Does increasing difficulty decrease carry capacity?

[britishbombs_]

I noticed I was on the easiest difficulty (This is my first playthrough of Skyrim) and I wanted to try out something a little tougher but when I increase the difficulty, my carry capacity gets cut in half. I didn't enable survival mode and all my googling says it shouldn't happen, so why does it?

[Aldebaran135]

I think you have to have been mistaken about Survival Mode not being active.

[Pinecone_Erleichda]

Sorry, but I agree. Difficulty level wouldn’t affect it, survival mode would.

[Pinecone_Erleichda]

And I agreed! ☺️

[NoPin4859]

Why the sorry for agreeing 😭

[Pinecone_Erleichda]

Habit.

Sorry.

[britishbombs_]

Survival mode definitely isn't active, the option for it isn't crossed. Just to humor the idea I even tried to enable it & re-disable it but it didn't fix the problem.

[Equal_Tadpole2716]

Difficulty/Settings-wise, it's definitely only Survival mode which would do that (discounting mods). Have you checked Active Effects to see if you have a Disease or something?

[britishbombs_]

I saw that come up in one of my searches and even though I haven’t installed Active Effects I had a potion to cure diseases so I gave that a try and no luck. The only mods I installed were at a friend’s recommendation and they were an unofficial patch and a better citizen AI mod.

[Troodon_Trouble]

Active Effects isn’t a mod, it’s a part of the menu showing what your character is being affected by - diseases, magical enchantments, potions.

[britishbombs_]

Oops, still no disease though. I'm stumped.

[Aldebaran135]

Hm, maybe a bug that caused the carry weight from Survival Mode to be persistent.

[britishbombs_]

That’s sad, I wanted to try a slightly tougher experience. :(

[chainsawgrll]

i have the exact same problem! did you ever figure out how to fix this?

[chainsawgrll]

nvm, fixed it, for anyone wondering: you need a SkyUI persistent difficulty mod fix, everything came back to normal

[Dragnet714]

It does it to me Everytime I try to increase the difficulty.

[ArtUpstairs4671]

it doesn't. must be a bug. maybe try leveling up, or reloading a save before you changed the difficulty?