These packages of programming can eke out functions like quest lines or events. The jury’s still out on scripts, however. We’re also unsure how dramatic we can get with this cobbling, so don’t count out unspeakable arts and crafts horrors yet.
Vanilla assets can be used to make followers, new homes, entire towns – all of which would need to be cobbled together from existing art. That said, it’s unlikely that the PS4 modding world will be a dry, dark one stripped of creation. Some of Skyrim’s all-time most popular mods include those for new weapons and armor, additional hairstyles, or entirely new, fully voiced companions – in other words, external assets galore. But a mod doesn’t need to be bringing forth the apocalypse to utilize external assets.