I am an Nvidia user and I am pleased to hear that the special edition of Skyrim will have god rays as standard. ENB series mods have a weird issue with the god rays and nvidia cards. I know the game is already almost 5 years old, but I love to still mod the hell out of it.
God rays make you happy?
Look, if the only difference is visual, then Bethesda can go love themselves in their behinds...
If there is some gameplay difference, if there are new items, new zone may be, new enemies, new something, then yes...
Otherwise - I don't care about it. Being basically just re-release of the old Skyrim with installed mods is just lazy...
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It's Skyrims with ENB, and mods built in.. Not really special.
It's special in the way of "I'm sorry my son ate your shoes, he is a bit special"...
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The only people benefiting are console players. They're getting what we've had for 5 years.. You know what I want them to fix? SLI and Crossfire issues.. Crossfire has been horendous with Skyrim.
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Bethesda will probably use the F4 engine, so there will be functional SLI support... It has basic what they boasted Fallout 4 to have visually.
special in the way you'll need a new gpu
What? Not like bethesda to sell horse armor... /s
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At first I was kinda pissed that they put resources into a remake that could be going towards Elder Scrolls 6, but since it will be free for Steam users who already own the game + all expansions I'm not mad. Basically all the graphical stuff will already be set up for me, so no need to mess with graphics mods, less mods means less possible conflicts, means more stability.
They basically had to give it to PC gamers for free because why would we pay for it when we already have mods to make it look as good or better than the remaster?
Console gamers will have to pay for it from what I understand, but that's no surprise. I'm sure the remaster is targeted primarily at console gamers anyways, since there isn't true backwards compatibility and no modding community afaik. The remaster will include mods for consoles, though, which is pretty cool.
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If it runs with better graphics out of the box and is free to existing owners then it's a great game to go back to as I haven't played it for a couple of years. Mods are a pain if you just want to jump back in to an older game and experience it again.
I would like to know if they make the exe more mod friendly! you know maybe support more memory access without the need of ENB. If it does that then it will be nice and probably help performance.
I have the Skyrim GOTY edition and I don't know if that qualifies for the free update, I will give it a go once it comes out, will likely require 6hours to get running under Wine (assuming its not DX11).
I know there was something said about if you get a certain edition of Skyrim for pc you will get the new version for some console for free. It was mentioned during that E3 stuff.
I do not feel like there is nearly enough info for me to know how I feel about this.
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calling it already
will run totally fine on consoles...
but will run like crap on pc with amd gpus
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Just that technical side gets my attention as I want everyone to pull more out of it through mods.
Few frames, if some script mess what was before just choking the game would work that'd be nice. If it doesnt do either of these I wont really care whats the update because the game already has things as mods what Bethesda cant do.
It's free
Don't have to deal with Mods conflicting when you go nuts on mods and don't know whats causing the CTD.
May run like shit on AMD GPUs due to the lighting it seems.
I'm sold on it.
Honestly it just seems like testing with their new engine and to keep the brand in people's heads.
Not sure how you could be mad unless paid mods come with it.
I might poke at it but that is about it.
I agree. I like the idea that basically all of the ENB features and higher res textures, more floral, is definitely a plus if it's coming straight from Bethesda. That way, we have these features that are guaranteed to work without worrying about modding and load order, and LOOT. The Xfire/SLI issues being fixed for the ENB's are a definite plus as well.
And of coursre, IT'S FREE, why complain? (with ownership of all of the dlc or the legendary edition that has all the dlc included)
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Here is a video made by me, giving my thoughts about the entire Bethesda press conference...
as someone who enjoys modding their Skyrim more than the game itself at times, not really all that excited. If existing mods easily work with this new Skyrim however it could make a better basis to start modding off of.
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