New Skyrim mod strips the tedium from its survival mode
A new survival Skyrim mod overhauls the vanilla Bethesda RPG game experience to make survival infinitely less tiresome and tedious, and it’s for the best. So if you want to completely change how you interact with Skyrim, Tamriel, and your day-to-day gameplay loop, this Skyrim mod is for you.
After diving into their Skyrim cooking mod, the Simonrim team is back at it, this time with a survival mode overhaul. Called Starfrost, it’s a “lightweight overhaul of survival mode designed to introduce survival mechanics into the game with the least amount of tedium possible.” Who doesn’t like less tedium?
Basically, the Simonrim team wants to rejig the Bethesda survival mode in Skyrim because of many unnecessary mechanics it has, streaming the survival mode experience. “If you like the idea of survival mode, but always find yourself turning the mod off after the first few hours, then Starfrost just might be for you,” the team writes, as this mod aims to be significantly less punishing than the base game.
If you have the Blade and Blunt mod installed, you’ll have a chance to be injured (lowering your max health) depending on how low your health is when hit. So if you have less than 50% health, there’s a 20% chance you’ll be injured (losing a percentage of your max health in the process).
To remedy this you’ll need to sleep in a bed or bedroll for a certain amount of time depending on the injury level. If you don’t heal your injuries they’ll also get infected, which lowers health regeneration to the point where you can’t heal at all – with the infection cured exactly how you cure diseases in vanilla.
Like in real life, you also need to make sure that you sleep. Otherwise, you’ll go from tired, to very tired, and finally to
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