simple balance

Combat and skill balancing tools for your game. Lightweight. compatible. custom made. Features include balancing options for weapons, magic, potions and poisons, skills, enemy types and experience gains.

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This is an SSE port of Anubis22's mod Simply Balanced, the original version of which can be found here

Special thanks to Anubis22 for allowing me to create this port!

The following description is copied from the oldrim mod page. You can find the correct requirements in the drop-down menu above.

Why simple balance is needed

While other balance tools exist, they generally fall into one of two categories: either they are very broad and seemingly every variable in the game, lack focus, feel overloaded, and create compatibility issues. Or they are so small and undefinable that you need several of them to achieve your goals, assuming such a constellation even exists. In my opinion, there is a middle ground missing, which is a comprehensive but streamlined tool with clear responsibilities.

Simply Balanced is my attempt to fill this niche. It comes with a well-structured MCM menu that focuses on combat and skills, is as compatible as possible, and offers some exclusive features. Additionally, it pairs well with my other mod, True Armor, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in immersive gaming and realistic, in-depth combat.

feature

Everything you need to balance your combat experience

Tweak damage dealt and adopt multiple variations, skills, experience gains, and more

Focus and streamline

Well-structured MCM menu to easily find what you need

plug and play

All options can be turned on and off as needed, take out what you need and leave the rest

stack everything

With one exception (overpowering vanilla game difficulty), everything else stacks with other mods

Compatible with everything

Works with almost anything and never produces unexpected behavior, bugs or crashes

how does this work

Why Simply Balanced is so compatible and safe

This mod is nothing more than perks that can be added and removed from the player on the fly. This is great because perks are nearly impossible to bug and stack naturally with other perks, spells, game settings, you name it. The only effect of not using perks is to override the game difficulty (novice, apprentice, adept, ...), it does not stack with other mods, but does not cause conflicts either. When multiple mods change these values, only the last change is applied.

Nonetheless, reliance on subsidies does have some limitations. Most notably, the changes can only be applied to player characters. This means that changes to Simply Balanced will only affect the player's combat effectiveness, not the player's combat effectiveness, player skills, not NPCs, etc.

Weapon balance:

This is a unique feature of Simply Balanced. It reduces the damage difference between high-level and low-level weapons, thereby increasing the range of viable weapons. This makes weak enemies feel stiffer and more realistic. If something sticking out of you is made of steel instead of glass, why is it hurt?

The balanced weapon damage is calculated as follows: weapon damage * retained damage + (1 - retained damage) * balanced target

This just shifts it to the target value.

It should be noted that this method has some disadvantages: it can also reduce the impact of backfire and make the extra power attack multiplier less effective. Due to the perk system, these are strict limitations. Of course like everything else, as long as it's not broken when tested, you can always disable it again completely safely and everything will be as before.

Dark detection:

Another unique feature of Simply Balance. Darkness detection is simply a multiplier of enemy detection range, which expands based on the light around you. I created these settings primarily to use the darker night mode, as enemies will often spot you from ridiculous distances even though it appears to be black. Not only do I want to make general sneaking easier …