Know Your Enemy 2

Know Your Enemy 2 is the successor to Skyrim's most popular resistance overhaul. As challenging and finely balanced as ever, it has been rebuilt from the ground up for the ultimate experience. This is the creature module. There is also an armor module and a patch to integrate the two.

Sixteen damage types: The classic types of blade, axe, blunt, fire, frost, shock, poison and disease remain. Bows are now split into regular bows and crossbows. New damage types include fists, shield bashes, sneak attacks, sun, drain, and illusion.

Configurable difficulty: The MCM lets you choose from 4 levels of effect intensity at any time, magical and physical effects can be configured separately.

A simplified experience: There are no traits and no hidden books, instead enemies fall into one of a small number of categories. Resistances come in only two tiers, "resistances" and "strong resistances".

A better inspect power: The player can inspect creatures at close range to learn their resistances. In the MCM you can activate numerical effect descriptions (e.g. "50% resistant" instead of "highly resistant") or make only dead bodies inspectable.

Finely balanced: All damage types are equally viable, with imbalances in the vanilla game accounted for. Most damage types pair well together for wide coverage.

A creatures general form affects their resistance to all weapons, fire, frost shock, sun, poison and disease. The other damage types (sneak, illusion and drain) are affected by intelligence (see next section).

Animals

Bristleback, Chicken, Cow, Deer, Dog, Elk, Goat, Horse, Husky, Rabbit, Riekling, Skeever, Slaughterfish, Wolf

Resistances: Some resist frost.

Neutral: Everything else.

Weaknesses: Bows, disease.

Intelligence: Low, some are moderately intelligent.

Beasts

Armored frost troll, Bear, Cave bear, Frost troll, Giant, Horker, Mammoth, Sabre cat, Snow bear, Snowy sabre cat, Troll, Werebear, Werewolf

Strong resistances: Blunt, fists and shield bashes

Resistances: Axes, crossbows, fire and frost.

Neutral: Blade, bows, shock, poison and disease.

Weaknesses: Blades, poison and trolls are weak to fire.

Intelligence: Typically moderate.

Dwarven Machines

Dwarven ballista, Dwarven centurion, Dwarven sphere, Dwarven spider, Forgemaster

Strong resistances: Blades, bows, crossbows, fists, bashes, shock, poison and disease.

Resistances: Axes and fire.

Neutral: Blunt and frost.

Weaknesses: The forgemaster is weak to frost.

Intelligence: Low.

Ghosts

Ghosts are not a race, but rather a collection specific NPCs across races.

Strong resistances: All physical damage except silver weapons.

Neutral: All magic.

Weaknesses: S