The most grave of these casualties was the loss of Skyrim Script Extender, which is vital to running many useful Skyrim mods as it increases the amount of commands that Skyrim can handle and manage.

Many of these problems could be fixed thanks to the Skyrim mod team behind the popular Skyrim Script Extender, which has announced it is working on a new version compatible with Special Edition.

The stalwart devs at Silverlock are busily working on Skyrim: Special Edition's own script extender (SKSE), and have announced that a beta test may be available in mid-March. If you're an active ...

Update: The Skyrim Together team has used its March 2019 report to apologise for using code from the Skyrim Script Extender, clarify how it happened and detail what it's done to fix the issue.

More importantly for some gamers, with the addition to Skyrim Script Extender in Skyrim Special Edition, managing mods should be relatively easy.

Skyrim Special Edition has been released, and the original SKSE will not work with it,” the Skyrim Script Extender team said on its website. We are creating SKSE64 for the new 64-bit Special ...

However, an encryption system like CEG would get in the way of modding Skyrim, preventing the use of Script Extenders that allow modders to insert hundreds of script commands to make the game do ...