The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Special Edition Update Adds Steam Deck, Ultrawide Support, New Creations Menu

Developer Bethesda Game Studios is trying its hand at bringing paid mods to The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim once more with its latest update. The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Special Edition now has a new unified Creations Menu housing both mods as well as items from the Creation Club.

The new Creations menu now let’s players take a more hands-on approach to their game mods, including allowing players to set their load orders, as well as the ability to resolve missing Creations when loading a saved game from a modded playthrough.

Other features of the update are support for the Steam Deck, as well as support for ultrawide monitors on the PC, allowing for displays with 16:9, 16:10, 21:9, and 32:9 aspect ratio displays.

The update also brings with it a host of bug fixes, ranging from small bugs to more serious game-breaking bugs like a crash that could occur when fighting Dwarven Ballista.

PATCH NOTES

New Features

• Mods and Creation Club menus have been combined into a unified Creations Menu.
• Missing Creation check feature added to resolve missing Creations when loading a save file.
• Store your Active Load Order and retrieve it from Bethesda.net
• ESL Range has been doubled to 4096 records. Source scripts for Fishing, Rare Curios, Saints & Seducers and Survival are now provided as a Creator’s resource.
• Resource Pack added to the game to assist Creators.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash that could occur when fighting Dwarven Ballista.
• Fixed crash that could occur when transferring a large number of arrows to a follower.
• Fixed issue preventing Kindred Judgement from starting if certain NPCs had died.
• Fixed slowdown when running with a large number of Creations.
• Fixed issue that could result in the world being underwater when fast traveling.
• Fixed issue that would result in NPCs getting stuck in sit-and-stand loops when trying to use furniture.
• Fixed control lock that can occur while eating a corpse with Namira’s Ring equipped while Survival Mode is active.
• Fixed missing dirt for slot 1 on female faces.
• Resolved issue preventing bartering with some hunters.
• Fixed issue where Miraak sometimes does not appear while stealing Dragon Souls.
• Arvak can now be summoned in the Forgotten Vale.
• Vampire Cattle faces are no longer black in Volkihar Keep.
• Fixed Soul Cain sky becoming corrupted after exiting Reaper’s Lair.
• Restored cobblestones to the execution area of Helgen.
• Fixed unlootable NPCs at “Cragslane Cavern.”
• Fixed bad weapon values on Glass Mace, Glass Warhammer, Honed Draugr War Axe, Ebony Mace and Ebony War Axe and most daggers.
• Fixed some Orcish war Axes not using the correct model.
• Fixed Ebony Shields being invisible when equipped on Vampires.
• Dwarven Scrap Metal can now be sold to Blacksmiths.
• Honeycomb can now be sold to the appropriate vendors.
• Removed errant collision marker west of Windhelm.
• Fixed issue that sometimes presented the portals in the Forgotten Vale from playing their visual effects.
• Fixed issue where portals in the Forgotten Vale would turn purple while opening.
• Fixed bad geometry along columns in Vyrthur’s throne room.
• Removed errant ‘Activate’ text on wheat windmills.
• Blessing of Talos now properly shows a 20% reduction in the Active Effects menu instead of 0%.
• Argonian Account, Book 2 now uses the correct world model.
• Fixed kidnapped NPCs clipping cell door in Treva’s Watch.
• Adjusted placement of iron ore vein that would result in the player’s camera colliding with a mammoth skull trap in Halted Stream Camp.
• Fixed gap in terrain west of Embershard Mine.
• Fixed hole in Wolfskull Cave.
• Fixed hole in the Argonian Assembly.
• Fixed gap in level in Nchuand-Zel Control Room.
• Fixed flickering on floor in Largashbur.
• Plugged gap in rocks near Lake Ilinalta.
• Removed deprecated grass files from Miscellaneous archive.
• Improved performance in Vyrthur’s throne room.
• General performance improvements.
• Various typo and localization fixes.

Bloodchill Manor

• Extra Emerald Paragon holder replaced with missing Sapphire Paragon holder.

Bone Wolf

• Fixed issue preventing Zombies from spawning in certain locations while Bone Wolves are present.
• Fixed translation errors for wild encounters.

The Cause

• Arvak can now be summoned in The Deadlands.
• Plants in The Deadlands now respect the “Green Thumb” perk.
• Fixed localization issues.

The Contest

• Fixed inability to temper Fists of Randagulf.

Dead Man’s Dread

• Fixed missing leg meshes when “Captain’s Boots” were equipped.
• Expanded Crossbow Pack
• Fixed localization issues.

Fishing

• Adjusted textures with Draugr Weapons to closer match the rest of the set.
• Localization fixes.
• Ghosts of the Tribunal
• Prevented freeze that may occur when performing the Trueflame ritual too quickly.

Necromatic Grimoire

• Players can no longer loot arrows used by the “Skeleton Marksman” summons.
• Localization fixes.

Saints & Seducers

• Plants in the Root Tunnels now respect the “Green Thumb” perk.
• Fixed Madness Sword having too low a value.
• Localization fixes.

Shadowrend

• Player can no longer pickpocket items off of the Shadow.
• Localization fixes.

Staff of Sheogorath

• Localization fixes.

Survival Mode

• Fixed issue where player could use magic infinitely while their magic was depleted.

Wild Horses

• Localization fixes.

PC Only

FEATURE: Support for Ultrawide monitors (16:9, 16:10, 21×9, 32×9).

FEATURE: Support for Steam Deck.

FEATURE: Various console improvements.

• CTRL+C now copies the selected Reference in the console.
• CTRL+V now pastes text from your clipboard into the console.
• “KAH” added to the console as a command to kill all hostiles.
• “GetSelectedRefBase” added to the console as a command to return the base form ID for the selected reference.
• Base form ID is now displayed alongside the selected reference ID.
• “Help” command can now filter by form type.

FEATURE: “sStartingCell”, “sStartingCellX”, and “sStartingCellY” can be added to the General section of your SkyrimCustom.ini to autoload into the specified locations upon game start.

FEATURE: Macro support.

• In your game directory you will find the new file: SkyrimConsoleDefault.ini. This contains the layout and new basic commands. This list may be customized by creating a new file in the same folder named SkyrimConsole.ini.
• Resolved issue with screen shrinking after using Alt+Tab.
• General stability improvements and optimizations.

Epic Only

• Fixed issue preventing Xbox controllers from being recognized.

PlayStation Only

• Resolved issue forcing the player’s camera to face north while exiting the Character Menu while on a horse.
• Fixed button prompts sometimes being stuck on screen after loading a save.
• Fixed flickering lights in the Ragged Flagon Cistern.
• PS4: Fixed Options button icon.

Xbox Only

• General stability improvements (Morthal).

Creation Kit

Stability improvements.

• New “Show Edited Forms Only” checkbox in the Object Window.
• Data Menu now has “Modified Date” Column.
• Plug-ins and Masterfiles can now be sorted by clicking any of the category names in the Data menu.
• Titlebar now shows if your plug-in is ESL compliant based on last save.
• Landscape borders now toggle between, visible, visible over all geometry, and off.
• RoboVoice is now included, allowing you to easily add temp voice lines.
• LipFuzer is now included, so you can generate game ready FUZ files.
• LipGenerator has been updated to 64-bit.
• Users can now browse to select existing voice files in file explorer straight from the Edit Response Window.
• Creation Kit now warns if your plug-in is flagged as “Read Only”.

New Papyrus Functions

• Function SetContainerAllowStolenItems(bool setAllowStolenItems) native – Sets whether to allow stolen items to appear in the menu (for Containers only).
• int Function GetAllItemsCount() native – Gets the number of items in a container/inventory.
• bool Function IsContainerEmpty() native – Returns if the container/inventory is empty.
• Function RemoveAllStolenItems(ObjectReference akTransferTo = None) native – Removes all stolen items, transferring it to the other object if passed.

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