Skyrim Special Edition

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About this mod

The mod overhauls dragons combat. This is not unreasonably strong.
Adds new 20+ animations and behaviors.
And more new melee combat, new shout, falls down, enrages and locational damage.
Aim to improve the actions, as well as balance is not so strong.
No need to create a new game and wait respawn dragon when this mod installs.

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The mod overhauls dragons combat. Aim to improve the actions, as well as balance is not so strong.
Adds new 20+ animations and behaviors. More new melee combat, new shout, falls down, enrages and locational damage.
To improve the dragon special battles experience by adding a variety of actions.

No need to create a new game and wait re-spawn dragons when this mod installing and upgrading.

I'm looking for people to help with AE support for below SKSE Plugins.
https://github.com/tktk11/InsertAttackData64
https://github.com/tktk11/UltimateDragon64Plugin

Requirements

Skyrim 1.5.97
SKSE 2.0.17
SkyUI 5.2SE

Features

Additional attacks
This mod adds new 20+ attacks animations.
Adds new animations of the dragon attacks for the first time in the world, it is also a feature of this mod.
Visual effect and attacks are depend on the type of dragon.

Three times shout: Shoot ices or fireballs in three directions
Swing Breath: Fire or frost breath moves toward the right from the left.
Bite Rotation: Bite while rotating.
Tail swiping: Sweeping attack of the tail from the right or left side.
Bite: Bite while spreading wings.
Proximity meteor: Drop a meteor in four directions around the dragon. Location is fixed.
Ranged meteor: Drop four meteors towards a target.
Homing icicle: Icicles tracking a target.
Ground blast:Explode at random in front of a target. Rock and steam come before it explode.
Faas Ru Maar(Dismay):Fleeing NPC be affected by shouting. Player has no fear effect, but player staggers a little.
Fus Ro Dah:NPC is knocked down by shouting. The player is no knock down, but stagger a little.
Iiz Slen Nus:Freezes the NPC.
Marked for Death:Armor are weakened for a limited period of time. Range is narrower than the other shout. High levels of dragons can use it.

Alduin only:
Summon Spectral Dragon:Summon two small snake-like dragons.
Circle flames: Shoot the fireball in eight directions.

AI Control
  • Dragon doesn't fly more than other mods.
  • Dragon is limited to target tracking performance while shouting.
  • Dragon has taken a little longer preliminary movement before shout.
  • Making it easy to take positions at reduced turning speed on the ground.

Locational Damage

The four different body part: head, wings and tail.

When locational damage is accumulated certain level, dragon lies on the ground and reduce ability.
Try to aim at the body part intensively as the situation demands.
Durability is different by body part.
You can take the alchemy of new material from a corpse if you succeed destroy tail or wings. It is useful against dragon.

Enrage

If you keep dragon irritating, he get violently angry with shouting.
Dragon exhales smoke at the mouth during angry.
Dragon increases speed of some actions and deal attack damage, and also incoming damage in exchange during angry.

Dragon Setting
Dragon health has maximum three times by default.
Dragon has maximum health and damage resist depends on own or your level.
Maximum health can be configured in MCM.
Attacks damage or magic damage(included breath) can be configured in MCM.

Other
It is reinforced with magic via a script in order to avoid conflicts as much as possible.
Reduce the impact on your PC as much as possible by using SKSE plugin.
It can be used with other dragon overhaul mod. (I do not recommend because it may not have a good game balance)

Please put "Ultimate Dragons.esp"  under than other dragon mod in load order, because perk for dragon probably conflicts with other mod.

I recommend you to set HP magnification to 1.0 if you use with other dragon mod.

If dragon's health is 32767 and more,  force health to 32760.
Because it occur "no received damage" bug on this condition.

Installation


Upgrade
Overwrite files. No need to make a clean save.

Uninstallation

  • Deactive mod in MCM.
  • Must not be state of fighting the dragon before save game.
  • Exit game, and then removes this mod using all files.


MCM
It can be configured in SkyUI MCM.

MaxHPMult: Set dragon maximum health multiplier before combat starts. If you use other dragon mod, I recommend set to 1.0
Stagger Resist: Toggle option on to dragon has staggered resist.
MeleeDamage:Set dragon deal melee damage multiplier before combat starts.
MagicDamage:Set dragon deal magic and shout damage multiplier before combat starts.
KillMove Rate: Set rate of killmove that player or NPC is killed by the dragon.
Flying Rate:Set rate of frequency flying. Vanilla is the highest rate.
Active Mod: Function stop of distribution script. Please turned off when uninstalling. If such has a problem to quest progression related to Dragon, try to off it before start quest.

Known Issues/bugs
- Sometimes dragon cannot play an additional animation.

- Sometimes dragon cannot play effect in swing shout.

Not To-do
  • Player is knocked down
  • Added Reflect damage
  • Added Regeneration health
  • Summon creature (exception:Alduin)
  • Call other dragon
  • Added Disarm shout
  • Added varieties of dragon
  • Increased the number of dragon

Compatible mods
This mod is almost compatible with other Dragon mods.
Basically load Ultimate Dragons after other dragon mods.

Diverse Dragons Collection SE
Bellyaches New Dragon Species SSE
Immersive Dragons
KS Dragon Overhaul 2 -  load Ultimate Dragons after KS.
Run For Your Lives
Splendor - Dragon Variants SE Download
and more...


FNIS
If you use it with FNIS, you need a patch. (Version 7.4.5)

  • Download the latest version of "FNIS" from Nexus.
  • Download a patch "FNIS Behavior 7.4.5 SE add-on 3 (AGO.TK)" from FNIS optional files.
  • Overwrite the patch with FNIS.
  • Run "Data\tools\GenerateFNIS_for_Users\GenerateFNISforUsers.exe".
  • Check "tktk1's "TK Dodge/Ultimate Combat"".
  • Click "Update FNIS Behavior".
  • Wait for finishing.
  • Done.

Recommended Mod
You can enjoy more if use those.
Ultimate Combat: NPC combat overhaul mod was made with the same concept.
TK Dodge: Adds dodge animation for player.
TK Hitstop: Gives the feel when attack hits.

Special Thanks
aers - converting plugins for SSE
himika - Create plugins
towawot - support and advice


Supports are welcome
I cannot accept donations by Paypal in my country. It is possible for patreon or ko-fi.


 
ko-fi in my page. $3-
https://ko-fi.com/R6R8EER3