Bethesda has announced that a beta version of Skyrim’s survival mode is currently available on Steam. The Survival Mode is only available for Skyrim’s Special Edition – which is currently the only one being sold on Steam – and adds new gameplay features and challenges to transform Skyrim into a land of unrelenting cold and harsh wilderness.
Some of the new gameplay features that Survival Mode adds are hunger, fatigue and temperature effects. In addition, this mode disables the ability to fast travel as well as health regeneration. Furthermore, and in order to level up, players will have to sleep in a bed.
In Survival Mode, carry weight has been significantly reduced, shrines no longer cure diseases for free, both vampires and werewolves can restore their hunger by feeding on their victims, creatures across the land now carry threatening new diseases, previous diseases are now even more debilitating., and eating uncooked meat can now cause Food Poisoning.
In order to get access to the beta version of the Survival Mode, players will have to follow this guide:
- Log into Steam.
- Right Click on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition in your Library.
- Select Properties.
- Select Betas.
- A drop down menu will appear. Select the available beta option
- Select OK.
- Wait for the game to update.
Have fun!
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First off, what was that about the Special Edition being the only one sold?
Second, isn’t there already mods for that?
Yep, Bethesda removed the original version from Steam some time ago and you can only buy their new Special People version with the Creation Club. This is really egregious when you consider most existing mods haven’t been ported over to the new version. Hell, the alpha version of SKSE64 was just released about a week ago.
Do you not get the original game if you buy the special edition?
No, you got SE for free, if you had the complete original (Game+All DLC).
The original version is still available, but you need to visit the store page manually.
Don’t be so simple minded, while there are already mods for that, now you can pay for your survival mod. That’s right, you’ll get an exclusive chance to pay for what you would normally get for free and impress all your friends. It just works.
So will this ‘new’ mode be a free update or are they beta testing it now in advance of the finished version coming in the form of a paid mod once Creation Club has come to Skyrim?
I say ‘new’ because there are of course existing mods available for free on the Nexus that seemingly do much the same thing.
Keep mooching off of modders Todd.
If only they’d bother to add sound effects like the mods so it was actually immersive instead of having us stare at meters all day.
You should take this post down. Don’t promote the Creation Club for them. Bethesda can get f’ed if they think I’m going to help them beta test a mod so they can charge me for it later.