file and loose files as optional