Many of the best Skyrim mods - like the major bug fixes that address problems still present even after all the patches - sadly haven't hit the PS4 just yet.
PlayStation 4 players are now playing catch up twice with this revamped Skyrim experience: once to meet the PC community's insane plethora of mods, and again to just get on par with the Xbox One, which had several months lead time on mod support over the PS4.Īt the moment, there are only a paltry 1,600 PS4 Skyrim mods available, which might sound like a large number, but it's an infinitesimal fraction of what's been created since the game first arrived for PC six years back. There are of course Bethesda.Net mods which have been created without the need for SKSE anyway, but could prove a problem in terms of load order if you have any conflicting mods.There aren't usually a lot of ways that PS4 players end up in this situation, but they've actually been outclassed by Xbox fans in the mods department this time around thanks to Skyrim: Special Edition. That means that yes, Skyrim Special Edition on Xbox Game Pass does allow for mod support, but only as long as they do not require SKSE to work. Windows Store applications are locked down similarly to consoles and do not allow the APIs necessary for script extenders to work. SKSE is required for some of the most popular mods for Skyrim Special Edition, but unfortunately the Game Pass executable version is 1.5.111 - which is a new version of the game (probably to allow Xbox Achievements and Microsoft log in etc.) - whilst the Steam version is 1.5.97.ĭoubly unfortunate for players is that it seems like SKSE won’t be updated to the Game Pass version, as the official website says that “ SKSE cannot support any potential Windows Store release of Skyrim.
Skyrim Special Edition on Xbox Game Pass allows this but comes with one important caveat: the Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE) is incompatible with this version. However, some games on the Xbox Game Pass app allow for an optional toggle button that can allow mod installs by opening up the root game folder including the game’s executable. When a game is purchased either through the Microsoft Store or Xbox Game Pass for PC, the files are installed into read-only directories which makes them impossible to access and therefore unable to be modded. However, one concern that was raised included mod support, and it seems like Skyrim Special Edition does include full support for mods, but is actually severely limited by one important factor. Last week Microsoft finalized their massive $7.5 billion acquisition of Zenimax Media - the parent company of many big game studios including Bethesda - which meant many more Bethesda games had become available on Xbox Game Pass.
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