Skyrim On PC Will Finally Have Working Multiplayer After 11 Years
The massively successful 2011 RPG The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is getting an improved multiplayer mod called Skyrim Together Reborn, which will be released on July 8. The Together Team's original multiplayer mod, Skyrim Together, became incompatible with the latest version of Skyrim last year, prompting the group to rewrite the mod completely. Skyrim Together was quite popular before it was discontinued, despite the fact that it was plagued with technical issues that often made the game unplayable. The redesigned version promises to be far more functional, finally letting fans play with their friends with relative ease, even on Skyrim's Special and Anniversary editions.
Like its predecessor, Skyrim Together Reborn allows players to either host their own servers (locally or through a VPN service like Hamachi) or use a third-party provider. Third-party hosting is easier, but doesn't allow customization, while players who host their own servers can tweak server and gameplay settings. Like Skyrim Together, all players on a server must have the same mods installed to ensure the most stable experience.
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Though this is the community's best option for multiplayer Skyrim, it is far from perfect, and the Together Team makes this clear on their website. However, they do have a few tips to avoid bugs and crashes. Unlike the mod's previous iteration, where questing was guaranteed to cause issues, Reborn has quest syncing in the form of a party system, but players must escape being imprisoned in Elder Scrolls' ongoing trope at the start of the game before they can get into multiplayer. When the party leader progresses a quest, all party members automatically match their progress, but only party
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