Skyrim mod makes NPCs react realistically to friendly fire

If you’ve never tried a Skyrim mod before – either on PC or console – you are truly missing out. The vanilla release just doesn’t seem to cut it these days for a lot of fans, so the modding community has dedicated itself to making TES5 as brilliant, everlasting, and immersive as all get out.

With that in mind, Nexus Mods user JaySerpa is back once more with further Skyrim improvements. This time, they’ve made it so NPCs react to being attacked by one of their friends. The video below shows it in action.

Essentially, when you use a Frenzy spell – which temporarily turns enemies against each other – there’s no vocal reaction to what’s happening. This mod, however, uses spliced and vanilla dialogue from the game to make NPCs actually care an ally has turned against them. You can download it here (as the creator says, it’s a measly 7MB, so you may as well).

“No! We’ve been betrayed!”

Some of you who are very familiar with the Skyrim modding scene will likely know JaySerpa’s work. Fresh off their recent Christmas mod, this latest effort is yet another way of injecting that extra bit of immersion into the aging RPG.

It’s also one of the reasons TES5 is still going strong after all these years. It’s highly unlikely the game would enjoy such longevity without the community tweaking the base release, keeping things fresh for who knows how long.

Whether The Elder Scrolls 6 will get the same modding treatment remains to be seen, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves just yet. Bethesda still hasn’t given us an update on its whereabouts or development stage.