Basically, Bethesda have done the old "remaster" and owners of the Legendary Edition or the base game with all of the DLC get the new version for free on October 28th.
From the tweet, it sounds like they're planning on replacing the original game in people's Steam libraries. If this is the case, I'm not sure if it'll invalidate all of the current mods.
It is a separate game Pete Hines confirmed it:
Hope its more than just a visual "upgrade", if it is I don't really see the market in PC. Makes sense why they will be giving it away, still looking forward to it. Would have liked to see a new game but oh well
With the state of Skyrim modding I don't even think they could even force this on you... Don't think it'll really catch on.
My thoughts exactly. With an ENB and high resolution texture packs this isn't really going to have a lot to offer PC gamers.
I see it more of an experiment. Throw this out there with the new engine see what the modding community does with it. Gives ideas for the next TES game.
All they had to do is import assets into the new engine so doesn't hurt them much and a large portion get it for free.
Also keeps the brand fresh in brains of customers.
Are they upgrading the engine to use DX12?
I did see something saying console players will be able to use the same mods as PC players.
That seems terrible. Switch your 30fps console Skyrim experience for an 8fps experience? I mean, consoles handle these kind of texture packs, surely?
They need to stop with the get the ideas from mods bs because that turned out like shit in Fallout 4
Hopefully it isn't so much about gameplay aspects but what you can get the engine to do on a technical level. Stuff like the script extender would be a good example.
That would be pretty cool. While their games have been pretty open to modding they're also notoriously quirky when mods are applied due to random bits of code left floating around and general inconveniences the engine offers.
I'd rather have a version of skyrim with the higher visuals right from the get-go that's guaranteed to work, instead of modding it to look like such and have it be unstable.
And since it's free, I am happy.
Maybe they fixed all the muddy jagged console textures O:
YASSS MOAR SKYRIM!!!
But yeah I'm glad it's free since I'm not sure it would do too well if they charged for it.
still waiting for TES VI...
Oh, so it is free for me? Thank you, Bethesda, but i already have the remastered edition in a way, that looks better and does not require tessellation for volumetric lights...
I think it is funny that they did a remaster. It looks like they just incorporated a lot of random mods and called it a day. Will wait to see what the modding community thinks of it and how it performs. Hopefully, it iwll run better than modded skyrim that looks just as good.
ah.... godrays
no thank you
i'd be really excited if they better optimized the game and let it use things like 4+ cores, 64 bit, 8 or more gigs of vram, ect... and/or added support for vulkan/dx12. mostly vulkan.
their graphics updates wont be in 4-8k and will be inferior to some off the modding community's stuff, but hey, they are helping out the people who cant figure modding out.
will it be x64?