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The End Of Oldrim
🕑 Added 2024-03-14 20:17:15 +0000 UTCThis hopefully doesn't come as a complete shocker to you considering the poll I made a while ago, but As the Title says, The Last update for Deadly Furnitures marks the End of Official LE/Oldrim support for me.
But before I explain my reasoning's for this, let me just give you a small rundown of the Different versions so you can determine if this decision does even affect you (statistically speaking, it wont.)
There are currently 3 major versions of skyrim around:
- The 2011 Original, aka LE, aka Oldrim
- the 2018 64-bit Upgrade - Skyrim Special Edition (1.5.97.0)
- the 2021 anniversary Edition
(If you don't know which one you are using, that means you have the Anniversary Edition and you can just ignore this Entire post)
For our purposes here, SE and AE are as good as Identical, so I will use them interchangeably
Now The Actual News
Releases from now on will only have official support for SE/AE.
My reason for this decision is the fact that Oldrim is 12 years old by now and The newer 64-bit variants are just a vastly superior platform, For Development, as well as actual play.
In the past, most of my mods were primarily script focused and used existing assets and animations from other mods (mostly Zap).
Scripts and the actual esp/esm plugin files do mostly work on both versions, So it wasn't very difficult to make stuff for both.
But time has moved on, most mods nowadays are made for SE/AE anyway, and my own works include more and more home-made animations and assets which have to be created version-specific.
And I feel that this extra effort of constantly creating 2 variants of everything and also test it on Both versions is just a lot of busywork and a motivation killer. Therefore I will stop it.
Besides those asset related issues, there is also the question of Papyrus and Dll plugins. while I was mostly able to navigate around LE specific limitations in the past, this issue will only get worse with time as newer and better options become available to SE/AE.
I know some of you still cling to LE as if their Lives depend on it, But I really suggest you consider moving on. SE/AE is far more stable and offers a far greater range of mods.
If you cant make the switch - Theres still hope for you
For the most part, the version independence of scripts and plugin files will remain, So as long as I don't say otherwise, new Releases COULD still work on LE .
You will however have to manually backport the Mesh and animation files, but there are tools and tutorials for this available.
Tool for easy nif conversion: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4089
Tutorial on how to Backport animations: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/104459
So, That´s that. I know some of you wont like this, and I´m genuinely sorry for the disappointment I caused. If it weren't for Steams end of support, I would still run a windows 7 PC, So I know how it feels to loose something you are familiar with.
But Regardless, this is a necessary and honestly overdue step and I hope you can somewhat understand it.
If you have Questions or remarks, feel free to let me know in the comments or per direct message.
Comments
overkill4000
Guess it was inevitable. I had held off switching because I had some other mods that were not updated for AE/SE. This is the impetuous I needed the finally say goodbye to Oldrim.
target
I remember being put off of the SE edition when none of the mods i liked worked on it, guessing that has changed.
Reaper One Six
I'll still Old Rim and I do have AE installed on my pc as well. I saved and back up your LE Mods for Skyrim so I can still play them in Le.
