Current Events > Does Steam still force Skyrim Anniversary Edition updates?

(+) Yeah! (+)

I know there was a big brouhaha about that a while back, but is it still doing that? Probably a stupid question considering Anniversary upgrade is listed as a separate purchase on SE's store page. But like, if I only buy Skyrim SE on its own I shouldn't have to worry about forced update shenanigans, should I?

AE is just all the CC stuff packed together for one price. So by itself the updates to the game are necessarily to SE itself.

But to be honest, most of the time the complaints about 'breaking mods' is just because the 'unofficial patch' mod, which worms its way into other mods as a base, just needs to update like 2 lines of code to match the latest version number of Skyrim.

DuneMan posted...

AE is just all the CC stuff packed together for one price. So by itself the updates to the game are necessarily to SE itself.

But to be honest, most of the time the complaints about 'breaking mods' is just because the 'unofficial patch' mod, which worms its way into other mods as a base, just needs to update like 2 lines of code to match the latest version number of Skyrim.

So if I just buy SE on its own then I shouldn't have anything to worry about? I do have some older mods I want to play with that haven't been updated for AE.

Kircheis posted...

So if I just buy SE on its own then I shouldn't have anything to worry about? I do have some older mods I want to play with that haven't been updated for AE.

There's a downgrade option but it shouldn't be necessary. Almost every single mod worth using has been upgraded to AE.

I have mine turned off. Hasn't updated once since Anniversary Edition came out.

Alucard188 posted...

I have mine turned off. Hasn't updated once since Anniversary Edition came out.

This, turned auto updates off. I think there's a way to downgrade if it happens, though.

Yeah, you can be assured that Nexus modders worked diligently to create a 'downpatch' to permanently suspend Skyrim at a certain patch level for their needs. Heck, some people still swear by Oldrim for their esoteric and long-since-abandoned mods. Personally I couldn't do that. Oldrim is too barren and ugly, whereas SE is at a passable level.

DuneMan posted...

AE is just all the CC stuff packed together for one price. So by itself the updates to the game are necessarily to SE itself.

But to be honest, most of the time the complaints about 'breaking mods' is just because the 'unofficial patch' mod, which worms its way into other mods as a base, just needs to update like 2 lines of code to match the latest version number of Skyrim.

It's not the unofficial patch, it's the script extender and DLL plugins

Ah, right, fair. Though that mod does force its way into other mods.

DuneMan posted...

Yeah, you can be assured that Nexus modders worked diligently to create a 'downpatch' to permanently suspend Skyrim at a certain patch level for their needs. Heck, some people still swear by Oldrim for their esoteric and long-since-abandoned mods. Personally I couldn't do that. Oldrim is too barren and ugly, whereas SE is at a passable level.

The "downpatch" is basically just copying an older skyrim.exe to overwrite your existing installation.

Tyranthraxus posted...

The "downpatch" is basically just copying an older skyrim.exe to overwrite your existing installation.

Worked.

Diligently.

I just reinstalled skyrim se and the mods arent broken be AE anymore.

You'll be fine