Fallout 4 has Survival Mode,
Fallout: New Vegas has Hardcore Mode, Fallout 3 has the “Exit to Desktop”
button, but Skyrim doesn’t have some special difficulty setting to make the game
harder. Luckily for everyone except for me, there’s a mod to fix that. Can
You Beat Skyrim in Chaos Mode? We should begin with the description of the mod:
Randomizes Item lists, enemies, and enchantments. Adds chaos mode. Mod is considered Unstable.”
Sounds lovely, doesn't it? But what is chaos mode, you may be wondering? We’ll get there. The
New Vegas randomizer randomized NPC heights, weapons, armors, inventories, weather, that
sorta stuff. This Skyrim randomizer does that, but it also has an option to enable Chaos
Mode and it's exactly what it sounds like. You can think of Chaos Mode as a randomizer's
randomizer. Chaos mode extends the randomizer to pretty much everything except for
textures. Buckets could be 50 feet tall, the Greybeards could be a family
of chickens, Malborn was a giant transparent troll. Anything is possible,
and that's why it takes time to activate. While we let the mod activate, I can explain
two things. One, this mod kinda requires the Alternative Start mod to work. In theory it
could work without it, but moving onto thing two, we have this lovely message on the mod page
itself: Do you enjoy playing a functional game? Goes it bother you that loot isn't
more randomized? Do you want your game to crash more? Well, then this mod is for you.”
I want it to fall apart, I'm counting on it, but I also want it to be somewhat possible,
so I'm taking as many precautions as I can. If I'm jumping into an active volcano, you can be
damn sure i'm gonna wear my oven mitts. Besides, I've already gotten through the intro of Skyrim
in so many different scenarios, this is fine. I went with an Orc because being a random race
wasn't an option like it is before you're born, if you don't remember seeing that option
you probably failed a skill check somewhere. Choice 1 was to randomize world items to
allow things like a wheelbarrow of cheese to become a fork or an enchanted Dragonstone
chestpiece. Choice 2: I played it safe. I assumed hostile guards would cause problems bigger than
those I was already planning on starting myself. Choice 3: every enchantment is random,
but I didn't go all the way to making them random every single time they're used.
Last choice: what do I do with my life? It's a big one. I left it to chance,
went to bed, snagged babies first sword, watched the dresser disapear before
my very eyes, woke up in a brothel, found some absurd armor, executed a dead toddler
who was brought back from the dead, took an eye the size of one of my own from the fireplace, and
left see what this vile wasteland had to offer. Now's a good time to point out how this differs
from the New Vegas randomizer. Think for a moment about all the weapons and armors in New Vegas
and its DLCs, there’s a lot of variety as we saw in last week's video. But now remember that
this is Skyrim. There are probably hundreds of thousands of different enchanted weapon and
armor combinations you could come across, not to mention all the keys, all
the books, potions, everything else, it's quite the mod. If you don't
think it's anything too extreme yet, give it time. If you're wondering why I idn't
go all the way with true chaos for every option, I'll give you a taste of it either at the
end of this video or in a seperate one. Once I left Goodsprings, I had no real plans. I
meandered for a bit, taking in the world and all it had to offer. Considered seeing if becoming a
vampire would give me some other animal's form. The Big T in the Sky blocked the doorway's
path with a boulder, what a shame. Oh, did you think this mod didn't affect doors?
Of course it does. Another thing that's worth mentioning now so you're aware of it is that
when I said earlier that enchantments are random, I don't mean it's a static randomization.
This mod's got style, it's got flare, it makes enchantments go from 0% bonuses and
worthless to overpowered and unfair. Not even 25 minutes in and I had myself an enchanted
dragonbone shield. After leaving a minecraft I stumbled across, the game decided it was
time to read an Elder Scroll. Whiterun wasn't too weird at first. The hammer
shurnk right before my very eyes, I sold a few things, it got real stuttery
inside the shop with all the armors spawning. The door was off its axis, a plate was misbehaving
in its chair, a kettle was dancing like the whore it is, the Battle Bear seemed to exist everywhere
inside the building at once. It was a mess. Found a giant kid with transparent legs
chasing its imaginary goblin friend. I bet that's a sentence that
has never been said in human history. One of the Whiterun Guards
was a tracing paper machache dragon, how fun. In the dragon keep, I noticed the
Jarl had not yet ascended to his true form which of course comes after his final form. He's
a man of many creatures, let's just say that. I don't even know what the Farengar is supposed
to be. The smoke monster escaped the island, I got mentally Nagasaki'd by
this guy in the stables. Carriage driver was missing his horse, obviously he was
not the son of a shepard, I rode to Riften Stables for later, returned to the Stables, and
made my way to Helgen to begin the game. What's the quickest way there? A horse bought
from the finest pony store in all the land. The mother er who broke into my car
on Christmas morning struck again, my horse that was promised by the tentacle man was nowhere
to be found, it's like Gamestop all over again. I hate to do this, but we've got ourselves a
little issue, and of course by we I mean mental Paul wanting to include everything that happened
in the video and video editor Paul wanting to speed this the up because I'm not
even halfway through the first of seven different recordings for this playthrough
and we're already beyond 1000 words. That's it, I'm gonna be flipping out all my
tricks for this one. If my knuckle wasn't still sore after punching the roof of my car
because I hit the same deer twice a few days ago, I'd crack my knuckles. Got into a fight with an
igloo monster and a Draugr outside of what I can only assume was Riverwood judging by the river and
the wood. I obtained the combat stone blessing, arrived at an already destroyed Helgen as
a local man was seen fleeing the scene in a flying machine, spoke to Hardvark, caught
this guy walking backwards for some ing reason items fell from the heavens like the spatter
of blood on a child's face after you backhand their mother for refusing to hit you like a man,
Irelithe had somehow managed to become even more hideous, I found the severed head of my 4th grade
teacher and put it in the fire where it belonged, and informed the Jarl of the dragon attack. That
worthless slimy gave me his trash. I cast a voodoo curse on him, entered Bleak Falls Barrow, the
Skeever bones being purple and resembling a human skelington was just, and I hate to so casually
throw this word around, but it was bizarre. I'm not gonna bore you with all the neato misquito
weapons and armors I found. Prepare your spine for a thrashing then whip out the ol' imagination
noodle to in your head pretend what they might be. Arvel was so small he was practically a fetus,
but I didn't let that stop me from killing him. The Draugr were randomized among any random
hostile NPC you may stumble across, I took both left eyes off this dead guy, I cant' imagine
what it would be like to have two left eyes, I ripped the life from the Draugr Overlord
with my blade before he even got out of bed, left the crypt, a bunch of armor
was just sitting there so I stole a lot of it, I quit the game to do something,
probably something food related, and when I came back in I couldn't remember what I
wanted to keep and what I wanted to get rid of or what my plan was for getting it to
a merchant because I sure as wasn't walking overencumbered. After this big naked man
with a sword killed me several times, I did the only thing I could, I turned into an
angry dad on a road trip, turned around, and went home with nothing. Hear that, champ?
Not only are we not going to Disney Land, now I've gotta buy more ing plane tickets
for an early flight back. All this wasted money means you're not getting a birthday present
either. That went on far longer than it needed to. Found a ditto in a box that takes the form
of whatever the last selected item was, it crashes the game when you try to attack
something with it, Ysolda was looking rather majestic, have you noticed yet
that trees and bushes and can be huge too? This single plant bugged me more than you
could ever hope to understand, Farengar is now an even smaller purple light
monster, finally noticed that I had myself the Skeleton Key, the Jarl told this guy to
take it easy and he did that by ing exploding. Just look at this absolute monster of a
tree. The Jarl sent his C team of a golbin, a floating glowing eyeball, yes it has a
weapon don't think it came to this rumble with its pockets empty
looking for things to steal, Irileth has gone completely insane, the
dragon fight was not very interesting. I've got good weapons for the first time
ever. Back at the castle, I took my donkey, went to sell some to a guy who's now a
stationary floating tornado man made of rocks, Next stop, all aboard the Greybeards? Guess
what, we're there. And there is here and here is where the bad happens. We're getting
unstable now. Just look at this utter nonsense. Master Einarth's neck is missing, it
doesn't get any more crazy than that. As you probably could've guessed, one of the
old men being really old is a problem. And the only solution is to cheat. Of course
you can't beat Skyrim in Choas Mode, it's the entire point of Chaos Mode. I pulled down
the curtain, redressed myself to be in my Jurgen Windcollar quest attire, let the show resume,
got into Ustengrav and attempted to archery for the first time with my Thanos bow.
Sucked boiling acid, no point to it. Vlad Masters and his brothers always
proved to me a giant pain in my fanny. Deeper inside, got weird. I killed a giant
skeleton right? Nothing weird about that, but then his ing body just kinda
danced in plance real slowly. I thought speeding up time would fix
it, that was a massive ing mistake, but changing time back was still
an even bigger mistake than that. This is gonna haunt me until I die,
but even then he'll still be dancing. I got the note, Faregengar was testing
a new crazy get rich quick scheme, tje Jarl finally took a step in the right
direction, Delphine, the giant , couldn't fit into her own basement so we chatted in the bedroom
with the door open. On the way to kill a dragon, I took a swim like an ordinary person,
tried to finish the Greybeards thing, didn't work out, tried to ride the horse I
bought that turned into what's her name from Cyberpunk 2077. The fun thing about that
is it's vague enough to only be a spoiler if you know who I'm talkig about. I arrived
at Kynesgrove to slay me a distant cousin, I didn't expect him to be a shiny dragon,
but I'm as lethal as a cocky 10 year old on a winning streak, I stuck a knife in that
scaly 's eye hole, a trio of hired thugs tried to cut me down in my prime, Delphine
embraced a new lifestyle as a living statue, Malborne was not at all what I epected
him to be seeing as I had no idea what he was i nthe fist place. Gave him the usual ,
briefly existed inside a mango, rode to the party and the dumb bird who
was supposed to check my invite refused to show up. I might have the unbreakable
skeleton key, but even the skeleton key has to respect the power of a restraining order.
I called upon the lord to unlock the door, Elenwen was looking fabulous as was
Malborne, the game really started to chug around here, Mr Distracto was nowhre to be found,
so I had to take matters into my own hands, I kicked the door down with the
power of prayer, got my weapons, and started killing not the Thalmore. Believe
it or not, with solid glass as a weapon, I was unstoppable. Trust me, I know
about glass. Not only did I cut the out of my knuckle by punching a picture frame,
I've been driving with a broken sideview mirror on my car for almost 18 months. I've only had
the replacement for about 17 and a half months. Who's next? Esbern, that slimy maggot
crawling around in Riften's bellybutton. The overworld map was all sorts of whacked
out, I spent some time grinding restoration for reasons that escape me, I think maybe I wanted
to use some Lightening spell I’d found. The Jarl upped his security and finally installed a disco
ball like I told him to, grinded Illusion up for a bit as well for similar unknowable reasons,
spent at least 15 minutes in a bandit hideout being beaten to death in every room, hallway, and
staircase in the building, appoached the Ratway, went back to High Hrothgar because
who the knows what I was doing, then I went back to farming illusion,
finally entered the Ratway, some of the weapons couldn't decide whether they wanted to
be here or not, I passed through the criminal lounge, this Draugr kamakazi'd itself to
crash the game, I tracked down the deaf woman who was hiding, did horrible things
that ended with her death because I could sense that she had a bucket somewhere insider
her, I found little Esbern, the door to the ragged flagged was in the ground and wouldn't
work prompty me to teleport myself to Riften, Delfine couldn't understand how a goddamn
door worked, eventually it got sorted out, I battled a dragon while walking
on the water just like Moses did, ran into a bodyless human head goat along the
side of the world, learned that God sure is cruel, systematically used the greatest
mechanic in any video game ever next to Commando Pro to eliminate all the
Foresworn vanilla es from the premesis, approached the temple, Delphine just had
to be the ing centerpiece, can't let anyone have the spotlight. Pathetic midget Esbern
refused to recite his presentation before me, forcing me to grab the reigns
off that deer I hit and take back control of this nightmare by setting the stage
anew. Need to learn the Clear Skies shout. Arnold is still living in the past, he's still
asking for the whistle I tricked his demented old mind into thinking I already
returned. And adding a shout is harder than you'd think it would be. Irregardless, I
commanded the wind to get out of my way, saw another head goat, learned alphabet
combinations from the dragon and breathed a sigh of relieve, I don' have to do the
Dwemer because I already have a scroll. Naturally, I still found a way to it up
and waste time. I enabled player controls to see if I could interact with anyone,
checked the inventories of fallen idiots to see what they died with, took some of it
to see if my fever dream would become reality, ran down the ing mountain to see what
I could do in the world during this moment in time, that crashed the game, I
didn't slam a banana on the ground with the intention of possibly slipping on it in
the night in the next round, Alduin showed up and tragically he was boring. It
was a shame how easy he was to defeat, so I upped the difficulty and got ahniliated, the
issue was me trying to heal and swing at the same time so I only did these halfway baby
swings. It took me far more attempts to beat him than I thought it would which I find
odd because he was the same as he always is and I had great items for my level. Next
came the Great Greybeard Invitational hosted by none other than marble man. I opted
against doing the normal shenaningans, decided to have me a little civil war
party, saw an inverto spectur with a dagger, witness the might of the mega tree, and
joined the Stormcloak Rebellion just in time to crust the sideways door uprising.
Doors are just as big of a threat as any other wasteland creature. Before taking
on the giant's quest I saw this pair of glowing eyes with a sword taking a late
night stroll on the town, had a little science experience to see what happens if
you go underwater and equip the jesus boots, doesn’t do anything until you reach the
surface, I killed the flying snowball, battled an invisible thalmor soldier that made
horse sounds as I hit it, met up with Stone Fist and the bravest men I've ever seen outside a
haunted crypt, and together we slaughtered the imperial bastards. Then, I got smart. I found
a master lock and abused the auto-reseting part of the lockpick minigame to grind the
absolute mother out of my lockpick skill. Inititally I let it go for abou
half an hour as I aganized over what food to order, I was overwhelmed by options
and couldn't make up my mind so I went with nothing, let the lockpick thing run for a little
while longer with the Sneaky stone activated. Got distracted by the concept of nachos
and let it run for 2 and a half hours during which time I got distracted by
things I can't speak of and forgot to put any kind of seasoning in the ground
beef, also forgot that I didn't have any chips or tortillas. It was one of the biggest
disasters of my life. Believe it or don't, my lockpick skill still wasn't
at 100 after almost 3 hours. With many perk points to my name, I upped
the damamge of 2 handed weapons and 1 handed weapons by 20% each, reduced the cost of power
attacks by 20% for both, reuinted with Glegory inside the underground castle, my comrades went
down in seconds, leaving little ol me to battle the giants with narrie a weapon worth its weight
in in my posession. Another setback was deeper in building. A claw is needed to get through a
door and the guy who's supposed to have it didn't show up. There's no way to fix that, I deleted
another door to score another win for our team, got the crown from the king, returned to HQ,
set the crown on the king's skull, opened the door to oblivion, joined the king's men outside of
Whiterun to listen to Bear's overly long speech, and begin crushing the town. To speak the
truth for the first time in this video, Whiterun was lame. The guards were still
guards they were just different sizes. The guys inside the jar's house were random
but that didn't make up for anything. Let down, I decided that I didn't want to finish this
quest, spoke to the marble about a peace treaty, got both parties to agree against all
odds, barely escaped the wrath of a courier, and the meeting failed
before it ever really began. Also I should point out that I have no
idea where Lydia is or what happened to her. There was a big ass draugr, the ghost
of a moose, the biggest ing dragon in Skyrim histories, and predictably the meeting went
nowhere. I played with the console commands to get me to the point where I could
summon the dragon in the giant cage, also gave myself the shout since Esbern's burnt
skeleton wouldn't help me, called the dragon, waited a while for him to show up, and
when he didn't, like a good mother, I went to search for him. The problem
is that these guys are used to being underground not in the sky. They get confused
and don't do as they're supposed to. I gave him all the time in the world to get his ing act
together, I let my vocal cords loose on his ass, he resisted it which isn't supposed
to happen. Defeated once again, I cheesed myself inside Skuldafn, and I did
a mistake again. I forgot to mention that to do the council quest instead of the civil
war, I reloaded a save so I'm level 14 again instead of 24. With multiple backup saves, I stormed
outside expecting to see half a dozen dragons circling the sky like giant deformed
vultures, but all I found were Nahkriin and a ven diagram of a wood elf and a draugr.
It was winter when I arrived in Sovangarde, Alduin seemed especially cocky, I'm gonna
jump to the end because it wasn't really randomized at all. I spoke to the guys, we
all screamed, Alduin was larger than usual, he confetti'd himself, and I did
not beat Skryim in Chaos Mode, or in a World of Chaos.
I haven't decided what I'm calling this yet.
