No apologies for your rambles necessary, ever. Your rambles about mods are what drew me to your channel in the first place. Your Will LP is what got me into Fallout. Your various tutorials for Fallout 3, NV and Skyrim have been invaluable and made it far easier to get those games set up. Although your LPs are very entertaining, which is why I keep watching, your discussions (aka rambles) about various aspects of games and mods are most useful for me and greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I mentioned in another video, there is a relatively new mod on the nexus (within the last month) that removes the scream when doing a sneak power attack. for a thief/assassin type character i find it almost essential
You're correct Gopher, the latest version of DynDOLOD fixed the crashes. It was due to some issue when using DynDOLOD together with Realistic Water 2. I couldn't stop crashing myself whenever exiting an interior cell to an exterior, but as soon as I installed version 2.40 and ran DynDOLOD, it worked.
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8:24 In all my time playing Skyrim, I don't recall ever hearing this conversation between Hilde and the Guard O.o Can't wait for Season 2 :D - Apocalypso
There is a new Nightingale texture mod called Frankly HD Nightingale Armor and Weapons. Only issue is it does not have a maskless version, but it looks nice.
Any maskless hood mesh would work fine with it, or he could adjust the textures to make sure the maskless mesh has the proper environment maps and stuff to make it fully compatible. It's such a great looking retexture though, passing it up would be a shame.
Gopher, it is because of you I now own Skyrim Special Edition for the PC via Steam. So thank you, now I just need to figure out how to utilize all these juicy mods.
Gopher, for Nightingale Armor i personally use these 2 mods. True HD Nightingale Retex - www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4745 , definitely check that out if you have not done so. The best HD retex, making it slightly darker but remaining faithful to the original look. Nightingale Hood with attached Cape - www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8083 , obviously the cape is part of the hood now so if you are not using the Nightingale hood there is no cape, it also removes the shadowed effect from the eyes, i know you would prefer the mask gone, but (for me) having the shadow gone, it gives my character more personality seeing the eyes, so the mask looks quite nice.
The bow of a crossbow is a 'prod', the wooden beam that forms the center is a 'tiller', it has a string, which you pull back with a 'lever' (real crossbows used a 'goats foot lever'), the string is then locked into the 'nut'. I own a crossbow that is a copy of a real medieval hunting crossbow, awesome and powerful, but it doesnt make much noise. The crossbow in skyrim are louder than mine.
I remember the first time I ran down a corridor with my crossbow loaded and ready to go... I suddenly thought "NOW this feels like gaming" (in a good way)
Love that Gopher is having a "Lets talk about mods" video but still Leonard is "stealing" some spotlight 19:30 from Gopher, THAT is role playing to the max :D And no Gopher, your videos are never boring, no matter how much you ramble, on the contrary I must say.
To change the detection level of the crossbow, in xEdit, find "VNAM - Detection Sound Level" in any weapon record. It's located near the very bottom. All the Crossbows are set to Silent. The other options are Normal, Loud and Very Loud.
Have you looked at the 'Frankly HD Nightingale Armor' by FrankFamily? Doesn't have a version without a mask, but the armour itself seems to be more or less what you're looking for - a 'polished' and cleaner version of the vanilla. I'd also recommend the 'rough leather armor' by atomec, because that seems perfect for Leonard to wear while sneaking around at night or in Riften, but it doesn't seem to have been ported over to SE.
I know it's not my character or playthrough of course, but I feel like most thieves/assassins/otherwise shady characters would want to have at least one set of armor with a mask. Hiding your face is useful sometimes. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to just use a nice Nightingale rexeture even if it still has a mask.
Dearest Gopher, I appreciate your comments about Skyland. I too use Verdant and I wholeheartedly agree with you. Due to the amount of grass mods, ENB's, re-shades, lighting mods, and weather, I tried to keep a neutral pallet for my Skyland mods. If I designed my mods around other specific mods, I wouldn't have been able to achieve the reach and level of popularity I have with Skyland. WITH that said, I've uploaded my personal tundra textures that I've been using as an optional add-on for Skyland Landscape Texture Overhaul specifically for Verdant users. I hope you find this to blend better than before. Enjoy!
I've spended countless hours into testing l&w mods to achieve 'realistic' nights and interiors, there is no question about it: With NAT you have lots of in-game customization options (ie % darker nights) wich function in a way I haven't seen in other l&w mods. NAT also comes with a robust (and beautiful!) semi-cofigurable weather system. In addition NAT is designed to work with an ENB: 'PhotoRealisticTamriel' wich has a highly configurable system for the lightning (interior-night, exterior-day, exterior-dawn, etc.) and as the name implies, it leans heavily on the photorealistic but with tons of custom styles. In my current system (i7-2600, 16ram, GTX-960 4vram) I cannot run the ENB without a significant FR loss so I'm forced to use ELFX (interiors, enhanced) but the ENB is sufficient for achieving just about the same visual effect (with some manual configuration), wich I would preffer since I learned (the hard way) that ELFX makes some ligths not render but they still make you visible to the NPC's wich is completly immersion breaking. Since I tested the mod there was no doubt: it was by far the best, and with the ENB, the only one I needed for l&w. So far it does have a couple of insignificant bugs with some specific combination of ToD, NightConfig and WeatherConfig in very specific places; but they really are insignificant.
This is a new release, but Frankly HD Nightingale Armor and Weapons would be an excellent texture mod for your Nightingale gear. It is also compatible with mesh edits and has a few of it's own, including full gloves and no cape.
for the nightingale armor I found those mods : Maskless player only -> Old Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/5130 Maskless all -> Old Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/45539 1st Nightingale armor texture -> Old Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/92489 New Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18560 - This armor look more worn out than the regular fit nicely I think... 2nd Nightingale armor texture -> New Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4745 A darker armor than the regular one... Capeless Nightingale -> New Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4837 Old Rim :www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1560 All things Nightingale (armor, weapons) -> Old Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1485 Hope you find this interesting and give it a look
@gopher Zerofrosts Nighingale Prime is a work of art, but it is indeed super clean to the point that it might be too clean fkr a gritty thief (it does hower have a no-mask version contrary to what you said, I literally used it today). An alternative worth checking out is the very recently added Frankly HD nightingale retexture though. That is also very high quality, but is the polar opposite of zeros clean look. It actually looks like what you might imagine a hundreds of years old relic made of leather might look like after having been passed down though countless hands and been worn though every sewer in Tamriel. It's dirty, gritty, and worn to bits - yet still somehow regal. Also rather terrifying in a dark alley.... And if not, then theres no good reason to not get immersive armors. Dozens and dozens of quality lore-friendly sets there and it's bound to have good pieces to use. Also helps a lot with adding diversity to NPCs too and that's never a bad thing (just be aware that a few meshes need NIFoptimizing ideally)
For the throwing weapons mod I heard (I haven’t checked) that there were optional animations included that you need to replace yourself, not sure if they’re any good but I think they needed FNIS
Speaking as the mod author of said throwing weapons mod, you are correct. There's a replacer version, but also a new non-replacer version that uses custom behavior files and FNIS. You can check out the animations on my showcase of the latest version: th-cam.com/video/CkkdMXbgyys/w-d-xo.html
Yes, the animation itself is good, except for the way it holds the weapon in its hand. The hand seems to have the default spell 'pose' and so it looks like the dagger is not being gripped, but rather is floating in front of the palm. If I were playing for myself, I'd almost certainly not notice that and would use the mod, but for a let's play things like that can break 'the illusion' for a lot of viewers and because of that I tend to focus on it more than I would if playing for myself.
Gopher yeah I know what your talking about that’s the main reason I didn’t use myself, wasn’t sure if it actually changed the handling of the weapon or just the attack, it’s a very valid point and a shame that it looks so weird. I wish somebody was good enough at animating to make a really polished version of such a great concept
I see. I had a hunch that might have been the reason. To fix that, I would need to create some custom 1st person magic animations with a closed hand. I was actually just trying that out, but unfortunately it's proving to be extremely difficult. Havok tools is able to import/export Skyrim 3rd person animations just fine but for some reason 1st person animations are extremely finicky. No wonder there are so few 1st person animation replacers. In any case, I'll see if I can fix it. If not, well, I guess you can always have fun with the mod when you're not let's playing? :P
@Gopher The scenes you're shooting look lovely. Your graphics card is powerful enough to run Verdant with many other mods. My 780 isn't. With a less powerful graphics card, Skyland--especially its ground textures--becomes an attractive backup that conserves resources . . .
Do you mean www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2417 "Bandolier - Bags and Pouches Classic"? if so I'll second that plus it's a good way to improve your carry weight :)
Gopher, for quest mods check out "Outlaws and Revolutionaries." It was made specifically because the author thought the main quest was a bit, meh. It also gives you the option to mess with most of the factions in Skyrim :)
Armor of intrigue is easily one of my fav armour mods. It's reasonably balanced and looks amazing, and ofc the customization. L could use it in case of going for any battle quest. I dunno, just wanna see it :)
If you’re still looking for some armor mods, the Warmonger pack has some good sets with the same concept as immersive armors: sets are made of compiled parts of vanilla assets. Some look really nice. There’s a rogue thief set that’s sort of a more armored looking version of the thieves guild armor. Could work similar to the crimson archer stuff you’ve currently got as your “general traveller” set (posting this when Wrong Address is your most recent ep)
Warmonger Armory has some nice Armors. There's an Unofficial Port of it for SSE, and the mod author is working on an update that he intends to upload for SSE eventually. Might be something in there for Leonard.
So I know it’s a bit early to speculate on the next play through.... but who cares!? So far Gopher has done three play throughs; one for each interesting Khajiit. Stiv and Jhzargo Richard and Kharjo And now Lenard and Inigo There’s no good Khajiit left! The solution? In Ghopher’s next playthrough HE has to be the Khajiit lol
Gopher, Oblivion Artifacts mod...has the Deciever's Finery. Perfect clothing for town. Bonus to selling and speech IIRC. That is, if you are keen for actual clothing in town and not actual light armor. Give the mod a look...it adds alot and it works for a thief because certain items need to be stolen then keep them as trophies or use them.
Quickloot is such a good quality of life mod for Skyrim. Last I checked it wasn't available for SE. Good to know it's there now. From what I remember the reason people were getting crashes from Quickloot was because they had the number of items that it will show in the list too high. So when you go and look at your big stash you will crash. Generally I found that 20 items or less was good. But maybe there are different crashes from Skyrim standard.
Most of the things that annoy the daylights out of Gopher & him not being able to play skyrim for 5 minutes without being annoyed by it. I Never even notice unless he points it out lol. Is that only me? Or is that just a case of ignorance being bliss? lol
I don't notice half the stuff that bothers him. I have no visual mods loaded at all. I mostly have convenience mods. Follower tweaks, horse tweaks, etc.
Chris White I think it depends on your build and load order, I have a lot of mods that tweak a lot of placements of things, and trying to get them all work together is a huge pain, I still get weird shit like lanterns floating in the air, fire where there aren't any braizers, flowers popping out of rocks, light where there isn't a source, and one time, not sure what it was since I was running base with maybe 20 mods only at the time, I got a door to pop into the middle of whiteruns graveyard that lead to nowhere, and another door that was invisible but actually worked and made noise that lead to the temple in whiterun from high hrothgar, wire bash and patches only do so much when you toss together a good list of like 200 mods, and a lot of them are story based one so it's all hit and miss, and if I find something not going right like 10 hours in because I haven't been to riften or falkreath yet because fast travels off and I'm doing quests in an area, I either have to deal with it, or rip through like 20 mods going crazy trying to find out what's going on
If you were in charge of creating a theatric-quality presentation on a regular basis, you're always looking for a way to improve the immersion. That little-bit extra flow to what you do will always help
You probably already now about this, but there's an armor mod called Nightingale Prime that cleans the armor and has a maskless variant. From what I've seen it looks very nice and bonus: it's craftable so you can have a blacksmith "fix up" your old set. Then again I don't know anything about modding. Love your vids! Edit: Probably should have watched the whole video. oops. Edit 2: I think the armor of intrigue would be great if you happened to become more of an assassin.
Jaasce It was. The only way to get quick loot working in sse is porting it yourself. Luckily there is a reddit post somewhere and the process is really easy. Don't really remember where I found it but probably in the comments of one of the menu retextures on the nexus
Legendary Skyrim Crossbows might be a better choice than just faction crossbows as it includes that mod aswell as adds alot of new variants to both crossbows and bolts. NPCs also get them via level lists.
I cant recommend Distinct Interiors enough. Its a lightweight highly compatible visual update that makes inns, shops and a few other interiors interesting again, especially for Lenny who loves skulking about in places he shouldn't. Its modular too, so you could leave the thieves guild bit out since opulent tg already covers that for you. Cant wait for the next chapter!
If you're looking for suggestions on armor packs, there's these two I use (along with Immersive Armors, but I can see you already have that) Warmonger Armory www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17809 (Also applies some armors to npcs, looks good even just on them) Apachii Divine Elegance Store www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/9213 (Has a lot of female only armors, but quite a few male sets as well. Also takes some outfits from other games)
Any chance of a Gopher tutorial on DynDOLOD? Would love that! It's a confusing tool for those of us new to Skyrim modding. Looking forward to chapter 2!
hey gopher enjoying play through but weren't you planning to use Zim's immersive artifacts or royal armory for a change and newness to the artifacts you pick up just thought you said that before chapter 1 no big either way. on armors you might want to check out the evil mastermind good look for assassin thief for a little armor but have that Leonard look
Faction Crossbows is a great mod, used it for a long time. Nicely integrated and balanced into the game. If I remember correctly, the leveled lists are created oddly in that mod, you might want to check it against MLU.
Obsidian is the first weather mod that actually did weather consistently correct. What I mean by that is, when it's raining, there's clouds in the sky; if you hear raining and thunder while inside, it's actually storming when you exit the interior you're in. Even when I had CoT as the only mod installed, this NEVER happened. I am interested in seeing the weather you've chosen, though. I wouldn't have tried Obsidian without seeing how it looks, and you used it so I got to see how good it looks.
I have been playing a crossbow using thief and I am using a manual reload mod so you can run for cover before reloading, but I found that using TK Dodge skips the animation entirely. I'm playing on Oldrim but I wouldn't doubt this would work in SE too. Would allow the agile Leonard to take quick shots, though it is a definite exploit.
One quest mod I would recommend for a thief character is "the gray cowl of nocturnal". It's a fantastic quest mod with great story and puzzles. The voice acting is a bit hit and miss though but it's overall a good mod that you should try out
someone needs to port the witcher like crossbows to SE cause i think it would make Lenard look like a dashing rouge shooting with one hand and stabbing with the other lol
Hi Gopher, great job, keep up the good work! Concerning the popping in of far away grass, have you considered trying to hide that with a bit of far away camera blur with an enb? if you do it little it may hide that grass popping in. try it out and maybe let me know how you like it.
NAT looks amazing and I was sad that I ended up replacing it. When I was casting fire spells, the mod caused the fire to go extra bright and everything not fire black.
for ranged weapons have a look at A.B.T. SE (Arrow and Bolt Tweaks SE) It really improves archery and makes it more realistic (Depending on the options chosen during the install), further more if configured correctly you don't need the cross hair to be able to aim the cross+/bow correctly :D if you have the CPU power / enough free scripting cycles there is also Arrow Recovery System Overhaul (A.R.S.O.) which has also been ported to SE. In regards to crossbow sound levels, in reality they're not much louder than re-curve bows of the same era, and it was mainly the goats foot lever / crank handle (if it wasn't oiled) that made most the noise, the bolt landing in a solid target would be much louder, If properly maintained there would be very little noise at all and would not be much louder than a bow configured for heavy poundage (draw weight). I have no idea why they were made so damn loud and clunky nor why bladed weapons sound like your running your blade against a grindstone when drawing it from a sheath for that matter. Your boots should be making more noise. than the crossbow.
You might like the manticore gear armor mod, but it's a little more bright, so it would probably be the day time outfit and it looks quite spiffy. I don't know if you would mind it being from the witcher 3 though since that might be off putting but it has tweaks to make it more unique.
the problem with quick loot is mostly with getting near a box with a lot of stuff in it, or by looting a body near a bunch of other bodies. there *should* be an option to turn off quick loot in game. i love quick loot but there are times when i would just not turn it on in-game. even if you are careful with how you loot you will still get crashes when you get near a body.
i had an interesting playthrough regarding crossbows with one of my old saves My character like leonard was too "weak" to draw bows and crossbows, so i would not use a bow, and made it interesting by being only to use the crossbow if i had a companion as my character was too weak to draw the crossbow, this lead to my chacter only being able to use the crossbow if my companion was there to draw it, this continued until i got ahold of the dwemer crossbow as that had all fancy mechanisms to draw the string without needing strength, this lead to using all the fancy explosive bolts as first combat shots before drawing a sword/dagger and vanishing
There is mods that lets you use a small crossbows that you can use as an side arm so you could hold a weapon in one hand and then using crossbow in your other hand.
Just to throw a suggestion out for your Quick Loot testing, while I would assume it's been fixed by now, the last time I used the mod there was a deal-breaking bug where anytime a container had 2 of the same item that didn't stack, the game would CTD. The meant I couldn't so much as look at the body of a dual-wielder I killed and looking at chests was like playing Russian Roulette.
I know you probably get more of these than you know what to do with as it is, but if I may, I'd like to make a few mod suggestions that you might like. They are not overhauls, nor additional content, but they tweak core mechanics to make them more user friendly. I believe they will improve anyone's experience, in the vein of Sprint Jump, Better Message Box Controls and Better Dialogue Controls. They are simple items that, in my opinion, should have been included in the base game. Enhanced No Poison Dialogue www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18497 Removes the message when applying a poison to a weapon (the sound still plays normally). Stay at the System Page www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18397 Causes the pause hotkey (default 'Esc') to bring-up your system menu, instead of your journal. Your journal hotkey (default 'J') brings up the journal normally. Immersive Wait and Sleep Menu www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51087 Offers a less jarring menu when waiting or sleeping. This mod does not need to be ported and is fully compatible with Skyrim Special Edition. (It consists of a replacement script for the rest menu and nothing else.) These mods do not count towards your plugin limit, are highly compatible and are directly additive for any play style. I hope you will consider my suggestions and enjoy the results.
I have found a good thieves guild armour re-texture that replaces the thieves guild master armour with a black Linwe hood called: Another Black Thieves Guild Armor SE on the nexus.
Hi Gopher here are some mod recommendation that I think you will find useful. Armor mod: Warmonger Armory - Unofficial Fixed SSE Port, it has some lore-friendly yet cool looking armor for thief. ENB: The Truth ENB, which pretty much vanilla but better.
This maybe goes without saying, but if you are considering using NAT, and possibly an ENB later, you HAVE to try out PRT. It was made by the same author, and they were made for each other. I love it, and I think you would too Gopher. Lots of beautiful misty weather, and just makes the game look gorgeous but very realistic.
I think you missed something. Nightingale Prime Remastered from "Zerofrost Mythical Armors and Dragon" does have a maskless version. In fact even two, one with cape and one with just a cowl. Also it's not just a retexture, but a complete new armor made from scratch. Reimagination, if you will.
The maskless version of the NP armor is not working correctly. Hair clips through the hood. To be honest though, I think it is too clean a texture for this play through too. It looks very modern, almost rubber rather than leather.
Gopher, Leonard is kind of like sherlock holmes where he would have different outfits for different activities; thievery, dealing with nobility, common disguise, thalmor disguise and if you ever decide that Leonard wants to infiltrate every holding and somehow aim to become high king then he would need a hall of disguises.
Latest retexture for the Nightinggale armor on the Nexus. It looks rougher than the Prime. I think that's what you'd want : www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18560
Is there mod for a wrist-strapped mini crossbow, rather like the one in the original Deus -Ex ? because if there is, that would really suit Leonard ...
Cant remember the mod name, but there's a dwemer hand crossbow mod that had a wrist mount option... that was in LE though, so not sure if it's been ported.
There's a really great looking armour mod for the Dark Brotherhood armours: Frankly HD Shrouded Armor nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18785?tab=files You may want to give it a try, as it seems Chapter 2 may be centred on Lenny joining the Dark Brotherhood. EDIT: There's an alternate all-black version too, and armour with and without facemasks.
At some point after you "become" dragonborn you should ad The Grey Cowl of Nocturnal. Some of the VA is a bit jarring I will admit, but it is a fun mod and a way to test any true thief's metal.
This discussion kind of makes me wish there was a good "multi-outfit" mood that lets you see entire sets of gear to a single hotkey. That way I can have, say, my adventurer outfit for wandering the wild and my normal clothes for when I'm in town, and easily switch between them.
With regard to NAT, I was curious about your thoughts about the lightening and darkening of the nights via the NAT Menu under Spells? Where those changes not sufficient for your needs as you mentioned “nights” as an issue? Interesting, I had not thought about the stealth factor and the ENB post processing. When I watch these mod updates, I almost always think about things a little different and/or learn something new. Noble Skyrim works so well with Majestic and HD LOD & Terrain LOD (hand-n-glove) - looks great. I love adding in Obsidian Mountain Fogs which create some beautiful vistas and help reduce distant visual distractions given how mountainous the region of Skyrim. It's also an easy install-uninstall to check it out. Of course, Mountain Fogs are a taste thing. On apologies, given you tend to be a polite guy, I doubt you will stop though it is wholly unnecessary as I often think - damn, I wish you covered more stuff, especially on these videos, because I like looking at things from different perspectives and/or learning something new. Looking forward to the next Leonard Adventures.
For an open face version of the Nightingale Armor I would recommend Improved Close Face helmets mod (well I'd recommend it in general): www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/824/ - It keeps the closed face look but has your actual head in the helmet with eye sockets and whatnot instead of just 'black texture'. The mod it's self wont remove the face-mask, it just makes it so your face is visible behind it which makes a lot more sense then it just being a black void. Theres 2 options from there, you can nifskope the models and just delete the face mask portion (I checked, the model is split up into 2 mesh pieces, the hood and the face covering). That would make them compatible with any retexture. The other option is enabling transparency to the mask (nifskope again) and adding an alpha layer to the texture/retexture of the helmet and black out the face-mask part. Deleting the face mask parts probably the simplest since both would require nifskope either way. Could also use CBBE tools I think on the helmet which is simpler but could screw stuff up. MIght convert it to female bones or some weird crap. I could also do the nifskope edits for you if you want. Heck you don't even need the guys full mod, just the Nightingale Helmet files, though it does make those helmets bit more realistic and less silly. :P
FYI Gopher, MLU makes various changes to weapon and armor stats (afaik it's mostly buffing ultra rare high level stuff), so any such mods you install will probably need compatibility patches to avoid strange balance. You can also make the patches yourself, MLU has articles about its changes on its nexus page. Random bonus mod recommendations: Real names: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17827? Armor rating redux: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17932 Fast travel overhaul: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8379 Bells of Skyrim (to distract guards): www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/10495/?
That LOD color mismatch is caused by Terrain LOD Redone. Personally, I would consider dumping it. Use HD Enhanced Terrain for better blending LOD Noise (Oldrim mod that works in SE). Noble Skyrim already has it's own LOD landscape textures. WIth these and DynDOLOD your LOD will be looking great.
No apologies for your rambles necessary, ever. Your rambles about mods are what drew me to your channel in the first place. Your Will LP is what got me into Fallout. Your various tutorials for Fallout 3, NV and Skyrim have been invaluable and made it far easier to get those games set up. Although your LPs are very entertaining, which is why I keep watching, your discussions (aka rambles) about various aspects of games and mods are most useful for me and greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I can't help but smile inside when I see a Gopher video with the word "Ramble" in the title.
Skyland updated and removed those distant terrain edits today I believe. He removed the lod's to allow the user to generate their own.
I did. And added a Verdant patch.
Indeed, just updated my skyland
I mentioned in another video, there is a relatively new mod on the nexus (within the last month) that removes the scream when doing a sneak power attack. for a thief/assassin type character i find it almost essential
You're correct Gopher, the latest version of DynDOLOD fixed the crashes. It was due to some issue when using DynDOLOD together with Realistic Water 2. I couldn't stop crashing myself whenever exiting an interior cell to an exterior, but as soon as I installed version 2.40 and ran DynDOLOD, it worked.
8:24 In all my time playing Skyrim, I don't recall ever hearing this conversation between Hilde and the Guard O.o
Can't wait for Season 2 :D
- Apocalypso
There is a new Nightingale texture mod called Frankly HD Nightingale Armor and Weapons. Only issue is it does not have a maskless version, but it looks nice.
You can use Closefaced Helmets or whatever it is called to atleast see the eyes and area around it. Essential mod in my opinion.
yeah i think he would love the less saturated dirt version of it
Also the Nightingale Sword replacer from this mod is really beautiful.
Any maskless hood mesh would work fine with it, or he could adjust the textures to make sure the maskless mesh has the proper environment maps and stuff to make it fully compatible. It's such a great looking retexture though, passing it up would be a shame.
Also for the Thieves guild armours, he should definetly look at Thieves Guild Armor HD revival
Wow you are actually doing this to me. For the first time since 2013 I'm feeling the urge to play. An SE modded game seems in order.
Cant Wait Love Your Skyrim play-through Makes What Ever Day You Release It on Instantly Better.
Gopher, it is because of you I now own Skyrim Special Edition for the PC via Steam. So thank you, now I just need to figure out how to utilize all these juicy mods.
Gopher, for Nightingale Armor i personally use these 2 mods.
True HD Nightingale Retex - www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4745 , definitely check that out if you have not done so. The best HD retex, making it slightly darker but remaining faithful to the original look.
Nightingale Hood with attached Cape - www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8083 , obviously the cape is part of the hood now so if you are not using the Nightingale hood there is no cape, it also removes the shadowed effect from the eyes, i know you would prefer the mask gone, but (for me) having the shadow gone, it gives my character more personality seeing the eyes, so the mask looks quite nice.
Chapter 2 Hype ! Can't wait for more Leonard
The bow of a crossbow is a 'prod', the wooden beam that forms the center is a 'tiller', it has a string, which you pull back with a 'lever' (real crossbows used a 'goats foot lever'), the string is then locked into the 'nut'. I own a crossbow that is a copy of a real medieval hunting crossbow, awesome and powerful, but it doesnt make much noise. The crossbow in skyrim are louder than mine.
and here we see gopher getting ready to make yet another mod. always fun to see the beginnings of mod making.
So looking forward to chapter two.
We can't wait! Thanks for this!
Thank you for updating us. And reporting honestly how the mods are interacting.
These can never go on to long for me. Go as long as you like.
I remember the first time I ran down a corridor with my crossbow loaded and ready to go... I suddenly thought "NOW this feels like gaming" (in a good way)
Love that Gopher is having a "Lets talk about mods" video but still Leonard is "stealing" some spotlight 19:30 from Gopher, THAT is role playing to the max :D
And no Gopher, your videos are never boring, no matter how much you ramble, on the contrary I must say.
To change the detection level of the crossbow, in xEdit, find "VNAM - Detection Sound Level" in any weapon record. It's located near the very bottom. All the Crossbows are set to Silent. The other options are Normal, Loud and Very Loud.
Have you looked at the 'Frankly HD Nightingale Armor' by FrankFamily? Doesn't have a version without a mask, but the armour itself seems to be more or less what you're looking for - a 'polished' and cleaner version of the vanilla.
I'd also recommend the 'rough leather armor' by atomec, because that seems perfect for Leonard to wear while sneaking around at night or in Riften, but it doesn't seem to have been ported over to SE.
I know it's not my character or playthrough of course, but I feel like most thieves/assassins/otherwise shady characters would want to have at least one set of armor with a mask. Hiding your face is useful sometimes. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to just use a nice Nightingale rexeture even if it still has a mask.
Dearest Gopher, I appreciate your comments about Skyland. I too use Verdant and I wholeheartedly agree with you. Due to the amount of grass mods, ENB's, re-shades, lighting mods, and weather, I tried to keep a neutral pallet for my Skyland mods. If I designed my mods around other specific mods, I wouldn't have been able to achieve the reach and level of popularity I have with Skyland.
WITH that said, I've uploaded my personal tundra textures that I've been using as an optional add-on for Skyland Landscape Texture Overhaul specifically for Verdant users. I hope you find this to blend better than before. Enjoy!
I've spended countless hours into testing l&w mods to achieve 'realistic' nights and interiors, there is no question about it: With NAT you have lots of in-game customization options (ie % darker nights) wich function in a way I haven't seen in other l&w mods. NAT also comes with a robust (and beautiful!) semi-cofigurable weather system. In addition NAT is designed to work with an ENB: 'PhotoRealisticTamriel' wich has a highly configurable system for the lightning (interior-night, exterior-day, exterior-dawn, etc.) and as the name implies, it leans heavily on the photorealistic but with tons of custom styles.
In my current system (i7-2600, 16ram, GTX-960 4vram) I cannot run the ENB without a significant FR loss so I'm forced to use ELFX (interiors, enhanced) but the ENB is sufficient for achieving just about the same visual effect (with some manual configuration), wich I would preffer since I learned (the hard way) that ELFX makes some ligths not render but they still make you visible to the NPC's wich is completly immersion breaking.
Since I tested the mod there was no doubt: it was by far the best, and with the ENB, the only one I needed for l&w. So far it does have a couple of insignificant bugs with some specific combination of ToD, NightConfig and WeatherConfig in very specific places; but they really are insignificant.
This is a new release, but Frankly HD Nightingale Armor and Weapons would be an excellent texture mod for your Nightingale gear. It is also compatible with mesh edits and has a few of it's own, including full gloves and no cape.
DyndoLOD had a crash error when combined with Realistic Water Two, it was fixed in latest versions of DyndoLOD
for the nightingale armor I found those mods :
Maskless player only -> Old Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/5130
Maskless all -> Old Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/45539
1st Nightingale armor texture -> Old Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/92489
New Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18560
- This armor look more worn out than the regular fit nicely I think...
2nd Nightingale armor texture -> New Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4745
A darker armor than the regular one...
Capeless Nightingale -> New Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4837
Old Rim :www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1560
All things Nightingale (armor, weapons) -> Old Rim : www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1485
Hope you find this interesting and give it a look
gopher dont apologize for long videos i could listen to you read a phone book
What I loved about Witcher 3 was that I didn't have to stress about grass mods...
14:58 person getting their morning exercising in...that or trying not to drown.
It's how you fish in Skyrim :)
@gopher Zerofrosts Nighingale Prime is a work of art, but it is indeed super clean to the point that it might be too clean fkr a gritty thief (it does hower have a no-mask version contrary to what you said, I literally used it today).
An alternative worth checking out is the very recently added Frankly HD nightingale retexture though. That is also very high quality, but is the polar opposite of zeros clean look. It actually looks like what you might imagine a hundreds of years old relic made of leather might look like after having been passed down though countless hands and been worn though every sewer in Tamriel. It's dirty, gritty, and worn to bits - yet still somehow regal. Also rather terrifying in a dark alley....
And if not, then theres no good reason to not get immersive armors. Dozens and dozens of quality lore-friendly sets there and it's bound to have good pieces to use. Also helps a lot with adding diversity to NPCs too and that's never a bad thing (just be aware that a few meshes need NIFoptimizing ideally)
For the throwing weapons mod I heard (I haven’t checked) that there were optional animations included that you need to replace yourself, not sure if they’re any good but I think they needed FNIS
Speaking as the mod author of said throwing weapons mod, you are correct. There's a replacer version, but also a new non-replacer version that uses custom behavior files and FNIS. You can check out the animations on my showcase of the latest version: th-cam.com/video/CkkdMXbgyys/w-d-xo.html
Yes, the animation itself is good, except for the way it holds the weapon in its hand. The hand seems to have the default spell 'pose' and so it looks like the dagger is not being gripped, but rather is floating in front of the palm. If I were playing for myself, I'd almost certainly not notice that and would use the mod, but for a let's play things like that can break 'the illusion' for a lot of viewers and because of that I tend to focus on it more than I would if playing for myself.
Gopher yeah I know what your talking about that’s the main reason I didn’t use myself, wasn’t sure if it actually changed the handling of the weapon or just the attack, it’s a very valid point and a shame that it looks so weird. I wish somebody was good enough at animating to make a really polished version of such a great concept
JZBai you did a great job I think most people just have a problem with the idle handling, other than that it is a great mod
I see. I had a hunch that might have been the reason.
To fix that, I would need to create some custom 1st person magic animations with a closed hand. I was actually just trying that out, but unfortunately it's proving to be extremely difficult. Havok tools is able to import/export Skyrim 3rd person animations just fine but for some reason 1st person animations are extremely finicky. No wonder there are so few 1st person animation replacers. In any case, I'll see if I can fix it. If not, well, I guess you can always have fun with the mod when you're not let's playing? :P
@Gopher The scenes you're shooting look lovely. Your graphics card is powerful enough to run Verdant with many other mods. My 780 isn't. With a less powerful graphics card, Skyland--especially its ground textures--becomes an attractive backup that conserves resources . . .
@Gopher the Bags and Pouches mod is always a great way to spruce up an outfit
Do you mean www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2417 "Bandolier - Bags and Pouches Classic"? if so I'll second that plus it's a good way to improve your carry weight :)
Gopher, for quest mods check out "Outlaws and Revolutionaries." It was made specifically because the author thought the main quest was a bit, meh. It also gives you the option to mess with most of the factions in Skyrim :)
Armor of intrigue is easily one of my fav armour mods. It's reasonably balanced and looks amazing, and ofc the customization. L could use it in case of going for any battle quest. I dunno, just wanna see it :)
If you’re still looking for some armor mods, the Warmonger pack has some good sets with the same concept as immersive armors: sets are made of compiled parts of vanilla assets. Some look really nice. There’s a rogue thief set that’s sort of a more armored looking version of the thieves guild armor. Could work similar to the crimson archer stuff you’ve currently got as your “general traveller” set (posting this when Wrong Address is your most recent ep)
Warmonger Armory has some nice Armors. There's an Unofficial Port of it for SSE, and the mod author is working on an update that he intends to upload for SSE eventually. Might be something in there for Leonard.
"Frankly HD Nightingale Armor and Weapons" might fit your criteria
So I know it’s a bit early to speculate on the next play through.... but who cares!?
So far Gopher has done three play throughs; one for each interesting Khajiit.
Stiv and Jhzargo
Richard and Kharjo
And now
Lenard and Inigo
There’s no good Khajiit left!
The solution?
In Ghopher’s next playthrough HE has to be the Khajiit lol
no more playthroughs after this, though.
Gopher, Oblivion Artifacts mod...has the Deciever's Finery. Perfect clothing for town. Bonus to selling and speech IIRC. That is, if you are keen for actual clothing in town and not actual light armor. Give the mod a look...it adds alot and it works for a thief because certain items need to be stolen then keep them as trophies or use them.
Quick! Animators unite! Let’s get some slick animations for the blow gun and throwing daggers so Gopher can use them! Lol
darkdiashi If I could I would've done it already :p happy to sponsor a modder though!
Make a blow gun using the shout mechanism
Don't know about the blowgun, but as for my throwing weapons mod...
th-cam.com/video/okn6pUoEfxo/w-d-xo.html
;)
Quickloot is such a good quality of life mod for Skyrim. Last I checked it wasn't available for SE. Good to know it's there now. From what I remember the reason people were getting crashes from Quickloot was because they had the number of items that it will show in the list too high. So when you go and look at your big stash you will crash. Generally I found that 20 items or less was good. But maybe there are different crashes from Skyrim standard.
Most of the things that annoy the daylights out of Gopher & him not being able to play skyrim for 5 minutes without being annoyed by it. I Never even notice unless he points it out lol. Is that only me? Or is that just a case of ignorance being bliss? lol
I don't notice half the stuff that bothers him. I have no visual mods loaded at all. I mostly have convenience mods. Follower tweaks, horse tweaks, etc.
Chris White I think it depends on your build and load order, I have a lot of mods that tweak a lot of placements of things, and trying to get them all work together is a huge pain, I still get weird shit like lanterns floating in the air, fire where there aren't any braizers, flowers popping out of rocks, light where there isn't a source, and one time, not sure what it was since I was running base with maybe 20 mods only at the time, I got a door to pop into the middle of whiteruns graveyard that lead to nowhere, and another door that was invisible but actually worked and made noise that lead to the temple in whiterun from high hrothgar, wire bash and patches only do so much when you toss together a good list of like 200 mods, and a lot of them are story based one so it's all hit and miss, and if I find something not going right like 10 hours in because I haven't been to riften or falkreath yet because fast travels off and I'm doing quests in an area, I either have to deal with it, or rip through like 20 mods going crazy trying to find out what's going on
If you were in charge of creating a theatric-quality presentation on a regular basis, you're always looking for a way to improve the immersion. That little-bit extra flow to what you do will always help
Contact your local NA!
You probably already now about this, but there's an armor mod called Nightingale Prime that cleans the armor and has a maskless variant. From what I've seen it looks very nice and bonus: it's craftable so you can have a blacksmith "fix up" your old set. Then again I don't know anything about modding. Love your vids!
Edit: Probably should have watched the whole video. oops.
Edit 2: I think the armor of intrigue would be great if you happened to become more of an assassin.
I'm not even up to date with the Let's Play, but I noticed "RAMBLE" in Gopher's title, and I just had to watch it...
That's what many of us feel everytime Gopher uploads a video with the word "RAMBLE" in it's title...
Quick Loot is a fantastic mod, me personally, I haven’t experienced any problems.
Hey, do you have a link to the mod? As far as I'm aware it was taken off the nexus but I could be wrong
Jaasce It was. The only way to get quick loot working in sse is porting it yourself. Luckily there is a reddit post somewhere and the process is really easy. Don't really remember where I found it but probably in the comments of one of the menu retextures on the nexus
I have it and it works flawlessly as well.
Not sure about posting a link for it here but if you wish I could pm it for you!
I haven't had a run without it. Love it to death
Sometimes it decides to NOT work, other than it's fine.
Legendary Skyrim Crossbows might be a better choice than just faction crossbows as it includes that mod aswell as adds alot of new variants to both crossbows and bolts. NPCs also get them via level lists.
I cant recommend Distinct Interiors enough. Its a lightweight highly compatible visual update that makes inns, shops and a few other interiors interesting again, especially for Lenny who loves skulking about in places he shouldn't. Its modular too, so you could leave the thieves guild bit out since opulent tg already covers that for you. Cant wait for the next chapter!
The Oblivion artifact pack comes with the decievers finery which is a suit in Black and red which I think would really suit Leonard
If you're looking for suggestions on armor packs, there's these two I use (along with Immersive Armors, but I can see you already have that)
Warmonger Armory www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17809 (Also applies some armors to npcs, looks good even just on them)
Apachii Divine Elegance Store www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/9213 (Has a lot of female only armors, but quite a few male sets as well. Also takes some outfits from other games)
Listening to your voice is never boring :D
19:30 "Nice armor, Hadvar!" Lol :)
Can't wait for chapter 2 to get started...
Any chance of a Gopher tutorial on DynDOLOD? Would love that! It's a confusing tool for those of us new to Skyrim modding. Looking forward to chapter 2!
9:17 Excellent!
i can recommend NAT . For the nights you can toggle it to brighter nights, than it is beautiful
hey gopher enjoying play through but weren't you planning to use Zim's immersive artifacts or royal armory for a change and newness to the artifacts you pick up just thought you said that before chapter 1 no big either way. on armors you might want to check out the evil mastermind good look for assassin thief for a little armor but have that Leonard look
Faction Crossbows is a great mod, used it for a long time. Nicely integrated and balanced into the game. If I remember correctly, the leveled lists are created oddly in that mod, you might want to check it against MLU.
Nope either I'm thinking of another mod or that's different in SE.
Obsidian is the first weather mod that actually did weather consistently correct. What I mean by that is, when it's raining, there's clouds in the sky; if you hear raining and thunder while inside, it's actually storming when you exit the interior you're in. Even when I had CoT as the only mod installed, this NEVER happened.
I am interested in seeing the weather you've chosen, though. I wouldn't have tried Obsidian without seeing how it looks, and you used it so I got to see how good it looks.
You'd think after so many years that Gopher would have found his own ideal mod list. That's his own personal purple dragon I guess...
Gopher, check out "Stay at the System Page". Fixes it from going to journal when you press escape.
Have you seen FrankFamily's nightingale textures? It was uploaded a few hours ago and has a worn leather textures, much like the guild armors.
have you seen the mod "rough leather armor" it's like the thieves guild armor but with some kind of chain mail sleeves
I have been playing a crossbow using thief and I am using a manual reload mod so you can run for cover before reloading, but I found that using TK Dodge skips the animation entirely. I'm playing on Oldrim but I wouldn't doubt this would work in SE too. Would allow the agile Leonard to take quick shots, though it is a definite exploit.
One quest mod I would recommend for a thief character is "the gray cowl of nocturnal". It's a fantastic quest mod with great story and puzzles. The voice acting is a bit hit and miss though but it's overall a good mod that you should try out
someone needs to port the witcher like crossbows to SE cause i think it would make Lenard look like a dashing rouge shooting with one hand and stabbing with the other lol
You should definetely look up the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal, amazing quest mod and fits a thief playthrough
Hi Gopher, great job, keep up the good work! Concerning the popping in of far away grass, have you considered trying to hide that with a bit of far away camera blur with an enb? if you do it little it may hide that grass popping in. try it out and maybe let me know how you like it.
Apachii divine elegance store has some nice armors and clothing may be a little to immersion breaking for a lets play but worth a look
NAT looks amazing and I was sad that I ended up replacing it. When I was casting fire spells, the mod caused the fire to go extra bright and everything not fire black.
for ranged weapons have a look at A.B.T. SE (Arrow and Bolt Tweaks SE) It really improves archery and makes it more realistic (Depending on the options chosen during the install), further more if configured correctly you don't need the cross hair to be able to aim the cross+/bow correctly :D if you have the CPU power / enough free scripting cycles there is also Arrow Recovery System Overhaul (A.R.S.O.) which has also been ported to SE.
In regards to crossbow sound levels, in reality they're not much louder than re-curve bows of the same era, and it was mainly the goats foot lever / crank handle (if it wasn't oiled) that made most the noise, the bolt landing in a solid target would be much louder, If properly maintained there would be very little noise at all and would not be much louder than a bow configured for heavy poundage (draw weight). I have no idea why they were made so damn loud and clunky nor why bladed weapons sound like your running your blade against a grindstone when drawing it from a sheath for that matter. Your boots should be making more noise. than the crossbow.
You might like the manticore gear armor mod, but it's a little more bright, so it would probably be the day time outfit and it looks quite spiffy. I don't know if you would mind it being from the witcher 3 though since that might be off putting but it has tweaks to make it more unique.
the problem with quick loot is mostly with getting near a box with a lot of stuff in it, or by looting a body near a bunch of other bodies. there *should* be an option to turn off quick loot in game.
i love quick loot but there are times when i would just not turn it on in-game. even if you are careful with how you loot you will still get crashes when you get near a body.
i had an interesting playthrough regarding crossbows with one of my old saves
My character like leonard was too "weak" to draw bows and crossbows, so i would not use a bow, and made it interesting by being only to use the crossbow if i had a companion as my character was too weak to draw the crossbow, this lead to my chacter only being able to use the crossbow if my companion was there to draw it, this continued until i got ahold of the dwemer crossbow as that had all fancy mechanisms to draw the string without needing strength, this lead to using all the fancy explosive bolts as first combat shots before drawing a sword/dagger and vanishing
That's really looking nice now Gopher, a little too much for my 980, but I think your 1080ti has bags of power (and vram) left in reserve yet ;)
@Caloss - I am using a 980ti, you be fine long as you left DynDoLod on medium setting.
Rough Leather armour has been my favourite armour mod forever.
There is mods that lets you use a small crossbows that you can use as an side arm so you could hold a weapon in one hand and then using crossbow in your other hand.
Just to throw a suggestion out for your Quick Loot testing, while I would assume it's been fixed by now, the last time I used the mod there was a deal-breaking bug where anytime a container had 2 of the same item that didn't stack, the game would CTD. The meant I couldn't so much as look at the body of a dual-wielder I killed and looking at chests was like playing Russian Roulette.
Gopher have you tried Dolomite ?
I know you probably get more of these than you know what to do with as it is, but if I may, I'd like to make a few mod suggestions that you might like.
They are not overhauls, nor additional content, but they tweak core mechanics to make them more user friendly. I believe they will improve anyone's experience, in the vein of Sprint Jump, Better Message Box Controls and Better Dialogue Controls.
They are simple items that, in my opinion, should have been included in the base game.
Enhanced No Poison Dialogue
www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18497
Removes the message when applying a poison to a weapon (the sound still plays normally).
Stay at the System Page
www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18397
Causes the pause hotkey (default 'Esc') to bring-up your system menu, instead of your journal. Your journal hotkey (default 'J') brings up the journal normally.
Immersive Wait and Sleep Menu
www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51087
Offers a less jarring menu when waiting or sleeping. This mod does not need to be ported and is fully compatible with Skyrim Special Edition. (It consists of a replacement script for the rest menu and nothing else.)
These mods do not count towards your plugin limit, are highly compatible and are directly additive for any play style.
I hope you will consider my suggestions and enjoy the results.
I have found a good thieves guild armour re-texture that replaces the thieves guild master armour with a black Linwe hood called: Another Black Thieves Guild Armor SE on the nexus.
Hi Gopher here are some mod recommendation that I think you will find useful.
Armor mod: Warmonger Armory - Unofficial Fixed SSE Port, it has some lore-friendly yet cool looking armor for thief.
ENB: The Truth ENB, which pretty much vanilla but better.
This maybe goes without saying, but if you are considering using NAT, and possibly an ENB later, you HAVE to try out PRT. It was made by the same author, and they were made for each other. I love it, and I think you would too Gopher. Lots of beautiful misty weather, and just makes the game look gorgeous but very realistic.
Whit the grass thing. I just like to pretend i'm a God. And everywhere I go, grass just grows around me.
I think you missed something. Nightingale Prime Remastered from "Zerofrost Mythical Armors and Dragon" does have a maskless version. In fact even two, one with cape and one with just a cowl. Also it's not just a retexture, but a complete new armor made from scratch. Reimagination, if you will.
The maskless version of the NP armor is not working correctly. Hair clips through the hood. To be honest though, I think it is too clean a texture for this play through too. It looks very modern, almost rubber rather than leather.
Frankly hd nightingale may be a good refresher for the armor
No Grey cowl of Nocturnal? then what could Lenny possibly do now after becoming guild master?
I'm going to leave off quest mods (beyond Legacy) for a while.
Fair enough
Gopher, Leonard is kind of like sherlock holmes where he would have different outfits for different activities; thievery, dealing with nobility, common disguise, thalmor disguise and if you ever decide that Leonard wants to infiltrate every holding and somehow aim to become high king then he would need a hall of disguises.
Latest retexture for the Nightinggale armor on the Nexus. It looks rougher than the Prime. I think that's what you'd want :
www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18560
Is there mod for a wrist-strapped mini crossbow, rather like the one in the original Deus -Ex ? because if there is, that would really suit Leonard ...
Cant remember the mod name, but there's a dwemer hand crossbow mod that had a wrist mount option... that was in LE though, so not sure if it's been ported.
I know there is a slingshot and blowgun mod on the nexus
There's a really great looking armour mod for the Dark Brotherhood armours: Frankly HD Shrouded Armor
nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18785?tab=files
You may want to give it a try, as it seems Chapter 2 may be centred on Lenny joining the Dark Brotherhood.
EDIT: There's an alternate all-black version too, and armour with and without facemasks.
At some point after you "become" dragonborn you should ad The Grey Cowl of Nocturnal. Some of the VA is a bit jarring I will admit, but it is a fun mod and a way to test any true thief's metal.
This discussion kind of makes me wish there was a good "multi-outfit" mood that lets you see entire sets of gear to a single hotkey. That way I can have, say, my adventurer outfit for wandering the wild and my normal clothes for when I'm in town, and easily switch between them.
With regard to NAT, I was curious about your thoughts about the lightening and darkening of the nights via the NAT Menu under Spells? Where those changes not sufficient for your needs as you mentioned “nights” as an issue? Interesting, I had not thought about the stealth factor and the ENB post processing. When I watch these mod updates, I almost always think about things a little different and/or learn something new. Noble Skyrim works so well with Majestic and HD LOD & Terrain LOD (hand-n-glove) - looks great.
I love adding in Obsidian Mountain Fogs which create some beautiful vistas and help reduce distant visual distractions given how mountainous the region of Skyrim. It's also an easy install-uninstall to check it out. Of course, Mountain Fogs are a taste thing.
On apologies, given you tend to be a polite guy, I doubt you will stop though it is wholly unnecessary as I often think - damn, I wish you covered more stuff, especially on these videos, because I like looking at things from different perspectives and/or learning something new. Looking forward to the next Leonard Adventures.
For an open face version of the Nightingale Armor I would recommend Improved Close Face helmets mod (well I'd recommend it in general): www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/824/ - It keeps the closed face look but has your actual head in the helmet with eye sockets and whatnot instead of just 'black texture'.
The mod it's self wont remove the face-mask, it just makes it so your face is visible behind it which makes a lot more sense then it just being a black void. Theres 2 options from there, you can nifskope the models and just delete the face mask portion (I checked, the model is split up into 2 mesh pieces, the hood and the face covering). That would make them compatible with any retexture. The other option is enabling transparency to the mask (nifskope again) and adding an alpha layer to the texture/retexture of the helmet and black out the face-mask part.
Deleting the face mask parts probably the simplest since both would require nifskope either way. Could also use CBBE tools I think on the helmet which is simpler but could screw stuff up. MIght convert it to female bones or some weird crap.
I could also do the nifskope edits for you if you want. Heck you don't even need the guys full mod, just the Nightingale Helmet files, though it does make those helmets bit more realistic and less silly. :P
You should get the wanderer armor it’s personally my favorite on the nexus’s day
FYI Gopher, MLU makes various changes to weapon and armor stats (afaik it's mostly buffing ultra rare high level stuff), so any such mods you install will probably need compatibility patches to avoid strange balance. You can also make the patches yourself, MLU has articles about its changes on its nexus page.
Random bonus mod recommendations:
Real names: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17827?
Armor rating redux: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17932
Fast travel overhaul: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8379
Bells of Skyrim (to distract guards): www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/10495/?
That LOD color mismatch is caused by Terrain LOD Redone. Personally, I would consider dumping it. Use HD Enhanced Terrain for better blending LOD Noise (Oldrim mod that works in SE). Noble Skyrim already has it's own LOD landscape textures. WIth these and DynDOLOD your LOD will be looking great.