

This will be a fresh new way to experience all the new details in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition. Mind your hunger and exhaustion, gear up against the elements, and of course, keep your enemies at bay. We also have Survival Mode coming, which challenges players to immerse themselves fully in the game. Expect to complete fishing-related quests as well. Over 20 unique aquatic species can be caught, and once you have hooked them, they can be cooked, displayed, or even become pets in your aquarium. Once that’s done, the final product should truly shine - one might argue that this update represents the best of both words, with new support for 64-bit operating systems and an updated engine from Bethesda, combined with the formidable creativity of the mod community.Bethesda also shared more details about fishing in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition, which is another Creation. While some mods may work out of the box, Bethesda has said that others will require some updating to function properly.

But it’ll take some time for modders to really get their hands on the game and tweak updates to improve fidelity to best effect.

Overall, Skyrim Special Edition will be a great update if you’ve never screwed around with mods but just want the game to look prettier. The difference between them was in the amount of work your GPU had to do to handle the improvements - the Bethesda updates were much kinder to video cards than the unofficial variants. While the new textures were unquestionably better than the old versions, the high resolution texture packs that modders had already created bested the versions from Bethesda in every scenario.

We saw this when Bethesda released the High Resolution Texture Pack for original Skyrim. I can’t say I’m surprised at the situation, though, because Bethesda has never been as willing to push the graphics envelope as some modders were. Check their story for more details on this, and more comparison shots. And while the Special Edition is pretty sexy looking compared with original Skyrim, it doesn’t really hold a candle to what the modded version of vanilla Skyrim can do. PCGamesN went a bit further than simply comparing vanilla versus SE - they also compared the vanilla game versus a modded version of Classic.
