Immersive Weapon Integration

The purpose of Immersive Weapon Integration (formerly The Third Party Weapon Integration Project) is to reimplement weapons that our community's talented weapon-modders have created by removing them from the forge menu and putting them out into the world. The concept is very similar to that of Immersive Weapons, but crafted to adhere to a modern standard.

I started this project for myself, but it eventually grew into something I saw worthy of sharing with the community. I found it immersion-breaking to have a forge menu filled beyond the point of reason with weapons that appeared to me, in many cases, to be of artifact quality. I also began this project to address the issue of having my load order filled with upwards of fifty separate plugins, each for single weapons, or packs of weapons. I know that many people use merge plugins to address that specific issue, but this project does much more than that. Merging the plugins doesn't alleviate the unintuitive implementation of many great weapons. Many of these I would never use for my character, but would love to see in-game as an aspect of the world of Tamriel. The community is filled with amazing weapons I wish to truly see in the world because they fit, and Skyrim would be lacking in richness without them.

All six-hundred and twenty-one weapons in this mod have been evaluated and anything deemed adequately unique has been removed from the forge menu completely and placed in the world some place more worthy. Many other weapons could be found anywhere in Skyrim. The vanilla weapon lists have been greatly expanded upon, adding one-handed war hammers and variations of many existing weapon sets, which have been painstakingly placed within the leveled lists. Furthermore, many NPCs and static objects have been altered so that they now draw from the leveled lists instead of being identical for everyone, every time. Wealthy NPCs will have things that signify their status; No more Jarls with iron daggers. Certain other groups, such as the Khajiit Traders, have been given a variety of weapons they could potentially have which would make more sense.

Weapons are still largely damage-tiered and you shouldn't encounter weapons that are drastically above your level. However, there are some exceptions to this. I've also taken steps to make the loot found within the game more thematic. Refer to the credits list at the bottom of this page for a vague idea of what, more specifically, is included within this project.

Details:

[*]Thalmor will always have Elven or Glass equipment, regardless of player level. The Elven weapon set has been greatly expanded upon.