Doing so means that your modded playthrough will still work but you won't be able to try out the new Anniversary Edition until everything is brought up to speed.
Most of Skyrim's later quality-of-life features stem from the community and so this is a big blow for players that are used to these enhancements.īut you can circumvent the update by launching Steam in offline mode. However, a lot of the more complicated, script-based ones won't. It's extensive, but a lot of graphical mods should still work - hell, some standard Skyrim ones are compatible with the Legendary Edition.
