What are you Playing Now? Volume XIX: The New Beginning of the End of the Middle

[Tale]

Allow me to tell you about our lord and savior Dispatch. For all who yearn for the glory days of Telltale, he has risen again! Hallelujah!

[BruceVC]

I have finally decided to take the plunge and play Skyrim, its only been 14 years since its release

The hardest decision was what mod collection to use and I did loads of research around the best mod collections and how they change vanilla Skyrim and I finally decided on LoreRim v4 which is the last and final LoreRim version

This mod collection has over 4000 mods and uses Requiem as its foundation

But how can anyone install 4000 mods, who has the time for that and I have one word for that relevant question ..." Wabbajack " (WJ)

These are steps I followed and the timelines to install LoreRim and the issues I experienced
 

• Wabbajack downloaded all the mods in about 6-8 hours, I let it run overnight and with a Nexus Premium account I had no issues
• LoreRim V4 uses Skyrim AE edition and you need to install the relevant Creation Club (CC) mods or the Wabbajack install will fail. But WJ provides detailed logs on what is failing so I had to manually re-download 3 CC mods.
• Then I had about 10-12 Nexus mods that reported on being corrupted during the WJ installation. You just delete them from the WJ download and it downloads them again
• Finally it reported some access errors 1-2 times but you just shutdown WJ and restart it and then it worked, WJ remembers where it last failed so you dont have to ever start the whole process again

WJ then created my MO2 profile with all the 4000 mods in the correct MO2 load order

So the entire install of LoreRim and troubleshooting after the initial downloads took about 5 hours. Thats nothing compared to how long manually configuring 4000 mods would take as any modder will agree 


My next steps before I play
 

• Go through the post installation configuration advice and tips from the mod creator
• Install some additional mods and possibly some adult mods. There is a process to follow from the mod creator

I will make sure I save my working MO2 profile so I can easily role back

I dont plan to add many new mods but I want to play around before I start with LoreRim because now I understand the installation process

[melkathi]

Because of the imminent release of the StarCraft miniature wargame, I have started playing the original StarCraft.

I had a bit of a disagreement with General Edmund Duke. Raynor and I said we need to stop the zerg from killing whole planets. Duke asked "But do you condemn the sons of Korhal?"

We didn't. Now we are terrorists.

 

Obviously now the zerg are trying to eat Duke, so we have to save him.

We should have just sent him a message:

" When the zerg came for Mar Sara, I did nothing because my villa wasn't on Mar Sara.

When the zerg came for Chau Sara, I did nothing because my golf course was not on Chau Sara.

When the zerg finally came for me, there was noone left to save me."

Edited 6 hours ago by melkathi

[Hurlshort]

Started Outer Worlds 2 (using Gamepass) and played through the tutorial. It was great. The graphics are improved from the original. So far so good. I don't think it will win you over if you didn't like the original, but it seems like a solid sequel so far. 

[melkathi]

Sometimes a solid sequel is all we need. Just have more fun of the fun we were already having.

[Wormerine]

On 9/27/2025 at 5:14 PM, melkathi said:

I finished the main plot in Hogwarts Legacy.

(...)

I understand criticism that it is less a game about going to wizarding school and more a run around kill stuff game. I don't know how a school simulator would have been fun though.

Seeing melathi's post about Hogwarts Legacy I decided to give it ago before Outer Worlds2. 

Yeah, I liked it more then I expected. I thought they managed to capture the universe rather well. Definitely the amount of murdering player does feels rather odd. And while I mostly found story to be fairly alright, there were couple points I felt the inability to react to things felt really odd. Main character doesn't really have a personality but the game also doesn't allow players to express themselves in spite of conversation options. There were quite a few things, especially in the latter part of the game, were I feel characters just move on from some things that really asked to be brought up. Overall, better then I expected. As I enjoyed early Harry Potter books and films in primary school, HL managed to pull my nostalgia strings.

Started Outer Worlds2 - looks promising so far. Opening mission promised reactivity that I missed in the original game had. Adding to it the overall buzz around the game, I think I will enjoy this one.