Howdy our wonderful Workshop spectators! After many hours spent writing, debugging, and beta testing, we are proud to release Kaidan Revoiced - Community Expansion 2.0! You can read the full changelog here.
First, we would like to thank you, the spectators, for your continued support, patience, and kind words. It has meant a great deal to the staff of the Workshop as we continue to develop our vision for Kaidan. With your encouragement and inspiration, we have begun laying the creative groundwork for our future releases; you helped us determine that Kaidan's morality would be narrative-centric, and we are making strides to incorporate this into his commentary and overall story of redemption and self-identity. Our staff are humbled by your support for this endeavor.
This 2.0 update was a true labor of love, totaling to around 700 new lines and 14 major content features to Kaidan. For reference, KRCE 1.0 has 1,500 lines. We were driven to build on ways to make Kaidan feel more alive and interactive. Given these major changes, a fresh save is required!
First, we've changed how Kaidan is introduced. His introduction quest, A Bounty for Hunter, will no longer appear automatically in your quest journal. Instead, there will be a couple of ways for the player to start the quest naturally. Players will also notice various quality of life and other immersive changes sprinkled throughout his introduction.
Once you recruit Kaidan, players will notice Kaidan’s idle commentary has been expanded. From remarks on the weather, the player's skills, and various locations, Kaidan will have more to say about the world than ever before. This includes roleplay options for players with 14 new backgrounds, 11 new homelands, and over 30 new religious responses that Kaidan will respond to and helps ensure the character you present to Kaidan reflects who they are.
We have also expanded his commentary during Skyrim’s main quest where Kaidan now has reactions for alternative starts, idles, and conversations tied to major story moments. This includes a before and after conversation from Sovngarde.
Along with the main questline, we are thrilled to introduce unique commentary for Paarthurnax Quest Expansion by Jayserpa! This is a patch that focuses on Kaidan’s morality and his journey of redemption in which Kaidan will have set beliefs that he will hold to, no matter what you decide to do.
Kaidan also now has expanded dialogue for the Companions and College of Winterhold questlines. With these additions to Kaidan’s dialogue, we have also included three new unlockable titles: Thane, Harbinger, and Arch-Mage to Kaidan’s nickname system.
In addition to questline commentary, the Book Review Pack allows Kaidan to provide more commentary on the various books that you may encounter in your journeys across Skyrim. If the book is among those he can comment on, all his responses will be unique to the book given and you can ask him for his thoughts on those books. After completing the mini-quest of collecting the Eslaf Erol series for Kaidan this will unlock Kaidan’s training dialogue! Kaidan will be able to help train you in a handful of combat skills that he himself is proficient in: Archery, Block, Heavy Armor, One-handed, Two-handed, and Stamina! These scenes will also involve unique commentary and sound effects based on player skill.
We have also added new interactions between Kaidan and his horse, Kiai! She will now start her journey as “Horse” until Kaidan gives her the name “Kiai” as Kaidan definitely does not get attached.
Along with this, we now have patchless compatibility with the mod I’m Glad You’re Here with full nickname and title support and responses based on location, progression, and friendship/romance level with Kaidan! When the mod is enabled, the vanilla romantic hugs will be replaced with a custom hug animation— no more vampire hugs! DAR or OAR are required to ensure the custom hug animation works.
Lucien fans rejoice! By popular demand, a patch for Kaidan and Lucien’s banter is now available! All existing banter between them has been fully revoiced with Kaidan’s new voice actor, Paul Warren.
Along with these new expansions, patches, and additions to Kaidan’s integration into Skyrim, we have also included general changes and bug fixes to improve overall quality of life.
We look forward to everyone experiencing Kaidan Revoiced- Community Expansion 2.0 and hope you love what we have created as much as we loved creating it. None of it would have been possible without your support, so we thank you all once again for your ongoing support as we continue to bring Kaidan to life.
But GENUINELY Paul Warren brings this extra depth and emotion to Kaidan that works incredibly well. There’s something so genuine there that I hadn’t even noticed was missing before. I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to finally open the game and try him out. I’m obsessed.
Screenshots of my Kaidan replacer for Kaidan Revoiced~
I'm working on an update for this mod — I'm also hoping to add hairstyles options, but no promises!
Salutations Workshop Spectators! We are incredibly pleased to finally announce the beginning of our Open Beta for Kaidan Revoiced: Community Expansion 2.0! Our original 1.X version of KRCE will remain up for those who prefer it, while Workshop original content will be implemented in KRCE 2.0.
Open to members of our Discord server, we will be shadow dropping a link to the beta version of KR:CE 2.0 sometime in the next two weeks. We are seeking the help of the community to track down any mod incompatibilities or bugs, so we can get them ironed out before our release on Nexus!
You can look over the official KR:CE 2.0 Open Beta Changelog to view the full list of content additions and changes.
For best results during beta testing, please don't use collections or modpacks that already include an old version of our mod (eg. Gate to Sovngarde) due to the existence of custom patches that will conflict with our latest update. The curators of those collections will need to fix their patches after our official release.
We are incredibly proud of the work we've put into this release, and we hope that our vision for what new Kaidan content looks like is something that you all enjoy as well. Thank you again so much for your patience and support! Keep an eye out for the link drop!
We are very pleased to announce that we've scheduled the final recording sessions for the KRCE 2.0 update with our VA, Paul Warren! The final line total for this first update is massive -- just over 700 lines! -- and touches on a wide variety of quests and features.
We even have a new [REDACTED] surprise for you all, something the community has been begging us for since we announced the project…
We'll be hosting a public Workshop event in the weeks after our final VA session to present the new material and set expectations for our second Open Beta event!
Other than that, as always, we thank you for your continued support!
