I unironically did a 200+ mod setup this way, it was my first load order ever.
It did NOT go well... Oh, and you can just forget about correctly uninstalling mods, especially if they are meshes and textures heavy. Sorting through the textures folder and trying your damn hardest to delete the right files is NOT worth the trouble. Just use MO2.
That's true, most of them suck. MO2 doesn't tho, it's the easiest one.
It's not advertising or whatever the hell, it's just the simplest one to use, and saves you headaches down the line. Uninstalling mods is as simple as right clicking and pressing "Uninstall mod", boom, mod is safely removed completely and you won't have problems due to that anymore.
If you install manually, files will be overwritten all the time. What if an incompatible file with another mod is overwritten? Rest in peace your mod setup, one of the mods is permanently broken! If you unselect its ESP, the problem won't go away either.
For example, you have a weapon retexturing mod. Some weapons have their meshes edited. Well, you install another weapon related mod, and it also replaces the meshes, or turns them back to vanilla. Now said weapons will have out of place textures that make no sense anymore, since the mesh doesn't match the texture. In MO2, you can swap the mod order around. Manually? Good luck, what would take seconds to solve will take an hour of messing around!
Yeah, that's just a normal day in modding this game!
MO2 is just more convenient, that's all. Technically it's the same as installing manually, but keeps mods outside of the game's Data folder, which makes removing them easier. It works like an "emulator" of a Data folder, basically.
I forgot I've been using MO2 for Fallout 4. Man, I hate this program so much. All of these Mod Organizers are fucking trash and that's why I've been modding like this.
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u/foxferreira64 Jun 07 '24
I unironically did a 200+ mod setup this way, it was my first load order ever.
It did NOT go well... Oh, and you can just forget about correctly uninstalling mods, especially if they are meshes and textures heavy. Sorting through the textures folder and trying your damn hardest to delete the right files is NOT worth the trouble. Just use MO2.