List of overasked questions and their answers. (This list will grow)
1. There is silent dialogue for a lot of quest sensitive topics in Invasion of Skyrim. Please turn your dialogue subtitles on. 2. KS Hairdo's is a soft requirement, you MAY need the files but not the ESP if you experience issues with this mod's characters. 3. You must have a Bashed Patch. Your entire Skyrim installation is unstable without one. I really don't want to discuss this one as it's just good modding practice. 4. This mod is compatible with 99.9% of every mod on Nexusmods.com/Bethesda.net. You will only have one or two times where a home mode may be placed in front of the entrance of an Invasion of Skyrim dungeon. 5. You can update by pasting over the previous files from previous versions, and this is always the recommend method of updating. 6. Nexus Mod Manager cannot handle big mod installations very well, so it's recommended to install manually.
This mod is probably not for everyone (definitely breaks lore :P), but for those who want an interesting, exciting challenge that forces you to think about what you're doing and could get you caught off guard numerous times and having to adapt to that, I highly recommend this mod. It's fun and interesting with very difficult, but rewarding fights with characters and followers I actually like (one of my favorites is the Orc woman Grogha since I admittedly find her extremely sexy, don't ask me why, I've no clue). In Blackreach, in my LE setup, (part of the reason I moved to SE was because of the author of this mod doing the same) there's so many enemies that it feels like a warzone and I personally love it. Here's just one of the numerous experiences this mod in SE, combined with others, gave me:
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I was approaching Bleak Falls Barrow with my character at level 14 at this point and noticed numerous enemies up ahead, so I stayed back and summoned a bound bow from the mod Spell Siphon (great mod, highly recommend it) and began laying down fire at the Chiss ahead of me. This wasn't enough to kill them, maybe only just one before they noticed, so I drew my character's sword and engaged them with Wildcat, Mortal Enemies, and Inpa's Sekiro combat mod, making combat feel strategic, fluid, and potentially fast or carefully slow, depending on if I could break their posture fast enough or not. Since enemy AI is improved in my game, it could be either or, helping fights become very varied instead of just the usual charge in and spam left click.
After killing some Chiss and taking damage, I hid behind a small pillar with one of the Chiss traitors having an arrow trained on my position, walking around the pillar, looking for a shot. I had to come out, block the arrow quickly, then make my character close the distance as fast as possible with a dodge mod before taking him out. Meanwhile, a weak Lurker was shooting tentacle balls at me, which could hurt quite a bit if I let it continue, so I closed the distance and carefully engaged him in close quarters. I really had to think about what I was doing because the Lurker's attacks that summoned tentacles did a lot of damage to me and with Wildcat's debuff and injury system, I couldn't just stand there and block. I needed to dodge its attacks and keep up the offensive to break its posture and go for the kill, which I did successfully with a satisfying kill move animation thanks to Violens.
Afterwards, I had two more Chiss traitors laying down arrow fire at me with an undead Chiss tank charging my position. I hid behind a stone wall so the archers couldn't shoot me and because I have Archery Gameplay Overhaul installed, the arrows would make my character bleed, so too many shots could turn into a big problem. I fought the Chiss tank and managed to overcome him before taking out the archers and then the undead Chiss tank somehow resurrected himself (not sure if this mod or if Skyrim Immersive Creatures did that) and attacked me again, catching me off guard. He started summoning these purple skeletons like the ones you find the the Soul Cairn and I knew that if I kept letting him do that, I'd get surrounded and ganged up on, which would put me in a stun-lock. So I put attacks on both him and his bone men, killed one of the skeletons, and the undead Chiss immediately summoned another one, so I decided to quickly put attacks on the tank instead and managed to behead him before the skeleton could put too much damage on me. Of course, since it was a beheading, the bastard stayed down.
I took out the second weak Lurker easily since its back was turned and could deliver multiple strikes before it could react. Now I also have all three of the Inferno mods (Advents of Flame, Envoys of End, The Blood Marked) installed and knew that a body of a powerful mage enemy would be nearby with a strong Destruction spell-tome on his body and after some quick looking, I found his body and looted it. I had to do this quickly because just near the entrance to the Barrow was an enslaved Chiss giant and I knew it was close to noticing me. Once I got the spell, I fired it at the giant and it charged my position. It wasn't strong enough to kill it, most likely because I was only level 14 and lacked perks in Destruction magic, so I engaged it with my character's sword instead.
And died. Multiple times. Because it's a giant. Fortunately, I had the foresight to quick-save prior to the fight because it's a friggin' giant.
After numerous attempts of blocking certain attacks, dodging and counter attacking, etc, I realized that on the path you take to reach the barrow from Riverwood, there's a tower occupied with Chiss resistance and figured they could help. So I had the giant chase me over to that tower and with the sounds of loud stomping and the earth beneath my character shaking with every stomp running after me with attacks that could 1-2 shot me was... a little terrifying, to be honest.
Once I got the resistance's attention, we managed to take out the giant together and I got to go inside the barrow. The experience also taught me that I need to take side-quests more seriously so I can level up and not have to rely on others the next time I fight a Chiss giant.
Fantastic mod. Highly recommend if you want to shake up your playthrough and like the author does, I highly recommend using some combat mods to go with it as they can help give you more of a fighting chance against some of the tougher enemies. They work so well with it that if the author meant for that intentionally, he just might be a genius. And since this mod hypes up Thrawn, I'm both excited and scared to see what he can do. Endorsed. Not to exclude the fact that this mod even has a story that boasts its choices mattering? I haven't even started the story yet and I'm having a lot of fun. I'm not even a Star Wars fan. :P
EDIT: Should mention that since I have a lot of mods that up difficulty, I increased my character's starting health, magicka, and stamina pool from 100 to 1000. I never liked having that little amount and those numbers balance things out quite nicely while still keeping everything pretty hard.
EDIT 2: I also recommend reading the description. But honestly, every mod user with half a brain should be doing that, especially for big mods like this one.
Wow! Amazing mod, I've installed a few times over the years, this time round I am very focused on it. This experience is giving me levels of immersion that I rarely hit on in Skyrim, I love the dynamic with Thrawn (I make sure I engage with him in public places) he so hates me. Thanks a lot I never realised there was so much to it. I feel it fits in well with Skyrim only downside my eyes aren't what they used to be and cluttered battles can be tricky as I cant take my time as some of the enemy have the hardware to one-shot kill me and its bothersome when the resistance show up in droves to help (actually they mostly get in the way) and I cant always tell them apart. .....Hmm! Racist Its the perfect antidote for someone like me who has played Skyrim to death. level 150 something and so far no bugs on a 650 something load list.
Again thanks a lot I cant even begin to imagine the work that has gone into this.
Problem with the "MaleKhajiitHead" bug (CTD) in this mod can be solved by exporting the facegen for the "Chiss Thug", which is named "ChissRanged12" in Creation Kit (by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + F4 key). Then it should be possible to spawn the Khajiit Thugs, without crashing the game.
I think it would be neat if this mod continued, especially with the recent reveal of Thrawn in SW Ahsoka and potentially in the next season of the Mandalorian.
Star Wars + Skyrim. The Cocktail i never knew i needed XD. Excellent work please continue to develop this mod and keep your stick on the ice :P. Happy Modding Evittalex and thanks for your work and creative vision.
Hey, thanks for the great mod! Is there any way to disable NPCs from this mod randomly appearing and helping me in combat? I would really prefer to continue fighting alone.
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1. There is silent dialogue for a lot of quest sensitive topics in Invasion of Skyrim. Please turn your dialogue subtitles on.
2. KS Hairdo's is a soft requirement, you MAY need the files but not the ESP if you experience issues with this mod's characters.
3. You must have a Bashed Patch. Your entire Skyrim installation is unstable without one. I really don't want to discuss this one as it's just good modding practice.
4. This mod is compatible with 99.9% of every mod on Nexusmods.com/Bethesda.net. You will only have one or two times where a home mode may be placed in front of the entrance of an Invasion of Skyrim dungeon.
5. You can update by pasting over the previous files from previous versions, and this is always the recommend method of updating.
6. Nexus Mod Manager cannot handle big mod installations very well, so it's recommended to install manually.
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After killing some Chiss and taking damage, I hid behind a small pillar with one of the Chiss traitors having an arrow trained on my position, walking around the pillar, looking for a shot. I had to come out, block the arrow quickly, then make my character close the distance as fast as possible with a dodge mod before taking him out. Meanwhile, a weak Lurker was shooting tentacle balls at me, which could hurt quite a bit if I let it continue, so I closed the distance and carefully engaged him in close quarters. I really had to think about what I was doing because the Lurker's attacks that summoned tentacles did a lot of damage to me and with Wildcat's debuff and injury system, I couldn't just stand there and block. I needed to dodge its attacks and keep up the offensive to break its posture and go for the kill, which I did successfully with a satisfying kill move animation thanks to Violens.
Afterwards, I had two more Chiss traitors laying down arrow fire at me with an undead Chiss tank charging my position. I hid behind a stone wall so the archers couldn't shoot me and because I have Archery Gameplay Overhaul installed, the arrows would make my character bleed, so too many shots could turn into a big problem. I fought the Chiss tank and managed to overcome him before taking out the archers and then the undead Chiss tank somehow resurrected himself (not sure if this mod or if Skyrim Immersive Creatures did that) and attacked me again, catching me off guard. He started summoning these purple skeletons like the ones you find the the Soul Cairn and I knew that if I kept letting him do that, I'd get surrounded and ganged up on, which would put me in a stun-lock. So I put attacks on both him and his bone men, killed one of the skeletons, and the undead Chiss immediately summoned another one, so I decided to quickly put attacks on the tank instead and managed to behead him before the skeleton could put too much damage on me. Of course, since it was a beheading, the bastard stayed down.
I took out the second weak Lurker easily since its back was turned and could deliver multiple strikes before it could react. Now I also have all three of the Inferno mods (Advents of Flame, Envoys of End, The Blood Marked) installed and knew that a body of a powerful mage enemy would be nearby with a strong Destruction spell-tome on his body and after some quick looking, I found his body and looted it. I had to do this quickly because just near the entrance to the Barrow was an enslaved Chiss giant and I knew it was close to noticing me. Once I got the spell, I fired it at the giant and it charged my position. It wasn't strong enough to kill it, most likely because I was only level 14 and lacked perks in Destruction magic, so I engaged it with my character's sword instead.
And died. Multiple times. Because it's a giant. Fortunately, I had the foresight to quick-save prior to the fight because it's a friggin' giant.
After numerous attempts of blocking certain attacks, dodging and counter attacking, etc, I realized that on the path you take to reach the barrow from Riverwood, there's a tower occupied with Chiss resistance and figured they could help. So I had the giant chase me over to that tower and with the sounds of loud stomping and the earth beneath my character shaking with every stomp running after me with attacks that could 1-2 shot me was... a little terrifying, to be honest.
Once I got the resistance's attention, we managed to take out the giant together and I got to go inside the barrow. The experience also taught me that I need to take side-quests more seriously so I can level up and not have to rely on others the next time I fight a Chiss giant.
Fantastic mod. Highly recommend if you want to shake up your playthrough and like the author does, I highly recommend using some combat mods to go with it as they can help give you more of a fighting chance against some of the tougher enemies. They work so well with it that if the author meant for that intentionally, he just might be a genius. And since this mod hypes up Thrawn, I'm both excited and scared to see what he can do. Endorsed. Not to exclude the fact that this mod even has a story that boasts its choices mattering? I haven't even started the story yet and I'm having a lot of fun. I'm not even a Star Wars fan. :P
EDIT: Should mention that since I have a lot of mods that up difficulty, I increased my character's starting health, magicka, and stamina pool from 100 to 1000. I never liked having that little amount and those numbers balance things out quite nicely while still keeping everything pretty hard.
EDIT 2: I also recommend reading the description. But honestly, every mod user with half a brain should be doing that, especially for big mods like this one.
Its the perfect antidote for someone like me who has played Skyrim to death. level 150 something and so far no bugs on a 650 something load list.
Again thanks a lot I cant even begin to imagine the work that has gone into this.
i have done a lot quest.
Great mods anyway !