Posted by Anne Lewis on Bethesda
At Bethesda, we put the power of player choice in your hands. Our games are built to allow you to express yourself in our worlds, through your choices and your actions. For PC gamers, this goes one step further, thanks to our incredible modding community. But now, we’re giving players even more freedom and choice by bringing the ability to play Mods to console, offering each and every one of you infinite possibilities in how you customize your gaming experience.
With the release of Fallout 4’s PC Creation Kit, a free downloadable editor, we placed the same tools used by Bethesda Game Studios into the hands of PC modders. This allows content creators and fans of our games to endlessly expand Fallout 4 and, beginning this October, Skyrim Special Edition. Now, with Bethesda.net, modding has been opened to console players, allowing everyone to experience some of the amazing creations and customization options that were once limited to the PC community.
On Bethesda.net, Mods have been downloaded more than 15 million times by players since launch.
If you’re new to Mods, you might be asking, “What are they?” Using the Creation Kit, Modders are able to create new game content. New quests, environments, dialogue, toolsets, weapons, environments, armor, Perks… almost anything the community can imagine. Essentially, you are now empowered to be a game developer.
Mods will continue to expand to new horizons in the coming weeks and months. Along with bringing Fallout 4 Mods to PS4 later this month and Mod support in Skyrim Special Edition, we’re actively talking with the community to find ways to improve our tools and how Mods are accessed in-game and through Bethesda.net.
If you’re ready to try Fallout 4 with Mods, be sure to register an account on Bethesda.net. From there, you can start downloading Mods within the game’s menu or by browsing mods.bethesda.net. And if you’re ambitious enough to start creating your own Mods, visit our community Wiki, www.creationkit.com, to start learning how you can develop your own content with the PC version of Fallout 4 or Skyrim Special Edition.
You can also learn more about Mods from our ongoing “My Creation” interview series on Bethesda.net.
For a look at everything Bethesda revealed at this year’s Showcase, head to: Bethesda at E3 2016
