[Cpt-Maxim]

No matter what advice you get in here, including mine, you will have to go as far as it takes to satisfy your own curiosity on how each mod plays out. The problem with getting various advice is, none of the advice givers knows the level of patience you will go to in order to research your perfect combination.

Personally, I have posted my combo list, but the list itself does no justice to the amount of reading and study I had to go through, and eventually allowed me to make a mod of my own, a sound mod to offer to the community, along with understanding how it all works and why some mods overwrite other mod files and therefore arent compatible.. so I learned a lot about the "re-making" of the game by the modding community in the process.

Personally, I found it useful to play enough missions to run into some issues, see the world as it looks stock before mods.. and then slowly add, pick and choose mods based on what I wanted to see changed or fixed. It gives no perspective at all to see only the nice eye candy and never know what was broke and how bad.. you just simply become accustomed to the eye candy otherwise without being able to determine how big a change was involved.

I can also teach you how to get the same high rewards and kick-ass scores on 100% realism that I can systematically reproduce too.. lol

This idea just came to me while posting this.. if someone could burn a ISO of every major useful mod into one large RAR file.. how awesome would that be? For someone to have multiple types of experiments with all the files at their fingertips?