It's still unclear just how many mods the Skyrim AE is affecting and how long some of them will be out of commission.Īfter originally preparing for the worst, the developer of Skyrim Script Extender was given early access to Skyrim AE to work on updating SKSE. Will the Anniversary Edition mess up your mods?Īs is often the case with game updates: yes, Skyrim AE will probably affect some game mods you have installed for Skyrim SE. So what happens if you already own Skyrim SE? Bethesda says that current owners and Xbox Game Pass subscribers will have the option to upgrade to Skyrim AE for $19.99 USD / $29.95 AUD / €19.99 / £15.99.Įven if you don't buy the Anniversary Edition of the game, those four free Creation Club items will be added to your game for free. What if you already own Skyrim Special Edition? When upgrading with the Skyrim AE DLC, you'll need to head into the Creation Club section of the main menu and manually choose whice pieces you want to install. If you're just installing the free game update to Skyrim SE, you'll find that the free Creation Club items have all been downloaded for you. They'll receive the Saints and Seducers quest expansion, Rare Curious expansion, Survival Mode, and the Fishing skill and quests.

Players who don't upgrade to Skyrim AE are also getting four of those Creation Club items free on November 11. In total, Bethesda says that the 74 Creation Club items included with Skyrim AE represent over 500 new gameplay elements. Some of the new Creation Club items arriving alongside Skyrim SE on November 11 include Morrowind-inspired weapons and armor and a quest expansion called The Cause. The 48 current Creation Club items that you'll get access to as part of Skyrim AE range from special weapons, to new enemy types, quest expansions, and gameplay changes. If you'd forgotten about Bethesda's Creation Club, it's a marketplace of paid DLCs developed either internally by Bethesda or by approved external creators.

All 48 previously released Creation Club items.

Skyrim's original DLCs: Dawnguard, Hearthfire and Dragonborn.

Here's the Skyrim Anniversary Edition content: If you buy Skyrim Anniversary Edition outright, what you'll be downloading is Skyrim Special Edition and a DLC package. What's inclduded in the Skyrim Anniversary Edition? In practice, Skyrim Anniversary Edition is a DLC for Skyrim Special Edition, launching alongside a free game update fro Skyrim SE. It includes Skyrim SE and also bundles in all of the previously released premium Creation Club additions. Okay, Skyrim AE is a bit like a Game Of The Year release for Skyrim Special Edition. Bethesda is calling the Anniversary Edition 'the most definitive version of Skyrim to date.' That's not the most concrete explanation, so it might help to think of Skyrim Anniversary as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition - Definitive Edition.

Skyrim with mods vs without