The result is something that can be defined as nothing short of a work of art. He didn’t just increase the resolution of the textures, but he completely overhauled them alongside with the meshes, adding a metric ton of detail that simply didn’t exist before. GarriG agrees and that’s why he created this stunning mod. It’s also arguably the ugliest (I normally stick to the Ebony set, that looks way better). The Daedric set of armor and weapons is the most powerful of the game. The experiment has been a definite success, as you can see for yourself here.

Rahman530 decided to create a few armor sets (seven to be precise) that fit his own taste but also didn’t fly in the face of those that want to feel immersed in the original atmosphere of Skyrim. Many of the custom sets of armor created by modders abide more to their personal tastes than to the Elder Scrolls lore. While I’m quite sure I’ll keep using Skyrim Nexus as my primary source of mods, as soon as Steam Workshop will be available for Skyrim, I’ll try my best to include links for both services, in order to accomodate everyone’s choice of sources. It will change the modding community quite radically for better or for worse and has the potential to split and fragment it. While we’re talking about the Creation Kit, there’s another elephant in the room charging right at us: Steam Workshop. There already are nearly 8,000 mods available for download, and that’s just counting the ones that I could personally find. In the meanwhile the community is still using whatever it can to improve the game over the original. The good news are that yesterday they actually gave us a glimpse of it, stating that it isn’t far away. January is behind us and Bethesda didn’t manage to keep the promise to release the Creation Kit within the month.

You’ll find here on DualShockers every Thursday. The Skyrim Mod Forge is back, bringing you some of the best mods produced by the modding community dedicated to improving The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The purpose of this column is to help those that may be a little disoriented with the size and scope of what the Skyrim modding community offers.

Skyrim daedric armor mod