Finishing Skyblivion is a new dev diary series about the last leg of the Oblivion remake mod's run to release

By Talos, it's Patrick Stewart's bodyless head

With unofficial Oblivion remake Skyblivion aiming to get this year, 1 of its developers has kicked disconnected a caller dev diary bid documenting the enactment they've been doing to get the monolithic Skyrim mod acceptable to look done the merchandise gates.

While the folks down Skyblivion surely haven't been shy erstwhile it comes to regularly showing disconnected their progress, it's ever chill to spot much of the blood, sweat, and tears that's going into yet getting specified a gargantuan undertaking into players' hands. Then again, possibly I'm conscionable partial to trippy glimpses astatine Uriel Septim's detached caput floating successful the improvement void.

Finishing Skyblivion is the sanction YouTuber and Skyblivion implementation pb Heavy Burns has fixed to this bid they've conscionable released the archetypal occurrence of, and it surely delivers connected said trippy glimpses close disconnected the bat. You see, among the assorted bits and bobs documented successful the video is putting the last touches connected exported NPC caput models the mod's artists person developed, to guarantee they look arsenic elaborate arsenic the mod's quality creator volition allow.

Cue shots of severed heads with glowing purple oculus holes sitting successful the large grey unknown, acceptable to person their brows, beards, and trims retextured truthful they look a spot much presentable. Among the characters getting makeovers present are the likes of the Dark Brotherhood's Lucien Lachance and emperor Uriel Septim himself. The information that the devs person made the second look precisely similar his bald acting antheral Patrick Stewart decidedly adds to the weirdness of the floaty bodylessness.

There are besides a mates of bits that'll apt beryllium of involvement to youm careless of whether you get arsenic overmuch of a giggle from the bizarre visuals afforded by WIP mods oregon games arsenic I do. There are immoderate bully looks astatine however Anvil and the Imperial City are shaping up, with Heavy Burns revealing that the latter's "the last portion of the overworld that is yet to beryllium finished" up of release.

There's besides immoderate statue installation successful the realm of Oblivion you'll question to arsenic portion of Boethiah's Daedric quest, and portion it's inactive rather lava-filled, it's got plentifulness of bully touches to acceptable it isolated from Mehrunes Dagon's chambers of evil. Kerb-tweaking and sign-making are besides covered, if you're funny successful learning the ins-and-outs of immoderate modding for yourself.

The YouTuber finishes up by teasing that Skyblivion's adjacent afloat developer diary isn't excessively acold away, with the task inactive looking for immoderate volunteers with the skills to assistance get it implicit the line. If you privation an thought of what the mod's afloat merchandise mightiness look like, cheque retired our interrogation with task pb Kyle 'Rebelzize' Rebel from June.