Don't assume Skyblivion is getting spellcrafting, says UI lead who claims they weren't consulted on delay video

That's contempt said video featuring a conception dedicated to the existent presumption of the mod's UI and mechanics

Skyblivion, the monolithic modding task reinterpreting The Elder Scrolls 4 via Skyrim's engine, had its merchandise officially delayed to 2026 earlier this week. The hold followed an ex-Skyblivion level and satellite decorator Dee Keyes alleging that the mod's erstwhile 2025 merchandise extremity was "unachievable" earlier this year, successful a station which besides accused Skyblivion task pb Kyle 'Rebelzize' Rebel and implementation pb Heavy Burns of mismanaging connection wrong the mod's team. In response, Heavy Burns asserted that "many" of the claims successful the ex-dev's station were "either misrepresented oregon conscionable untrue".

Now, successful a Discord treatment emphasising that players shouldn't presume the spellcrafting mechanic the modders person had to chopped from the archetypal merchandise volition beryllium enactment backmost successful down the line, Skyblivion's UI section pb has suggested they weren't consulted astir what was said successful the YouTube video announcing the mod's hold to adjacent year. That'd beryllium the hold announcement video which features a conception specifically dedicated to the existent presumption of Skyblivion's UI and mechanics.

"Well, technically, I had nary thought what was said successful the video, I was not adjacent asked, and I person not adjacent watched it till now," the mod's sole UI lead, who goes by the grip Fallen011[35], wrote successful effect to a instrumentality erroneously claiming the hold video had confirmed spellcrafting volition decidedly beryllium added post-release. "If that was said, past I anticipation it was said successful a mode of 'planned' oregon amended arsenic a anticipation alternatively of a promise."

That was however it was framed successful the video, with task pb Rebel simply saying it and the besides chopped underwater combat "are features we would similar to adhd to the crippled astatine a aboriginal date". In different Discord comments, Fallen011[35] besides responded to fans who accidental that they're readying to hold for spellcrafting to beryllium added earlier playing Skyblivion, commenting that there's nary warrant that either this oregon the revamped interface (which Rebel has said the squad would enactment connected "if clip allows") volition decidedly arrive.

"Both necessitate monolithic amounts of work, and for maine to beryllium honest, I bash not cognize if I privation to support moving [non-stop] connected UI aft release," the pb wrote. "UI is not truly large to enactment with successful Skyrim, and astatine immoderate constituent I conscionable privation to beryllium finished with UI. And for maine and others successful the Project, spell crafting is not that important. That being said, I would support hopes down and not deliberation that this volition 100% beryllium the case."

Makes sense, but it's Fallen011[35]'s proposition that they weren't privy to what was said successful the video astir the merchandise hold which stuck me, particularly successful airy of the allegations of connection issues that Keyes levelled astatine the leads successful his post. Rebel's video doesn't conscionable denote the hold - it paints a representation of wherever each cardinal facet of the mod's improvement is astatine close now, including its idiosyncratic interface. The task pb says successful the intro that the radical "did not privation to denote a hold without besides sharing our existent plans and ambitions for the merchandise of the project."

With that successful mind, it seems unusual to maine for the mod task leads not to beryllium kept successful the loop astir the video's contents, astatine slightest arsenic it acrophobic their circumstantial department's area, careless of whether they had immoderate nonstop input connected precisely what was said. Even if it wasn't indispensable to guarantee Rebel could supply an up-to-date and close representation of progress, it would look sensible for the squad to beryllium each connected the aforesaid leafage up of making an important nationalist announcement astir their project.

I've reached retired the Skyblivion squad and task pb Kyle Rebel for comment.

If you're keen to get an aboriginal thought of however you'll get and play Skyblivion earlier release, cheque retired the chat I had with Rebel and GOG earlier this year.