v5.0.1

FUS v5.0.1

Housekeeping. Also new Azurite Weather version (should be savefile compatible) that is even more optimized for VR, especially the sky :slight_smile:

Mods removed

• To your Face redux (old version, outdated)
• Volumetric Mists (New AWIII does not recommend it anymore and it saves a bit of performance)
• Azurite Weathers II

Mods added

• To your Face VR
• Lux - Pilgrim patch
• Subtitles VR
• Inigo Official Patch SE
• Azurite Weathers III

Mods updated

• Lux the great cities patch
• HIGGS
• PLANCK
• VR Address Library
• SkyPatcher
• Splashes of Storms

Other

• Clarified instructions of FUS Conflict Resolution Better Dragon Fights
• Disabled VR Menu Mouse Fix by default everywhere except in CANGAR because it caused confusion
• Set fMinOccludeeBoxExtent=600 in the SkyrimVR.ini because the lower value caused some flickering of LOD lights
• Reran TexGen, DynDOLOD, and Synthesis

v5.0.0

FUS v5.0.0

Now live and available in the Wabbajack browswer!

It's hard to believe, but yes, we're finally done. We started this overhaul in March, with 24 beta versions so plenty of testing. We do not expect any issues, but of course, please let us know if there are some!

The list of changes from the previous live version 4.1.19 is far too great to be enumerated in one post. The journey has been recorded through the different beta versions, and since the latest public beta version, we added another tool - SkyPatcher, and many small compatibility patches. This also means that the live version is NOT compatible with any beta version of FUS!

So: New save required!

For those who have not been paying close attention, the main updates from v4.1.19 to v5.0.0 are:

• ESL support
• Playable full vanilla intro
• Update and restructure of the green mod section and all of its mods
• Community Shaders update
• Landscape update (water, mountains, snow, and some textures)
• Increased armor variety by Sentinel
• Gameplay major overhaul to the complete vanilla-friendly SimonRim suite (including newly made mods specifically because of FUS, thanks Rafear!)
• New dragon combat (only enabled in CANGAR profile, more difficult)
• New voicelines
• Updated the Wiki

Recommended to use Azurite Weather meditation: Worldview -> Natural.

If you want to support us, give feedback and make sure to endorse the mods (it's a simple click in MO2, can be done as a batch, too)! If you want to give financial support, we don't take donations, but please donate to Wabbajack (they need the money to host the files!) and/or your favorite mod authors.

A big, fat thanks to all testers and contributors! This update was truly a major undertaking and I am extremely happy with the result. Thanks also to you, the community as a whole. In times of brittle motivation, the fact that there's thousands of players enjoying FUS always kept us going.

Thank you again ❤️

Enjoy!

v5.0.0-beta22-rc4

#FUS v5.0.0-beta22-rc4

Okay, here's a set of news that is really worth it and the reason we've been waiting to release FUS 5. VRIK had an update that allows to play the entire actual intro again! In adding this I also realized that our dragons were completely unchanged and I couldn't let that stand. So I added both visual and combat overhauls (breath is more dangerous and drops hazards, and melee is also more deadly, and dragons land more often). They are currently enabled in FUS RO DAH and CANGAR, because I definitely need feedback on those! Are they good? are they balanced? The first dragon fight is definitely much more dangerous now, but I hadn't had the time to test dragons on later levels. Is it more fun? If you think they are fun but a little difficult, I will only enable them in CANGAR for FUS 5. Other changes are that we added Pilgrim and Sorcerer, two last mods of Simonrim we didn't use. They are almost perfectly patched, but not fully. Still, they work already, just some visual glitches.

If you update from an existing save, first, take off the amulet you wear, and wait until any blessing from a shrine wears off. Then you should be good to go. You will need to redo VRIK settings, or save your current setting files elsewhere and manually change the new VRIK files to your current VRIK settings, but not just copy the files. VRIK has new entries so you need to copy one by one. It's probably easiest to just redo the VRIK setup. You will also have to run the MCM recordings again, as they only run on new characters. Specifically, adjusting dragon damage taken to 67% in the Simply Balanced MCM, and adjusting VRIK settings as per the default FUS MCM Recording.

Mods updated:

• Poached Bugs VR
• Sprint Jump VR
• More informative console
• VR Address Library
• Papyrus Extender VR
• Po3 Tweaks VR
• JS Emissive Eyes
• VRIK

Mods Added

• Neutral VR Animations for VRIK (adjusted so it works for DAR)
• Majestic Dragons
• Dragon models modernized and redesigned
• Dragon Bloodstains Removed
• Dragon Breath VFX Edit
• Better Dragon Breath
• Better and realistic dragon melee no player knockdown
• FUS-made slight reduction in the combat difficulty of the dragon combat mods
• Dragons fight more on the ground (goes well together with the melee mod)
• Pilgrim (with VR fixes by rafear)
• Sorcerer
• Smooth Carriage Ride VR

Other

• VRIK default settings adjustments to have more predictable holsters (lower body moves more with HMD)
• Added dragons take a third less damage MCM Settings (enabled by default)
• Moved Dynamic Animations Replacer and the Neutral VRIK Animations to the green section, enabled for all profiles by default
• fixed filepath of the height specific VRIK adaptations, they previously were not actually applied when enabled

v5.0.0-beta21-rc3

FUS v5.0.0-beta21-rc3

Save file compatible with beta19-rc1 and beta20-rc2. Minor changes to melee combat and some fixes.

PLEASE REPORT IF YOU ENCOUNTER NPCs FIGHTING UNARMED EVEN IF THEY HAVE A WEAPON!!! Please also report what you think of the enemy melee weapon range, did you feel it was ok?

Mods added

• More Informative Console
• RAID Adjustments (direct replacement wit nexus mod, no change)
• Unaggressive Dragon Priests Fix
• Whose Quest Is It Anyway
• Whose Quest Is It Anyway VR
• Combat Music Fix NG Updated

Mods removed

• RAID FUS (unofficial)

Other

• Disabled Magic Sneak Attacks and Magic Sneak Attacks VR by default in all profiles for balance reasons
• Disabled Bright Waterfall Fix for Realistic Water Two and DynDOLOD Bright LOD Waterfall Fix by default because they can lead to flicker in waterfalls. Damned if you do damned if you dont so we keep it as an option.
• Increased melee weapon range a tiny bit more to prevent unwanted unarmed combat

v5.0.0-beta20-rc2

FUS v5.0.0-beta20-rc2

I have personally playtested the previous version for about 10h game time with unarmed and melee combat. I have added a few minor changes, all are savefile compatible.

The biggest, and best change to melee is that I added speed and reach fixes back in, with extra shorter settings, which means that you will have a much easier time evading enemy attacks (especially those sweeping broadsword attacks that seemed to hit you even from 3m away!). I have had it to a lower setting before, but that led to NPCs suddenly fighting unarmed only, so the current setting is a bit of a tradeoff.

Please, please, I need your help in playtesting this. If you have time this week, please get this version, and play a bit, let me know if you see any NPCs fighting unarmed when they should not. Please make a screenshot of their inventory after you killed them. Also please playtest magic, as I am not playing a magic character at the moment.

This is already an extremely refined version. I really very much intend to have the FUS 5 final version be savefile compatible with this, because I play a character myself now. It is a good time to jump in and iron out the final kinks if there are any. If I don't get any feedback it will be released next weekend.

Give feedback in #fus-beta-feedback :)

Mods added

• CC's Enhanced Ore Veins - Legacy - 2K - 8.0 (brighter)
• Buy and Sell Torches - Bug Fix
• Synthesis Speed and Reach Fixes patcher

Mods Updated

• Improvement Names Customized VR

Other

• added a patch for Paarthurnax Expansion and Better Quest objectives (just some text changes, the mod was working fine before)
• disabled our individual controller bindings by default, so vanilla is default binding
• added a patch for Sentinel and Adamant
• removed an ugly snow vfx that was missed by ugly snow effect remover, but added another more subtle snow fx back in
• switched to subtle volumetric mist by default, odd colors can still occur sometimes with balanced

v5.0.0-beta19-rc1

FUS 5.0.0-beta19-rc1

This is the release candidate of FUS 5. It is likely not savefile compatible with beta18. The difference is not huge, mostly tweaks that were needed and remained on my todo for a while. I went back to vanilla waterfalls because Natural Waterfalls were transparent and that looked off. Stamina drain for archery is reduced. Spell Wheel gesture update included.

DL here:

Please let me know how it goes in #fus-beta-feedback!

Mods Added:

• Enchantment Art Extender
• Enchantment Art Extender VR
• Vibrant Weapons EAE
• Improvement Names Customized VR
• Shout Cooldowns That Make Sense
• Show Follower Carry Weight
• Controller Fix VR
• Bright Waterfall Fix for Realistic Water Two (with Dyndolod Fix)
• Slightly Brighter Water Effects Brightness and Reflection Fix
• WAVY Waterfalls Effect

Mods Updated:

• Menu Mouse Fix VR
• Simply Balanced
• Base Object Swapper VR
• VR Address Library
• po3 Tweaks
• po3 Twekas VR
• Poached Bugs VR
• Poached Bugs Simonrim Choice
• Spellsiphon
• Blade And Blunt
• Blade And Blunt VR
• Mundus
• Aetherius
• Rudy Fix For Splashes of Storm
• Natural Waterfalls
• Landscape Fixes for grass mods
• Assorted Mesh Fixes
• Tactsuit VR
• Map Markers for Navigate VR
• SprintJump VR
• PLANCK
• HIGGS
• Spell Wheel VR
• VRIK

Mods Removed:

• Enchanted Weapon Charge Fix (now covered by Poached Bugs VR)
• Vibrant Weapons Lite (replaced)
• Immersive Smithing (does not support perk overhauls that change smithing)
• No Arrow Auto Equip
• Individual Shout Cooldowns (Caused issues and had troubles with VRIK)
• Interactive AI - Play fetch (not used enough)
• Natural Waterfalls (too transparent water)
• Enhanced Waterfall Sounds (too loud and sometimes weird)

Other:

• added blade and blunt reduced bow drawn stamina drain options (medium default)
• added blade and blunt optional no sneak cost addon (off by default)
• halved stamina drain of simply realistic archery

v5.0.0-beta18

FUS 5.0.0-beta18

Main things to test are the new blade and blunt and the new water. We also now finally committed to our non-parallax new landscape. We chose this because parallax landscape just costs too much perf for the small visual gain it brings, and some glitches with parallax terrain blending were jarring and we could not fix them, either, so we opted for consistency and lightness. As an addition, using non-parallax terrain allowed us more tweaking which was nice. Changelog from beta14:

Mods removed:

• Skoglendi
• HD Remastered Landscapes
• Tomato's Complex Landscapes
• Project Diffuse Patch
• Terrain Parallax Blending Fix
• Unreal Ice

Mods added:

• Better Character Lighting for Ralof or Hadvar (alternate start) with Lux
• Spell Auto-Aim VR (in 1.16, disabled by default)
• Eagle Eye Cursor Replacer for Skyrim VR
• Quest Markers for Navigate VR
• Remapping buttons for Navigate VR to grip (should not be the same as VRIK holsters)
• Papyrus Tweaks NG
• Blade And Blunt VR
• Mortal enemies and its Synthesis patcher

Mods updated:

• Poached Bugs VR
• VR Menu Mouse Fix
• HIGGS
• SPID VR
• Crash Logger VR
• Address Library
• Base Object Swapper VR
• Weapon Throw VR
• bHaptics Tactsuit - SkyrimVR Integration
• Aetherius
• Blade And Blunt (no killmoves, no sprinting changes, and no injuries)

Other:

• Updated TexGen / DynDOLOD
• Moved Ralof or Hadvar mod higher in Load order so Lux works with it
• Set PLANCK ini such that you need the required stamina for power attack and bash
• Fixed some double entries in the low and high inis in the tools folder
• Added Reshade and Glamur to Glam up Glamur to make it standalone
• Deleted esps for werewolf and vapire lord body mods since they are no longer necessary and caused conflicts, also removed the manbeast version of the werewolf body mod since it was only about the esp

v5.0.0-beta9

FUS v5.0.0-beta9 (changelog from FUS v4.1.19)

!!! PUBLIC BETA TEST !!!

This is an attempt to rework FUS with the knowledge gained in the last years. We cleaned up a few things, and made others more clear. Many aspects are similar, but also many are changed. Absolutely NOT savefile friendly.

All mods are up to date. The most notable change is that we switched to a cohesive SimonRim suite for an all-around vanilla-friendly modern gameplay. Latest CS is of course also there. We also added ESL fix for your convenience, but it is NOT enabled by default. Water, mountains, snow, and some textures are changed. We changed some armor retexes and added Sentinel for enhanced variety. We also added dialogue options and additional voice lines.

Recommended To use Azurite Weather Meditation for Natural Worldview.

If you want to support us, give feedback and make sure to endorse the mods (it's a simple click in MO2, can be done as a batch, too)! If you want to support us financially, we don't take donations, but please donate to Wabbajack and/or your favorite mod authors.

Mods updated

FUS

• Community Shaders Core Files
• Upscaler Base Plugin and DLAA
• VR Address Library
• CS Light Limit Fix
• CS Parallax
• CS Grass Lighting
• SPID VR
• SCROTE
• Cubemap Reflections
• PLANCK
• Even Better Quest Objectives
• Interactive AI - Play Fetch
• Pseudo Physical Weapon Collisions
• Gift by Hand VR
• bHaptics support
• Durability VR
• Weapon Throw VR
• SpellWheel VR
• Crash Logger
• Papyrus Extender
• Papyrus Extender VR
• MCM Helper
• MergeMapper
• Quickloot VR
• Skyrim VR OpenComposite Fixes Custom Build
• JContainers VR
• Glam up Glamur

RO

• Lux
• Lux Via
• Lux Orbis
• Azurite Weathers (Now has a config power!)
• Immersive Spell Effects Emit Light
• Landscape Fixes for Grass Mods
• Cathedral 3D clovers
• Cathedral 3D nightshade
• Waterplants (now use lily only version)
• Glowing Mushroom Collision Fixes
• Hagraven Houses Animated tent
• Glorious Doors of Skyrim
• Immersive Draw Sheathe Sound FX
• SkyVRaan
• Underground Parallax Addon

DAH

• AI Overhaul
• Manbeast
• Combat Pathing Revolution
• Skyrim Revamped Rebalanced
• Conditional Tavern Cheering
• Realm of Lorkhan
• Sunhelm
• Mysticism

Mods added

FUS

• CS Dynamic Cubemaps
• CS Wetness Effects
• CS Subsurface Scattering
• CS Screen-Space Shadows
• CS Water Caustics
• Vanilla HDR VR
• po3 Tweaks
• Po3 Tweaks VR
• Ralof or Hadvar (alternate start)
• Capture Warmer (Dynamic Cubemaps)
• Disk Cache Enabler
• Poached Bugs VR
• Poached Bugs VR Simonrim Choices
• MCM Recorder
• Preset config files for VRIK (two heights)
• PrivateProfileRedirector SE - Faster game start (INI file cacher)
• TAA Sharpen
• Instantly Skip Dialogue NG
• Dual Casting Fix
• VR Performance Toolkit
• Skyrim VR USSEP Dwarven Ballista missing texture fix
• Leveling Freedom (default vanilla)
• Seamless Arrow Nocking VR
• Keyword Item Distributor
• Loading Screen Truce
• Loading Screen Truce AEVR
• Bound Dagger CTD Fix
• Skyrim VR ESL (not actively supported by the FUS team, but provided)

RO

• Rally's Common Furniture
• Rally's Feather and Ink BOS version
• Rally's Display Cases - BOS version
• Rally's Smithy - ENB Light Smelter version
• Rally's Sparkling Tochbugs (Sparkling version + ENB Light)
• Rally's Bees And More
• Rally's Spell Tomes
• Rally's Burned Books
• Rally's Road Signs Reloaded - Brighter version
• Rally's Orc Furniture
• Rally's Dark Elf Furniture - ENB Light
• Rally's Upper Furniture - plus Optional
• Rally's Noble Furniture - plus BOS
• Rally's Thrones
• Rally's Crates
• Rally's optional BOS Handcarts file
• Rally's Upper Chests
• Rally's Barsets
• Rally's Celestial Canvas VR
• Rally's Banners of Skyrim
• Cathedral 3D Plants - Darker and Desat
• Shibui Skyrim
• Rally's Mods - Shibui Skyrim Recolor
• Rally's Handcarts
• Vendor Carts Animated
• Cathedral - 3D Stonecrop
• NordwarUA Total Armor and Weapon Compilation
• BeastHHBB - Khajiit and Argonian content - player character and NPC replacer
• Assorted Mesh Fixes
• Fixed Mesh Lighting
• Simplicity of Snow
• Paraphernalia - Snow Colour Fixes
• Shaders of Solstheim
• Enhanced Rocks and Mountains
• Natural Waterfalls
• Terrain Blending Fix
• aMidianBorn Book of Silence SE (Complete)
• Elven Weapons for Silence SE
• Actual Orichalcum Orcish Equipment
• Sentinel - An Equipment Overhaul (optimized mipmaps)
• Ruins Clutter Improved SE
• Volumetric Mists (back because it has a fix for the green tint)
• Rudy fix for Smoke
• Landscape identification by terrain texture (disabled by default, just utility)
• Tomato's Complex Landscape AIO (just using snow and rocks)
• Icy Mesh Remaster
• Skyrim Remastered - Unreal Ice
• Ugly wind-and-snow remover
• HD Terrain Noise
• Projected Diffuse Patch
• No grass in caves
• Splashes of Skyrim
• Splashes of Skyrim VR
• Animated forge Water
• Enhanced Waterfall Sounds
• Water in Wells
• Reduced Fire-Candle-Torch Glow
• Soul Cairn HD

DAH

• Hand Placed Enemies Light (with and without ambushes)
• Guard Dialogue Overhaul SE
• Falmer Dialogue Overhaul
• Hunters Not Bandits
• NPCs react to frenzy
• NPCs reacto to invisibility
• NPCs reacto to necromancy
• Bandit lines expansion
• Falmer Sounds The Betrayed Remaster
• Brawl Lines Expansion
• Vampire Lines Expansion
• Forsworn and Thalmor Lines Expansion
• Civil War Lines Expansion
• Carriages amd Stables Dialogoue Bundle
• Talkative Dragons
• Extended Bandit Dialogue
• Extended Guard Dialogue
• Dialogue Movement Enabler
• Paarthurnax Quest Expansion
• Realistic Conversations
• More To Say (merged version)
• Apothecary
• Gourmet
• Artificer
• Adamant
• Adamant VR tweaks
• Hand To Hand Adamant Addon
• Hand To Hand Trainers and Skill Books Addon
• Hand To Hand Adamant Addon VR Tweaks (with our own changes manually in addition)
• Adamant Onslaught Revamped and Beyond
• Arena
• Scion
• Thaumaturgy
• Mundus
• Aetherius
• Forget Spells

Mods removed

FUS

• Arctals VRIK Tweaks bHaptics support (no longer needed)
• FSR Upscaler (did not work for many AMD users and so it's pointless)

RO

• Waymark (too many incompatibilities with Lux Via even with the patch...)
• Frozen Electrocuted Combustion (it has been causing issues on higher levels)
• Better Dynamic Snow
• Remove blurry snowflakes (it was redundant)
• NordWarUA's Vanilla Armor Replacers SSE
• Believable weapons
• aMidianborn Book of Silence Creatures (as we added the complete retex)
• Insects resized (caused issues with retextes)
• Ethereal Clouds (due to recommendation by DrJacopo)
• Azurite Mists (resulted in green tint in the distance in some weathers)
• Reduced Glow FX SE - No Glow (glow is now replaced by light limit fix lights)
• Waterplants (lily only - they just don't fit a vanilla-plus list)
• Realistic Water 2 (SkyVraan now looks better without it)

DAH

• Wands of Skyrim (not popular enough to warrant a spot)
• Pull Mastery Hookshot or Grappling hook(SE) (not popular enough to warrant a spot)
• Sailable Ships (also too niche)
• No BS AI Projectile Dodge (actually redundant with blade and blunt)
• Apocalypse
• Sacrilege
• Spellforge
• Thunderchild
• Triumvirate
• Vokrii

Other

• Updated MO2
• Added Bethesda Plugin Manager to MO2
• Disabled Quickloot by default because it can be confusing
• fixed an ugly parallax mesh issue on stairs of towers from Underworld parallax
• removed our general fixes patch because it is no longer necessary
• lowered grass movement distance in community shaders
• added a small patch that removes the annoying slomo sound
• fixed a glow lighting issue at the arcane enchanter
• cleaned up the DO NO TOUCH section and other sections and moved some mods around between sections
• Disabled MArc by default
• Fixed some load orders of stuff remover and fixes files by adding them to the late load visuals section
• Added a second install of Magic improvements for Skyrim VR that has aiming set to gun style instead of palm aiming
• Major overhaul of the plugins page and load order
• Set the parallax blending range to 0.5 to blend the new prallax glaciers better
• Added MCM recordings for Defaults and Cangar
• Moved Behavior Data Injector to Utilities
• Added a Durability VR option that only degrades enemy helmets and shields for fun without much impact

v5.0.0-beta14

FUS 5.0.0-beta14

• added new performance friendly 3D tundra grass, with matching landscapes
• added dummy plugins for LUX brightness templates
• fixed VRIK settings for compass

v5.0.0-beta13

FUS 5.0.0-beta13

some updates and a change of landscape and grass. should be a bit more performant and look much better in pineforests and reach. new dyndolod so might not be savefile compatible with beta12, but might be, feel free to try at your own risk.

• removed Aetherius NPC Spell Absorption Addon (for compatibility)
• removed inconsequential pets (too niche)
• updated azurite weathers
• updated SkyVraan water color and added volcanic water color
• updated SCROTE
• updated VR address library
• updated HIGGS
• updated Weapon Throw VR
• updated Aetherius
• updated Mundus
• updated Adamant
• updated Gourmet
• updated Skyrim Revamped Rebalanced and Releveled
• updated Misc Dialogue Edits
• updated More Dialogue Overhaul
• added Snow Chest Fixed - SMIM Patch
• added No Arrow Auto Equip VR
• added Alchemy XP Fix VR

landscape changes:

• disabled HD remastered landscape, tomatos landscape, terrain blending fix, and skoglendi
• added septentrional landscapes, northern shores, cathedral snow, cathedral landscapes, and cathedral 3d grass library (only pine and reach)
• changed imingrassize in the three inis to accomodate the new grass. by default it should be both, similar or a bit better performance, and a bit more dense than skoglendi
• replaced skyrim remastered unreal ice with skyrim remastered glaciers and ice