Apart from the textures getting better resolutions and bug fixes, is there anything different regarding quests in Skyrim: Special Edition compared to the old Skyrim?
What I mean is:
- Are there any new quests?
- Do some quests now have possible new outcomes?
- Have some story beats been changed or streamlined?
I'm currently debating if I'm better off buying the Special Edition or Vanilla Edition + DLC + Mods on Steam. If the Vanilla Edition has the same content, but I can get up to Special Edition likeness with Mods, I would buy Vanilla. But if there's new stuff, I would go for Special Edition.
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Gameplay wise the game is the same as the old ones. The new version comes with DX11 and 64-bit supported. So it will run better than the old one and looks better. But there are no new quests or anything.
3A few quests seem to run out differently. For instance I did not run into the warriors guild (forgot the name of them) outside of whiterun fighting the giant like I normally do.
2Very minor changes I noticed on day 1
when you reach Whiterun stable you can see uthgerd the unbroken having conversation with the npc about her travels
when you reach Dragons reach for the first time, irileth won't stop you for interrupting the Jarl's conversation until you actually reach near him
Simply the way npcs interactions are improved and there are seemed to be more dialogues going on
Also I noticed the way dragons fight you look more believable from seeing how dragons handle the battlefield.
1The Blessings of Nature quest given by Danica in Whiterun played out differently for me than my first two times on the 360. I've stumbled across a couple of caves that I don't remember as well, and I explored very thoroughly before.
1Yes, it seems that they have added some things here and there. I noticed an area in whiterun that in the special edition that I did not see in the normal version, this area had three pillars that you could turn and it opened a trapdoor that allowed you to search a chest. I don't think it was major (please correct me if I'm wrong about the trapdoor area)
1One difference I know of so far (although it's a minor one), the Torturer's Hood (from the torturer in Helgen Keep) is now obtainable.
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