Loads of Skyrim Mods Already on Steam Workshop
Just one day after Bethesda's toolset was released, the Skyrim section of the Steam Workship is overflowing with new content. Someone has been busy, including Valve!
As promised, Bethesda launched its Skyrim Creation Kit on Tuesday along with the Skyrim High-Resolution Texture Pack, both free to download from Steam. With the release of the Creation Kit, fans can now upload, download, and install custom content through the Skyrim section of the Steam Workshop, making sharing mods easier than ever before.
"Experience The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as you’ve never seen it before with the Skyrim High-Resolution Texture Pack," Bethesda said on Tuesday. "Make sure your system requirements exceed Skyrim’s recommended specs before attempting to install, including Windows Vista or 7 operating system, a minimum of 4 GB of system RAM, and a DirectX 9.0c compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI video card with at least 1 GB of RAM and the latest drivers."
Now just one day after the toolset's release, there are over 43 "pages" worth of Skyrim mods available for your downloading pleasure. One of the more notable uploads that's currently circulating in the news is one created by Valve itself called Fall of the Space Core, Volume 1. The "aggressively space-centric little robot" from Portal 2 literally drops from space and will tag along after a brief introduction, replying with lines of dialogue from Portal 2 as well as new Skyrim-themed lines mentioning dragons and other fantasy things.
The most popular Skyrim mods listed this week include Midas Magic - Spells for Skyrim, House Map Markers, Arrowsmith v3a, LakeView Manor, Complete Skyforge, Dynamic Torches, Kill Them Generals and more. Another notable mod is Open Cities which transfers the five major cities into the Tamriel worldspace, eliminating the load screen transitions, and Dovahkiin Hideout which gives every house in Skyrim a hideout.
"Every house will now include a basement door, look around your house, you will find it," the description reads. "This Hideout is shared between all houses, as long as you have the key for the house."
To get started modding, install the Creation Kit – free through Steam to all Skyrim owners – from the Tools section of your Steam Library (or, click here to launch directly). The Skyrim High-Resolution Texture Pack can be downloaded here.
IMO, it's technically. But I don't know much about DRM.
Notice harder_gamer said "stupid" DRM. Steam is very nice to use and actually has loosened up original DRM designs on a number of games because Steam was deemed to do a good enough job on its own to prevent piracy by the software companies. Steam innately does not limit the number of activations on games, although it will enforce if companies like Ubisoft decide to be lame, and really isn't the type of DRM that punishes legitimate buyers.
When they turn off all the servers, will you still be able to play Skyrim? I can still play Morrowind and get a mods for that. The does away with it
Steam is DRM stupid or not. But do keep in mind Steam also tracks usage and report back to whoever for marketing and profiling. Plus it's another credit card holding system to be hacked.
I did have lot of mods installed which broke when steam updated skyrim unexpectedlyfor me.
If supported mods do away with that issue and If they put "adult" mods on steam I'll be surprised. Some of those mods had a lot of ahem, detail ahem.
How much will you pay for a some throwaway mods?
It's not in the workshop. It's on the actual Skyrim store page as DLC would be for any other game.
PC FTW!
Click (highlight) Skyrim in Steam. Now look to the right side under "links" and click "DLC". It'll take you right to the download page. Cheers!
Unfortunately, the best mods for Skyrim won't be on Steam Workshop. I challenged a friend that if he wanted me to buy the game he'd have to create voluptuous cat women for me. They were around for Oblivion! We'll see where this goes. I'll probably buy the game by summer.
Why aren't the best mods going to be there? SKSE works, all you have to do is launch the launcher so it syncs up your mods then close it and launch SKSE. This way all your mods will stay updated without having to track down downloads every time it updates. I think quite the opposite, that the best mods will be on here.
Nice comment, TROLL. First of all, Bethesda had mods you could pay for in both Morrowind and Oblivion, and nobody is forcing you to buy them. Basically you seem to be complaining that a company that made a game for you shouldn't be able to sell anything else related to that game? Gee, I guess Bethesda may as well fire their staff and there will be no more TES games. The rest of us will be sad about that but we can all take solace in the fact that good 'ol Waxdart no longer has to feel offended by the free enterprise system.
My definition of best mods is not the same as your definition of best mods. =P Somehow I doubt scantily clad voluptuous cat women are going to appear on Steam Workshop. I'd like to be wrong and see content for all ages and interests show up though!