Skyblivion, the formidable mod that appears to port and remaster The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion into the more-modern engine utilized by its sequel, Skyrim, is wanting higher than ever. The volunteer improvement staff behind the venture not too long ago dropped a brand new 20-minute gameplay video highlighting two of the sport’s aspect quests for followers to salivate over.
Whereas Skyblivion will characteristic some unique quests (with unique voice performing), the 2 quests highlighted within the gameplay video are present Oblivion quests, Fingers of the Mountain and Killing Fields. They’re largely as followers keep in mind, albeit with a brand new coat of paint due to the remastered visuals coming as a part of the mod. One quest, the Killing Fields, rewards a robust and distinctive sword, Chillrend. It’s simply one of many weapon quest rewards that has been remade so as to provide “extra distinctive and various weapons all through Skyblivion,” in accordance with the video.
Described because the “final fan-made expertise,” Skyblivion seems to supply the very best of what each Skyrim and Oblivion have to supply, in accordance with the mod’s website. As such, Skyblivion will carry again gameplay methods seen in Oblivion–spell crafting, courses, underwater combat–and combine them into Skyrim’s engine.
All of Oblivion’s objects have been remade within the Skyrim engine, and there have moreover been updates to a few of the recreation’s cities, dungeons, and forts with improved layouts and enemy encounters. Whereas a lot of the sport is an in depth and trustworthy recreation of Oblivion, there’s some new content material, together with new quests, monsters, and a reimagined lockpicking minigame. Most of the recreation’s menus and UI are getting an overhaul to be extra user-friendly, and lots of characteristic new paintings made to look proper at house within the unique recreation. There are even new items of region-specific music to “complement” Oblivion’s unique soundtrack.
The venture has been within the works for over a decade at this level, with work to port Oblivion to Skyrim’s engine starting across the time Skyrim first launched. Remastering the sport’s visuals started in 2016, and there are at the moment greater than 80 volunteers working to see the venture to completion, in accordance with the venture’s web site.
Skyblivion is at the moment on observe to launch in 2025 at no cost. As soon as the mod is launched, the staff will work to deal with bugs and ship updates requested by the neighborhood earlier than starting work on porting all of Oblivion’s DLC, together with the Shivering Isles enlargement, to Skyblivion.
In the meantime, followers are nonetheless ready for extra information about The Elder Scrolls 6. Bethesda, the sport’s writer, stated final 12 months that the venture had solely not too long ago entered early improvement and that extra information would not be coming anytime quickly. Xbox boss Phil Spencer stated across the similar time that the subsequent entry within the legendary RPG franchise was “5 or extra years away.”