Classic Elder Scrolls game gets working multiplayer experience, Elder Scrolls 6 take notes

While we wait for the sixth instalment to be released, a classic Elder Scrolls game now has a functional multiplayer experience for the first time ever.

The Elder Scrolls Online may be a perfectly satisfactory MMO experience for fans of the franchise, but modders have also found ways to bring multiplayer into older games of the series.

If you’re so inclined, multiplayer mods for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion are out there and work perfectly well.

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall now joins those on the list of Elder Scrolls games which have functional multiplayer modes available as a mod.

As detailed by YouTuber Shpan, the project is called Daggerfall Enhanced, and it’s an open-source port of Daggerfall Unity with one big feature: a persistent online multiplayer server. It’s essentially an MMO version of the 1996 game.

All of the content from the original game is in here, including all of the towns and cities found on the map, every dungeon preserved in its entirety, and the whole combat and magic system. The visuals and sounds of Daggerfall have also been preserved, with options to go for remastered versions of these assets if you so choose.

Daggerfall's multiplayer mod transforms the game into a fully functional MMO

There are a few differences that have been made to accommodate the multiplayer, though. For starters, time is persistent across the entire server, so players can’t rest to move the day forward.

Shops are open 24/7 as a result, so players can access these at any time rather than having to wait for sunrise.

Aside from that, the game plays out largely the same. There are over 250 quests from the original game present in Daggerfall Enhanced, which you can now complete with other players.

Considering the huge open world that Daggerfall has, there are also new options to party up with your friends and be shown their location at any time in case you get lost. You can party up with three other people, but servers will hold a lot more players than this before they hit capacity.

As Shpan highlights, the port is also incredibly stable in terms of performance. There were only “occasional moments” of lag, with the desktop version running slightly better than the in-browser one.

If you’d like to play Daggerfall Enhanced, you can play it either in your web browser or as a free download on PC, with the only stipulation being that you need to own the original Daggerfall. That’s easy enough, though, when you can get the game for free from both Steam and GOG.

Originally released in 1996, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is the second instalment in The Elder Scrolls series and was one of the most impressive open-world RPGs of the 1990s.

With over 15,000 towns and cities located across the game’s massive 60,000-square-mile map, it’s one of those games that players aren’t necessarily expected to finish 100%. Instead, you only need to see a small fraction of the content in the game in order to complete the main story.