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  • I mostly agree. Games of all types can co-exist and knowing this doesn’t ruin enjoyment of the games that I do play.

    Like Skyrim modding for example, there’s so many mods that display fanservice, nudity and even intercourse. Does that ruin the game for me? Not at all. In fact, I still play it despite that knowledge. I simply choose not to use mods that I don’t want to use.

    Or a certain magicky wizarding game, that game can exist too without wishing death on people who want to play it. Doesn’t mean I have to play it, nor does it ruin gaming for me.

    Instead, the logical thing to do would be to pass on this game and find another. I fully understand that BG3 is one of the games of our lifetime, but it’s not the game for me. (Of which there are many)

    As someone who grew up watching my father crawl through dungeons (I think he enjoyed IWD more than BG), it’s great to see Baldur’s Gate at the forefront. Hopefully more of my childhood favourite RPGs will come back. I’d love to see Dungeon Siege and Neverwinter Nights brought back.


  • Sorry if there’s a lot of technical terms.

    My anecdotal experience is that Skyrim modding under Linux worked surprisingly well. Despite that I think I would still say “YMMV”. I have it running under Lutris-GE-Proton8-13.

    I used the GOG release because having local access to the installer is a major win. Note that even if you don’t install the AE upgrade it’s the same version number, 1.6.659 so bear this in mind when installing SKSE64 and mods. I think there’s a specific release of SKSE64 for GOG. Many mods label that version as AE only, which isn’t true of the GOG release.

    I chose to install in Lutris because of how easy it is to manipulate prefixes. I had issues with the automated scripts, which I expected. So I did it myself.

    I downloaded Skyrim from GOG and installed Skyrim using the “Install a Windows game from media” option, then run once from the launcher to ensure everything was initialised before modding.

    Inside this prefix I installed MO2 using “Run EXE inside WINE prefix”.

    I chose that mod manager because I used it on Windows and it worked just fine. I don’t know a lot about Vortex. There’s a DLL to add support for Epic and GOG installs of Skyrim. I duplicated the Skyrim SE runner and changed the target to ModOrganizer dot exe. There’s a UI bug that makes reordering mods act weird, just click another mod entry if it gets stuck.

    The Nemesis issue I had, which appears to be a Linux/WINE problem - the solution given (Extract it to the Data folder then run the executable from MO2 with VFS) worked for me.

    TBH my modlist is pretty tame compared to most that I’ve come across so I didn’t expect many problems. LOOT worked as expected so I just let LOOT handle my load order.

    There’s probably more to it but this is what I remember. Happy modding!

    Modlist

    Nemesis issue

    Mod Organizer 2

    Super useful tool to help manage proton versions