GOG Announces New One-Click Mod System, Skyblivion Mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Coming This Year

GOG has conscionable unveiled its latest project: one-click mods.

The PC level said that arsenic installing mods tin beryllium a spot of a clip sink, the One-Click Mods task lets players browser, install, and play mods "faster and easier than ever." That's wherefore it has collected a "curated" enactment of premium mods and straight packed them with the corresponding crippled for "the smoothest installation."

Furthermore, GOG said "mods are [also] an indispensable portion of video games preservation," letting community-made mods hole bugs and reconstruct cutscenes, quests, and characters to games, arsenic good arsenic "freshly-made caller content" by fans.

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So acold the depository includes mods for Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Complete, Doom 3, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, and Fallout 4. For the former, you'll get an enlargement that adds caller factions, campaigns, creatures, artifacts, and galore quality-of-life improvements, specified arsenic a moving multiplayer lobby system, portion the second is simply a one-click installation of Fallout: London, a standalone storyline acceptable successful the UK during the apocalypse events from Fallout 4.

For Doom 3, you get the Phobos mod, which is simply a prequel to the archetypal game, delivering a "narrative-driven, classic-style FPS acquisition with modern enhancements," and for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, you get the unofficial spot which fixes galore bugs "left unresolved by the archetypal developers," arsenic good arsenic restored and enhanced chopped contented specified arsenic quests, levels, characters, and dialogue.

That's not all, though; Skyblivion, the hotly anticipated mod for The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Anniversary Edition, is besides coming to GOG aboriginal this twelvemonth and volition beryllium a portion of the One-Click Mods project.

Skyblivion is the volunteer-based task by the TESRenewal modding group, which aims to remake The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion successful Skyrim: Special Edition. Bethesda has fixed the task its blessing, contempt releasing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered itself successful April. Bethesda adjacent talented Oblivion Remastered keys to the full Skyblivion modding team.

This is conscionable the latest successful a slew of projects from GOG designed to sphere games. Last year, it announced its preservation programme to guarantee the longevity of games similar Resident Evil, Fallout: New Vegas, and The Witcher 2. It follows expanding concerns from developers and players alike that the determination toward online- and digital-only games volition spot immoderate made unavailable entirely, specified arsenic The Crew, which Ubisoft removed from merchantability and took offline successful March 2024.

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