Skyrim Creation Kit Coming To PC

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Skyrim PC players will soon be able to download user-created mods directly through Steam or even create their own, at least according to Bethesda. Here's the details on what you can expect from the Skyrim Creation Kit.

After raking in numerous Game of the Year awards and exceptional holiday sales last year, developer and publisher Bethesda is releasing new content for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in the form of organized user mods. On the off chance you missed it last year, Skyrim is an immersive RPG in which you assume the role of the Dragonborn and must save the realm while traveling the world and completing countless quests. Bethesda announced their creation kit for Skyrim months as a way for players to create their own game mods store and distribute them freely through the Steam digital distribution service. Since we’re as excited about this as you are, here’s a breakdown of the upcoming Skyrim goodies.

Skyrim Workshop

The Skyrim Workshop is basically a mod storefront where players can browse mods, leave feedback and rate downloads. You won't need to pay for mods but you can subscribe to them for free, which will keep the mods you've installed updated through automatic downloads. In essence, Bethesda teamed up with Valve to create the Skyrim Workshop as an organized hub for the Creation Kit, and it seems like it will function as a sort of app store for Skyrim mods and downloads.

Creation Kit

Bethesda fans know the studio is no stranger to user-made mods – the developer released similar creation kits for Morrowind, Fallout 3, and Oblivion – but this release has a suite of new features. Most notable is the inclusion of a scene editor and improved support and ease of distribution. Modders can take advantage of the scene editor to bring a more cinematic and high-quality feel to their interactions with NPCs. Dialog interaction between players and NPCs has also been improved with an easier way to create dialog trees, using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.

Of course if you’ve used any Skyrim mods made without the creation editor, you know how annoying backing up and maintaining INI files is. With the Creation Kit custom INI files can be bundled with modded files, plus archive files can now be created and included with the mod files. Everyday gamers who have struggled with ideas for their own mods need not fret: Bethesda will include thorough and detailed documentation online so anyone can create mods, as well as a user-curated Creation Kit Wiki to keep all the tips and tricks from the Skyrim community in one place.

Whether you’re interested in creating mods or just finding the one that all your friends have been talking about, it seems like the Creation Kit will make the entire mod process simpler and more organized. By formally embracing the modder community and teaming up with Valve to make the whole thing a simple and intuitive experience for the user, Bethesda has set a precedent for all PC developers. We hope to see more game developers creating tools that help PC players enhance their own experience and improve games after they're released.

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Skyrim Creation Kit Released Alongside High-Res Texture Pack

In addition to a suite of tools for modding the PC version of Skyrim, Bethesda has released an optional downloadable high-resolution texture pack for their smash hit fantasy RPG.

PC gamers looking forward to the release of Skyrim's long-awaited Creation Kit yesterday got a special surprise in the form of a downloadable high-resolution pack for Bethesda’s open world fantasy game, along with a special cameo from one of last year’s most popular PC games.

Skyrim owners have been excited for the Creation Kit since Bethesda confirmed the official modding tool was coming to PC (for free) soon after the game was released. The Creation Kit promises to make Skyrim's huge world even larger by allowing players to add their own characters, quests, and even geography. While the tools will require a bit of practice to use effectively, the debut of publicly-available modding tools ensures that passionate Skyrim players will be adding even more content to a game that Bethesda advertised as being playable effectively forever.

Of course the Skyrim community is going to need some time to create all this new content, so Bethesda has also released a few extra surprises for the average user. Valve and Bethesda have teamed up to release a special mod to celebrate the launch of the Steam Workshop portal for Skyrim. Fall of the Space Core, Vol. 1 adds the Space Core character from the 2011 hit Portal 2 to Skyrim, permitting you to continue your adventures in Skyrim while the little guy follows you around. Finally, there’s a character in Skyrim that’s excited when a

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Of course if you’re too much of a Skyrim purist to add a high-tech AI space sphere into your game, the new texture pack is still a great bonus and a guaranteed crowd-pleaser for almost everyone. Unofficial high-resolution texture packs have been some of the most popular mods since Skyrim’s release; the most popular, Skyrim HD, racked up over 800,000 downloads at Skyrim Nexus (a popular site for downloading Skyrim mods).

If you want to try out the creation kit and texture pack they’re both currently available for download on Steam, though the high level of demand was causing some problems on Tuesday afternoon. Get downloading now if you can, since the creation kit and texture pack together clock in at 1.3 gigs of data. If you don’t have Skyrim yet, Bethesda has also dropped the price of the game itself by 33 percent and is offering Skyrim bundled with the third and fourth Elder Scrolls games, Morrowind and Oblivion, for $49.99.

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