Going to play Skyrim for the first time ,which mods are the best?

Abhi Singh

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Going to play it for the first time ,need to know which mods are a must must for this game, without mods skyrim is incomplete I''ve heard this
 
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Nike had it right 20 years ago. Just do it dude.
Mods are plenty.

I like Alternative Beginning and d2 style loot-table mods. I just roam without the restrictions of questing to get sick loot. Brings new features to the gameplay aswell, ex. crit, speed, bow-zoom, speed, stats... everything really.

GELO mod from nexus
Expanded loot-tables from nexus
Alternative beginning from nexus

Happy hunting

Abhi Singh

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Sorry,I've heard it a thousand times that there is no fun playing skyrim without mods.

If anyone can give me a list of the best mods like textures,sky changing mod just give me a nae ill download it.
 

WildOscar

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Nike had it right 20 years ago. Just do it dude.
Mods are plenty.

I like Alternative Beginning and d2 style loot-table mods. I just roam without the restrictions of questing to get sick loot. Brings new features to the gameplay aswell, ex. crit, speed, bow-zoom, speed, stats... everything really.

GELO mod from nexus
Expanded loot-tables from nexus
Alternative beginning from nexus

Happy hunting
 
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shodouban

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Ive modded my Skyrim 5 times now and up to 86 gigs Modding IS the game in some ways :)
As for whats best.... man... tough call but heres a few pointers..
1. Nexus mod manager. it will make installing and uninstalling SO much easier.
2.READ the full descriptions before installing.
3. Seriously , read the descriptions or you will break your game.
4. Go to nexus and check out the pictures on these 2 body type mods ; UNP and CBBE
There are more but these two are the top two in ratings , stability , compatibility etc.
Once you have made your choice follow their recomendations for Armour and weapon ( etc ) mods.
This will keep things compatible and running smoothly as long as you follow the directions.
Not all mods install the same way.
5. the 2K textures mod is great and can be later enhanced using ENB. I urge you to not install ENB until you have the game just how you want it.
6. Save game bloat is an issue... avoid a major pain in the A&& by not making 535 of them.
7. make backups of your data folder, ( if you are going to use BOSS make sure to have your backup hidden otherwise it may detect/mixmatch the wrong files )
8.Read the descriptions carefully ; when they say it's incompatible with another mod , they really really do mean it.
9. Install SKSE , it is the backbone of countless game changing mods. There are some good youtube vids that are total step by step. ( painfully so at times but thats a good thing to the new guys )
10. insert reading stuff being important comment here plz <<<<---------------------------

I know I really beat the dead horse on the reading thing but god , if you only knew how many hours I've spent trying to help someone fix what shouldn't have gotten broken to start with.
Ive helped quite a few people turn their vanilla Skyrim into a truly next gen game with enhanced A.I. , 4k textures , new animations etc etc etc.
In my experience the crashes and such people have are almost always because of their "TL;DR" mentality.

Feel free to PM for help , or to just kick the can around about Skyrim.
 
There are a lot of mods out there, with different categories (graphics, gameplay, models, etc).
In reality, it is very hard to find the "best" or "right" mods for you as everyone has their own taste.
Id advice you search for mods in youtube first to get a general idea of what mods you are actually looking for first.
 

auba101

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I made a list a wile ago here it is:

Skyrim Mods

Graphics:
Better Docks
Beautiful Skyrim HD Clutter and Furniture
Better Landscape Textures
Better Village
Book Covers Skyrim
City Banner Replacer
CLARALUX - More and Britgher Lights
Climate of Tamriel – Sounds
Dat Grass
Detailed Rugs
Distance decal Fix
Enhanced blood Textures
Enhanced Distant Terrain
Enhanced Lights and FX
Enhanced night of skyrim
Falmer Clutter Texture
Finer Dust
Footprints
FXAA Post Process Injector
Get Snowy
Glorious Grasses
Glowing Ore Veins
Grass and Grass
HD enhanced terrain
HD_Linens
HD soul gems
Hectrol CAVES DELUXE HighRes Retex
High Definition HAY
High definition Ivy
HQ Paper
high realistic tundra moss - yellow variant
Lanterns Of Skyrim Around Cities
Illustrated Panels Towns
Immersive Skyrim Thunder
Immporved rock and mountains texture 4k Version
Intricate Spider Webs
Lush Trees and Grass
Mo Natura Grass Texture Floorss rocks
Nernies City and Village Expansion
No More Ugly Bronze Shine
Populated Cities
Pure Waters
Project Reality - Climate of Tamriel
Quality SnowFlakes HD
Rainbows
Real Ice
Realistic Lightning Overhaul
Realistic Mushrooms
Realistic Smoke and Embers
Remove Ambient interior fog
Repopulated Skyrim
Ruins Clutter Improved
Septim HD
Serious HD Retexture Skyrim
Sexy Boats
Sexy Solitude
Sexy Villages and Towns
Sexy Winterhold College
Shooting Stars
Silly Level of Detail - Potions and Posons/Wine Cellar
Skyrim Bigger tree
Skyrim Flora Overrhaul Summer Edition
Skyrim HD - 2k Textures FULL - Dungeons
Skyrim HD - 2k Textures FULL - Misc
Skyrim HD - 2k Textures FULL - Landscape
Skyrim HD - 2k Textures FULL - Towns
Skyrim HD - 2k Textures FULL – Riften
SKY TEST - Realistic Animals and Predators
Smile in HD
Static Mesh Improvement Mod – SMIM
The Sounds Of Nature - Water
Towns and Villages Enhanced – Whiterun
Towns and Villages Enhanced - Windhelm
Towns and Villages Enhanced – Riften
Towns and Villages Enhanced – Riverwood
Towns and Villages Enhanced – Solitude
Trees HD
Ultimate HD Fire effects – Ultra
Ultra Realistic World Lighting
Vandr Presents- HD Spiders Nests
Visible Windows
Vivid Landscape - Cliffs and Creeks
WATER - Water And Terrain Enhancement Redux
Wet and Cold
Weapons:
aMidianBorn Book of silence - Armors, Unique items and weapons
Crossbows Basic Collection
JaySuS Swords
Weapon Retexture Project - WRP
Armors:
Clocks of SKyrim
Horse Armors
Immersive Armors
Improved NPC Clothing
Nightingale Prime HD
Yuril Rings HQ
Misc:
ABT - Arrows and Bolts Tweaks
Better archery Eagle Eye perk
Dovahkiin Relaxes Too
Dragon Combat Overhaul
Falskaar
Immersive Patrols
Midas Magic
Realistic Ragdolls and Force
Run for your lives
Skyrim Project Optimization
The Dance of Death
Unofficial Dawnguard Patch
Unofficial Dragonborn Patch
Unofficial Hearthfire Patch
Unofficial Skyrim Patch
Wyrmstooth
Interface:
A quality world Map
Better Message box controller
Better Quest Objectives
Doudle Cursor Fix
Immersive HUD
KenMOD - Time on loading Screen
Main Font Replacement
Player Headtracking
Player Home Map Markers
RaceMenu
Skill Interface Retexture
SkyUI
Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE)
Characters:
ApachiiSkyHair
ApachiiSkyHair NPC overhaul
Beards
Better Males - Beautiful Nudes and Faces
Better Females by Bella
Calientes Femal Body
DCE - Realistic Male Face
Lunari Race
My Type of Hair
No More Blocky Faces
TairenSoul Face Tattoo Warpaint
The eyes of Beauty
RaceCompatibility for Dawnguard plus vanilla version upgrades
Spells:
Apocalypse Spell Package
Better Magic
Deadly Spell Impacts
Forgotten Magic
Ultimate HD Fire Spells
Animals:
83Willows 101BugsHD
Bellyaches Animal and Creature Pack
Bellyaches HD Dragon Replacer Pack
Birds and Flocks
Convenient Horse
Hi-res Pelts
SkyBirds - Airborne Perching Birds

EDIT: To get the BEST FPS while playing, with little to no graphic change, change these settings in your Nvidia control panel (For those running ATI cards, I'm sure you can do the same).

1. Ambient Occlusion - Performance
2. Anisotropic Filtering - 16x
3. Anti-Aliasing Transparency - 8x (supersample)
4. Texture Filtering Quality - High Quality
5. Vertical Sync - Force Off
6. After this, before starting the game, make sure to turn off AF and AA. The GPU will use its settings instead of the game engine, making it run that much faster.

That's it hope it helped ,but there are still more mods on skyrim nexus