Current State of Special Edition Modding?

[Hexxagone]

It seems that Special Edition has slowed down a lot. SKSE64 is still in alpha. RaceMenu is not ported. Amidianborn looks like is not going to port his mod as well as no Eternal Elven Overhaul. Among others.

 

I was hoping for a lot more mods than what we have by now. Even the basic armor and weapon mods are not being brought over. Hopefully it improves but I dont know if it will.

Edited March 28, 2018 by Hexxagone

[WastelandAssassin]

I think a lot of people just had enough of the game

I mean , the original Skyrim was released more than 6 years ago , and there is a limit to how much time people will put into this game (especially with SE releasing 5 years after the original release , and not really doing anything to reignite the love for the game for veteran players)

so I think many of these mod authors just stopped caring for the game , which is really understandable

and managing two versions of each mod may just take more time and effort , that many of these people just don't care enough to go through , as they don't even play the game any more

 

I honestly think Bethesda has stretched the game for more time than any other game before (there are games like WoW that are still being played , but they are also given official updates and more content over time , unlike Skyrim which hasn't received any new official content since the last DLC , and had a few of the laziest ports in the history , not even bothering to fix the bugs that have existed in the game since it's original release , bugs that mod authors have worked hard to fix themselves for Bethesda)

 

it's never really nice to see games you love fading away , but there just really isn't much to do with the game nowadays (at least in my honest opinion)

the world is still beautiful , but we've all seen it before . some of the quests are great , but we've played them so many times we know them by heart (although here mod authors have made content that makes Bethesda look like children learning to write , with the sheer volume of amazing quest mods , with their massive stories to tell , and experiences to have)

but is the game itself still fun to play? because whenever I think of going back to Skyrim , I think of all the amazing quest mods I have yet to play , and then I remember that I hate the combat system of the game (which is so boring , and even modded it's still rather uninteresting) , and I honestly can't think of any good reason to put myself through it just for the stories , when I can have far more fun playing other games

 

to sum this up , the game has had a fair run , far more than most games get (although New Vegas might surpass it , especially considering how many people were sorely disappointed with Fallout 4)

and if people leave the game , it is perfectly natural (again , there is a limit to how much enjoyment you can milk out of a product , and Skyrim is miles away from being a perfect product at it's best)

Bethesda hasn't really helped matters , with the engine changes that made making SKSE64 more challenging than it was before (or so I suspect) , with the constant updated for Creation Club updates (that many PC users still consider as mostly nonsense , and really only PS4 users consider as great content to have , with the way Sony has restricted modding on the PS4)

so there is also a limit on how much good will people can have for such a game , and a company that wasn't really that respectful with the way it treated it's customers , especially loyal supporters and older players (people who have played their games since Morrowind or Oblivion , or Fallout 3)

add to this how people were shattered to see the direction Fallout 4 took , I think many people have given up hope of seeing another great Bethesda game (if Skyrim and Fallout 4 show the direction they are going for , I doubt the next game will have more than 20% of it's quests being actually written by the developers , rather than just being randomly generated radiant quests , which is not what we've come to expect in these games)

 

so if this goes on , and Skyrim's community keeps waning and diminishing , maybe it's time for us to put the game down , remember it for what it was , and just hope the next one will take more steps forwards than backwards

but that's just my thoughts on the matter , and I would love to hear your opinions on the matter

[Evangela]

What he said. I moved on to Fallout 4 after 6 years of Skyrim, just did everything I wanted to do in that game over and over again, and now I'm bored of it. Fallout 4 is basically an FPS game and I don't get tired of playing those, so it'll hold me over til TES6 comes out in 3200.

[Jeir]

So far I think I've played SSE more than LE. Unlike LE, I can actually play with all the mods I want, with a stable game that doesn't crash after 20 minutes. I can't really think of any mods I want to play with that haven't been ported, other than perhaps a few LotD-compatible mods.

 

SKSE64 is in alpha, yes, but it functions perfectly fine other than not deleting those 10/29kb 'saves', and I think one of the devs even said they really should have called it a 'beta'. RaceMenu works if you use Expired's SSE plugins from GitHub; only thing missing is sculpts and overlays, but importing sculpted presets works. I don't use it, but apparently Book of Silence works in SSE (as do many other texture mods), as long as you don't use...Blades? I also don't use EEO, so can't really say anything about that.

[Drullo321]

In addition to the above posts, you can easily convert most of the popular Oldrim mods yourself with a little effort. It would be nice if the original authors would convert their mods to SSE but I guess, everyone will move on at some point.

[mellowtraumatic]

For myself, I'll continue to play and make my mods as normal. If nothing else, it gives me something to do while waiting for a new game from them.

[Hexxagone]

Is there a good tutorial out there on how to convert mods? Especially RaceMenu and EEO

[Grimolfr]

Is there a good tutorial out there on how to convert mods? Especially RaceMenu and EEO

 

Here's what I followed for RaceMenu: https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/7m39nz/racemenu_for_se/

[Hexxagone]

Sweet, I think I will start a play through of Oldrim for now until SKSE goes to beta. After that we may see a bunch of mods come over. Edited March 31, 2018 by Hexxagone