Do you want to change your spiders into bears, or find the most efficient route from A to B. This is the magic of modding: taking something great and making it even greater (or at least with more bears).
In January, Bethesda will be releasing the Skyrim Creation Kit (age gate), giving mod developers the same tools Bethesda used to create Skyrim in the first place.
Skyrim "Google maps Mod in action"
But with so many mods out there, how do you know which ones are great and which will wreck your game?
In January, Bethesda will be releasing the Skyrim Creation Kit (age gate), giving mod developers the same tools Bethesda used to create Skyrim in the first place.
Creation Kit — Beginning in January, PC players will be able to download for free the same development tools we used at Bethesda Game Studios to create Skyrim. In tandem with the Creation Kit’s release, we will roll out a new Wiki and videos to help you get started. It also features something we think you’re going to love…
Skyrim "Google maps Mod in action"
But with so many mods out there, how do you know which ones are great and which will wreck your game?
Valve and Bethesda will be including Skyrim in the Steam Workshop, allowing players to submit mods to Steam, download mods that others have created, and rate the mods currently available. It's basically a giant marketplace for all the Skyrim tweaks you could ever want, all rated by your fellow Elder Scrolls fanatics.
After Christmas, we’ll continue to release regular updates for the game — through full title updates, as well as incremental “gameplay updates” to fix whatever issues come up along with rebalancing portions of the game for difficulty or exploits. We plan on having a lot of these, not just a few. Overall, you should expect updates to be hitting the PC and Steam earlier and more often, as that’s a process we control. Console updates will follow, as they must be certified and processed by those manufacturers.
We all know this is a huge game, and everyone has a different experience. We’ll continue to do everything we can to make the game better and better for as many people as possible every day. We’ve also realized that with the millions upon millions of people playing Skyrim, we need to treat our updates with greater care. If we get too aggressive trying to fix a minor issue, we run a risk of breaking something larger in a game like this. To be safe, we are prioritizing code side fixes right now over data fixes. Quest and balance issues are usually data, and those will start rolling in a large way with the January updates.
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