Popular Post i-Beeno Posted May 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2019 (edited) This is an extensive written guide on how to bypass locked trophies after utilising custom mods on your save file. Normally the moment you try playing the game with mods installed the game will lock out the ability to gain trophies on that specific save file. This is in place to stop people from utilising “cheat” mods to cheese easy trophies that otherwise would be harder to gain and require time and effort done legitimately. WARNING: As far as my testing has done this works perfectly with the physical copy of Skyrim Special Edition. I do not know if this can be done via the digital copy, I cannot confirm on this. If someone can test it and let me know that’d be great, but as far as I’m personally aware, this can only be done using the physical game. DISCLOSURE: This method will not allow you to play with physical mods attached, this is purely a cheat method which purely relies on grabbing things from a mod, taking them and then reverting the game save to the “unmodded” state, thus allowing trophies to be earned. In doing so, you could call this method an up to date quicker Restoration Loop Glitch 2.0/better and easier god mode exploit. In doing this, allows for accessibility to cheese out the grindy level trophies, gold trophy, and god mode out your character so you can speed through the entire game mopping off the story trophies, quest trophies etc which in turn means a quicker platinum am I right? And we all love quicker platinums. Using this method, the aim isn’t to keep the mods, but to keep what the mods give in the first place. Step by step guide to pulling this off. Step 1 - Prepping: I recommend doing this on a brand new save file although you don’t have to if you already have an exisiting save that hasn’t used mods before. Start off by loading up the mods section and installing the mod “Alidon’s Armory”. This mod creates a custom new area just outside Riverwood which has everything we need to pull this off. After you have installed this mod, go ahead and install the mod “PS4 cheat mod” by Elianora. You can quickly find these by simply using the search feature. This is going to create a bunch of chests next to the blacksmith in Whiterun, inside contains goodies which we need! Thirdly install the mod “Skill Up Cheat Items” by Manerseu. This will create a chest in front of the blacksmith in Riverwood which we want. Once you have done those three things, back out and create a new game using these mods, create your character and progress through the starting tutorial area until you’re outside and able to free roam. Fast travel to the icon that’s just outside Riverwood called “Void Armory”. Once you’re there, don’t enter yet, instead turn around and head into Riverwood straight to blacksmiths house. Look for the “odd chest” and grab 1 Oghma Infinium book (50). Read it and choose the first option. Drop it, and then grab another and choose the second option. Do this again a third time and choose the third option. Now choose the Oghma Infinium book (20) and rinse and repeat the previous step. Once this is done you should have almost max skills. Don’t do anymore because if you reach 100 in a skill, you won’t pop the trophy required to reach max level in a skill. DON’T OPEN YOUR SKILLS MENU AT ANY POINT, OR ELSE YOU WILL BE FORCED TO SPEND YOUR POINTS THUS FORCING YOU TO LEVEL UP, DOING SO WILL LOCK YOU OUT OF THE LEVEL TROPHIES! Return to the Void Armory and once inside turn to your left and open the strongbox on the table, and grab the key out of it. In the left most region of the area look for the door that says “Cheat Room” and enter it, if you don’t have the key, you can’t enter, so make sure you grab it. Go inside and open up all the barrels, inside each of them is 60K gold, all up just over 1.3M gold if you take it all. Take as much as you like, just make sure it’s over 100K gold for the trophy. (Optional step if you desire easy God Mode without needing to do the restoration loop glitch) In front of the barrels there are chests, open the one that has the “Cheat Ring” and take it. Now equip it. Doing this means that you will have permanent increased Magicka, Health, Stamina and Carry Weight forever once this entire method is finished. Leave this on for the remainder of this guide. Once all this is done head over to Whiterun and look for the chests next to blacksmith shop by the water stream. Inside the satchels will be 1000 of every ingredient, and more than enough crafting supplies to achieve the Hearthfire house trophy without needing to farm supplies and more than enough general crafting stuff for your play through. Next up, look for the hatch behind the shop and enter it. It’s called “Editor Smoke Test Cell”. Inside here is every single item in the game. Go down the corridor and look for the chest labeled “Skill Book Chest”, take every book inside it. DON’T READ ANY! By doing this, means you can easily pop the Reader trophy without needing to explore all the locations dotted around the map with the books and reading them. It’s an annoying little bronze trophy that we can now easily get within minutes once we’ve done the guide! (Optional step for easy God Mode without needing to manually prep for the restoration loop glitch) If you really want to break your game and become a true god, head back to the Void Armory and find the door called “Custom Armory”. Enter it and in the left most area of this room find the chest near the enchanting table called “Disenchantments Chest” and take everything. This essentially means you don’t need to find/buy all the enchantment items to disenchant to gain the enchantment. Once you disenchant everything you will have every enchantment in the game! Next head over to the right most area and find the chest in the middle called “Spell Book Chest” and take everything. This will give you every single base game spell book, meaning you don’t have to buy them and you will have every spell right from the get go! TIP: DON’T KEEP THE SPELL BOOKS WORTH OVER 1,000 GOLD, THESE ARE MASTER SPELL BOOKS AND ARE QUEST OBTAINED ITEMS! GET THESE LATER ON LEGITIMATELY TO POTENTIALLY PREVENT BREAKING AND BUGGING THEIR QUESTS! YOU CAN KEEP AND LEARN EVERY SPELL UP TO EXPERT ONLY. Step 2 - Save and Reinstall: Once you have done all of this you should have almost level 90 or above in all skills, your cheat ring equipped, all skill books, all spells, 1.3M gold, every enchantment item, every single ingredient and crafting resource. Make sure you save your game somewhere in Skyrim that isn’t a custom modded area. Basically anywhere in the base vanilla game to prevent breaking your save file. DON’T SAVE IN THE EDITOR SMOKE TEST CELL OR THE VOID ARMORY! Once you have saved your game, close the game and delete it completely from your library. Eject the disc, and re insert it, and let the game reinstall the game data. It should take about 5-10 minutes. It’s roughly 12000 mb. By this time the game has probably already tried to auto download the latest update, simply delete it/cancel it and wait until the game data has finished installing. Once this is done simply click “continue” from your last saved game. A message should pop up stating “this game relies on content that is no longer present, certain items may be removed/gone do you wish to continue? - something along those lines, simply click yes and load in. Step 3 - Easy Trophy Popping! Now comes the good part. Hit your skills menu and place your points in whatever you like, you will start to level well past level 50 and auto popping ALL the level trophies. You’ll see by now that you have a ridiculous amount of Magicka, Health, and Stamina and if you check your inventory your cheat ring will no longer be equipped, you can now wear whatever you like in the ring slot! Open your books menu and start reading every skill book, once this process is done you should automatically pop the Reader trophy and the skill level 100 trophy depending on your original character base stats. (I chose Nord and Two Handed was level 100 when I was done reading every book) If you read every book and still didn’t reach level 100 in a skill simply head to a blacksmith furnace and spam create a bunch of items using your 1000 of every crafting resource or head to a alchemy table and create a bunch of potions with your 1000 ingredients and get level 100! Now head to any shop and sell an item and Golden Touch trophy should pop automatically! Once all this is done you should be god mode enabled with a crap ton of items and spells and 90+ every skill with over 1.3M gold and the best part is your save is completely fine with popping trophies. You can now do the restoration loop glitch and max out your weapons and armour with crazy stats and 1 hit every enemy even on the highest difficulty. You can now speed through all the quest lines popping those trophies and enjoy being a immortal rich god! Just make sure to not allow Skyrim to update to the latest patch whenever you load up the game! FAQ: Does this method work with the digital version of the game? As far as I’m aware I don’t completely know. All I know is that this method utilises playing your modded save file on the base physical game data. Skyrim Special Edition launched physically before mod support was implemented, so you’re essentially reverting your modded save file back to the original game state. The physical copy of the game will automatically download and install with the latest patches so this wouldn’t work. Although I haven’t tested this so I cannot confirm but only speculate. Can you easily unlock the Oblivion Walker trophy by doing this method? No you cannot. I have personally tested this by taking 14 of the required 15 items and legitimately completely a daedric questline upon reverting back and it didn’t pop the trophy, so unfortunately this somewhat grindy trophy has to be done legitimately. Edited May 17, 2019 by Twystical Updated 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheYuriG Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Not going to quote, as it was instructed not to, but you maybe wanna mention this should also be possible using the unpatch method: This is actually great info. Gonna spread the word now, thanks for posting. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Beeno Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 Just now, TheYuriG said: Not going to quote, as it was instructed not to, but you maybe wanna mention this should also be possible using the unpatch method: This is actually great info. Gonna spread the word now, thanks for posting. Yeah I think it is possible. I have the physical copy and have always done it like the way I mentioned so I have no experience on doing it on the digital version but it should work, just didn’t want to solidify something I don’t have the exact answer for. If someone can test it and confirm that’d be great. I truly believe this this method should be implemented into the main trophy guide for the game since it’s completely optional but it’s valid method for people who want to skip the grind of the game in exchange for a quicker platinum etc. That’s providing it’s not already in the guide. I haven’t fully read it myself. Seems a a lot of people don’t know about this method, but I’m also pretty sure this works for games like Fallout 4 which also has mod support like this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheYuriG Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 2 minutes ago, Twystical said: I truly believe this this method should be implemented into the main trophy guide for the game since it’s completely optional but it’s valid method for people who want to skip the grind of the game in exchange for a quicker platinum etc. That’s providing it’s not already in the guide. I haven’t fully read it myself. Good thinking. Had a quick look and searched for "mod" and only saw the warning about not using it, so here is a ping for the writers to take notice of this information. @Lothym & @OrangeDiceHUN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Beeno Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 1 minute ago, TheYuriG said: Good thinking. Had a quick look and searched for "mod" and only saw the warning about not using it, so here is a ping for the writers to take notice of this information. @Lothym & @OrangeDiceHUN Cheers, appreciate the help and support. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro_Gear Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Will this work for the Creation Club mods as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Beeno Posted May 16, 2019 Author Share Posted May 16, 2019 36 minutes ago, Afro_Gear said: Will this work for the Creation Club mods as well? You mean does using CB mods disable trophies? If so, your answer is no they don't. CB mods will not disable trophies, the custom mods will though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folkenio Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 This reminds me of the Conan Exiles console, but it seems like a well done workaround. Might as well give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WigIsTheBest Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 May as well ask here, anyone know where the skill books are in this mod? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightcthulhu Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 If you can get skill books this way that would be really nice because that was the one throphy I hated the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WigIsTheBest Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Couple of things from when I did this earlier. Every weapon I brought over is at 0 actual damage, but my characters at a fuck ton of health, magika and stamina and is currently at level 70 plus. I enchanted armour with some other beefy enchantments so I think I should be OP enough for stuff now but haven't tested it yet due to constantly being affected by carry weight. You can bring over tons of actual supplies for crafting and potions and use them when you're back in base game, and there's also a room for levelling skills (mind you, if skills are already level 100 that won't autopop). Only trophies that have popped for me are books, levelling to 50 and money, theres a daedric artifact room but that didnt work for me so who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 So exactly what trophies are able to be earned here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidson2004 Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 (edited) Can anyone confirm this works with the digital version? Edited May 16, 2019 by kidson2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lothym Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 21 hours ago, TheYuriG said: Good thinking. Had a quick look and searched for "mod" and only saw the warning about not using it, so here is a ping for the writers to take notice of this information. @Lothym & @OrangeDiceHUN Ping received, thanks for the heads up. I only own the PS3 version of the game, so I can't verify anything first hand. Added a link to this forum in the guide though, so that interested readers can come and see about it and its development. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellcoreFire Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Looks like too much of a hassle compared to doing it legit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMystro Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Man, I wish I could do this with the PS3 version. I already platted the Special Edition for the PS4, but I haven’t found the energy to go back to clean up my PS3 trophy list yet. Cool find though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Beeno Posted May 16, 2019 Author Share Posted May 16, 2019 9 hours ago, ThePriceysRight said: May as well ask here, anyone know where the skill books are in this mod? Sorry for the delayed replies, I'll answer what I can. The skill books can be found easily when using elianora's cheat room in Whiterun behind the blacksmith shop. Inside head down the corridor and search one of the many chests which has every item in the game in them. One will be labelled "Skill Books Chest". 9 hours ago, reinhardtwlhelm said: If you can get skill books this way that would be really nice because that was the one throphy I hated the most. Yes, you can. 5 hours ago, Nitro said: So exactly what trophies are able to be earned here? Quite a lot actually. Almost all the grindy trophies like level 50 trophy, Reader trophy and so on can be easily popped with this. You can even go as far as unlocking all the shouts and getting dragon souls by going to the training room in Aladon's Armory mod. Just remember to plan out the desired trophy and get what you need from the mods and pop them when you reinstall. In theory trophies like obtaining the daedric artifacts could easily be popped by simply getting all from the mod chest but 1 and carrying them over to your unmodded play and getting the last artifact legit thus instantly popping that grindy trophy. But I have not tested that so I can't confirm. 5 hours ago, kidson2004 said: Can anyone confirm this works with the digital version? I honestly can't help there, as I own the physical copy, but i do strongly it may be possible, although it would require time redownloading the entire game. It takes me not even 10-15 minutes setting up this method since I only have to install the game data from the disc. If you fancy losing a hefty amound of bandwidth trying this please let me know if it works, only 1 way to find out if it does. 54 minutes ago, HellcoreFire said: Looks like too much of a hassle compared to doing it legit. How? You literally install 2 mods, grab/do what you need for the trophies then reinstall? You don't even need to prep hours for the restoration loop no more doing this method? 1 hour ago, Lothym said: Ping received, thanks for the heads up. I only own the PS3 version of the game, so I can't verify anything first hand. Added a link to this forum in the guide though, so that interested readers can come and see about it and its development. Thanks, appreciate it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Beeno Posted May 17, 2019 Author Share Posted May 17, 2019 (edited) Updated the thread extensively and rewritten everything into a more guide type thread for better reading and understanding. I was going to create a video guide on this but I don’t have a capture card so hopefully this will do it justice. Edited May 17, 2019 by Twystical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazinghelldash Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 Are these mods available for Skyrim VR for the ps4? Has anyone tried this for ps4 VR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Beeno Posted May 17, 2019 Author Share Posted May 17, 2019 1 minute ago, blazinghelldash said: Are these mods available for Skyrim VR for the ps4? Has anyone tried this for ps4 VR? I don’t think Skyrim VR has mod support on the PS4 unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazinghelldash Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 2 minutes ago, Twystical said: I don’t think Skyrim VR has mod support on the PS4 unfortunately. Darn it, I already completed Skyrim on ps4 for a bet so I cant mess around with this for trophies unfortunately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazinghelldash Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 I'm actually curious if this is possible to do on Fallout 4 with their mods, I'm certainly going to mess around with it tonight and see if its just Skyrim itself or actually for both 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Beeno Posted May 17, 2019 Author Share Posted May 17, 2019 (edited) 14 minutes ago, blazinghelldash said: I'm actually curious if this is possible to do on Fallout 4 with their mods, I'm certainly going to mess around with it tonight and see if its just Skyrim itself or actually for both This should work yes with Fallout 4 providing you follow the same steps basically. Get back to me if it does indeed work. Edited May 17, 2019 by Twystical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZBigC Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 Thanks a lot for this! I have been wanting to get back into Skyrim but the grind has kept me away (until now!). I take it we should turn off automatic updates while we try to Platinum this game? Also, if the game does somehow update, do we just simply delete everything, eject the disk, and put it back in, along with cancelling the update? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Beeno Posted May 17, 2019 Author Share Posted May 17, 2019 11 hours ago, NZBigC said: Thanks a lot for this! I have been wanting to get back into Skyrim but the grind has kept me away (until now!). I take it we should turn off automatic updates while we try to Platinum this game? Also, if the game does somehow update, do we just simply delete everything, eject the disk, and put it back in, along with cancelling the update? No problem man glad to help! Yeah it would be beneficial to turn off auto updates just to make sure. The platinum doing this method saves quite a few hours so it shouldn’t be too much of a hassle quickly powering through the entire game and trophies doing this. I haven’t tested it if the update does reinstall but all I know is this method relies on installing the mods, taking what you can from them and then reverting the game back to the original state BEFORE mod support was supported. So you’re just playing the game from the base physical edition with no patches. I’d say it would wreck the save file if you were to allow the update to reinstall but as long as you quickly delete the game again and re do the steps without actually going into the save file it should be fine. I can test this sometime tomorrow and get back to you about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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