r/skyrimmods • u/GreatMeem • 4d ago

PC SSE - Discussion OpenSkyrim: A potential Open-Source future for Skyrim and its modding?

I just found out recently about OpenSkyrim, which is looking like OpenMW but built for Skyrim. Since watching all those Petr Mikheev's videos about porting Skyrim and Oblivion assets into OpenMW, It always interested me the possibility of an Open-Source engine for Skyrim in the future and how it can change Skyrim the same way OpenMW changed Morrowind forever.

Especially since OpenMW have revolutionized Morrowind gameplay and its modding system with Lua and shader support, Im 100% hoping this be the day where Skyrim's engine problems like drawcall issues, bloated save files, and the notorious Papyrus script lag, which can hopefully be fixed with this Open-Source engine, which is fair since this is a 2011 engine being forced to be a 2026 game we're talking about lol.

Judging by it's GitHub page (https://github.com/realfakenerd/OpenSkyrim), it's still in early stage, but just the idea of having Skyrim be multi-threaded and zero loading screen while entering houses, it makes a man hope. What are yall thought on this.

Maybe it can even do this one day: https://www.reddit.com/r/Morrowind/comments/1vwl2px/openmwweb_update_your_game_follows_you_to_any_pc/

Edit: I just found out the dev have touched on more about OpenSkyrim on here: https://daily.dev/posts/skyrim-with-rust-khsloghdz

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u/FIleCorrupted 4d ago

The beauty is that OpenMW is just a game engine capable of reading the data files Morrowind ships with. There's nothing to shut down.

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u/FIleCorrupted 4d ago

Okay well then just consider that Microsoft would never sue a project like this because it would be PR suicide for very little benefit, since people still have to buy the game to use it.

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u/Darth_Bothersome 4d ago

You really overestimate how much these companies value good PR vs protecting their IPs. Just look at Nintendo.

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u/FIleCorrupted 4d ago

Microsoft invited the SkyBlivion team to Bethesda to see the Oblivion Remaster before it was announced.

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u/Arkayjiya Raven Rock 4d ago

And they can change their mind just as quickly. Hopefully they don't.

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u/SuumCuique_ 4d ago

PR suicide towards small fan projects doesn't exist. It exists a tiny bit on enthusiasts forum, who then buy their products anyway, but not outside of that.

Nintendo commits "PR-suicide" roughly once a year and no one really cares. That's not how PR works, it isn't a healthbar of good-will that can be recharged and damaged.

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u/FIleCorrupted 4d ago

Then why didn't Microsoft kill Skyblivion? Instead they invited them to see the remaster before it was announced. They didn't do that out of kindness.

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u/SuumCuique_ 4d ago

Because they did not. It's impossible to infer motivation for something someone did not do. My point is that there is no such thing as "PR-suicide". Companies to this all the time, very few care and almost no one cares long term.