Journeyman - A Fast Travel Overhaul: Fast Travel requires a travel pack, which can be crafted.Carriage & Ferry Travel Overhaul: Adds destinations to carriages and rebalances the cost of traveling.Realistic AI Detection, Suspicious City Guards, and Better Stealing: Makes stealth and being a thief harder in general.Lock Overhaul: Adds options to open locked chests and doors inclusing smashing locks and opening them with magic.Improved Traps: Makes traps found in dungeons more deadly.GIST: Changes how soul gems work and the progression for using them.Open World Loot: Provides a framework for distributing and changing loot found on enemies.Trade & Barter: Overhauls the game’s economy to make items expensive to buy and worth little when sold.Requires management of hunger, thirst, fatigue, and cold weather. Sunhelm Survival: The core survival and needs mod.In the context of Masterstroke, immersion refers to systems that improve realism and balance the game. Additionally, many mods are included to enhance what some might call “immersion”. Most things “just work” and doesn’t require constant micromanaging of stats and bars. Masterstroke uses a multitude of mods that allow for a survival experience that will challenge you without being overbearing or intrusive. True Directional Movement & SmoothCam: Combined, these make playing in third-person a joy.Smart Cast: Allows you to set conditions for spells to be automatically cast, and lets you hotkey spells to cast with a single key press.Leadership: Provides a skill tree that allows you to bring more followers with you as you invest in it.At Your Own Pace: Allows you to progress questlines as you’re ready to progress them.Sets of Skills: Allows you to select and master classes as you level up, providing bonuses as you master the class.Instead of increasing the related skill, you’ll learn the related skill faster. Reading is Good: Changes how gaining XP from skill books happen.Perks from Questing: Provides unique perks upon completing certain questlines.Experience: Changes how leveling up works, making exploration, clearing dungeons, killing enemies, and completing quests the primary ways to get XP.Hand to Hand: An addon to Adamant that combines Pickpocketing and Lockpicking into one skill tree and replaces Lockpicking with a specific unarmed/hand-to-hand combat skill tree.Īdditionally, there are other mods included to provide you with additional bonuses and change how things work.This is accomplished through the suite of SimonMagus’s mods, detailed below: Almost every facet of vanilla Skyrim has been overhauled in such a way that is still true to the original game but also refreshes everything for a new experience.