¶ Main Features:
¶ 🌟 A Complete Experience
- Constellations is crafted to offer a comprehensive and cohesive role-playing experience, aiming to engage players for hundreds of hours
- Every mod is carefully considered, with most receiving custom changes to ensure a seamless experience
- Features more than 50 custom-made unreleased mods and a multitude of mods specifically released for this collection
- Regularly updated - refer to changelogs for the latest developments
¶ ⚔️ Combat Redesign
- Heavily modified combat flow through True Directional Movement and Precision while ensuring it still feels smooth and grounded
- Movement and attack animations are improved and modernized
- Enhancements include Accurate weapon hitboxes, Timed Block, Animation Cancelling, Lock-On, Dodging, and Magic Sneak Attacks
¶ ⚖️ Gameplay Rebalance
- The mod list is based on Requiem. This is a thorough overhaul of every aspect of gameplay mechanics, adds new content, and unlevels the world, which means that nothing scales with player level
- Constellations touches on pretty much every aspect of Requiem balancing and includes a complete custom overhaul of many features and is constantly evolving to provide the best experience possible
¶ 🐉 Main Quest
- Break free from the conventional Dragonborn story. In Constellations, you define your own path
- Choose to be anyone you wish: a bard, thief, beggar, mage, druid, fighter, or something entirely unique
- Constellations was designed with replayability at its core. Each playthrough brings a unique experience with an endless array of adventures, ensuring no two journeys are the same
¶ 🏕️ Survival
- Survival mechanics that immerse the player more deeply in the world without disrupting gameplay
- Players need to sleep when they're tired, eat when they're hungry, and equip themselves against the cold
- All activities advance time, e.g. harvesting animals, crafting armor, brewing potions
¶ 🪄 Magic
- Adds over 200 new spells and over 120 enchantments that seamlessly integrate into the base game
- New spell themes include: Annihilation, Earth, Soul, Poison, Corrosion, Wind, Druid, Shadow
- Learning new spells is no longer as simple as consuming books and comes with a whole slew of new mechanics without being needlessly complicated
¶ 🗡️Weapons and Armor
- Adds over 150 new weapons, including new weapon types with new animations (e.g. spears, halberds, katanas) and a lot of new unique weapons
- Adds over 200 new armor and clothing pieces, including a lot of variations of existing armor and completely new armor sets
¶ 🌍 Expanded Worlds and Adventures
- Adds major expansions like Bruma, Wyrmstooth, Vigilant, Extended Cut: Saints and Seducers, Clockwork, Moon and Star, Undeath, Sirenroot, Heart of the Reach, Siege at Icemoth, and much more
- Features numerous new dungeons, points of interest, and complete redesigns of all towns, cities, and landscapes
- Improved many of the lackluster aspects of Creation Club content and integrated it seamlessly into the game
¶ 💬 Interactive Stories
- New Followers such as Inigo, Auri, Lucien, Xelzaz, Remiel, Hoth, Astrid and many more
- Dialogue options have been drastically expanded, providing richer NPC interactions and enhancing player choices
- Significantly expanded Vanilla quests, providing more choices and extended narratives
- Missives and new world encounters introduce random elements throughout your adventure
¶ 🎭 Character Creation
- Players can choose their Race, Class, Religion, Birthsign, Faction, and Starting Location/Spells/Equipment at character creation to fine tune each playthrough
- Added tons of new character customization options including new hairstyles, beards, warpaints, bosmer antlers, and much more
¶ 🖥️ Interface
- Modernized the UI with features such as boss health bars, floating health bars, a new HUD layout, Underwater breath bar, and much more
- A completely redesigned UI and HUD skin with a consistent visual style based on Nordic UI
- Added beautiful paper maps for all world spaces, including modded ones (Examples: Skyrim, Soul Cairn, Bruma, Vigilant)
¶ 🖼️ Graphics
- Massive graphical improvements that stay true to Skyrim’s art direction while improving visual fidelity to modern standards
- Realistic and atmospheric lighting overhaul using Lux and Lux Orbis for interiors and exteriors
- Complete weather system redesign with NAT.ENB III to create diverse and immersive climates
- High-quality textures and meshes for landscapes, cities, clutter, creatures, and NPCs, all curated for performance and visual consistency
- DLAA, parallax, advanced shaders, cubemaps for reflective surfaces, and Dawnfire ENB deliver stunning visuals with minimal performance cost
There are a lot more changes made. The main features listed above are just the most important things.
¶ User Reviews:
"This collection is a role players dream come true"
"The best modpack I have ever seen for Skyrim"
"It's the first modpack for Skyrim I get more of an oblivion feel then a Skyrim feel. That's absolutely awesome always felt like Skyrim missed something of the titles before"
"I just started playing and my first thoughts are that this game looks a b s o l u t e l y beautiful, idk how I'm even running this it looks so good."
"This collection is insane, I've come back to modding skyrim many times over the years, and in all of my nexus browsing never came close to something this nice"
¶ Information:
¶ Check out my other Collections:
¶ Odyssey - A True RPG (Starfield)
¶ Path of the Prophet (Enderal SE)
¶ Echoes of Oblivion - A True RPG (Oblivion Remastered)
- If you need help with anything related to this collection or my mods please join the Discord.
- This collection is not save game compatible, using a new save game is required.
- Adding additional mods to the collection is highly discouraged and not supported.
- Check out the Character Builder for Constellations!
If you like my work, I would be very grateful for any support! It will enable me to continue developing and improving the game as a full-time modder.
¶ Requirements:
- Follow the Installation Guide: Please read the provided instructions carefully for a seamless setup.
- Fresh Skyrim SE Install: Start with a new, mod-free installation of Skyrim Special Edition on STEAM.
- Skyrim AE DLC: The modlist is optimized for the Skyrim Anniversary Edition DLC. Its inclusion significantly enhances your gaming experience with additional content and features.
¶ System Requirements:
MINIMUM: (For use with optional performance mods, "Performance ENB" + "Vramr Vanilla Output", and reduced Skyrim settings @720p)
Processor: Intel i5-7400 / AMD Ryzen 5 1400Memory: 16 GB RAMGraphics: NVIDIA GTX 1070 / AMD RX Vega 56Storage: 350 GB (SSD strongly recommended)
RECOMMENDED: (For base collection at high Skyrim settings @1080p)
Processor: Intel i5-12400 / AMD Ryzen 7 5800Memory: 32 GB RAMGraphics: NVIDIA RTX 3060 / AMD RX 6600Storage: 350 GB SSD