Skyrim Special Edition

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Pickysaurus

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Adds an option to start a the game vanilla but skip the initial cutscenes.

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While poking about in the CK I discovered that Bethesda had built in 4 different "skips" for the Helgen opening sequence. Only two of them seem to actually work but they provide an easy way to start a vanilla game without the need to ride the cart. Presumably, these were leftovers from QA early in the game development.

There are two options, both of which begin with the character creation screen:

  • Start the game at the beginning of Helgen Keep. A message will pop-up asking you to chose Hadvar or Ralof to allow the game to play out as if you made that choice before entering. 
  • Start the game at the end of the Helgen Cave (with the bear). A message will pop-up asking you to chose Hadvar or Ralof to allow the game to play out as if you made that choice before entering. Note that this method adds a gate to prevent you going backwards into the keep from your start position. 

This mod isn't intended to replace any "Alternate Start" mods but I thought it was handy to have. 

All this mod does is change a Global Variable from 0 to either 3 or 4, this alters the flow of MQ101 "Unbound" for the player. 

The plugin is an ESL so it won't take a load order slot. As it's also just a single form override it didn't make much sense to use an ESP. VR users will need to rename the plugin to ESP.