A couple of questions:

1) What are the best Vampire mods out there? Also, are there any mods that make bottles of blood usable for vampires, and is there a mod that lets you make these?

2) What are the best companion mods out there?

In my biased opinion, the best vampire mod is http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1197105-relz-blood-is-everything-classic/, which I just released a new version of yesterday. I chose not to recognize bottled blood, but BIE completely reworks your relationship to blood and feeding on it, so they're not really necessary. (Need blood? Just kill something and drink from the body!)

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=37088 has recently added support for vampires collecting and drinking blood from corpses as well, but I'm pretty sure that it only satisfies that mod's "thirst" need and does not affect the progression of vanilla vampirism (and probably doesn't affect any modded versions of vampirism either). A search on TESNexus should turn up a couple mods that make blood bottles usable by vanilla vampires, but you'd probably be better off selecting a vampirism mod first, then looking at options specific to that mod for getting bottles to behave the way you want them to.



http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=28977 is very good and extremely popular. I've seen a lot of people saying she's the best (and very few saying otherwise, unless they're complaining about the absence of explicit "romance" options), although I haven't used enough other companion mods in Oblivion to know that myself - once I tried Vilja, I stopped looking at others.

Im going to disagree with the above and say the best is Unholy Darkness. Also grab "training cattle." That allows you to make cattle and build a vampire cadre.

I've heard that for Unholy Darkness you need to pay for textures or something?

pretty sure everything is free at this point, the creator talked to bethesda about this and althought he was working through a loop hole of sorts, they still said it wasn't "legal". if you are interested in it, just google it. its definately a fun mod, just has a bad rap from its early release.

I was just looking at Unholy Darkness's page yesterday and my impression was that the mod itself is free, but there's an "optional add-on" pack of voice files which you have to fill out a survey (which he gets paid for) to get access to. It's fully-functional without the voice files, but he pushes pretty hard on "but how could you not want to hear the menace in such-and-such an NPC's voice?" and so forth.

And I'm glad that someone else has finally stepped in and suggested something other than my self-advertisemant. I haven't played with UD (never even heard of it before yesterday), but it looks likely to be extremely well-done and an excellent choice if you're looking for more "social" vampirism (clan membership, getting missions from an elder vamp, social influence on non-vamps, enslaving non-vamps for food, etc.) or if you want lots of custom graphics/animations. BIE is a bit more stripped-down (I've added no custom art or sounds whatsoever) and targeted more at creating a logical lone-wolf vampire experience, leaving you out on your own, getting your blood where and when you can.

You mean the Voice and sound files on http://www.4drulers.com/unholydarkness/downloads.php page? If so then that is weird because i could download the file without having to fill out a survey?

I'm pretty sure you just need to download it at this point, there might be an advertisemant thing that pops up but I don't think you have to do it. Don't quote me on that though if you have any more questions regarding it, might consider sending madmole a PM, or posting on his forums. He's a great modder, like I said just got a little bit of a bad spot with this particular mod. The voice files add some flavor to the characters and the custom sound effects are pretty neat as well. As of late I think it is getting a small update as well, so might also give you incentive to check it out.

You may also check out the Nature of the Beast mod or Scorn's Vampirism.

As for companions, Villja or perhaps some of Sulteric Drums companions are definately good routes to go if you want more than just somebody following you.

Aundae in cyrodil works for me decent enough,after all it resembles the morrowind experience somewhat,besides the makers know their vampires :celebration:

I personally use Unholy Darkness, which is great.

A better question would probably be ''what are the most popular vampire mods out there?''. There are a rather lot of vampire mods out there and they all work very differently. Some will make the player character become weaker when drinking blood (like originally in-game), while others stronger. The same with drinking bottled blood. Some mods allow vampires to use these as normal blood, while others don't. Then you have additional content like quests, npcs with speech, etc. Some people find this important, while others might find compatibly with their favorite hunger/thirst/sleep mods more important.

If you're asking most popular vampire mods, I'm guessing these would be either Unholy Darkness or LTD-Vampire Overhaul. The best is obviously the one I created myself .

hey, didn't wish to start a new topic, but anyone know what happend to the terran vampire project?