

While you could switch to another savegame to play your Khajiit archer for a while, Project Proteus lets you import your characters into an existing world state-meaning you can switch to a character with their own items, skills, and spells, but keep your current quest progression. Some of the following Skyrim Special Edition mods can be found on Bethesda's site, but the links we'll post all point to our go-to, NexusMods. To be fair, there were other changes as well. Thanks to the Script Extender, essentials like SkyUI are now available in this slightly prettier (it does have nicer shadows), and more stable (you can alt-tab as much as you like, and weigh it down with more mods) version of Skyrim. Once it's installed, go into Skyrim Special Edition's properties in Steam and set it to "Only update this game when I launch it" and launch Skyrim with skse64_loader.exe, as otherwise every update to the creation club will break the Script Extender and you'll have to download a new version. Skyrim Script Extender wasn't compatible with Skyrim: Special Edition at launch, but has been for a while now (it'll be labelled "Current SE build" at that link). That wait time seems like a small price to pay for a free copy of the Special Edition, though, especially if you’re a big Skyrim fan.Looking for mods for the original version of Skyrim? We've selected over 100 of the best mods for improved visuals and optimization, new quests and locations, roleplaying and immersion, creatures and NPCs, and much more. The bundle gets less expensive based on what you already own, so if you have, say, Skyrim and Dawnguard, then you’ll be able to get Dragonborn and Hearthfire at a discount, unlocking the Special Edition you when complete your Skyrim collection.īethesda notes in a post to Steam Community that purchasing the remaining content today may prevent the Special Edition from unlocking for up to 36 hours. Bethesda is actually offering a Skyrim + DLC bundle at a discount that brings it to the same price as the Special Edition. If you find yourself in that particular boat, then you’re in luck. If, however, you own the base Skyrim game and one or two pieces of DLC, picking up the remaining DLC to get Skyrim Special Edition at no extra cost is definitely a winning proposition. If you’ve never purchased Skyrim, your best bet is just to buy the Special Edition. Taking advantage of this deal is really only worth it if you already own some amount of Skyrim content, but not all of it.

So, once October 28 – today, by the way – is in the books, the promotion will be over and the chance to grab a free copy of Skyrim Special Edition will have passed. If you want to get a free copy of the game, Bethesda requires that you own the original Skyrim and all of its DLC before or on October 28.
