Nonetheless, certain mods found clever ways to work without SKSE, although they didn't tend to be as intuitive or clean.Īlternatively, as one user pointed out on Reddit, you can go to your 'steamapps' folder and set 'appmanifest_489830' to read-only.
Modders aren't paid much if anything at all and it's not their day job. That's because the SKSE developers were busy. For context, when the Legendary Edition first debuted, there was a long dry period. How long that takes is mostly dependant on the SKSE and SkyUI developers. Doing so means that your modded playthrough will still work but you won't be able to try out the new Anniversary Edition until everything is brought up to speed. Most of Skyrim's later quality-of-life features stem from the community and so this is a big blow for players that are used to these enhancements.īut you can circumvent the update by launching Steam in offline mode. However, a lot of the more complicated, script-based ones won't.
It's extensive, but a lot of graphical mods should still work - hell, some standard Skyrim ones are compatible with the Legendary Edition.
