I am a lead developer for the fan-project Skywind.
Four years ago, Matt Grandstaff of Bethesda approached us to clarify that, "The policy has always been that you cannot take assets from one of our games and put it in another game."
As of the last dev build [0.9.7.8] Skywind is a legal mod. All original art has either been remastered or given placeholders. In fact, the project is entering its final phase.
Grandstaff also mentioned that Bethesda is "well aware" of the project.
I have accepted a job offer at Bethesda over the summer specifically to work on the project full-time. Two others that I know of, have also been given jobs.
The rumors about a Skyrim remaster are true. Console mods will return, with Skywind as the flagship. It's a perfect choice for Bethesda because:
A.) It will not break savegames B.) It's been hyped for the last four years
Will provide some proofs and details. I had to sign an NDA, so I won't give specific details as to my identity.
Take it to Reddit where someone will care about garbage and be your wittle hug box.
Jason Smith
>Skywind
Absolute shit considering it's constrained from many of the mechanics that made Morrowind enjoyable
>inb4 miss memes
There's a lot more modern day TES has dropped.
Ryan Russell
Is this bait? I mean Sup Forums's community have become so retarded that i genuinely don't know if i'm being trolled.
Grayson Lee
if this 'remaster' is to add real VR support Bethsoft just won everything.
most likely it's just a shitty cashgrab reissue, though.
Aaron Walker
>a lead developer >won't give details because NDA Wow. It's almost like you have nothing interesting at all to give us and wasted our time.
Kevin Campbell
So bethesda is all good about the skywind mod?
As for the skyrim remaster, why though?
Modded skyrim already has so much history, development and added improvements to the game. I can't see how Bethesda out do all that evolution and effort made by the community.
Sounds like a cash grab in my opinion. But eh, each to their own.
Good luck with skywind though, really looking for it to.
Jose James
It's bait. Bethesda doesn't give a shit.
Jordan Sanders
Not cool. You know what we do to leakers around here. Remember Three Dawg?
Owen Kelly
>I mean Sup Forums's community have become so retarded that i genuinely don't know if i'm being trolled.
Skywind is just going to be a downgraded Morrowind though. We don't care about the graphical fidelity if the game's content itself is removed in large chunks.
If there's a Skyrim "remaster" coming out they would have to offer some serious improvements over the original or it's pointless. We almost all played it on PC to begin with.
Isaac Baker
Anyone who is a proper Morrowindfag wasn't interested in Skywind in the first place. No one cares.
Hunter Turner
I was talking about people acting like children, i know that OP is literally '' my dad works in Nintendo'' but those first few posts are everything that is wrong with Sup Forums
Juan Cook
Not wanting to eat more shit from Bethesda is wrong?
Christian Jackson
Skyrim is shit. Take it to Reddit.
Carson Moore
no ''le Sup Forums is the hate machine of the internet'' actitude is wrong.
This release will be for XB1/PS4, Bethesda doesn't have anything new for PC players. They already have all this.
Cooper Taylor
no one hyped this shit
Hudson Gonzalez
That's normal shitposting. It can happen anywhere and from anyone, and it may or may not represent a true opinion. It's not even like childposting. It's a quick negative reaction which is just as reasonable as someone going "Yeah this looks really cool." Both are equally useless in terms of discussion.
Isaiah Rodriguez
Skyrim's races will be overhauled, pic related
There will be a set of unique meshes, instead of a one-size-fits all body.
Colton Harris
>It's been hyped for the last four years
You mean it was hyped four years ago. Then it faded into obscurity when people moved on from meme-rim.
Nolan Sullivan
Well, and was me
Not, really sure what part you think is bait or childish. I honestly feel like "Skyrim in Morrowind" isn't really worthwhile. Without some serious revisions to stuff modders can't touch there's a lot that simply won't make it in.
Caleb Stewart
these guys are doing it all wrong. someone needs to mod skyrim into morrowind
This is inaccurate. Skywind didn't have a media presence until a couple years ago. Now it gets featured in PCgamer, and does monthly progress videos which generate hundreds of thousands of views.
Joseph Walker
Hey, how far would you estimate is the release for skywind?
Lucas Gray
Maybe I'm reading this post wrong but what the fuck does Skywind which is a remake of Morrowind with Skyrim's engine have to do with a Skyrim remaster? One is a fan project and the other is by Bethesda. Why would you be working on a fan project while employed at Bethesda? Are you saying Bethesda is helping with Skywind? This entire post is confusing as fuck.
And it was hyped by morrowind players on various websites. I even remember the threads here. I'm surprised people even give a shit any more.
Kayden Price
Again I ask, what does the fan project Skywind have to do with the Skyrim remaster? What does Skywind have to do with consoles? What does this dev working on Skywind have to do with being employed at Bethesda? Where the fuck are the details?
Camden Collins
>if this 'remaster' is to add real VR support Bethsoft just won everything. Skyrim is not a good fit for VR. There's a ton of problems with it, from the gameplay being too clunky, to the environment scale being ridiculously unrealistic.
The next Elder Scrolls might be designed to take advantage of VR, but I wouldn't hold my breath. AAA studios like Bethesda are not interested in taking risks.
Cooper Barnes
>Hey, how far would you estimate is the release for skywind? Much farther than Sup Forums would have you believe. Most creatures and armor are done, and we just finished a number of tilesets including dwemer, cave, and tomb.
It probably won't release with Solstheim or Mournhold.
See When I said "featured in PCgamer" I meant that Skywind got into the magazine, which has a broader audience.
Nolan Bailey
Skywind is the most stupid idea I have ever heard, take Morrowind, put in everything that's wrong with Skyrim and there you have it. If anything you should make Skyrim in Morrowind.
Dylan Harris
Lowest quality bait.
If you're a fucking modder who got given a job at the company the last thing you're going to do is immediately go and leak all their fucking secret announcements dipshit.
Juan Taylor
It isn't unjustified hate. Skyrim is baby's first "RPG". They butchered the lore, gameplay, stats, writing and the animations are still garbage There are plenty of better games than this casual shit. But keep hyping it up, Todd.
Bentley Parker
Ow.
Levi Baker
Skyrim will be remastered with HD textures and console mod support. Bethesda wants Skywind done or at least playable for the release.
Benjamin Lee
OP used the work of other people on skywind to elevate himself into landing a job in the gaming industry at Besethda.
Now like the good little peon he is he's shilling the skyrim remaster
Hunter Brown
>Skyrim is baby's first "RPG"
This is rich coming from a morrowfag that never touched an actual cRPG in his life.
btw, Gothic 2 was better than Morrowind.
Charles Roberts
Nice try, faggot. Im-fucking-plying consoles can handle file-sizes of that magnitude. Not to mention scripts n shit created just to make it manageable on PC. Using FO4 as a base, you're full of shit.
James Torres
will weapon skills still work as they do in morrowind or will they be remodelled for the skyrim engine?
Tyler Robinson
This, nobody can be that much of an ungrateful bastard.
Aiden Morales
I cant wait to play Skywind and levitate everywhere, make my own spells, pay someone to enchant an item to give it unlock 100 on use, find cool gear that gives me plus 20 to spears, find the boots of blinding speed and magic resist my way out of the debuff. I am so excited to go back to Morrowind!
Charles Turner
I remember most people saying Morrowind wasn't particularly good at anything back in the day, now Sup Forums thinks it's the second coming of Christ.
Nathaniel Campbell
Are you implying Bethesda is using 4096x4096 or even 2048x2048 textures?
HD doesn't mean what you think it does.
Benjamin Kelly
>Skyrim is an actual crpg
Jordan Parker
Are you sarcastically implying none of that will be possible in Skywind? I'm not familiar with it
Dylan Baker
There is nothing but art and some quests. The game is still Skyrim, you are just going to be walking around on Morrowind.
Anthony Brooks
>I am a lead developer for the fan-project Skywind.
Easton Butler
So is there any change to the actual game? or is it just Skyrim with mods, running on ultra instead of the gimped 7th gen settings, repackaged for ps4 and xbone?
Andrew Martin
Who?
Aiden Morris
thats a shame
Eli Stewart
>a mod built for consoles sounds like garbage
Luis Ross
what do you mean "remaster"? will there be anything new? Will skywind be available for ps4 then?
Hudson Powell
Holy fuck, didn't someone make an ironic post about Bethesda hiring Skywind people a couple days ago?
Ryder Lewis
Even in Ultra the game looks like shit, you have to tweak the .ini file to get shadows that doesn't look awful.
>The rumors about a Skyrim remaster are true. And confirming that on a mongolian moving picture board before E3 won't have effects on your continued employment?
Jason Edwards
>if this 'remaster' is to add real VR support Bethsoft just won everything. A lot of people already get motion sickness from playing it without VR, imagine playing with VR.
Sebastian Cruz
Where in that did I mention texture mods, you fuckface? I said scripts. One of the anti-piracy measures FO4 PCfags are suggesting is enabling FOSE to keep consolefags from using their mods. Even if Skywind doesn't use SKSE, it will use something similar to it for performance. Again, using FO4 as a base, it is impossible for Skywind to be on console because of file size limitations and use of script extenders.
Josiah James
Then fuck those people. We need to cull the weak somehow.
Aaron Ramirez
That's hardly a "remaster". No one will pay for slightly less shit textures.
Lucas Russell
>Let's ruin Morrowind by introducing Skyrim gameplay
Ayden Morgan
>reading comprehension
Kevin Reed
>reading shit off of other websites and posting here like its some insider info kys
Jose Reed
is this real life?
Evan Hernandez
And here I thought remaster means fixing all the shit. Silly me.
Austin Rodriguez
I guess if you're real; You could still charge 5$ for it and still make small profit.
Leo Perry
>skyrim remaster I honestly can't believe this retarded shit is true. What's next, Fallout 4 remaster?
Christopher Wood
>Skyrim Remaster
Why should I care My PC Skyrim looks 10x as better than any remaster they could do.
Colton Baker
>journalists will cheer when this is announced
god help video games
Connor Foster
Engine improvements
They will
Jackson Jenkins
>everyone is already sick of Skyrim and redoing the same fucking quests or predictable "infinite" quests >let's release it again xD
I doubt Bethesda is that retarded. This whole thing was completely pulled out of a games "journalist" ass.
Xavier Morris
Just to throw it out there: Not everyone on Sup Forums is lying about leaks or is "Dad works at Nintendo"-tier. I leak shit all the time about films since I am an executive in the film industry but no one ever believes me. This could be the same case here.
Angel Stewart
People shitpost all the time, this could be the same case here.
Jonathan Brooks
Do you think Bethesda is willing to give licenses to other fan projects?
Joshua Taylor
his point is that you should neither believe it nor dismiss it. just keep it in mind that it was stated.
Chase Martinez
99% of the time it's always fake leaking shit. They encourage you to screencap so if it happens ONCE out of the thousands of falseflags it'll invigorate this idea that Sup Forums of all places provides leaks. When they usually always come from insiders from NeoGaf or some shit.
Charles Baker
>I am an executive in the film industry Why would you leak something? Are you implying you still have a conscience?
Carson Ross
How is anyone falling for any of this bait? Fake "leaks" linking to personal youtube profiles for views and marketing articles for clicks are against board rules. Report this shit instead of replying to it, you idiots. If you must shitpost in here, at least have the decency to sage.
Brayden Martinez
The rumor's spreading fast throughout the Internet. Watch OP screencap this thread so he can use it later (IF THE RUMOR IS TRUE) saying he's a reliable leaker so he can shitpost 1,000x harder the next time. It's just some fag taking advantage of the situation.
Tyler Bell
All niggers are dumb
keep in mind that I stated that
John Morris
>being surprised this is Sup Forums. practically nothing is off the table and most kids here will talk about anything because they dont have anything else to do. how about just hiding the thread and moving on like those who dont bitch and moan about these things.
you still miss the point.
Jacob Sanchez
>caring abou amateurs redoing Morrowind on a fucking Skyrim engine lmaoing desu
Liam Hill
If it works out. I can't peer into Todd's dirty soul. I haven't linked to anything of the kind
Juan Rogers
No one gives a fuck, douche
Nicholas Young
>you still miss the point. Unless he's going to provide some form of proof, there's no reason to believe in bait threads. There's no reason to keep an open mind on a site that's notorious for shitposting just because OP can throw some nouns around.
Landon Rivera
Why would anyone want to play Morrowind with Skyrim's shallow roleplay system?
Jack James
Nostalgia shitheads who don't even truly like morrowind
Justin Gonzalez
bump
Aaron Torres
op can't bump his own thread
Joshua Ramirez
Because kids heard about there being an older Skyrim game but they don't want to play it because it has old graphics, no voice-acting and weird combat.
Samuel Barnes
Fuck this. Wake me up when something Oblivion comes this way.
Gavin Miller
Fuck off idiot
David Cruz
This is true, my Dad works at Nintendo and I leak shit I find on his desk when he's fucking his mistress all the time
Dylan Williams
I just find it off that Bethesda hasn't mentioned anything about it, so I'm leaning heavily on the side of doubt.
Nathan Miller
cuz they're gonna mention it at e3 silly! bethesda is always secretive and rarely talks to press. they didn't say a word about fallot 4 until like 6 months before they released it.
Liam Johnson
Are you saying that the remaster is just a port with the high res texture pack pre-installed?
Robert Martin
If this is true, then I will consider you a sell out and your work as null. You were one of the first people to complain about paid mods and then you go work for them? So much for morals.