Ahead of Skyrim Anniversary Edition 's launch, a developer behind a vital modding tool warned that the release might also break mods for Skyrim Special Edition, badly. Well, Skyrim Anniversary Edition is out now , and as expected it has broken many mods.
But, good news: the person who warned of this is making better progress on fixes than expected. This tool doesn't do anything fancy in itself but does let other people make mods which change more of the game than the official tools allow. Thankfully, extrwi has already managed to release a preliminary build with support for the Anniversary Edition update. I'm very glad to hear Bethesda shot them the game early. A decade after launch, mods are a huge part of how people play Skyrim.
It's typical for SKSE and other methods to be unintentionally broken when Bethesda update the game, simply as a side-effect of how they work. However, the Anniversary Edition was expected to do more damage because it rebuilds the game in a new compiler, threatening to break the known routes to hook deeper into the gameguts.
You can download this preliminary build from the SKSE site. Things are certainly not hunky-dory yet, mind. The new version isn't fully tested, and the plugin manager is currently disabled. But SkyUI seems to work, for one. If you don't want to fiddle with untested and maybe-wonky software, the other option is to simply not download the new Skyrim patch until mods and such are fixed.
Hopefully you turned off auto-updates when you heard about this. But if not, perhaps start Steam offline to safely disable that now. If you did download the patch and wish you hadn't, another option is using a tool like the Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Downgrade Patcher to revert it.
Though I see that tool has since been broken by a wee patch. Presumably that'll be updated too. Or if you want to avoid this mess altogether and "downgrade" Skyrim Special Edition back to version 1. And yes, the mod's been updated today and should work with Skyrim version 1.
What a pain in the ass all of this is, huh? The patch notes are brief, but here they are:. Chris started playing PC games in the s, started writing about them in the early s, and finally started getting paid to write about them in the late s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in , probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work.
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