Why Skyrim's Update is Causing Problems for Mods and Modlists

bethesda is such a frustrating story......love and hate!!! like a very very bad hooker...... 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

wanted to install Eldergleam with wabbajack...... at the end- its an error, one or more files failed to download. i tried it twice........i git a 500mb line and its going on for a while - i even got a premium account on nexxus for that!!

UPDATE: You need the game changed to ENGLISH!!!! because otherwise it fails because the ini isnt in english_ should be mentioned in the beginning......alot had the same problem.

Im on xbox and the USSE patch no longer works for me. Anyone else have this issue?

This whole thing with combining creation and mods into one menu is irritating me. I cant do basic functions like press a to select (cuz im on xbox). Im gonna try tommorow to see what I can do but if I cant even create my load order, im done with this game for good.

hopefully modders help get the openMW engine supporting skyrim scripts and tooling, then they can just focus on making content for a free engine and let Bethesda rot in the wind.

This is beyond irritating. took a break from skyrim, came back to find my favorite mod packs just butchered because bethesda is a greedy dumb cunt of a company. I was SO excited to play it again only to figure this stupid shit out

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this recent update has made it even worse now half of my mods keep disabling themselves.

DO THIS TO PREVENT UPDATES: Find Skyrim's steam ID inside the "Steamapps folder" that says "appmanifest_489830.acf" then right click properties and make it "READ ONLY." This is supposed to stop it from updating. This is in case you forget to put Steam into offline mode before starting the game. I will not let Todd break my Nolvus install!!! THIS IS WHAT ALL MODDERS ON NEXUS SHOULD INSTRUCT EVERYONE TO DO FIRST FROM HERE ONWARD before finding a way to roll back to 1.6.64. This is the way to say NO to Bethesda from the modding community and never have to worry about a FORCED UPDATE again.

I think I might just write Bethesda off entirely at this point.

Isn't Bethesda under Microsoft now?

Went to go boot up Skyrim and found it had been updated...no worries- lemme go and revert back to- wait....now it's super broken?

Great.

Im on xbox, just downloaded skyrim again, i modded it, but random mods keep moving positions or just disabled them selves, how do i fix this?

Gaming needs to be way more regulated, I'm not one for total control but it's clear the view has shifted almost entirely from making a good game to making a store with a game on the side and since this isn't panning out too well they're now going back to older games to monetise.

Its greed in its purest form

My mods like haste, wilds of skyrim, immersive roads, ancient lands keep self disabling, and going to the bottom of my load order. Julihas dirt replacer doesn't work and looks weird, and the roads are all sloshed with horrible textures. I can't downgrade because I'm on ps4! My game worked fine with 100 mods and over 300 hrs in a playthrough. I absolutely am starting to hate the future of gaming. I don't know if this is because of the esp files for those mods being changed or there's some kind of new algorithm that doesn't recognize those mods. I literally CANT play my game without them. On top of this there's no mod authors content talking about how this effected console.

if you have mod organizer 2 and you run the game through skse and change skyrims update priority in steam then you can play your game exactly how it was with no issues. thankfully i anticipated another update and now i have a perfect mod list but i can't get any new ones and it sucks for people that have had their games broken 😢

damn this was a terrible time to decide to replay modded skyrim, huh?

Yeah so many mods just don't work anymore. Skyui, MCM helper and JK's Skyrim for example straight up don't work right now on the current AE version. What sucks even more is that a lot of the most popular mods will never be updated, or could take months to be updated to support the current build. Just go through the first 10 pages of the most popular mods on Nexus, 90% of them don't support the current version of AE. I personally have given up on modding Skyrim and playing it for the time being, might come back in a few months when hopefully most mods are working again.

How Bethesda? How..? The one good grace you had with the community was your mod support, but because of corporate greed and lazy coding you've ruined even that, and now it's impossible for us to play Skyrim modded without crash after crash after crash. And the new UI's you put in suck! I don't know how this company can just continue making awful decision after awful decision but it's going to bring it to ruin. Elder Scrolls 6 might be the last Bethesda game if they don't get their act together, and honestly that's what they deserve in many ways, it's just a shame because really none of us want that. We miss the old Bethesda, but I really doubt it's ever coming back. Too much corporate Greed now. They've completely sold out and they should lose every ounce of goodwill they have with the community till they're back to their old selves. If they ever are.

I have a modlist with over 180 mods. Even after updating all of the mods and skse and starting a new game, things that noticably dont work right off the bat are ordinator, start a new life, any textures, racemenu and any menu alteration, cheat room and any map marker alterations. Oh and going to the leveling up screen immediately forces me to level up and then crashes my whole game when i do.

There is no way in hell theyre expecting me to pay for 180 mods or reinstall the whole list again just to make their game half decent.

Done with this game... I bought 2pc copies, 1 for xbox/ps, then bought all the expansions, then bought anniversary for all the same systems. So yeah, im a fool that paid for this game 8 different times. Wont spend a dime on it anymore. When VI comes out, ill buy the base game and the rip the dlc. to heck with Bethesda.

I’ll be honest I’ve seen other games get screwed up and I was thankful Skyrim was untouched but until now I just wonder who’s smartass idea was this

thank you i was wondering so many people were complaining but its only a pc problem

I think Bethesda should direct there efforts towards ES6 they have already milked skyrim enough.

This is how modded games work. They are build for that specific build of the game. Just like 2011-2013 skyrim mods broke all the time, Let alone oblivion and fallout games.

It will take time for the modders to fix them to work with the most current build of the game. Its not necessarily BGS's fault thier update "broke the game" thier game works your's doesn't.

Since this new update, when I try to launch SKSE through MO2 it just won't boot. Like it crashes before I ever get to the home screen. It'll run when I use the SKSE executable but obviously none of the mods are there. Tried for hours using so many different ideas to fix it and nothing did, so I've just given up.

I have played Skyrim on Xbox for many years BECAUSE of the mods. Now I cannot even access the new creations section anymore, most probably because some of my older WIP mods won't play nice with the latest update. And I believe this was intentional, as a lot of those older WIP mods were more 'adult-orientated', and Bethesda never approved of this, even though Skyrim is a 18-rated game. I refuse to start all over again, having to delete my WIP mods in the process. I am done with Skyrim - thank you, Bethesda/Microsoft! Be proud of yourselves!!

Omfg. Bethesda, for the love of Talos just ask SKSE what addresses they call on for a known working build, work out by loading that build the debugger what are the corresponding symbols and export them in a .dll for fck sake 😒

Link for the downgrader?

I just came back to Skyrim, Paid $20 for anniversary was super excited completely modded the game and had a few more mods to add to go to creation and find it now on a endless load screen

does this explain why skyrim SE on xbox no longer has mods?

Good thing I have my GOG version backed up and disconnected from the internet. That way, nothing can hurt it. Not even Bethesda.

I didn't think about the points you brought up but after thinking about them it really seems like Bethesda is trying to shoe horn all content creation through their program which is very heavy handed on censorship. However, KISS principle dictates that the team responsible for creation club on their side may or may not understand the complexities. Do not underestimate how idiotic "professionally educated individuals" can be. Even if they do understand corpo goons may not give them resources or authorization to fix it. I'm encountered it on the program I am on right now.

I am about ready to give up cause on Xbox one I got update in 2024 this year and I had game since game came out and I lost all my progress and even company made me start completely over and I lost mods from company and I’m adult and take away from me I told them my age and they got it so bad wish someone can help me I tried everything and even Skyrim company and Microsoft messed up my accounts as well I tried contacting them and Skyrim had issues and I tried asking them help fix it but it got worse they tried but they couldn’t do anything for me ;(

God damn it and I was gonna play nolvus and then this update dropped

So glad I haven’t updated, I can still launch the game by going to my files so W

Between starfield and the skyrim updates trying yet again for paid mods, im absolutely done with Bethesda

Should I just play an older elder scrolls entry/game if I want to play with mods?
If so which one?

I got the bobw patch to work but I had to use another mod in tandum with it. The backported extended esl support.

Why yall playin aniversary tho ????

What else can they do? We all had our suspicions after Fallout 76, but Starfield confirms it; Bethesda can't make a good game anymore. So what choice have they got but to milk Skyrim and Fallout 4 for all they can get.

Fuck BGS! They deserve all the ire they get! Next will be fallout 4!

Can't be excited about upcoming bethesda games and this makes me very sad. Every day they give me a new reason not to play their games.

Nowadays every company Is trying their hardest to make the worst decisions possible and I don't know why. They want to kill their companies or something? What is the point of this?

RIP SimonMagnus... your mods will be missed!

P.S. Not dead, there just not supporting Bethesda anymore.

With a large mod list (1500+ as mine is) WHO HAS AUTO UPDATES ON!?

Also, do yourself a favor and go drm free, kid.

Once you're talking about makes no sense you should have thought of before you made this video

The Xbox mod menu straight up doesn’t work for me anymore I can’t even delete mods I have. I’m on my 8th reinstall of Skyrim in two weeks and the Creations menu still crashes so I’m done, thanks Bethesda for ruining my favourite game for me.

The biggest problems with skyrims modding community is the community itself. every update is annoying not because stuff breaks, but because mod authors draw another line in the sand, abandon projects, and refuse to support their work going forward. if a mod author doesnt want to work on a mod anymore, thats fine, but that anger shouldnt be directed at bethesda for updating a 12 year old game. second, a ton of mods are bloated and have requirements to install other mods that themselves need other mods. there isnt a standard where people can download a single mod with resources and tools that all mod authors use. if you get skse, you still need to download the address library from nexus. so the first problem dominos where dependancies upon dependanices means mods will inevitably break, be incompatible, be abandoned, etc. good mod authors push updates when theyre required, they dont half ass, and because their work is solid and trustworthy they build a name for themselves. people know enailsiason and simonmagnus for a reason. finally, complaining about paying for mods is a bit silly to me, especially coming from parts of the community with people with 400+ mods downloaded from nexus where they pay a monthly sub to download mods without being throttled. props if you dont pay a 3rd party company to download a mod authors work, but many people do and until we have that conversation i dont think its fair to go after bethesda.

The game was literally kept alive by mods. Breaking them is shooting oneself in the foot

How about stop selling mods and make an actual game, Bethesda? Too rotten to make your own content?

Mods are (most often) made out of passion, from the community and for the community. Bringing monetization to it, forcing people to pay for it, is just scummy and completely loses sight of the heart of the whole thing.

The update also nuked console commands. If you use commands to look up armor IDs and then spawn them into your inventory, your out of luck now. Bethesda made sure you can no longer use cc's to spawn in whatever you want.