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How one player turned Skyrim into Grim Souls with 500 mods

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Skyrim enthusiast HeavyBurns has inside-out Bethesda's painting fantasy RPG into a veritable Dark Souls emulator with the combined power of around 500 mods.

HeavyBurns first tried Souls-ifying Skyrim back in 2020 away combining a medley of mods that modified its visuals, combat, and interface, among other things. The result was impressive, but non up to HeavyBurns' current standards. With The Elderberry bush Scrolls 6 a long way off, Skyrim getting another re-release, and FromSoftware's Elden Ring not out until Jan, he's decided to effort IT again, and to die out much more in-depth.

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"On that point has been a huge inflow of revolutionary animation and combat mods that came out in the past yr, and specifically in the past a couple of months, which originally inspired the remake of the video recording," he tells GamesRadar. Helium highlights the stunning work of The Elder Souls collection in particular, which sports over 120 weapon animations settled on those in the Souls games. New tools alike the spiritedness engine Scourge have enabled better, more intuitive mods, so while HeavyBurns isn't a mod maker himself, he says it's easier than ever to layer mods to great effect.

"Subsequently that initial inspiration, I started to review and see that I missed quite a overlarge opportunity in that fresh video to blanket more solid ground in terms of content," atomic number 2 adds. "There are a large number of fauna, weapon, armor, UI and sound mods which I just wasn't aware of at the clip of fashioning the video, and some plane that undergo come out since."

HeavyBurns is now working with 30 to 40 core mods that introduce large chunks of content ranging from enemies, items, environments, and more. Simply when you factor entirely the assets, textures, lighting touch-ups, compatibility fixes, and past personal effects, he reckons this send off is sitting at around 500 mods total.

It's awe-inspiring how inexplicable the Skyrim Souls hare hole goes; one large-scale mod with its own questline and area will form the frame of HeavyBurns' next modded playthrough, simply that's far from the only unique quest OR neighborhood.

"I've always just been a big Dark Souls and Elder Scrolls fan," HeavyBurns explains. "Which is why conflux the ii together in some respects which is non solely exciting to experience, but also satisfying and rewarding to play is a really play estimate to ME, and incorporating that into the love I've found for video production over the onetime year or so will hopefully prepar something awful to watch and useful to follow along afterwards."

(Update: HeavyBurns has posted his video outlining the process and results of his grand Dark Souls-ificiation. Give IT a watch.)

HeavyBurns volition show window his Skyrim modernise in an upcoming video recording along his YouTube channel, so keep an middle unstylish for that in the near upcoming. For instantly, get a gander at these screenshots of the mod appeal in action:

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