Skyrim Together Reborn, an all-new PC co-operative multiplayer mod for Skyrim, is coming out on Friday, July 8, 2022, at 9:00 A.M. PDT // 12:00 P.M. EDT // 4:00 P.M. GMT.
First spotted by PC Gamer, Skyrim Together Reborn allows up to eight-player co-op in Bethesda’s seminal RPG. Storyline progression syncs between players while the host handles all NPC interactions and handing in quests. Looting, specifically opening chests, can be done by anyone, though. There’s also PVP you can enable, should any disagreements require a brawl to settle.
Anyone deep in the modding scene will probably recognize this project from when it was known as simply Skyrim Together. Tilted Online is behind both versions of the mod, though development rebooted back in 2019. With Reborn, the Together development team rebuilt the project’s code from scratch.
“Making a single-player game into a multiplayer game without source code is near impossible, especially with a development team that consists of a handful of students doing this for free in their free time. Please keep that in mind when playing Reborn,” the Together Team said on Reddit. “The mod won’t be perfect. It will occasionally crash, some quests will break, [and] there will be bugs. This is not fixable. This is just the reality of making a multiplayer mod instead of having a massive studio like Bethesda make a multiplayer game. Still, it’s playable, it’s fun, and it’s a lot better than the old Skyrim Together mod, which was the goal of Reborn.”
Check out the video below to see Skyrim Together Reborn in action.
Naturally, this mod only works for the PC version of Skyrim. You can keep other mods installed, but it’s not encouraged.
“For the best, most stable experience, you should not install other mods,” the official FAQ reads. “You still absolutely can, and our mod also automatically loads SKSE if you have it installed, but we cannot make any guarantees that these mods won’t cause stability issues, play nice with our systems, or that their features will sync.”
It seems like an excellent way to revisit one of the best western RPGs ever. Good prep ahead of Starfield‘s launch next year too.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
