Of course you can go on adventures with NPC friends, skyrim It’s still a single player game. You are the lone Dragonborn with the fate of the region on your shoulders. It has many benefits. The pressure is on to do the right thing because you are seemingly the only hope in this world. But what if there were others like you working toward the same goal? And what if you could see the traces of their journey? Lumis is a Skyrim mod that aims to introduce some “passive multiplayer” magic to the game, and it just might show us what that reality is like. I’m convinced this is the feature after seeing what it’s trying to accomplish elder scrolls 6 It should be.
According to the author’s own description, Lumis aims to create a “Multiverse of Skyrim.” While you can live your own journey the way you want in an RPG, you can also use mods to see the true nature of other players as they travel the world. Like many of FromSoftware’s Soulslikes, this isn’t a direct PvP or co-op multiplayer experience, but rather about feeling the presence of other players. All players running this mod will connect to a shared server, with the closest player appearing as a spectral white sphere.
Lumis’ NexusMods description says, “This mod renders up to 8 other players within 4,500 units of your location as ‘Magelight’ ghosts. Watch them move, jump, and explore with you.”
“If there are more than 8 players in your area, such as Bannered Mare, the server will randomly select 8 of those players to display,” mod creator Ztratosphere added. “When you leave and re-enter an area, you can update the eight random players you encounter.”
It is also a more human-like ghost form, or a translucent reproduction of the player’s appearance. actual While the in-game look is much more impressive than the glowing orbs, I still really like the bones of this mod. It’s a great concept to be able to share what should be a solitary adventure with the souls of others while avoiding direct conflict or influence on your world or story. My gears are also whirring about the long-awaited sequel to Skyrim.
Given Bethesda’s silence on the matter, The Elder Scrolls 6 might be anywhere from a year to a decade away at this point, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think about it (and its potential implications) regularly. Of course, first and foremost it needs to be a single-player game with an immersive world and plenty of replayability like Skyrim, but what if there was an official burn-in system like this? Perhaps not real-time like Lumis, but something akin to the asynchronous multiplayer of many FromSoftware games. Notes and messages left by those who walked your path before you. What the ghosts of previously defeated players can show you do not have to do.
Since this is a Bethesda thing, there will probably be some narrative reasoning involved as to how this is possible. But instead of actual co-op (which I don’t expect to see in TES 6, but we really don’t know), something like Lumis would be an interesting addition.
