Skyrim multiplayer mod is finally out and playable

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After two-and-a-bit years, the long awaited multiplayer mod for Skyrim is out and kind of works. Well, a Skyrim multiplayer mod is out, anyway. Is Together Reborn the same projects as Together? It gets a little confusing, honestly.

Maybe some history as an explanation will help clear things up.

Skyrim Together was originally an effort by a team of modders to create a multiplayer Skyrim mod. The team started work on the mod in the 2010s and a playable beta was available by 2019. But the big reason it was notable, aside from being multiplayer Skyrim, was the amount of money the developers were earning through Patreon. At the height of Skyrim Together’s popularity the team was earning $25,000 per month from donations. This was back before the idea of paying for mods was an idea taken seriously.

Then, as tends to happen, controversy struck. The developers of Skyrim Together found themselves embroiled in accusations of code theft. Skyrim Together’s code, at the time, used liberal amounts of code taken directly from the Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE).

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As it turns out, the then-lead developer of Skyrim Together, Yamashi, had a history of stealing from Skyrim Script Extender, and the conflict ended with the SKSE developer banning Yamashi from using any SKSE assets in his own projects.

Then the team and project kind of imploded. Accusations between