Does the Latest update to CK affect the game itself ?

[aarchieee]

Will the latest update to CK affect the mods in game or not ? And am i right in saying that if you launch the game via the SKSE 64 rather than through Steam, it womt update anyway ?

[scorrp10]

Here is the thing.    For quite some time, I have been on Skyrim version 1.6.353, and all was fine, I felt no need to update.   However, I am an avid modder, and I actually use CK a LOT.    

When Bethesda updated Skyrim to 1.6.1130, they also updated Creation Kit, and at the time, I did not have Updates disabled for Creation Kit SE - so for me, CK did update.

It did not affect my game itself in any shape or form, all the mods and everything still worked.    However, I could no longer use the CK.    It would basically crash on start, complaining that my game was outdated. 

So basically, I ended up updating my game to 1.6.1130, new SKSE64 version, the works.   No big deal, but it was a hassle.    And I disabled updates for CK SE.

So the bottom line: if you are not a modder and don't use CK,  you should be fine.

[aarchieee]

5 hours ago, scorrp10 said:

Here is the thing.    For quite some time, I have been on Skyrim version 1.6.353, and all was fine, I felt no need to update.   However, I am an avid modder, and I actually use CK a LOT.    

When Bethesda updated Skyrim to 1.6.1130, they also updated Creation Kit, and at the time, I did not have Updates disabled for Creation Kit SE - so for me, CK did update.

It did not affect my game itself in any shape or form, all the mods and everything still worked.    However, I could no longer use the CK.    It would basically crash on start, complaining that my game was outdated. 

So basically, I ended up updating my game to 1.6.1130, new SKSE64 version, the works.   No big deal, but it was a hassle.    And I disabled updates for CK SE.

So the bottom line: if you are not a modder and don't use CK,  you should be fine.

I am on 1170, so as that is the latest "game update" im thinking that the latest CK update would just add extra/improved functionality to itself with respect to game 1170 and not necessarily affect the game itself as it has been updated to work with that?

  affect the game itself ? 

[scorrp10]

Again, an update to CK is extremely unlikely to mess up the game itself, regardless of game's version.   If you are on 1.6.1170, then indeed, updated CK should not require a newer version of the game to work.

However, for anyone actually using CK, they are most likely using it with CKPE, and this update might have potentially rendered it incompatible.