Oblivion Remastered doesn't have official mod support: cue over 85 mods in less than 24 hours, including six different attempts to make it look more like the original

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Yep, that sounds astir right.

 Oblivion Remastered. Image credit: Bethesda

Well, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is now retired successful the world, and it doesn't person immoderate authoritative mod support. Not that the latter's made immoderate difference, though, due to the fact that arsenic of penning implicit 80 mods person already arrived for it successful little than 24 hours, including astatine slightest 7 attempts to recreate those classical 2006 visuals.

Oh, and what looks similar an aboriginal publication extender that mightiness assistance facilitate much precocious mods than your accustomed reshades and insignificant gameplay tweaks. Yeah, I deliberation we should beryllium occupied for a portion longer arsenic we each hold for The Elder Scrolls 6 to release immoderate clip this century.

In its official FAQ astir Oblivion Remastered published aft the crippled shadow-dropped, Bethesda confirmed that "Mods are not supported for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered". It added the accustomed sentiment you'd expect, encouraging folks having issues playing with mods to effort getting escaped of them arsenic a fix.

VG247 has reached retired to the steadfast to spot if we tin get 100% confirmation that this decidedly means there's nary accidental of the crippled perchance getting immoderate authoritative modding tools further down the line. It surely doesn't person immoderate arsenic of writing, though.

No matter, though. We're little than a time connected from release, and determination are already 90 mods disposable for the Oblivion remaster via Nexus Mods - a fig that's inactive steadily increasing by the hour. Among those which've been released truthful acold are astatine slightest six antithetic reshades designed to marque the remaster's visuals much intimately lucifer the original's technicolour fever dream, conscionable successful lawsuit the nostalgia ain't almighty capable arsenic is - seriously, look at all of these 2006-inspired reshades, dude.

Outside of those, you'll find the accustomed performance tweaks and slight gameplay changes, but a mates of things person caught my eye. First of all, there's 'UE4SS for OblivionRemastered', which is an aboriginal publication extender, and truthful mightiness assistance facilitate much precocious worldly similar quest mods erstwhile modders truly get the bent of the game.

Then, there's 'The Player Random Conversation System - Remastered', an OG Oblivion mod that expands the game's dialog a spot by giving the subordinate a clump much random options successful conversations. In the comments its creator thejazzcat117 revealed that speech from fixing immoderate bugs, the porting process was straightforward, writing: "I utilized the archetypal instauration kit. Mods that are script-focused should beryllium low-effort to port. Mods that usage assets oregon necessitate a publication extender however? Those are not supported (I anticipation it changes!!)".

We'll person to spot however things germinate mod-wise with the Oblivion remaster, but I'd surely stake connected modders continuing to find ways to bash what they want, and marque it easier for others to travel suit.

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