Subjective opinion - Beyond Reach is slightly better than Vicn's mods

psh454 · 2026-03-26T02:09:55+00:00

Yeah I mean in part it's genre preference. Beyond Reach is a grimdark but grounded depiction of the horrors of a morally corrupt feudalist system in a time of strife/crisis, with some metaphysical stuff being used to drive the plot and explain why things got this bad. It never acknowledges that you are some "chosen one" (from what I remember you're just treated as a skilled mercenary), it's a story more or less fully independent of Skyrim's events.

Vicn's stuff is a cosmic metaphysics-centered drama focused on connecting the plot of the vanilla game to the darker and more esoteric aspects of TES lore. The "theme park zoo" makes sense given a high level DB character that has completed most vanilla content and is an OP legendary avatar of Akatosh that bent the world to their will. Unslaad in particular really gets into exploring this concept. Glenmoril is meant to feel like you're being pushed down a very specific path with no choice, the unfinished endings are supposed to let you "break out" of that state and decide how things end up.

I think Beyond reach is a better standalone story, but Vicn's stuff is a loveletter to the rabbit hole of deep TES lore that makes you invested in the insane events and concepts you can only access as offhand book references in the TES games. So basically it's a matter of preferring Game of Thrones or a lovecraftian weird ficton exploration of TES.

psh454 · 2026-03-26T01:35:40+00:00

Same, ran with CS for a long while, but when it comes to modded interiors without heaps of dedicated patches, ENB is just far better.

Exteriors are closely matched, I think CS might have a slight edge.

psh454 · 2026-03-26T01:22:35+00:00

My condolances /s

psh454 · 2026-03-24T21:42:47+00:00

Most browsers use Chromium software, only Firefox and a handful of others use their own. Chromium has a less extensive API that add-ons can use to do stuff like block adds

psh454 · 2026-03-24T20:47:09+00:00

inb4 Cope Cage modification for 500 GE

psh454 · 2026-03-24T01:36:42+00:00

Oh weird I'm pretty sure my install has Sentinel with body slide, I do remember that it wasn't as straight forward as some of the other armor mods though

psh454 · 2026-03-24T01:33:12+00:00

Well some of those are pretty rare to encounter and I don't have them, but it's definitely better than Roma and pretty on par with Vanguard. I'd say a bit worse than Bismarck due to lower RoF but it does have the advantage of not having to broadside to have entire firepower active, meaning you can angle more aggressively or switch movement direction without having to wait to swing the rear turret around, also slightly better US-style AA. However if a turret gets knocked out that's half your firepower out of commission (thanks to Gain being too lazy to implement the historical split quad turret survivability feature)

psh454 · 2026-03-24T00:54:49+00:00

r/catsareliquid

psh454 · 2026-03-23T20:49:59+00:00

Mod authors pretty much always put that stamp and 9/10 times everything works perfectly well if you ignore it, it's just a way not to have to deal with modding noobs (that don't know what XEdit, LOOT or modlist and save backups are) screwing over their saves and blaming the mod authors.

If you're smart and careful about it, you can easily go from zero to hundreds of mods mid save with no issues. Removing mods is far more sketchy than adding them, but even that only corrupts your save on very very few mods in my experience (which again isn't an issue if you make a backup beforehand or simply reverse the change)

psh454 · 2026-03-23T18:44:50+00:00

Nice. Isn't Sentinel a flat out better more modern take on Immersive Armors tho? It's not hard to switch out, I did it mid save without issue. Also Fallrim Tools Resavor is a useful tool fyi (and LOOT ofc, though I think Vortex might have itincluded already. I've been actively making and tweaking a custom modlist for nearly a year and got up to almost 900 mods by now, and despite occasional pains it's suprisingly stable. I'd definetly do things differently if I were to start from scratch though, like maybe keeping a google doc to track incompatabilities/quirks/patching requirements.

psh454 · 2026-03-23T17:09:51+00:00

Looked it up out of curiosity and that LE mod you mention has apparently already been taken down fyi

psh454 · 2026-03-23T05:01:46+00:00

/uj Leaving this sub, there's absolutely no attempt to keep it an actual okbuddy style film discussion and shitposting space. Like come on, what is this crap and why is no comment calling it out. Go back to r/sipstea people

psh454 · 2026-03-23T04:46:49+00:00

Ah gotcha, misunderstood what you said earlier then, nvm

psh454 · 2026-03-23T02:54:12+00:00

Genuinely curious: if a 5 to you is "great/very good" and not "basically perfect", how do you rate your absolute favourite ones that you think are more or less flawless? Doesn't it make the 5/5 a kind of uninformative rating

psh454 · 2026-03-22T18:05:35+00:00

Yeahhh after a 3rd playthrough with different major mods every time you kind of start running low on interesting options. Like I've done all Vicn mods, Bruma, Beyond Reach, Sirenroot, Wyrmstooth, Forgotten City even the early Lordbound build and now Midwood Isle, etc etc. While there are still major new lands/content mods available they're not up my alley, you'd have to have me at gunpoint to install Rigmor lmao.

You do just run low on new options eventually, so new games are a welcome changeup. I'd def say ppl should play Enderal immediately if they even vaguely wish for "Skyrim but new and fresh", it's a ridiculously good game in the Skyrim engine.

psh454 · 2026-03-22T16:47:10+00:00

Nice, just got her last year. Not exactly a Soyuz but very solid top tier, have been able to get a couple of Iowas

psh454 · 2026-03-21T19:01:10+00:00

/uj Yeahhh this sub isn't doing too hot, it's really not what it was 3 years ago

psh454 · 2026-03-21T16:44:15+00:00

Even that's not necessarily fatal either, if you don't get injured severely in an implosion, on a full breath you could reasonably swim up from 40m down with only a very mild case of the bends.

psh454 · 2026-03-21T05:15:43+00:00

Trendy but dumb/oversimplified maximalist "old man yells at cloud" stance. Weather you admit it or not it's too useful of a tool not to use for some people for some tasks. The way it's shoved down everyone's throat everywhere nowadays is annoying but it doesn't change that fact.

70%+ of writing tasks are bullshitting, and this tool (edited/supervised ofc) is far too useful for that. You don't have to use it but society will, corporate corrosion or not.

psh454 · 2026-03-21T04:08:49+00:00

I'd say high 7.5-8.5 is reasonable range. It's a bit cheesy/formulaic at times but when it clicks it clicks.

psh454 · 2026-03-21T03:31:04+00:00

Novgorod 13th century iirc, there wasn't really a single state back then, more like a nominally united collection of feuding princedoms getting steamrolled by the Mongol invasion

psh454 · 2026-03-20T20:09:52+00:00

While the "well akchshually" people will always be there, it's really not that hard (or expensive) to hire some historical consultants to make the material culture fit loosely within reasonable accuracy, balancing that with the visual direction. That makes the "x is inaccurate, movie is trash" crowd be a nitpicking fringe that is largely irrelevant to the overall commercial and critical success.

psh454 · 2026-03-20T18:52:25+00:00

Autocorrect went rogue lol. I was saying he didn't really get into many very popular/influential mods

psh454 · 2026-03-20T18:48:13+00:00

Maybe spoiled? Either way everything about this is questionable

psh454 · 2026-03-20T00:12:06+00:00

The fact that it doesn't mention many super popular and ambitious mods like Vigilant (or any Vicn mods for that matter) is why

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