Granted many of you playing on PS4 will be able to live without, e.g., bright purple mage robes that are slit to the navel, but the exclusion of the massive works of art like The Forgotten City, or Falskaar, a story mod built by one 19-year-old which adds an entire new island, approximately 20 hours more game and now has its own mods, seems shortsighted.

From the original The Forgotten City mod on PC These are all things you can find in the Xbox mods. You can’t get the mods adding new playable races, the Toejam and Earl soundtrack as adventuring music, or one called ‘Immersive Wenches’ which is a fancy way of saying it adds barmaids with big tits. Right now the mods for PS4 are nice, but practical: mods to make you look frosty in the snow and wet in the rain, mods so there are friendly lamps lighting the lonely roads, mods to add more realistic exposure and camping mechanics. They’re also restricted to using things already in the Bethesda workshop, which means no external assets. So mods are on PlayStation, but you can only install one gig’s worth when their size is added together (the Xbox gives you five). There’s probably at least one person in either company that will now never forgive the other (like Battle-Borns and Grey-Manes, am I right Skyrim fans?) The whole mod debacle – wherein Bethesda posted a short blog on September 9 that wasn’t so much passive-aggressive as it was aggressive-aggressive, effectively cancelling mod support for the PS4 and blaming Sony, and then posted another blog less than a month later confirming mods were back on, kinda, with some restrictions – was a strange one to watch unfold. The kicker is that stuff like The Forgotten City, like many mods, is available on Xbox One, but not PlayStation 4. The game will take a few moments to get itself together, then let you know that achievements are disabled for modded saves, and away you go with your shiny new benefits. You can browse them by popularity and different themes, favourite ones you’re interested in, check the reviews, and get them installing straight away. There’s a new option on the home screen that takes you directly to the mod menu. The process for downloading and installing mods is actually incredibly easy. Sounds pretty cool, right? Well, if you’re playing the Skyrim Special Edition on PS4 then it sucks to be you right now. It’s fully voiced, and even has its own orchestral score. It adds an entire new area in the form of a city trapped underground, and a questline involving time travel, paradoxes, mystery, a suspicious Jarl, rgonians that might eat you, and an extremely strict rule of law enforced by Dwarven statues. There’s a Skyrim mod called The Forgotten City.

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