Skyrim is great during the gameplay but I dont like the menus at all. The problem is there are scenarios where I need to switch whole sets of armor, rings, necklaces and weapons very quickly.
For eg, I start quests with sneaking around, for that I use the nightingale armor and use detect life spell + soul trap elven dagger. Now, when a tough guy / boss comes in the way then I need to switch to heavy steel armor, necklace for block, shield and a strong sword. Then I need to switch back.
This involves so much menu navigation that I am starting to hate it. It would be superb if I could assign keys to scenarios like:
- Assassin – light armor + blade
- Warrior – heavy armor + one handed combat
- Sharp shooter – light armor + bow + arrows
- Mage – magica regen apparel + spells
- Thief – muffle apparel + blade + lockpick/pickpocket ring/necklace
- Business man – stuff to increase speech craft and price discount etc etc etc
God! Is it just me or it is such a pain to switch between these items in-game. All because I like efficient gameplay.
I know the game doesnt support this (I know about the Q – # shortcuts) but perhaps there are scripts or mods that allow assigning a keystroke to multiple items (apparel, weapons, spells, shouts, powers)?
Best Answer
A macro program like autohotkey is what you're looking for.
Since skyrim has a consolified interface, almost any action can be done with keystrokes alone.
The trick is to use the favorites menu, and walk trough it while selecting the things you want.
A macro I have for example is:
q opens quick menu
wwwwwwwwwwww moves to top of list (number of items in list.)
eseequips or unequips an unrelated weapon and shield
the desired weapon is has a known state (unequiped)
sse moves to wapon and equips it.
ssse moves to shield and equips it.
q closes quick menu.
It isn't instant or very quick, but it saves a lot of time.
However, this setup is fragile and basically only works when all items of the Quick menu have consistent names.