Nobody asked for this, but I figured what the heck. You can toggle the state of the outdoor lighting system as desired. Yes, some people despised them enough to ask for this. The gate attendants who open the city gates when you approach on horseback can be toggled on or off as desired. If you have any such patches, uninstall them. The menu will now allow you to toggle them on or off as desired, on the fly, with no external patches necessary. It would be STRONGLY recommended that you do not destroy it in some way because the menu will be inaccessible without it. This book is free for you to take with you, and you can put it on a bookshel anywhere you want. You can configure three options in-game by using a book that's been placed inside the Temple of Kynareth. Once the game loads, you need to allow 24+ game hours to pass for AI to fully update in each city. It may also be necessary to rebuild your Bashed Patch if you're using one. Set the mod's load order using whatever management tool you feel most comfortable with. Make sure the mod is active in the Wrye Bash mods tab.ĭrop the Open Cities Skyrim.esp, Open Cities Skyrim.bsa, and Open Cities Skyrim - Textures.bsa files into your Data folder.Īctivate the mod using whatever management tool suits you. If you insist on going against this advice, you will receive no support for the problems you generate as a result of this.ĭrop the archive into your Skyrim Mods\Bash Installers folder, then install as usual. Circumventing this causes issues which I will not provide support for. Skyrim is intended to load a BSA alongside it's ESM/ESP file. Doing so will cause things to load in the wrong order and break the game. Skyrim Special Edition 1.5.97 or greater.ĭO NOT extract the contents of the BSA file into your Data folder as loose files, or let your mod manager perform an equivalent function on the contents of the file. This will also make running dragon battles that much more interesting since the flow of the battle won't be interrupted by the loading screen and all of the city guards can be involved at the same time. The town guards make for some very interesting interactions this way. Need to get some help from the city guards to vanquish a foe? Run toward the gates and the guards will do their duty while you can seek safety within the walls. Ever wanted to ride your horse into the center of Riften? Well now you can.
The added immersion and realism goes a long way, probably a lot more than you might think. Open Cities Skyrim is a comprehensive project that aims to bring back at least part of the feel of Morrowind - specifically how most of the cities were a natural part of the world and you could just walk in without loading screens.