Before I buy it I wanna make sure it won't cause me any problems.

Does it get added onto Skyrim as an extension to the map, which means merely more locations (or a new province, Morrowind,) with its independent set of main and side quests? I can go on with my 17 hour character and the installed mods and everything WITHOUT problem, only a new location on the map and its set of quests?

Thanks.

I havent tried that specific DLC, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say. YES, yes you can without any trouble.

I'm waiting to hit the buy button someone answer me please

You won't have an issue with your game. All the DLC is meant to be as unintrusive as possible, plus Dragonborn mostly takes place in an independent world space.

@President_Barackbar said:

You won't have an issue with your game. All the DLC is meant to be as unintrusive as possible, plus Dragonborn mostly takes place in an independent world space.

Thank you. Users on this website aren't very big on helping others huh? Just fighting about sexism or something.

Before I buy it I wanna make sure it won't cause me any problems.

Does it get added onto Skyrim as an extension to the map, which means merely more locations (or a new province, Morrowind,) with its independent set of main and side quests? I can go on with my 170 hour character and the installed mods and everything WITHOUT problem, only a new location on the map and its set of quests?

Thanks.

@President_Barackbar said:

You won't have an issue with your game. All the DLC is meant to be as unintrusive as possible, plus Dragonborn mostly takes place in an independent world space.

Thank you. Users on this website aren't very big on helping others huh? Just fighting about sexism or something.

It´s not even a new location on the map.. it´s a new map. After you have traveled to Solstheim for the first time, you get an arrow on your worldmap that takes you to the new island.

The new island has its own overworld map, completely seperate from the old map. It does add some minor things to the old content, though not as much as Dawnguard did. If you´re afraid of stuff messing with your saves, you should definitely stop using mods (save for a few select ones)

At least in my experience, the mods can cause a lot more harm than the official addons- but I´ve only had funky stuff happen, nothing game breaking.

Buy it. Bethesda games have issues, you should know that if you have put 170 hours into Skyrim.

@Capum15: That is good news! How many mods did you have installed for Skyrim since before installing Dragonborn and playing it?

@Superfriend: That's the point though, I have way too many mods that alter my game in too a radical way to just remove them for DLC. Sad, but I might have to choose the mods over Dragonborn.

@OfficeGamer said:

@Capum15: That is good news! How many mods did you have installed for Skyrim since before installing Dragonborn and playing it?

@Superfriend: That's the point though, I have way too many mods that alter my game in too a radical way to just remove them for DLC. Sad, but I might have to choose the mods over Dragonborn.

I think you have misread my comment. The mods are more likely to cause you trouble in Skyrim in general. Especially a combination of certain mods. If you don´t experience any problems right now, fine.

I´m pretty sure Dragonborn doesn´t alter that many things about the core game. It probably won´t clash with balancing mods or something. If your game already runs fine, it will most likely continue to do so with Dragonborn installed.

@Capum15: It's good to know that the Skyrim mods didn't damage Dragonborn for you and vice versa. Another question would be: do the mods only have effect in Skyrim and when you enter the Dragonborn island it flawlessly goes back to vanilla settings? In other words, does your Dragonborn have dynamic snow and deadly dragons etc.. or not?

Just to give you an idea of why I both fear for my mods and don't think I can play Dragonborn without them:

(67 mods)

@OfficeGamer: The expansion will show up in that list of data files so you can turn it off easily if you have any problems.

I'm personally waiting for the dragon mount mod from vanilla to incorporate the new riding animations.

Or for someone to make a new dragon riding mod entirely to make them ridable.

@Forcen said:

@OfficeGamer: The expansion will show up in that list of data files so you can turn it off easily if you have any problems.

I would recommend just buying it later, or doing what Forcen says. Maybe make a save file manually, keep it just in case, if you're going to actually play it immediately. Are you in that much of a rush to get it? Skyrim DLC has a history of messing up some versions of mods (not a bad thing, just what happens), though most popular mods are usually updated pretty quickly to accommodate unless they're really directly affected (follower AI mods, item enhancements/adjustments...).

@OfficeGamer said:

@President_Barackbar said:

You won't have an issue with your game. All the DLC is meant to be as unintrusive as possible, plus Dragonborn mostly takes place in an independent world space.

Thank you. Users on this website aren't very big on helping others huh? Just fighting about sexism or something.

I love you.

@Capum15: Really appreciate your answers man, thanks. I know I'm being picky but there's a lot at stake here :D

Downloading Dragonborn now, I hope after updating the mods they will appear and take effect in Dragonborn. Don't think I can play with the vanilla horse and graphics etc.. anymore!

@OfficeGamer said:

@Capum15: Really appreciate your answers man, thanks. I know I'm being picky but there's a lot at stake here :D

Downloading Dragonborn now, I hope after updating the mods they will appear and take effect in Dragonborn. Don't think I can play with the vanilla horse and graphics etc.. anymore!

A mod either affects the game on a general level (something that changes the way skills work, for example) or a particular piece of the game in a very specific way (a texture replacement, for example). If a mod is like the former, it will show up in Dragonborn (Dawnguard or any expansion for that matter); if a mod is like the latter, it will only show up in Dragonborn if it was explicitly made for it. For example, if Dragonborn uses a texture from the main game and you replaced that texture with a mod, the mod will probably override said texture in both the main game and Dragonborn.

That being said, I think you're being too paranoid with that stuff. Addons for Bethesda games have always worked the same way, from Morrowind to Skyrim, including Oblivion, Fallout 3 and New Vegas: you install the DLC, you get a notice that the module has been activated (either by a courier or a radio signal or something like that), you go to that location and presto. You start the DLC. You can argue that Broken Steel was different, but then again, it has been the only DLC that directly continued the main story of a game after it had finished. So why would Skyrim be any different?

And taking a shit on the community after waiting FIFTEEN WHOLE FUCKING MINUTES? That's classy. I don't even know why I bothered answering your question.

@JoeyRavn: You're right, that was mean. It's just that this is my first RPG on PC and I find PC games a little intimidating. Typo up there, it's 17 hours not 170... Sorry about the comment and thanks for the help buddy :)

@OfficeGamer said:

@Capum15: Really appreciate your answers man, thanks. I know I'm being picky but there's a lot at stake here :D

Downloading Dragonborn now, I hope after updating the mods they will appear and take effect in Dragonborn. Don't think I can play with the vanilla horse and graphics etc.. anymore!

A mod either affects the game on a general level (something that changes the way skills work, for example) or a particular piece of the game in a very specific way (a texture replacement, for example). If a mod is like the former, it will show up in Dragonborn (Dawnguard or any expansion for that matter); if a mod is like the latter, it will only show up in Dragonborn if it was explicitly made for it. For example, if Dragonborn uses a texture from the main game and you replaced that texture with a mod, the mod will probably override said texture in both the main game and Dragonborn.

@Capum15: Really appreciate your answers man, thanks. I know I'm being picky but there's a lot at stake here :D

Downloading Dragonborn now, I hope after updating the mods they will appear and take effect in Dragonborn. Don't think I can play with the vanilla horse and graphics etc.. anymore!

@Capum15: @Superfriend: @JoeyRavn: @minorinya: @Tennmuerti: @Forcen:

Just FYI if you guys are interested, it works flawlessly. Most of the mods easily carried over into Dragonborn, like my mod items and armor, all the graphical enhancements, etc.. and some minor stuff didn't, such as chalk markings on the locks, better world map, and so on.

Dragonborn is very fucking exciting I might add.

@OfficeGamer: It's a great DLC, and I'm glad you've been able to enjoy it so far.

@OfficeGamer: Good to hear it's working. Could you post your modlist? I came here to inquire about mod problems with Dragonborn, so seeing your particular load order could be beneficial.

@fetchfox said:

@OfficeGamer: Good to hear it's working. Could you post your modlist? I came here to inquire about mod problems with Dragonborn, so seeing your particular load order could be beneficial.

I posted two screenshots on the first page

@OfficeGamer: Ah thanks, silly me. I think I'll dare to buy the DLC myself then. Hopefully there'll be no problems... hopefully.