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Originally Posted by Ducimus
I'll be honest, I was thinking about reinstalling SH5, and trying it out again, but was quickly disuaded for two reasons:
1.) I looked at the very ending "lets play SH5" video. The guy was clearly running a heavily modded version of SH5, and nearly rage quit because of CTD's.
2.) Then, i looked at the mod forum. There's a crap ton of mods that look necessary, scattered all over the place. So now I have to track them all down, and do a whole lot of reading see which ones are the most complete, or do what Im looking for them to do. Blech!
What's more, in light of the Lets play CTD's, i find myself wondering if those CTD's were caused by game bugs, mod conflicts, or both. This is a mess I just don't want to hassle with, and I've worked on a megamod before. Call me jaded, call me lazy, but I just don't have the patience to do the footwork required. Think ill go back to playing Alpha Protocol. That's fun, and no work is required to enjoy it.
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CTDs are either mod-soup or memory for the most part, and half the reason we need a megamod in the first place. I had tons to begin with but my latest build seems solid as a rock, even using OHII full which used to CTD all over the place. It's just a case of trial and error, and I imagine that was the case in the early years of SH3 & 4 as well.
I started with SH4 & TMO (haven't played much stock of 4 or 5, modded right off the bat) and I thought you did a stunning job. TMO is still my benchmark for DD difficulty and solid gameplay. I'd love to see you modding for SH5, and I bet there are plenty who'd agree with me.
All I would ask is install it - add New UIs with TDC, Dynamic Environment and OHII and see how you get on. Those three will get you started and should be fairly CTD free; you can worry about adding others later. If you don't like it, fair enough.
But see how you get on, how it feels to play. At the end of the day only you can decide what you want to do, but with just those three mods its a completely different game, and it might go a long way to changing your opinion on SH5 and giving you the modding bug again.
Anyway (enough ego-stroking) you've been lurking in the SH5 forum for ages - you know you want to really!
