I got into a drinking game with one of your posters who is also my friend. After losing they told me it would be cool to chill out here and do an AMA. I haven’t revealed them yet because they’re most likely sleeping, might be a cool surprise for them once they wake up to see this. Lol.

We just really love the Elder Scrolls.

Hmmmmm I really like a bean salsa that I had at TGI Fridays once. I don’t really eat beans often.

Hahahaha. I’ll pass this on to the leads.

Initially trying to bridge the gap between being able to access Skyrim and vise versa Oblivion but this was too much of a challenge that needs more time to accomplish. I think we will eventually get it to work but for the time being we have shifted our focus elsewhere.

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So obviously we are all very used to delay delay delay… things feel different this year however, the project has been coming along for over a decade but we have so few loose ends now that I really do see it being released in 2026.

Of course things happen, this is a passion project that we aren’t getting paid for so besides this we also are busy with the jobs we go to in order to survive and pay rent. Because of this there’s gaps in development time, especially the holidays, but that isn’t to say that it slows down in any sort of capacity. For most of us this has been the project we work on any moment we have free time. And we love it.

Oh forgot to answer the first part of the question. I do love me an orc and 2 handed strength playstyle with a warhammer

Thank you! You too!

Thank you so much! Without the fans projects like this would never happen.

I’m not going to lie, when we heard rumors that it was a thing we felt a little unease but when the full project came out I think that took a day of wind out of our sails, also because we were playing our free copies, thanks Bethesda!

In all truth we didn’t expect the game to be what it is. We all expect a “remaster” or “remake” to be like a cash grab akin to Dark Souls 1 remaster where they ruined the lighting and put the gama all the way up, that’s what I and many were expecting. Not a full blown remake of the game that improves it vastly and makes the experience so much greater.

It was scary at first but then we also realized that that game was born out of love and admiration for the original so it gave us a morale boost. Also the team at Bethesda called us behind the scenes and we even got to talk to Todd Howard (I don’t know how well he’s received in your community) but I thought that was nice.

But yeah, it’s a different game and different to what we have been working on for decades, but the fact that the remake far surpassed everyone’s expectations made it that much better for us to focus on doing the same with ours.

Thank you!

Oh that, haha. Yes. There was. The group chat was filled with gifs and memes and I felt the odd one out for not knowing ANYTHING beforehand but I thought it was cool nonetheless. Big fan now of course.

So I wish you’d rephrase the first question better, I know you mean no offense but to say “what is the point” of a project a decade in the making just because of the remake is a bit crude. I somewhat answered this under another comment but to expand a bit further, this is a passion project that has its own unique approach to the project. It isn’t just improving shaders and lighting it’s much much MUCH more than that like creating our own concept art, new 3D models, using the already established lore from the entire franchise to add more depth to this mod.

We love the remake because it’s great but our project was never intended to compete at all with it and I think this sentiment that “well Bethesda did it better, give up now?” has been played out to its fullest.

Let me ask you this: if you were working on a decades long project with hundreds of other members, would you hang it up?

Also with Skyrim not being accessible it’s really down to a variety of issues that we could develop if we had the time but as it stands. We had a lengthy discussion about this because this was one of the main objectives and the one we advertised the project on, that being the idea you can travel to and from oblivion to Skyrim vice versa. There’s difficulties and a lot of crashes that are involved that let’s say, we had maybe a year or two left of development time then we could accomplish it. I do think the devs on the backend will be able to work something out though because there are people who still want this to work out, as do I, but for the time being with our timeframe it just isn’t possible and our focus is working on the game itself.

what's your favorite bean based dish

My wife is vegan!!!

Unfortunately not :(. Not because I wasn’t invited or anything but it just didn’t fit my schedule unfortunately. I think that visit though was really great for the team of devs that did go and they learned a lot and being around some of the team that worked on the originals like Daggerfall and Morrowind I’d imagine would be such a great feeling.

They did say that after meeting the Bethesda devs it invigorated their motivations to put more time into the project, time they had already set aside for the project itself. I can only imagine how inspirational that visit was not just for our team but the Bethesda team as well. I guess we all do this for the love of the game and that’s all that matters. It’s very rare for a major studio to actually consider their modding team and I really do appreciate the company for sticking to their guns on this.