

You'd go into an App Store-like interface, find the mod(s) you liked and add with a click. Workshop launched just a few months after Skyrim and was designed to give PC game developers an easy method of letting users add mods to their games. Prior to that, Valve's Steam Workshop was the most centralized home for Bethesda mods. The key here is, since the publisher's game mods now live there. "Even if you've already created them, you use this Creation Kit to upload them to ." "So you'll download new Creation Kit and then upload your mods," he continued. "There will be a new Creation Kit" - that's what Bethesda calls its mod tools - "that you'll download from Bethesda," game director Todd Howard told Mashable. Or, one imagines, if they have particularly lewd content to distribute.'Fallout 4' getting a full virtual reality version for HTC Vive Mod authors will still be able to release mods the old-fashioned way, if they so fancy. The Steam Workshop initially launched for Team Fortress 2 to track user-made items submitted to Valve in the hope of becoming official. "Like a live Netflix queue, when you fire up Skyrim, mods you flagged will be automatically downloaded and installed." You'll be able to do this from any web device, including your smartphone," Bethesda explains. "The Creation Kit will bundle your mod and upload it to the Workshop, where everyone can browse, rate, and flag mods for download.

It'll be integrated with the Steam Workshop, allowing mod authors to upload their work directly to Steam, where it can be browsed, rated, and easily installed for free. The real long-term Skyrim excitement, however, will come from January's release of the Creation Kit for PC. If we get too aggressive trying to fix a minor issue, we run a risk of breaking something larger in a game like this." It's prioritizing code-side fixes over data-based quest and balance fixes at first, "to be safe." PC will get more frequent, and faster, fixes, as Steam doesn't have the rigid certification process of consoles.Īfter the fun of the backwards dragons, and less fun broken resistances, Bethesda says, "we need to treat our updates with greater care. not just a few" smaller "gameplay updates" after the holidays. Beyond that, Bethesda plans to release "full title updates" plus "a lot. After that, developer Bethesda has revealed, there'll be "continued game updates," and mod tools will be released for PC in January, using Valve's Steam Workshop.įixes for broken resistances and the silly dragons are confirmed for next week's patch, but Bethesda isn't sharing the full changelog just yet. Next week will bring an "incremental update" to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with fixes for the infamous backwards-flying dragon and other recently-introduced bugs.
